[id: It’s two drawings of Hobie, depicted as he is in Spiderverse with dark brown skin, wicks, and numerous piercings. He wears a leather jacket, a blue shirt, blue fishnets, belts, and plaid pants that has patches on them. The first drawing is a half body where he is looking off to the side with his guitar hanging around his torso. In the second, which is a full body, he is playing his guitar and jumping in the air. Additionally, his color palette has changed to grey, orange, and cyan. The background is black with an X-ray Spex poster blocking out part of it, and “OH BONDAGE! UP YOURS!” Is written in blue in the top right corner. /end id]
I think a big thing that people are overlooking is how Hobie looks out for his own and how much that coincides with punk culture.
Him looking out for younger teens is so fucking punk of him. He lets Gwen stay with him because she’s vulnerable and struggling, he makes her a watch, he lets her keep his shoes, etc. and it’s not out of romance, it’s because she’s family. Same with Miles; he knows Miles is naive and wants to help him, because he’s been in the spider society longer and he knows what’s really going on. He sees the adults, who are supposed to mentor them, targeting Miles and he just knows it’s flat-out wrong and that he wants no part of it.
Hobie takes on such a big brother role for the other characters and I love it. He’s more mature than the other teens in so many aspects, and he uses his experience to teach them how to get by because that’s what being punk is about
