land-of-blitheness-and-catharsis:

i did it. i read all of venom’s original appearances in the amazing spider-man. it was unexpectedly fun. there’s something about these comics. well-balanced. well-paced. feels like a gentle brain massage. anyway.

i cannot overstate how whole-heartedly eddie throws himself into the alien-attached-at-the-brainstem thing. he’s just so down with every aspect of it. like, their union is in no way a mere means to a villainous end.

obviously step one was “we share a BEAUTIFUL HATRED! spider-man sent us both into a spiral of despair and TOGETHER we can take revenge!”

but by the time of their first attempted murder they are already irreversibly bonded and almost exclusively speak in the first person plural. eddie fully considers himself part of a new whole and comes up with “my other” to refer to the symbiote and basically never ever thinks of it as a power-up suit or any less of a sentient being than himself, unlike, say, infamous speciesist peter parker who only doesn’t kill it because killing it might kill eddie.

it’s also different for the other symbiosis we see, carnage, wherein cletus speaks alone and thinks of the symbiote as his sidekick. now, i mean, cletus is kind of a dick in general, but… y’know. 

that they’re just super into being one-in-two in general is never better exemplified than when they think they actually achieved their goal and just kind of retire on a deserted island. the symbiote turns into a goofy floral shirt and they have a great time even without their common purpose.

they just hang out. they’re just content. it’s incredible.

they seem so in sync all the time. i’m pretty sure it’s because the symbiote, whose whole deal is being heartbroken by spider-man’s rejection, was so over the moon by suddenly being so fully accepted that it just eagerly adapted to anything eddie deemed important. like, that wacky moral code of theirs? the notion of “innocence”? definitely not its own idea, but it picked it up and it’s vocal about believing in it now.

i don’t buy it as a corrupting influence at all, bottom line. eddie’s just Like That.