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[ So here's a new kid on the network tonight. Trying to find an angle that lets him hide at least some of his nervousness. Or at least lets him use it to channel his best impression of a Definitely Normal Team, No Superheroics Here Honest. He mostly just looks awkward and nerdy, which is … accurate anyway, so let’s go with that. ]

Hey - um, so I’m Peter. Peter Parker. And I just got here, and -

[ He’s read through what’s left of his files, he’s read through the last couple weeks of posts just to get a feel for things. After that, he has one incredibly important question: ]

Did I seriously just barely miss out on a Death Star being here? For real? That’s not fair. Please tell me it’s coming back at some point.

[ That’s probably an objectively incorrect thing to want, but. Look. That would have made his entire life. He could die happy. For the second time. Well, the second time dying, first time dying happy. Anyway, he turns reluctantly to the list of actual serious questions he made. Not enough time to ask them all (unless he just takes in a breath and rapid fire asks all of them in thirty seconds) so he’ll just pick one for now. ]

So, school. How is that working out for people who still hafta go? And can you like … argue with it at all? Because I’m all for finishing high school, but this is my third time going into sophomore year and I’m starting to feel like that movie with the Ghostbuster being depressed in Pennsylvania.

(( OOC: Spoilers for Far From Home are likely, but I can avoid them if necessary! ))

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[David could use one that comes without all the burdens and traumas of the past, that's for sure.]

Ah, but I was so looking forward to you having to braid the webbing. It would have been hilarious.

Don’t tempt me. I’ll do it.

What? The disdainful disbelief that it isn't possible isn't temptation enough? Do I have to go full in peer pressure? I hear teens are vulnerable to that.

[Yeah, that's definitely a teasing tone in his voice, maybe the slightest bit of chuckle backing it too.]

And what, you're that much more mature? Like hell.

I am twenty, have led hero teams, served as a teacher for a while, and mission control for another team.

[What? He is that much more mature. Side effect of what he had as a power.]

[ Peter just waves a hand in the face of that entirely reasonable point. ]

Twenty barely even counts.

[David laughs and shakes his head. Four years definitely counts.]

That's, what, a quarter again as long as you've been alive. I think it counts.

Hey man, I'll be seventeen on Saturday. That counts for something.

[That gets a shrug from David. Well, he does resolve to maybe get Peter something small for his birthday because well, friends. Near enough.]

So, a slight bit less than a quarter of your life. It's still a lot of time, especially when maybe seven or so months of that have been peaceful.

Hey, my childhood was sort of normal. Until Iron Man happened, I guess.

And that's why I'm more mature. Because my life wasn't 'sort of normal' until Iron Man. Sure, it happened about the same time, but that was when my powers started screwing me over, and things went weird.

[But he does have sympathy. Because he's never had the weight on his shoulders that Stark apparently put on Peter's shoulders.]

But you'll get there. I know it.