Munty's. A once famous bong, cone, pipe & roach clip shop to help you get munted and pass the time of day. Now just a regular tobacconist. More cash in baccy these days. Times change. Enmore.
Deadpool: I found a note in one of my old word .docs that said Note to self: Get revenge on Baccy.
Deadpool: Except I couldn't remember what I was supposed to get revenge for.
Deadpool: But I trusted my own judgment, so I went with it.
Baccy: Hmm... I don't know what you were supposed to get revenge for, either.
Deadpool: I can only assume you got what was coming to you. Not 100 percent sure, though.
Baccy: Well, whatever I did, I guess I deserved it.
Deadpool: Let that possibly be a lesson to you.
This is background for the main hero, her friends, and potential future friends. Villains will have to be a separate post because this is already very very long.
Yay spidersona world building!!
Where:
This takes place in Richsten, a southern city with a port in Virginia. The city is not big, nor does it really matter to most people. New York is where most of the superheroes are, like the Avengers, and where many of the major crime organizations, like Hydra, put their focus. Not many look to Richsten. And that suits people in the city just fine.
The city once was a hub for tobacco markets and things like cigarette rolling, with tobacco fields still lying just outside of the city. The smell of tobacco still fills the city, with its lingering smell reminding of the past that still touches the city. The movements of those markets out of the city and the slow movement away of the rolling factories has led to a slow decline of the city, leaving it poorer than it once was.
Its age also leaves it haunted, full of ghosts. Just like the smell of tobacco, spirits linger throughout the city, reminders of the past that touch everything.
Many villains are based off of TSSM’s versions with some changes cause spidersona au lol
Martha Anne Taylor
Name: Martha Anne Taylor
CB Radio handle: Ginger Snap
Aka: The Dynamic Tobacco Beetle “Baccy”
Powers: Climbing walls, super strength, enhanced senses, immunity to certain toxins, can digest less nutritious food (like rotten food) with no problem, good at riding horses
Toolkit: rope shooters; designed after books she found in the library on grappling hooks. Shes not a brilliant scientist or engineer, but she can copy and twist. And she does her best. But they are not always operational to the highest standard. A lot of the times, she just jumps and climbs it it seems like she can get where she needs to without swinging
ginger cinnamon molasses cookies to offer villains.
Brown leather armor, made by her own hand from bits of leather she has hoarded over the years from the stable her grandfather runs.
Weakness: Cold!! She gets slower and slower as she gets colder. at 39.2 Fahrenheit (4 °C) she passes out. she learns to layer pretty fast.
Homemade Biscuits and iced sweet tea. Offer those and she'll be distracted enough for you to go commit crimes
Age: 16ish
Height: 5 foot
Backstory: Martha has been living with her maternal grandparents since forever. The rest of her family has been chipped away over the years. Her mom died at childbirth, her dad died in a hurricane with her paternal grandparents when she was three.
She is a horse loving history nerd who might be just slightly too obsessed with the American Revolution. And with history in general. She knows so much about the history of the city and feels like it is a part of her bones.
She ends up at an exposé for Agrioscorp (oscorp of this world). They were developing pesticides to use against crop pests. Martha is there for a school project about crops and then she is bitten by a tobacco beetle (Lasioderma serricorne) that the pesticide was supposed to murder, but instead altered its genes and made it able to give powers through a bite. It gets one bite and dies. She doesnt know what to do with the powers at first. Shes never really thought shed do much, content to grow up like her grandparents and take over their carriage business when she is old enough too. She’s not even really planning on college. She's not dumb, or unmotivated, just content with her lot in life. And then, two weeks after finding out she has powers, her Grandmother takes her on a surprise trip to New York to see the museums there. And then they end up in an attack. Some robbers. Human. Desperate. Her grandmother keeps her pushed back, unable to do anything. Some heroes burst in and the robbers, startled and scared of what is going to happen to them start firing wildly. Those the robber who shot her grandmother is felled by friendly fire and the other robbers are taken up by the cops and heroes.
Martha decides to become a hero. She doesnt want people to die like her grandmother had. But she also doesnt want to inspire fear. She grew up watching too much A-team, Red Dawn and Smokey and the Bandit to feel like police and government are the only paths to justice. So she suits up and heads out. She figures out how to fight, but more importantly to her, she figures out how to talk. To coax and to listen. She wears her opponents down until they are willing to talk and then she hauls them off to fill them with food at local bbq and breakfast places. She hoards all of her allowance to afford this. And some of those local business band together to create a small fund and find jobs willing to hire ex-cons. She listens to what the criminals have to say, their stories and their troubles, and tries to get them to places willing to help. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. A lot of people think that she’s just being taken advantage of. And she's fine with that. Life is hard enough without her adding to it. Some people just need a little mercy and grace.
And so her career begins!
Main friends
Name: Gwynn Stacy
CB Radio handle: Glasses
Aka: Not a villain. Or hero.
Powers: Does being a wizz at science count? Lol. Also super strong death glares. His peers fear them.
Toolkit: Science.
Age: 16 almost 17
Height: 5’ 4”
Weakness: Wants to rise from his current life. He is willing to erase his accent and save his time
Backstory: Born and raised in Richsten. He wants to leave and/or get a job in chemistry or bioscience. He is taking all the AP’s he can and is planning to go to college. He prefers to stick to the rules and often is the one to encourage people to get calmer. He sort of is against taking Ella all over town against her father’s wishes. Often over ruled and follows along to try to keep things from getting worse.
His dad is Captain Stacy of the police force. His dad wants him to be able do whatever he wants in life.
Name: Ella Osborn
CB Radio handle: Kelpie
Aka: Not a villain. Or hero.
Powers: Good at communing with the dead.
Toolkit: Lots of free time. Lots of knowledge of myths, legends and ghost.
Age: 17
Height:5’ 4”
Weakness: Physically very weak and sickly. Not able to walk very far without needing to sit. She uses mobility devices like wheelchairs and a cane (depending on the day) inside her home. Norman Osborn does not want her to leave the home most of the time, so often she does not have these aids outide of the house. Bruises very easily.
Easily possessed. But the ghosts cant do much other than talk before she passes out and they are expelled.
Backstory: Ella was born sickly. Often her stomach does not take in all the nutrients and calories of food. And so she stays relatively weak. She is forced to be homeschooled, but not by her parents. She has tutors and often is ignored by her mother and father. She was lonely till a chance meeting with martha (before martha had powers). Martha starts helping her sneak out and hauls her around the city.
She loves myths and the supernatural and has dedicated much of her time to learning about them. She becomes the go to expert on ghosts in the group once Martha and Quentin realize just how haunted the city is.
She would say Martha is her best best friend.
Quentin is her best friend: yelled at her dad on her behalf.
Gwynn is her friend.
Name: Quentin Mason nee Beck
CB Radio handle: Dreamer
Aka: Mysterium (this worlds mysterio)
Powers: None. Though ghosts like him. And so do most stray cats.
Toolkit: Drones!! And smoke and holograms.
Weakness: Drama. He will sacrifice a surefire way to win if another method would look cooler or would be more dramatic.
Age: 16
Height: 5’ 9”
Backstory: Quentin is from New York originally and loved the big city and really wanted to end up on the stage or in movie making. He loves the theater. He never wanted to leave New York. his mom left his dad when he was 5 and his dad died when he was 11. He was left with Phineas Mason (tinkerer) due to the man being life time friends with his dad. Phineas makes weapons for the underground and Quentin learned a lot of his coding and building knowledge from him or by working on his gear. He loves Phineas but they get into fights at times. One of the biggest fights was Phineas’ decision to move them away from New York. That argument meant a long bout of silent treatment leading up to the move. But eventually, Quentin came around, understanding that there were too many heroes in New York for them to safely stay and continue to not be on the radar. And he doesnt love the idea of Phineas being killed or taken from him.
He ends up at the same high school as Martha and he feels like a fish out of water. They become friends as she helps him adjust and he starts to appreciate the city. He makes her a CB radio because she does not have a cell phone. He also becomes friends with Gywnn and Ella. He gets into a loud fight publicly against Norman Osborn for trying to keep Ella inside all the time. He is not allowed to visit.
He ends up becoming a super villain, not out of any real anger or anything, but because he feels like the city needs one. It has a hero, doesnt it? Heroes need villains.
He becomes friends with Baccy after his first defeat when he is dragged to a BBQ place: Woofsters. He helps her fight other villains when he feels like she needs it. He claims its to keep the name of the number one villain of the city. But he actually does it because he is besties with her and kinda doesnt want her to die.
Potential future friends!:
Name: Jackson 'Montana' Brice
Aka: tbd but leaning towards Tremors.
Powers: None. But he is super willful.
Toolkit: Makes his own shocker costume using a vague knowledge of mechanic from having to fix cars and guns growing up. It is a very very cobbled together piece of tech
Age: 19
Height: 5’ 6”
Weakness: always hungry and is a bit on the weaker side than is healthy for his age. He also will do anything for his kids. Whatever sacrifice or thing that must be done he will do.
Backstory: Raised in the Brice family, a family of mercs who travel about and take jobs. Threatening and offing people. But mostly threatening. They have a right of passage to adulthood and being allowed to take jobs alone, typically taken at the age of 18. He did it at 15. And survived it. Before this point, he traveled the country and world with his dad.
At 15 he enters the world alone with some lingering support from his family. At 17 he takes in a 16 year old Ox. The kid is bigger than him, but had been stuck in fight rings. He settles down in Richsten to provide some stability and let Ox get schooling. He ends up taking in a 14-year-old Dan who has been left on the streets.
Montana feels responsible for these two like a father. Or older brother. Depends on the moment. They all work together as enforcers, taking on jobs for the big man. But he also does extra work, security for concerts, odd jobs around town, anything to get a little more money. And he skips meals when his kids arent around to save more. He keeps them afloat by the skin of his teeth and pure stubbornness.
He becomes friends with Quentin when Quentin cuts him a deal to fix a calculator for cheaper. He and Quentin like similar music and Montana helps him get into shows that Montana is security for. Quentin is happy to give more deals and over time its friendship. Close friendship.
And so when he ripped apart an RC car to get a lot of the components for his villain persona and it glitches after the first few times out, he comes to quentin. Who helps make it better after extracting a promise. No killing. And Montana is happy to agree.
Name: Ox Brice
Aka: tbd but Ox??? maybe
Powers: none. But is a good fighter
Toolkit: really good at just powering through pain. Good at watching and reading people.
Age: 18
Height: 5’ 11”
Weakness: His family.
Backstory: Ox was abandoned young at an orphanage. An orphanage that kept the lights on by selling kids to fight rings. He was not well-loved by the staff and so when he was old enough to throw a punch he was sold. He learned quickly to keep his head down and mouth shut. He meets Montana when he is 16 when Montana is breaking up the ring on his own to get some other persons lost son. And he sees his chance and he helps Montana destroy the ring. Montana offers him a family. And Ox takes the chance presented to him.
Name: Dan Brice
CB Radio handle: Silver Tongued Devil
Aka: tbd maybe bullet…. idk
Powers: none. But!! Quick study and hyper good memory. This works both for and against him
Toolkit: mixed fighter. Spent a lot of time figuring out any fighting style he saw. Also good at info gathering
Age: 16
Height: 5 foot
Weakness: easy to egg into having a fight. Especially if the other Enforcers are insulted.
Backstory: he grew up in a house with three other kids and a mom that didn't want him. His dad was a trucker and would let him ride along during summers. He loved those long hauls that took him away from angry slaps and digging words. He spent most of the rest of the time out of the house, learning as many different fight styles that he can to keep himself safe at school at the very least.
That all ends when his father is killed in a supervillain attack while trucking when Dan is 14. His mom packs him into a car and drops him in the middle of Richsten, telling him that he reminds her too much of his father and that she cannot stand for him to stay in her house. And he wanders the streets for a little bit until Montana finds him fighting off some guy tring to steal the little bit of money he has.
Starts talking to Martha and friends over cb radio for homework help and eventually becomes friends with them at school.
