[When it emerged into this world, this...being...was confused. It was lost. It had no recollection of how it had been created, nor did it have any real desire to know. All it knew was a keen hatred for everything around it. Everything considered 'normal' by human standards. Why? Because humanity was something that was beneath him. He was born to conquer. To destroy. And for as long as he could remember, he was denied those simple, almost carnal pleasures. And why was that? Because this being's counterpart was a coward. He could not see the 'bigger picture' so to speak. He could not fathom his own greatness. And because of that, he eked out a paltry living, co-existing with the people who would otherwise brand him a monster. A harbinger.]
[It was time those ties were severed. It was time for a lesson to be learned. Some...'tough love' as it were.]
[And so, Darin's Shadow emerged into the world, bringing with him all of the malice his twin brother had shown to their homeworld. This one reveled, drowned, in the powers Diomuhr offered to him, and they worked together freely and openly.]
I really should get started but...it would be a shame not to get to know this place a little better first...
1.) Getting Better Acquainted | Lion House and Kauto 5 | OTA [It wasn't hard finding the place; the house had an enormous lion on the front of it after all. No, what was hard was staying out of sight. He didn't want his counterpart to find him so easily. Not yet, anyway. First, he wanted to lie in wait. To watch Darin's comings and goings, his interactions with his friends and those he held dear. He knew, obviously, how Darin truly felt towards those he had taken to live with. He knew that Darin often suppressed his own thoughts, pathetic as they were, so that he could live peacefully with these people. It was time to bring all that he cared about crashing down around him. With nothing left, perhaps Darin would finally realize what he was meant for; that he was bound for greater, loftier things.]
[So, while Darin is out, his shadow self wanders the grounds and neighborhood of Kauto 5. He even enters Lion House and noisily snoops. Privacy means nothing to him. He'll wander into your room, go through your things. He'll break things he finds uninteresting, and take things that he does.]
I'm amazed you've lived with these whelps for as long as you have...with my power you should be the one in charge around here...
[If people attempt to stop them, a nearby wall or the ground itself suddenly takes the consistency of wet clay and ensnares them, pinning or laying them low.]
[But through all of this, he does not kill. Instead, "Darin" marches right up to whomever tried to flee from him or oppose him. He makes them look at him.]
Remember my face. Remember who I am. My name is Darin Altway and I will bring this world to ruin.
[With that, he laughs. He sends his magic through the ground to mold it into massive stone pillars that upend anything in their path.]
I can't believe he's never tried this before! To think of all the time wasted just shaping things with a hammer!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
DARIN | OTA + CLOSED
[It was time those ties were severed. It was time for a lesson to be learned. Some...'tough love' as it were.]
[And so, Darin's Shadow emerged into the world, bringing with him all of the malice his twin brother had shown to their homeworld. This one reveled, drowned, in the powers Diomuhr offered to him, and they worked together freely and openly.]
I really should get started but...it would be a shame not to get to know this place a little better first...
1.) Getting Better Acquainted | Lion House and Kauto 5 | OTA
[It wasn't hard finding the place; the house had an enormous lion on the front of it after all. No, what was hard was staying out of sight. He didn't want his counterpart to find him so easily. Not yet, anyway. First, he wanted to lie in wait. To watch Darin's comings and goings, his interactions with his friends and those he held dear. He knew, obviously, how Darin truly felt towards those he had taken to live with. He knew that Darin often suppressed his own thoughts, pathetic as they were, so that he could live peacefully with these people. It was time to bring all that he cared about crashing down around him. With nothing left, perhaps Darin would finally realize what he was meant for; that he was bound for greater, loftier things.]
[So, while Darin is out, his shadow self wanders the grounds and neighborhood of Kauto 5. He even enters Lion House and noisily snoops. Privacy means nothing to him. He'll wander into your room, go through your things. He'll break things he finds uninteresting, and take things that he does.]
I'm amazed you've lived with these whelps for as long as you have...with my power you should be the one in charge around here...
2.) One Can Have No Patience Without Virtue | OTA | CW: Violence and Destruction
[As the week progressed, Darin's Shadow was growing bolder and more impatient. Covert operations were never exactly Darin's forté after all. Which is why he's moved on from Region 5 to various other locations, like one would imagine a plague of locusts would. It's in these locations that he decides to cut loose. The ground and the stone shifts around him, becoming a much more malleable, almost living thing. Without warning, a quiet street erupts into a gauntlet of stone spikes, towering several stories into the air. The stone tears through buildings, and rips apart vehicles. Darin's shadow sneers and the debris itself becomes affected by his power, shifting and changing and shaping into twisted forms...sculptures of people running and fear as if they were torn to stone.]
[If people attempt to stop them, a nearby wall or the ground itself suddenly takes the consistency of wet clay and ensnares them, pinning or laying them low.]
[But through all of this, he does not kill. Instead, "Darin" marches right up to whomever tried to flee from him or oppose him. He makes them look at him.]
Remember my face. Remember who I am. My name is Darin Altway and I will bring this world to ruin.
[With that, he laughs. He sends his magic through the ground to mold it into massive stone pillars that upend anything in their path.]
I can't believe he's never tried this before! To think of all the time wasted just shaping things with a hammer!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!