Aries Daniels (TRN505)

* Tarantula
* Unmasked

* The New Tarantula
* Tarantula Jr.

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**Given Titles**

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* Shay Daniels (Father, Deceased)
* Ren Carter (Mother, estranged)

**Extended Family**

* Jade Dragon (Great aunt, Estranged)
* Jazz Carter (Cousin, Estranged)
* Selena Carter (Aunt, Estranged)
* Aren Carter (Cousin, Estranged)
* Kody Carter (Uncle, missing, presumed alive)

* Alex Ballinger (Boyfriend, Deceased)

**Friends**

* Toru Higuchi (Best friend, Deceased)
* Justin Bailey (Deceased)
* Nida Madrigal (Estranged)
* Arthur Morgan (Deceased)
* Dexter Laurence (‘Alive’, Estranged)

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**As Alter-Ego**

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If there ever was someone whose life was pointless, it would be Aries Daniels. At least, according to herself. Flung throughout the multiverse after a temporal distortion during a crucial battle with one of her nemesis, Aries has been left without a purpose, roaming from multiverse to multiverse in search for a way home that might not actually exist. With the looming shadow of her past regrets close behind, and a particularly dastardly villain on her tail, Aries trudges ever forward as the ‘web-slinging; spine-tingling, Tarantula’ even if she doesn’t know why she’s still going.

## **History**

### **White light**

A bright white light, on the edge of a seaside cliff. It’s resonating beauty would stick with Aries for the rest of her life, even if with time, she’s forgotten what exactly she saw.

### **Origins**

So. Here’s the long gist of things. Her parents, the spectacular Tarantula (Shay daniels) and Madame Web (Ren Carter) lived a life of daring adventure and great danger. As the defenders of Nevada… as well as the multiverse as a whole, they wanted nothing but the best for the world, and that’s why they had to make the decision to continue with their work despite their family of two becoming a family of three. They did do their part to hide their identities from their child, but when Shockwave and Thunderstruck attacked the amusement park they went to, to celebrate Aries 7th birthday. Despite her young age, it wasn’t difficult to connect the fact that the two heroes only showed up when her parents weren’t around. Life didn’t change much for Aries after that, she simply grew increasingly aware of her situation, and how much of a curse it really was. As she grew older, she witnessed first-hand the affects being heroes had on her parents. They struggled, both as humans and as parents. She grew to hate their masks, wishing it could be anyone else but her parents.

### **Twilight**

It was the third day of her first year at high school when something truly horrifying happened. She was leaning over a railing on the third story balcony of her school when she dropped her brand new stark phone over the edge. In a knee-jerk reaction, she reached her arm out over the edge to catch it and, much to her surprise, it sprang right back into her hand, covered in a web. Aries was horrified of this revelation, and feared that the manifestation of powers within herself would inevitably lead her down the same path of her parents. Initially hiding this fact from her parents. Inevitably, the truth came out. Her mother reassured her, that no matter what she decided to do and not do with her life, they would be supportive of her. With that being said, her father set up a tight training regiment between the two of them ‘should the time ever come’. Looking back on this time, Aries believes that her father must have had incredible foresight.

The next year left Aries with little time to breath. She began to take her hobbies more seriously, and as such, managed to convince her parents to allow Aries to apply for art school outside of her regular school hours. While she was grateful, this meant that she had extremely little free time, between both schools and her father’s training routine. She hated learning how to use her body as a weapon, she never wanted to become a hero, but even at the age of thirteen she understood that the inevitable was the inevitable, and that if she ever ended up being attacked she should at least know how to defend herself… Still, the more she felt herself improve in the martial arts, the more afraid she became of herself.

Things went from tightly scheduled to hectic when a dangerous new villain called the ‘Demi-Fiend’ showed up and began wrecking chaos throughout the west coast. He was powerful and extremely dangerous, but nothing her parents couldn’t handle. Still, that meant she was on her own much more than usual that year. She wasn’t a super social person, so in-truth, she didn’t mind the time alone, but she did miss her parents, despite the video-calls they’d have every night. Well, at the very least, it gave her a break from the constant training, and allowed her to catch up with her friends and experience some more of that good ol’ ‘normal’ teenage life.

During a school field trip, she’d feel the weight of her decision for the first time. Her longtime friend, Arthur Morgan slipped on a yogourt tube and fell in front of an oncoming metro-train. Her instincts told her to use her webs, but she was in plain sight, what if someone saw her, what if this became a slipper slope? It didn't matter, she decided. but when she went to catch him with her web (Even with her superior reflexes.) she realized what her hesitation truly cost her, as time seemed to slow down and she witnessed her friends body become crushed and mangled by the train. It's not something she's ever gotten over. The school held a memorial service, which Aries couldn't bring herself to attend. The entire situation was pointless. The service, the memorial, his death. It didn’t need to happen… she could have stopped it from happening

Two weeks before her birthday, something actually great happened. On their usual video call, her parents announced that together, with the help of the new hooligans and the new mutants, that they had defeated the Demi-Fiend. So then why was it, after nearly a year of being apart, that the moment her parents arrive back home are they not only ambushed by the supposedly defeated Demi-Fiend, but also a whole-host and plethora of Tarantula and Madame Web’s most dastardly villains! With barely any time to put on their costumes, a grand-scale battle between her parents and the villains break out. Aries is too busy trying not to get caught by the bad guys to notice what was truly going on, but she knew both the villains and her parents dished out beatings like never before. Cars were thrown, homes were toppled, and the authorities had no idea what to do against an elite squadron of super-villains, not to mention the half-demon commanding them as if they were entranceified. Aries did her best to escape, but eventually, she found herself cornered by both Thunderstruck and the Silver Fang. Without any other option, she was forced to use what she had learned against them. She remembers a bolt of lightning coming ridiculously close to taking out her right eye, before she swung herself up in the air to put them in the corner. Using strength she didn’t know she had, Aries held open Silver Fang’s mighty beast-like maw with her bear hands as he tried to comp down on her. Thinking quickly, she webbed his mouth shut before swinging him into the side of a concrete building, crumbling it’s foundation around the half-man half-beast. Thunderstruck retaliated quickly after that, but Aries’ superior reflexes allowed her to flip out of the way. Furious that these bastards would interrupt her reunion with her parents, she felt her rage overtake her and she probably took things a bit too far when she broke Thunderstruck's arms before knocking him out cold. She’d regret this later, but in the moment she wished nothing more than for him to feel the pain villains like him had inflicted on her family for years. When it was said in done, for some reason she found herself running back toward her parents, even if it was against their wishes. She couldn’t just let them fight all those villains alone, even if help was on supposedly on the way.

This whole situation smelled fishy. How did the villains manage to figure out her parents identities, how did they manage to sneak up to their address and get past all of their security. These questions echoed throughout Aries’ mind as she raced down the streets of Northern Las Vegas. There were several different battles going on, it seemed her parents were not the only ones being targeted. She followed a trail of webs which lead her to the Stratosphere tower, where her father was currently in the midst of a deadly looking battle with Tombstone, Iron-shock, and the Raging Blazer

## **Personality**

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Aries is a complex individual whose very identity is a contradiction to everything she stands for. She believes strongly in the justice system, and making sure criminals are tried fairly for their crimes, but she desires nothing more then to rend the flesh from each and every villain out there. She detests violence, yet resorts to it constantly. She believes that it’s the responsibility of anyone with superhuman abilities to stand up and fight for justice, but she hid her powers for years, even when she could have helped. Despite these many contradictions, like her mother, Aries is loyal to a fault, but, she can be quite stubborn and put in her ways

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