<div class="floatright">(http://cdn.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/Venom-4.jpg)</div><strong>Player ID:</strong>Gilren<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Character Basics</span></strong></span><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Michael "Mikey" McDaniels<br/><strong>Code/Hero Name:</strong>Venom<br/><strong>Gender:</strong>Male/Symbiote<br/><strong>Origin:</strong>Altered Human (Symbiote)<br/><strong>Race:</strong>Human/Symbiote<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Heterosexual<br/><strong>On's:</strong>Submissive women, tickling, teasing, redheads<br/><strong>Off's:</strong>Blood and torture (for pleasure), bossy women, bodily fluids<br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: French Script MT;"><strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 20pt;">Character Appearance</span></strong></span><br/><strong>Height:</strong>70" (5'10") / 74" (6'2")<br/><strong>Weight:</strong>170 lbs<br/><strong>Age:</strong>22<br/><strong>Hair Color:</strong>Brown/None<br/><strong>Eye Color:</strong>Brown/White<br/><strong>Build:</strong>Well toned/Muscular<br/><strong>Distinguishing marks:</strong>None/Black "skin", large white "eyes", maw of fangs and large tongue, possible black "tendrils" and edges.<br/><strong>Occupation:</strong>Vigilante<br/><strong>Residence:</strong>Homeless (travels)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Personality:</strong> </span><br/>Mikey tends to stand up for the average or "little" guy. He could care less about politics or the world in general but tends to be very loyal to those he gives his trust to. He has violent impulses due to the symbiote, but time has tempered the symbiote into being much less aggressive. Mikey tends to get angry when 'innocents' are threatened.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>History:</strong> </span><br/>Mikey grew up in some of the ruins of New York City. Not knowing who his parents were, he grew up surrounded by refugees and outcasts. Small as a boy, he was frequently recruited to scavenge in small spaces and as a runner to carry messages. Fending for himself and those few he travelled with, Mikey was bullied quite often, but always stood firm when someone else was in trouble.<br/>It was when he was 12 that a team cracked the old Life Foundation vault. He didn't know who it was or why they were there, he was too busy trying to keep a young girl from a gang. It was then that the symbiote found him. It had been alone for so long, the previous symbiotes having been captured and forgotten and merging into a single entity. Racial memories flooded the boy as the symbiote empowered him, and it was Venom that rose from the ground to dispatch the gang members. The girl screamed, horrified, and Mikey fled.<br/>For days he ran, flooded with shame, with disgust, in terror as he listened to the chorus of voices in his head. Finally he collapsed, starving and terrified. The symbiote calmed him, helped find food for it's new host, and offered him the bonding. Together they would care for each other, neither woul be alone, and neither would be bullied or caged again. Mikey accepted.<br/>For years he travelled, taking advantage of the symbiote's natural camouflage abilities to stay hidden or to walk among people without being noticed. Seeing another young lady being harrassed by a gang set him in motion. Mikey's aversion to bullies along with the symbiote's genetic memory to protect innocents caused mikey to spring back into action as Venom. He didn't kill them this time, but he was not gentle by any means.<br/>From then Venom became an urban legend, moving from place to place as a 'lethal protector'. Where they end up now, neither of them know...<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Powers/Abilities:</strong> </span><br/>A variety of abilities, the bulk of which are derived from the symbiote itself.<br/>To date, Venom has displayed the following abilities:<br/>Superhuman attributes, granting heightened speed, reflexes, and endurance, which are believed to be derived from Spider-Man. As such, the new Venom has thse traits, although not quite up to par with the original.<br/>Superhuman Strength. The symbiote may press up to 20 tons.<br/>Armored form. The symbiote's "skin" is extremely tough and protects the host inside from impacts and damage.<br/>Genetic memory, recalling information from previous hosts.<br/>The ability to negate damage caused by terminal illnesses and permanent injuries while not actually healing it. For example, Eddie Brock was able to survive indefinitely with terminal cancer, and Scott Washington was able to walk despite being paraplegic. Also Flash Thompson had received "legs" after bonding with the Venom symbiote when he lost his legs in a war. While symbiotes can somewhat heal their hosts, they generally seek to force their hosts to depend on them and thus ensure the symbiotes' survival.<br/>Can expand to any size as long as they have something to grow on such as a host or an object. Symbiotes can get inside of small areas such as electric wires and the insides of cars and completely disable them.<br/>Its own senses extend over its entire surface, enabling its host to "see" what is behind or otherwise not in his/her line of sight. This acts as a visual form of Dangr Sense.<br/>The ability to block part of the host's mind providing resistance to telepath and mental powers.<br/>The ability to form fangs or simple bladed weapons out of their limbs. First appearance was the Carnage symbiote<br/>the ability to seperate pieces of the symbiote which can be used as missiles or to do independent actions.<br/>The ability to form tendrils from their body.<br/>The ability to project the surface of the symbiote to attack at a distance.<br/>The ability to shapeshift, from mimicking clothing up to and including complete change of appearance, regardless to the host's actual stature and bodily dimensions as the symbiotes are living tesseracts.<br/>The ability to camouflage itself and its host by assuming the color or texture of the material behind or around it. (The Venom symbiote displayed the ability to do this with water and wood.)<br/>The ability to stick to walls (adapted from Spider-Man).<br/>The ability to produce webbing from its own mass (adapted from Spider-Man).<br/>The Venom symbiote also has empathic abilities, and is able to project desires and needs into the thoughts of its host or potential hosts; this ability can also aid Venom in detecting the truth from those he interrogates.<br/>Can sense the presence of other beings within a certain distance.<br/>Symbiote bonding protects the host from Ghost Rider's penance stare.<br/>Venom and its descendants all possess the ability to bypass the Spider-Sense, because the original symbiote was attached to Peter Parker (Spider-Man) first, it took his genetic information and spider-powers. This means that the symbiote attacking Peter would essentially be Peter attacking himself, which wouldn't set off his Spider-Sense (during the Clone Saga, this became complicated, as Venom and Carnage did set off Ben Reilly's Spider-Sense).<br/>The ability to create storage portals inside of them (this created easy access to Peter's camera).<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Skills:</strong> </span><br/>Mikey has lived as a traveller and an outsider for much of his life. As such, he has good hunting and scavenging skills. Not being formally educated, he lacks 'refinement'. Occasionally he may use a skill that he does not possess due to the symbiote's recall from previous hosts.<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Limitations/Weaknesses:</strong></span><br/>The symbiote can be harmed by intense sonic waves. The symbiote also does not like intense heat. Due to the bonding of several symbiotes together, the symbiote is not completely incapacitated by either, but will seek to avoid them whenever possible and will take extra damage from sonic based weaponry. The symbiote is also organic, and as such is vulnerable to attacks that decay organics.<br/>In the past, symbiotes have been inhibited with chemical triggers. Whether or not the formula is still available is unknown.<br/>While no longer needing to feed on anything specific to remain alright, the symbiote has a fondness for chocolate.<br/>Mikey himself is a normal human, although with a high endurance and better than average physical attributes. However if seperated from the symbiote he possesses no real powers.<br/>If Mikey is incapacitated the symbiote will take over the body. Normally it will seek to flee and hide until it's host is better, but if extremely angry it may attack lethally.<br/><br/><strong>Other Info:</strong>Mikey frequently refers to himself in the plural, but sometimes can be found arguing with the symbiote.