harry osborn meme > 1/6 scenes
Harry’s sacrifice and death
Whatever comes our way, whatever battle we have raging inside us, we always have a choice. My friend Harry taught me that. [Peter]
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harry osborn meme > ¼ relationships
Harry and Peter
“I want to thank you. I appreciate everything you’ve done for me. Now…and always.”
a spider-man / game of thrones au
Winter is coming for the Parkers of the North, whose house motto is “With great power comes great responsibility”. They have a dubious alliance with the Osborns, who are extremely skilled in alchemy and have a history of killing their enemies with wildfire. (Owing to this, their house sigil is a green goblin). Each house has only one male heir, Peter of the Parkers and Harry of the Osborns. The two boys played together and were close as children: had one of them been born female they might have united the houses.
Comfortable on the Iron Throne is Norman Osborn, the Goblin King. It is a fact well known to his closest circle of advisors – the Six – that he despises his young heir and greatly prefers the orphaned Peter. Peter is known to all as the Spider Prince – a nickname partly based on his house sigil, but mostly based on his cunning, agility and recklessness in battle, recklessness that many years ago lead to the death of his uncle.
The reign of the Goblin King is fraught with misfortune. The Six, despite their alleged loyality to Norman, are each plotting against him in their seperate ways. Harry falls in love with a beautiful prostitute, Mary Jane, but she doesn’t love him back, while Peter strikes up a relationship with Gwendolyn, daughter of the Hand of the King. Then disaster strikes: Norman is maimed by his own wildfire and lies close to death. He calls on his Hand, George Stacy, to force Harry to take the black while Peter – whose parentage is dubious, who’s to say he’s not Norman’s – claims the throne. When Stacy refuses, Norman has his seemingly most loyal henchman, the Octopus, murder him.
Suddenly alliances and friendships are stretched as far as they will possibly go. As the daughter of a traitor, Gwendolyn is taken hostage, an action that ultimately leads to her death. A griefstricken Peter swears revenge, but Norman dies before any action can be taken. Harry takes the Iron Throne and sits there very uneasily: he names Peter as his Hand but dismisses him in a fit of anger when he sees him and Mary Jane together.
Things go from bad to worse as the years go by. The Octopus, in an attempt to claim some power for himself, begins to court Peter’s aunt, the Lady May. Harry marries a princess, Elizabeth, and fathers a son who many of the Six and their allies want out of the picture – the Osborns have held power for far too long. Meanwhile a young man known only as the Knight of Venom is rallying a supernatural army for an attack on the throne: rumour has it that he can bond with shadow itself and is stronger than a thousand men. On the other side of the vast sea, two of Norman’s bastard children – Gabriel and Sarah, whose maternity is a terrible secret – are seeking to strengthen their claims as well.
Peter’s code of honour may outlast him: there is very little place for responsibility in this world, only power, and they say all men must die.
Peter Parker, who walked out on Harry when he needed him most, when he was literally crawling after him begging for help, is completely oblivious to why Harry is angry with him
See, here’s what I love about whole Death Of Gwen Stacy arc and all the fallout from it – almost all the sympathetic characters do behave like assholes, and yet it’s so understandable why they’re acting that way that it utterly breaks my heart. Peter walks in on Harry having a bad acid trip hours after Gwen was murdered. Just hours! While he’s looking for Harry’s father so he can kill him. No-one’s even remotely in their right state of mind. Peter’s reaction – “I have more important things to do than hold your hand” is cruel (…especially since it’s Harry’s only living relative he’s about to go kill…) but under the circumstances, I think it’s just about understandable. Back in the real world, I think there’s probably hundreds upon thousands upon millions of friends and families of drug addicts who’ve thought those words at some point, and it’s awful, but it rings pretty true, is what I’m saying.
Anyway, by the time we get to the scene depicted in the original image, a few more things have happened. Not only is Gwen dead but Norman is too, and Harry witnessed Spider-Man kill him (well, sort of). He doesn’t know that Peter is Spider-Man, but at this point he’s had two loved ones murdered in ONE DAY so he’s not really functioning at all. Peter lost the girl he loved and now probably sees her killer every time he looks at his roommate. (Y’know, since Harry and Norman look pretty alike and all.) Peter and Harry should have talked to each other properly, they should have done something, but they didn’t, setting the stage for Harry’s bouts of supervillany later on. But all things considered – and this is what makes these characters so sympathetic for me – it’s amazing things didn’t turn out even worse than they did.
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Guys- y’all know Andrew Garfield has been talking about how Peter Parker should be bisexual? He really did mean it, very much so, by all accounts. And he was keen for his love interest to be Michael B Jordan, and…Michael B Jordan auditioned for Harry.
assjdhdjfdsl;fg;l….
Guys. My OTP nearly became canon– I’d never have imagined that in a million years. Bloody hell.
And, much more importantly, there could have been a interracial bisexual romance in a mainstream superhero film, I have no idea how much influence Andrew Garfield actually holds over the Spider-Man franchise but he wanted that. Just imagine how big and how amazing, AMAZING, that would have been. Damn.
