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Introduction

a foreword

The E-1587 project started all the way back in 2018 after the first Spiderverse movie came out. The project is one of the most extensive and complex ones I´ve worked on and definitely one of the most gratificating ones as well. It´s a work of love and dedication, which I truly hope comes across through the small glimpse that is this portfolio showcase.


Earth 1587 is an universe that explores the scenario in which harry osborn is the one who gets turned into spider-man rather than Peter Parker. the project involves exploring not only the worldbuilding of the New york harry lives in, but also his relationship with other charactes from the marvel universe, such as peter parker, mary jane and gwen stacy.

Glossary

The following list includes a plethora of terms important to the lore of this dimension and their respective meanings

  • NOVA IORQUE - This dimension’s version of New York is very similar to regular earth. The most notable change is that after the Lisbon earthquake of 1775, there was an influx of Portuguese immigration to the 13 colonies in search for a new life. As such, there’s a higher percentage of people with Portuguese ancestry in the city and the historical part of the city’s architecture is also centred around the architectural style used to rebuild Lisbon after the earthquake.

  • Uppertown - the rich, technologically advanced section of the city centered around commerce and scientific development. It’s in this area that important location such as oscorp, alchemax and the red swan casino are located.

  • Lowertown - the historical half of the city located right by the riverbanks and across the river. This is a much more urban area, but it’s also where the city’s cracks start to show. Lowertown is an area struggling to make an identity for itself due to the difficulty in managing to keep its historical value while keeping up with the modern technological advancements. This is also where most characters Like Harry, Javier, Felicia and Gwen live in.

  • Red Widow Project [RWP] - A scientific project started by oscorp with the objective of finding a cure for Retroviral Hyperlasia based off of the notes from Jessica Drew’s research in the 50s. The project was soon scrapped as a cure and instead the efforts were turned into an attempt at creating super-soldiers using the venom.

  • Symbiosis Trails - After the scrapping of RWP as a viable way to cure genetic diseases, Norman Osborn turned to space for answers, and out of those prayers came the Symbiosis trials. These trials were a second attempt at finding a miracle cure for patients by bonding them with a symbiote alien that would slowly but surely regenerate the host’s immune system.

main Characters

Harry Osborn
Spider-Man

Harry is the son of the famous millionaire and scientist Norman Osborn, along with his identical twin sister, Mary Jane. when he was 17, he was subjected to the red widow experiments by Oscorp, which turned him into this dimension´s one and only Spider-Man. Like a lot of people in Nova Iorque, Harry´s half Portuguese, which has increasignly become more and more important for his identity with each new iteration of his character.Harry is an obnoxious, cocky son of a gun. He’s very outwardly proud of himself and likes to flaunt all he has like a peacock would. He has the signature trait most spider-people possess where they think they’re the funniest person in the world, though he does have some good qualities to make up for this.
He’s very caring towards those he loves and he’s also fiercely loyal. He’s also very eager to share his skills, which makes him an excellent teacher for younger spiders to learn from. He’s compassionate and affectionate, which in turn leads others to perceive him as rather clingy.

Gwen Stacy
The Prowler

As Harry´s longest standing friend, Gwen is a crucial part of Harry´s life. There´s no decision too big or too small for Harry to not get her opinion on. As the new chief-editor of the Daily Bugle she holds a lot of importance when it comes to the way heroes and villains are perceived by the public eye, and unbeknownst to most she also helps keep the streets of Nova Iorque clean when donning her double identity as the vigilante known as The Prowler.She can be rather shy and reserved at first glace, and yet when push comes to shove, she is the quickest out of everyone to make good decisions in the heat of the moment, something that has lead her to be a figure of respect and admiration among fellow heroes and vigilantes in nova iorque.Gwen is also very athletic, having practiced both ballet and gymnastics in high school, and strives to be a good role model for any transgender women who doubt their dreams in sports won´t be possible because of their gender like she once did herself.

Miguel Javier
Doc Ock I

Many people know Miguel Javier for several different reasons; some know him as the chief of Alchemax´s genetics department, some for his extremely friendly nature, and some know him for being the love of Harry´s life. He is smart, and resourceful, and even though he has had a rough history, he reflects that by trying to do as much good to the world as he can.Javier is an important figure for alchemax not only for his smarts and help with scientific advancements, but also because he´s a figure interns from the nearby Imperial State university look up to as a second father figure.
He´s a bit of a dork even for scientist standards, and so he loves to study about new subjects that interest him like cinematography and literature.
In a way, Javier is the one guy you go to when you need someone who knows the most random information about the most far fetched subjects. Ask him about anything that comes to mind and chances are he can tell you where to find a research paper on that specific topic without having to think twice.

Felicia & Lucifer
Black Cats I & ii

Sneaky, charismatic and unpredictable. These twins have a knack for stealing fine pieces of art and putting on a good show. Felicia is a cunning woman who knows how to play her cards right to get exactly what she wants. She’s funny and witty and the more proactive out of the two cats. Lucifer, on the either hand, is a lot more lazy than his sister. He’s the type of person who will let everything unfold and just watch. Unlike Felicia, who controls things from the get-go, Lucifer likes to take advance of things as they are and use whatever has already happened to his advantage.Felicia is currently living with her wife, gwen, and has given up on her life of crime so live a more peaceful life as an art consultant at the Guggenheim museum, so in a weird way, all those years of art heists really came in handy.Lucifer, on the other hand, is living his best life in Paris as a rather known bounty hunter who specialises in jewellery heists for wealthy contractors.

Otto Octavius
Doc Ock II

Otto is an extremely talented and gifted young man with a passion for everything science. He was Miguel javier’s star pupil, and one of the youngest imperial state university students to become an official worker at alchemax. He was extremely devastated by the death of his mentor, and in his attempts to bring him back, he became a second version of doc ock.His main area of study is quantum mechanics, a path that has given him the opportunity to study how to travel across dimension and start the Collider Project in aclchemax´s testing grounds.

Villains and Antagonists

  • During his almost twenty years of working as spider-man, harry has fought a plethora of different individuals with their own gimmicks and fighting styles. They’re all varied in their own way, but there’s one thing they all have in common: they all parallel Harry’s story and struggles in their own way.

  • VENOM I [Peter Parker] - Both Peter and harry craved something that is in the nature of any child to crave: the presence of a stable father figure. Both of them lacked anything of sorts, with Harry’s father never being an active part of his life and Peter having lost both his mother and father on a plane crash. They’re young boys with no idea how they’re supposed to be men, and above all, they crave the approval of Norman specifically.

  • GREEN GOBLIN [Norman Osborn] - Not only does harry have to worry about him due to him being his father, but also their stories regarding parenthood parallel each other, with Norman willing to do anything to keep his son alive and harry willing to do anything to be a father himself, even if it almost kills him in the process.

  • VULTURE [Adrian Toomes] - Both Adrian and Harry are men who lone unconditionally and willing to do anytime to help those they love. They both struggle with watching Eddie succumb to his disease before he gets healed by the Venom symbiote, with harry fearing to lose the closest thing he has to a brother and Adrian scared of losing the last family member he knows he has left. They were also both helpless while they depended on kingpin to survive, with no coice but to do what they were told and having to give up their agencies and free will just to be sure they can live on another day.

  • CARNAGE - Carnage is in every sense the physical manifestation of all of Harry’s suffering. He’s the part of him that wants to scream and cry and rip his hair out as he shrivels into a husk of what he once was. He’s the voice in his head that urges him to succumb to his own vices and make people suffer the same way they made him suffer. Harry represses him for a long time for the well-being of others- after all- how does one live and love someone so damaged by trauma they become a literal monster? But even with the suppressants, there’s always a part of harry that feels empty, and it’s not until he reaches symbiosis that he realises that’s because full closure only comes once you fully accept yourself, flaws and everything.

  • DOC OCK [Otto Octavius] - Desolate and lost after the death of his mentor, Otto, much like Harry after the death of captain Stacy, finds himself wishing he could go back in time to change things. He was still a teenager by the time the rapture heist happened, and a teenager with a big weight put on his shoulder and a pressure to fill in the spot left my Miguel’s absence. At the end of the day, Otto is still just a kid who everyone around him sees as an adult, and a kid who did not have a chance of truly live out his younger years before he was thrown into the real world.

  • MYSTERIO [Queenie Beck] - Queenie was once a woman beloved by all. She was a movie starlet and the darling of every movie and show she participated on. Her husband was a painter, and she was his muse, the same was that he was her inspiration while she acted. The two loved happily, however tragedy struck when there was a fire at the studio Queenie was filming in. Hee husband, who was visiting her that day, did not make it and passed away. Losing the love of her life like that drove Queenie to insanity in her search for any sort of closure regarding her husband’s premature passing.

  • ELECTRO [Max Dillion] - After the incident in the oscorp tower, max found himself a changed man. Well, more like a creature. He fused with the electric eels in the labs when the building collapsed, which changed his biochemistry. With a new striking appearance, Max decided he was going to do the thing he was never able to. He was going to make people look at him. He was going to make sure he was perceived as a person and no longer ignored. He craves the approval of others, and strives desperately to make an impression so that people will remember him after he’s gone.

  • The only two villains that do not in any way parallels Harry’s struggles are Kingpin [Wilson fisk] and Tombstone [kron stone]. The two are wealthy men with extremely high positions of power, and with great power, come monsters pretending to be men. Wilson and kron represent exactly that, the vicious, ill intended men who rule the world, taking what they want with no regard for anything or anyone they destroy in their way. The kind of evil who doesn’t need sharp claws and fangs for you to know they’re the most vicious creatures one can encounter.


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CONTENT WARNINGs- before proceeding, please take into consideration the following narrative delves into sensitive topics such as depression, s/a, non-consensual medical proceedings, fertility issues and deathly chronic diseases. If any of these are themes that bring you any discomfort, take this as your warning and make sure to prioritise your well being/comfort and take care of yourself above all else.


PRE-SPIDERVERSE

  • PROLOGUE

  • Harry and Mary Jane are born to Norman and Helena Osborn;

  • Norman and Helena divorce for unknown reasons, Helena leaves the country and Harry and Mary Jane with their father;

  • Harry develops Retroviral hyperplasia (genetic disease) very early on in his life, prompting Norman to start looking for a cure based on the research done decades earlier by one of their ancestors;

  • Mary Jane starts attending vision’s academy while harry is homeschooled by May Parker;

  • Harry meets Peter Parker and the two become best friends;

  • Peter catches Norman’s eye who takes him in as a student;

  • Harry gets unexpectedly better. He no longer needs bed rest and his light sensitivity and rashes all heal/scar;

  • Harry starts attending visions academy with his sister and her friends;

  • Harry develops feelings for Peter, but Peter starts dating Mary Jane;

  • Harry meets Gwen, Eddie and Annie and they all become a friend group;

  • Harry develops an attachment to Gwen’s dad who he sees as a father figure due to Norman’s constant absence;


  • ORIGIN STORY

  • Harry starts noticing his sudden body changes;

  • Max Dillon, an oscorp intern from Harry’s science class tells Harry there’s something extremely important he needs to show him;

  • Harry sneaks into Oscorp with Max’s help and discovers the Red Widow Project and finds out that’s what has healed him from his deadly genetic disease;

  • Max gets caught, Harry escapes;

  • Max becomes a test subject for Curt Connors and becomes the first iteration of the Lizard;

  • Harry runs away from home and lives on the streets using his new spider powers to save himself;

  • Uncle Ben gets shot by a robber and dies, leaving Peter extremely vulnerable. Norman takes this as a chance and manipulates Peter into volunteering for the Symbiosis Program. Peter becomes the host for the Venom Symbiote.


  • THE RED SWAN CASINO

  • While in the streets, Harry catches the attention of Wilson Fisk, a wealthy businessman who offers him a home and shelter as well as a job at his casino. Harry doesn’t have much of a choice, so he agrees;

  • Harry meets Lucifer and Felicia, who are around the same age and in the same situation as him;

  • Harry and Lucifer enter a casual relationship;

  • During the day Harry works as a model for the kingpin’s company, while at night him and the black cats perform extremely elaborate art heists;

  • The jobs Kingpin offers Harry become increasingly more questionable and uncomfortable both when he’s working as a thief and while modelling;

  • Harry starts trying to find a way to stop working at the casino;

  • On his 18th birthday Harry sets drugged and assaulted while he’s unconscious, after which he becomes frantic and runs away from the casino without a second thought;


  • OSCORP SHOWDOWN

  • After the Casino fiasco, Harry goes to Gwen’s family for help, who gladly take him in;

  • Harry explains to Gwen everything that happened in the last two years;

  • The two decide to get back at Oscorp for what they did to Harry and Maxwell. Spider-Man is created with the purpose of raiding Oscorp and bringing down the company;

  • Norman takes notice of this and lures Harry into a trap at the Oscorp building using Max as bait;

  • Norman turns into the green goblin to chase down spider-man;

  • Harry fights Venom Peter and manages to snap him out of it, but the Green Goblin kills Peter when the two try to escape;

  • Harry starts hosting the Venom symbiote after Peter’s death;

  • Harry fights Norman with the new symbiote powers he just got. The fight causes the building to collapse, killing both Norman and George Stacy. Max is nowhere to be seen;


  • A SPIDER AND A SYMBIOTE

  • After he gets noticed by the public, Harry starts using his Spider-Man persona to help Nova Iorque;

  • Harry gets his own flat with Gwen;

  • Harry starts college. He studies medicine for a while, but has to give up becoming a doctor because of his responsibilities as Spider-Man;

  • Harry gets rescued by Marc Spector. The two start working together and eventually develop a romantic relationship.

  • Harry, Gwen, Eddie, Annie and Mary Jane start a band;

  • The venom symbiote starts corrupting Harry’s thoughts, eventually leading Harry and Marc to break up;

  • Harry graduates with a degree in Bio-Chemistry;

  • Harry and Eddie become Net-Gliders where they meet Gabriel O’Hara and Duke Stratosphere;

  • Eddie gets diagnosed with cancer. He receives the Venom symbiote to help him fight it and gets cured shortly after;


  • interlude

  • Harry starts transitioning! Yippe!!

  • Harry gets hired by Alchemax and starts working on their Biochemistry department. He meets one of their fellow heads of department, Miguel Javier, and the two start working together on research;

  • Harry and Eddie meet Gabriel and Duke at a party, where he comes to learn Gabriel and Javier are brothers;

  • Harry reveals to Javier he is Spider-Man and Javier starts helping cover for him at Alchemax;

  • Harry and Javier start a romantic relationship and very quickly get engaged. They then move in together into a new apartment. Felicia also moves in with Gwen after also getting engaged;

  • Miguel Javier takes in a student from Empire State university, Otto octavius, and makes him his intern;

  • Harry and Javier both become father figures for Otto, to which he looks up to a lot;

  • Harry and Miguel Javier get married. They try to have kids, but Harry finds out he can’t have any because of the side effects the red widow serum caused on Harry´s body.

  • One night when Harry is out on patrol and Javier is working after hours, someone breaks into Alchemax to steal their rapture supply. Miguel gets shot trying to stop them and Harry gets there too late. Miguel ends up bleeding out in his arms;

  • The police find Harry with the body and presume he’s the killer. Harry is forced to leave the scene and is wanted for his husband’s murder after that;

  • Harry enters a deep depression which almost kills him. He survives thanks to MJ, Gwen and Grabriel’s help;

  • Otto starts the collider project in hopes of finding a way to bring Javier back to life;


  • GRIEF AND CARNAGE

  • Eddie and Annie get married and Eddie’s uncle moves into Eddie’s old house. While helping Eddie move out, Harry finds Adrian’s boxes and finds the stolen rapture inside;

  • Harry recognizes Adrian as the Vulture, who also worked at the Red Swan Casino at the same time he did, and realizes he’s Javier’s killer;

  • Harry and Venom strike a deal since Venom really doesn’t like Adrian either. Carnage is created out of their blood pact;

  • Harry chases down the Vulture and the two have a very violent fight. Carnage kills the vulture;

  • A portal appears and out of it comes out another Spider-Man. Carnage fights this other Spider-Man on the church bell tower but loses. He then gets taken back through the portal;

  • Eddie finds out his uncle has been killed and starts trying to find out the culprit behind it, which leads him to find out Harry was the killer. he tries to find him, but can´t since harry isn´t in that dimension anymore:


INTO THE SPIDERVERSE

  • SPIDER SOCIETY

  • Harry wakes up in another dimension and properly meets the guy who took him away. Harry freaks out for a while over seeing an alternate version of his dead husband;

  • Harry gets recruited into spider society. He starts working on the labs to find a way to undo the effects of the red widow serum. Harry is almost successful in one of the attempts but almost dies in the process because of how dependent his body is on the serum by then;

  • Harry starts taking suppressants to incapacitate the carnage symbiote still inside him;

  • Harry develops the spider mentorship program as a way to hopefully cope with the fact he’ll never have kids of his own;

  • The first recruit Harry takes under his wing is another spider-harry who becomes like a child to him;

  • One day when harry is out and about in his own dimension, he gets the news that his student was killed by sandman in his own universe;

  • Following the younger Harry’s death, Harry goes through all Harry Osborn stories in the recorded files and realises he dies in all of them;

  • While chasing an anomaly in another dimension, Harry finds out that the spider-person in that dimension is a younger alternate version of his twin sister MJ, though in this universe her name is Marie-Jeanette;

  • He recruits her and takes her under his wing, not knowing that because of the stage she’s in, she’s carrying the venom symbiote like he did at her age;

  • Harry and Miguel develop a romantic interest in each other, but neither tries to pursue it because Miguel is hesitant due to the responsibilities of managing spider society, while harry is also convinced he’s going to die soon and thinks it’d be a fruitless pursuit;

  • Even though he was hesitant at first, Harry and Marie eventually grow closer and they start seeing each other as actual parent & child;


  • through THE SPIDERVERSE

  • Hobie Brown gets recruited and Harry starts lightly supervising him since he doesn’t want to join the mentorship program;

  • Harry finds out about the collider project and, knowing how dangerous it can be, confronts Otto about it. He chases Otto through several dimensions until he reaches 1587-B;

  • Harry meets Scarlet Miguel* and with his help he captures Otto to bring him back to their home dimension. Harry finds out about that Miguel’s backstory and he convinces Harry he needs to move on from Javier and shouldn’t feel bad about pursuing a relationship with 928 Miguel;

  • * Scarlet Miguel- The Spider-Person from Earth 1587-B. In this universe, Harry managed to save Miguel during the rapture heist at Alchemax at the cost of his own life. Miguel then takes the mantle of Scarlet-Widow and continues his late husband’s work.


  • FINDING A FAMILY

  • Gabriella’s dimension collapses and Miguel enters his deep depression, throughout which Harry tries to help him as best as he can;

  • Miguel then comes up with the canon theory as a result, and realises that he changed drastically how the future of E-1587 is supposed to go. He saved Harry from his fate of becoming the red goblin the night that he recruited him, and now because of that, Harry’s considered an Anomaly;

  • Since he’s now considered a threat to the stability of his own universe, Harry is forced to move into E-928 so he can be closely monitored and made sure his universe doesn’t collapse by him going back into it;

  • Marie-Jeanette starts being corrupted by the venom symbiote and starts pushing everyone in her life, including Harry, away. She eventually gets rid of it in her own dimension and her and Harry reconcile;

  • Harry gets called for a mission to deal with anomalies coming from his universe: 1587 Kraven and Chameleon. The two end up trapping Harry instead;

  • He manages to call for backup, where Marie shows up too late and Kraven kills Harry;

  • Yeah Harry dies. For like 5 minutes. While dead he reaches a limbo-like realm where he finally comes face to face with carnage, who had been still been trapped inside Harry’s body since the symbiote supressors;

  • While there, him and carnage finally talk and that’s when Harry realises carnage might actually be a metaphor for all his repressed trauma;

  • Harry and carnage bond properlyand finally reach symbiosis. Not at all a lil subtle way of saying he’s finally accepted his flaws and wants to heal for himself and the hose around him;

  • Harry makes him go back to life to save Marie-Jeanette and he defeats both Kraven and Chameleon with his new symbiote powers;

  • Him and MJ reconcile and go back home together;


  • DIMENSIONAL CASTAWAY

  • Harry returns to HQ just in time to for the Miles chase scene. He gets shocked by the way Miguel treated Miles and has a fight with Miguel over it.

  • The fight ends up with Harry getting repelled into another dimension with a broken watch, leaving him stranded in that universe fighting against time before he disintegrates into atoms;


the end until btsv releases