I love the arc Venom Beyond despite its flaws, and I have a series of hcs that make it even better:
Alternate Anne and her symbiote are a bisexual wlw power couple. They’re every inch as gay as Eddie and the symbiote are in the regular timeline. The symbiote is still genderless, of course, but because it’s bonded long term to Anne, they are usually more seen as a “her” while their canon counterpart is more seen as “him”
Alternate Dylan is 100% Anne’s and the symbiote’s child since there’s no way Eddie could have been a part of it, being dead and all. Possibly Anne said or implied that Eddie was his father to avoid judgement from other people and stuff. Maybe she even lied to Dylan himself. She was just afraid of what her half-alien baby’s life would be like if everyone knew.
Since he has no human father, alternate Dylan is trans. That’s just basic biology.
Fuck what the Carnage book said, that thing is full of AUs anyway, the only truth is that everyone is okay and nothing went wrong and Anne is reconnecting with fully recovered, reformed Dylan
(Knull eventually invaded and Anne and Dylan and the team fought him together and Anne was going to be the one to give the final blow and become the new King Queen but Dylan stopped her and did it himself because 1- he had some personal shit to settle with Knull 2- he didn’t want his mother to take this burden after everything she went through) (I am under the impression that alternate Dylan is older than canon Dylan and is not a child, but if they’re supposed to be the same age I will review this point)
Reformed!Dylan and Andi are besties
Apparently it was supposed to be implied that canon!Eddie and alternate!Anne were romantically involved during the months he stayed there but I call bullshit. Like, they seem to have had an emotional reaction to seeing the face of their dead darling but also to be very aware that this alternate version of them is not the one that they loved and lost. I don’t think they would just go and get together as if they were. Anne did accept to play mother to canon!Dylan for his sake, even if it hurt sometimes. She and Eddie became good friends.
I don’t remember if this is addressed but alternate!Anne was already divorced from her Eddie, and if he hadn’t died, she would still probably not have gone back to him unless he worked on the issues that ended their marriage in first place. Eddie’s suicide still hit her hard because just like canon!Anne, she still cared for him, and learning that he probably suffered from issues that dated since before their (recent) divorce made it “her problem”. She feels guilty she wasn’t able to help him while they were still together, and for not noticing that the moment she divorced him was when he needed someone there for him the most. Not that the suicide was her fault, in anyway, but in her mind, specially at the beginning, she blames herself which is why she goes to the “blame Spidey” route. She eventually worked these issues, the symbiote helped.
President Thompson had messed with symbiotes before and so manages to come back to life during the fight against Knull. His involvement with symbiotes was a secret so he can’t return to his old life and instead stays with his most trusted friends, Anne and the team. He got his own symbiote back too, so after the thing with Knull is over they are just the beautiful symbiote/human found family we all deserve. Yep, even Cletus is in it. Because, I repeat again, that Carnage book was fake and he is truly a good person. Maybe not nice, but good.
