#araña

I guess I'm making a habit of end of the year commissions from @wakandas and honestly loving the trend of a year end/early birthday present.

I’m absolutely in love with this piece and cannot even put into words how I’ve lovingly gazed at this since getting it

silly costume design below

The Young Spiders (consisting of Miles Morales, Bailey Briggs, Maka Akana, Anya Corazon, Silk and Spider-Gwen) are in the hall of the Empire State University, waiting for the training session with Norman Osborn. Miles Morales is giving a speech when he notices Bailey Briggs and Maka Akana are slacking off with their poses and gestures much to his chagrin. Most of the Young Spiders question Miles' insistence that they need to train together more, with Gwen in particular bringing up how they all punch way above their weight class on a regular basis. Miles does acknowledge her point, but brings up how their recent pyrrhic victory against the Goblin Slayers is reason enough that they can't afford to get complacent. While everyone are talking, they get attacked by Norman Osborn who is seemingly acting like Green Goblin. The Young Spiders try to fend off but Osborn was too prepared for them. It seems that a lot of Osborn's tactics against the Spiders exploit how naturally chaotic they are when coordinating as a team. While he did need specialized equipment to specifically deal with Miles, Anya, and Maka, Osborn was able to take down the others by simply pointing out their own flaws such as Gwen's impulsiveness, Silk's childishness (despite being Peter's age range) and Bailey's passiveness born from Peter forbidding him from ever fighting villains out of his league. Even in Anya's case, his contingency essentially hinged on whether or not Anya was slacking on her sorcery skills.

Then, Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) crashes in and knocks down Osborn with her motorcycle. Spider-Woman is fiercely protective of the Young Spiders as she believed that Norman had gone back to his Green Goblin shenanigans so she beats him up until the rest of the Spiders explain that his attacks was just a part of a training exercise and plead for her to stop. It turns out that this training exercise was to prepare the Young Spiders for any ambush attacks and do more teamwork. Even though Miles, Gwen, Anya, Cindy, Bailey and Maka are all technically Peter Parker's legacies, he barely did enough job to actually prepare them as vigilantes or teach them how to coordinate as a team. This is especially poignant in regards to Miles, as Osborn singles out his flaws as the direct result of being Peter's actual protege.