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A fanfiction trilogy cowritten by [[I Have Many Names|SilverGryphon8/Obi’s Second Cousin/LadyHolmes]] and Gamine Madcap and illustrated by [[Silver Gryphon 8]].
The story is set in the Spiderman movieverse beginning roughly a year and a half after the events of the second film. Otto Octavius, having survived nearly drowning, is alive and well and in hiding with his intelligent actuators Flo, Mo, Larry, and Harry. He reluctantly befriends Mouse, a [[Cute Mute]] of a little girl when she tries to use the warehouse Otto has been living in as a hideout from the druggies she is forced to share her home with. When Mouse arrives at the warehouse one day showing signs of a recent beating, Otto sets out to permanently deal with the problem. He meets [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|Robin Goodfellow]], who helps him and the actuators eradicate the group of druggies and proceeds to more or less adopt Mouse. The series then follows Otto and Robin’s growing romance, Mouse’s adjustment to a ‘normal’ (relatively) home, and the pesky little problem of people who keep trying to kill all three of them, while it crosses over with a variety of series.
Much [[Better Than It Sounds]]. Really.
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Currently Unpublished
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Currently Unpublished
Updates are fairly regular, being primarily based on how quickly Gryphon can get the illustrations up.
The fic (and several sibling fics) have now officially been moved to their own website! They can be found here: https://web.archive.org/web/20130502232540/http://talonandtail.webs.com/
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Torbert Octavius to Otto. There’s a scene during which a momentary glimpse of Robin’s hobgoblin form triggers a flashback about Otto’s father coming to beat him after having his glasses broken by school bullies one too many times that leaves Otto whimpering. Mary Octavius’s manipulation of her son has flavors of this as well.
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* [[Adaptation Distillation]]: Otto’s past is based partly on the film and partly on the comics, particularly ‘’Doctor Octopus: Year One‘’. Also, the faeries can be argued to be distillations of various mythologies.
* [[Adult Fear]]: Otto and Robin are terrified of things like losing Mouse to Child Services, being found by other supervillains, and being found by the government.
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* [[Alliterative Name]]: It’s based off a Stan Lee creation- what do you expect?
* [[All Myths Are True]]: Faeries are ''just'' the beginning.
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Otto’s not a [[Mad Scientist]] out to [[Take Over the World]]- he just wants to be left alone so he can conduct his research and spend time with his family. Robin Goodfellow is a changeling whose faerie ‘species’ is a hobgoblin. Also, she’s a girl.
* [[Alternate Universe Fic]]: Though set more or less in the film universe, Otto didn’t die after destroying the second reactor (obviously) and things deviate from there.
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Otto. Lands towards the III side between Type II and Type III on the [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]]
* [[Anything That Moves]]: Robin, though she’s relatively quiet about it in comparison to Jack the Pook, Phil, who is a son of the god Pan, and her friend Tam.
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* [[The Big Bad]]: On Robin’s side of things, Hob.
* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The boxes Robin brings to help Otto and Mouse pack; also, Robin’s pockets.
* [[Blade Below the Shoulder]]: Larry is armed with a retractable spike.
* [[The Chessmaster]]:
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Otto. He is, after all, Doctor Octopus.
* [[Crossover]]: Primarily [[Spider-Man]] with [[A Midsummer Night's Dream]], with dashes of various Marvel comics, the [[Cal Leandros]] books, [[Bones]], a brief mention of [[Doctor Who]], as well as others. Note: This Robin is not the Robin of the [[Cal Leandros]] books.
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Numerous.
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* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]: Quite a few moments between Otto and Mouse.
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* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Otto was bullied often as a child. Also, Mouse gets into some fights later on in Book III because of this.
* [[Large Ham]]: Otto has his moments. Others get into the act on occasion too.
* [[Licking the Blade]]: Robin, though it’s more often Licking the Claw.
* [[Lightning Can Do Anything]]: Used as a partial explanation for why the actuators are sentient. No one is sure where the snark came from.
* [[Like a Son to Me]]: Mouse to Otto {{spoiler|until he and Robin adopt her. Then she really is a daughter to him.}}
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* [[My Beloved Smother]]: Mary Octavius to Otto. She’s obsessed with her son and is convinced that no mere female is worth him taking any attention from his groundbreaking researches. She obliterated Otto’s sole high school attempt at romance and very nearly crushed his relationship with Rosie.
* [[Naughty Tentacles]]: Implied during an interview with FBI Agent Seeley Booth and Robin:
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* [[Nice Hat]]: The fedora Otto wears during the bank heist in the film becomes a staple part of his outfit in the fic.
* [[No Ontological Inertia]]: Curt Connors’ arm, which grows back when he becomes the Lizard and disappears when it reverts. Allegedly, this drives Gryphon nuts.
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* [[Puppy Love]]: Mouse and Billy Connors. [[Word of God]] indicates the authors haven’t yet decided if they’ll eventually become a couple or the [[Platonic Life Partners]].
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Averted in Otto’s case and in Curt’s.
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* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: The Lizard. He’s not too fond of mammals either. Curt Connors, on the other hand, is a very kind man.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Almost guaranteed if someone tries to kidnap Mouse.
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* [[Sinister Shades]]: Otto’s sunglasses and his goggles. Justified in the first part of Book One due to him being left photosensitive after his lab accident, and later used as part of disguises, to keep others from realizing {{spoiler|Otto had his eyes healed by Robin}}, and in the few instances that Otto had to ‘play’ at being Doc Ock, for the sinister factor.
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Rosie makes a few appearances as this.
* [[Split Personality]]: Otto Octavius and Doctor Octopus are treated as two not entirely separate personalities, with Ock only showing up when Otto is really, really pissed off. Less separate people than polar opposites of the same individual, with a bit of a sliding scale between the two. Otto is afraid of Ock’s lack of inhibiting morals.
* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: Otto and Robin nearly became these- he is a mortal, she is a faerie. {{spoiler|Then Robin decided to [[Take a Third Option]]}}
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* [[Take a Third Option]]: {{spoiler|Robin gives up being a faerie to be with Otto. Normally, a changeling wanting to become human again would have their memories wiped to reduce the risk of madness; the third option comes in the form of a pendant that stores Robin’s ‘faerie-ness’ and gives her the opportunity to regain that state later on if mortality becomes too much for her}}
* [[Tampon Run]]: Poor, poor Otto. And Peter, whom he runs into on said run.
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* [[Transformation Trinket]]: {{spoiler|Robin’s pendent that contains her faerie powers after she reverts to being human}}
* [[Tricksters]]: Robin, primarily. Many other faeries are indicated to be examples of this. Also, Peter Parker/Spiderman, to a lesser extent.
* [[Trope Overdosed]]:
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** As Gryphon is a troper, this is more likely the case.
* [[Unobtanium]]: The Adamantium used in the construction of the actuators. The ‘precious tritium’ used in the reactor is an example of [[Elements Do Not Work That Way]].
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