The number of times the symbiote corrects Eddie into thinking of them as a unit, a single, combined entity, shows so much about how they differ in their worldviews. Like Eddie so obviously really, really struggles with the concept, because on our planet there is me and there is you and we are all separate individuals with names and identities. But for the symbiote, not only is it normal, it’s so right and necessary and fundamental to its identity, that it actively goes out of its way to correct Eddie in the same way we would correct someone who used the wrong gender pronoun for us. Like even the concept of “I”, a unique, lone individual connected to nothing and no one–no hive, no host–it’s so strange and foreign, the symbiote doesn’t even like to say it.
And I know this creates a massive problem for fic writers!! I know that we kind of do need it to have a name and a singular pronoun like “he” or “it”. Because we’re just dumb humans and it’s the very best we can do.
I know that Cates is probably going to give it a name, which will definitely resolve a lot of issues when writing dialogue between the two (I mean for us, fanfic writers, not him) but the more I think about it, the more it feels like that would just be odd and strange to a symbiote. Like, what? I’m #24546, I’m completely unimportant, but let me talk about my hive and my brood and broodmates and my host-pairing because that’s what’s really important, the “us”.
So like obvs I’m going to keep using “I” when “we” won’t work, and I’m going to refer to the symbiote as Venom for clarity’s sake, because I’m a dumb human doing the best I can with a Klyntar’s worldview…but I think that, if it were real, the symbiote would be super offended to even read a narrative that separates it from Eddie. It would be as offensive as misgendering a trans person, something that really, really bothers it to the point it has to correct people.
This got me thinking, when the symbiote said “I love you”, does it felt the need to emphasis the symbiote part of them who loves their human part because it’s not “we love us/ourself” as a form of love toward a good symbiosis relationship where both parties are satisfied by the benefits, but a more distinct and personal form of love that’s usually not present between a symbiote and their host. But other then that particular occasion, the use of “I” would be seen by the symbiote (and most Klyntarians) as dismissing their existense (?) identity (?) as being half of an whole (?)
A Force Sensitive Phasesixer 