Thinking about the way Gwen, how she is just a kid like Miles.
Her only father and family member she had left pointed a gun right at her, actively chose his job over his own daughter after she revealed she was spider woman.
Gwen was distraught, her whole world was collapsing. And then two spider people, people like HER, showed up. Adults who seemed like they understood what she was going through, offered her an escape from her problems. To abandon Gwen Stacy, to hide behind the mask where pain can’t get to her.
But things aren’t what they seem. The adults are falling apart here too, Miguel blows up at every small inconvenience. He’s extremely hard on Gwen- of course he would be. He can’t get attached to another little kid, not after what happened last time.
And Jessica Drew? A bit more lenient, maybe like the mom she never knew. But she’s not her mom. She pushed for her to be there, but she won’t protect her either.
Gwen learns her father will die.
She learns that Miles was an anomaly, too dangerous to interact with. She’s not even allowed to see him.
She falls on others, Hobie and Pavitr are good people who care about her well being.
But she just misses Miles. He understood her, what they’ve lost.
And when a mission comes up from his universe? Of course she snatches up the chance to see him again without angering the only parental figures she has now.
She tried to protect him in the only way that seemed to work, hiding the truth.
But he’s so much more hopeful than she is. He is kind, he’s strong and he knows what it means to be spider man, in spite of everything.
And she has to watch him learn the truth, watch the new parental figures quickly turn against them both.
People who Gwen thought understood, send her back to her own universe by force.
Imagine being a 16 year old girl, going though all of this.
Miles literally makes earthquakes in her life, changes entire trajectories just by existing. He saves her dad, just by proxy.
God. It is so painful to look at these kids. These poor, sweet kids.
