#willlem dafoe

A/N: Hey guys. I’m sorry it’s been so long since I posted anything. If you remember, I mentioned awhile ago that I was working on more posts about Norman Osborn. This is actually an idea someone asked me to write about. It’s a short headcanon about what it was like for Norman and Mendel Stromm to work together. I hope you like it 🙂

Sometimes it could be difficult for Doctor Stromm to work with Norman. Without realizing it, sometimes Norman was so determined for his projects to work, it was very demanding for Doctor Stromm especially when the general from the military would ask for results about his projects.

Neither of them liked the general, they didn’t care for how the man demanded information about their projects. Just because the military was providing their funding, it didn’t mean the two scientists and their colleagues deserved to be in constant fear of losing funding and their jobs.

Doctor Stromm always worked very diligently on research and developing technologies for the military. Norman admired that about him. Mendel also had to be Norman’s voice of reason at times, talking him out of ending up in a bad situation. Most of the time it worked.

But it unfortunately didn’t work with the new performance enchantment formula they were working on. Norman was worried about losing funding, and he became frustrated when Mendel told the general they would need to go back to the drawing board. They had been working on that formula for months.

“Mendel, I don’t understand why your so concerned about one test going wrong. The others had no negative side effects, and rest of the staff agree it’s safe for human testing.” “Norman, you know how negatively those mice reacted. Think of what might happen if we allow it to be tested on human beings. If a person became that violent and harmed someone, it would mean the end of Oscorp, we would lose our licenses, and never be able to work in science again! We would lose everything we worked for, and be doing the exact opposite of the oath we took. We just can’t take that risk.” “You’re right. That’s why I’m going to test it on myself.”