Exceedingly Exiled:Aranha

Aranha

Home Reality: Earth-4669
Civilian Name: Pedro Prado (secret ID)
Origin: Accident
Power Level: 10
Gender Identity: Cisgender Male
Age: 17 years
Appearance and Demeanor:

Abilities

Strength: 8
Stamina: 7
Agility: 8
Dexterity: 4
Fighting: 7
Intellect: 2
Awareness: 2
Presence: 2

Defenses

Dodge 12

Parry 12

Toughness 7

Fortitude 7

Will 7

Skills

Acrobatics 6 (+14)

Close Combat: Unarmed 5 (+12)

Deception 6 (+8)

Perception 6 (+8)

Persuasion 6 (+8)

Ranged Combat: Webspinners 6 (+10)

Technology 1 (+3)

Complications

Motivation:

• Acceptance: Though Shard revels in the crystalline form's power, they are acutely aware of how monstrous they appear and do all they can to show the humanity that lies within.

Other Complications:

• Monstrous: Shard is a massive creature made of living crystal fragments that shift constantly. It can be a lot if you're not ready for it.
• Prejudice (Hidden): Though they don't know it, Shard is a mutant. Should this be revealed, they would face the hostility to mutants present in many parts of the multiverse.

Advantages

Agile Feint

Defensive Attack

Evasion 2

Improved Initiative

Skill Mastery (Acrobatics)

Taunt

Uncanny Dodge

Powers

Spider-Movement: Leaping 3 (250 feet); Movement 2 (Wall-Crawling 2); Speed 4 (30 MPH) • 11 points

Spider-Senses: Enhanced Advantages 4 (Evasion 2, Improved Initiative, Uncanny Dodge), Senses 1 (Danger Sense [mental]) • 5 points

Webspinners:
Web Ball: Ranged Cumulative Affliction 5 (Resisted by Dodge; Hindered and Vulnerable, Defenseless and Immobilized), Extra Condition, Limited to Two Degrees • 15 points [*]AE: Web Throw: Damaging Move Object 5 • 1 point [*]AE: Psiweb Probe: Ranged Cumulative Effortless Mind Reading 5 • 1 point [*]AE: Psiweb Damper: Concentration Simultaneous Nullify (Mental effects) 5 • 1 point

Web Swing: Movement 1 (Swinging) • 2 points

Power Points

Abilities 80 + Powers 36 + Advantages 4 + Skills 18 + Defenses 12 = 150

Backstory

Swinging within the concrete canyons of Copacabana one late afternoon, seventeen-year-old Pedro Prado realized it had been a year since his life had changed in an amazing way.

It seems like that weekend school trip happened yesterday, he thought, letting go of the web and spinning in the air. Even after all this time, Pedro still found extremely cool that he was aware of where everybody part of his body was, and of how his body was moving through space.

Me, who could never turn a cartwheel!

He landed on top of a building right by the beach. Pedro took in the view of the ocean and the mountains. The boy loved that he got to see it from up there. As Pedro contemplated the scene, he found himself going down memory lane.

He remembered getting lost from his group during the visit to the national park. After wandering aimlessly through the woods, he had thought the only dangers he would face were going hungry and having to sleep in the forest.

Boy, was I wrong!

The monster had jumped out of nowhere and scared Pedro witless. Looking like a humanoid spider, it had bitten him in the arm and died. Terrified and in pain, Pedro had run as fast as he could, but soon after lost consciousness.

When he woke up, he was in a hospital back in Rio with uncle Ben and aunt Maia next to his bed. They smiled when he opened his eyes; theirs had tears of relief. They explained that Pedro had been found in woods the day before delirious and feverish.

According to the doctors, he had been bitten by a rather large spider or several of them, but had recovered astonishingly fast. They released him the very next day. It only took Pedro another 24 hours after that to realize things have changed in a very big way.

A coin rolled under the washing machine and, without thinking, he lifted it with one hand. And that was not all: he was fast, agile, could cling to walls and sense danger. Plus, he could shoot webs from his wrists!

Thank god I’m not an anatomically correct “spider”! he thought, grinning.

The webs, he found out later, also let him read thoughts and can enhance his brainpower, but those abilities freaked Pedro out and he decided to use them sparingly.

Pedro did then what any teenager would do in that situation: became a super-hero. He cobbled his uniform together from different pieces, including a carnival mask he found in a cheap store.

At first, he tried a full-body suit, like American super-heroes, but Rio’s tropical weather soon dissuaded him from that idea. Now he wore his “Summer uniform” year round.

I should check out that Maharesh symbiote suit, though. Where did I leave it?

And so Homem-Aranha [Spider-Man] was born. At least, that’s how Pedro wanted to be called. He found out, though, that everybody -- including himself sometimes -- only referred to his super-hero persona as “o Aranha” [the Spider].

As Aranha, Pedro saved people and fought criminals, while struggling to maintain his social and school life. The charade didn’t last long with Ben and Maia, who found out about their nephew’s extracurriculars a few months later.

They wanted him to stop, but Pedro made an impassionate plea for his case. Ben and Maia realized the boy had grown up a lot in those months. Once a carefree, happy-go-lucky kid seemingly aimless in life, now he treated his super-heroic exploits with focus and responsibility.

They agreed to let him go on, as long as he kept his grades and didn’t get involved with anything too dangerous.

That last one has been hard to keep…

Pedro eventually learned the “monster” who attacked him was actually an alien scout from the Inkabut clade of the Maharesh species. She was called Laro Dekus and had crashed on Earth looking for help in the clade war.

Laro had received a deadly dose of radiation from her ship’s damaged drive and, in her dying throes, confused Pedro with an enemy.

Of course, I got mixed up in the war.

But Pedro had other adventures this past year: he earned the enmity of a few super-villains, fought a powerful corporation, and gained a partner in super-heroics.

I wouldn’t give up being Aranha for anythi-Crap! Look at the time. Aunt Maia will kill me if I miss dinner!