So, recently I got a prompt that involved Peter’s daughter and while I first had absolutely no idea how to characterize Peter’s daughter, I couldn’t stop thinking about her after writing that little drabble. I just had to write this down.
I also blame @sfabsha and @waarst for this because instead of telling me to shut up, they encouraged it.
As soon as Peter finds out they’re having a girl, he wants to name her after the month she’s born in to honor May
The only problem: she’s born in December and MJ looks like she will rip his head off if he’s seriously thinking about naming their daughter December
However, she does get named after the day she’s born. I haven’t decided which day it is yet, and maybe you guys have better suggestions?? So, here are my ideas: Nicole for Saint Nicholas Day, Christine or Christina for Christmas Eve, or (this is my favourite) Nessa for New Years Eve. If she’s born on Christmas Eve or New Years Eve, her middle name could be Eva or Evelyn (for this list, I will continue to call her December because I couldn’t decide on one yet)
May is the one who starts calling her December as an inside joke
It evolves into calling each other Five or Twelve, and May would say “You’re a twelve out of ten!” and December would say something like “I rate you five out of five stars!”
December inherits Peter’s spider powers, as well as a version of Miles’ electrocuting powers
Peter thought MJ would be pissed about their kid having his powers (and she’s a bit pissed at first), but ultimately, she’s glad her daughter has these powers that help her defend herself
MJ always reminds December that she’s very much allowed to use her powers to defend herself
December learns very quickly how to shock people who touch her without her permission, even if it’s just a hand on her shoulder or anything
She also learns how to throw a proper punch and how to dodge a punch and how to get out of a hold by all the superheroes around her, but she’s not that much into the entire fighting and superhero scene (at least until she’s a bit older) and prefers dancing and gymnastics
Peter kinda hopes December would share his love for science, but while she usually understands what he’s talking about, it’s not really her favourite thing to do (later, she gets a bit more into science when she starts develop her own webs that can conduct electricity and shine in all the colours of the rainbow)
But she absolutely LOVES art
She loves expressing her emotions and ideas in bright colours and fun shapes and takes the phrase colouring outside the lines very literal. Like, if you would place a colouring book in front of her, she’ll straight up draw an entirely different picture over the outlines on the page on principle.
As soon as she finds out you can change the colour of your hair, she’s obsessed with it
And she finds out about it at a young age
It starts with hair chalk and non-permanent hair colouring, but December always gets upset that the colour washes away
Because he just can’t say no to his little girl
He takes one look at the ingredients for commercial products for hair colouring and thinks: “I can do better”
And that’s how Peter spends weeks trying to come up with hair dye that’s less damaging to the hair with bright colours that don’t fade out that easily
But because he’s not gonna test that stuff on December, he tests it on himself
And Tony, because Tony can’t say no to Peter, especially if it involves his quasi-granddaughter
That’s how both geniuses walk around with brightly coloured hair for a few weeks until Peter finally gets it right
December is over the moon
She actually jumps to the ceiling and can’t get down for several minutes because she’s. so. excited!!!
It becomes Peter’s and her tradition that he helps her change the colour of her hair
December also really gets into make-up and doing different hair styles, but because MJ isn’t that much into it, and both May and Pepper are more minimalistic when it comes to make-up and hair, Morgan teaches her how to apply make-up and how to do different braids and all that stuff
She actually thinks about making a YouTube-channel and an Instagram account, but after Tony told her what it’s like to be famous (and Tony has no doubt she’ll be famous because, yeah, he may be biased, but December is also very good at it), she decides to only do it as a hobby
Speaking of Tony: He loves his quasi-granddaughter and December loves her gramps
He also introduces her to his favourite rock artists and from the very first second she heard the first song (she was about three), she loved it, excitingly jumping up and down and singing (more like screaming) along
Peter kinda hopes she’ll grow out of it but that isn’t happening
Tony couldn’t be happier when she asks him to come to her first concert with her
The old band-shirts she starts to wear clash a bit with her bright hair, but she doesn’t care
In fact, she never cares about what other people think about her wardrobe or hair or carefree attitude
Sometimes, Peter and MJ both wonder how their daughter turned out like this (absolutely not caring about people’s opinions about her and finding a friend in every living thing) with both of them being more socially awkward
But let me tell you why December is so comfortable in her own skin: She grows up in an absolutely loving family that accepts her just like she is, not shying away from letting her know how much they love her and how proud they are of her, a family that supports all of her passions and interests, even if they’re not into it themselves. She doesn’t care what other people think about her, because she knows she’ll always have her family who just accept and love her exactly like she is
December knows that her father is a superhero and that her grandfather was a superhero and that almost all of his friends are superheroes, too, and it takes her a while to realize that not everyone has a family full of superheroes
One day when she’s about four, she wonders about Peter’s mask
“Why do you wear a mask, Daddy?”
“Well, why do you think I wear a mask?”
She thinks about it for a second. “So nobody finds out who you are.”
Peter smiles. “Yeah. But also so the bad guys don’t know when I’m scared.”
December’s eyes grow so big, they almost fall out of her head. “You get scared?”
“Being brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared.”
That sentence completely blew her little mind, and it kinda becomes her personal motto. Whenever she gets scared, she reminds herself that she can still be brave
That mindset leads to a lot of reckless and dangerous situations, like climbing up tall trees and jumping down, talking to a lot of strangers, investigating weird noises in the dark, stuff that other kids might be too afraid to do
Peter swears she’s giving him grey hairs, Tony just laughs and says it’s karma for every grey hair Peter gave Tony
Peter is just grateful that December isn’t into the entire superhero-thing
However, karma strikes again
Because of course December gets into the entire superhero-thing
Only she makes it even more dangerous by adding time-traveling
Now, I’m not quite sure how she gets involved in it exactly
But I can see her starting because she needs to help Peter or Tony (or both) who have been kidnapped or whatever
And then either Scott and Hope or Stephen Strange come to her and introduce her to time-traveling and all the fun stuff, and tell her she’s their best chance to get them back
As soon as she got a taste of being a superhero, she’s hooked
Besides, almost her entire family consists of superheroes, it’s basically her duty to carry on, and she can be brave
Peter, naturally, freaks out and forbids her from doing it
It leads to a massive fight
Tony reminds Peter of what happened when he tried to stop Peter from being Spider-Man
And Peter eventually realizes that he can’t stop her, not when he’s still going out patrolling every other night and is part of the next generation of the Avengers, so he decides to do the same thing Tony did all those years ago with him: teach her and do his best to keep her safe
Tony and Peter make her a nano-tech suit and ‘force’ her to learn enough about science so that she can repair smaller problems
The suit can change its colour (like Carol’s did in Captain Marvel) because they know she’ll want to change it every other day
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