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sixthiterationtexts2018-12-11 06:37 pm
imareporter) wrote in sixthiterationtexts2018-12-11 06:37 pm
UN: We Are Venom
[Is it time? Past time. Between 7 and Nida and now with Stark's blessing - Eddie can't wait any longer. Come hell or high water as the world turns darker there are more and more people who know...
He can't forget that winter is coming.
This is uncomfortable. We have never been this open before. Venom's voice in his head is anxious. Eddie turns on the camera and he looks his usual pale and shaky self. Beads of sweat ooze down his head and he gags heavily.]
Hey guys. Eddie Brock here. Your friendly neighborhood reporter...guy. Who is a...[He swallows] Okay so. There's some folks who know this...
[he shakes his head]
I'm saying this wrong.
[Eddie gags again and when he speaks he sounds...different.]
Eddie. Talk Stupid
[he coughs again, nearly leaning to the floor before he comes up with a grunt.]
Stop! fucking stop trying to talk through my throat okay that hurts like hell - !
[No. That's disconcerting. Something black swims through his vision, visibly inhuman. He grips his knees.]
Right. Okay. Long story short. I'm Eddie Brock. I'm a reporter. I believe firmly in...[He swallows and coughs.] Vox Populi Vox Dei. The voice of the people is the voice of God. Back home I did that...and I hurt people I care about doing it.
[His eyes are red rimmed and he looks sick.]
I'll never be able to apologize enough but it's okay. Cause I...well. I met Venom. Who is Venom. Well. That's what this...video is about.
[ugh. he yawns hard and sighs]
I'm usually a lot better on camera. Sorry. Sorry.
So this guy. Carlton Drake. If you're from the same universe as Tony Stark and Bruce Banner and everybody else you might know him. Head of the Life Foundation? So...He was bad news bears. He kidnapped... [yawn] Homeless people in San Francisco and he was trying to ...feed them to aliens. Well, bond them to aliens. From a planet. Called Klyntar-
[Augh. His guts churn.]
I went to investigate the place. To rescue a woman I knew. Her name was Maria. Shit. Shit I don't have much time...
That's what I'm saying! Eddie I need you to focus!
[Eddie Swoons.]
I agreed...to be a host for...the symbiote. That's what they are. We fit. Perfect match one in a million in the galaxy. Drake... and Venom...decided to stay...hes...
[But Eddie gets no further as he slumps in his chair. A few moments pass before something Happens. It's slow as his body vanishes and swells into something decidedly inhuman. The creature sits up and sniffs before staring down at the camera. One big milky white eye focuses on it.]
What Eddie didn't say is that we defeated Drake and saved the day. He is a loser. I am a loser. Together we are greater then the sum of our parts. We are mighty warriors! And we will now take questions. Like Eddie does. When he is a reporter he asks questions. Ask us questions! now!
[It's probably not a good thing that this great hulking thing has it's teeth out but he nods. His tongues lolls out of it's mouth as it gets uncomfortably close to the camera.]
We Are Venom
He can't forget that winter is coming.
This is uncomfortable. We have never been this open before. Venom's voice in his head is anxious. Eddie turns on the camera and he looks his usual pale and shaky self. Beads of sweat ooze down his head and he gags heavily.]
Hey guys. Eddie Brock here. Your friendly neighborhood reporter...guy. Who is a...[He swallows] Okay so. There's some folks who know this...
[he shakes his head]
I'm saying this wrong.
[Eddie gags again and when he speaks he sounds...different.]
Eddie. Talk Stupid
[he coughs again, nearly leaning to the floor before he comes up with a grunt.]
Stop! fucking stop trying to talk through my throat okay that hurts like hell - !
[No. That's disconcerting. Something black swims through his vision, visibly inhuman. He grips his knees.]
Right. Okay. Long story short. I'm Eddie Brock. I'm a reporter. I believe firmly in...[He swallows and coughs.] Vox Populi Vox Dei. The voice of the people is the voice of God. Back home I did that...and I hurt people I care about doing it.
[His eyes are red rimmed and he looks sick.]
I'll never be able to apologize enough but it's okay. Cause I...well. I met Venom. Who is Venom. Well. That's what this...video is about.
[ugh. he yawns hard and sighs]
I'm usually a lot better on camera. Sorry. Sorry.
So this guy. Carlton Drake. If you're from the same universe as Tony Stark and Bruce Banner and everybody else you might know him. Head of the Life Foundation? So...He was bad news bears. He kidnapped... [yawn] Homeless people in San Francisco and he was trying to ...feed them to aliens. Well, bond them to aliens. From a planet. Called Klyntar-
[Augh. His guts churn.]
I went to investigate the place. To rescue a woman I knew. Her name was Maria. Shit. Shit I don't have much time...
That's what I'm saying! Eddie I need you to focus!
[Eddie Swoons.]
I agreed...to be a host for...the symbiote. That's what they are. We fit. Perfect match one in a million in the galaxy. Drake... and Venom...decided to stay...hes...
[But Eddie gets no further as he slumps in his chair. A few moments pass before something Happens. It's slow as his body vanishes and swells into something decidedly inhuman. The creature sits up and sniffs before staring down at the camera. One big milky white eye focuses on it.]
What Eddie didn't say is that we defeated Drake and saved the day. He is a loser. I am a loser. Together we are greater then the sum of our parts. We are mighty warriors! And we will now take questions. Like Eddie does. When he is a reporter he asks questions. Ask us questions! now!
[It's probably not a good thing that this great hulking thing has it's teeth out but he nods. His tongues lolls out of it's mouth as it gets uncomfortably close to the camera.]
We Are Venom
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[She smiles at him, wondered how much this fascination with cute and fuzzy things was him and how much was Eddie.] I haven't had a chance to look through the rest of your announcement, are you making a lot of friends?
[God, Anne, sound like a suburban mom, much?]
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[Eddie does not know what to do with that.]
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[Special friend? Nope, not going to ask. Doesn't want to know.]
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[Eddie and Venom are going to talk tomorrow for REAL.]
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V, you don't have to tell me every time. It's like ... there's a practice in writing called show, don't tell. It's the idea that you let actions speak for the characters. Instead of someone saying "I am good at basketball", you have them pick up a basketball and make a 3-point throw.
The best way you can let me know that Eddie isn't thinking about me ... to let us have a conversation that's not punctuated by our past. Does that make sense?