#theres so much trauma n angst but like. u gotta get up. roe gets hit. a lot. but the spider doesnt stay down. ever.

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imo one of the many cool things to come from Spider-Verse is that folks are just unveiling their Spidersonas and that’s a trend I can jump on. 

[no pics cuz I cant draw....yet.]  Her name is Roe Mack, she’s black and 5″9ish in height.

her super hero alias is: The Spider

her outfit is more like Miles’, she’s got plain black leggings to start with and a short sleeve hoodie with the black and red webs colour scheme but the main Spider insignia is Silver. She’s also got the Mask but hers leaves her mouth and chin uncovered. she’s typically got a protective suit under the main fit, one that she designed herself.

she’s 17 at this moment, and she’s been doing this Spider thing for three years, basically since she was 14.

tw for cannibalism mention under the cut!

Abilities: spidey strength, crawling, spidey sense, the usual. And, when she eats anything alive she can copy it’s abilities for a limited time. eg, if Roe bit a mutant and tasted their blood she’d have their abilities for about 24 hours. how long she can keep their skills and how much of those personal abilities she’d be able to use really depends on how much she eats. her teeth are very sharp. her stomach is pretty strong so she’s immune to most if not all ingested poisons/toxins. 

the main Backstory: Roe’s an orphan, grew up in a foster home til she was 5 until she was fostered by her universe’s May and Ben Parker, this lasted until Peter Parker was born and his parents died and the couple knew they had to take him in but couldn’t support two kids .  Roe was painfully sent back to the Home when she was 10 and Peter was 3. Roe understands why it happened and doesnt hold anything against the Parkers for their decision but feelings were hurt, so as much as she knows May and Ben still love her she doesn’t let herself think too much of them as her parents.  Then Ben is assaulted by Oscorp operatives for “digging too deep” as a reporter and Roe is 12 when she’s dragging his body to the closest hospital after finding him in an alley on her her way home, sitting there til midnight covered in his blood waiting to hear the final news of his death. She calls May on a payphone nearby to break the news, and in the midst of the grief Roe has never felt more guilty in her life.  A year later and Roe’s waist deep in whatever the fuck Oscorp is into, ready and willing to stick her head under water to find out why Ben was murdered but then she’s bit by a freaky spider and this is really why thirteen year olds shouldnt feel tasked with hunting down their parent figure’s murderers.  Upon the realisation that the waking up very much not in her room and the constant hunger, and sudden flexibility and speed and. stickiness. has more to do with the spider bite than the trauma and exhaustion and such of the last year, Roe re-evaluates some things. (at first she’d thought she was a mutant, one visit to the school on a particularly . eventful day, had her praying she was wrong.)  At the insistence of a (very worried) May and an equally concerned nurse Rio Morales (who is frankly sick and tired of seeing this child younger than her own son constantly in need of medical attention), Roe takes it.. easy for the next year, applying to a good school, working out her powers, doing some therapy and enrolling in self-defense classes. New York already has heroes after all, it was childish for a 13 year old to think they could change anything by infiltrating the Osborn household (as a babysitter... long story). Then on yet another world ending crisis day Roe makes the realisation that her new-found abilities can help her prevent the worst case scenario for other people and suddenly she’s leaping into action as the Spider.

which is at first as fun as it can be, until Roe makes a startling discovery of one of her abilities - if she consumes something alive she can take on their features for a limited time. lets not talk about the exact circumstances in which this discovery was made. deciding the pros outweighed the hints of cannibalism, Roe settles on capitalising on all her abilities - hence, the open mouthed mask.

from then on, things continue to happen as they do and, now, Roe’s a 17 year old vigilante, simultaneously respected and reviled by the citizens of her city, way too used to the taste of blood in her mouth with extremely questionable sleeping habits. She makes time to visit lil “cousin” Peter and May on the weekends, and somehow finds the time to maintain her scholarship to Visions, the school she’d applied to on Rio’s recommendation.

Plus, she has Wolverine’s number on speed-dial, saved as Logan (and how that happened is also a very long story).