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Name: chrissy Door: right Canon: Marvel Comics ( e-65 ) Canon Point: end of issue #34 Age: 20 Appearance: comics / pb History: buckle up. Personality: Here are the top five traits I think most people would associate with Gwen Stacy, on the surface: Aloof ( but secretly passionate about a select few things ), good sense of humor ( sarcasm and chop-busting, mostly. totally not a defense mechanism, no way. ), wildly lazy ( she's so bad at texting people back and following up on plans, it's the worst kind of annoying ), introverted ( she really only approaches people if nobody else is approaching them - she's a fan of outcasts ), and that she's kind of mysterious. But not really in a cool way once you pay attention for more than a minute, more in a... she clearly has a lot of stuff going on in her head but she keeps it all locked up in there. One of her best friends told her she's so effortlessly cool/trendy that it's a little infuriating, but that's besides the point. Yeah, she's really great at first impressions. It's not that she doesn't like people, if she had a car it wouldn't have a bumpersticker that says "people suck" or anything like that, but she tends to keep to herself. She's introverted almost to a fault, in a way that probably makes it seem like she's standing around judging people when really she's just zoning out trying to figure out her ridiculous life, or just how to say "hi" to someone. She'll go to parties because her friends ask her to, but she won't always have a good time just because she doesn't feel entirely comfortable in large groups. No, she wasn't popular in high school, and she's not bitter about it, but she got used to only having a very small group of friends. And by that I mean two best friends, and her band of three other girls. They get to see a side of her that's way more outspoken and opinionated, even a little silly at times. There's a vulnerability there that she doesn't trust with just anyone. She'd burn the world down for her friends, which is probably why she's learned to just keep a few people that close. It's something that gets her in trouble more often than not, seeing as it feeds her impulsiveness more than anything else. Although she does go out of her way to reach out to those who seem to be ostracized, or just alone. When Harry Osborn first transferred to Midtown High, Peter told her that he had a bad reputation and that nobody would go near him, and she said that's exactly why they had to be friends. She trusts oddballs more easily than anybody else, in a way, because she feels that they don't expect anything from her, like how she should act or what she should like. Every once in a while she's known to give a big motivational speech, something Jessica Drew has called her out on before, but otherwise she's the quiet one of the group. She's pretty wise considering she's kind of a mess as a person, but that side of her comes out when her friends need her most. She just wants to do what's right by the people in her life, even if she doesn't always know how to show it. And that's where things get tricky - since she became Spider-Woman, she's lost her two very best friends. One, Peter Parker, she lost forever, after he took the Lizard serum to get revenge on his high school bullies during their senior prom. She had to fight him off, and the fight ultimately lead to Peter's death. A year later, Harry took the serum too, which was traumatizing!! But she helped him overcome it, which means she only really "lost" him in the sense that he's on the run now, after landing himself in trouble as the Lizard. She still carries that guilt with her to this day, and there's no sign that she'll be working through it anytime soon, sometimes using it to motivate her to fight harder to protect the city. Which hasn't helped her learn how to reach out to others at all because she's very afraid of losing someone else, or worse, putting them in danger because of who she is. All that being said, she is the drummer of a surprisingly popular band in NYC at the moment. She keeps neglecting that part of her life, but for all the shy loner vibes she puts off, she's very comfortable on stage with her friends. Music is definitely one of those things she relies on to chill her out, and as a way of expressing herself. It's one of those things that, if you catch her at the right time, she'd babble on about for hours. Music and nerd culture. She's been known to play D&D every once in a while. Only with Peter and Harry! But still. That's a thing that happened. A thing that she keeps up locked away in secret. But in true spider-totem fashion, Gwen turns into a huge goofball when she's donning her Spider-Woman mask. It's a security blanket, for sure, even if she ends up getting her ass kicked in it more often than not. It's easier to be outspoken and wild when you're wearing a mask, and also when you're dealing with bad people doing bad things. Her impulsiveness rears its ugly head when it's time to fight crime, her sarcasm gets cranked to eleven, and she lives for quipping like a madwoman. Luckily, it's not all jokes and bad puns when it comes to her Spider-Woman side. Her moral compass is amplified once she jumps into that persona, totally being the type to lecture bad guys on why it's bad to be bad. She goes out of her way to make sure that people face the consequences of their actions, including herself. When she first got her abilities, she used them to make crazy YouTube videos. Seriously. She did stupid things like playing the drums upside down, and that's what Spider-Woman became known for. But then the Lizard disaster with Peter happened, and she learned the very hard way that - you guessed it - with great power, comes great responsibility. Accountability is huge for her, not only from her own personal experiences, but because that's what her dad taught her. Captain George Stacy of the NYPD, yes, that dad. And while she started out mostly fighting street-level crime ( her biggest foe was the Bodega Bandit, can you believe? ), she very quickly got sucked into the battle against the Inheritors, a race of vampires that wanted to suck that life force out of all totems. Luckily the Inheritors were defeated, but it taught her the valuable lesson that there's more to being Spider-Woman than she ever could have imagined. And instead of shying away from that life, she's jumped into it full force. Most recently, that need for accountability actually landed her in S.H.I.E.L.D's maximum security prison for a full year. 365 days. And during that time she's come to terms with a lot of what it means to be Spider-Woman, and what it means to be Gwen Stacy. She told the Mary Janes about her secret identity, and then she told the whole world. The trial was public, and now she is too. That's shifted her perspective on things a lot, but she's still the same introverted mess she's always been. The only difference is that now a lot of people want to take selfies with her. The other shift in her personal is because of a nasty symbiote that Matt Mur(der)dock decided to unleash on Gwen. They're bonded, and have been bonded for over a year, so luckily she's learned how to control it, but there's an edge to a lot of her decisions now that are a direct result of having this angry thing clinging to her mind at all times. The first thing the symbiote focused on in her mind was her anger and pain and confusion, because that's all she was feeling at the time it bonded to her. But now she's trying to "teach it" to be good, to not rely on anger to dictate its actions, but it's a process. One she's actually really open about with her father, but she's kept it from the rest of the people in her life. Who knows how long that'll last, considering the symbiote transforms her into a literal monster sometimes, but she's going to try her best. Powers and Abilities: - enhanced strength/speed/agility/endurance/accelerated healing basic superhero stuff. - does whatever a spider can can wallcrawl, swing from webs, and ..okay spiders can't do this, I'm pretty sure, but she has what most people know as a spider-sense, which allows her to sense immediate danger. Inventory: - her spidey suit ( not sure if this counts as regular clothes?? ) - her webshooters - her phone and headphones. mostly just for her music. she needs! her music! especially to keep gwenom in check. Samples: action spam & action spam & video chat. |
