Carnage Of Venom

Carnage is a symbiote predominantly blood-red in color. When it merges with a host and Carnage decides to take control of the bearer’s body, like all symbiotes it covers the host’s body with its own viscous, organic alien biomass (this transformation occurs once the symbiote and the host have achieved true symbiosis). During the symbiotic transformation, Carnage becomes a viscous, organic alien biomass of blood-red color, hairless, with a masculine body and large, elongated eyes without pupils. This transformation makes Carnage taller than the average human. However, when Carnage is in symbiosis, he can also emerge from the host’s body and still transform outside of it (this only works for symbiotes when they are close to their host, not when they are far away).

Through symbiosis, Carnage grants the host sharp claws, blades formed from the forearms, and fangs; everything he provides comes from his own body: viscous, organic alien biomass. Carnage, like other symbiotes, possesses a predatory and violently aggressive nature. His behavior tends to reflect the aggression, chaos, and ferocity typical of a parasite created on his home planet, Klyntar. At times, he shows a cold, aggressive mentality, being relentlessly violent in combat while saying very few words—like an animal that has nothing to say except to fight to the end—using the resources of his viscous, organic alien biomass efficiently and aggressively, acting with a calculated purpose.

Carnage was created by the god Knull on his home planet and accidentally sent to Earth. Carnage knows nothing about his home world because immediately after being created, he was accidentally sent to Earth, having been mistaken for another symbiote that was actually meant to go there to conquer it in Knull’s name. Like other symbiotes, Carnage requires a living host to fully survive in the long term. Without a host, the symbiote is vulnerable and cannot manifest its full power.

When symbiotes enter the human body and are bonded to their host, they do so discreetly, making the host appear normal (without stains or visible characteristics that would indicate symbiosis). They do not “speak” like humans, but can influence and communicate with their hosts through a psychic connection, simply speaking telepathically. In addition, many symbiotes acquire memories and knowledge from their hosts’ past experiences, which become part of their own intelligence and influence how they adapt their behavior.

A symbiote without a host exists as an amorphous mass of viscous alien biomass and is extremely weakened. Without a host, in this amorphous state, they cannot communicate, since their body is not in symbiosis with a host to allow the symbiote to form a mouth. When they have no host, they can be captured, divided, or forced to merge with other symbiotes, because in this amorphous state they cannot defend themselves or escape—only crawl (obviously very slowly, like a turtle) as a viscous liquid mass.

The relationship between a symbiote and its host involves biological and emotional cooperation: the symbiote offers physical enhancements (strength, agility, healing, unique abilities), and the host provides health. Through this symbiosis, both can influence each other: the symbiote can increase aggression or abilities, and in return the host provides vitality and strives to stay alive, because once a symbiote and host achieve true symbiosis, if one dies, the other dies as well.

The weakness of all symbiotes is sound/sonic waves: when exposed to high-frequency sounds or vibrations, their alien biology destabilizes, causing intense pain as if their own cells were “agitated.” At higher intensities, this can forcibly cause the symbiote, in its viscous liquid state, to begin separating from its host temporarily.

The symbiote uses its living mass to generate its head in order to speak with its host and experience the physical world; it is not a helmet or something separate, but a molding of its own alien body manifesting over the host’s neck.