Why aren’t more people talking about the “Harry and I had found peace again. We’d found each other… at long last…” line every time I read it I feel like I’m catching a glimpse of a parallel universe where parksborn is allowed to be explicitly canon. Honestly even moreso than “Do you love my son?” (which is absolutely incredible in its own right) like Peter might as well have called Harry his soulmate. ESPECIALLY in combination with the fact that the “found peace” part is clearly a callback to Harry’s “Isn’t it time he two of us found a little peace?” line in Spectacular #200, which was referring to his murder-suicide attempt. Harry, back then, believed the only salvation for Peter and himself was in death, but Peter always knew their true salvation lies with one another. Despite all the guilt they both feel, all the ways in which they perceive themselves as burdens to their loved ones. Peter felt their love was stronger. More important. More defining. And Harry eventually came to agree.
Intentional or not, this was still the most beautiful love story.
If this character ever gets brought back- and I would only accept this if Kindred was retconned as NOT Harry (which honestly would be super easy to do) – I wouldn’t want him to be part of Peter Parker’s supporting cast.
Like, nope, no, I’m sorry. That bridge has been so thoroughly burnt. It’s not even embers anymore. I just don’t think realistically there is any way Peter would ever trust Harry again. And having them have a fake relationship would be a thousand times worse.
I don’t know how much of the comics you’ve been reading (I don’t blame you if you abandoned them altogether) Kindred WAS established to be Not Harry! He was some combination of an artifical intelligence established before Harry’s death, the Stacy twins, Mephisto, and I guess maybe some of Harry’s soul that Norman sold to Mephisto?!?!
It made absolutely NO SENSE WHATSOEVER but geez it was at least better than “Harry turned evil again for no reason.”
Ah. I haven’t really been reading the current ones. Could you tell which issue says this?
And I don’t blame you!
Okay so in Amazing Spider-Man #74 it’s revealed that Kindred was [drumroll] Gabriel and Sarah Stacy All Along! But wait! They were created by an evil A.I. of Harry Osborn (the one from a 90s story called Legacy of Evil) so it was A.I. Harry All Along!
BUT WAIT! The A.I. Harry is controlled by Mephisto, because Norman sold Harry’s soul to Mephisto in exchange for wealth and power. Mephisto worked through Harry to create the twins for some godforsaken reason.
Oh and the Harry we’ve known since 2009 was a clone All Along and then he dies saving Norman, the evil war criminal who as previously mentioned sold his soul to the devil.
Peter is very upset even though he knows that particular Harry was a clone, and reiterates his love for him a couple of times later on.
Peter also knows full well that Norman sold Harry’s soul to the devil., since he was there when he confessed to it. This never comes up ever again. Him and Norman are friends now. The end.
every single day I’m sitting here going absolutely damn feral about Peter’s letter to Harry in Edge of Spider-Geddon #4
Taking this opportunity to bring attention to the fact that the German release changed the “Love you, man” part to a straight up “I ❤️ You”
#ok i don’t rlly ship this but i do speak german#and asfaik#ich liebe dich (i love you) is like#a Very big deal#like im literally writing an essay rn on the importance of the phrase ‘ich hab lieb fur dich’ (i have love for you)#which is like what a child would use for their mother#so. im not german. but im pretty sure saying ‘ich ❤ dich’ is like. a Big Deal#anyways#peter#harry#comics#cos like if u just wanted to tell ur homie u love them platonically u would just say ich hab lieb fur dich. not this. i think#correct me if wrong lols (via @queenswallcrawler)
my god I am LOVING the things happening on this post
Still Absolutely Goddamn Losing It over this scene from Spectacular Spider-Man 221. Does YOUR friends-to-enemies-to-lovers OTP have a scene where one party begs the other to join them forever in eternity?
