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my body will turn to ashes and be blown off into nowhere,

“a freak of nature” the witnesses shall shout,

for i am nothing but a woman, a woman mad enough to dream

but the sun hasn’t woke and the moon winks with it’s borrowed glow,

the stake is still wood and the fire thaw,

the sky is empty, the stars remain scarce,

Filipino Spider Man — Spider Niño

pedro puno lives in a small apartment in a tiny baranggay located at new york, cubao. he lives with his aunt may — maria angelica yasmin dalisay —who’s the sister of his late mom. aunt may is a 30 year old salary worker in an office in makati. she juggles her job and raising pedro.

pedro is an eight year old in the 3rd grade studying at a public elementary school where he’s bullied because he doesn’t have any parents (yes, kids are that brutal and petty).

as kids do, pedro plays with spiders in the school yard and takes one home in a tiny matchbox. coincidentally, it’s a radioactive spider. once pedro comes home, he took the spider out if it’s box and it bit him.

you know the rest.

little pedro did little heroic acts here and there. like saving cats, getting kites caught up in trees, chasing thieves. all with a gagamboy costume on. by the 6th week of his little heroic adventures, his costume is tattered and dirty.

obviously, his aunt naturally finds out. how? well she’s the one who sewed pedro’s costume. it’s a red gagamboy costume, one of its kind. she’s not too taken aback as she knows that pedro has always been meant to be a hero (gut feels).

aunt may confronts pedro about this and helps him navigate being a hero. they settle on calling him spider niño, because his favorite saint is sto. niño.