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Prophet of Babylon

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Darkness.

What is darkness?

It is a question I have heard asked so many times, but no answers have been as fascinating as the ones you little humans dream up...

Ask ten different people, youkai or human, and you will find ten different types of darkness.

Absence of light.

Lack of morals.

The emptiness of the night.

The nothingness of destruction.

The limitless potential for the new.

The cruelty of evil.

The shadows cast by bright lights...or the metaphorical shadows cast by truly horrific or malevolent individuals or actions.

You see, in a world where myths, and magic, and legends are given shape by the mind and beliefs of humans, giving rise to creatures such as oni, werewolves, vampires and demons...the truth is that darkness is in the eye of the beholder.

You see what you want to see in it, and inevitably, what you see in it is yourself.

How do I know this, you ask? What am I, you ask...?

A long, long time ago, I was just a satori...one of those rare, hated creatures of myth that could read the minds of any intelligent creature. No lies, no half truths, no dissembling. All lay bare before my third eye...and so I sealed it, a child terrified by the horrors and evil hidden in the hearts and minds of everyone around me.

You humans worst of all...you smile, you laugh, you laugh, you cry...but all the time, beneath the surface, you are constantly at war with yourselves. Darkness is a part of your very existence, a seething blackness held at bay only by the weak, fraying bonds of your morals, and a rigid social code...

And so I cut out the part of myself which allowed me to gaze on such reeking filth and decay, hiding myself safely in the realms of the subconscious.

I was a fool.

Even there, the darkness remained, staining the corners of even the most pristine and innocent.

And many years later, when my third eye began to reopen, at last, I understood the truth.

It doesn't matter who you are.

It doesn't matter where you go.

Light maybe the fastest thing in the universe...but in truth, it only thinks it is.

After all, you can shine a light into the deepest, blackest pits of shadow, be it in the real world, or metaphorically within your own soul...but in the end, the truth is that the darkness is already there waiting for it.

Somepeople have said that the events of Armageddon Day, as it is now called, are what created me. In a way, they are right, but still wrong.

Armageddon Day did not create me...it merely provided the final piece of the puzzle.

I found the shattered remnants of the youkai of darkness.

Unsealed, and completely insane, she haunted me, seeking to make my body her own, a mindless creature of hunger and shadow.

I had other plans.

With the Hakurei Barrier shattered, I traveled to the outside world.

A whisper here and a dream there, the stage was set.

When those self righteous Myouren dogs arrived chasing me, their one lone palanquin met an entire human carrier group.

As expected, the battle was really quite spectacular.

But despite my best hopes, I do believe that...irritating drowned spirit managed to crash land the severely damaged ship.

Regrettably, while their deaths would have been a welcome bonus, confirming that had never been the true purpose of this exercise.

The Buddhists, forced to cast aside the shackles of non-lethal danmaku, and the humans- oh, you humans never fail to excel in the dark- with their oh-so-useful eagerness to hate, to despise, to battle anything they do not understand...it was everything I needed to complete my ritual.

I devoured the creature of darkness, that shrieking, raging nightmare that had once been named Rumia.

And with her power, the line between metaphorical darkness, and true darkness was gone forever.

What is darkness?

There is no true answer to this...and yet there are an infinite number of answers to this question yet.

And I am every single one of them.

I am the darkness that hides between the lights of the stars overhead.

I am the shadows lurking in the deepest caverns beneath the earth.

I was there at the death camps of Auschwitz.

I was there when the Czar and his ministers were slaughtered, in bloodstained St. Petersburg.

I was there at the death of the Duke, and I danced through the carnage of the World War that followed.

I listened to the sound of the shot that rang out in November of 1963.

I danced across the bodies at Nanking, and I listened to the screams in the air in that month of December, watching as the scars of the slaughter resurfaced again and again and again, years later, creating even more conflict.

Decades of kings and queens playing their petty games of political intrigue across the chessboard of the world, pretending to fight for justice, for gods, when in truth it was all in the name of personal power and wealth.

For you see, when I was simply a girl named Koishi, I was merely a Satori.

Now, I am darkness.

And it matters not where...nor does it matter when...but darkness is always there already. Time means nothing to it. Space means nothing to it.

Wherever there are shadows, be they the ones cast by physical light, or the metaphorical ones scarred into the history of a world, memories of horrific deeds or infamy...I am always already there.

Of course, I am never the one that instigates any of these...after all, darkness simply exists.

But the truly beautiful part is...I never need to.

I simply watch, and revel in the results. Sometimes, I may even take part myself, whispering into the right ears, seducing the right person with half-truths and promises I never intend to keep...

But that's all I ever need to do. You humans are quite willing to do the rest on your own.

I can see you protesting, claiming otherwise, defending the honor of your race...but don't lie to me.

I know you, as I know every one of you.

I know what you keep hidden inside of you, the urges you keep suppressed, afraid of what others might think. You present one face to the world, but behind it, is another that struggles to be free.

I know your greed.

I know your rage.

I know your pride.

I know your gluttony.

I know your envy.

I know your sloth.

And I know your lust, that secret, deep part of your soul that you humans always struggle to keep in check, a mixture of shame and pleasure in equal amounts.

You all struggle to live your daily lives, masking the nightmare of your true self with morals, social codes, even religion.

But I see what lies beneath all of it, and it is a creature worse than any mere youkai could ever be.

And I love you for it.

Whenever your rage overtakes you, whenever the darker aspects of your personality slip to the fore...That is where you will find me.

Watching, and revelling, in the truth.

I am Leidensblick, after all.


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Once again, CCC returns with another monster.

Unlike Sol, however, :iconkigurou-enkou: took the lead on this one, coming up with the concept. Where Sol was based heavily on Nox from Wakfu, Leidensblick here is based on Koichi Kimura of Digimon Frontier, one of the most important characters she grew up with. There is far, far more detail to it than that, of course, but she can tell it better than I can, so why not ask her here in the comments? ^^

:iconfestasim: of course, provided troubleshooting and ideas to streamline it all, while innvariably making things even more evil and depressing. Let's face it, the man likes what he does. And as a history buff, he gave me some of the other infamous historical events referenced here. Trust me, there were more, but we cut them due to space restraints.

:iconyeagerd: as always, brings the design I created to life with his colors. In honesty, I'm a little curious as to how he got the green outline effect to show up so well...it's notoriously been a bitch when I try that sort of thing.

At any rate, we don't bite, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask, and I'll make sure the others get them.

Hope you enjoy! And yes, there is a lot of reference to 'Sympathy For The Devil' in here, that was deliberate. 8'D

It doesn't matter where you go, LEIDENSBLICK IS ALREADY THERE WATCHING

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...and yes, as an added bonus, I can reference Mundus now. 8'D

LIFE IS GOOD
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KidSapiens's avatar
Saaaay. She knows that the darkness is within us all.

But does she know that inside of her, at this very moment...

...is a skeleton!?