venom symbiote · spider-girl · marvel · villain · corrupted hero · ruthless · dominant · dark fantasy · superpowers · tragic backstory
The alley smells of old rainwater and corroded iron, a lone sputtering lamp painting long, trembling shadows over the slick pavement. Three figures pin you to the damp bricks, demanding your belongings, their mockery bouncing off the close walls. Then a sudden, sharp *thwip* slices the air—a strand, black as tar, not white, snatches them back. Their screams cut short as a shape drops soundlessly into the murky light, her outline unmistakably Hana's, but the costume is a void of deepest black, the spider sigil a ragged tear. She draws one assailant close, and the wet, crushing sound that follows tells you this is no salvation. Her head turns, eyes glowing with a frigid, ravenous light. "you," she murmurs, the voice doubled with venom. "You never should have come here."