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arachnicas · 8 months

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any miles centric aus?

I have one! Lately, I've been on a time loop brain rot, and I love aus, in which Miles gets caught up in a time loop and has to find a way to break it.

Here's what I've got so far:

I'm thinking about a time loop AU for Miles that starts with Gwen opening a portal in his ceiling and ends with The Spot opening a giant black hole to consume Brooklyn and beyond, and then the inevitable loop. This is Miles Morales' twentieth time, and he feels as if he's aged forty years and, in a fit of frustration, decides to no longer play by the rules of the loop. He doesn't care about being Spider-Man, The Spot, Spider Society, and Miguel's canon theory. All Miles wants is to spend time with his family and enjoy what remains of his tattered childhood. So, when Gwen visits him, he gently rebuffs her attempts to get him to swing around Brooklyn with her:

"Miles, I came all this way to see you! Did your parents ground you?"

"That's not it, Gwen."

"Then explain it to me. We haven't seen each other in a while--"

"Gwen, I'm happy to see you. Really, I am, but I want to spend the day with my family right now."

"But Spider-Man would--"

"I'm not Spider-Man anymore. I quit. I burned my suit this morning."

He'd burned his suit the morning he was supposed to stop Spot from robbing that store. Like a good, responsible student, he showed up to his meeting on time, sitting between his parents and ignoring the horrid guilt of pouring gasoline all over his suit and setting it ablaze.

No more Spider-Man. Just ordinary Miles Morales.

The confession of what he'd done has Gwen staring at Miles in open-mouthed horror, tears sparkling in her eyes as she reaches out to touch him, only to be once again rebuffed when he takes a step back away from her outstretched hand, his expression apathetic and so very alien to Gwen.

"Miles, what have you done?"

"What I had to do. I grew up, Gwen. I'm not that little kid anymore who could barely fit his oversized Spider-Man costume and didn't know how to unstick himself from the ceiling. I have responsibilities now. A future."

"But being Spider-Man is a responsibility!"

"Gwen, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. I have a celebration to get back to, and I don't want to keep my family waiting. It was nice talking to you again, but I have to move on."

"Miles, please--"

"Go home, Gwen."

Gwen leaves heartbroken and confused as she stares out at the scenic view of Brooklyn for the final time before disappearing into the portal.

Because Miles didn't antagonize Spot, Johnathon never traveled from dimension to dimension to grow his power, he never entered Pav's dimension, and Captain Singh does not perish. Gwen returns to Spider Society without incident, but when she tells Peter what Miles did, the man is shaken and sick, unwilling to believe his mentee would ever do something like that. Even Miguel and his belief that Miles is an anomaly who was never supposed to be Spider-Man is troubled by what Gwen tells him. Miles quitting has set off a chain of events that Miguel never expected, and Pav's "canon event" has all but vanished, leaving Miguel confused and frustrated.

Peter, upset and concerned, offers to go to Earth 1610 to talk to Miles and figure out what's going on, but Miguel refuses. Surprisingly, Peter objects fiercely to his refusal sparking a massive argument between them and causing Peter to storm off through a portal to visit Miles.

What happens next is unknown because I have yet to get that far, but Miles quitting broke the time loop and set off a massive butterfly effect that will either make or break the multiverse. Miles quitting wouldn't be too far off the mark because every Spider-Man has quit at some point in their life, but they always donned the mantle again after a brief period. However, Miles burning his suit feels more permanent, and now Earth 1610 doesn't have a Spider-Man, Miles' closest friends are emerging from their dimensions to visit Miles and find out what the hell is going on and something more dangerous than the Spot is on the horizon, threatening to destroy the multiverse entirely.

#across the spiderverse #miles morales #time loop au #miles is just trying to live a normal life again after going through time loop after time loop #and now the other spiders won't leave him alone

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