[Venkman's life is, in essence, a collection of poor decisions that he desperately hopes will eventually cancel each other out and leave him in a state of relative stability.
Case in point- in a moment of pure impulsive stupidity, he injected himself with a plasmid relatively early in the month just to be contrary to one Kim Kitsurugi. Considering the fact that Kim isn't the one currently fighting off ADAM withdrawal symptoms, it's safe to say that this is one point wherein the cop was right about something.
For the record, Venkman is furious about that.
It's not long before the powers fade, replaced by cold sweats, nausea, and shakes, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out he's going through withdrawal. It sucks, but Venkman's plan is twofold- get the plasmid out of him, and ride the rest of the symptoms out until they go away. Injecting himself with more of that shit isn't gonna do anything but make him crave it more.
Step one isn't exactly easy, but he's successful. Step two is a bit more nebulous. See, even with the plasmid gone, he still has ADAM in his system. Poisoning him. And nausea turns out to be the least of his concerns. Paranoia bubbles up again- not as potent as it was on the Titanic, but it blends wonderfully with the heightened aggression. He's not a stranger to anger, of course, but this is different. It's something raw, and every perceived slight against Venkman has him fighting the urge to turn things physical.
And once the strings manifest, he gets to deal with all these fun withdrawal symptoms and the emotional pain of distance from the people on the other end of his red strings.
Unfortunately, the man at the other end of a silver string gets to experience it too. In a muted, distilled form, of course. But it's there. And even if Kim isn't initially curious about who's at the end of that string, he'll probably find himself compelled to figure it out at some point, just to find out who's giving him secondhand sickness and why.]
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sometime after 2/11 (cw: drugs, addiction symptoms)
Case in point- in a moment of pure impulsive stupidity, he injected himself with a plasmid relatively early in the month just to be contrary to one Kim Kitsurugi. Considering the fact that Kim isn't the one currently fighting off ADAM withdrawal symptoms, it's safe to say that this is one point wherein the cop was right about something.
For the record, Venkman is furious about that.
It's not long before the powers fade, replaced by cold sweats, nausea, and shakes, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out he's going through withdrawal. It sucks, but Venkman's plan is twofold- get the plasmid out of him, and ride the rest of the symptoms out until they go away. Injecting himself with more of that shit isn't gonna do anything but make him crave it more.
Step one isn't exactly easy, but he's successful. Step two is a bit more nebulous. See, even with the plasmid gone, he still has ADAM in his system. Poisoning him. And nausea turns out to be the least of his concerns. Paranoia bubbles up again- not as potent as it was on the Titanic, but it blends wonderfully with the heightened aggression. He's not a stranger to anger, of course, but this is different. It's something raw, and every perceived slight against Venkman has him fighting the urge to turn things physical.
And once the strings manifest, he gets to deal with all these fun withdrawal symptoms and the emotional pain of distance from the people on the other end of his red strings.
Unfortunately, the man at the other end of a silver string gets to experience it too. In a muted, distilled form, of course. But it's there. And even if Kim isn't initially curious about who's at the end of that string, he'll probably find himself compelled to figure it out at some point, just to find out who's giving him secondhand sickness and why.]
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