Yoshikage Wen was born on October 24, 1999 in Nagasaki, Japan. Labeled as an unexpected and unwanted pregnancy, Wen learned from an early age just how cruel and unrelenting the world could be. Abandoned at an age too young to grace his memories, he ended up a victim of the foster care system. He found brief solace in the care of an elderly couple who doted on him and nearly adopted him, unfortunately, such peace would not last long. After a almost a year in their care, the wife had fallen ill and passed away; the husband having fallen into a deep depression as a result, was no longer able to provide Wen with "proper care" as his guardian. And so the boy was thrust back into the system where he bounced from home to home with fairly bad luck in the way of foster families until he aged out of the system and decided to tackle life on his own.
Now working as a rather successful investigative journalist, a career he gained with feverish hard work; Wen seems to have found his place in the world, though few know just how much he'd disagree with the sentiment.
At the age of twenty-three, Wen began experiencing frequent migraines and blurred vision. He was rushed to the hospital after experiencing what appeared to be a seizure, where he underwent extensive testing and was eventually met with a diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor. Deciding to keep his diagnosis a secret, Wen made the choice to continue his journalism work. He decided to make it his mission to take down the one of the biggest and perhaps most crooked pharmaceutical companies in the country. During a night of less than legal investigating, Wen stumbled upon what appeared to be some kind of unauthorized and highly unethical human testing. While trying to gather intel, he accidentally tripped an alarm which led to him dropping an unknown, unlabeled sample of black ooze. In a hurried frenzy to escape, he hardly realized that the inexplicable substance had spilled all over him.
After some time, he began to experience some rather strange happenings that he simply chalked up to his terminal diagnosis. It wasn't until he was contacted by a scientist who identified themselves as a former employee of the company who had been involved in what they described as an unsavory series of morally and medically unethical human testing. Of course, Wen was skeptical at first, but after an in-person meeting where the informant not only provided Wen with some of their research notes, photographs, and further documentation; Wen began to question some of his more recent unexplained symptoms. It was later confirmed that the black sample he had come in contact with was in fact an alien parasitic species classified as "symbiotes". The pharmaceutical company had discovered the species and intended on using it as a medical cure-all. However, every single test subject exposed to the parasite expired after merging with the creature, leaving the companies experiment rendered a failure. That is, until Wen.
The following contains medical notes pertaining to Wen's subsequent union with the symbiotic parasite: Subject Case File
Wen can appear to be quiet and closed off upon first glance. He suffers from ptsd and chronic depression. Though he can be hard-working to a fault, he has learned to embrace his inner goofball and allow himself to heal mentally and emotionally with the help of his loved ones, including Venom himself.
Wen is a character of my own design, au currently loosely based on that of Marvel's Eddie Brock / Venom.