Peter Parker/Personality and Relationships

* Overview
* **Personality and Relationships**
* History
* Gallery

### Affiliation

As Spider-Man: N/AAs Peter Parker: Daily Bugle, Empire State University, Midtown High School (formerly)

### Occupation

Current: Adventurer, photographer, scientist, university student, vigilanteFormer: high school student

## Personality

"With great power must come great responsability" are the words that have defined Peter since his tragedy as a high-schooler. With the death of his uncle and its associations with his own lack of action, Peter is committed to helping people out as much as he can with his own strengths and skills. This motivation to do the right thing, even in the face of adversity and disdain is admirable though not without flaws. His early adolescent years of relative friendlessness and social isolation meant that he would often have difficulty in interacting with his peers in an equal and beneficial way. After all, he's not used to having friends and how that influences a person. It would lead to an independent streak early on. Despite this, he is not without charm as he possesses a sharp wit seen through the use of one-liners and observations. While in his civilian life he uses it to joke around his peers, in the heat of combat, he uses to masquerade his fears, using them as a buffer while also using it as psychological warfare against his enemies. His keen analysis from the interactions between him and those around him from their reactions to jokes in certian situations lets him get a grasp on how they are. At the same time, this does mean he sometimes has opening up to people and letting them in.

Despite this, Peter remains awkwardly endearing at heart. He is passionate about his "nerdy" hobbies and tends to act sheepish whenever he is given the chance to talk on them or granted attention to it, especially by pretty girls. He can sometimes be shy when meeting new people, a reason his humor and wit come into play. In many ways, he is seen as a younger brother among his older peers of the hero community. Often equal parts exaseperating and endearing yet maintaining a high level of respect toward his commitment to his moral obligations.

However, he also stands out as his approach with humor to confront tragedy means he can be at odds with his more serious, stoic or melancholic peers. This has him be often seen as annoying or immature by some his peers, much to his own irritation. Especially since this may lead to said peers revealing their own hypocrisy.Addtionally, his social awkwardness means he often has trouble trusting people out of fear that they may get hurt by his life. Some suspect he has developed an inferiority complex as his guilt causes him to focus more on his failures than his successes. Said complex likely resulted additionally to how he became hungry for attention during his brief stint as a wrestler and how he views said desire for attention to have led to his tragedy. His relatively friendless childhood and adolescence also means he is inexperienced when it comes to friendships, namely in keeping up with friends, asking for help and so on. This often leads to his friends questioning him being aloof or why he does not ask for help. In truth, he has trouble asking for help because outside of his family, he didn't have anyone to turn that would help him.

To those who get to know him past this exterior, either by time or circumstance, often find themselves surprised and even humbled at his genuine valor, selflessness, compassion and wisdom. This is especially the case to those who used to butt heads with him because of their differing coping mechanisms at the stresses of the world. Ultimately, he is driven by his good heart and a desire to do good, to fully live up to the responsabilities and capabilities his powers granted him and what his loved ones believe that he can do.

## Relationships

### Family

***Benjamin Parker:*** Peter was very close to his uncle, Ben Parker. Ben served as Peter's primary male role model growing up and thus acted like a father to him. After the death of Richard and Mary, Ben assumed more responsability to help give his nephew a good life and teach him in being a good man, much like Richard was. Ben did the best he could with the financial situations they were in and Peter adored and appreciated his uncle in turn. Even as Peter became more independent when maturing into adolescence, he was close to him and much of what Peter knew was due to the dedication in his uncle raising him.

His death left a profound impact on Peter, especially on his phrase of *"With great power must come great responsability."* As such, Peter devoted his crime-fighting crusade in the name of Uncle Ben and ensuring that many other people do not befall the same sort of tragedy he had due to his choice. Peter will on occasion visit his uncle's gravesite and meditate there for some time. Often, he feels a sense fo guilt over this and wonders out on if his Uncle Ben would be proud of him on everything he has done this far.

***May Parker:*** Much like with his uncle, Peter is quite close to his aunt, especially with the passing of Uncle Ben. May saw Peter as her second chance of raising a son after the miscarriage she had when she was younger. She often doted on him and made sure he was well taken care of, including spending time with time. Peter in turn appreciated spending time with his aunt, even if he got a bit frustrated with her at times back when he was younger. However, as he grew older, he also began working more to look out for her own well-being, especially as Ben was approaching the age where retirement became a possibility.

After the death of Ben, Peter became more active in looking after the well-being of his aunt while at the same time, helping her navigate being a widow and life without him. As such, her well-being has become a larger priority for him, especially as she is the only family he has left. He also encouraged her to go out and helped her reenter the workforce due to the rising changes and developments. She means very much to him and badmouthing her is a very easy way to get Peter *infuriated*.

***Richard Parker & Mary Parker:*** Despite losing them at a young age, Peter does maintain some memories of his parents, albeit vague memories given how they were a presence in his life until he was about four or so. While he admit to not knowing them very well, he does love his parents and remains fond of them though he does sometimes wonder what would've happened had they not gone on that fateful final mission. At the same time, their self-sacrifice remains also a driving force for him in his life, having inherited that same sense of selflessness and throwing himself into danger as they had. While he knows a fair bit of them from his aunt and uncle, he does wonder who else knew them and what secrets they had.

### Lovers

***Betty Brant:*** Peter Parker's first girlfriend, they ended up meeting over back in the Daily Bugle and befriended one another for being among the youngest members of the staff. He helped her alot with some of her work and he saw alot of himself in her because of how they both went to work at a young age to take care of their parental figures. These qualities of responsability is also what drew in Betty over to Peter and after an intense moment of empathy and comfot, began their relationship.

It was a casual romantic relationship with Peter learning the basics of how to be a good boyfriend. However, the growing conflict of being Spider-Man ate more into his tme. This along with the fact of the age gap during their dating period meant the relationship was likely not going to last. Despite this, it was a solid seven or so months of the two being together before making the decision to part ways amicably, especially with Betty's concern of Peter's increased recklessness. However, the two would remain close friends with her trusting his judgment and Peter being grateful for learning alot on relationships. A special moment between them was when after Peter missed his prom, he still shared a dinner and dance with her.

Despite that, they still hold a bit of affection for another and even jealousy when the other was getting noticed, such as Peter's mild envy toward Ned "Leeds" Lee or Betty's own minor envy toward a couple of the girls that was looking at Peter.

### Allies

***Curtis Connors:*** Peter Parker's mentor back in high school. While Connors was a university professor, he would often scope out different high schools for bright pupils with Peter being one that caught his eye. Connor was a good mentor to Peter, helping him out with his academic growth, giving him advice over on the sciences and even relationship advice back when Peter was with Betty. Peter meanwhile thinks well of Dr. Connors and has consistently gone to watch over the doctor ever since the accident that led to his transformation into the Lizard.

### Other

***J Jonah Jameson:*** Peter's first ever employer, he has a complicated relationship over with his boss. While he does respect Jameson's integrity and can get along with him, he is often exasperated by his boss's temper as well as the libel aimed at Spider-Man over in the *Daily Bugle.* As Spider-Man, he can't help but backsass alot over to Jameson whenever he starts barking up. Despite that, both have been willing to go and help the other out in various situations. While Jameson's words have been a bit of a big hit to Peter's reputation and often a source of stress, he still respects what Jameson does as a person.