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Description This is a pic I made of another Of my Marvel Superheroes. This is Lion's Mane, a merging of the human girl Tina Marrin, and an Alien Symbiote, and is a being in the lines of Venom and Carnage.
Lion's Mane is the spawn of Scream, "daughter" of Venom. While on the hunt for other symbiotes left on Earth from a symbiote invasion, Scream was on a search through Southern Ontario, but had to stop in Toronto when she became "Pregnant", her Symbiote ready to spawn an offspring of its own. Her "pregnancy" was detected by her "brother" ("brothers"?) Hybrid, a being composed of the remains of the 4 other spawns of Venom bonded to a single human. The 4 Symbiotes were nearly killed when Scream was still insane, but Hyrid has moved on and is here to help his "sister". However, also detecting that she is ready to spawn, thier "Father" Venom, made his way to Toronto to confront Scream. No longer attatched to Eddie Brock, the first man to call himself Venom, the Symbiote is not attatched to Mac Gargan, the former supervillan the Scorpion, and is now stronger then Eddie Brock ever was thanks to Mac Gargan's enhanced powers augmented by the Symbiote's. Venom onced tried to recruit his first "Grandchild", Toxin, spawn of his rival Carnage, but Toxin turned on both, and became a Hero himself. Venom is not willing to make that mistake twice, and is determined to defeat this new Symbiote before it can grow stronger then himself.
Venom confronted Scream, attempting to kill her while she was still vulnerable due to her being ready to spawn the Symbiote offspring. Hybrid tried to defend her, but was over powered by the new stronger Venom. Eventually the new Heroes Phantasy, Bleak and Liz Benu tried to interfere and help protect Scream, but they too where overpowered by Venom.
But the distraction was enough, and eventually Sceam was able to spawn her offspring. So Venom tried to kill the newborn before it could bond with a host, but it found a host in Tina Marrin, a teenage girl friends with Liz Benu. Venom tried to strike host and symbiote down, but Scream, Hybrid, Bleak and Phantasy put themselves inbetween him and her. Venom fought tenaciously, and managed to knock away all 4 heroes. With only Liz left to protect her friend, Venom grabbed Liz by the throat and began to choke her. About to die at the hands of the Super Villan, Liz's powers finally manifested to full strength, and she turned into the New Heroe, the Blue Phoenix, and blasted Venom with waves of fire. The Symbiote had also speant enough time with its new host, and thus Lion's Mane emmerged, ready to take on Venom as well. Outnumbered and outpowered, Venom say no other choice but to retreat.
And it is with that fight that 4 new Super Heroes, Phantasy, Bleak, Blue Phoenix and Lion's Mane came together, and joined a team, later to be joined by 2 other Heroes.
Lion's Mane, as the spawn of Scream, has many powers assotiated with Venom and the other Symbiotes. Gaining powers aquiered from when the Venom Symbiote was bonded with Spider-man, Lion's Mane can climb walls, is super strong, agile and can shoot webbing from her hands. The Symbiote can change color and apperance, and thus change to appear as any kind of clothing, as well as letting Lion's Man camoflauge and blend into the background. Lastly, Lion's Mane can shift her hair (and technically other parts of her body as well) into grasping tendrils, ending them in bladed if she desiers. It is this power, which she gained from Scream, that she derived her name from. To further augment her appearnce, which she is modeling after a Lion, she developed a tail (which she can use like a 3rd arm) and a more lion like face, as well as long claws (though most Symbiotes have claws), all which come from the Symbiote. Tina is just getting used to her powers, but as a 3rd generation Symbiote born on Earth, it is possible that she, like Toxin, is more powerful then both Scream and Venom.
I made this picture from a template I found here [link] and it is used with implied primission and full credit given to its creator.
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Comments: 26

Automan217 [2013-08-02 12:07:21 +0000 UTC]

Glad there are some people out there who don't giveΒ into the symbiot and insteadΒ fight the good fight

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Dinalfos5 In reply to Automan217 [2013-08-03 01:31:57 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, glad you like it then. I have since slightly updated her form as well, and her back story has been altered a little too. You can see an updated look hereΒ dinalfos5.deviantart.com/art/M… for example, the addition of take ears.

As for becoming a hero, I think it makes sense. During a recent interview about Carnage, some writers stated that Symbiotes learn from their first host. Venom was already an adult when it met Spider-man, so it's personality was already set, but Carnage learned everything it knew from Cletus Cassidy, thus it's ingrained to be a total monster like him.Β 

Other Symbiotes, if given more benevolent hosts, could learn to be benevolent and protective. Symbiotes are perhaps aggressive at first, but if given a moderating influence, like a good, kind-hearted host like Tina here, then they would learn to be kinder creatures when in absence of their initial host. Still, Tina initially had to learn self-control methods from her mentor, a mystic-monk known as Bleak, who helps train her to keep the younger Lion's-Man in check while it is still learning.Β 

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Automan217 In reply to Dinalfos5 [2013-08-03 12:17:45 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome

Cool I get it

Keep up the good work!

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Dinalfos5 In reply to Automan217 [2013-08-03 23:09:53 +0000 UTC]

If you want to see more of the characters from that story, they can all be seen in this gallery hereΒ dinalfos5.deviantart.com/galle…

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Automan217 In reply to Dinalfos5 [2013-08-03 23:53:52 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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logonomicon [2010-02-01 16:27:11 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely wonderful, one of the best symbiote original characters I've seen.

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Dinalfos5 In reply to logonomicon [2010-02-01 20:54:05 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I've changed her origin a bit in the years since posting this, the Lion connection isn't so superficial anymore. Thanks for the fav as well.

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logonomicon In reply to Dinalfos5 [2010-02-01 21:52:38 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome.

Can I ask what's changed? (You don't have to go into over-selfburdening detail, of course)

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Dinalfos5 In reply to logonomicon [2010-02-02 00:11:48 +0000 UTC]

Okay, rather then go into more detail, I'll just direct you to this picture instead [link] and it's description.
The basic idea was if Venom could absorb spider-like traits from Spider-man, then this symbiote could absorb lion-like DNA from its first host.
The other stuff is some circumstances of the symbiote's birth have changed, like the absence of Hybrid and perhaps altering how Venom is involved.

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logonomicon In reply to Dinalfos5 [2010-02-02 00:27:32 +0000 UTC]

That's really clever.

Can I ask what you use Tina and the symbiote for? As in, do you use her in any projects or the sort?

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Dinalfos5 In reply to logonomicon [2010-02-02 01:14:50 +0000 UTC]

Oh thank you.
I'm using her in a planned story about a new team I call The Wild Ones To not go into more detail, you can see the first 6 members here [link]
there is more to it, but rather then point it all out, you can search them out here in my Marvel folder [link]

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logonomicon In reply to Dinalfos5 [2010-02-02 03:09:03 +0000 UTC]

Very awesome. I'll be sure to take a look around.

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Faltain [2006-12-12 17:11:27 +0000 UTC]

I love the idea and your art for it is great!

You should do some sort of "origin" piece showing the girl host initially combining with the creature... I think that'd be fun to see.

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Dinalfos5 In reply to Faltain [2006-12-12 17:24:15 +0000 UTC]

Oh, thank you, glad you like it.
I might be able to do something like that, as I am currently taking requests. I am afraid that if I were to do such a piece, I would have to do it by hand with pencils, which is a totally different style then my digital work, as I work from premade templates to make this kind of work, and posess are premade as well, so if I want to capture the essanse of a Symbote merging with the host, it would need to to hand drawn.

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Faltain In reply to Dinalfos5 [2006-12-12 20:32:23 +0000 UTC]

Ahh hehe... I see.

Well the character is definitely a fun one you've got there; sort of a Symbiote meets Furry ideal... which, when a cute girl is added to the equation... becomes an undoubtedly fairly sexy (imo) thing. (I do take it that if someone were to bearhug her while she was in costume it'd feel like hugging a giant kitty?)

An image of some sort depicting their union would be fun on lots of levels to draw I'd imagine... or maybe some sort of sonic-blast/transformation-to-clothing image would be entertaining...

Ideas involving Symbiote suits can be pretty endless!

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Dinalfos5 In reply to Faltain [2006-12-13 06:15:19 +0000 UTC]

Well, I kind of originally immagined the Lion part to be superficial, just a gimmick to go with, the tail and nose are just a look to make her more lion-like to go with her name. At the moment, I doulbt the symbiote's form would feel any different then Venom or other Symbiotes.
I am however considering the idea of changing her oragin to somehow incorperate a Lion into her oragins, having the Symbiote actually aquire Lion dna similar to how the Venom Symbiote aquiered Spider dna off of Spider-man. It's kind of out there, but a potential idea involves the new Symbiote finding its way to a genetically-altered lion before it finds its way on to Tina.
But thanks you, glad you are interested in the idea. I think I'll stick with drawing the Symbiote merging with Tina for now, I'm not sure how to do that other Request. What I assume you are asking for is a picture of Tina Being hit by a sonic attack or something while in civilian Desguise, and the Symbiote shifting back into its normal form arround where she was hit because of the attack? I'm not really sure how I would draw that, but it is an interesting idea.

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Faltain In reply to Dinalfos5 [2006-12-13 13:13:46 +0000 UTC]

Interesting idea involving the lion DNA hehe... perhaps Donna was visiting a Zoo/fighting near a zoo of some sort while giving birth? Hmm... (There many Zoo's in Canada?!)

What I meant was the good ol' fashioned sonic-blast images that would always pop up in Venom-featured books always make fun pieces of art as pinups. She'd be fully in costume and some sort of sonic-energy would be hitting her, (perhaps from off the page, perhaps on the page from an enemy)... causing the symbiote to pull-away from the girls nekkid(!) body. Certainly something like that'd be fun...

And the other thing I was referring to would be the kinds of images depicting the creature transforming from it's "lion" visage to normal clothing at the behest of the girl inside. Those sorts of images are always fun to, (particularly when you think about a fashionable girl as the host)... an imaginative girl would have a field-day with an instant-wardrobe... (and you might even have her put on some outlandish outfits that she'd never bother with if she didn't have an instant-wardrobe to fool around with; nurse outfit, french-maid outfit, policewoman's uniform, go-go outfit, etc). Possibilities are truly endless...

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Dinalfos5 In reply to Faltain [2006-12-13 21:01:47 +0000 UTC]

Well, one idea involved some sort of mutated lion in a lab bonding with the Symbiote first, but to involve something like that would have to involve a whole new sub-plot as to why there would be a lab with genetic super-animals in the first place. But to answer your question, yes, there are a good number of Zoos in Canada, the Toronto Zoo is one of the Largest and best in North America.
Hmm, I kind of get what you're Implying now, rather then the sonic blast causing the clothing desguise to undo to the Symbiotes normal form, you're implying a sonic blast causing the symbiote to become undone off of its host. Its still an interesting idea, but I'm not sure if I can draw it, and I'm not exactally comfortable in drawing too much nudity in a picture.
As for the shapeshifting clothing asspect, yes I could immagine playing arround with lots of different types of clothing, but that's not exactally something I want to draw lots of pictures of.

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Aianarie [2006-09-03 04:18:03 +0000 UTC]

really cute! Even though the outfit is simple, it matches her personality. Good job

When you said Venom, did you mean the Venom from Spider-man?

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Dinalfos5 In reply to Aianarie [2006-09-03 08:17:50 +0000 UTC]

Oh, thank you, glad you like it. Yeah, its the Venom from Spider-man. This was my idea to make an original Symbiote hero based on Venom. I did a lot of net-research on him and his kin before making this picture.

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Aianarie In reply to Dinalfos5 [2006-09-06 02:22:24 +0000 UTC]

you're welcome ^_^

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Ryu-Gi [2006-09-03 04:11:48 +0000 UTC]

She looks cute in that outfit.

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Dinalfos5 In reply to Ryu-Gi [2006-09-03 08:14:19 +0000 UTC]

Oh, thank you.

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Ryu-Gi In reply to Dinalfos5 [2006-09-05 04:27:45 +0000 UTC]

Welcome!

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dinosoar [2006-09-02 15:50:04 +0000 UTC]

you did a really good job on this one.
i like it.

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Dinalfos5 In reply to dinosoar [2006-09-02 17:56:41 +0000 UTC]

Oh, thank you.

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