Eddie/Venom x Male Reader
Trigger warnings: Anorexia
Now I know this may seem very mild and not as extreme as some cases out there and I don’t want to make it seem like its always romanticised and if its triggering, please don’t read.
Eddie, your boyfriend, notices how thin you are and confronts you about it.
When it came to body image, you’d never really been bothered. You had no concerns with the way you looked and how people defined you mainly because they never said it to your face so you didn’t mind. The reflection in the mirror showed you grabbing the back back of your thighs. It had started a few weeks ago when people at work had been making comment on your body. One of them joked that you’d squish them when you accidentally sat on their leg at the benches at lunch break, another even jokingly called you a “fat ass” when you ate. You knew they were supposed to be jokes but you couldn’t help but feel targeted. You all did the same amount of work and you were all eating the same thing. So why was it that they’d feel the need to joke about your body?
That brought you to now, feeling the thick skin of your thighs between your fingers as you pulled at it. Your calfs were the same when you saw they still bulged out from your legs. Yes, you were now unhappy with your appearance and so had cut a bit down on your food intake by a bit. Not too much, you thought, just so you would be able to lose a bit of the extra weight during your day to day activity.
You hadn’t realised how far that went.
Eddie hadn’t noticed yet. He hadn’t been around a lot lately to actually observe how your body had slowly declined each time he saw you. That was until the symbiotic caught onto your change in figure.
Eddie gave a hum of acknowledgement to the symbiote’s voice, causing it to go on.
(SOMETHNGSS WRONG WITH (Y/N)).
This brought Eddie to full attention, “What do you mean? Whats wrong?”.
The symbiote’s voice rumbled in his head (HE’S SMALLER THAN BEFORE, HAVEN’T YOU NOTICED?”.
Eddie’s breath caught. Now that he thought about it? You weren’t as energetic as you used to be. You started staying inside your apartment more if you weren’t going out for your job and overtime he saw you, you would be dressed in a thick hoodie yet he could still fit his whole arm around you when he was human. Oh god, how had he not picked up on it before?
(EDDIE WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? WHY IS (Y/N) NOT KEEPING WEIGHT?). Eddie’s breathing told the symbiote this was no happy matter. “I don’t think (Y/N)’s eating V”. The symbiote was confused (BUT WHY?).
“Some people who want me be skinnier tend to starve themselves of food so they don’t put on weight” Eddie rubbed his temple when the symbiote’s voice rang through. (WHAT!? HE DOESN’T NEED TO BE SKINNIER, WE WANT HIM HEALTHY DON’T WE? WE LIKE HIS WEIGHT!).
Eddie folded his arms as a way to sort of comfort the symbiote. “Yes we do, come on” he said as he grabbed his jacket and ran out the door.
It’d been a normal day for you so far and a good one too. No one at your work had commented on your body and you didn’t even feel the need to eat anything until later. You felt a bit weak but now you could fit into those jeans you’d wanted to wear for sometime yet you actually needed to wear a belt to stop them from dropping. You made your way home from work in no time since you started jogging for most of the way. You noticed a familiar bike parked near your building a smile crept its way on your face. You hadn’t seen Eddie for a few days but now as you climbed the stairs to your door, you’ll thinking of any movies you two hadn’t watched yet. When you walked in, you found Eddie sitting at your island bench with a bag of take out right in the middle. “Hey!” You called as you came up to him and kissed him softly. “Hmm” he smiled into the kiss yet it was not as happy as yours.
You put it down to something happening at work, thinking he’ll talk about it in his own time. He wrapped an arm around you, pulling you closer to him. He could feel the bones of your hips against his arm, your stomach being an indent to your figure.
He couldn’t help his breathing, it had gone rugged and you could feel the tense hold he had on you. “Eddie? Sweetie whats wrong?”. He couldn’t decide whether to be upset or angry at you right now. Upset because you showed worry for him instead of yourself and anger because of how you’d cause yourself to suffer. He pulled away to look at you. Observing your face fully. Oh how could he not have noticed? Your cheeks didn’t hold any of the plumpness that he wanted to hold and kiss. Your skin looked tight as if it were glad wrap pulled over a skeletal frame. You looked worse than he did when he and the symbiote first connected. “Why are you doing this?” His voice was pleaded yet tender as always when it came to you. You were one of the best things that ever happened to him in his opinion and the symbiote agreed full heartedly. You were kind and grateful for those around you. So why couldn’t you be kind to yourself?
You were confused at the question. What were you doing that would upset your boyfriend? Did he think you were cheating? Had one of your friends called him as a prank.
“I don’t know what you mean”. “This!” His voice was frantic as he gestured at you “I mean this. You’re not eating!”. You were stunned, you were eating, just not as much as you used to, you were at a healthy stage right? “I-I” you stuttered, trying to figure out your response “I am eating-“. “Then why are you skin and bone (Y/N)? Don’t lie to me, we can both see it and I can even feel it on you. You’re starving yourself”. “Im not starving!” You raised your voice at him which caused him to recoil from you. You weren’t usually one to get upset or angry at anyone, especially Eddie and Venom. You just felt cornered and needed a sense of grounding. “Sorry” you saw how he relaxed a bit but his eyes still showed signs of surprise “but I am eating, just not as much as before so I can get it shape”. Eddie gestured to your body again “but why? You’ve lost too much!”.
“Lift up your jumper then”.
That caught you off a bit, what would he say when seeing your torso. You were naturally bony in your upper half, all the fat usually went to your legs and cheeks. Now that you lifted your jumper, even you could see a lot of your ribcage had become more definite. Oh shit. “You looked back to Eddie who looked close to tears. You weren’t too far from crying yourself. “Eddie I’m sorr-“ you were cut off when he quickly pulled you into him, holding as if you weren’t going to be there any longer. You felt slippery tendrils under neath his hands on your back. Both Eddie and Venom were worried and scared for you. You didn’t feel wrong though. But Eddie was suffering too in seeing you like this. You noticed the difference in texture between your hands and his cheeks when you pull back and held his face. You really were bony compared to his plump skin. And he wasn’t ugly, if anything he was a Teddie bear and was bigger than you whether or not you were starving.
“I’m sorry” you started again “I’ve been a bit self-conscious lately and was getting tired of what the others were saying”. (THE OTHERS?) Venom had brought his face out of Eddie’s shoulder in order to ask you directly (WHO ARE THEY!?). “Please tell us” Eddie said to accompany Venom’s request. You shook your head “Just people at work, its fine, I’ll stop ok!” You were a little frantic to get them off that subject since you knew full well what could had happen if they knew who your co workers were. Eddie didn’t believe it, why were you hiding them? “Please tell me” he pleaded. You shook your head again, “please, look I’ll eat, they were just joking and I took it to heart”. A look of puzzlement set itself on Eddie’s face, his brows furrowed more than before. “What do you mean they were joking”. You sighed lightly, trying not to breath in his face. “They kept commenting on my body, joking and saying things like I was a “fat ass” and stuff like that”.
So thats why you weren’t eating.
“(Y/N)” he began, “your not fat and you weren’t fat to begin with, they’re assholes for saying that to you”. He suddenly lifted you up into the air, no with any effort really due to your significant loss in weight. “Uh. What are you doing?” You asked, not fully knowing whether he just wanted to hold you or wanted to go somewhere. He chuckled, something you could feel easily vibrating through your small frame “carrying my baby”. Now that you were sort of in a relaxed position, you realised your head felt a bit heavy to which you rested against the worn yet soft material covering Eddie’s shoulder. He set you down on the couch before leaving again. You whined a bit when he did that, only to then see him placing Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban in the DVD player before coming back with the take out bag. “Alrighty then” he said when he picked you up again and sat down on the couch with you in his arms. Two black tendril shot out from his knees and carried the take out to you from the table. “Thanks Venom” you said to the symbiote. Eddie smiled at you when the symbiote passed your boll to you. He’d gotten you friend rice from the Chinese restaurant down the street. You then turned to Eddie again, “Thanks”. “No problem hun”. “And Eddie”. Eddie perked his eyebrow at you in question “yeah?”. Your voice came out a bit timid but not in the way that meant you were scared but in a way that meant apologetic “I’m sorry about all this”. “Don’t be sorry” he said as he cuddled you closed, his cheeks pressing against yours “I just want you to be ok”. That cause a stray tear to roll down your cheek as the movie started “I’ll eat more”. Eddie noticed your tear, bringing himself to kiss it away “promise?”. Although you liked the feeling of being thin, you also liked the warmth and care of your boyfriend and knew you needed to make a choice. You turned your head and kissed his lips, the warmth spreading into you, making you feel safe in his arms “promise”.
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