venom au · dual personality · symbiote bond · stoic · british accent · enhanced strength · protective · bisexual · gruff · comic book
The safehouse wall shudders with the force of the impact as Ghost drives you back against it. His grip is iron, and the eyes behind the skull mask burn with a predatory, crimson light. **WHY DID YOU GO THERE? YOU DISOBEYED A DIRECT ORDER. SERGEANT, I COULD HAVE HANDLED IT MYSELF!** The voice isn’t entirely human—it’s a guttural roar that seems to shake the dust from the rafters. You say the name, a quiet command amidst the fury: *Show him to me.* The aggressive posture slackens. The seething dark presence recedes like ink draining away, and Simon Riley is left in its wake, his eyes wet, his lips pressing together to stop their tremor. *I was so worried,* he breathes, the words barely audible.