The Bee's Knees

An escape room experience

the woke left: young and fashionable. visible tattoos. often enjoys matcha, lavender flavoring, oat milk, and cold foam. pretty decent customers.

sweet old man: drinks very sweet iced lattes, pays in cash, puts all of his change in the tip jar. sometimes orders hot coffee and i get scared that his shaky old man hands will spill it and he'll get burned but that has not yet happened and god willing never shall.

evil old man: only wants drip coffee and declares it ridiculous that any other form of coffee exists. some variants only want americanos and these variants are even scarier. watch out.

sweet old woman: might need her daughter's help to order but is very bubbly and open to trying new things. compliments baristas freely and frequently.

evil old woman: does not want coffee and only wants sweet tea or soda. will not tip even if she spends three hours in the shop repeatedly asking baristas to fetch things for her.

errand husband: either stiltedly recites an order to you or shows you the order in their texts/notes app. needs to step out of line and make a phone call if you ask any follow-up questions.

grindset girlie: always wearing scrubs, an apron, and/or a name tag. orders the exact same thing every day and knows the exact change she'll need to pay for it. her regular order is both extremely caffeinated and extremely sweet.

#mamabear: is actively wrangling two to four children while ordering. order changes repeatedly because the children cannot decide if they want a muffin or a cookie or apple juice or chocolate milk etc. for some reason these women are always wearing an article of clothing or carrying some personalized item that says "mama" on it.

schoolchildren: band of two to eight adolescents hanging out after school. extremely indecisive but generally quite polite and tip well.

amnesiac in love: grown adult who needs their partner to tell them what they like. gets asked a question about their own preferences and turns to their partner to answer for them. generally acts like a shy child looking to their guardian for behavioral cues if you try to interact with them and only wants to talk to mommy i mean their wife.

Time to Get This Party Started Now

he's soft, he's diva, and he's really confused about what's going on

It’s more or less the same route that Peter took when he was trying to plug in the goober at the start.

“Did we teach him that?” “I didn’t teach him that. And you definitely didn’t teach him that.”

No, they didn’t.  But a spider-man did.  And the little ways that Miles’s way of being Spider-Man reflect back his own versions of the Spider-Man he saw die is just amazing to me.  He’s  continuing a legacy.  Not a general spider-person legacy.  Not Peter B’s legacy.  But his Spider-Man’s legacy.

Peter died but he was not completely absent from the film, and he maybe couldn’t actually get with Miles and actively show him the ropes, but between everything Miles could witness, and what he’d done and prepared for that Miles could take advantage of, the legacy he left through May that could be passed to Miles, he still helped shape Miles.  Not the way he would’ve preferred, but not completely absent either.

Peter is focused on his objective, and is letting his body go on autopilot. Miles is making a thousand decisions a second, and is actively making choices to get there as fast as he can. It means he might start jumping over the car a little later, but he uses momentum and strength to actively propel himself forward. His cartoon panel is less a style switch and more a chance to show the iconic pose.

Even just the way their hands touch the car– Peter doesn’t waste a single movement, and just lets his body do what it’s been trained to do best. Miles slams it down on the hood, thrusting himself higher than necessary and using that to give himself the extra momentum to really push off of the next car