David, huh? What's he like? Charming and hot, got that part, but. The rest.
[ Is he genuinely interested or just nosy? Why not both? ]
Glitter isn't uncomfortable like sand. You don't really feel it.
[ Peter can feel it a little thanks to heightened senses, but that's not the point. ]
It just...gets all over everything. You'll probably find it somewhere tomorrow, just one or two little bits. But to be fair, if you went out anywhere today, you were doomed to a life of glitter anyway. We all were.
[ He says that with an added touch of dramatics, but surely Balthier of all people can appreciate that.
He listens to Balthier talk, and it's definitely the most he's learned about anything real about the man since they met. Balthier isn't exactly an open book.
Fran. That's his partner's name.
Man, the things he says could be straight out of some fantasy book or something. Not that Peter can judge too hard, considering how off the wall bonkers his own life has been ever since that spider bit him. Even without that, some of the things that have gone down in his world that are just on the news are batshit insane.
But wait, record scratch, back up. ]
You had to kill your own dad?!
[ Not only was there all of that other shit to wade through, but Balthier is a man who just said he has killed another person, which Peter has a hard time even grappling with. He has only once in his life truly felt capable of killing someone else, and that was out and out revenge, which is why it was better that he had the other Peters to talk him off that proverbial ledge. And he's not dumb. He knows that pretty much all of the Avengers have killed people. How else do you save the world from real threats?
This is why he's a neighbourhood Spider-Man.
But to make that call about your own dad? That's so heavy. Peter doesn't even know his parents. They've been dead his whole life, basically. He can't imagine at all.
It's not even that he's judging. How can he possibly put himself in those shoes? Queens and immortal gods and shit like that? Yeah, he fought Thanos, but what does he know about the stakes Balthier was up against? Not a damn thing.
Then there's the whole Villain society thing. Or...not exactly. It's not really a question of good guys versus bad guys, is it? This is where it gets sticky and complicated. Peter isn't entirely sure that Atomight is all good guy. But villain is still a dirty word in his head. Even if he doesn't join the Guardian Alliance, he's sure as hell not hopping in with the villain anything. ]
I pretty much lost everyone and everything all at once back home, but it was my own fault, so. It's...it is what it is. It's weird, pushing us to join these guilds or whatever anyway. And this Frances Starling lady who kind of stands against the guilds or...whatever she's doing, she stands up for LGBTQ people and I really dig that about her? Like I don't know how Atomight and the Guild feel about queer kids and stuff but it matters to me. Kinda has to, 'cause I'm...uh...anyways.
Back home there's the Avengers and they're this big deal and I really wanted to join them at first! But I just kept fucking everything up! And Mr. Stark kept reminding me of that. Then we had this huge war and things got completely out of everyone's control and who am I? I'm just some kid. I'm not an Avenger or Guardian of the Galaxy or whatever. I'm just a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. I didn't sign up for any of that. I signed up to help New York.
[ He's doing that talking thing, maybe a little more personalised than normal, but he is aware that some of it is completely lacking context. He's just not sure what parts of it are missing context that Balthier can't possibly follow. ]
...Sorry, a lot of that probably didn't make any sense. Forget that. Um. Thanks. For offering to help me, I mean. I'll figure it out. Eventually. Probably.
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[ Is he genuinely interested or just nosy? Why not both? ]
Glitter isn't uncomfortable like sand. You don't really feel it.
[ Peter can feel it a little thanks to heightened senses, but that's not the point. ]
It just...gets all over everything. You'll probably find it somewhere tomorrow, just one or two little bits. But to be fair, if you went out anywhere today, you were doomed to a life of glitter anyway. We all were.
[ He says that with an added touch of dramatics, but surely Balthier of all people can appreciate that.
He listens to Balthier talk, and it's definitely the most he's learned about anything real about the man since they met. Balthier isn't exactly an open book.
Fran. That's his partner's name.
Man, the things he says could be straight out of some fantasy book or something. Not that Peter can judge too hard, considering how off the wall bonkers his own life has been ever since that spider bit him. Even without that, some of the things that have gone down in his world that are just on the news are batshit insane.
But wait, record scratch, back up. ]
You had to kill your own dad?!
[ Not only was there all of that other shit to wade through, but Balthier is a man who just said he has killed another person, which Peter has a hard time even grappling with. He has only once in his life truly felt capable of killing someone else, and that was out and out revenge, which is why it was better that he had the other Peters to talk him off that proverbial ledge. And he's not dumb. He knows that pretty much all of the Avengers have killed people. How else do you save the world from real threats?
This is why he's a neighbourhood Spider-Man.
But to make that call about your own dad? That's so heavy. Peter doesn't even know his parents. They've been dead his whole life, basically. He can't imagine at all.
It's not even that he's judging. How can he possibly put himself in those shoes? Queens and immortal gods and shit like that? Yeah, he fought Thanos, but what does he know about the stakes Balthier was up against? Not a damn thing.
Then there's the whole Villain society thing. Or...not exactly. It's not really a question of good guys versus bad guys, is it? This is where it gets sticky and complicated. Peter isn't entirely sure that Atomight is all good guy. But villain is still a dirty word in his head. Even if he doesn't join the Guardian Alliance, he's sure as hell not hopping in with the villain anything. ]
I pretty much lost everyone and everything all at once back home, but it was my own fault, so. It's...it is what it is. It's weird, pushing us to join these guilds or whatever anyway. And this Frances Starling lady who kind of stands against the guilds or...whatever she's doing, she stands up for LGBTQ people and I really dig that about her? Like I don't know how Atomight and the Guild feel about queer kids and stuff but it matters to me. Kinda has to, 'cause I'm...uh...anyways.
Back home there's the Avengers and they're this big deal and I really wanted to join them at first! But I just kept fucking everything up! And Mr. Stark kept reminding me of that. Then we had this huge war and things got completely out of everyone's control and who am I? I'm just some kid. I'm not an Avenger or Guardian of the Galaxy or whatever. I'm just a friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man. I didn't sign up for any of that. I signed up to help New York.
[ He's doing that talking thing, maybe a little more personalised than normal, but he is aware that some of it is completely lacking context. He's just not sure what parts of it are missing context that Balthier can't possibly follow. ]
...Sorry, a lot of that probably didn't make any sense. Forget that. Um. Thanks. For offering to help me, I mean. I'll figure it out. Eventually. Probably.