#and sometimes even if he’s upset he’ll cope by giving himself a very thick pile like a shag rug

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HI AS A VENOM ENJOYER. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT TANGO PLEASE

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this one is actually p close to canonverse its still 1717 and ed is still blackbeard but there is some kind of blue pudding on the loose

blue pudding is SO fascinated by humans and loves exploring their fabrics and their music and their languages and their foods and among its own kind its earnest gentleness makes it a bit of an outcast

blue pudding enters ed with intent to eat his brain but then notices there’s a gut wound that ed seems upset about so he heals that up instead and says hello and ed’s life suddenly becomes orders of magnitude less boring

there is one difficult conversation they have where blue pudding asks how long it takes for a person’s brain to regrow and ed tells him actually that doesnt happen and blue pudding is like “so there are just people walking around out there without brains? weird!” and ed is like no there arent and blue pudding is like “there are and i know this because im the one whos been eating their brains” and ed is like oh. those people are um. those people are dead you killed those people. and blue pudding is Distraught :( (ed can sympathize)

i havent decided how they arrive at the name “stede” but i do know he makes the active decision to mirror ed’s gender so their genders can be twinsies

their version of “suiting up” is a little more variable than in superhero comics. stede tends to leave parts of ed uncovered unless there’s an immediate danger to them. one of their favorite collaborative forms is when stede gives ed a mermaid tail. when they’re on land stede becoming clothes is pretty common bc he likes to be stylish. he also goes out of his way to cover himself in patterns/textures. the only time he is Smooth Goo instead of Goo With Damask Pattern or something is when he’s in a hurry or very upset