Across The Spiderverse: Spider Punk

Across the Spiderverse: Spider Punk

It’s confirmed 2023 is the year of Spiderman, after watching across the spiderverse I just had to dedicate my time to that masterpiece and give props to the legend Hobie Brown

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Simon Riley who gets your initials tattooed over his heart, but not in the conventional way.

The idea of getting your full name spooks him, cause what if he gets captured and some enemy agent sees? It's just too much of a risk for him. But initials are safer. Twice as much if they're hidden behind roman numerals.

So he reveals his new ink one day, during a quiet moment a few weeks after he gets it once it's healed up. He explains what the roman numerals are (they correspond to letters of the alphabet: A would be I, B is II, and so on) and what they mean, and you spend so long marveling at Simon's dedication that it takes you a minute to notice something... strange.

"There's no number for my last name."

He takes your hand, puts it over the numbers, and puts his forehead on yours.

"That's cause I'm hopin' you'll let me put the number 18 there, love."

Literally drooling over the idea of Price with tattoos. Sailor style tattoos, very traditional, he got them years ago. Fresh in the SAS and with his first paycheck, just grabbed a tattoo from the closest shop to base. Everything placed where he can easily hide it: biceps, thighs, hips, chest. They're faded, well mellowed over the years, the ones on his chest and thighs just visible under dark hair, but they're there. Reds, yellows, greens, and thick black lines, they'd be cliche on anyone else but they fit him. John Price tugs his shirt off and you're treated to daggers on his hips, a nautical compass, maybe a heart or two, anchors, snakes, and military emblems. There's a pinup on his thigh that he laughs about when you trace your fingers over the long legs and pouty lips.

Proof of every tour of duty he completed, every time he made it home in one piece. You trace over his most recent one, a little skull just as faded as the others, years old and wonder why he stopped getting them. "Less painful ways to remember where you been," he tells you, and it's the best answer you'll ever get from him. A man has to have some secrets after all.