𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐒𝐈𝐒

❝ With great power comes great responsibility, but not everyone wants it ❞

Phoebe Carisi was over being a hero. Trained at a young age and doing the business for as long as she could remember, the sophomore had seen more than her fair share of bad guys. But she knew better than anyone else that she couldn't just stop; she had a job to do.

Having moved from her training base in San Fransisco to New York to live with her father J. Jonah Jameson, she had quickly acquainted herself to the east coast version of her old home turf with its own villains, reporters, and other heroes. The only difference was she was in control of what she did and didn't do. Not the staff, not the monitors, not her other teammates. She was riding solo.

Living a double life wasn't easy, especially when her own father wrote degrading articles about her nightlife persona. However, she didn't have it all that easy during the day, having to hide her relation to her father for her own safety and nursing a crush on one of his reporters, not to mention trying to keep up with the over-achieving freshman in her biology class who was too smart for his own good.

But her life gets even more difficult the second the Spider-Man shows up. With his loud mouth and tendency to make more trouble than stop it, Phoebe is instantly put off. He was too idealistic, too eager to fight. So sure of himself, as if he knew exactly who he was.

Over time, as she starts to grow closer to the Spider-Man and find a place in the tornado that was her father's life, Phoebe starts to notice things from her past, people that she had long since tried to forget.

As she uncovers more about her past life and the death of her mother, Phoebe tries to learn more about herself, searching for herself beneath all the other identities, the ones created around scientists and safety precautions and attractive reporters. She searched for the person that had been buried alive. Because, after all this time, she finally wanted out.

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𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓

daisy ridley as phoebe carisi

❝ I know what I have to do, but I just want a break ❞

jon hamm as j. jonah jameson

❝ heroes don't exist, every person fails, I should know ❞

armie hammer as sonny hewitt

❝ chin up, sunny, everything's going to be okay ❞

john boyega as gabriel benson

❝ we've got work to do, but we're kids, we can't do everything ❞

henry cavill as john jameson

❝ I didn't know I had a little sister until you showed up ❞

yara shahidi as marcy maddon

❝ if you think that the night life is hard, imagine what real life is like ❞

maisie williams as kelly grace

❝ I knew that it was going to be hard, but I didn't expect this ❞

paulina singer as lauren hammond

❝ you abandoned us, abandoned your duties, you're no hero ❞

joe keery as francis alexander

❝ did you really think we wouldn't be able to find you? ❞

jack dylan grazer as skipp bemis

❝ you don't understand, I don't want to be with them anymore ❞

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𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐒

started: 06.17.17 ; 06.28.19

completed: —

𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑'𝐒 𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄

Welcome back, everyone! If ya'll were here back in 2017, you'll know that this story was one that I was very excited about and got incredibly far with, but as time went on I began to focus on other stories and the plans for this story soon slipped my mind and I simply wasn't happy with the way I had written it as some of the jokes weren't taken correctly (due to my inability to stick the landing) and I just wasn't proud of it. So here we are now, it's back and better than ever and I'm very excited to finish it because this is going to be the first in a series following the Spider-Man movies, and I'm very excited because I love Phoebe and her story and she deserves to be written well.

This takes place prior to and into Civil War and all the dates will be as accurate as I can get them, but I will be writing into Homecoming so I suggest you read this in order to get me amped to write the sequel and the third story because I am very excited.

𝐃𝐈𝐒𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐑

This story will be dealing with sensitive issues and warnings will be placed at the tops of chapters that mention them explicitly, so please understand that the inclusion of these issues is not meant to in any way romanticize or make light of these situations, but rather are meant to show the effects and severity of the situations in a narrative form, so do not be upset at their inclusion because including difficult topics in writing does not inherently mean the author is capitalizing on it or making light of it, I am simply showing reality within writing and, unfortunately, reality isn't always kind.

CREDIT TO:

starfragment who is letting me use her layout of the fancy text at the beginning of chapters

I hope you stick around!