More than a dozen butterflies, like this Viceroy and Question Mark, were feeding at this Black Willow tree. The willow likes wet soil which helps the flow of sap, which the butterflies were able to gather through the ridges and holes made by boring insects.
Patricia Parker aka Black Willow, the ONLY spider-person in New York!
This is just a fun little drawing to kinda bring back Patricia Parker, my spidersona/oc i created after into the spider-verse in 2018 lol. Her actual design DOES have a mask I just didn't feel like drawing it in this bc like why would she have to wear a mask in the middle of nowhere overrun with foliage and dead buildings lol. She was originally age 10 when i made her but since its canonically been a year between itsv and atsv shes 11 now. And shes very artistic so her web-shooters are glue bottles. dont even ask how it works i dont know. its like how sun-spider uses her crutches as her web-shooters.
ALSO, the apocalypse shes living through isnt like a zombie one or anything. I kind of want to steal the apocalypse that happens in Ultra Despair Girls where all the adults are killed and the world is run by children (i also read a book where this was the case in 5th grade so i love the concept). So her canon events of her uncle dying would happen and bc he was her only family left she'd be completely alone and she learns to survive and be a positive person/hero during the apocalypse.
Because a majority of adults in this universe are dead now, every single typical spider-man villain is just a traumatized child (like the warriors of hope in UDG) and the stuff that happens within her story causes her to wish she'd never gotten bit. since shes experienced so much tragedy she definitely would sympathize with Miles in wanting to save his father and in general stop these fucked up canon events. because if there was a universe where she could have a normal loving life with her uncle and didnt have to kill other traumatized children... she'd go there in a HEARTBEAT.
We planted two tiny Black Willow trees near the water. They are the larval host plant for several butterflies. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Mourning Cloak, Red-spotted Purple, Viceroy, and Eastern Comma all use this tree. It also supports tons of specialized bees.