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[frenchkissed]

Display Name: Venom
Profile Photo: Just two bros vibin'.
Notes: N/A

I'm looking to sell some feature stories to local papers. At least until I have enough momentum to get a regular column started.

So, if anyone's got a crazy story and feels like sharing it, I'm your guy.

Probably won't be much more than an origin story, what your powers are like, a few photos, maybe a bit about your hobbies... those kinds of questions. Don't feel like this is a job interview or anything. It's all about you, so just tell me whatever and we'll see if we can't make a story out of it.

( This next part gets added on later, like a side comment: )

Also, we sorta need a place to live.

Pros:
- Good with pets.
- Good at cleaning. And cooking.
- Probably gonna stay out of your way, for the most part.

Cons:
- SORT OF A LOSER.
- CANNOT WATCH HORROR MOVIES.
- TERRIBLE AT SINGING.
- Comes with an alien.

( Two very different posts happening here. )

Comments

[frenchkissed]

Yeah, back home I was. Haven't done much reporting since we got here, though. Too busy dealing with superhero things, I guess. That stuff's pretty time consuming, apparently?

Sounds like a good news package. Can you say what kind of festival it was, or is that also on the down-low?

[tinglesense]

i wouldnt know anything about superhero stuff
i have to go to school to learn how to use the power the confluence gave me ig
takes up a lot of time

[ He's not even a good liar in text, rip in pieces ]

oh wow you missed it?! yeah they had this whole annual thing celebrating the takedown of some big villain named starstruck
but atomight didnt look really happy to be there and it was kind of a mess

[frenchkissed]

You were just a regular person before you got here? No weird abilities at all? ...Are you a local? Like, you didn't even fall out of the sky like the rest of us did?

That's a story right there.

How's your life changed since getting the ability to... do whatever it is you do?

( let's hope he can keep this up. )

Yeah, I was a little tied up, I guess, when all that was going down. This Starstruck guy is bad news?

[tinglesense]

what? no of course i fell out of the sky like everyone else
but i got powers FROM the confluence ykwim
i can communicate with computers now
its kind of weird

other than the alliance asking me to join up and going to a weird school that we dont actually know the location of its not all that different i guess

starstruck is dead now but its
complicated

[frenchkissed]

Sounds marketable. I'm sure people would pay big bucks for you to declutter their hard drives and fix the cracks in their smartphone.

How do you not know where your school is?

You know, wait, let's just

Can you do lunch?

[tinglesense]

yeah im looking into doing something like that! it would be useful to have more of an income

[ "more" like he has "any" to start with ]

the hero school is like in the sky or something
we dont drive there like normal
i know how it sounds
totally bonkers right

i can have lunch on saturday or sunday easier than any other day
bc you know
school /derogatory

[frenchkissed]

You wanna build a website for me?

( it's probably not where peter's new abilities lie, but it's the first thing eddie can think of. he doesn't have any immediate tech needs at the moment. )

Sure, yeah. A weekend sounds cool. /srs

[tinglesense]

wait really?

i mean

yeah i can do that

[ He could have done that without any extra powers, but he realises this is probably charity. He needs the job, though, so. ]

i didnt expect you to know what tone indicators were lol good job

[frenchkissed]

Yeah. Really.
My guys will be in touch with your guys.

Do you think I'm like a million years old?
I was around for the MySpace era. What do you even know about the MySpace era?

[tinglesense]

ooh well ill tell my guys to look forward to it

no! i just thought that only teenagers used them i guess

[ He says, with all the self-centeredness of a teenager ]

myspace was that old website before facebook right? it had music on it or something?

[frenchkissed]

Oh, my God?? Are you twelve?

[tinglesense]

oh ffs i'm 18!
what are YOU like 60?

[frenchkissed]

That's, like, six years away from being twelve.

Literally twice your age, kid.

[tinglesense]

yeah thats like a whole third of my life ago so its not exactly like im CLOSE to 12 here
im a whole adult smh

twice my age is definitely old enough that my surprise about tone markers is justified!

[frenchkissed]

Yeah, says the guy who doesn't know what MySpace is.

Half my age is enough that my annoyance at your lack of internet knowledge is also, like, so justified, man. Millennials use tone indicators?? We invented them??

[tinglesense]

i did know! it had music on it!

[ He's not technically wrong but he's never seen MySpace for real ]

ok ok fair
i guess i dont text a lot of older adults or whatever