It sure is an exercise in thinking about gender, especially if you are coming from a different language.
I'm also interested in singular versus plural first person. The more they merge, the more natural it is for the "host + symbiote" team to say "I", sure, and "we" means the same then. But while they have separate identities which relate to each other (as in "you are mine")? It makes the most sense to me when they only use "we" to emphasize that both of them are meant. So I like it when Venom-the-symbiote says "I" on those occasions when they can't mean the team. Say, "I have seen the birth and death of countless stars" sounds better to me than "we have". Although they could mean their whole species too, or the crew or army or whatever, and anyway it's just minor personal preference and when Venom says in a fic "Eddie, our tongue is much better for this than yours" it's the author's choice? And doesn't really spoil anything.
But then in the movie it also gives, they also give, their name to the team, share it with Eddie. They might be happy and feel included if Eddie replied instead, "we are Eddie". Maybe?
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Date: 2018-12-11 07:07 pm (UTC)I'm also interested in singular versus plural first person. The more they merge, the more natural it is for the "host + symbiote" team to say "I", sure, and "we" means the same then. But while they have separate identities which relate to each other (as in "you are mine")? It makes the most sense to me when they only use "we" to emphasize that both of them are meant. So I like it when Venom-the-symbiote says "I" on those occasions when they can't mean the team. Say, "I have seen the birth and death of countless stars" sounds better to me than "we have". Although they could mean their whole species too, or the crew or army or whatever, and anyway it's just minor personal preference and when Venom says in a fic "Eddie, our tongue is much better for this than yours" it's the author's choice? And doesn't really spoil anything.
But then in the movie it also gives, they also give, their name to the team, share it with Eddie. They might be happy and feel included if Eddie replied instead, "we are Eddie". Maybe?