Right, [ he says, when she says 'there's nothing else I could possibly be', but he waits for her to finish before adding anything else. ] Because it's a part of who you are. I was a kid when this happened to me and now, doing what I do—. [ or did, before he ended up here, he supposes — there's not a whole lot of opportunity to spider-man here, in truth, and it's left him antsy.
it's one of the reasons he was so thrown by being asleep for two weeks: being protected when he could have made a difference played at his sense of guilt, and the awareness that it was all because of a poor choice to eat some food. he's tried not to think too much about what it means as far as his sense of self goes, because he's not sure he'll like the answer.
being peter parker without being spider-man is like losing a part of himself, one that he'd admittedly lost in a very literal sense earlier in the year (thanks, isotope genome accelerator), but—. ] I can't imagine not doing it. [ he's stopped, on occasion. he's not been spider-man for periods of time, but he's always ended up getting pulled back into it because someone or something needs him; and in some way, he needs to be doing it.
it'd been the stumbling block in his and mj's relationship for so long, and just as they were finally — finally! — working through it, he'd found himself here.
(parker luck, eh.) ] And sure, making a difference might not be your reasoning, but you have made a difference, haven't you? To someone. That's what discovery does.
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it's one of the reasons he was so thrown by being asleep for two weeks: being protected when he could have made a difference played at his sense of guilt, and the awareness that it was all because of a poor choice to eat some food. he's tried not to think too much about what it means as far as his sense of self goes, because he's not sure he'll like the answer.
being peter parker without being spider-man is like losing a part of himself, one that he'd admittedly lost in a very literal sense earlier in the year (thanks, isotope genome accelerator), but—. ] I can't imagine not doing it. [ he's stopped, on occasion. he's not been spider-man for periods of time, but he's always ended up getting pulled back into it because someone or something needs him; and in some way, he needs to be doing it.
it'd been the stumbling block in his and mj's relationship for so long, and just as they were finally — finally! — working through it, he'd found himself here.
(parker luck, eh.) ] And sure, making a difference might not be your reasoning, but you have made a difference, haven't you? To someone. That's what discovery does.