Honestly, this is one of the reasons why I am really liking all the different takes on their relationship and Venom's personhood and the biology - it's all deeply strange and wonderful to see all the ways the relationship could work.
The comics I like best, mostly Mike Costa's run in 2016, tended to treat Eddie as thinking about their relationship like a marriage - himself as one person, his 'other' another person (not a human, but a person) and their relationship was kind of psychic and the lines were blurry, but they were different people living together in one body. But there was a quirk of the dialogue where the symbiote rarely said 'I' - when it meant "Eddie+symbiote" it would say we, but it generally formed sentences in the first person without using 'I' - sort of a translation convention where the symbiote's thoughts were getting turned into English for the reader's sake.
And part of that is just conventions of comics writing - the words have to get across fast so that they can support the images, and I can totally get why Costa didn't always have enough space to flesh out exactly how their relationship worked and tended to rely on well established cultural tropes like marriage and romance. And also, it's a comic, they're not going to delve into the delightful subtext they're establishing, we've got fic for that.
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Date: 2018-12-11 07:42 pm (UTC)The comics I like best, mostly Mike Costa's run in 2016, tended to treat Eddie as thinking about their relationship like a marriage - himself as one person, his 'other' another person (not a human, but a person) and their relationship was kind of psychic and the lines were blurry, but they were different people living together in one body. But there was a quirk of the dialogue where the symbiote rarely said 'I' - when it meant "Eddie+symbiote" it would say we, but it generally formed sentences in the first person without using 'I' - sort of a translation convention where the symbiote's thoughts were getting turned into English for the reader's sake.
And part of that is just conventions of comics writing - the words have to get across fast so that they can support the images, and I can totally get why Costa didn't always have enough space to flesh out exactly how their relationship worked and tended to rely on well established cultural tropes like marriage and romance. And also, it's a comic, they're not going to delve into the delightful subtext they're establishing, we've got fic for that.