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OOC INFORMATION

Name: Mia
Are you over 18?: Yes
Contact: PM or mcshad
Other characters: Cassius
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IC INFORMATION

Name: Johnathon Ohnn AKA the Spot
Canon: Spiderman: Across the Spiderverse
Age: 38
Gender: Male
Species: (was) Human
Appearance: Here
Canon point: Right as he activates his apartment collider

History: Here

Personality answers:

1. The one who's influenced him the most is your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, Miles Morales, of course! After all, if it wasn't for him, Johnathon wouldn't have been caught up in the explosion that caused his transformation in the first place (nevermind it would have introduced an entirely different problem if it hadn't occurred).

Johnathon sees Spider-Man as his nemesis, the other side to his collider coin. He believes that he and Spider-Man are connected, having created each other and pushed each other into what they are today: Johnathon made a hero out of Spider-Man by bringing the spider that had bit him into their universe, Spider-Man had made Johnathon into an outcast and villain by blowing up the Super Collider while he was still there.

Johnathon blames Spider-Man for everything that happened to him, and holds great anger towards him. Despite those feelings, deep down, Johnathon was hoping to find someone to understand and respect him in Spider-Man since no one else would or even could. Upon being humiliated by him instead, Johnathon sees Spider-Man as the means of proving himself something to be respected. Johnathon sees Spider-Man as the root of his misery and wants to make him just as miserable, no matter what it takes.

2. The most obvious answer would be the Super Collider exploding, but… I like to think that a later event is more critical to his development. Johnathon, after his transformation, spent a year and four(ish) months stagnating in his isolation before turning to crime. Sure, the collider blowing up turned his life upside down, but he only began to move forward when he finally met the one person he's been itching to confront: his nemesis, Spider-Man.

Ever since he'd been changed, Johnathon has wanted if not Spider-Man's respect, then acknowledgement that the two are connected, that Spider-Man is the reason he turned out this way. His first encounter doesn't turn out that way, though, and instead of being treated as an equal to be wary of, Spider-Man treats him as a joke. Calls him a villain of the week. Treats him like every other person's treated him since becoming the Spot. It's that moment that plays a more important part of Johnathon's development, because that is what finally gets his ball rolling. It's that moment that really solidifies his desire for respect and vengeance.

And it's kind of wild, because it only just happened earlier in the day from Johnathon's perspective. But even in that short amount of time, he's learned he's capable of amazing things, found himself an answer to his problems, and it's made him more confident. Put more life and surety into him than he'd had that morning. Given him a goal where he'd been aimless.


4. Physical appearances are... kind of a sore subject for Johnathon now.

Once upon a time he was handsome by scientist standards, and not... some human-shaped creature that resembles more of a mannequin than a man. But even when he was human, it wasn't really something that he'd focus on. There was too much to do at his work, too many important things at Alchemax to really worry about what he looks like.

But now, having been stripped of all of what made him him, well. That's changed. Whenever he looks in the mirror, instead of scientist standard handsome, all he sees is what had been stolen from him: everything that made Johnathon Ohnn in the eyes of others and himself. It's something that's brought him humiliation, his new look, and while he's gone out of his way to hide how he looks in the past, currently Johnathon is hovering in the uncertain space between hating how he looks and what was done to him and accepting his hand and making it everyone else's problem.


7. After the Super Collider exploded and his life was changed in the worst way, Johnathon was left with... a hole. He's always been filled with holes, even when they weren't a part of his power-set. After Spider-man, though, all those little holes came together, lost their edges, and carved Johnathon open.

His ambition, ultimately, is to fill that hole. It's not a simple thing to do - that hole is still made of small ones, see. Puncture wounds made from a lack of respect, a need to be seen, isolation, and a burning desire for vengeance. Johnathon wants to be seen as more than just a joke in the eyes of everyone, especially the one he's blamed for everything: Spider-Man. Beating him, destroying him, is what Johnathon thinks will do that.

Johnathon is a driven man, one with tunnel vision so narrow it doesn't matter to him what happens along the way. At his worst, his ambition can collapse worlds and erase billions. This Johnathon, though - the one who's found his drive in the form of his nemesis - hasn't reached that point yet. So he doesn't have access to billions, only himself.

He wants to fill that hole inside of him so much and has so little to lose at this point, he doesn't care if taking that step towards his goal could kill him in the process. In canon, past that point, it sort of does.

Inventory:

A framed picture of Johnathon and Liv in front of the collider. A moment in time before everything went to hell.

Powers/Abilities:

Johnathon has holes - or, rather, portals - that he has scattered all over his body. They can do a couple of things:
⦾ Make portals -

His holes can be used to teleport himself, objects, or and other people from one place to another, usually across short distances and in two ways.

When his holes are used on his body, they seem to be connected to each other, and can be used to to redirect attacks (e.g., a punch to the chest is redirected to his face portal and made harmless, or a ranged attack is absorbed and reflected back at the attacker).

His portals can be removed/popped off of him and suspended in midair or on surfaces to teleport things from that portal to another that appears a distance away. These portals aren’t limited by sight, and can appear behind walls, around corners, etc. If there’s an object that has not passed all the way through a suspended portal and it closes, the object is cleanly cut in half. Using his portals this way burns through his hole supply, and once he’s out he’ll be spotless. He can gain more, either by slow, slow regen or hastening the process by absorbing dark matter to make more. Line of sight nerf, maybe?

⦾ Dimensional travel -

Spot has a pocket dimension within himself he can access via hole that acts as kind of a hub to portals to other worlds. Nerfed to hell, obviously! Mysterious how he can no longer access it! Shame.

Johnathon’s new body is also more durable and stronger than a regular person. He’s shown being able to tank being pinballed off of railing, cars, and other hard surfaces at fast speeds without harm, and in case of his strength, he was able to crumple a metal sign with little effort AND is shown able to hold people up by the neck with no give. Fun!

Other than that, our boy’s pretty dang smart, able to create a DIY mini collider at home with scrounged spare parts. He wasn’t a top scientist at Alchemax for nothing.

Samples: Here & Here

Player Goals: I wanted to play as a silly little guy (with a side of TraumaTM) since my other character, Cassius, isn’t as much. It’s kind of a challenge and a love letter to the character, I think! I’ve never really RPed as a character from specific media before, and it’s kind of a test to see if I can/would be comfortable with it.

Soul Choice: Cephalopoda