Pre-note note: Ignore every Author's Note I've ever made. This is the important one. The rest are all bad. Trust me. I can type words.

A/N:

Hullo.

I've been thinking about this story a lot more often lately. More so, the circumstances this story was created in.

See back in Summer '17, my apartment burned down. Cause is, to this day, still unknown. Kinda lost everything for a time, I had trouble settling in elsewhere, y'know how it goes. I blasted through the first...four or so chapters? Something like that. I wrote it to vent, I guess. It was half-hearted and done out of high-running emotions so I didn't spend more time being mopey.

So I had delays, which I'm sure the like, 4 people still paying attention know pretty well. I didn't really care, sorta just blocked out all the reviews and ideas that came to me. Looking back on it, I regret that a lot. I know for a fact there's things I was going to throw in but never ended up writing down.

So yeah, I guess th here is that this story has had a really, really weird existence up till now. But I've been posting more frequently for the past...three or so chapters, which has happened before. But I need more consistency, something I think I'd like to have at least.

And consistency there will be! Hopefully—school's starting up, but I wanna devote as much free time to this as I can. Because I've got a lot going on in my head for it and well, I can't just keep coming back to it on a whim. At this rate I'll have died long before this would've even been close to finishing, let's be real.

But to do that, I need to plan stuff. Something I've been doing, little by little. I've been writing down ideas, story beats I wanna hit, characters I'd like to toy with and introduce and how I want to do it. All that. I know this fanfic is, by all accounts, more bad than it is good, but it has to end sometime right?

On that note, I've gone back and read old author's notes I made and man I was dumb. I mean, there's plenty of evidence for that, but JEEZUMS I was just, stupid. Also they were really, really long. And tiring. And bad. I cringed a lot. In fact I'm probably going to read this chapter in another three years and cringe just as much.

How did you guys get through that?

So anyways,

Fun Stuff!

Updated Character Profile for the Peter Parker of Earth-1387:

Full Name: Peter Benjamin Parker

Date of Birth: October 15th

Age: 15

Height: 5'4"

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown

Blood Type: B+

Power: 4/5

Speed: 5/5

Technique: 3/5

Intelligence: 5/5

Cooperativeness: 3/5

Our boy's gotten taller!

Character Profile for the Norman Osborn of Earth-1387:

Full Name: Norman Virgil Osborn

Date of Birth: August 3rd

Age: Mid 40's

Height: 6'4"

Hair Color: Auburn

Eye Color: Green (Formerly Blue)

Blood Type: A-

Power: 5/5

Speed: 5/5

Technique: 4/5

Intelligence: 5/5

Cooperativeness: 4/5

The biggest douchebag.

Character Profile for Sachiko Shimizu of Earth-112086

Full Name: Sachiko Shimizu

Date of Birth: July 14th

Age: 16

Height: 5'3"

Hair Color: Black

Eye Color: Blue:

Blood Type: AB+

Power: 5/5

Speed: 2/5

Technique: 2/5

Intelligence: 4/5

Cooperativeness: 2/5

We haven't met her formally yet, but that's coming soon. Lucky running away from small quaint hometown girl OC is a bit intrusive and not necessarily, well, necessary, but I wanted to try my hand at making one and just see how it goes.

If I don't like writing her, then I'll find some way to drop the axe on that concept. I mean, unless I write myself into a corner to the detriment of this entire story.

Kinda like I'm slowly doing by changing character arcs and events in a way that doesn't align with their canon selves, thus making a situation where I can either ignore it and let it happen off-screen or start focusing on like, 5+ characters whose lives I've changed and probably reduced in quality because I'm definitely nowhere near as good a writer as a published mangaka and oh man I'm giving myself a panic attac—

That's character profiles, for now at least. Now, I wanna delve into my headspace and talk about ideas that were cut or I'm throwing around in my head. I'm just kind of writing this part here for fun and to give an idea of how I've been approaching this.

So, you know the chapter where the Sports Festival stadium freakin' exploded? That was going to go a lot differently.

My initial draft of it included Peter being a lot more depressed and anxious in the morning, it set a really dreary tone for the rest of the story. I'd tried to do a Kraven's Last Hunt and build a sense of dread with momentary cuts to whatever Norman was doing on his way to the Sports Festival, and then…

Peter was going to kill Norman.

The method? He'd have run into ol' Normie in the bathroom after finishing up the first race. Then, in an act of impulse, he'd have punched Norman with all his might. Then, in a positively Charlie-like fashion, his face would cave in. The result? Well, I was actually going to just ramp up the stress of the situation by making ever-so-silent Koda walk in on him next to Osborn's bloody body. He'd come back, and there'd be no body. That would've introduced the 1610 immortality concept.

But you know, I realized that making the villain immortal immediately kills a lot of the stuff I can do going forward. So I opted not to. Also, I made like 3 sentences worth of describing Peter literally punching the life out of Norman. So that was just, horrifying in a special kind of way.

Another option was going to see the BNHA version of Peter Parker, having come from the US, ambushing Peter in the morning before he got to the SF. They would've fought, Peter would've been beaten terribly and left with a message from Norman, thus kicking off the plot and letting me avoid putting Peter in the SF in the first place.

But that's a bit too disconnected, plus I have other plans for BNHA Pete. And y'know, other characters.

I've had Sachiko in my head for a while. As established in chapter 12, she's pretty much just running away from expectations set for her and her life, which is meant to be, in a sort of Mary Jane-esque way, a reflection of Peter. Where Peter seeks to be someone else when he puts on the mask, she seeks to be someone else under the mask (which she doesn't wear but you get the metaphor). Reinvent herself, all that stuff. That's kind of a whole arc I'm going to go through a good bit later, but I'm looking forward to working on it.

I'd also intended for her, at one point, to be quirkless. But that sounded like a lame excuse for her to be a damsel.

Peter's aggression is something I wanted to lean into earlier than I have been and am planning to. Namely, I was going to have him beat Todoroki badly at the Sports Festival at the time that I was thinking of playing it out the normal way. But I have other plans for ol Todo, because with him being one of my favorite characters I just gotta.

Also, since I was on the topic of initial drafts earlier: one of my first ideas for the USJ fight was gonna include Peter getting launched into the sky with Nomu and having a mid-air fight where they'd land downtown, but then I thought of how absolutely stupid that was and scrapped the idea before it even got written.

Oh yeah! And Peter was gonna have an irrational distaste for Kendo because of her green eyes, that reminded him excessively of MJ and his constantly conflicting emotions in regards to her. Because teenage boys are just the worst at expressing their feelings and being normal.

(It was a stupid idea, too.)

So, yeah. I think that's it. So again, consistency, more frequent posts, things I wanna try and would like feedback for. Think that's the gist.

Thanks if you read all this. And thanks for supporting this strange, lonely little fanfic that got written by a mopey teen and continues to be updated, against all odds, by a less mopey young adult.

Adios.