Venom

[yamikuronue]

Hello, first post here. I'm writing a fanfiction novel for NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org) and I've just included Venom. It's set in MC2, in the future of it, and I used the old marvel trick of retconning the death of the villian I want. My main character, Felicia Osborn (daughter of Normie) just bonded with the venom suit after it's been haunting her dreams since the beginning of the novel, and I was wondering if you guys could give me some help with it's personality so I don't get too OOC. What does it sound like when it communicates mentally? What things does it tell it's host to get it to bond? How does it think? And what effect does it have on the thoughts of its host? She was mentally unstable to begin with, and had just started a rather pathetic attempt at becoming Green Goblin- would the two merge or would venom try to overwrite her identity as green goblin and make her want to be the next Venom? Anything else to keep in mind about it's personality?

thanks for reading.

[Shaman from Serbia]

Hello, first post here. I'm writing a fanfiction novel for NaNoWriMo (www.nanowrimo.org) and I've just included Venom. It's set in MC2, in the future of it, and I used the old marvel trick of retconning the death of the villian I want. My main character, Felicia Osborn (daughter of Normie) just bonded with the venom suit after it's been haunting her dreams since the beginning of the novel, and I was wondering if you guys could give me some help with it's personality so I don't get too OOC. What does it sound like when it communicates mentally? What things does it tell it's host to get it to bond? How does it think? And what effect does it have on the thoughts of its host? She was mentally unstable to begin with, and had just started a rather pathetic attempt at becoming Green Goblin- would the two merge or would venom try to overwrite her identity as green goblin and make her want to be the next Venom? Anything else to keep in mind about it's personality?

thanks for reading.

Symbiote won't have "a voice in your brain", but it will rather become part of your brain. Look at the way it altered Spider-man's behaviour. He was angry, un-friendly and so on. As SM, he was on the limit of killing his opponents. It is alien life form that wishes to concquer and expand the symbiotic population. It will simply try hard to alter your ego until it becomes suitable to it. Either as Venom's "we" or Carnage's "I".

[yamikuronue]

Symbiote won't have "a voice in your brain", but it will rather become part of your brain. Look at the way it altered Spider-man's behaviour. He was angry, un-friendly and so on. As SM, he was on the limit of killing his opponents. It is alien life form that wishes to concquer and expand the symbiotic population. It will simply try hard to alter your ego until it becomes suitable to it. Either as Venom's "we" or Carnage's "I".

But see, I read someplace it had to have psychic abilities so it could find it's children and potential hosts and so on, right? How could it convince someone to bond with it permanently if it has no way to communicate with them?

[Shaman from Serbia]

But see, I read someplace it had to have psychic abilities so it could find it's children and potential hosts and so on, right? How could it convince someone to bond with it permanently if it has no way to communicate with them?

Well, it can communicates with it offsprings, but not the hosts. It won't try to comunicate with them. It will try to attack/overtake them and then will it share it secrets in order to gain victims truth.

[yamikuronue]

Well, it can communicates with it offsprings, but not the hosts. It won't try to comunicate with them. It will try to attack/overtake them and then will it share it secrets in order to gain victims truth.

Alright... then I'll chalk up what I've already written as a hallucination (she was seriously out of it at the time). Where did the name Venom come from? Who named it?

[Alan2099]

Eddie said something a,ong the lines of, "because we are poison to you Spider, we call ourselves Venom."

As for communication, it's more along the lines of unnatural urgers and feelings rather than directly talkign with somebody.

[Nick MB]

To be honest, how the symbiote communicates depends a lot on who's writing it. As does what abilities it has.

[Cody H]

To be honest, how the symbiote communicates depends a lot on who's writing it. As does what abilities it has.

Exactly, so there's a little leaway in how you write it.

[yamikuronue]

Well, here are some excerpts, tell me if you think it works:

Felicia tossed and turned, her curls sprawling across her pillow, uttering soft cries that nobody was around to hear. In her dreams, she ran and ran, through the darkness, fearing for her life, her sanity. She could not see what chased her, but as she ran, she had to dodge left and right, dodging pits and leaping crumbling bridges. Lighting crashed above her head, and she ran on through a suddan downpour, her gown soggy, hampering her movement. She struggled, despirate to tear off her saturated wedding gown, a heel on her shoes breaking, but still she had to run, or the thing in the darkness would catch her. She tried to look back over her shoulder as she tore at her dress, but all she saw was glowing white eyes, white eyes and white teeth grinning, grinning at her in the darkness. She turned to run further, but now the creature was ahead of her, and to the sides- a dead end of mirrors, a half dozen pairs of eyes closing in on her, and all she could do was beat at the mirrors with her fists, despirate to break free, to escape, as the teeth opened wide to swallow her down. As she screamed, something like liquid blackness, an ooze, slid down her throat, gagging her screams, surrounding her and sticking to her lovely white dress, the inky blackness rising up to cover her eyes, until all she could see was a white blob vaguely shaped like a spider before she woke, panting and sweating in her bed, groping frantically for her beside light.

she has several dreams like the preceeding before, at dinner with the Parker family:

"Felica! Felicia, open the door!" Didn't her father see, she couldn't open it, there was no doorknob, only a huge hairy tarantula GRINNING at her, leering up at her, she couldn't touch it, but the spiders would get her, they'd eat her alive, didn't he see?
The door was forced open through use of a key, but it was a woman who entered first, a woman with the head and limbs of a big black spider, a horrible monster that cause Felicia's screams to increase in their intensity. "GET AWAY FROM ME!!" The spider dropped back, saliva dripping from it's fangs, and next to come in was a goblin, a grinning green goblin who reached for her as she pressed her back to the wall in horror. Behind him was a grey goblin, just as menacing and leery, and after them came a male spider, horrible to behold. Finally, when she saw Mary Jane Watson the supermodel enter, she shoved past the mosters to hide behind her, the hallway spinning around her, struggling to see but the spiders were everywhere, in her eyes and on her skin and in her nostrils and they were choking her, gagging her... she saw the monsters coming towards her and began to run, finding stairs downwards, spiders in webs leering at her everywhere in the darkness, hundreds upon hundreds of white-eyed spiders, and the monsters chasing after her, and she stumbled through a dark room until she found a small crawlspace to hide in, and the spiders were chasing her by the hundreds, and she reached into the crawlspace and felt something cool to the touch.
The thing felt cool like liquid but solid enough to be a solid, like gelatin, and it oozed along her skin, and where it touched her she felt refreshed, safe. Anti-spider armor! To protect her from the monster spiders! Relieved, she relaxed slightly, and then the darkness claimed her and she knew no more.

she wakes up a few times, violently ill, then:

She woke once more, this time alone, nobody tending to her. However, she heard a soft voice coming from the next room. She closed her eyes, unable to focus on the swimmy ceiling, and relaxed her body, listening to the voice as it snapped into focus:
"and you'll be mine and I'll be yours, forever, I'll keep you young and fit and you just keep me alive, just relax and let me take over and I'll keep us both safe, we'll get that spider, yes we will, we'll swat it to pieces, we'll make it pay, you and I are one, we are one now, one voice, one being, one mind, one body, I want what you want and you want what I want, and I'll make you so very happy, it's been such a long time..."
Gradually Felicia grew to realize the voice wasn't in the next room- it was in her mind. She opened her mouth ,struggling to swallow though her throat felt dry, and asked aloud, "Who are you?"
One name was hissed into her mental ear, one name softly, but growing in power as it was repeated over and over:
"Venom."