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[codicies]

"Hey, uh... this is Dylan. You got my voicemail. Leave a message or shoot me a text."

Beep!

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[frenchkissed]

Take out the trash.

#Dadding

[codicies]

only if u promise to stop adding hashtags to your text messages 🤠

[frenchkissed]

#STAYMAD?
#HATERSWILLHATE?

[codicies]

So the trash stays where it is, then. Got it!

[frenchkissed]

No??? That was so clearly V?

You really can't tell the difference between your AU!Dads at this point?

[codicies]

listen i have accumulated an absurd amount of dads in multiple universes so sometimes i gotta check the spreadsheet

[frenchkissed]

I count four?

Is four too many dads for a dad collection?

[codicies]

Technically five? Grandpa doesn't really count, but I did mistakenly call him "Dad" for 12 years.

also i guess there's a sixth one if u squint. But maybe he's more of a grandpa too? symbiote lineage is weird.

[frenchkissed]

Right. You lived with Charles.

I feel like I should apologize on his behalf. That couldn't have been great.

[codicies]

In my world his name was Carl but don't feel like you have to apologize

from what i understand he was just an all-around asshole

[frenchkissed]

Really? I mean, yeah, he sucks, but you're right. That's not our fault.

Weird question: What's your dad's name? Eddie. You know his full name?

[codicies]

Eddie Brock? Edward Charles Allan Brock.

[ Turns out that part didn't change across universes. ]

[frenchkissed]

Huh.

Cool.

Anyway.

Who's your sixth dad? We got me and V, your Eddie and his V, and Carl/Charles. Who's left?

[codicies]

[ There's a bit of a delay before he answers. ]

hey V does the name Knull mean anything to you?

[frenchkissed]

( there's a longer delay before venom answers. )

ONLY AS A MYTH.

HE IS WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A CREATOR.
BUT HE IS MUCH MORE.

THE CRADLE FROM WHICH ARE ALL BIRTHED.
THE DESTROYER OF STARS.
THE ANTHESIS OF LIGHT.

STORIES TO PUT YOUNG SYMBIOTES TO SLEEP AT NIGHT.

Those are your bedtime stories?
Explains a lot, realldszfWE DO NOT ALL GET MARY AND HER TINY LAMBS, EDDIE.

IT IS NO WONDER THAT HUMAN CHILDREN ARE WEAK AND DEFENSELESS.

Because of the... bedtime stories we chose?

PRECISELY!!

( eddie and venom are just sort of like this all the time. sorry, dylan. you were saying something? )

[codicies]

[ Damn, they're just having this conversation right there in the text app, huh? Dylan laughs. Honestly, he's not entirely sure how he'd explain the whole Thing with Knull back home anyway, so he's happy to let the subject be redirected. ]

anyway i'll take out the trash in a sec. :D

[frenchkissed]

( not so fast, weeb!!

You can't just spring Eldritch horror talk at us and then dip off??

How do you know Knull? Is he more than a ghost story in your world?

[codicies]

hes dad number six. tried to do a whole darth vader routine on me.

[ It feels... weird to type that out. ]

Dylan is typing...

Dylan is typing...

ok im honestly having trouble cracking jokes about this. he was bad.

[frenchkissed]

Sorry. Got it.

Alright.

Don't worry about the trash; we'll get it.

[codicies]

no its ok im already on my way to grab it.

i wasnt trying to wiggle out of chores or anything.

[frenchkissed]

You’re grounded.

[codicies]

you can't prove anything.

[frenchkissed]

Hey, bud.

We gotta talk about Hunter.

[codicies]

[ Well that's... ominous. What's this about? Does... does Eddie somehow know about Dylan biting Hunter while he was a vampire?? ]

Sure. What's going on?

[frenchkissed]

( DYLAN DID WHAT )

Actually, this might be more of an in-person sorta conversation… Can you meet me out by the pond?