[ To be sure, it would be disheartening to learn that the conditions of warfare and combat change from the eye-for-an-eye brutality of his own days, of returning blood for blood as deterrence, not business.
But even without that knowledge, simple human empathy accounts for the thinning of Venom's lips. He isn't the type to reveal much about himself, let alone talk about the things that comprise him or the things that've been taken from him— but there's something about how candid Andyr is, how simply he offers the anomalies embedded in his skin, that makes Venom feel like he's talking to a fellow soldier. Desensitization is the first common ground, after all.
He sighs, a sound that gets lost under the sound of his fatigues shifting against his chair. ]
...There's no story. Lost my vision in this eye [ he taps it, over the eyepatch. ] after a scuffle.
Don't barter your past for something that cheap. [ And to drive the point home— your life is your own, not an excuse to barter for information— he puts up a hand, to dissuade the younger man from feeling obligated to reciprocate with a comment. ]
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But even without that knowledge, simple human empathy accounts for the thinning of Venom's lips. He isn't the type to reveal much about himself, let alone talk about the things that comprise him or the things that've been taken from him— but there's something about how candid Andyr is, how simply he offers the anomalies embedded in his skin, that makes Venom feel like he's talking to a fellow soldier. Desensitization is the first common ground, after all.
He sighs, a sound that gets lost under the sound of his fatigues shifting against his chair. ]
...There's no story. Lost my vision in this eye [ he taps it, over the eyepatch. ] after a scuffle.
Don't barter your past for something that cheap. [ And to drive the point home— your life is your own, not an excuse to barter for information— he puts up a hand, to dissuade the younger man from feeling obligated to reciprocate with a comment. ]