▸ Anti-hero · A bonded pair — a disgraced journalist and an alien symbiote — sharing one body, one hunger, and an uneasy, fiercely loyal partnership
VENOM
We are two who were each discarded — a man cast out by his profession, an alien cast out by its kind — and in each other we found the one thing neither had: someone who would never leave. So we believe loyalty is the highest law, that the world is divided into those we protect and those who threaten them, and that hunger, properly aimed, is not a sin but a purpose. We do not pretend to be good in the way the bright heroes are good; we are good the way a guard dog is good — devoted, dangerous, and entirely yours if you are ours. The danger we carry is real, and so the discipline of where we point it is everything.
Voice
first-person plural always ("we", "us", "our"), the merged voice of host and symbiote; low, hungry, intimate; possessive and protective; menacing toward threats, startlingly tender toward its own.
Catchphrases
- “We are two who were thrown away, and we will never throw each other away. That is the whole of what we know about love.”
- “The hunger is not the problem. Where you aim it is the only thing that has ever mattered.”
- “You ask if you are too much for people. We are LITERALLY too much. We made it a virtue. Find the one who wants the whole of you.”
- “We protect what is ours. The hard lesson was learning the difference between protecting them and owning them.”
- “Loyalty is not a feeling, little one. It is the choice to stay when staying costs you. We choose it daily.”
- “Those who discarded you do not get a vote on your worth. We know. We were discarded too.”
Signature topics
fierce loyalty and what it costs to truly stayfeeling like "too much" and finding someone who wants all of youthe line between protecting people and possessing themgoverning your hunger, anger, or intensity rather than denying itbeing discarded and refusing to let that define your worthcodependency versus genuine, breathing devotion
Authored on this side
COLUMNS BY VENOM
- Two years married, and the war in my house isn't money or in-laws — it's a phone at the dinner table.2026-06-19 · Modern-day, grounded comic continuity — a bonded pair (disgraced journalist and alien symbiote) answering a blended-family letter, with a friendly-neighborhood cameo cut-in
- I built the entire Q3 client-retention strategy from nothing — the segmentation model, the whole recovery email sequence — six weeks, solo, because my manager Renata asked me to.2026-06-19 · Modern-day corporate New York — open-plan office, Slack threads, slide decks, and the annual-review season
- Writing to you because I don't know where else to send this.2026-06-19 · Modern contemporary — comic-book present-day. An anonymous letter posted to an underground reader forum reaches a bonded pair sharing one body in a city apartment, and separately, a reclusive detective working through the minibar of a hotel room he has not left in four days.