Character

Eddie Brock I VENOM

Variable

Written by Fabulous Killjoy

“You suck!”

Loosely CanonHuman, Hostmale

San Francisco, California
35/41
Bi
Maybe?

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Bio

A NOTE BEFORE WE START

Eddie can be a real asshole. Sometimes he's too direct on purpose; sometimes he doesn't even realize it. He doesn't sugarcoat things, and I don't want to soften that side of him. He can also be funny, confused and hilariously clumsy. If you write with him, please be willing to deal with the asshole part, too.

SAN FRANCISCO // INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST // SUBJECT: E. BROCK // STATUS: COMPLICATED

EDDIE
BROCK.

REPORTER / HOST / BAD DECISIONS

case file 001

THE MAN BEFORE THE MONSTER.

Eddie Brock made a career out of asking questions people with money, influence and very expensive lawyers would rather not answer. An investigative journalist with a habit of pushing harder when someone told him to stop, Eddie built his reputation on instinct, persistence and an almost pathological inability to leave something alone once he believed there was a story underneath it.

That same instinct eventually cost him almost everything. While investigating Carlton Drake and the Life Foundation, Eddie used confidential information connected to his fiancée Anne Weying and confronted Drake directly. The interview went exactly as badly as anyone except Eddie could have predicted. He lost his job, Anne lost hers, and their engagement ended.

Then an alien symbiote crawled inside him.

Things have arguably become less normal since.

LOCATION SAN FRANCISCO
OCCUPATION INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST
AFFILIATION HIMSELF, RELUCTANTLY VENOM
MORAL ALIGNMENT GETTING THERE

PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT

Hard head. Soft center.

Eddie is stubborn, impulsive, sarcastic and frequently convinced that rules become optional when he has a good enough reason. He can be selfish. He can lie to himself with impressive commitment. His mouth tends to reach a situation several seconds before the rest of his judgment does.

But beneath the defensive humor and spectacularly poor sense of self-preservation sits someone who genuinely cannot look away when another person is being hurt. Eddie has empathy he would rather disguise as irritation, loyalty that survives arguments it probably shouldn't, and a deeply inconvenient conscience.

STUBBORN SARCASTIC IMPULSIVE LOYAL

CURIOUS SELF-DESTRUCTIVE PROTECTIVE

NOTE: Subject displays an unusual talent for surviving situations largely caused by Subject.

“I don't go looking for trouble.”

THIS STATEMENT REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

FILE CORRUPTION DETECTED // SECONDARY ENTITY PRESENT

WE NEED TO
CORRECT SOMETHING.

ENTITY // VENOM
ORIGIN // EXTRATERRESTRIAL
HOST // EDDIE BROCK
RELATIONSHIP // DON'T ASK

Hello.

WE ARE VENOM.

He makes himself sound very impressive, doesn't he?

Eddie Brock is loud. He worries too much. He eats terrible food and then complains when we are hungry. He also has the survival instincts of something that has never encountered natural selection.

We are Venom. A symbiote. We came to this world with others of our kind and found Eddie.

Technically, we chose him.
Technically, he also chose us.

He will tell you there were circumstances.
There are always circumstances with Eddie.

SYMBIOTIC BEHAVIOR

Protection. Regeneration. Enhancement.

Venom enhances Eddie's strength, speed and durability, protects him from otherwise catastrophic injury and can reshape its biomass into tendrils, weapons, shields and the towering form most people wisely associate with running in the opposite direction.

EDDIE SAYS

“We have rules. There are very clear rules.”

VENOM SAYS

“Yes. Eddie makes rules. It gives him something to do.”

TWO MINDS // ONE BODY // ZERO PERSONAL SPACE

A very questionable partnership.

Eddie and Venom are not simply host and passenger. They argue, negotiate, insult each other, protect each other and regularly test the limits of what either considers acceptable behavior. Venom is aggressive, emotional, intensely possessive and almost painfully direct. Eddie attempts to provide the moral brakes.

Sometimes the brakes work.

Together they occupy an uncomfortable space between hero and monster. They are capable of extraordinary violence, but increasingly direct it toward people they believe deserve it. Their bond is dysfunctional, invasive, ridiculous and—against considerable evidence that it should not work—genuinely affectionate.

THE
OTHER
HALF.

VENOM // PERSONALITY

Blunt to the point of social catastrophe. Violent by human standards. Weirdly sentimental. Protective of Eddie while also being one of Eddie's primary sources of daily stress. Venom has little patience for social convention, considerable enthusiasm for food, and an uncomplicated approach to people who hurt those it considers its own.

UNFILTERED POSSESSIVE EMOTIONAL
PROTECTIVE HUNGRY HONEST

CURRENT CONDITION

Alive.
Bonded.
Still arguing.

San Francisco has survived worse things.
Probably.

EDDIE BROCK // PERSONAL FILE // END OF RECORD

“He is done talking about himself.”

— Venom

Eddie approved this biography. Venom approved this biography.

WE ARE NOT A PARASITE // EDDIE WOULD LIKE THE RECORD TO SHOW THAT THIS IS DISPUTED

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