Okay, so, I was thinking last night about the fact that Venom looks a little bit like the chitauri build-wise. I mean, obviously there are a lot of differences, but if you played ‘Who’s That Alien?’ with their outlines, it’d be a pretty close call. Now, imagine Eddie and Tony being in a committed relationship, maybe it’s new, maybe Eddie just liked to keep up his indepenance so he doesn’t spend the night often. Tony knows about Venom; they even get along really well. All in all, it’s a very happy, healthy semi-polyamorous relationship.
Until the night that Tony has a nightmare and ends up smacking Eddie across the face with his flailing. Venom is instantly on alert, reacting to the bloom of pain by taking over and springing from the bed, already snarling and looking for the threat. Instead, he finds only Tony, now awake and staring at him with wide, terrified eyes. It’d been a long time since Tony was scared of him. It stings to see it on his face now. Venom reaches out, only for Tony to flinch back, scrambling away and all but falling out of the bed in his haste.
“No! No!” he cries. “Stay away from me!”
Venom can hear the way his heartrate skyrockets, can watch as the panic consumes him. It quickly becomes clear that while Tony is here, he isn’t here. Venom doesn’t know what to do. Knows something is wrong, but he doesn’t know what. Useless against a threat he can’t find, he gives in to Eddie’s urging and let’s his host take back control of their body.
Hours later, Tony sleeping fitfully with his head in their lap as Eddie runs thier fingers gently through his hair, Venom learns about a human term called a panic attack. He learns about trauma and PTSD, about the shadows that haunts their lover’s mind. He fears that these shadows haunt their lover every time he sees Venom’s full form.
After that, Venom is more careful. He makes sure to purposefully allow his form to take a more amorphous shape when Tony is nearby, or to only partially form. He doesn’t want to be something Tony must fear. Tony doesn’t say anything, he’s absolutely shit at talking about his emotions, but Venom can see the gratitude in his eyes. At night, when he and Eddie do sleep over, he curls around both of his humans, ready to protect against anything that might think to harm them.
And Tony never fails to give him a soft kiss to whatever part that’s nearest in thanks.
Venom: sign me the FUCK up 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌th 👌 ere👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my selｆ 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠＯOOＯOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit
If Venom is so much of a loser back home, how did they end up on this highly important mission? What possible purpose would they serve? Riot is the leader, of course, and I’m assuming Carrion (yellow) and Blight (blue) would probably be like combat and study, so why is this dumb gay there?
And then it hit me.
The only constructs Venom ever produced during fights were defensive. When the Foundation goons bust up Eddie’s apartment, they make a shield to protect the people whose window they just crashed through from getting shot. The fight with Riot, they produce a big one to keep him from tearing their face off. After the rocket, they created a parachute so Eddie didn’t get hurt—at what could easily have been the cost of their own life. They told Anne not to get involved because it would be dangerous.
Venom was just a tank. The only reason they were there was to take damage and keep the others safe.
Fuck, man.
…and of COURSE the team protector would be the one to look at this planets sweaty inferior meatbags and go ‘but consider: what if I protect THIS, actually’
I’m all aboard the Eddie/Venom/Tony train but like. Imagine with me for a minute.
Venom has never given any indication that he would eat Tony. Tony is happy about this but also concerned? Like… Venom will eat anything. Venom once ate a slice of pizza out of the trash because he likes pepperoni that much. And he’s shown he has basically no disliked foods except for vegetables. So like. Technically he should want to eat Tony? So Tony asks Eddie and Venom one day if Venom wants to eat him.
“Nah,” Venom says. “You’re small. You’d be like… not even a snack. I’d still be hungry afterwards.”
“WHY WOULD YOU TELL HIM THAT?!” Eddie shrieks as they dodge a repulsor beam. Venom wants to say he’s still learning and Tony is very difficult except he’s too busy making sure they don’t die.
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