Andrea Benton/Scream

Subject Facts

Full Name: Andrea "Andi" Benton

Codename: Scream

Age: early 20's

Gender: Female

Archetype: Metahero

Aliases: None

Marital Status: Single

Affiliation: LIFE foundation (Formerly)

Subject Attributes

Meta-Human Abilities:



Hell-Mark: Unintentionally transferred to Andi from the Venom symbiote, Andi has been marked as a potential candidate to become a Hell-Lord during the apocalypse. This demonic branding has given her the ability to shoot out Hellfire, summon and controll lesser demons, as well as transform into a demon. As a necessary side effect to her hellfire abilities, Andrea has also been made immune to flame. The side effect of these powers however is that the more she uses her demonic abilities, the easier it will be for her to become corrupted by them, as well as making her more violent. This being the case, she usually limits herself to only the Hellfire when necessary.



Scream Symbiote: Bonded to the Klyntar known as Scream, Andi is granted the following abilities:



Alien Physique: Scream has enhanced Strength, Durability, and Stamina thanks to the bonding between human and Klyntar. She is also capable of forming tendrils out of her hair and body, or even shapeshift her body to better suit the combat enviornment, as shown she she took on a series of aquatic forms when battling underwater.



Accelerated Healing Factor: The Scream symbiote is capable of repairing the damage done to it's host, however it can take time to achieve and will still be capable of being injured more in that time.



Wall-Crawling: by means of her claws or adhesive palms, Scream is capable of scaling any manner of walls and surfaces



Symbiote Sense: Similar to Spider Man and the "father" of her symbiote half Venom, Scream possesses the ability to sense danger around her to a degree



Immunity to Spider-Man's Spider Sense: Due to her connections to Venom, Scream does not show up on Spiderman's spider sense as a threat. Other wallcrawlers however she will.



Webbing Generation: Scream is capable of shooting webbing from her hands and wrists, usually in the form of yellow symbiotic material such as Scream herself.



Camouflage Capabilities: The Scream symbiote is capable of retreating into Andi's body to hide it's presence, or take the form of seemingly normal clothing and disguises.



Oxygen Filtration: when in her symbiote form Scream is able to breath underwater and in space



Standard Abilities: Andi was coached in combat by Flash Thompson, and while not a super genius is quite bright in her own right.



Paraphernalia:



Subject Weaknesses:



Sonics: Symbiotes are weak to loud noises and sonic weaponry, capable of weakening, seperating, or even killing a symbiote.



Holy weaponry: Due to her demonic branding, Andi and her symbiote are vulnerable to Holy weaponry



Seperation: With enough sonics or brute strength it is possible to rip the symbiote off of Andi



Sacrifical tendencies: Both the Scream symbiote and Andi have shown themselves to be willing to give up their life for the other, but this two way scenario leads to situations where one will leave themselves in a dire state for the other to escape, only for the other to come right back anyways into danger.



Corruption: If Andi uses her demonic powers too much she will be corrupted by their dark influence



Suicidal Tendencies: Andi has fallen into a depression after losing Eddie and Flash, having attempted twice to end her life but the symbiote saving her both times.



Mortal: Andi and her symbiote are both very capable of dying. Andi through any normal means, and Scream through either extreme sonic attacks or lack of a host.



Fear of abandonment: Andrea feels as if everyone she has known and loved has either vanished or been killed, leaving her afraid to get truly close to others as well as leaving her wrecked emotionally if something does happen to someone who wormed their way past her defenses.



Flash's teachings: Scream is perhaps one of the only symbiotes that will not kill a sentient enemy if they can help it, only reserving lethal force for mindless monsters and entities of evil such as Grendel's Mother.

Subject History

History of the symbiote: Scream was one of five symbiotes spawned forcibly from Venom by the LIFE foundation. Bonded to the Mercenary Donna Diego, Scream would aid her symbiote brethern in fighting Spiderman and Venom for the LIFE foundation's goals, however nobody noticed the dark truth about Scream. Her host Donna suffered from schizophrenia, which the symbiote unintentionally amplified to such a degree that Donna murdered her parters in a paranoid psychosis, only stopped by Venom and Spiderman. Eventually resurfacing with a better grasp on her mental health, Scream and Donna would seek out Venom to ask for aid in controlling her symbiote, and eventually started to seek out other to aid them in controlling their own symbiotes. This wouldn't last forever though, as an increasingly paranoid Eddie Brock took it upon himself to rid the world of symbiotes out of fear of them spawning more. Luring Donna to an abandoned building, he used a sonic device to leave Scream writhing on the floor in pain before killing them both with a heated knife. This would be her fate for many years....



History of Andrea: Andrea "Andri" Bently had rough luck right at the start, born in the back of her father's Chevy that he had crashed on their way to the hospital. Andri never got much of a chance to know her mother as she ditched the family shortly after her birth. Andi would grow up pretty apathetic towards life in general as she lived with her father and got good grades in school. Her Gym coach Flash Thompson would try and convince her to participate in what she saw as a "Useless" academic class with little success. However Andi would notice Flash use his symbiote to enhance his throw a dodgeball at a kid picking on others in the class, thus leading to Andrea discovering his identity as Venom.



The Mob Boss Lord Ogre placed a hit on Venom's head, prompting the villain Jack O'Lantern to attack Andrea as someone close to his civilian identity. Flash was able to save Andrea, but not her father. A portion of the Venom symbiote would detach and bond with Andi, turning her into her own symbiote hero that she would dub "Mania". The Jack O'lantern that attacked her was revealed to be a pawn brainwashed by the true Jack, as Mania went in for the kill. Flash however would restrain her, talking her out of taking out her revenge and stressing the importance of not crossing that line.



After many escapades as Mania, including discovering she had absorbed a Hell Mark brand from the piece of the venom symbiote, a former army ranger named Lee Price trapped her in a flurry of sonic guns to force the symbiote off of her, taking it for himself and dubbing himself Maniac, using the symbiote to brainwash others to do his bidding as Andi teamed up with Eddie Brock and Flash Thompson. Unfortunately their efforts weren't enough, and they were forced to destroy the symbiote in order to put an end to Lee's villainy. Reluctantly reduced to a normal life once more, she got a job at a record store and moved in with her aunt. Things only growing more dim for her upon discovering that her friend and mentor Flash Thompson was murdered by The Red Goblin, otherwise known as Norman Osborn wearing the Carnage symbiote.



Combined history: When Carnage was revived by a cult worshipping Knull, the god of symbiotes and their creator, Andi and her aunt were attacked by the deranged serial killer who sought to kill anyone who does or formerly possessed a symbiote to harvest the traces of alien DNA and awaken Knull. Her aunt being slaughtered, Andi managed to escape as Carnage used his newfound connection to Knull to ressurect the Scream symbiote as it shambled around using Donna's skeleton as a host. Soon spotting Patricia Robertson who had been another former host of Mania, the Scream symbiote took her over as a host, Scream's mind scattered between her ressurection, the lingering scattered voices of Donna's schizophrenia, Patricia's own mind, and the brainwashing Carnage had implanted into her. Carnage's will winning out, Scream would chase after Andi with the occassional moment of Patricia glimmering through. Tired of the hassle, Carnage would resume the hunt alongside Scream, as Patricia finally managed to snap through the control and put up a fight against Carnage, the mad killer impaling Andi on a meat hook before proceeding to murder Patricia. Seeing it's last chance, the Scream symbiote would move onto Andi as it's next host, and unable to defeat Carnage despite their best efforts Andi and her new symbiote would choose to flee instead as Cloak recruited them for the battle to defeat Carnage, heading from her home in Philladelphia to New York.



Once the battle ended, Andi was left stranded and homeless in New York, forced to take up residence in a F.E.A.S.T homeless shelter being run by none other than May Parker. At first Scream's voice only being heard as a static screeching in Andi's head, as she tried to force the symbiote out of her body with no success. Andi would sink further into a depression as she felt she had lost anyone and everyone she cared about, these feelings culminating of her attempting to jump off a bridge only for Scream to save her against her will. Unbeknownst to the duo, some of Andi's blood dripping down into the water caught notice of a great evil lurking in the river below them, an evil entity known only as Grendel's Mother was at work taking drowned corpses and fusing them with symbiote remnants and sealife in order to create abominable monsters. Able to sense a great deal about Scream from the blood, Grendel's Mother decided that she wanted this Symbiote for her own. Sending flurry after flurry of monsters towards Andi in hopes of capturing her, even sending one meant to pose as Andrea's long lost mother, the teen was fed up enough to bring the fight to Grendel's Mother. A long drawn out fight would take place underwater as she formed a true bond with her symbiote, the two declaring eachother as the only family they had left as they managed to lure Grendel's Mother out of the water, hanging her neck with a crane hook and decapitating her before leaving, certain that she would eventually resurface. Returning back to F.E.A.S.T, May Parker would reveal that she had seen Andi shift into Scream during a fight at the shelter, but promised her secret was safe so long as she didn't use it for violence inside the shelter.

Subject Interview

(Taken from a thread with her on another site I did for context)



I can't believe we're flying out of state to look into some tech announcement. Andi thought to herself as whilst gliding through a patch of clouds as if an angel of some kind. May asked us to do her a favor. Fresh air will do us good. Came the lingering echo within her own head, the ever present narration of her bodily roommate. The mass of shining ooze and thrashing tendrils that currently coated her body, the entity known as Scream. The Klntar symbiote had taken on it's usual form consisting of a red and yellow body, a mass of similarly colored tendrils trailing behind her in the guise of hair, and a face as dark as night housing two piercing white eyes that often accompanied a faint orange glow. Further from the norm however, were a pair of bat-like wings protruding out from her shoulder plates, flapping briskly though the air in a lazy glide.



"This is a waste of time! Nothing May couldn't learn from turning on the news! What if Grendel's mother wakes back up, or some low life thug decides to hit up FEAST for an easy payday!" Andi exclaimed out loud in frustration, startling a few nearby geese migrating in the distance. As the clouds parted the duo could see they had arrived in their destination, Scream landing and perching on a rooftop like a demented gargoyle. There are others heroes besides us in New York Andrea. FEAST shall manage without us. Once again came Scream's feelings on the matter, a quiet, yet beastly hissing noise made it's way from the shared body as an outlet of Andi's frustration. Knowing there was no winning this argument with herself, Andi elected to jump down from her perch, plummeting towards the concrete below. Upon landing, the alien visage would retract away into that of Andi Benton, a woman one may mistake for a street punk in her own right, having short black hair, nearly more piercings than ears, gray hoodie accompanied by a black leather jacket, and topped off with a pair of black jeans and boots. Hands shoved into her pockets, she wandered her way towards the crowd.



Not bothering to push through the gathering for a better view of everything, Andi merely watched the stage with a disinterested scowl as what could only be described as if Wilson Fisk tried to cosplay as a stereotypical hollywood director archetype shambled his way upon the stage. Andrea. Came the tingle in her brain as Andi's scowl intensified. Yeah. I can feel it too. Something is really off about that guy, I can't place what however. She replied silently, placing a hand to her chest subconciously. She wouldn't have much time to linger on it though, as random people among the crowd would burst into mechanized drones, the sounds of screams filling the air. Sounds like they're playing our song. Came Andi's thoughts Yes, the bloodcurdling melody of "SCREAMS!" Exclaimed Scream enthusiastically as their game face oozed onto them once more, letting loose a beastial screech into the air as the final word came blurting aloud, the symbiotic protector crouching down upon all fours as her hair lashed out in various directions like a twister, attempting to wrap around the closest few robots.

Author's Notes

Player Alias: Porcupine2099



Other Characters: Janice Lincoln/The Beetle



How did you find MFT?: From ARFD