CAST LIST (spoilers as of and for Issue #2)

The Seductive Spider-Harem

• Ovyah (Olivia 'Ollie' Vayne): a vastly beyond ancient djinn of lust released and incarnated by Spider-Man in an effort to keep her lamp out of the hands of a number of villains. As Ovyah she commands phenomenal cosmic power which she claims is limitless... but has to be directed and shaped by the wishes of her Master (Peter Parker), and those wishes have to pertain to lust, desire, or sex in some capacity. Those wishes have already proven powerful enough to bring the dead back to life and grant full spider-powers to Mary Jane Watson. Ovyah also claims to be omniscient, but for unspecified reasons is limited in what she can tell people. Ollie claims her entire existence is designed around her Master's needs and desires, but she seems to have an agenda of her own at the same time.

1. Among her powers is the ability to become other people or weave complete fantasies. This allows her to become someone so completely that deep level genetic or telepathic scans can't tell the difference. During this time, she acts exactly as they would, with their abilities and opinions and ideology, though she will act out whatever fantasy has been wished for completely naturally. For example, Peter once wished for her to take on Sue Richards's form (and for the Fantastic Four to never find out it happened). During that time, she was Sue Richards with all of her powers as the Invisible Woman, but she was more than happy to seduce Peter at the same time.
2. Her mortal identity is Olivia 'Ollie' Vayne, defined by Peter off the cuff, but then 'filled out' and given backstory and history through Ovyah's power. Ollie Vayne is a Freshman college student at Empire State University, who has been given a 'life experience' internship assigned to Peter Parker. She has not declared a major, though she is taking advanced biology with Doctor Curt Conners. For reasons not well understood, 'Ollie Vayne' doesn't have Ovyah's full knowledge. So, even though Ovyah herself understand microbiology, for example, Ollie has to study and do homework or she'll flunk her test.
3. Ollie has a number of inherent abilities she gets 'for free,' claiming they're 'edge cases.' This is because upon being incarnated, her nature was set subconsciously by Peter Parker, who had an egalitarian attitude. Among her known 'free' powers -- repairing clothes with a gesture, getting seats on the subway at rush hour, and providing pastries on demand.

• Gwen Stacy: One of Peter Parker's earliest romantic interests (though Betty Brandt and others predated her), and considered (with Mary Jane Watson) one of the great loves of Peter Parker's life. Gwen Stacy had been a student at Empire State University with her old friend Harry Osborn and her new friends Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, and Flash Thompson. A long time girlfriend of Peter's, Gwen grew disenchanted after Peter's seeming unreliability -- Gwen at the time not knowing he was also Spider-Man. Gwen broke up with Peter and left the United States to travel in Europe. There, she was seduced by Norman Osborn -- the father of her friend Harry and secretly the evil Green Goblin -- who left her pregnant with twins, who she had to give up for adoption after their birth. Returning to the United States and Peter, she was further traumatized with the **** of her father at the hands of Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus. Before she could recover from that, she was kidnapped by the Green Goblin and, while the Goblin and Spider-Man fought, was thrown off one of the towers of the George Washington Bridge. Though Spider-Man attempted to save her, even catching her with a webline couldn't stop her momentum from snapping her neck and killing her instantly. This tragedy rivaled even the **** of Peter's Uncle Ben in impact on Spider-Man's life. When Peter Parker incarnated Ovyah, she first got Peter to really use her abilities when she reminded him that -- so long as it involved sexuality -- she could literally bring Gwen Stacy back from the dead. Peter made this wish, and Ovyah pulled Gwen out of time literally the instant before the webline hit her leg as she fell, leaving a duplicate in her place. She then brought Gwen forward, claiming to be showing her events to 'catch her up' on what happened in her absence, before bringing her to Peter's apartment, alive and well. There, to fulfill the terms of the wish -- and out of a heartfelt desire -- Gwen and Peter became lovers for the first time, and Gwen Stacy became the first of the Seductive Spider-Harem. She is one of the driving forces behind Inanna, using her natural leadership, wisdom, and strength of character.

1. Officially, Ovyah only 'caught Gwen up' on events. However, Gwen has manifested an oddly complete knowledge of things that happened while she was 'dead...' and even things that happened before her '****.' This includes secrets like the actions of Reed Richards and Tony Stark during the original Civil War between the heroes, romantic assignations and traumatic events that happened to others, and even embarrassing tidbits. The secrets seem to be limited to Earth at least for the moment... but the same ability has apparently started manifesting itself as 'remembering' the different Gwen Stacy clones did during her time 'dead.'
2. From Gwen's point of view, the events surrounding her father's **** and her own **** at the George Washington Bridge didn't happen a decade before now, but literally just days prior. She is only now beginning to process her trauma and anger.
3. Gwen is extremely protective of Peter Parker at this point -- moreso than might be expected -- and seems to literally hate Tony Stark and Reed Richards, who had been the cause of incredible pain and strife in Peter and Mary Jane's life during Civil War.
4. After Peter, Gwen is closest to Mary Jane Watson, and she is one of the only people on Earth who knows that Peter and Mary Jane were -- and are -- married, and the terms of Mephisto's 'deal' that took the marriage from them.

• Mary Jane Watson/the Rambunctious Redback: Perhaps the greatest love of Peter Parker's life, Mary Jane Watson has had an incredibly full life and career. Coming from humble beginnings, Mary Jane attended and graduated from Empire State University, where she met lifelong friends Harry Osborn, Gwen Stacy, and Peter Parker. Getting involved with Peter in the wake of Gwen Stacy's ****, the pair went through on and off patches but ultimately ended up together, marrying and even having a child. However, that marriage and child were erased from their minds and the minds of the world by Mephisto, who claimed to want to steal the sanctity of their marriage, leaving them both in an eternal pain they couldn't resolve, driving them apart but making them miserable when they weren't together. A supermodel, former club owner, former actress, trendsetter, fashion designer, and ultimately business executive working for Stark Unlimited, Mary Jane Watson has proven herself capable of almost any task she puts her mind to. Though they have always had rocky patches, Mary Jane truly loves Peter Parker and would do almost anything for him. She also loves Gwen Stacy and having her back in their lives is one of the happiest events to happen to Mary Jane in years. Along with Gwen she is the driving **** behind Inanna and a member of the Spider-Harem.

1. Thanks to Ollie's wish granting power, Mary Jane finally has the super powers she has wanted for years. She has spider-powers similar to Spider-Man and Silk, but she isn't as fast or agile as either of those heroes -- but is almost half-again stronger and more durable than Spider-Man. She possesses a spider-sense and a newly redesigned webshooter array, and the strongest 'wall crawling' adhesion of any of the spider-heroes. She also has a Venom Touch, which lets her drain life **** and neural energy off a foe, weakening and stunning them while reviving herself. This venom touch could potentially be lethal. She has taken on the new identity of Redback and intends to join Spider-Man, Silk, and others in fighting crime.

• Peter Parker/the Amazing Spider-Man:** **Bitten by a radioactive spider at a science exhibit, Peter Parker developed incredible proportional abilities of that spider, which he used to become a wrestler and entertainer. With the **** of his Uncle Ben at the hands of a man Parker could have stopped, Peter learned that with great power must also come great responsibility, which he accepted by becoming the Amazing Spider-Man. Having incarnated Ovyah and using her power to bring Gwen Stacy back to life, Peter Parker has accepted Mary Jane and Gwen's offer to join with them and others as the Spider-Harem, offering him the job of CTO and chief technologist for Inanna.

1. In addition to his spider powers, Peter Parker is one of the most intelligent people on Earth -- with an I.Q. known to exceed 250 and having tested out exactly the same as Reed Richards at his age.
2. At different times Peter Parker has been a photojournalist, a staff photographer for the Mayor of New York (at that time J. Jonah Jameson), a scientist, an engineer, a technologist, a billionaire visionary behind his own corporation, a science editor, and many other things. However, due to 'that Ol' Parker Luck' alongside his need to protect his secrets as Spider-Man (and his need to use his powers to help others without regard for himself), Peter has managed to ruin every one of these careers over time -- getting caught falsifying a photograph ruined his journalistic and photography careers, needing to destroy his own company (to stop Otto Octavius) also destroyed his reputation as a businessman and engineer, and actions by Octavius during a period of time when he was in control of Peter's body and life led him to having his Ph.D.'s validity questioned ruining his academic and scientific careers.
3. Though he is an Avenger, circumstances prevent him from being full time or accepting a salary from that organization. Though he is highly regarded by his peers, including the members of the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, and the X-Men, Peter's bad reputation has kept him feeling marginalized.
4. As Ovyah's Master, only Peter can invoke her wishes. At least, as far as anyone can tell.

• Cindy Moon/the Spectacular Spinning Silk: Bitten by the same radioactive spider that bit Peter Parker, fifteen year old Cindy Moon developed similar powers. She was found by the older spider-powered Ezekiel Sims, who trained her in using her spider-powers until they discovered Cindy was being hunted by Devourer of the Spider-Totems called Morlun. Rather than let Morlun have her, Sims locked Cindy into a bunker at the base of his tower, leaving her there alone for years, with only a stock of books and video tapes (along with training equipment) for entertainment. No contact with the outside world -- even getting news broadcasts -- could be permitted. Eventually, Spider-Man learned about Moon and freed her, which infuriated her as she thought it meant her long exile was for nothing... but that quickly became secondary to the intense lust the two felt for one another in each others' presence. After acclimating, Cindy became the super hero Silk, helping fight the Inheritors and other enemies and slowly making up for lost time. Still intensely attracted to Peter because of the nature of their reinforcing spider-senses, Silk was more than happy to accept Mary Jane Watson's offer to join the Spider-Harem.

1. Cindy's powers are very similar to Peter Parker's, but her nervous system is significantly more advanced, giving her faster speed and reflexes, and allowing her to have a much more powerful and refined version of his spider sense, which she calls her silk sense. This ability has greater range and facility, and as she grows more confident in its uses Cindy finds it guides more and more of her life.
2. Cindy's silk sense and Peter's spider sense heterodyne each other, creating an intense bond when they're in close proximity. This means they can generally sense micromovements the other makes to the point of being able to silently communicate with each other. A side-effect of this is an overwhelming mating urge, reinforced and intensified by powerful pheromones both heroes secrete when their senses comingle. The drive to mate can become overwhelming, and before the Spider-Harem the two had to keep a certain distance and professional remove to maintain decorum.
3. Though she's had some time to adjust -- and worked for a while at the Fact Channel -- Cindy is in many ways as out of place as Gwen Stacy. She is the first of the Spider-Harem to decide to actually live at Inanna instead of keeping a nearby room.
4. Though extremely well trained and practiced with her powers, Silk is inexperienced with actual combat, which has gotten her into trouble before.

Supporting Cast and Major Associates

• Tony Stark/The Invincible Iron Man: Founding Avenger, legendary businessman, technologist, and billionaire philanthropist, and self-described asshole Tony Stark built on the fortune made by his father Howard Stark, becoming a valuable member of the Military/Industrial Complex. Kidnapped by extremists who wanted to **** him to make weapons for them, and dying due to shrapnel lodged in his chest and approaching his heart, Stark alongside a man named Yinson created the first model of a powerful suit of microelectronic driven powered armor, and the Iron Man was born. After developing several new models and using their chest plate to keep the shrapnel from killing him, Stark was finally freed of his curse and able to build on his legacy. Though a hero of the first order and a self-made billionaire even after losing his fortune several times, Stark is considered petulant and self-absorbed, though his closest friends know that attitude is as much a defensive armor as the suit he wears as Iron Man. Approached by his former employee Mary Jane Watson and withstanding the disdain of the resurrected Gwen Stacy, Tony Stark agreed to be the initial funding source for Inanna and -- despite a certain degree of facade -- seems to be invested in the group's success. However, he has also been very careful to distance himself from Inanna as much as possible.

1. One of the most experienced heroes in the world, Tony Stark is easily underestimated and almost always more in control than he appears. Even as he cultivates his boorish personality, he cultivates a certain combination of hyper-competence and haplessness to make it seem simultaneously like he's too skilled to be engaged by enemies and too easily beaten to bother. Both of these disappear when he suits up and goes into the field as Iron Man.
2. Because of an incident where he had to erase his own mind and restore from an old backup, Tony Stark does not remember the events of Civil War directly. He knows, however, that Peter Parker idolized him, and he used a combination of that hero worship and playing off Parker's sense of responsibility to recruit him for the pro-registration side. When Parker broke ranks, Stark engineered conditions that led to the near **** of Aunt May (and unknowingly created the conditions that allowed Mephisto to get his hooks into Peter and Mary Jane). Stark feels protective of and almost paternal towards Peter, but knows that Parker and his associates will only let him get so close... which is fine with him, since he doesn't feel like he deserves Peter's friendship.
3. Gwen Stacy's odd knowledge of events includes a much more complete understanding of Stark's actions against Peter Parker than Stark himself has. This has led to significant tension -- she first introduced herself by punching him in the jaw -- but has also caused Stark's slightly paternalistic protectionism to extend to Stacy as well.
4. There is evidence that Stark felt legitimately hurt when Mary Jane Watson left Stark Unlimited.

• Felicia Hardy/The Black Cat: Sliding between the continuum of thief, crimelord, vigilante, and hero, the Black Cat was initially a thrillseeking adventurer who was attracted to Spider-Man (but somewhat disdainful of Peter Parker, even after learning they were one and the same). The Black Cat was originally a highly trained normal person but, thanks to the Kingpin, eventually gained probability manipulation powers -- in effect, an ability to inflict 'bad luck' on others. Having recently become a villain and only very recently recanting, there is tension between the Black Cat and the Spider-Harem -- particularly Silk, who had become the Black Cat's primary nemesis for some time. Still, because of their long history together, Mary Jane Watson and Peter Parker invited Felicia Hardy to join the Spider-Harem. She has tentatively agreed to an alliance, but not a membership -- though she has indicated that may change after they get certain things up and running. Still, no one is quite certain what Felicia Hardy's true plans... or allegiances -- might be this time.

1. Initially dismissive of Spider-Harem entirely, Hardy became intensely interested after she learned they intended to revive Flash Thompson. Hardy and Thompson had once been a couple, though Thompson had ended things after he learned about her villainous ways.
2. Hardy's turn back to darkness paralleled the Mephisto pact that erased the memory of Mary Jane and Peter's marriage. With her memory of Peter Parker's identity erased from her mind -- and with it huge sections of their experiences and lives together -- Hardy had massive gaps in her personality's foundation and moral and ethical grounding. Parker revealing himself to Felicia once more filled those gaps in, giving them a chance to reconnect and giving Hardy a chance to move back into the light... though it's not yet known if that chance will 'take.'
3. Felicia has a very different view of Ovyah's powers -- less concerned about 'big' wishes, and convinced that Ovyah's abilities should be used to erase 'little concerns,' like rent money and the like. This far more pragmatic approach is one of the reasons why Mary Jane and Gwen want Felicia to be a part of Spider-Harem.

• John Jonah Jameson, Junior: The former editor-in-chief, then publisher, then owner of the Daily Bugle, followed by time as the Mayor of New York, a television producer and now a recurring pundit and journalist, J. Jonah Jameson was for many years both Peter Parker's patron and Spider-Man's nemesis. Convinced that Spider-Man was a "menace," he would use the photographs Parker would take of his own fights and paint the wall-crawler in the worst possible light. Now, having lost his second wife Marla and adoptive grandchild Mattie Franklin, Jameson was close to breakdown, having lost everything... only to have Parker reveal himself to him, and show him he had family who loved him. After slowly coming to terms with this revelation, Jameson was captured and tortured by Norman Osborn, who had become the newest host of the Carnage Symbiont -- the horrible Red Goblin. During that ****, he accidentally revealed Parker's identity... leading the Red Goblin to target Parker's loved ones in exactly the way Parker had feared all those years, and ultimately costing Flash Thompson his life. With that guilt weighing heavily on Jameson, he and Parker truly bonded and Jameson finally embraced the concept of Spider-Man as a necessary part of the City. Having learned about Ovyah, Jameson is skeptical, though he supports the idea of using her wishes to bring Flash and Mattie back to life.

1. Jameson, even when he was taking advantage of Parker's naïveté, always had a certain affection for Parker -- buying his initially substandard photographs because Parker needed a break in the wake of his uncle's ****, for example. However, Jameson has always lived by a (questionably too rigid) code of ethics, leading him to fire Parker in the wake of Parker falsifying a photograph to exonerate Jameson at one point, among many other things.
2. Jameson is convinced that Parker is one of the most moral people he's ever met... but that he's also entirely unethical, and that "the ol' Parker luck" is a byproduct of Parker "taking shortcuts to do the right thing," like falsifying the photograph because actually using the real evidence to exonerate Jameson would out his identity as Spider-Man.
3. Though he supports the revival of Flash Thompson and Mattie Franklin -- both young and both heroes -- Jameson is disturbed by the ethics of reviving the dead in general, and he is conflicted over whether his two wives (Marla and Joan), his father, or Peter's Uncle Ben should be brought back, for example.

The Avengers

• Janet Van Dyne/The Wasp: Actively interested in becoming a donor to Inanna.
• Steve Rogers/Captain America
• Doctor Donald Blake/Thor: Actively interested in becoming one of Inanna's medical consultants
• Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk: Actively interested in becoming Inanna's legal consultant.
• King T'Challa of Wakanda/Black Panther
• Doctor Stephen Strange: Somewhat interested in becoming one of Inanna's magical consultants

The X-Men

• Kitty Pryde
• Doctor Hank McCoy/The Beast
• Jean Grey: Actively interested in becoming a full Inanna client.

The Fantastic Four

• Reed Richards/Mister Fantastic: Hated by Gwen Stacy. Interested in Inanna's mission.
• Sue Storm Richards/The Invisible Woman
• Benjamin Grimm/The Thing
• Johnny Storm/The Human Torch: Possibly Peter Parker's best friend in the superhero business, involved in a long-standing good natured rivalry.