Spidersona Part 3
Background and some canon events
Michelle
Spider-Woman
Spider-Beam
Part 1
Part 2
Michelle's biggest divergence is her family which includes her parents and siblings. This is one reason why she's paired with May Parker as her mentor, because May has parents and a sibling too. Except Michelle's family doesn't know about her being Spider-woman, even though she has a good relationship with them. They worry about her living so far, she sees it as protecting them.
Despite the secrecy, she's very emotionally well adjusted being Spider-woman and its demands on her life. Being able to share the workload with Jessica and Cindy and have reliable allies is the main contributor to her work life balance.
Michelle has experienced a few canon events, other than being bitten. She has fewer canon events than most spiders because of Jessica and Cindy, her move from her family, and extreme separation of her spider and regular life.
The three Spider-women experienced various spider canon events, as if they split it among themselves.
Michelle has experienced a Captain Stacy event.
Being Spider-woman has also worked out well for Michelle because her husband KNOWS she's spider woman.
Patrick has been a part of Michelle's life from a young age. After an eternity of will-they or won't-they, they finally became a couple and were eventually married. She told him her identity after he proposed, not wanting it to be an issue in their marriage. While surprised, he takes the news well. He supports her however he can, mostly by moving to New York for her.
They were only able to get together during a time when she experienced a major canon event: she lost her spider powers. After two years of being Spider woman, a significant fight with Electro resulted in power loss when she tried to fight alone. He caught her and tried to stop her heart with multiple electricity strikes.
She barely manages to get away.
"It felt like I was being ripped apart," she whispers to Jessica while shaking.
Michelle looks at her trembling hands, "I-I can't make it stop."
Jessica takes Michelle's hands between her own, "imagine holding yourself together. We'll be here until you're able."
In the morning, her spider abilities are gone.
At first, she tried working with Doctor Strange and the spider women to regain her powers.
When nothing worked, she scheduled a long return visit to California to be close with her family. Feeling lost, she reached out to childhood friends in order to regain something normal in her life.
Michelle and Patrick started dating after a month, but she regained her powers soon after. She returned to New York and they started dating long distance, which helped keep her spider woman life a secret.
Patrick moves in after the wedding. It's a relief to have someone she can completely be herself with.
Once the spider society recruited her, she left the library and worked at HQ full time. She felt that her universe was protected and in capable hands.
Her explanation to family and friends is that she's working for an organization that requires complete discretion/secrecy. Most people think she works for a government agency.
Her main condition for joining the society was to keep Patrick updated if something happened to her and bring him with her if she moved on site. She refused to keep this a secret from him. Patrick still works a regular job to keep up appearances for their lifestyle.
Michelle knows she would have the most impact helping younger spiders. After probation, she specialized in helping/mentoring spiders with children who were already developing spider powers like Peter B's Mayday, and spiders younger than 13.
To be continued!
