Cassidy DeWitt: The Spectacular Spider-Bite

Undergoing a bite from an altered spider specimen during a MillenniumCon demonstration held in New York City during his teenage years, Cassidy’s cellular makeup was radically altered, imbuing him with the powers of the arachnid kingdom! Not long afterwards, his father and police sergeant Jonathan DeWitt was gunned down by a metahuman supercriminal with dozens of others harmed during a terrible incident that would scar the young man’s history as well as his family’s, leaving nothing but a burning and vengeful ache. The pain shook any apathy or nonchalance out of his system towards the use of his own abilities. No longer could he ignore the troubles of the world. Just because he could play a blind eye doesn’t mean he should, especially not when others are doing the same with so much less. His father stood up to men like them and was killed for doing the right thing. No more. Not one more life would be lost like that. Not ever.

Realizing his great potential for others, how his powers can be for more than his family or for himself, Cassidy got set on developing a new identity, a costumed crime fighter unlike the world has seen before. Not one that worked in the ways of previous heroes or vigilantes, but one that was different and radical in his pursuits, a truly revolutionary way of attaining the goal of the ultimate moral good. Thus, he developed his moral stigmata on the virtues of a helping hand, of being a friend and ally to those in need, to those who could not protect themselves. This new identity required him to have a genuine love for people, to be a positive influence no matter what, and never ask or look for thanks or recompense. His father took up the responsibility to protect and serve everyone under the noble notion that it was simply the right thing to do, no other reason more.

Why should Cassidy DeWitt do any less?

This new alterego could not be a complete pushover or goody two-shoes. Taking wisecracking to a whole new degree, the improvisational superhero taunts and belittles foes and even the occasional hero. His casual nature of simply belittling or mocking others often comes second-nature and off-the-cuff, never spending a moment too long thinking of a one-liner, even if it may be a simple pun or immature witticism. Whether with his nonchalance or tricky personality, the vigilante finds a way to get under one’s skin while showcasing his egocentric persona, demonstrating a level of coolheadedness and fortitude even in the face of danger. This smug and sarcastic attitude acts as a shield for both himself and others, to drive civilians’ and his attention away from the graveness of the situation, while also detracting from the serious and self-important nature of his opponents. After all, someone has to keep the situation light and bully the bullies a little, right? Still, this confident and sometimes playfully flirtatious personality has garnered him as an icon of sorts, a symbol of heroism and bravery.

This reputation has garnered him attention from various heroes and villains, but it has also led to the young hero working alongside charities, functions, and food programs and kitchen as well as even law enforcement, particularly with Captain Richard “Dick” Abner, an old friend of his father and detective. Captain Abner and the superhero have conducted a few operations together under the radar of the higher ups and media at large, although many suspect what may be at play between the department and the metahuman marvel. While many might call into question the legality of such a partnership between a vigilante and the police, the results themselves speak of a significant decrease in crime in the last year or two as the superhero assists the police and their investigations while also indicating the hero might be more of a team player than a loner than his public image may let on. While struggling with his own battles, external and internal, trying to follow the footsteps of someone much wiser and older than him, Cassidy DeWitt seeks one thing: to have his father’s memory be proud of him and the good he tries to do, even when uncertain.

Attending Imperial State University while barely dodging his landlord’s constant nagging for last month’s rent, Cassidy Ambrose DeWitt makes the Queens borough his home, currently undergoing studies to attain a science major while working as a waiter at a local diner. At the age of 20 years old, his current studies have him working on biochemistry and biophysics as well as engineering and coding, the workload would force anyone else to seek therapy. Still, the young man manages, scraping on by here and there, whether at school, at home, or with his relationships. Often the loner of the campus with few, if any friends, Cassidy maintains the presence of being seen as an aloof, awkward adult with little, if any social charisma. At least, at first glance. However, whether by action or word, the young man is friend to all. Along his particular yet subtle sense of humor, his humble and down-to-earth nature along with his kindness and understanding help reveal him to be a sociable and thoughtful individual with strong moral values and a remarkable intelligence, all the while putting others before himself and treating others like he himself would like to be treated, with respect and dignity. The young man is simply in his head too often, worrying about responsibilities, bills, what the world might throw at him next, and his single mother Melissa DeWitt and younger sister Jessicca DeWitt while also balancing an intense double-life, hiding a powerful secret. While maintaining his life as a collegiate student, Cassidy DeWitt adopts the guise and identity of THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-BITE!

After being bitten by a chemically and genetically-altered hybrid spider specimen, irradiated by special hyper-accelerated particles, Cassidy DeWitt’s DNA structure, anatomy and physiology as well as his cellular structure within his body became radically altered and mutated. Unlocking the hidden and dormant mutagenic meta-genes with his genome, the spider’s DNA and radioactive particles became the necessary components that, interwoven into his new meta-genetic DNA, created the template for a new breed of genetic hybrid: the posthuman mutate specimen. The young DeWitt’s entire organic nature and structure became drastically restructured, mutated and altered to result in a radically different organism than before. These changes resulted in DeWitt becoming a posthuman mutate, an advanced class of metahuman characterized by multiple, system-wide and revolutionary cellular mutations that have affected and altered multiple organic systems within a short span of incubation time for such changes. Such rapid developments in such a short timespan would be fatal if not for the radioactive isotopes and various chemicals that helped accelerate and stabilize this process and incubation, resulting in the finalization of the new meta-hybrid genes that Cassidy possesses. These foreign materials and substances assisted in amplifying and stabilizing these radical changes in his body, providing the necessary components for his new transformation to be complete and function properly.

The radioactive, complex mutagenic enzymes in the spider's blood that were transferred at the time of the bite triggered numerous body-wide mutagenic changes within Cassidy DeWitt, granting him various arachnid-like qualities similar to those of real arachnids. However, his particular brand of mutations stem more heavily from the Araneae order of the Arachnida class, deriving and assuming his abilities from various species of spider due to the polyhybrid DNA of the spider that bit him. Thus, his newly enhanced chromosome pattern and structure has integrated genes and codons from several species such as the huntsman spider, jumping spider, diving bell spider, net web spider, grass spider, orb-weaver spider, and more. All of these various abilities, strengths, and talents from these spiders have combined and imbued together in Cassidy to give him the best hybridized power set to survive and operate far beyond what most metahumans are capable of.

Initially, his abilities and powers had not fully developed until years of training, exercise, and practice, Cassidy DeWitt’s abilities evolved and changed as he grew, extending beyond what he was capable at first as well as giving him new abilities as time went on. With the added genetic and organic substances from an otherworldly, alien material that had grafted to him before then being removed from Cassidy and destroyed for the sake his health and wellbeing, all of Cassidy DeWitt’s metahuman abilities, current and newly-developed have been enhanced and heightened permanently as well as granting him new powers and abilities with the fusion of leftover alien DNA into his own . At the age of 20 years old, all of Cassidy’s evolutionary stages and changes have concluded, resulting in his final and complete posthuman stage while also changing the color of his eyes from a subtle hazel to a dynamic blue.

• Altered Optic Tissues
• Hyper-Accelerated Vision
• Contaminant Immunity
• Dermal Exoskeleton
• Fangs
• Hyper-Resilience
• Pain Suppression
• Molecular Adhesion
• Electrostatic Manipulation
• Molecular/Electrostatic Repulsion
• Enhanced/Supernatural Body
• Altered Anatomy & Physiology
• Blood Pressure Manipulation
• Perfect Recall
• Echo-Reflexes
• Momentary Hyper-Acceleration
• Altered Adrenal Glands
• Regenerative Healing Factor
• Hibernation Self-Healing
• Psychosomatic Healing/Pain Absorption
• Empathic Healing
• Pheromone Generation
• Predatory Instincts
• Ultraviolet Perception
• Night Vision
• Vibration Sense
• Radioactive Particle Generation
• Meta-Particle Resistance
• Radiation Resistance
• Sixth Sense
• Precognition
• Hyper-Sense
• Extrasensory Perception
• Psychic Awareness/Attunement
• Clairvoyance
• Empathic Senses
• Meta-Psychic Resistance
• Advanced Meta-Synesthesia

Over the course of his career as a polymath prodigy, Cassidy DeWitt has taught himself and honed his abilities while learning new skills and abilities. The foremost of his abilities is his raw intellect and talent in the scholastic fields, particularly sharing a passion and enthusiasm for science. His eye for guerrilla science, able to think on his feet and quickly improvise or fix a problem on the spot with unusual tools or techniques, is a remarkable talent on its own. This has helped lend itself into his coding expertise, able to test and infiltrate past coded defenses for his investigations as well as keep his own information encrypted for necessary reasons. His experience and careful nature have led to being quite the strategist, always poking and prodding to find a weakness as well as developing plans based on the behaviors and methods of attack and defense of his enemies. However, the young man is not afraid to take a calculated risk if it means either gleaning new information or finding a way to quickly end the fight, exploiting a possible potential weakness.

His constant ability to rethink and review previous and current situations help him in developing better plans for next time as well as developing better technology or gadgets for his spider persona. After all, his ability to code with computers and work in an engineering and chemical capacity have led to the invention of many of his greatest and most iconic gadgets and gear. His intelligence and particular choice of a double life led to the quick development of his detective skills, not too dissimilar to his father’s own style of work yet possessing the raw intellect and power of Cassidy’s genius and metahuman prowess.

DeWitt’s fighting style incorporates parkour, gymnastics, dance, and martial arts as well as the basics of boxing into how he combats foes in close-quarters combat, often favoring momentum-based movements and attacks, using the metahuman brute force and physics to aid his strikes and kicks, while also remaining agile and quick, able to move and leap away from danger or being overwhelmed at a moment’s notice. Meanwhile, his medium-to-long range combat was developed by utilizing certain mediumt-to-long-range martial arts, rope-style dance, gymnastic rope techniques, and particular marksmanship techniques such as action shooting, all implemented into his web-shooter style form of combat as the pseudo-silk is utilized in similar fashion along with being “knitted” or “weaved” by Cassidy’s mechanical inventions as well as by his talent and metahuman power into various shapes and sizes the situation calls for.

Utilizing and combining old technology and ideas with the new, Cassidy DeWitt has designed his final, new and improved suit, complete with all the latest and finest gadgets and tools needed for his arsenal, all designed and built by himself. By using the technology and armored suit that a rather well-renowned superhero gifted him, DeWitt has implemented the designs and features into a new, more superior and hybridized super-suit, utilizing past designs and flexibility of his old costumes, utilizing the armor design of the armored suit, inspiration drawn from his old alien attire, and implementing new features and ideas that were previously unrealized until now.

The primary apparatus utilized by Cassidy as his alter ego is the web-shooters, devices capable of storing and using web-fluid, which is pressurized, fired, and then spun into a variety of shapes and threads. Using several different smaller nozzles surrounding a main nozzle, the button taps of the main trigger or the pre-programmed functions, which is activated by either voice or by buttons along the side of the web-shooter, determine how the web-formula is spun into whatever necessary shape or size needed as well at what pressure and speed it should be fired at.

The actual web-fluid itself is a pseudo-silk compound several times stronger than the strongest spider silk or steel cables and possibly even graphene or borophone. The structure of this chemical compound is not dissimilar to the honeycomb lattice structure found in graphene, but it also contains the properties of biodegradable plastics and adhesives, allowing it to dissolve safely after a set time period. This honeycomb lattice structure is interwoven with a cubic crystal structure for a certain amount of rigidity and helps put its elasticity within reasonable parameters. However, the atomic structure has been based on certain chemical traits spider silk shares, altering the structure to behave not dissimilar to the proteins within spider silk. These extra-features allows for slower biodegradability, high fracture strength, high stiffness, exceptional extensibility, and toughness as well as biocompatibility, allowing it to help seal wounds, even potentially fatal ones, and assist in the healing process as the biodegradable pseudo-silk breaks down into components that can be used by the body as it heals. Thus, these are the perfect tools for incapacitating and neutralizing foes, especially of the metahuman variety.

Adopting a red and black color scheme for this new suit, Cassidy DeWitt’s outfit sports practical yet sleek and hidden armor and padding features, a variety of hidden compartments, and integrated wireless computer-system capable of integrating with any device. The lenses are capable of shuttering and expanding for protection of the retina and eyes themselves while also providing an in-built HUD and running various coded programs and encryptions, one of which being an integrated A.I. to help organize, optimize, and run those functions, operating as an assistant to the young hero in his endeavors. The entirety of the suit has been integrated in unstable particles, capable of self-repair to avoid future repairs and maintenance that would consume time and resources. The red portions of the suit are best designed to absorb strikes and impacts of nearly any kind while the black portions are more flexible, providing less rigidity and protection. New tools and gadgets for investigation, combat, and surveillance have either been integrated into the suit, such as the mask’s in-built surveillance tech or life signs monitoring system, or fitting separate apparatuses into the compartments of the suit, such as web-cartridges, tracking devices, and other similar devices. Containing a number of new and different features, this new and different suit is unlike all previous, the peak of Cassidy’s design genius, and will aid him greatly in his crime-fighting exploits.

Design Features:

• Protective, impact resistant lenses with shutter technology
• Front spider logo is small black spider symbol with extending thinning legs and mandibles
• Back spider logo is large, red, and more hexagonal and geometric spider with angular legs, four pointing upwards and four downwards, and is an overall simpler yet spider-like design with no web design to be found on it, despite being exactly colored the same to the rest of the red portions of the suit, while being positioned towards the upper back of the suit, protecting the upper back section and a degree of the lower back
• Black web-design is also concurrent with the segmented sections of the red armored portions of the suit
• Red-and-black color scheme for the entire suit
• The suit, armor, and (composite) materials the ensemble is composed of are entirely multi-layered yet skin-tight
• A pair of web-shooters with red accents, buttons, and digital screens for various inputs
• Under the arms, a silk-color webbed-pattern made of cloth material and unstable particles is fitted underneath each and seems to serve merely a cosmetic and aesthetical purpose

Utility Features:

• Capable of self-repair to restore to prior, complete state through the the use of programmable unstable molecules, as even the built-in technology and computer systems are capable of complex and thorough self-repair
• If placed in recharge & repair station, capable of accelerated self-repair within a shorter timespan
• Containing shuttering capabilities for protection, the protective lenses attached to the mask have built-in HUD system, camera features, binocular vision, wireless communication and computer systems, and various sensors as well as electronic receivers for the specialized tracking dots
• An artificial intelligence program helps monitor suit functions and programs as well as assist the user while also capable of running and creating new code while developing and maintaining encryption
• Built-in listening devices into lenses and forefingers of the suit, the index and middle
• Red Portion: Bulletproof; Knife-proof; Insulated; Segmented; Resilient; Retardant; Impact Absorption; Shock Absorption
• Black Portion: Semi-Bulletproof; Knife-proof; Flexible; Resilient; Retardant; Impact Dispersion; Shock Dispersion
• A unique gel and foam is inter-weaved and integrated between the layers of armor and materials of the suit, helping to regulate temperature, insulate against temperature and conductive electromagnetic energy, grant greater flexibility, and provide shock absorption, absorbing and hardening against impacts as well as assist in the user's strikes, kicks, and punches as the blows cause the gel to harden and enhance the collision force behind such blows
• Sound-dampening earphones and microphone that can be activated within the suit at any time and earphones can playback audio and recordings
• The suit and certain gadgets contain alarms and silent alarms as well as a few other warning systems
• Various padding and shock absorption materials and designs were implemented into the suit to help the user with parkour, impacts, and landings at high-velocity speeds while remaining lightweight and aerodynamic
• The unstable particles help alter the density and weight of the suit and its various components as well as render the entire ensemble a certain degree of greater durability and/ or elasticity
• Mask has a voice modulator and filtering system for smoke and other similar debris
• Mask and lenses have control buttons for activation of certain features and communication
• A removable belt with removable compartments that as a whole is integrated into the red belt-like portion design of the suit, all deftly hidden and integrated together to appear seamlessly connected to the suit
• Front logo and belt contains hidden buttons to activate either of the two camouflage modes
• Additional scanners and sensors have been fitted in a practical manner throughout the suit to aid in instigation and analysis
• Contact-based electrical tasers have been installed into the fingers and other sections of the suit in the event of necessary use in combat or self-defense, and these devices are similar in design to the stingers
• Designed with stealth operations in mind, the entirety of the suit has been fitted with sound-dampening material and technology, aided by unstable molecules to help further absorb and distort sound waves, allowing the user to move silently with barely, if any, noise produced
  [li]The camo-modes have been integrated into the suit by adding special photo-panels into the suit and reworking the armored panels to host these panels as well. Super-flexible and difficult to tear or break, this small material, when interacting with the unstable particles infused throughout the suit and then panels themselves, is able to scatter ambient light to become invisible and/or simply change color. This is achieved by applying certain, small electric currents throughout the suit that are completely harmless yet trigger these changes.
• Camo-Mode 1: This mode darkens the color scheme to dark shades of black, purple, and blue allowing for a lower degree of visibility and creating a degree of camouflage , especially at night or in darkened areas.
• Camo-Mode 2: By scattering ambient light around the suit, the user is effectively able to become invisible for short periods of time as long as the suit is able to produce an electric current
• Using a similar method to nylon by using air inlets to inflate them in flight, creating pressurized membranes beneath the pilot's outstretched arms and between their legs that generate lift, web-wings (which work similar to that of a wingsuit) can be deployed from the suit and are created out of unstable material and a membrane-like material several times more effective than nylon in helping generate lift and stabilizing flight during a glide
• With the aid of the unstable particles, which react oddly with various electromagnetic radiation on the spectrum, and the additional materials in the suit, the suit is invisible to infrared, x-ray, and various other wavelengths that may be used to try and find the user’s location or discover the user’s identity.
• With unstable particles interweaved into the entire suit and its components, such as the various complex polymers within the general apparel, the suit’s nonconductive properties help protect the user from various energy based attacks such as electricity or conductive magic energies
• With coating and unstable molecules, the suit is able to resist the effects of caustic or damaging substances, such as acids, while also being waterproof
• The unstable particles being integrated into the suit was done so with a design feature that no matter how damage the suit became it would eventually reconstitute itself in accordance with the original design
• Only under certain, stressing, and thorough conditions can the suit reach a critical state where it can be completely destroyed
• Emergency Homing Beacon

Additional Features:

• Contains an advanced artificial intelligence program to help maintain programs and encryptions as well as provide minor assistance
• Long-lasting, high impact and damage/wear-tear resistant battery packs to help power suit and various devices
• Monitoring equipment built into the suit to monitor life functions of user as well as other people if need be
• Built-in padding, adaptive insulation, and, most importantly, interchangeable slots for air-fresheners to help keep a fresh scent
• For the varying seasons, environments, or temperatures, the suit can be fitted with additional heating or cooling insulation and it can also be fitted with powered heating and/or cooling pads
• The suit was designed to let sweat and heat out of the suit but remains waterproof to outside substances by creating a waterproof yet breathable membrane and interweaving it into most of the materials of the suit, enhancing and making these properties permanent with unstable molecules
• Due to the unstable particles being integrated into every facet of this suit, the suit cannot get dirty by conventional means as the particles will force any foreign particles to be either removed or dissolved
• The Belt has built-in locking mechanisms for each compartment as well as a master lock system to lock all compartments simultaneously
• Overall design of the suit gave primary emphasis for movement and agility with secondary emphasis on protection and utility

Gadgets & Tools:

• Multi-Purpose Belt with Variable Compartments
• Detachable Camera
• Built-In Flashlight
• Built-In Emergency Homing Beacon
• Web-Shooters
• Stingers - Fires stun bolts to incapacitate and neutralize targets; has variable settings as to alter the intensity of the stun
• Web-Taser
• Web-Pellets
• Impact Pellets
• Ricochet Pellets
• Grenade Pellets
• Electric Pellets
• Foam Pellets
• Web-Cartridges
• Web-Fluid
• Conductive Web-Fluid
• Foam Web-Fluid
• Medical Kit
• Forensic Kit
• Tracking Dots
• Electronic Tracking Receiver
• Additional Rechargeable Battery Packs
• Spi-Bots

Additional Equipment & Resources:

• The Technical Station
• Repair and Recharge Sub-Station
• Unstable Molecule Sub-Station
• Web-Fluid Sub-Station
• Main Cloud Computer