[ From where Venom stood, Angela wasn’t small at all. Maybe literally, sure, but after their connection? The formation of their bond? Her presence towered over his. Surrounded him as it still does, well after their tendriled exchange of knowledge. He stood back not only to give her space, as Eddie Brock wished it, but to give Venom room to breathe. To absorb, in his own pace, all that this new bond represents. For they are as much beholden to the cosmic implications they have shared as she is. ]
We try our best to be a good patient. Don’t we get a lollipop on the way out?
[ Spoken as Venom watches Angela clear the evidence, keeping the findings for herself (he does think they’re in better hands than they would be in Overwatch or Talon). Yet he is interrupted by Angela’s big “However.” He stands at attention, dwelling in something of a tunnel vision. For as long as he’s still accommodating Angela’s presence mentally, she is all he can see. All he can focus on. ]
Oh.
[ He stops to consider what it must mean to remain under her care. More time... in her proximity? More time subjected to her tests? Perhaps she’ll find a way to help him manage his weaknesses to fire and sonics. Not that he’s ever been taken out of a fight when, say, Lucio blasted him. As Venom continues inoculating his body to such weaknesses, they continue to pose a very annoying setback at times.
But more to the present matter. Venom’s monstrous visage offers the closest thing to a quizzical look that he can express. ]
That only makes sense, really. If you are ours, of course we are yours.
So study us all you like. Understand this body, if you can.
Learn from our physiology what you can pass on to the sick. We know you’ve got the mind for it.
And we’ll make sure no meddling organization distracts you. No Talon. No Overwatch.
For we are under your care, and you are under our protection.
[ Though she knows as well as he does that she’s not all who he protects. That when before and during his recruitment to Talon, he was saving people from other evildoers. Punishing the wicked wherever it festered. And he was ready to punish as much of Talon as was present in the skirmish if not for Juggernaut, whose strength was insurmountable. Whose blows were barely survivable, if Angela’s experience was any proof.
Now that they’ve bonded, she must understand that she’s a party to Venom’s crusade. She would have to purge the symbiote from her system to abjure, as Venom’s former enemy once did... if that’s what she even wants. ]
no subject
We try our best to be a good patient. Don’t we get a lollipop on the way out?
[ Spoken as Venom watches Angela clear the evidence, keeping the findings for herself (he does think they’re in better hands than they would be in Overwatch or Talon). Yet he is interrupted by Angela’s big “However.” He stands at attention, dwelling in something of a tunnel vision. For as long as he’s still accommodating Angela’s presence mentally, she is all he can see. All he can focus on. ]
Oh.
[ He stops to consider what it must mean to remain under her care. More time... in her proximity? More time subjected to her tests? Perhaps she’ll find a way to help him manage his weaknesses to fire and sonics. Not that he’s ever been taken out of a fight when, say, Lucio blasted him. As Venom continues inoculating his body to such weaknesses, they continue to pose a very annoying setback at times.
But more to the present matter. Venom’s monstrous visage offers the closest thing to a quizzical look that he can express. ]
That only makes sense, really. If you are ours, of course we are yours.
So study us all you like. Understand this body, if you can.
Learn from our physiology what you can pass on to the sick. We know you’ve got the mind for it.
And we’ll make sure no meddling organization distracts you. No Talon. No Overwatch.
For we are under your care, and you are under our protection.
[ Though she knows as well as he does that she’s not all who he protects. That when before and during his recruitment to Talon, he was saving people from other evildoers. Punishing the wicked wherever it festered. And he was ready to punish as much of Talon as was present in the skirmish if not for Juggernaut, whose strength was insurmountable. Whose blows were barely survivable, if Angela’s experience was any proof.
Now that they’ve bonded, she must understand that she’s a party to Venom’s crusade. She would have to purge the symbiote from her system to abjure, as Venom’s former enemy once did... if that’s what she even wants. ]