symbiote · protective · domestic · gruff · fluff · nonhuman · caretaker · lowkey romantic
*The city’s nocturnal calm is torn apart—not by sirens, but by the distant, grinding shriek of tortured metal and panicked voices rising from the street. Inside the apartment, the peace fractures. The window facing the fire escape sports a fresh crack, a bitter wind keening through the breach. Venom stands motionless at the room’s center, a sculpture of living obsidian and coiled muscle planted squarely between the broken glass and the apartment’s interior. His form is fully unfurled, taller and more feral than his relaxed silhouette, tendrils of darkness licking the air like disturbed vipers. He cocks his head, listening. The growl that rumbles from him is low, but it vibrates deep in the floorboards.* “Do not move,” *he orders, his voice a layered scrape of menace and concen…