OPEN + CLOSED | Causing Problems in May

[frenchkissed]

Who: Eddie and Venom frenchkkissed + You !
What: Meeting, greeting, eating... the usual.
When: All throughout May
Where: Central City + Little Love
Content Warnings: Monster body horror

👅 I. I have a heart ( I swear, I do )

There's no discernible rhyme or reason for it. No clear-cut explanation. It's just that anyone who looks even remotely uncanny, or maybe not even that much, might get a man jogging up to them, black, inky tentacles whipping wildly from his back, with a half-finished smoothie in his hand and the other half coating the front of his hoodie.

"Hey! Hey, you got a minute?"

You know, maybe you're better off not engaging with this one.

👅 II. But just not, baby, when it comes to you

Screams of terror are heard in the dead of night as some guy is being dangled upside-down above the eager, wide-stretched mouth of a tar monster. Venom's tongue drags along the face of the poor man scrambling to break free, leaving him wet and dripping with drool — which only has him screaming more frantically.

So... heroing is going about as expected.

"JAYWALKING?! THE CROSSWALK IS RIGHT THERE.
THIS IS THE LAZIEST OF CRIMES.
YOU... ARE LAZY. A LAZY, LAZY BAD MAN."

"I'm lazy! I'm sorry, I'm lazy! So, so, so, so lazy! Let me go and I'll never jaywalk again!"

"HMNNN....
BUT YOU ARE A BAD GUY.
BAD GUYS CAN BE EATEN!"

Venom's jaw opens wider, and beneath the sounds of mounting horror, Eddie can be heard from within.

"We said we'd let you out more if — IF — you wouldn't go sicko mode on randoms, man. This right here? Totally fucking sicko mode."

"BUT EDDIE, HE IS EVIL."

Before the ensuing debate on morality and good and evil in the eyes of the law can begin, it seems as if the jaywalker is slipping from Venom's grasp, steadily falling out of the shoe Venom is holding him up by. Any attempts at making this known via, you know, screaming is lost in the conversation. Words like deontology and unitarianism and evil are being thrown around between Eddie and Venom, and it seems like the victim/bad guy is being sidelined.

A better hero might need to intervene, here.

Comments

[robintohood]

Jason nods.

"Yeah, I'm on there. Funny you should ask about that. I wouldn't mind having another chat with you. Ideally without you eating the wrong people."

Maybe even work with him (and Venom?) if Jason could trust him to keep his appetite under control.

[frenchkissed]

"Yeah... Yeah, cool. Whenever we find the right people, just know that we've got dibs on their brains. You can have the rest of them."

Naturally, Eddie is curious about this Red Hood guy. What's his angle? What's his motive? What was life in his homeworld like? But that's a lot for a midnight encounter, so he makes a mental note to shoot him a message a few days from now to ask for a real story.

[robintohood]

"Of course. Besides, it'd make body disposal easier if we ever work together."

Again, there's a tone that makes it hard to tell if he's kidding. Jason isn't sure how much he can trust Eddie but so far, he's not against the idea either.