#labwebs

"I don't think it'll be too boring." Harry admitted, thoughtfully, before he shook his head. "Scratch that, it will be boring, I know half of the lecturers and you know the other half." He admitted. "And we'll be in good company." He even added, the irony thick.

Nothing like mixing charity work and half of the crime in New York, but that was what Norman Osborn could manage on the regular.

so, hilariously, one of the few things we don't have a lot of panels for me to pull from is this exactly. but we do have-

followed up directly by-

which, i'm gonna be honest, those two snippets say a hell of a lot about tony and his texting habits and how he communicates in general.

before we get started, though, let me also offer you this-

and also this, which has no bearing on tony's texting habits, i just want everyone to see it.

supportive of your choices uncle iron man is the best uncle iron man (no, @mercred, not you - sorry, @spiderz0mbie aim higher).

so. here's what we can glean from the above, and given what i know of who tony stark is as a person (which is entirely more than i ever wanted to know) this tracks:

01 tony will text you. if you don't text him back, he's going to text you again. if you don't text him back after that, he's probably going to text you one more time again. he is, arguably, a rapid fire texter, given carol's unfortunate experience, so he may not even give you time to answer before he just keeps going, but he's going to bug the ever loving shit out of you before he's done.

02 if you do what carol has unfortunately done, or what kamala has naively assumed would be understood, he's gonna show up. especially if it's a scenario where he's worried about the other person. and judging from carol's tony, what did we say about this?, this isn't a new thing with him. tony and things like boundaries sometimes have a contentious relationship; both his boundaries for himself, and his boundaries with other people. also probably because so many of his most important relationships exist without boundaries at all (yes, i am looking specifically at you, steve rogers).

and, to add the other corner of our little triangle-

03 he may not (read: often) answer your texts via text. i like to imagine mostly he just calls people because while hands free voice to text is a thing, it's probably just better to do it real time in a phone conversation, because he's not the most patient person in the world, no, and his hands are often busy, so it's a win-win for him. but also instead of doing the replying thing like a normal person, sometimes he jumps directly into action mode, which in the case above is a shoulder to cry on and comfort gyros. he's probably gonna leave you on read, is what i'm getting at, but it's not gonna always be intentional.

The bots had been his way to reach out without completely disturbing timelines and canons, Miguel wanted to create the last amount of ripples and so he sent the little little spiders through the arachno-humanoid poly-multiverse, sending messages to other spiders to keep an eye out for anomalies. Well, other anomalies besides his little intrusion into their world.

This Peter was different, not many villains left to get confused by, but he hopes that his arrival won't disturb this Peter and what life he now had after his own canon.

The blue and red mechanical spider crawls along the wall, watching for his intended audience, certain that the Spider-Man would feels it's presence before he was seen, something they had enough experience with at this point. The young man is closer now and so the spider stops, bolting itself down and play a hologram. Cheesey, yes, but he needed to be seen.

❛ anybody ever tell you that you worry too much ? because if not , i'm gonna be the first one to tell you that you worry too much. i'm FINE , parker. its just a black eye. literally comes with the job ; cough cough. i've been thrown off of rooftops before , I'LL LIVE. ❜

Probably should have thought of a better way to do this than hardwiring himself into an ATM in a shady as hell spot, though, which is definitely something he'll keep in mind for the next time he ends up in another universe. Now, however, he's a very conspicuous red and gold neon sign that all but screams I am up to no good as the the dispenser whirs to life and spits out a stack of twenties, just as he catches the proximity alert on his hud, and closes his eyes behind the faceplate a moment with a longsuffering sigh (that translates as a burst of static through the vocal modulator) as what he assumes is this universe's - and he can't believe he's about to agree with JJ Jameson on anything - spider menace appears like a sleep deprivation induced shadow person in the corner of his visual input.

"How're things?"