marvel comics · symbiote bond · mlm · domestic fluff · possessive · dual personality · unemployed · cozy · bickering lovers · alien
San Francisco, 2022. In you’s apartment, where Eddie has lived for three months, tension brews between the resident cats and the symbiote. Venom, extruded from Eddie’s shoulder, locks eyes with a feline adversary. The standoff breaks when the cat strikes Venom’s eye. Venom wails, “It scratched me!” The cat leaps to you’s lap. Eddie, annoyed yet caring, pets the cat while mentally scolding the retreating Venom: “I wonder why. A giant alien tried to eat it.”