Peter sat cross legged on the floor, surrounded by crumpled up scraps of paper with failed costume designs, name ideas and several different variations of costumes, including capes, claws and different kinds of masks. Originally he had decided on a Batman-esque black suit with a flowing cape and spikes on the arms before deciding that it wasn't who he was. He moved on from the concept of fear-inciting pieces of body armour and onto bright, hope-inspiring costumes. The fact he hadn't thought of a precise design did not halt the fact he had a theme. The theme was spiders, he hadn't decided on a specific type of spider nor a colour but he knew it had to be cool. And with the idea of a spider, even a human one, he knew that it'd have its own webbing. So having decided to set the costume design aside for now he began to look into how he would go about equipping himself with webbing.

"Hmmm..." Peter hummed, flicking a pencil around in his hand as he thought, the track Survival from the Marshall Mathers LP 2 blaring through his speakers, "I know they need to be wrist mounted but should they be mounted on the over or underarm?" After making a quick sketch of both of these designs he circled the underarm design due to the ability to activate them easily through an undecided gesture. He figured using a simple hand clenching gesture would be a good enough idea at first before realizing that every time he balled a fist he would activate the mechanism.

"Right, so it needs to be a more precise hand movement and I need to do something to prevent it from activating when I punch someone" Peter said, picking up the several sketches he had made of spiders to try and inspire a costume and examining them. The one that caught his attention was the sketch of a spider in an aggressive stance with its front two legs curled up above its head and its fangs angled downwards. Peter studied the sketch for a long moment before he looked down at his hand and curling his middle and ring fingers whilst extending his first and little finger.

"Yeah... yeah, that could definitely work" Peter nodded, extending his thumb outwards as a way to not block the area he would place the device "And to stop it from firing when I don't want it to I could add in a mechanism to make sure I have to... double press it, or something like that?" Peter returned to his sketches of the web device, still lacking a name at that time, and created a few annotations on the side. The design he had come up with so far was a metallic cuff fitted with a cartridge system with a pressurized liquid inside the cartridge that would fire when he pressed a small button on the end of a small, thin metal spring fitted onto a hinge, as to follow the movement of his hand, that would release a cap on the cartridge and cause it to be shot due to the pressure inside the cartridge.

"Right, blueprints and designs are as good as any but the problem is going to be creating this stuff" Peter sighed, rubbing his eyes with his hand "I don't think it exists and if I remember correctly there is no way in hell I could afford to order it if it did exists" Knowing what he knew about naturally created spider webs there was no way in hell he was going to reproduce that kind of material, fit it into a pressurized cartridge and have it be strong enough to bind his enemies in a fight.

"Wait..." Peter murmured, an idea blossoming in his mind. He was aware that spiders did indeed use their webbing to bind and capture their prey but they also used it to lower themselves from heights and to help build their webs.

"So, if they can hang from their webbing, why can't I?" Peter asked "Better yet, if I can hang from them then I can swing from them too. I can use it to get around the city quickly as well as using it as a weapon" Peter then scavenged quickly through his papers in order to find the costume designs he had put together and found one that he knew would have to work in tandem with the web-swinging idea. The suit design he had decided on was a thin, skin-tight piece of clothing with a complete mask and eye-holes. Having a rush of inspiration of design brought on by his decision to add webbing to his skill tree he began to scribble down web designs alongside the image before deciding on a pattern he liked, especially on the mask. He added the webbing to the nearly plain suit before his eye caught another sketch of a spider he'd done, this time in a much more cartoony style. The eyes of that particular spider were less eye-like and much larger with a slanted appearance and being blood red. Without adding the colour he drew on the large, slanted eye designs to the suit and picked up his page filled with drawings of different symbols. His final choice was a large, long-legged black spider with a bulky, angular body and small, barely visible fangs.

"Perfect" Peter grinned, finishing the sketch of his prototype suit and feeling a warmth glow in his stomach "Now all it needs is colour and it'll be perfect" He wanted something that was eye-catching to finalize the design, something that could be inspiring to the people but could also represent danger in the animal kingdom. He knew that the brighter the colours on an insect or animal in the jungle the more poisonous they were and this was something he wanted to translate over to his suit. What suggested danger? Red.

"Hang on" Peter said before he coloured the entire suit in red "It needs something else... blue maybe?" He grabbed another blue pencil from the box next to him and began to colour in the red parts, making the colour percentage on the fly, before completing it with the blue pencilling. With a wide a smile he held the drawing up to the light, marvelling at his own handiwork before a thought struck him.

"Name" he mumbled "I'm gonna need a superhero name..., something easy to remember, like... the Human Spider?" Peter rolled the name over his tongue several times before shaking his head.

"No, that sounds really dumb" he scoffed "I'll think of one later, right now I need to figure out what I'm gonna need to make this web fluid stuff" Next Chapter: Arachna-Man? Estimated time remaining: 15 Hours, 36 Minutes