Character Name: Benjamin Richard Parker, also known as Benjy
Physical description: Standing at 5'9, 150 pounds. Benjamin is no small guy but he's certainly not the tallest. The spider-man gifts passed down to him have kept him in a tip top muscular shape once he hit puberty. Accompanied by blondish | brown hair and blue eyes.
Being someone who is laid back and relaxed, he tends to wear clothes that are casual and sometimes fit in with the skater life-style. It wouldn't be unusual to see him in a pair of vans, a black band t-shirt with a white long sleeve underneath it, slight baggy jeans with a chain, and tobogons.
Age: 19.
PB: Zac Efron | Non-symbiote Black Spider-Man suit. (If that's alright)
Abilities: Because of his interaction with the Carnage Symbiote as an infant, his powers developed earlier and it was speculated that he could be just as powerful as Spider-Man or even more. Hitting puberty brought out the powers in him even more, and they're still evolving overtime.
Organic Spider-webs: These come from the palms and finger tips, they are very strong, able to hold up to three tons. Ben's spiderwebs can be used for web-swinging, the compounds in his webs can also turn into a substance so strong that it can be used for shields for himself and others if spun right.
Ability to stick to solid surfaces
Spider-sense
Semi-night Vision
Super-human strength, stamina, speed, durability, reflexes
Heals twice as twice as a normal human, but no where near as fast as his father. Broken bones and limbs would still take a few months to be in shape again. He heals three times as fast if he goes into a twenty four hour sleeping period, but he would need to periodically do this to heal from major injuries.
Weaknesses and flaws: Unlike his father, Ben doesn't have a sense of responsibility. He's likely to forget about his homework, take out the trash or something vitality important such as delivering a message.
He can be excessively stubborn, he generally won't take someone's advice or listen until it's too late.
Ben also doesn't feel he's cut out for the Spider-Man gig but has tried on a few occasions to do the superhero stuff. It's usually ended with the Daily Bugle having a field-day with his mishaps and mess ups.
Ben has a slight loss of hearing due to high frequency sonics as an infant, it was mostly fixed with the help family friend, Normie Osbourne, but he occasionally has problems.
Character Location/Home: Manhattan, New York | Still lives with Peter and Mary Jane.
Alignment: Neutral Hero. He doesn't like when bad guys wreck havoc as much as the next person, but he's not for getting involved unless he has to.
Relatives:
Peter Parker [Father, Alive]
Mary Jane Parker [Mother, Alive]
May Parker [Sister, Alive]
May Parker [Great Aunt, Alive]
Ben Parker [Great Uncle, Dead]
Phil Urich [Family Friend]
Normie Osbourne [Family Friend]
Gayle [Aunt, Alive]
Grandpa Watson [Grandfather, Alive]
[possibly tl;dr]
Background: Benjamin Parker was born after his mother's difficult labor and pregnancy, because of his father's altered DNA due to the radioactive spider-bite. Mary Jane's health at risk, her obstetrician advised her to consider an abortion. However, remembering that she faced similar risks when pregnant with her daughter May, Mary Jane decided to proceed with the pregnancy.
During his birth his father was fighting the villains The Femme Fatals, and to his family's relief he was a perfectly healthy baby. Benjamin was named after his Great Uncle Ben parker, and his second name is in honor of his grandfather. During his toddler years and early childhood he was shown to develop his powers early, spinning his arm at super speed and balancing toy trucks on his fingers.
In a more dangerous time he was once possessed by a miniature version of the Carnage Symbiote, saved by his father, his parents noted that his ears were bleeding and realized Ben had lost his hearing, likely because his hearing was too underdeveloped to withstand the sonic waves. While doctors tried to determine whether his hearing was temporary or permanent, Peter blamed himself for ever letting it happen.
Thankfully, Ben was still a happy child. But when Mary Jane discovered Ben crawling on the ceiling she feared due to his exposure to the Symbiote his abilities may have somehow been preempted way too early -- this possibly making him more powerful than his father who received the bite in his youth.
Sometime after, a family friend of the Osbourne Family agreed to fund an operation to restore Benjamin's hearing loss. The operation was a success, restoring most but not all of his hearing. When Benjamin was going through surgery, said family friend examined his body and found that he really was already developing powers from the start, but because of his exposure to the symbiote; it accelerated the process. Ben learned to make full webs at one point and almost killed Mary Jane, but saved her none the less. Even Peter began to fear that Benjamin would be more powerful than him or his elder sister, who still had yet to develop any spidey powers.
Ben was a happy child but turned into a whether stubborn pre-teen and teenager, using his 'hidden' abilities to boss weaker kids around to impress those he wanted hang around with.
Benjamin grew aggressive and sometimes went too far in his endeavors, but it won him points with the popular kids. This however didn't impress his family, when they found out what he
was doing in school during his early teens, both Peter and Mary Jane sat down to talk with about the horrid details of his father's bullied childhood for being a nerd. Benjamin admitted when he first arrived in middle-school people expected him to have the vast intelligence that his father and sister possessed, when they learned he didn't they didn't hide their disappointment very well and he became disappointed with himself.
Being ignored at school didn't sit well with him, he didn't like the sports they had so he didn't feel he would gain friends there and at best he was an average B|C student, so in turn he began doing what he saw other kids of high status doing and it 'worked', a little too well sadly.
Mary Jane and Peter didn't allow him to justify his actions, he was given a grounding and told to defriend those that weren't his 'true' friends. To apologize to those he had hurt in the past -- overtime he grew into his own range of friends and no longer hurt others but it didn't stop his feelings of inadequacy to live up to his sister's and father's status. Benjamin has also tried taking up the Spider-man mantle, but more often than not because of his lack of responsibility and esteem in the matter he has screwed up in vital situations.
Situations, where Mayday had to clean up the trouble he caused. There's been a crack or two about the New Spider-Boy running around, wrecking more havoc than helping it in the Daily Bugle.
Currently Ben is doing several courses at Marymount Manhattan College, he had grown used to his father's photography around the house and on family outings that he decided to pick up a camera. He was good enough to get accepted at the school but truth is he isn't very passionate about it and doesn't know where he wants to go in life. [some of it in the beginning was taken from the spider-man wikipedia page, and altered to fit in the timeline of Next Generation]
How do you plan to introduce this character into the game: I'm not sure yet, I'd like to look around but he is an independent at current living in New York. There could always be some disaster that he could help in outside of a spider-suit.
What are you planning to do with this character?: Play, get a feel for the game. I'd like for things to happen where he would need to make adult oriented decisions, instead of laying back and seeing where life leads him. I want him to be involved with in-game plots, developing, and definitely with other characters.
What do you want to see happen with this character?: Grow and change as time progresses, become confident in his own ability to be a superhero and his own person instead of looking at his father and sister as people he could never live up to.
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