This is such a fun concept and to see venom resort to taking care of a kid Eddie while subduing himself to his anger and frustration is the most adorable thing ever! And now I’m obsessed with wanted to scratch venom under his chin like a cute little dog hehehehe
michelinie era is just good. what, i ask you, could be better than jackass villains who encourage each other to be terrible to everyone else while being unrelentingly tender with each other.
they’ve got it all.
finding each other at their lowest points. in a church. godly intervention and angels and marriage metaphors, pick your poison.
giving each other hope by pursuing revenge together. soon discovering that the real hope was the symbiosis they found along the way.
the symbiote pining over peter until it realises that it’s found something better in eddie. that fixating on the idea of getting peter back hurt him.
sacrificing itself for eddie the next chance it gets.
eddie breaking down in tears when this happens.
the joyful reunion that drives home what they almost lost.
them just deciding to retire on a deserted island together and being perfectly happy with nothing but each other’s company.
eddie being enough of a grade a weirdo to describe what he had with an alien pile of sentient slime as a “long and fulfilling relationship”.
like, to other people.
the symbiote having to stop him from pouring his heart out about how he can’t believe the symbiote ever felt like he could’ve not “wanted it”.
in front of said other people.
them swearing their lives to each other, i think, three separate times.
The TV Tropes page for the Venom symbiote gives a much more concise and readable history of the character in the comics than any other source I’ve come across, and, even though I already knew this, boy! has the poor symbiote been put through the ringer, what with the various tortures, mind controls, mind wipes, betrayals, insanities, drugs, near-death experiences, depersonalizations, and various other traumas that it’s gone through since the beginning of its appearances in the comics. I honestly do not think I’ve encountered a character with a more saddening back story.
“The symbiote’s husband is quoted to have said he’d like some warning ‘just once’. Alas, his alien spouse is but too awkward and nervous about such crucial matters to not be utterly useless in discussing them.”
