Even someone who deals with pain has to recover eventually.
Recovery is hard and will hurt in so many different ways.
Yet we still have to go through them. Sometimes they don’t end up in the best way that we want it to.
Part of the point here is to explore the idea of pain and suffering in a real physical sense. Though it obviously has an effect on personal emotional pain as well. At the same time, I wanted to show how even in this tragic circumstance where you are trying to physically recover, you can find someone worth having positive feelings for.
There are parallels here intended between a Gwen Stacy type character with Peter Parker/Spiderman. Naturally, Spiderman is definitely a major inspiration for the character and we all know how things worked out with Gwen Stacy and her relationship with Peter Parker.
Obviously there are major differences between the way The Bucket (find out why he’s called The Bucket here for newer subscribers) and Spiderman worked out. But in other ways it’s exactly the right way to look at it.
Similarly, we have a Mary Jane Watson type character, though we’ll get into this more deeply in later pieces.