Whenever there's confusion as to what a symbiote host should or shouldn't know, my head canon is that the symbiote has its own ideas of what it wants the host to know and will sometimes block certain knowledge from the host.
-Pav, who hopes everyone is having a pleasant day...
You were Spider-Man then. You and Peter had agreed on it. But he came back right when you started feeling comfortable.
You know what it means when he comes back.
"You're not the better one, Peter. You're just older."
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"He's pure power and doesn't even know it. He's the best of us."-Matt Murdock
"I need a reason to take the mask off."-Peter Parker
"My heart half-breaks at how easy it is to lie to him. It breaks all the way when he believes me without question." Felicia Hardy
The symbiote did that yeah, also manipulated Eddie to think he has cancer again, and also made Eddie forget Flash died, and also gave him false memories of family members who don't exist to, I dunno, something cancer related.
So yeah, Cates' run definitely established that symbiotes can manipulate memories, also made the symbiote look like an even bigger abusive prick than usual.
Edit: Oh, and a rapist, can't forget that part.
Last edited by Lukmendes; 09-21-2021 at 12:48 PM.