Wow.

I'm honestly blown away by the support. I didn't figure anyone would pay attention to this, it was just a little something I scraped together in a year or so when I got bored.

Now I have to figure out an actual plot...

Spider-Man is my favorite hero, hands down. The focus of this story is going to be on him, or his closest supporting characters (the ones I actually like anyway).

616 (or "Prime", or whatever) is law. Wether we like it or not, that's the official and definitive Spider-Man story. As far as I'm concerned, that's written in stone and I won't/can't change anything about that.

That being said, this is a fanfiction. My goal (now anyways) is to write a Spider-Man tale how I want. This Peter's life does mirror 616. Uncle Ben, Aunt May, Gwen Stacey, these and many others are a core part of Spider-Man.

My general rule I'm establishing, unless I outright say otherwise, 616 is what happened. I'll give a bit of a list of changes without trying to spoil what I have planned.

-There's no Mephisto meddling. I don't see why Peter Fonda would want to erase Toby Maguire's marriage. However...

-There still wasn't a wedding. No devil deal, but no wedded bliss either. Same thing went down, except the bird was a regular color. MJ gets all huffy and left for awhile, but eventually forgives him and comes back and lives with him. All the stories stay exactly (unless I say otherwise) the same. Just pick up an early comic and replace every mention of marriage with friendship and that's what happened.

-Spider-Man Adventures happened. Well, some of it did. I won't spoil anything though.

-Everyone's memory of Peter's identity being erased. It still happened, but I'll elaborate on it. Seems to me they needed something to power the spell and explain things that did or didn't happen afterward...

-The Other? Happened. Long term ramifications leading into Spider-Verse? No. At least not for this Spider-Man. No Other, Bride, or Scion powers in this fic...

-Peter and Kaine tapping into some eldritch spider power in times of extreme stress on the other hand? It's something I aim to play around with.

-No Cyndi Moon. I didn't and don't like her character. There was plenty of Spider-Women to use, they didn't need to create some teenage sex appeal character. But that's my opinion on it. I'm not trying to start a fight, just explaining I won't be using her.

-Peter beat Morlun. Or, he beat A Morlun. That Morlun just happened to be a few leagues below the one in Spider-Verse. So when Peter gets sucked into the multiverse fight, he's shocked to see that this guy is heavy duty major league. So, Pete did gank his world's Morlun, it just had no connection to Spider-Verse. Speaking so much of Spider-Verse...

-This Spidey was pretty much in the background. With so much going on, no one could keep track of them all. Kaine was too. They ran into each other and hashed things out. They're by no means cool with each other right now, but they're amicable. Kaine survived, but gets lost in the multiverse. My excuse to use a few characters he may bring with him...

-And this brings us to the start of my fic. Pete survives Spider-Verse, comes home to his company he has no clue what to do with, and everything falls down around him.

There's other bits I have yet to flesh out, but I'm working on it.

As with Spider-Man, all other characters aren't changed unless I specify. That said, I'm ignoring most Avengers, X-Men, FF, etc. story arcs. Iron-Man is de-jerked by now I believe. I'm not sure when Logan passed (somewhere between Superior and Verse?) but don't expect to see him in the flesh. Steve is old, Falcon is Cap, Yada, Yada, Yada.

I'm using my abilities to bend and warp continuity like a plaything. If it doesn't fit in the timeline, who cares? I don't own these characters, just blame it on Skrulls, or a Cosmic Cube malfunction, or something.

I'm writing for as much as my enjoyment as for anyone who had an open mind to stories and cares to give this a try.

So enjoy True Believers, and let's see where this takes us.