Thank you! I think the main thing that really called to me in Gwen is that she's so alive and so... grave at the same time, no pun intended. She has a very real awareness of death, and it lends this gravity to her, which is really interesting to me up against her enthusiasm and charm and ambition. I love that juxtaposition of being so lively but that running up against what she says to Peter, that she never knows if her father is going to make it home that day. She's so aware of that possibility of loss, and then the loss itself, but she doesn't let it define her either. Which strikes me as both so appropriate for the character of Gwen Stacy and also very sad, because I think Gwen often is overshadowed by her death. It's what everyone remembers about her, and I just wanted to know the living girl and give her time to do more with her life.
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