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grimoireweavers · 4 years
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          { closed starter for @ofcharredbones​ ;; Sebastian and Johnny }
♞—-» Sebastian’s world changed so rapidly over the course of several years. He fell in love with his partner, had to go through getting a new partner because he wanted to pursue a relationship with his original partner, got married, and had a daughter. All massive life changes, true, but ordinary things, right? Most 30-something year old men settled down and had a family, right? Perhaps not, but it seemed like the normal thing for an average person to go through.
And while balancing family life and a professional life with the KCPD was a stress all on its own, Sebastian was happy. He would have sworn that up and down for years.
At least, he had been until the accident. The fire that killed his daughter and ripped apart his entire life. He developed a drinking problem to cope. His wife became so obsessed with the idea that Lily’s death wasn’t an accident that she simply wouldn’t let the wound settle and heal. Then her obsession turned into a belief that Lily was alive, but she just sounded... insane. Sebastian tried to reason with her, tried to listen to her, but she was just making the healing process so much more difficult.
Myra disappeared. Everyone blamed him, saying he either drove her away with his drinking, or suspecting him of actually doing something to her himself. His world spiraled out of control, he’d hit rock bottom and he somehow managed to push through that hard rock and spiral even lower.
Then Mobius took him and inject him into STEM.
STEM was sort of a blessing disguised as a curse. For all the trauma he suffered within that devil contraption, he found a lot of blessings in it as well. A newfound strength and desire to not only survive but live again. Yes, he’d lost so much of himself in the last few years, but after coming so close to deaths too horrific to put to paper, he realized just how much he wanted to cling to life, how much he still wanted to be alive and thrive... It gave him a new respect for not throwing his life away, made him reevaluate a lot of his self-destructive decisions, and even gave him new purpose.
Perhaps, above all else, though, he found Johnny.
Their story wasn’t exactly the most romantic of stories. Johnny and Sebastian met in one of the worst places imaginable and ended up relying on one another when they had no one else to rely on or turn to. Desperation and spite brought and kept them together inside STEM, but what bloomed outside, in the real world, was beautiful. Not always easy, not by a long shot, especially when Seb still questioned what was real and what wasn’t, and had to come to some pretty terrifying realizations that monsters and demons were real and his boyfriend was one such monster hunting down even worse creatures. The types of things Sebastian would have believed nothing but stories or fantasies were now very real. Things he faced inside of STEM, nightmares that couldn’t possibly exist outside of someone’s head, were very much real.
But Sebastian processed this new information, and with Johnny’s help, he learned to cope and accept what could not be changed and adapt to survive in this new world that was still the same as it always was.
Turning, though...
Fuck, that’d been the hardest thing of all, hadn’t it? Learning of the existence of the supernatural was one thing, accepting it and living with it and even joining his boyfriend on hunts was another thing, but actually becoming part of it? In a way that he had no actual control over? In a way that tore out his humanity and left him with a memory of who and what he had been, but changed him into something so different... He’d never expected that to happen, never expected it to be possible, and sometimes, when looking in the mirror, it was hard to believe. As long as he was well-fed, he looked more or less the same, able to blend in with those around him just as he always had. Even his own mother couldn’t really tell the difference, though she did expect something was off about him.
Staying well-fed, though, was the tricky part. He could eat as much food as he wanted and never feel full. No sustenance or nutrition came from it. Eating souls took some getting used to and Sebastian had some really difficult times convincing himself to do so. There was a certain air of injustice or immorality that made such an act feel impossible, even when he purposefully went out of his way to find the worst people he really could, people he was probably doing a service to the rest of humanity for taking them out of the realm of existence.
Johnny spent a lot of time coaxing Sebastian into doing what he needed to in order to survive and not wither away under the influence of this transformation and Sebastian still didn’t like it, but at least he wasn’t starving himself.
With his insatiable hunger for the unimaginable, though, Sebastian did develop quite a few abilities that he couldn’t really control, didn’t entirely understand, and allowed him to do some pretty extraordinary things. While fearful of his newfound powers, he also found himself eager to learn and develop them. Look at all of the good he could do with what most would view as a curse! That’s how Sebastian had to look at it, anyway, to keep himself sane. Weaker men than him would have gone mad with power or crazy with the monstrosity they became.
The worst of it, though, was watching just how guilty Johnny was over Seb’s transformation. He blamed himself, it was very obvious. Every time Seb showed signs of struggling with adapting to this new life, Johnny’s guilt only amplified, and none of Sebastian’s reassurances seemed to have much impact on the Rider. Johnny knew he shouldn’t have pulled Sebastian into the lifestyle that he lived, that it was too dangerous for a common human, even one as determined, stubborn, and skilled as Sebastian.
Nothing Sebastian could say would ever alleviate Johnny’s guilt completely, but that just made Sebastian more determined to adjust to his new self, so he didn’t have to struggle in front of his fiancé anymore.
One such developing ability, however, left Sebastian feeling particularly unsettled. He first noticed it with Johnny and his mother, this... inherent ability to feel them even when they were not around him. It was like a personal tracker of sorts, allowing him to sense their general location, if they were in danger, and even, to a certain extent, what they were feeling at the time. It seemed to be the strongest with Johnny, which made sense since they lived together and spent the most time with one another, but as the weeks turned to months, more and more people started popping up on his radar.
Even people like Abraham, for the love of whatever higher power actually existed... Not that he’d tell Johnny about that, he was already salty for how often Abraham tried to steal Sebastian away and spend “quality time” with him.
Someone he never expected to feel eventually found her way to him, though. At first, he thought that it might have been Myra. Wherever she was, she was trapped, confused, and afraid. Sebastian couldn’t make out many details, in truth. Everything around her was dark, foggy, and as if she wasn’t entirely aware of her own surroundings. Why would he be thinking about Myra, though? There was no reason for Myra to hold any real place in his heart anymore, not after all the turmoil she’d put him through, not after finding a better partner in Johnny.
Then it dawned on him. Well, more like infected his dreams, really. Sitting bolt upright, Sebastian had broken out into a cold sweat in the middle of the night. Gwen moved from the end of the bed to crawl up into his lap and greet him, a tiny, concerned ‘mew’ leaving her as one paw came up to bat at his bare, damp chest.
Lily...
He dreamt about Lily, holed up somewhere dark, where she couldn’t see anything. Fuck, it felt like she wasn’t even processing what was going on around her at all, but she’d been right there, in front of him. He reached out for her, only to be stopped by some sort of invisible forcefield that existed between them, something that kept him from being able to touch her, to wrap his arms around her, and hug her like a father who never thought he’d see his baby again ought to.
Normally, he would have just written that off as a bad dream. He had plenty of them after losing Lily, after Myra abandoned him, and especially after STEM, but the feeling lingered, and for a moment, he swore he could picture her in real time, not just as a memory, but as someone who was alive and breathing and lost.
Nudging Gwen off of him, Sebastian pushed himself out of bed, as quietly as possible so as not to rustle the man beside him, though Johnny was likely already coming too from Seb violently sitting upright. Still, he made his way into the bathroom attached to their bedroom and closed the door behind him. Standing in the dark, he splashed a bit of cold water from the sink onto his face and gently patted a damp cloth across his neck and shoulders in an attempt to ground himself.
Could it be true, though? Could Lily be alive?
“That’s crazy,” Seb murmured to himself, staring at himself in the mirror. The lights were off, but his eyes easily adjusted to the dark, so he could see perfectly well. Making out every single detail of himself proved a simple task and he looked... Well, not nearly as tired as he should have been considering he hadn’t slept for very long and was woken in such a violent fashion.
After a few minutes to calm down and process what he’d been dealing with, Seb finally came back into the bedroom. Johnny was awake, sitting upright in his bed, a worried expression painting his features.
“Something odd’s happened,” Sebastian admitted before Johnny could even ask. “I can’t explain it, but I think...” Okay, he could explain it. Even though he had a hard time understanding these new and developing skills, he could talk to Johnny or Abraham or someone of a like mind who understood what it meant to be something other than human and they would likely understand what he meant, what he was talking about, what he was experiencing, and how to figure it out. “I think Lily might be alive, Johnny,” he murmured, and even as the words left him, he felt like he couldn’t breathe.
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jake-bittle · 5 years
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Reaching Across the Dimensions
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse
I have never found much consolation in the theory of reality that posits there are infinitely many universes, together containing all the possibilities of existence. If there were infinitely many universes, then each one would have to be infinitesimally small, indistinguishable from a cloud of neighboring universes almost exactly like it. They would almost cease to be universes at all, which is maybe the point. But I know my universe, and I know it is a universe. When I close my eyes for the night I can hear it continuing to hum without me. When I pace through it by daylight I can sense its definitions, apprehend all that it is and most of what it is not. Why should I care how many others there are?
Yet the facts of the multiverse, so uninteresting to me as scientific reality, become more compelling when they appear in fiction. This is perhaps because in art, alternate universes are always summoned in service of narrative, which is probably the only continuum more powerful than that of spacetime. In a work of art that “literally” depicted the multiverse, nothing would seem more or less real or important than anything else. Nothing would happen because nothing would not happen. But in a story about these things, all the possibilities of quantum foam are folded into one universe, this universe. In such a narrative alternate universes exist to deliver the characters what usually comes to them as a benediction from God or not at all: possibility, the real and boundless possibility of redemption, love, unity, etc. The “alternate universe” becomes a metaphor for the world of our imagination, the way we would like things to be.
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse is ostensibly a movie about such possibilities, but it’s actually much more than that. In the movie, the “real” Spiderman is slain by the villain in the first five minutes, his demise observed by a kid from Brooklyn named Miles who coincidentally also got bit by a radioactive spider the day before. But it’s okay that Spiderman 1 is dead, because the villain, Kingpin, has just opened up a Thunderdome-sized portal into the multiverse, through which arrive one other Spiderman and four Spiderpeople from the seemingly infinite—yes—comic book spinoffs that have appeared over the years.
The movie is about how these six Spiderpeople successfully stop Kingpin from turning on the portal again and destroying New York in the process. The alien Spiderpeople then return to their respective universes and Miles take up the mantle of Spiderman in Universe 1, a welcome transition since the previous guy not only looked positively Aryan but was, we learn, also enrolled as a grad student. The multiverse thing, Miles tells us almost explicitly at the end, is supposed to serve as consolation to every bullied preteen and comic-book fan from a rough upbringing: there exists a universe in which you are Spiderman. You’ll never get to see that universe, but it “exists.” The appearance of the other Spideys represents a kind of transdimensional fulfillment of one’s desire to be lifted out of one’s problems. In this world you will have trouble, but take heart, for I have overcome the worlds.
But what’s beautiful about this movie is that, even as it pretends to rely on the multiverse for its message, it’s doing something very different.  Miles becomes Spiderman before the wormhole, when he accidentally gets bit by a spider while doing graffiti on the subway with his uncle. What’s the difference between an act of fate that comes from without this dimension and one that comes from within it? If there is a difference, it must be infinitesimally small. The love interest is treated in a similar way: Spiderwoman Gwen, played by Hailee Steinfeld and sent from a universe with better gender politics, appears at Miles’s school a week before the portal opens, dislodged in time to serve the needs of the plot. This gives she and Miles just enough waking hours to develop innocent crushes on each other before Gwen has to go back to her own universe, or else she’ll glitch out and die. The movie hints that they can still communicate via a sort of fourth-dimensional Facetime, but one only assumes Miles will move on eventually. This in its own way is a statement about possibility and Possibility.
Even Kingpin’s motivation calls into question the surface-level conceit. His goal in opening the wormhole is not to kill all New Yorkers (or half of them, thank you for asking) but to get back his wife and son, who were killed years ago in a car accident as they tried to walk out on him. He just really wants his family back, and is willing to endanger a whole city to get them. Just as Spiderverse, in a universe where Disney didn’t own the copyright, could make a wonderful title for a postmodern novel, Kingpin’s motivations in another movie could be seen as positively noble. A man tries to bend the spacetime continuum in order to be reunited with his family—does that sound familiar? It’s the plot of Interstellar. Matthew McConaughey is lucky he wasn’t endangering any cities as he scrolled through the Library of the Universe, but if he had been, would we have expected him to care? But the movie offers Kingpin as a more realistic lesson, one grounded in this universe: you were lucky to have been born into a reality that is decent enough despite its problems, so don’t bite the hand that feeds. (Unless you are a spider and your bite can give me powers.)
By the same token, where is the agony when SpiderGwen leaves Miles for her universe? Yes, they’ve only known each other for two days, but Dante only saw Beatrice once or twice before he wrote all those poems about her, and stories have been imagined based on more tenuous connections. But that’s what makes the movie good: it goes only so far with the multiverse thing, and no further. Even the possibilities of the infinite are limited, and Miles has to close the portal and get back to “real life,” whatever that is.
He can do this because he’s 12 years old, but we wiser beings cannot. We wait our whole lives for a taste from another dimension, whether we are separated from that dimension by material space, extradimensional fabric, or the distance of time. If you squint a little, a lot of great novels look like multiverse stories, just ones that are content to offer their characters half-formed visions of the Beyond rather than throw them into fight scenes with their alternate-universe counterparts. David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is one such book: it’s a story about six seemingly unrelated lives across five centuries that turn out to be somehow supernaturally intertwined, linked just strongly enough for each character to get the fleeting sense that their world was somehow created by a past version of themselves, and that they create the world for a future version.
The book is subtle about this, nesting the six stories inside each other in matryoshka formation and leaving the reader to imagine the pain of knowing that someone is out there, decades away, but being unable to reach them. We don’t even really know if the characters are reincarnations of each other or what. The movie, which I liked except for the part where Tom Hanks plays an Asian guy, is way more obvious, but in a way that also works. Sixsmith, the composer of the “Cloud Atlas” symphony, tells his lover that “there are whole movements I wrote imagining us meeting over and over again in different lives.” This line, like Miles and Gwen’s parting fist-bump, moved me almost to tears when I saw it: the distance between the pairs in both cases again seems like a metaphor for the distance between the real world and the possible.
When Proust’s narrator in In Search of Lost Time takes a bite of his madeleine cookie and feels all the memories of his childhood rushing back to him, what else is he experiencing but contact with a kind of localized multiverse? But just as it’s very difficult to open a transdimensional wormhole on purpose, such bursts of memory can never be summoned at will, which is what makes them so powerful. This is why the multiverse collider in Spiderverse isn’t harnessed and donated to MIT Laboratories, which would have been something like the awful decision to have the protagonist teach the alien language at the end of Arrival. Contact with the Beyond cannot be sustainable. I may bite a cookie and find that my childhood town, “taking its proper shapes and growing solid, springs into being, town and gardens alike, from my cup of tea,” but these phantasms must fade eventually so I can talk to my mom. Our new crush always vanishes into the mouth of a wormhole. And at the end of every dream, no matter how long and how vivid, we wake up and find ourselves pawing the air for a reality that existed moments ago but now does not. (Or still does, but somewhere else.)
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g33kl1f3 · 7 years
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It’s the holidays yet again, and that means it’s time to join EVERYONE’S FAVORITE GWEN (take that, Stacy!) and celebrate good times, come on! Only problem is…somehow this year’s festive traditions seem to be a little…off…and Gwen’s the only one who notices. FEATURING: Gwenpool (duh), Spider-Man, Red Skull, Punisher and even Deadpool! This is one present you know you gotta buy yourself!
  HAWKEYE #1
Remember Hawkeye? No not that Hawkeye, our favorite Hawkeye, the chick who puts the hawk in Hawkeye, the butt-kicking hero who had to save the other Hawkeye’s butt all the time. Yup, you know her, it’s the dazzling Kate Bishop making her solo comics debut! Kate is heading west and returning to Los Angeles, with her bow and arrow and P.I. badge in tow. There are crimes to solve and she’s the best archer to handle ‘em! The City of Angels has a new guardian angel. The talented duo of Kelly Thompson (A-Force, Jem) and Leonardo Romero (Squadron Supreme, Doctor Strange) bring you a Kate Bishop like you’ve never seen her before, in a brand-new ongoing series that really hits the mark!
  IVX #1
MARVEL UNIVERSE AVENGERS: ULTRON REVOLUTION #6
MOSAIC #3
OLD MAN LOGAN #15
POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #11
SILK #15
SPIDER-MAN #10
STAR WARS: POE DAMERON #9
THE TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #13
THE UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #15
UNCANNY AVENGERS #17
  Week of 6/26
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #22
AVENGERS #2.1
BLACK PANTHER: WORLD OF WAKANDA #2
CAGE! #3
CAPTAIN AMERICA: SAM WILSON #16
DEADPOOL & THE MERCS FOR MONEY #6
DOCTOR STRANGE #15
  GAMORA #1
Before the Guardians…there was Gamora! From screenwriter Nicole Perlman—co-writer of the Guardians of the Galaxy screenplay—and Marvel superstar artist Marco Checchetto comes a killer new ongoing series! Once upon a time she was Thanos’ heartless pet assassin and favorite daughter. Today, she is the backbone of the Guardians of the Galaxy, putting her life on the line to defend the innocent. What was it that transformed her from being used as a tool of her oppressor, to a champion of the powerless? Embark on a journey of revenge and redemption, and witness how Gamora earned her reputation as the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy.
  GWENPOOL, THE UNBELIEVABLE #9
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #2
MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #15
OCCUPY AVENGERS #2
PATSY WALKER, A.K.A. HELLCAT! #13
  POWER MAN AND IRON FIST: SWEET CHRISTMAS ANNUAL #1
YOU BETTER NOT POUT, YOU BETTER NOT CRY! ’Cause you’re getting an extra helping of POWER MAN AND IRON FIST! This Christmas will be sweet, indeed! But not for Luke Cage, who is feeling neither holly nor jolly. Surely Danny can change that! Or maybe these demonic toys will! Wait, demonic toys?! OH, NO!
  SILVER SURFER #8
SLAPSTICK INFINITE COMIC #3
SOLO #3
SPIDER-GWEN #15
SQUADRON SUPREME #14
  STAR-LORD #1
GROUNDED! Peter Quill might have been born on Earth, but he’s been away a LONG time. How does a man go from soaring through the stars as the legendary Star-Lord to living with his feet planted firmly on the ground? What kind of job options are available for a guy whose CV mostly consists of “guarding the galaxy”? One thing is certain, Earth has a new guardian. Also, a new bartender.
  STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #2
THANOS #2
  THE MIGHTY CAPTAIN MARVEL #0
Behold the mightiest, fightiest super hero there is! Captain Marvel returns to her helm as Alpha Flight commander with the world cheering her on. She’s the biggest hero in the world – but has Captain Marvel become someone Carol Danvers no longer recognizes? New York Times bestselling author Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures, Black Widow: Forever Red) makes her comics series debut in a blockbuster Marvel story decades in the making.
  THE PUNISHER #7
ULTIMATES 2 #2
UNCANNY X-MEN #16
VENOM #2
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