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( eddie doesn't recognize the username, but he's more than happy to help someone in need. )

Apple or Android?

Better yet, talk to @/Peter Parker.
He's good with technology things.

Android. Did that ping him? I'm new to this site.

[ It's only AFTER he sends it that he notices the username. Ha, what a coincidence. Sure wish Venom had followed him here, at least.

God, Venom was supposed to pick him up from school. It's probably worried sick. ]

I think? ( eddie has no excuse for being unsure other than the fact that he doesn't spend as much time on this site as he probably should. ) If not, I can shoot him a message for you. He's a good kid.

Android.

Did you try turning it off and turning it back on again?

Well, it was nice enough to do the first part for me. Second half's posing a bit of a problem tho

[ EMBEDDED VIDEO: Skinny teenage hands shaking a smartphone. There are audible sloshing sounds. ]

your name is eddie?

Edited (ICONS ARE IMPORTANT TO ME AND I WANTED TO USE THE RIGHT ONE ) 2022-06-29 06:33 (UTC)

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nvm i thought you were someone else

Yeah, yikes. Phone sounds more like a water bottle than an actual phone.

There's always the rice thing? Don't ask me how it works, but throwing wet technology into a vat of rice always seems to fix them. At least that's what my ex told me?? It worked when I dropped out iPad into the bathtub.

( most of eddie's videos are rather innocuous. there's videos of him traveling to different parts of the country and trying new foods, videos of him sharing the destruction from the recent attacks in an attempt to help raise funds for city restoration, videos from karaoke nights with venom singing power ballads... )

I'm Eddie Brock, yeah.

Sorry if that's a hard name for you to hear.

Been hearing a lot of stories about myself from alternate universes. Most of them aren't good.

Sounds like I REALLY had it out for Spider-Man at one point. Still don't know why.

( ... )

Who're you?

[ Dylan's hands are shaking as he reads through Eddie's replies. He takes a breath, trying to clear the tightness in his chest as his eyes start to burn with tears. Yeah, that sounds like dad — or at least, who his dad used to be.

It hurts to think about him.

It hurts more to think about how he probably hasn't even noticed Dylan's disappearance yet, while Venom was no doubt in a panic. ]

[ @ST33LCHAINS is typing... ] [ @ST33LCHAINS has stopped typing. ]

[ His feelings toward his dad right now are... complicated, but his love for the man hasn't dwindled, and it sucks to see that the worst of his reputation seems to be the surviving narrative. ]

[ @ST33LCHAINS is typing... ] [ @ST33LCHAINS is typing... ] [ @ST33LCHAINS has stopped typing ]

yeah that sounds like the one from my world kinda but he's really turned it around in the past couple years

[ @ST33LCHAINS is typing... ] [ @ST33LCHAINS is typing... ] [ @ST33LCHAINS is typing... ]

[ His stomach is in knots, Dylan wants to tell him everything. But this guy doesn't know him from Adam. Would he even want to know that he's got an Alternate Universe kid running around? What if he feels obligated to take on the burden of caring for Dylan? Or worse, what if he doesn't feel obligated and just ignores Dylan the way his own Eddie does while he's hooked up to the pillar for weeks? No, Dylan can't risk that kind of heartbreak. Not when he's already so homesick. ]

i'm Dylan.

[ Just Dylan. ]

( wow, that's a lot of stopping and starting. is this guy feeling all right? would calling be easier for him? )

Did we get you at a bad time?

( for all that typing, he didn't say much that could mean a whole lot to eddie—

oh. eddie. )

So you knew him.

Me.

God, that's weird.

Not for nothing, but even though we have the same name and the same alien best friend living inside of us :D, I don't think that makes us enough of the same person for it to count.

Dylan. Think we met already. At the mall? With the spooky magic shop?

( there's tact when it comes to these conversations, and then there's: )

What was I like?

We were friends?

...Did I really get better?

( why is that his first concern? because if his alternate self is anything like his current self is, then hurting people without meaning to is in the cards. )

[ Dylan doesn't want to lie, but he also... isn't ready to tell the truth yet. This Eddie is so... insecure? And in addition to Dylan's own fears, he can't bring himself to throw himself onto Eddie's shoulders as another burden. ]

So there was another symbiote named Carnage that was wreaking havoc, and my friend Normie was one of his targets. Eddie saved us from him.

[ There. Technically all true! Just with a lot of context omitted. ]

He's... intense. Determined. I mean once he's decided what the right thing to do is, there's no stopping him. I really admire that about him. He's older, too. I don't know how long you've been Venom, but he's been doing it since way before I was born. Those two are... kind of like an old married couple. He and the symbiote. To be honest, I'm not sure he ever needed to get better. Like, his whole philosophy is using his power to protect the innocent. That's his whole thing, and everything he ever did was in service of that. I think he just... had a lot of bad press. I don't know what his beef was with Spider-Man. But I think they made up. People have seen them out to lunch together and stuff.

[ "People" being himself, eating fries of Spider-Man's plate while Spidey & his dad kicked an armed robber's ass. ]

Anyway, he's... doing better now. Public opinion's gotten better. He even got invited to be an Avenger! You know as well as I do how huge that is.

[ Because any world with Venom must have the Avengers too, right? ]

Turned it down, though. Talk about a flex.

Edited 2022-06-30 23:21 (UTC)

hey i saw eddie pinged me

sure i can help you with that but i can only do it in person

sorry that sounds really weird but i can basically talk to machines or computers but only if im right there

omg Tech powers... that's awesome! Yeah it'd be great if you could help. I'm in the lobby of the Diadem hotel. Are you close?

wait did u say his name is eddie? [ and his screen name is Venom? there's no FUCKING way, but. ]

Edited (sorry this is the last one) 2022-06-29 06:24 (UTC)

i can be

[ He can use Otto's teleporter access IT'S FINE ]

[ and later: ]

yeah his name is eddie why?

[ this is common knowledge, especially since Venom outright just calls him EDDIE out loud, so he's pretty sure this isn't a secret ID thing. PROBABLY? OH GOD ]

[ After fussing with the app for a little while longer, Dylan figures out how to watch someone's older posts and watches a few of @/Venom's videos.

That definitely looks like the Venom symbiote, but it's acting so... different. Louder. More... immature?

And that Eddie... that's definitely not his dad. He can't say he's surprised, but. He's still disappointed. ]

i thought he might someone from my world but i was wrong.

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oh whoa really?

[ He can put it together here that there's a Venom in Dylan's universe, maybe even the Venom/Eddie combo, but obviously beyond that he has no idea. ]

sorry
theres a lot of that kind of thing here tbh
like there are two lokis here

[ and like four Peter Parkers but he just skips over that for now! ]

you get kind of used to it but its a lot at first
didnt mean to drop it on you

lol its cool, this thing actually happens a lot where i come from? this isnt my first time in an alternate universe actually. should've figured when he called u peter parker. i've met 2 peter parkers before.

[ mayhaps Peter Parker is a Universal Constant. ]

I'm Dylan btw

oh really? this is the second time ive had multiverse stuff happen but its pretty nuts

youve met TWO peter parkers before?

[ UH OH RED ALERT is this another one who knows he's Spider-Man? WELL there's no way to ask that so he just decides to pretend it's fine! F I N E ]

nice to meet you dylan
you
already know my name lol

anyway im still happy to help with your tech thing

[ DO NOT WORRY, MY DUDE. He will not even bring up the Spider thing. ]

yeah i have some pictures of one of them. The one from an alternate universe, i was stuck there for a while. He had a mustache.

[ A year. He was in that altnernate universe for a YEAR. How long is he gonna be stuck here? Venom was supposed to pick him up from school and Dylan just disappeared on it! ]

once u get my phone fixed i can show you

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If all else fails, consult a technopath.

TY! One already offered! Peter Parker, he's on his way now. Are there any others?

At least one that I know of. Wouldn't be surprised if there are more. If you wind up needing it, though... David Alleyne.

I'll write that down. Is he another technopath? I guess that's a pretty popular power. We all got superpowers, right? I heard some people talking about it. Is there any way to find out what your powers are?

I'm not sure. I've had mine since I was a kid, so I never had to figure it out when getting transported elsewhere. Run experiments? Non-dangerous, non-painful experiments.

Well, I had powers before I got here, but I lost them before I got caught up in the confluence. I thought maybe I got them back, but they were kind of linked to some stuff in my home universe that doesn't really have a counterpart here.

[ Not technically true, but suddenly puppeting Venom with no warning might freak him and Eddie out, which... probably isn't safe for anyone. ]

But I'm sure I got... something that works here. I'll figure it out.

Good luck with it. And don't worry about it too much. I'm sure you'll figure it out eventually.

Looks like it's gonna get taken care of. I was gonna suggest rice.

Yeah, got a technopath coming. The rice might have helped, although it was salt water and I've heard that's worse so maybe not? I'm not really a techy guy.

Edited 2022-07-01 23:22 (UTC)

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OH DAD you're so funny :|

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we can move this to the log whenever :>

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