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(extended summary, cast, character aesthetics)

❝If you don't understand the power of human life, then human life is going to be hard.❞

━ set pre-civil war to homecoming ━

FUN FACT: BEATRIX CASTRO LIKED ROBOTS. She adored them, even. Anyone could tell just by seeing the WALL-E plushies littered in her room, the amount of robot invasion movies she owned, the fact that she probably had more pictures of Nikola Tesla than herself.

Maybe the robot-obsession stemmed from her mother, a world-renowned engineer, having gotten the young girl into Lego Mindstorm programming from the moment she learned to use a computer-or maybe the love for robots stemmed only from the fact that she was an extremely sheltered teenager who found kids her age very, very confusing.

In any case, like most sheltered children, Beatrix never quite cracked the code to making and maintaining friendships, or at least not with people. (How the hell do people make friends, anyway? Is there a manual or something? Asking for a friend.)

The only thing Beatrix knew about people without a doubt is that they were complicated and she didn't like that. People spoke without speaking, they expected you to read their minds through their facial expressions, they got angry when you didn't give eye contact or when you gave too much-in short, they majorly sucked and made no sense. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't understand the majority of people around her, and they couldn't understand her. So Beatrix simply gave up on people because, unlike people, robots were simple (not to mention awesome as fuck and obviously the superior species). Robots said what they meant and most of them didn't even have non-verbal social cues for her to try-and fail-to decipher.

Between the dozens of robots she'd built and now had to manage and the online high school classes she still had to deal with, Beatrix didn't even have time for socializing. She switched out having a lively social life (whatever the hell that meant) for building shitty robots and she was very happy with her choice, thank you very much.

But after a tragic accident leaves her motherless, her father decides that contrary to her beliefs a social life was exactly what she needed (his definition of a social life = friends that are people + not related to her + not from video game server or virtual interaction of any kind).

This decision of his, forces her to replace online highschool with a private preparatory school somewhere in upstate New York, all in an attempt to get her a social life she didn't really want.

In the darkness of such an absolutely shitty situation, Beatrix thinks things can't possibly get any worse until the Stinger Dilemma. When visiting her dead mother's robotics lab she discovers blueprints, secret beginning stage construction for a seemingly useless fifteen-foot robot her mom had named S.T.I.N.G.E.R (an accronym for the needlessly long title that was the Sentient Talkative Intimate Neurodynamic Genial Robot).

It arises a bunch of new questions, the main one being: why the fuck was my mom hiding a fifteen-foot death-bot from the government? All of it only ending with Beatrix in a darker haze of grief.

The light at the end of the dark tunnel for Beatrix ends up being the recently super-powered boy at the end of her shortcut home in central park, one who was weeks away from having his own angsty internal struggles in the aftermath of his uncle's death.

Destiny works in some really fucked-up ways. Beatrix knew that because destiny is what the speaker at her mother's funeral had blamed the accident on, and yet she didn't think twice at the coincidental stroke of luck that was Peter Parker, a boy from a school completely across town, walking-or more accurately, swinging-into her life.

Through some pre-destined luck or fucked-up destiny, overtime, Peter Parker and Beatrix Castro serve as each other's relief. As he helps her within unraveling the mystery of her mother's robot as she helped him in figuring out his new abilities. Together, they discovered that maybe, in each other, people could find remedies to lift the weight off one another's shoulders; in a way, maybe, building friends was that simple.

BEATRIX 'BEA' CASTRO
(eva noblezada)
- the robot-loving gem

❝I found blueprints for a sixteen-foot weaponized automaton in my dead mom's robotics lab - believe me, you'll never be able to freak me out any more than I already am.❞

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PETER PARKER
(tom holland)
- the spandex-wearing spider boy

❝Well, never say never.❞

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BEVERLY 'BEV' CASTRO
(amanda acuri)
- the eccentric twin sister who likes too many bands

❝You shouldn't let a boy you like decide how you express who you are you are; it's not punk rock.❞

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RAYMOND CASTRO
(juan diego botto)
- the recently single father who's trying his best

❝I don't ever want you to do something alone because you think you need to. I want you to have friends, a team of people you can count on.❞

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HARRY OSBORNE
(bill skarsgård)
- the angst-ridden rich kid with an addiction

❝I know what rock bottom looks like. You can relax 'cause you aren't there yet.❞

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JAMES STARK
(dylan o'brien)
- the vine-loving rich kid with identity issues

❝I need my good looks to balance out my annoying personality.❞

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GWEN STACY
(cheng xiao)
- the one and only source of common sense

❝Our school would perish without me.❞

also featuring:

- zendaya coleman as MICHELLE ʻMJʼ JONES

- roshon fegan as OLIVER JONES

- michelle dockery as LAURIE JONES

- robert downey jr as TONY STARK

- the c.g.i yellow transformer as beatrix's robot, STINGER

and...!

- keanu reeves as WILLIAM GARRET 

- george clooney as the dead uncle, BEN PARKER 

⁠- lea salonga as the dead mom, BETH CASTRO 

- laura dreyfuss as SALLY AVRIL 

⁠- the rest of the mcu cast as their respective characters

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WARNINGS:

This book may contain violence, descriptions of sensory overloads, casual ableism, bullying, mentions of addiction/underage drinking (it's Harry Osborn baby, what can i say?), and teen angst.

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DISCLAIMERS:

(This book takes place within the ❛Paragon of Teams❜ series and despite it not being at all necessary to read any book in the series to understand this one, keep in mind that they are all intertwined; characters from different books may make an appearance/mentioned and characters from this book may make an appearance in those ones.

I obviously don't own any canon characters within this book. They all belong to Marvel. However, I do own, all of my own personal OCs and let me just remind you plagiarism is not and has never been cool.)

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book dedications:

maybemarvel
The woman, the myth, the legend, queen of God Tier comedic AND poetic writing. geniuenly one of my favorite people on this app and a huge writing inspiration to me. the POWER you hold.

IAMABIGMAC
-saoirses

ethanhunts brieanne- solarstarks

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AUTHOR'S NOTE:

PARAGONS IS A SERIES NOW, (i honestly don't know how this happened, but I got carried away eye-)

Also expect dumb metaphors and a bunch of cute, supportive, chaotic high school friends/bromances/galpals because whoops, I want to write platonic relationships and romantic ones in this book.