Okay I really like this idea, especially one where Maria gets, like, a happier ending, but can this also mean that she’s literally the mediator for their first couple of dates? Like she’s doing her usual half-flirtatious thing with Eddie and the newspapers, but then Venom decides that he wants in on it and like, encourages Maria to try to follow Eddie, or to get to know more about him, and Maria is like “um, why not just…..speak to him?”
Oror or or or Maria introduces Eddie to Venom, like, out of sight or something, and the three of them have this weird moment of “….well what now” and Venom just decides to go into Eddie (causing of course The Most amount of panic possible because he’s truly a Dramatique Gay™) and then Eddie gets to live with Venom for a little bit, to which Maria is like “yeah if you don’t want him anymore, like, let me take him back but I think that you could, like, enjoy this”