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In the hero and villain swap au the prowler started his vigilante career after finding out his nephew was a criminal and he tried to convince miles to stop doing it but failed actually achieve his goal. Aaron davis was approached by Wilson Fisk a wealthy business man who is determined to fix up the city and he offers him gadgets and tools to be able to stop crime around the city, Aaron agrees and starts to take down some criminals. He eventually runs back across miles who's running around with the outher spiders and trys to get him to stop whilst also not giving himself away. He does not succeed and ends up stuck to a wall.
In ATSV, we are introduced to the fact that the spider that bit Miles Morales in Earth-1610 actually came from Earth-42. And that universe, the one without the spider, or Spider-Man, had Miles become the Prowler.
It's very clear that Miles-42 was meant to be Spider-Man. His father, the captain of police, is killed. According to the canon, he should have had the spider bite, and for that Miles (I'm stretching a bit) I'm guessing that would have been his push to become a vigilante.
But the spider destined to bite him disappeared. And his father still died. And Miles, grieving and hurt and angry that the police did a short memorial and then cast his family aside, learns that his uncle understands. His Uncle Aaron, that he idolized, that helped encourage his art, understands his anger against the system and the police and the world, and offers an avenue he didn't think of to help change that. So Miles-42 becomes the Prowler.
Meanwhile, Miles-1610 already has a Spider-Man. He thinks that he's cool, his dad isn't a fan of him though. The idea of Spider-Man was old news. And when bonding with his uncle doing art, he was bit by the spider from Earth-42, and his destiny changes so viscerally that when he meets Peter as Spider-Man, his aura changes to the colors of Spider-Man. Miles, close to the Prowler, was supposed to become him, because we all know that even without the "Parker curse" Jefferson Davis would die anyway. A black police officer in New York? A police officer who wasn't corrupt, actually trying to be good? You know he would have been shot during a bust or by a gang or saving a kid. And Miles-42 would have been grieving and hurt and angry that the police did a short memorial and then cast his family aside. And he learned that his uncle understood, and he would have become the Prowler.
But that didn't happen. Miles Morales in any universe has the capability to become Spider-Man, to be a hero. But the moment the spider bit Miles-1610, the canon was forced upon him and his uncle died instead. And the moment the spider didn't bite Miles-42, the canon still tried to push him into a destiny that was stolen from him, his father died, and he became so bitter that the red and blue that he was born into, was destined to be, warped and bled and changed into the acid and purple of his new destiny as the Prowler in a world without a Spider-Man.
i saw a tumblr post about 5d chess on instagram and made..this.
EDIT: I was advised to add my social media and art stuff directly to this post, so I'm linking my Black and queer sci-fi/fantasy webcomic, Aster and the Fire, my portfolio, and my Instagram!!