Virgil Voltspun!

Go on, call him what you'd like.

Miserable. Wretched. Hell, even a downer, if you will. It's not gonna change shit in the long run; that's if there'll even be a long run to look forward to in the first place.

'Course, when Virgil Vesper Voltspun first got mutated thanks to that stupid ass spider biting him in the middle of his literal suicide attempt a while back, he thought — heh, don't make fun of him — his newfound superhuman abilities were the coolest thing in the whole fucking world. Y'know, 'cause he was twelve and didn't know what he was getting into.

The fuck's is a cooler thing to a twelve-year-old than getting superpowers?

Becoming a vigilante, that's right.
Virgil's been a downright loser since he was a kid. People literally gave him fucking wedgies. Of course he's gonna embrace the possibility of being one of the cool vigilantes and supers on TV without thinking twice! It's a miracle he even thought of obscuring his identity with this whole 'Web-Surfer' personality!

The point is that, well… Virgil's tired. There is no point to any of this.
Everyone wants to make the world a better place, but every problem humanity faces is too deeply rooted in its way of life. Politicians will tell you the quality of life's improved since the start of the third millennium, but it's the same as it ever was with some damn flowers, really.
Supers and vigilantes don't do shit beyond remind any "criminal scum" of the status quo. Oh, and capitalize off it, of course. Glorified cops and criminals with fandoms and superpowers is all the super scene is, was, and ever will be. Something to be gawked at through a screen and not much else; faceless and temporary.
If we're lucky, it'll all return to the dust whence it came.

Like everything, Virgil feels… paralyzed. Equally unchanged as the crime-ridden hellhole that is Nouvelle-Yorke, but also unrecognizable.
He's trapped in a loop of guilt and moral obligations to this city. He can't do much beyond protecting it the only way he knows how, but he knows full-well it's not doing shit but delaying the inevitable.

There's no one to turn to and nowhere to go. If he doesn't want to sit idly, the only thing he can do in the face of certain doom is punch. Punch until the world is indiscernible from your fist and your screams are indistinguishable from prayers because your life's been consumed by a fucking lie and your morals will crumble under the weight of rage like your enemy's skull.

He's everything and nothing and the world's never gonna change for the better until each and every human is fucking dead and gone. With how everything's going, he's about one prison breakout away from just outright killing his opponents.
...Or — even better — himself.

Ha. Hahaha. We're all fucked.

Attributes

Abilities

• Adehesion-based wall-crawling
  Setules (bristles) on Virgil's hands and feet enable him to 'stick' onto solid surfaces. These are very, VERY sticky to make up for Virgil not being spider-sized. His palms and soles look unnaturally hairy.
• Organic webbing
  Ultra durable, strong, and plentiful webbing is produced in Virgil's body, which emerges through the spinnerets in his wrists. Very limited and often bleeds due to overuse.
• Enhanced senses, durability, speed, stamina, agility, and equilibrium
• Somewhat faster processing speed
• "Spider-Sense"
  It's a bit complicated, but, in short, he can sense vibrations and electric waves from anything via hair all over his body, like Daredevil's hearing, so to speak. If something seems dangerous, the epicenter of this sense on the back of his nape triggers his brain to activate fight or flight. All of this happens very, very fast, so people speculate Web-Surfer has precognition, which is untrue.
  He can also kind of tell what a person is feeling or thinking since the sense can pick up biochemical reactions, but Virgil is bad at emotions and misinterprets them 90% of the time.
• Highly accelerated metabolism
• Healing factor
  Not as good as Deadpool's or Wolverine's, but nothing to sneeze at either. Grants a resistence to alcohol and drugs, but not total immunity.
• Spider-like behavior
  Has natural spidery instincts, leans into them more when mental health is in the shitter and/or social acceptance isn't a big priority.
  Most prominent of these include: reclusiveness, aggression, defensiveness, skittishness, ballooning, and — sometimes — feeling like he'll be cannibalized by romantic 'mates.'
• Chelicerae
• Small fangs
• Venom
  Not the symbiote.
  Virgil's chelicerae can administer medically significant — but not serious, goes away on its own — venom. Symptoms include: muscle spasms, cramping, paralysis, numbness, tremors, and feelings of impending doom.
• "Return to Sender"
  You ever play ULTRAKILL?
  Virgil is able to counter any projectile with at least double of its oncoming force to send it back whence it came.
  Two problems with this: he needs to actually be able to hit the projectile (he cannot lightly tap it and said projectile must have a surface) and he must react fast enough to deflect it (punching bullets is a rarity).

Equipment

• Wrist-mounted web-shooters + web-fluid
  This world is an advanced one that is so, so eager to invade your privacy. Technology developed to track people through a wide variety of biological signatures are not uncommon. Thus, Virgil developed a synthetic variant. Also because the feeling of webs coming out of your arms is disgusting.
• Drones
  Primarily for pictures and not exactly useful for most of his vigilante work. Used to photograph, spy on or track adversaries, and survey areas.
  Shaped like metallic bugs with massive lenses for faces.
• Web-wings
  Remember ballooning? Yeah... This is how he does that.
• Computerized mask
  Virgil's got a computer in his mask, Tony Stark style, but make it broke. No AI though.
• Hand and foot pads
  Not just for decoration. His suit has dubious access to police resources and these pads can replicate fingerprints, provide small bursts of electricity, and... squeak when pressed on occasion.

Notes

• Virgil has a lot of hair. Luckily, Web-Surfer's mask has hammerspace.
• Scars can be drawn however. They should just look roughly the same in roughly the same spots.
• Virgil is transmasc. He doesn't start officially transitioning (HRT, top surgery, phalloplasty) and appearing more masculine until adulthood.
• On that note, Virgil also has PCOS; this makes him still fairly masculine-looking for an AFAB as a kid, not to mention his distaste for wearing feminine things of any sort.
• Suffers from resting bitch face like none before him. Has a flat-looking deadpan or some other stoic expression, even if he's happy. You can also draw a shadow over his face, too.
• His voice is also deep and slightly monotone. He's working on trying to improve this, and sounds remarkably less robotic than when he was little, but not quite perfect at sounding personable.

Trivia

• Virgil's favorite food is Chicago-style meat-lovers' pizza. Does not enjoy chunky tomato sauce though.
• Virgil was bitten by a frantic, abnormally large Heteroscodra maculata.
• Virgil owns two female frogs named Miette and Pippins because of a "strange compulsion" to own them so he can feel safer.
• Has no clue how his mutation works. He was bitten by H. maculata, but his abilities seem arbitrary and have nothing to do with spiders at all. For example, he initially believed his strength and speed to be proportional to that of a spider, but it's more than that. Forever confused by this.
• Greatly enjoys cocooning himself in blankets, webs, and hammocks.
• Very flexible! Virgil enjoys freaking people out by bending into weird positions.
• Terrified of wasps. Hates them to death.
• Strongly against killing spiders and has never been bitten by one since that H. maculata. Has a few spiders in his apartment to ward off bugs.
• Uses video game moves in fights. Did this when he was starting off due to a lack of combat training, but got too used to it even after learning to fight. You ever see someone perform a twenty-hit aerial combo in real life? That's Virgil's style.
• May or may not be the only person in the Voltspun bloodline to not be named after a consumable item. His deadname is a type of cheese, though.
• Greatly enjoys terrorizing people with sleds.
• Spider-Sense can be thwarted by overstimulation, emotional breakdowns, stress, chemical interference, biting/touching the back of Virgil's neck, and other ways. It's only a body part, after all, and is as fallible as the rest of him. I'm sure this won't bite him in the ass at all any time soon.