BACKDATED to the 18th; TEXT, comm ID "Spider-Man"

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Funny thing is, I spent most of last year counting down to my 5th imPort anniversary, and in the end I missed it by a good month and a half. Guess that's what comes of having a significant life event close to the holidays.

[ Spider-Man red versus Goblin green… totally counts as festive, right? Of course it does. ]

You gotta love the human -- sorry, the sapient -- capacity for adaptation. Forgetting the day of my own kidnapping.

But for the sake of you patient souls who suffered through my existential moping last year -- how many of you are still here, anyway? roll call! -- let's skip it this time and go with an icebreaker for the newbies.

Two truths and a lie. For those of you who come from universes without awkward getting-to-know-you party games, (a) congratulations, (b) it's just what it sounds like. I'll start:

1. I once picked a fight with a swarm of communist bees.
2. I used to have six arms but a giant lizard helped me remove them.
3. My car once tried to murder me.

Take your guesses.

Comments

[causational]

Definitely the only one in my city, but like I said, there are some other people out there. Mostly great fighters but not meta-humans. As far as I know, meta-humans are only in Central City. I mean, I obviously don't know everything, but no big names I can think of.

And I wouldn't mind consulting with someone else. Two heads are better than one. Or, maybe three heads are better than two. Someone from my home is going to be doing some tests on my abilities, too. One of those geniuses I know.

[He's surrounded by geniuses and nerds, and he's really starting to like the feeling of knowing a lot of intelligent people.

That part though...it catches him off-guard. If you ever need to get stuff off your chest, let me know - Eddie's not used to that kind of offer. It's different.]

Thanks. Seriously.

[A beat.]

Okay, let's see. I'm going to go with the tried-and-true "least ridiculous thing is a lie" method. So, I'm going to go with 1.

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Huh, that's different. There were no superheroes when I was growing up, but we all remembered Captain America and the rest of the Invaders. Human Torch, Spitfire, Namor. Can't forget Namor, he threw cars at me once.

The Flash, or one of the other geniuses in your rolodex?

[ Peter hasn't even met the Flash and he can tell who his biggest fanboy is. Hopefully Flash is in Eddie's corner too, because the poor guy clearly needs it. ]

No problem. Like I said, anytime.

That one is true! I was too busy Spider-Manning and lost track of things. Boy, was my face red.

[ That quip would be WAY funnier on a video thread. ]

[causational]

Wow, that's a lot. That wasn't really my experience growing up. There was a lot of sci-fi stuff on TV and I guess some of that was superheroic, but there was nothing like that in real life. It took a while before people even started seeing The Flash and the others as something other than urban legends and photoshop. Even me.

Oh, and it's someone else I know from home, who also works with The Flash.

[Sadly, Eddie isn't even his biggest fanboy. There are a few others who are bigger fans. Better friends. It was just exciting working with a hero like that.]

I'll keep it in mind.

Being a superhero wreaks havoc on your personal life, I've seen that one first-hand. It did the same to mine and I'm not even meta-human. Well. Wasn't. I guess I am now.

Okay, I'm going to go with 3. You probably know of one, but don't know him/her personally.