Benjamin Richard Parker (onthewall) wrote,
@ 2012-12-02 21:56:00

Swinging about town
He'd been really good all day. Ben had managed to mostly pay attention in class, even participated once, gone straight home the normal way and pretty much finished his homework (though mom probably knew he'd lied about being done) all before asking to go out webslinging again. Best behavior meant feeling terribly cooped up but it was worth it for finally being free to swing around town and fight crime for a bit.

So Ben gets his spider threads on and is out the window, already grinning goofily under that mask. Yeah, this was pretty sweet. Now to see if he could find something to do. If not he was going to try and beat his record for number of flips off the Empire State Building.

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	crescentdart 2012-12-05 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	"Well I am cool enough to get away with it," Ryan says as he gets his food. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-05 06:34 pm UTC (link)
	"Then I'm clearly even cooler if I can get away with this," he grins beneath the mask and orders his food. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-05 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	"Sure you are," Ryan says sarcastically as he take a bite of his meal. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-05 06:47 pm UTC (link)
	"Knew you'd agree." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-05 06:55 pm UTC (link)
	"Definitely. Very neat to see someone making it work." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-05 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Hey, you could always try the costume gig," Ben says as he gets his food. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-05 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	"You are very determined and persistent about that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-05 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	"Because, well, no offense man but.." He shoots a pointed look at Ryan's 'costume'. "Suspicious guy in sunglasses? People don't know if you're going to mug them or save them." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 02:13 am UTC (link)
	"Same could be said of a guy in a fancy costume though they tend to be scarier than a mugging." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-06 02:56 am UTC (link)
	"But I've got established precedence," he smiles, pointing to the spider on his chest. "Though you don't need to do a legacy thing if you don't have one. Start your own thing. Casper the friendly ghost coming to a neighborhood near you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 03:06 am UTC (link)
	"With over half of New York thinking the old one was a villain at times," Ryan points out. Bad press will do that to a guy. "I did start my own thing with this. Plus it's a lot more comfortable than spandex." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-06 03:17 am UTC (link)
	"He totally fixed that! ...You know, after a while and all and some big name heroes vouching for him a lot. And that stint with the Avengers. And...yeah, took a while," Ben admits. "Well I find this lets you really move and be flexible. If you don't pick a name the press will. 'Sunglasses man saved me from a purse snatcher!'" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 03:20 am UTC (link)
	"I think I'll be fine on the name thing and would the press," Ryan says, "I did a nice stint with the Avengers and saved the world and universe once or twice." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-06 03:28 am UTC (link)
	"Sorry I hadn't heard of you then. Guess you're an under-the-radar type. That's cool, press sucks most of the time. I've been trying to mostly avoid them." Ben lifts the bottom part of his mask up so he can actually eat his food. "So what was it like? The Avengers." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 03:36 am UTC (link)
	"Just what I like to be under the rader. Not really in this to get famous or anything. But yeah the press sucks," Ryan says agreeing and taking a bite of his food, "The Avengers are pretty hardcore. A lot of crazy fights there. Kind of nice to get back to the streets where I'm more comfortable." Reality jumping had been enough of an adventure for him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-06 03:44 am UTC (link)
	"Anyone in this to get famous isn't in it for the right reasons," Ben says and takes a bite of his food. "Thanks for the food again by the way and yeah, heard some stories about Avengers craziness. What's the weirdest one you ran into?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 03:48 am UTC (link)
	"Definitely. But there still are people that are in this for the attention," Ryan says, "Don't worry about it. This isn't that expensive. Well I did want up in this really weird universe for a bit. Apparently there's a guy there who dress up like a Bat and fights crime. Seemed pretty crazy to me." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-06 03:53 am UTC (link)
	"A Bat? That's silly," says the guy in the spider costume. "What'd he do? Flap menacingly in the night and make funny noises trying to find moths?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 03:56 am UTC (link)
	"From what I remember he didn't even have any powers. Just a lot of bat themed weapons." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-06 04:04 am UTC (link)
	"So did he get saved by bats or something? Or like one flew through his window during a dramatic costume designing moment? Why a bat? That's kind of random. Weird." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 04:11 am UTC (link)
	"Don't really know never really got around to asking," Ryan says. A lot of crazy stuff had been going on at that time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-06 04:25 am UTC (link)
	"Well that means everything we run into on the streets is going to seem run-of-the-mill to you now. Who knows, maybe we'll get a bat guy to deal with." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 04:36 am UTC (link)
	"No really. Criminal masterminds change things up and keep things unexpected. But who knows you might be right and we do get a guy like that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	onthewall 2012-12-06 04:49 am UTC (link)
	"Well I'd be interested to see something on the streets that could surprise you then. If we get a guy like a bat we need to ask him why a bat." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	crescentdart 2012-12-06 01:42 pm UTC (link)
	"Usually not a good thing if I'm taken completely by surprise on something. Sure we definitely could ask him though I'm guess he would say say something about bats being scary." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)