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VENOM: LET THERE BE CARNAGE (2021)

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Leila peers up at Venom, flashing pure black eyes at him as she stamps her foot. "Stop being a butthead or I'll set an eldritch on you and eat all the candy." / @iomadachd

VENOM IS ONLY PARTLY MANIFESTED — and yes, they have been hogging all the chocolate, thanks. And at that — they blink, broadly, and rear back, offended. " BUTTHEAD? WE ARE NOT— "

" Okay, okay, jesus, nope, nope — " Eddie, stressed, grasps on to the symbiote's — neck-face-tendril — and hauls back, which of course is fruitless, as they just sort've liquid around him to get right back in her face.

" WE WILL SHOW YOU BUTTHEA— " And so Eddie grabs their fuckin' tongue, and they garble in a little snarling fit as he wrangles them back into a manageable ball of angry alien. " Yeah, uh, jesus, wow. So sorry. Uh. Here, you can — have the res— stop fucking biting me! "

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𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐄 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐏𝐓 𝟏

content warnings: alcohol, drinking, killing, death, murder. feel free to change prompts as necessary!

❝i feel like it’s my responsibility to stop them.❞

❝i ask people if i can trust them, they say yes, and then they trick me! or they use me to do bad things.❞

❝this seems like a very large task for one person.❞

❝i almost died today, motherfuckers. i almost died.❞

❝well, only one place to go and that’s down.❞

❝stay put. don’t move.❞

❝hi! want some booze?❞

❝you seem to have such an affinity for cute things.❞

❝anyone else feel like going for a swim?❞

❝as long as you don’t mind dying, sure.❞

❝we are the worst people.❞

❝i respect you and your intentions, but your caution does not get to control other people’s destinies.❞

❝there’s only so many burdens we can bear before we’re just asking for failure.❞

❝you did check for traps, right?❞

❝no! i’m opening it. fuck off grandpa!❞

❝maybe you’re cursed.❞

❝how did you survive?❞

❝we solved the mystery.❞

❝light the damn sticks of dynamite, just do it!❞

❝i don’t know what i’m doing. just go with it.❞

❝should i burn it?❞

❝you faded away there for a second. are you good?❞

❝let's focus on the good things in our lives.❞

❝is there anything of use or value here at all?❞

❝things are looking up.❞

❝earlier you said i could talk to you whenever i want. and i thank you for that.❞

❝that’s a good name. names are important.❞

❝i’ll take out everyone!❞

❝wake up, there’s an ambush!❞

❝are you bullshitting me?❞

❝we’re doing what we need to survive.❞

❝if you’re going to do bad things, at least work for someone who’s rich and doing bad things! don’t just steal from people on the road, that’s stupid!❞

❝only steal from grumpy people!❞

❝i was trying to be jovial, i’m sorry. i shouldn’t have tried that.❞

❝there’s nothing better than waking up in the morning with no pants and flowers in your hair.❞

❝i’ve never been here, but i’ve heard stories.❞

❝where do the best parties happen?❞

❝laughter and music? i don’t trust laughter and music.❞

❝have you ever been dancing before?❞

❝is this your first time here?❞

❝sorry to interrupt your incessant flirting. can i please have a damn drink?❞

❝if you drink enough you won’t remember either way.❞

❝was it someone special?❞

❝i’ve never thought of you as an optimistic person, but that’s a very positive way of looking at things.❞

❝you are not going to pass out on the street.❞

❝what’s the thing you’re most proud of?❞

❝am i allowed to rob him?❞

❝you look like you’ve got an honest face.❞

❝it’s fine. you’re not in any danger.❞

❝hi, i’m here to take care of your spinny death problem.❞

❝i don’t think they’re going to let me in.❞

❝i’m quite sure. did i stutter?❞

❝can’t we just please go kill your damn death robot?❞

❝i can speak when i have to.❞

❝is that your blood or is that mine?❞

❝the only thing that’s magical here is you.❞

❝sometimes the people who help you are the least expected.❞

❝my entire life has been plans being made for me.❞

❝i don’t think you and i have the same plan, but they might overlap. i will be willing to help you.❞

❝let’s make a pact that if either one of us does something stupid, we’re each other’s failsafes.❞

❝i don’t think i want to hurt anymore people and i don’t think you want to either.❞

❝i think i can help you. i think you can help me. i think we can do some good here.❞

❝if i left, i would find my way back to you.❞

❝i do better with you around.❞

❝for all the visions, the darkness out there, it’s good to know that somehow we’re all putting a little bit of light out there too.❞

❝i have a question. does anyone have booze?❞

❝i’m trying this thing where i’m trying to be more polite.❞

❝i am the greatest detective of all time! i took one drink and solved the case!❞

❝you’re going to be a fucking piece of work.❞

❝i’m more than happy to kill something at this point. i have some aggression to work out.❞

❝do we want to stay in the haunted house?❞

❝that’s the most fucked up shit i’ve ever seen.❞

❝truly nothing escapes your astute observation.❞

❝i thought we were getting to know each other.❞

❝did you have a happy home life growing up?❞

❝i’ll help you try to get revenge on your vague past.❞

❝how about you tell me one fact about you and i tell you one about me?❞

❝what’s the best lie you’ve ever told?❞

❝you are a good friend to have and a terrible enemy to make.❞

❝i didn’t know! i’m sorry. i’m sorry. i didn’t know.❞

❝i’m not walking away from this.❞

❝it’s funny how the good people can make us assholes feel so small.❞

❝i think you’re supposed to say some stuff about how good they were and how many people loved them, and what a wonderful life they had, but i don’t think any of that is true.❞

❝i thought you were talking to yourself again.❞

❝are you willing to kill?❞

❝i have lost people before. i have found ways to find them in nature.❞

❝this is my first time trying to be more than i am.❞

❝you and i, we’re going to survive this.❞

❝i don’t have any family; you’re the closest thing i have.❞

❝you may be kind of weird but you’re also nice.❞

❝i am nauseous. let’s go kill a bunch of people.❞

❝i would like to hug you.❞

❝usually when people come here, it is because of some great tragedy. how can i alleviate your pain?❞

❝i’m gonna take a guess: you don’t leave here very much do you?❞

❝violence is extremely natural.❞

❝i’m canonically a coward!❞

❝oh this is going wonderful.❞

❝you don’t need to do this if you don’t want to.❞

❝brave. dead. it’s semantics, really.❞

❝they. are. going. to. die.❞

❝it’s not your fault.❞

❝this won’t happen again.❞

❝i would have laid down my life for you.❞

❝i’m sorry i wasn’t faster.❞

❝it looks better on you.❞

❝you can cook?❞

❝leave me alone. i’m reading.❞

❝i would feel a little safer if i knew a little bit more about you.❞

❝i’ll find you when i’m ready.❞

❝most people in my life leave.❞

❝there is always a cost.❞

❝i made the earth remember him.❞

❝congratulations on being alive.❞

❝you cannot blame yourself when you are taken advantage of.❞

❝i have people i want to find and things i want to remedy.❞

❝i feel like you should embrace the morbidity of life.❞

❝afraid? i’m not afraid of anything!❞

❝did you see what i did?❞

❝why didn’t you come?❞

❝you promise you won’t leave?❞

❝i don’t think i’ve ever come across magic like that.❞

❝things that are unknown are notably able to draw dangerous and inquiring eyes and minds.❞

❝just so you know, i think i can punch ghosts now.❞

❝i just know if i saw a ghost, i would want to punch it. ghosts are scary.❞

❝it’s easier to steal things when you can pay for them with money.❞

❝this is not where i am supposed to be.❞

❝i have no specific destination in mind.❞

❝i’ll go where you go.❞

❝what do you want to know?❞

❝well i can’t go home.❞

❝we stick together.❞

❝we have things we need to do and we don’t have forever to do them.❞

❝you know what i’ve done.❞

❝sometimes you have to take a big risk if it’s that important.❞

❝you can’t just sneak up on a person!❞

❝sorry, just figured you’d want some company.❞

❝i've always loved the water.❞

❝feels good to be back, yeah?❞

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Throws a mug at venom. She is scared of black goo.

the mug makes sort of an unsatisfying thuk and falls harmlessly to the ground; baffled, they pick it up with a claw and just blink, owlish. and now their feelings are hurt. SEE WHAT YOU DID.

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THE GRIN OPENS, and a long crimson tongue uncoils; narrow and prehensile, it curls at the end as though somehow accenting the grin. " MM, YES. WE ARE WHAT YOUR KIND CALLS ALIEN. " And slip from the wall, head-first like a cat — though they are enormous, the inky biomass that coats their form rippling and shimmering like liquid. They are pure black with no other markings aside from the sweeping milky-white of their eyes, which swirl faintly with no hint of pupil. They lean close, a handspan away — enough to be able to smell the earthy, almost muddy smell of them.

A hand raises, clawed fingers reaching for the red of Peter's suit — it's curious, but — [ No, no touchy, jesus christ. You're creepin' him out, buddy, we're supposed to be — ] — the hand withdraws with a snap. " — HELPING, " they finish — Peter, of course, only gets the alien part of that conversation. They grin, wider, the tongue withdrawing. " WE ARE VENOM. AND YOU — " And the broad white eyes constrict, mouth closes over the needle-teeth just a little more, " ARE SPIDERMAN. WE HAVE SEEN YOU. ON THE NEWS. " A beat, some indecision. " AND WE PROMISE WE WILL NOT EAT YOU. " [ — dude! — ] " WHAT? WE WON'T. " [ — you don't tell people that! ] " YOU SAID WE NEED TO BE HONEST, EDDIE! " [ that's not fuckin' — okay, y'know what, fine, do your thing. You do you. ]

Being a TOTAL fan of horror movies did not prepare him for this moment. In fact, it took everything in him to not immediately go into overdrive and start webbing the---- entity? Thing? What was he? Wait.

"YOOO, what are you, are you an alien? Because that's definitely not a costume. Or if it is, we really need to talk design. Hold on, wait wait wait, were you-- are you offering to help me? Don't take this the wrong way, but uh, your entrance was super creepy and does not give off the vibe that you wanna help. But if that's what you were goin' for, hey, you did great!"

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SCARCELY MORE THAN SHADOW — an inky black SHIFT in shadow, a baring of rows of needle-teeth and narrowing milky-white eyes. " SOUNDS LIKE, " and the grin WIDENS, drool dripping in long strings, " YOU NEED THE ASSISTANCE — " [ — jesus fuck, man, can you not just get to it — ] " STOP RUINING IT. " And they huff. " — A LETHAL PROTECTOR. " [ — oh, god, we're going to get sent to a mental institution — ]

open || to anyone

"Couldn't stop 'em, and it feels like I've just ran a marathon. Great work, me. Great work."

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" — WE FOUND YOU !! "

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FORTUNATELY, EDDIE'S PATIENT; it takes him a minute to wind up, but it also takes a lot more than a break to wind him down. And — while the request to wait was indeed met with some amount of bewildered consternation, because we need to talk is rarely a good thing — at least he doesn't kick him out of the bed, so there's that.

" Ow, " he protests, though it's mostly just to protest, because it didn't actually hurt; he rubs his shoulder reflexively, and then looks down at himself and decides that if he's going to be undignified, he's going to actually do it naked, because he feels vaguely ridiculous. And then, he blinks as the actual question comes. " I mean, " he says, stripping off the hoodie and — kind of getting stuck in it and floundering before yanking it off. " Jesus, " he huffs, and then blinks again. " Yeah. But, like — " And he gestures to them both, helplessly, and he laughs. " Right now? "

But — Steve also looks painfully nervous, and he grimaces and sits up a little. " Do you have any, uh, doctors you know who will do the whole no questions asked thing? Because I can't exactly go to the local walk-in. " He taps his temple, pointedly. " My blood. It's got — stuff that ain't just me, you know. "

@symbiiotic ;; now you see me 2 prompts (still accepting) Eddie said: "If you’re nervous, it can be really helpful to picture each other naked."

                               STEVE DOESN'T THINK HE NEEDS TO POINT THIS OUT, AND YET HE DOES: "We are almost naked." With lots of gesturing at Eddie, who is, indeed, only wearing a baggy hoodie right now, and at himself: Steve is clad in one sock and underwear and otherwise naked. They're on the bed, red-faced and obviously turned on, and a minute ago, Steve interrupted their horny groping by declaring they needed to talk and promptly turning into a nervous mess after. At least their state of undress looks hilarious, now that Steve squints at them both, and it calms him down a little.

                               "I just wanted to ask," he starts again, squirming a little. This is idiotic, he should just get it off his chest. Not before punching Eddie's shoulder, though, because that asshole looks like he expects some dirty fantasy or something. "I wanted to ask if you maybe want to get tested. With me. Because I really wanna suck your dick without a condom." And then he promptly turns red all the way down to his chest.

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NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE KING OF HELL, DARLING.

ind. & prv. CROWLEY from the CW's supernatural. reigned over by rowan.

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Steve, what's your favorite thing about Eddie? What's your favorite thing about Venom?

random questions (always accepting) || @symbiiotic bc it's about Eddie & V

                                   "WHAT DO YOU MEAN: I HAVE TO PICK ONLY ONE THING? No can do. I like a lot about Eddie. That he talks just as much shit as I do, for example. That he takes everything I say with a pinch of salt and makes fun of me. That he sees me, not Cap. That he wants to change things and expose bad stuff, no matter how powerful the people he's affecting with his articles are. And on a more shallow note, I really like his tattoos and his beautiful bike. And the way he smiles at me. And his one billion rings and bracelets he constantly fiddles with. Oh, his cute little squint when he needs to get out of bed, but his brain is not yet awake.

                              Okay, okay, Venom. They're funny. Probably not always intentionally, but they kinda are, it's true. Their weird chocolate obsession is adorable, somehow. Also, they're kinda my adrenaline junkie buddy? I can count on them to be up for all the stuff that gets your blood pumping. And I love that they're wildly protective of Eddie because I'm very protective of him, too."

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THE SLAPPING IS APPRECIATED, REALLY, even as he is desperately wheezing his way through trying to get air instead of water back into his lungs. " Fuck, " he utters, strained, and Venom is just inside his skull being profoundly unimpressed. [ HOW YOU HUMANS SURVIVED ON THIS PLANET LONG ENOUGH TO BECOME THE DOMINANT SPECIES IS AMAZING, ] they droll. [ IS IT NORMAL TO NEARLY DROWN IN YOUR KITCHEN? ]

" Fuck you, " Eddie grouses, and then is quick to stutter to amend to Steve, " Not — not you, they're bein' a pain in the ass. " [ AT LEAST WE CAN CONSUME BEVERAGES AND NOT DIE. ] " — dick. "

He straightens, and he just waves his hands, expansively. " No, no, it was just, y'know, took me by surprise. I mean, poor timing — " Jesus, why does he feel like he's halfway to panic? He breathes deep, and that settles him somewhat. " I mean — are you sure? 'cause, like — you got a nice place, 'n we, just. " His shoulders sag a little. " — ain't always the easiest roommates, you know. "

@symbiiotic ;; shit my friends say (still accepting) Eddie said: “Has anyone ever injured themselves drinking water? Just asking. No reason.” / eddie, as he nearly dies on a drink of water

                            STEVE IS A NICE GUY AND SLAPS EDDIE'S BACK A COUPLE OF TIMES because that's what you do when someone is choking on something, right? And since Eddie can still joke about it, he figures the Heimlich maneuver would be a little too much. "I'm pretty sure you'd get a Darwin Award for that," he muses, pushing the glass of water an inch or two down the table so Eddie won't take a sip too soon again. "Also, this reaction is a bit over the top, don't you think? I was just asking if you ever entertained the idea of maybe moving in at some point in the future. I didn't, like, propose or something. I'd ask V's permission for that, anyway, because I'm a gentleman and old-fashioned, and that's how it's done," Steve adds with a grin.

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bc @espercr just reminded me of the whole "would u love me if i was a worm" thing

eddie: i already love a worm so yeah i guess v, elated: WE KNEW YOU LOVED US v: v, suspicious: wait

eddie, later, having a hard time sitting, sourly updating his 'it's been ___ days since my alien bit me on the ass' sign with a zero

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I MADE KIDDO A MIMIC

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Steve doesn't say anything; he just walks right into Eddie's personal space and then makes his pectoral muscles twitch so his boyfriend will definitely look at the amazing brand-new shirt Steve got for Saint Patrick's Day.

IT'S NOT LIKE EDDIE EVER WOULD PROTEST STEVE GETTING UP IN HIS SPACE. He likes Steve in his space, and likes being around him, and so when Steve shows up right there, he's not complaining.

But Steve's clearly wanting something, and so he glances up and huffs a little laugh. " Fuck, " he says, and then grins, pushing back from his computer and sliding a hand right up Steve's chest and squeezing. " You ain't gotta offer it twice. I'll rub you all day long, baby. Everywhere. Ain't even gotta be for luck, I'll do it just for fun. "

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If Steve asks, would you marry him?

" ABSOLUTELY, AND WE WILL PICK THE BEST DRESSmrrghngl — "

Eddie, after unceremoniously stuffing Venom under a blanket: " Yeah, uh, how about let's not mess up good things while we got 'em. "

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“The best love language is being irritating. I will annoy you because I love you.” @shieldretired

" FUCK, " Eddie mutters, eloquently, rolling over in bed with the sort of grace that might rival that of a newborn hippopotamus. " 'm up, 'm up. "

This would, of course, be around the third time he's promised he'd get up, only to pass right back out again the second Steve left him alone for half a minute, and so he really probably shouldn't be that surprised when he ups the game. " This ain't right, " he mutters, even as Steve soothes over the the injustice with a kiss. " Fuck. Mornings shouldn't exist. Shit. At least tell me you got caffeine. "

Despite the muttering, despite the resistance, he's damn near hopeless once Steve starts in like this, and he sort've just melts into the attention. " R'mind me why we're getting up at this un-fucking-holy time again? "