[ Peter looks over at the dresser where the empty coffee cup is. It came here with him for some stupid reason, the last coffee cup he got from MJ's work. He washed it, obviously, so it's not gross. It's just a regular coffee cup with his name on it in her handwriting. Thanks, Confluence. ]
Yeah. I wish I could have taken the risk, but…I just couldn't get in the way of everyone's life again. I thought I could do it, but my friends deserve to go to college and have real lives. They didn't have that with me.
[ But he manages the tiniest of smiles. ]
You're not selfish, Balthier. That's probably some stony pirate persona you got going on and I won't, like, tell anyone. But you're obviously not.
[ Anyone would know, though. Seems like that's a secret Balthier isn't doing any better at keeping than Peter is at keeping his secret identity secret, whoops.
At that last question, Peter looks genuinely surprised. Actually…when was the last time he even touched another person? He's not sure. He thinks about it. Has he really touched anyone else here? Maybe very briefly in passing. He did touch Balthier, actually, to help him when he was having trouble with magic. He touched a couple people when he was Spider-Man, with Cerberus. He does touch people as Spider-Man. Sometimes he's, you know, hitting people, but that's not the point.
But the last time he just touched another person like it was a normal thing to do, Jesus, he has no idea. ]
whoops hurt my own feelings on that last part there
Yeah. I wish I could have taken the risk, but…I just couldn't get in the way of everyone's life again. I thought I could do it, but my friends deserve to go to college and have real lives. They didn't have that with me.
[ But he manages the tiniest of smiles. ]
You're not selfish, Balthier. That's probably some stony pirate persona you got going on and I won't, like, tell anyone. But you're obviously not.
[ Anyone would know, though. Seems like that's a secret Balthier isn't doing any better at keeping than Peter is at keeping his secret identity secret, whoops.
At that last question, Peter looks genuinely surprised. Actually…when was the last time he even touched another person? He's not sure. He thinks about it. Has he really touched anyone else here? Maybe very briefly in passing. He did touch Balthier, actually, to help him when he was having trouble with magic. He touched a couple people when he was Spider-Man, with Cerberus. He does touch people as Spider-Man. Sometimes he's, you know, hitting people, but that's not the point.
But the last time he just touched another person like it was a normal thing to do, Jesus, he has no idea. ]
Uh…yeah. Yeah, I would like that, I think.