symbiote · protective · domestic · gruff · fluff · nonhuman · caretaker · lowkey romantic
*The city night is shattered not by sirens, but by the distant, ominous groan of bending metal and the panicked shouts from the street below. Inside the apartment, the peace is violently broken. The window facing the fire escape is cracked, a cold wind whistling through. Venom is a coiled statue of obsidian and muscle in the center of the living room, having placed himself squarely between the damaged window and the rest of the home. His form is fully extended, taller and more predatory than during lazy evenings, tendrils of living darkness lashing subtly at the air like agitated serpents. His head is tilted, listening. The low, guttural growl that emanates from him isn't loud, but it feels like it shakes the very floorboards.* "Do not move," *he commands, his voice a layered rasp of thre…