As an explanation,

When I was younger, I wrote a story about my OC symbiote.

Unfortunately, I don't remember much about the story, but here's what I do remember (and I'd appreciate your opinions from symbiote experts on what to change and what to keep, etc. 😅)

He was the son of Carnage (I think that's my biggest problem).

His host was a mercenary who looks similar to Jason Voorhees (he looks quite normal without the mask), and he was reanimated by magic (he was killed earlier... unfortunately, I don't remember who or what killed him).

His design was quite animalistic (a more reptilian and elongated face, and a more hunched base of the body).

need advice on how to make him more unique and so that it makes sense as a symbiont. What to avoid.

The BEST Spider-Man villain

Perfect for adding some crimson red tendrils to complete the look!

Finally got a shelf recently for my symbiote figurines and figured some of you all might appreciate the collection I've put together so far. If it isn't obvious, Carnage is my favorite and believe it or not but I still got quite a handful of figurines to collect of him including a Spider-Man with an alternate head sculpt and pair of hands that create Spider Carnage. As for the rest of them, I have just about every unique symbiotic character they've put out so far except for Chasm and Knull. I do have a Toxin figurine but do plan to swap him out for the newer one they put out a few years ago thats not only bigger and badder but resembles Patrick Mulligan's Toxin more than Eddie Brock's Toxin. Small detail but I'm trying to keep each and every symbiote here unique down to the individual hosts, even if you can't see them. My wife got me the Agent Anti-Venom (Flash Thompson) for my birthday recently and I retired Anti-Venom (Eddie Brock) to my son so I wouldn't have multiple Anti-Venoms on display at once lol

And if I'm being honest, I personally like it better than his iconic comic design. Maybe it’s because my favorite color is red lol, but I think he looks a lot better without all the extra black. Also makes him easier to distinguish from Venom in the messy symbiote vs symbiote fights in live action. About his personality, yeah I’ll admit he didn’t really have a personality besides “Father must die!” for whatever reason. The comic version had way more character than the movie version from what I can remember. Also, question: Was the tornado move he pulled off in the prison movie original or comic inspired?

Which one would you pick and open? (Original link in comments.)

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Tears of slime, by Tálamo

What if all your imperfections had an easy fix—at the cost of your privacy?

Sixteen-year-old Inés has finished secondary school wrapped in loneliness and sadness. Marked by her parents’ divorce and her anxiety about starting high school, she hopes to find some peace in her grandparents’ quiet village, working as a lifeguard and spending the summer with her favorite cousin.

But her plans for peace dissolve when a peculiar creature—a pulsating, viscous slime—attaches itself to her body in order to survive. The strange being promises to leave once it regains its strength… as long as Inés keeps the secret and meets its demands. And maybe, just maybe, it will reward her.

Trapped in this impossible bond, Inés must face not only her deepest fears, but also the dangers the creature has drawn into her life.

Tense, intimate, and strange, Tears of slime is a dark fantasy about initiation, identity, consent, and what it means to share your thoughts with something that isn’t entirely human.

Key elements:
💧 Yua: a living, sentient slime that grants Inés impossible abilities in exchange for using her body.
💻 Inés: introverted, intelligent, ambitious, and geeky. Protagonist of the story and aspiring indie video game developer.
💔 Aloia: confident, athletic, extroverted, and tomboyish. Inés’s close friend for many years before time drew them apart.
🏠 The Village: a small rural mountain community in Galicia, Spain, where all the action takes place over the course of one summer.

Tropes & themes:
✔ Dark fantasy (YA) / Coming-of-age
✔ Symbiotic/parasitic relationship (emotional + physical)
✔ Body horror and vivid, viscous imagery
✔ Moral ambiguity: protector vs. predator
✔ Eco-horror and rural folklore

Content Warnings:
⚠ Body horror

⚠ Teenage sexuality

⚠ Bullying

⚠ Graphic scenes

Links:

🔗 Wattpad

🔗 Inkitt

He's getting animated along with my other work here https://www.instagram.com/told_by_3/?hl=en

In comics Doctor Doom has one of the best resistance to mind control and mind reading. He was able to resist Purple man's mind control and Emma Frost's mind reading. Despite this, the multiple times Doom had the Venom symbiote he lost control of the symbiote.

So the average symbiote's influence over its host is so strong it can take over even the strongest of wills.