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oflgtfol · 3 years ago

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man i get that i set myself up for disappointment by like crafting my idea of eddie's backstory in my head prior to actually reading it in the comics but like. god. i hate that the comics set him up to be a weirdo from day 1

i find it so much more compelling to have him be a completely straightlaced normal guy with a promising career in journalism ahead of him, who makes one mistake and finds himself unable to cope with it and so he just Snaps overnight

as opposed to the. like. chronic liar and opportunist weirdo that dark origin 2008 made him out to be.

#not to get hashtag personal here but like. him beign suicidal and his . suicidality? is that a word #his suicidality being like integral to his origin as ven0m . is honestly like. kinda important to me #to be brief i'll leave it at that #and to like. make him be a weirdo from day one. removes all the power from that?#like boo hoo dude you've sucked from day one . what the fuck else did you expect would happen #like its just whiny and stupid then to have him act like that when he's been a shithead the whole time #but if he was a normal dude who made one mistake that ruined his entire life then its like #ok . still sucks that you refuse to own up to your mistake! but being literally suicidal over it is a lot more sympathetic #like if you were an otherwise competent journalist who just. got lax and didnt fact check as hard as you should have #and then found yourself losing your job. your fiance. your entire career. your everything ever because of one choice #like it makes sense then to find yourself two steps away from killing yourself #but if it was a series of choices. a years-long pattern of choices ingrained into your very personality #that you only just NOW start to experience consequences for. its like. grow the fuck up dude. man. UGH #completely removes everything that makes the whole. suicide-ness mean so much to me #anyway so i guess the backstory i crafted in my mind this whole time was a mix of the comics and the movies #movies version where he was an actually competent journalist (whose downfall was his lack of integrity and self-absorption as opposed #to like. any lack of actual journalistic skill) and the comics version where he turned to murder as a coping mechanism afterwards LOL #brot posts

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