Origins: Born to Darkness - PG-13 One Shot

[Plantman]

This is an idea I've been toying with for weeks and I finally got around to sit down and write it. You could say is my interpretation of how some Darkloids came to exist in the anime. >_>;;

Origins: Born to Darkness
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Cries back and forth between a couple filled the walls of a small appartment. The Neighbors were used to the fights between the resident and her boyfriend, but that didn't make the fights any less bothersome for those appartments too close to the couple's.

Loud thuds came from objects colliding against the walls, and in a corner of the bedroom, secure from the fight that was taking place in the living room, a blue charger rested in a desk, and a blue Plug-in PET recharged while the fight unfolded.

After More cries, yells and sounds of objects being thrown around, the sound of the entrance's door being slammed closed indicated that one of the arguing parties had finally left the 'battle field'.

Inside of his PET a male navi sighed softly, His body covered in a black outfit with a dark red jacket-like armor. "It's the third time this week." He stated softly, his voice was deep but gentle. As he finished his sentence, a woman stormed into the room, visibly upset.

"What a moron!" She muttered and plopped down in the silky sheets of her bed.

"Another argument?" The navi asked, capturing his Operator's attention. The woman stood up, and mumbled something, reaching for a tissue and drying her tears, cleaning up the trails of black mascara that now stained her beautiful face.

By all accounts, she was very beautiful. Although, her choice of outfit and make up were rather unusual; and to some people, it was quite intimidating. People called her 'Goth', but the labels did not matter for the young lady.

"Why men have to be such morons?" She asked outloud suddenly, removing the layer of make up and mascara that covered her face, and dusted off her beautiful velvety dress.

"I am supposed to know the answer to that question?" The navi replied, foldling his arms on his chest.

"You're a male, too, Sonance." She replied playfully, moving away from the dressing table, picking up the PET and smiling at her navi.

"I am male in appearance, I have no idea what goes through a human male's mind. Or a female's for that matter." He frowned.

She sighed and set the PET back in its charger, picking up a book and plopping back into her bed to read it. Sonance performed his dialy night schedule, sinking the room in a calm and rather welcomed silence, only broken by the sound of pages being flipped by the young woman.

"What are you reading, Nicole?" Sonance asked curiously, intrigued by his operator's choice of literature.

"It's a novel about vampires." She replied without taking her gaze away from her book. She trailed on, explaining bits of her passion to her navi, and finally reading her novel outloud for her navi to hear.

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Sonance grunted softly, tapping a finger in his arm as he heard yet another argument unfold. Why humans were fighting and arguing with each other so much? He couldn't comprehend why humans seemed to bring more harm than good to their equals.

He couldn't help but wonder if Nicole actually enjoyed the treatment from her mate of choice -- they'd fight, yell at each other, hurt each other, but come back to each other, then fight again. Little did he know, he was the sole reason of Nicole's fights with her boyfriend.

"You spend more time with that stupid program of yours than with me. you never want to do any of the things I enjoy! You'd rather lock in your room reading for that... thing." The young man spat, filling the last word with contempt.

"At least he bothers to interest in what I like!" Nicole countered, her face stained with trails of tears and mascara, giving her a rather creepy look.

"That's because you can tell him what to do, and customize him to like whatever you want him to like. I'm a person, I have needs too! With you is just you, you and your interests! You're secluded in your little world and whatever happens with others is not your concern. If you had to choose between saving my life, and saving him, you'd pick your toy rather than save a real person." The boy spat before turning around and leaving.

Nicole sighed, that wasn't true. She loved her boyfriend, but at the same time, she had been looked down and casted aside by society since she was very young. And all of it based on her appearance and her tastes. Nobody cared to see what she was like under the make up and dark velvet clothing, laces and frills.

Even her boyfriend wanted to force her to be different. He wouldn't take her out to take a cup of coffee anywhere if she wouldn't agree to change her outfit to something he'd call 'normal'.

Perhaps she was secluded in her own little world, and perhaps she shapped and customized Sonance to be what she wished her boyfriend was like. But the world had not left any other choice for her. At least in her own little world, she could be herself.

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"Isn't your boyfriend going to come today? I thought you two had a date tonight." Sonance asked, reviewing his Operator's schedule while paying the purchases of a couple of new books she ordered. Sonance had grown interested in her vampire and gothic novels, and he enjoyed whenever she'd read them for him.

"No, he's not coming here again anymore." She replied without enthusiasm, laying her upper body across the desk. Still clad on her nightgown and robe, devoid of her make up, while her hair was pulled together in a simple braid.

"Why is that?"

"We broke up, he decided he can't go out with a freak like me any longer." She mumbled something before glancing to her navi, her luminous blue eyes locked in the figure of the navi she had paid so much to customize to be her perfect friend. "You know, sometimes I wish I could be a navi, like you. To most humans you're nothing but a program. Just a file in an expensive organizer. But you're my only friend, the only one that accepts me the way I am, without thinking I'm a freak."

Sonance didn't quite know what to say. Why humans reacted in such a way to all that was blantantly different from a norm set by a majority? All that wasn't considered 'normal' was looked down, or considered 'unnatural', even diabolic. And even so, humans disposed of each other or those things they didn't need with such ease if they didn't bend to their needs or likings.

If he could, he'd love to change the world.

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Sonance had grown used to see Nicole barely being herself anymore, sinking into depression for not being accepted nor loved, and looked down by everyone based only in her appearance. Her depression would turn into anger, and her anger poured into him. She no longer read for him, and he was forgotten for the most part.

Suddenly, he heard struggling in the living room, Nicole's cries were interrupted abruptly as he saw a man entering the room and approaching to his PET. Darkness evenloped him as his PET was turned off.

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He woke up to the sounds of data being transfered into the area he was plugged into. He looked around as he stood up, surrounded by what he identified as security navis, far less customized than he was. "Where am I?!"

"A security cell. You've been labeled as a threat, you must be deleted." Was the cold, rather automatized reply from one of the navis.

"W-What?!"

"You and your operator have been accused of severe crimes, and you must be terminated."

"You've gotta be kidding. Nicole couldn't have--"

"Enough! Prepare for deletion!" One of the navis charged against him with what seemed to be a blade.

Sonanace dodged it, but found himself in a critical situation. He had been customized into a company and asistant navi, he wasn't customized for net battling, and he was certain Nicole didn't have any actual battle chips suited for a fight. The only skill he was granted through the customization was a sound wave that he never actually used before.

"Sound Wave!" He cried, extending his arms and allowing a wave of sound to erupt from his navi icon, but all he managed was to push the other navis backwards.

"Resistence is futile!"

Sonance let out a pained gasp as he felt the cyber blade pierce through his data, the end of the blade peeking out through the navi icon in his chest. "N-No... I-I cannot..." He cried out as he felt more blades piercing through him, "If... If I had... m-more power..." he choked as he felt his body disolve into particles of data. His red blood eyes closing as he felt himself engulfed by darkness.

Whatever bits of his conciousness remained deducted someone had framed him and Nicole, and he was powerless to help her or himself, being disposed like a piece of trash that wasn't wanted anymore.

"P-power..."

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Several years later, in the depts of the Undernet particles of data danced above the ground of the realm of the outcast, like dust that has been swept by the breeze. A pulse of life still beating through the pixels, refusing to give up in life, but unable to form a being once more. A dark aura began to tingle around the particules, an energy of pure hatred, dispair, betrayal and deception emanated from the flowing data. Still weak, but growing steadily, although slowly, pulling other bits of data close to absorb them. Little by little, the aura kept growing, and more data grouped into the forming core.

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A pair of red blood eyes opened for what they felt it was the first time, to gaze into a sea of virtual stars in the night time of a digital city. The newly formed navi, clad in a large purple armor and gold trimming, stood up slowly. He looked down into his hands, taking in every detail of them, four fingers ending in sharp and threatening claws, revealing his pale greenish skin. He took in more of his own appearance, with the curiosity of a first born.

"Darkloid..." he spoke softly, the word dangling in his mind, and he summoned a pair of red bat wings, disolving his body into a pack of black bats, flying into the night. A Creepy laughter filled the air, as Shademan's black wing traveled through the virtual city.

He was a new being, born from darkness itself. Sonance was no longer, no memories of him or Nicole existed in the brand new navi. Only the feeling of betrayal, and anger, and disgust for the human race that disposed of his equals existed in his mind.

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Nyahahahahaa... o_o;; the end.
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[Plantman]

This is an idea I've been toying with for weeks and I finally got around to sit down and write it. You could say is my interpretation of how some Darkloids came to exist in the anime. >_>;;

Origins: Born to Darkness
------------------------------

Cries back and forth between a couple filled the walls of a small appartment. The Neighbors were used to the fights between the resident and her boyfriend, but that didn't make the fights any less bothersome for those appartments too close to the couple's.

Loud thuds came from objects colliding against the walls, and in a corner of the bedroom, secure from the fight that was taking place in the living room, a blue charger rested in a desk, and a blue Plug-in PET recharged while the fight unfolded.

After More cries, yells and sounds of objects being thrown around, the sound of the entrance's door being slammed closed indicated that one of the arguing parties had finally left the 'battle field'.

Inside of his PET a male navi sighed softly, His body covered in a black outfit with a dark red jacket-like armor. "It's the third time this week." He stated softly, his voice was deep but gentle. As he finished his sentence, a woman stormed into the room, visibly upset.

"What a moron!" She muttered and plopped down in the silky sheets of her bed.

"Another argument?" The navi asked, capturing his Operator's attention. The woman stood up, and mumbled something, reaching for a tissue and drying her tears, cleaning up the trails of black mascara that now stained her beautiful face.

By all accounts, she was very beautiful. Although, her choice of outfit and make up were rather unusual; and to some people, it was quite intimidating. People called her 'Goth', but the labels did not matter for the young lady.

"Why men have to be such morons?" She asked outloud suddenly, removing the layer of make up and mascara that covered her face, and dusted off her beautiful velvety dress.

"I am supposed to know the answer to that question?" The navi replied, foldling his arms on his chest.

"You're a male, too, Sonance." She replied playfully, moving away from the dressing table, picking up the PET and smiling at her navi.

"I am male in appearance, I have no idea what goes through a human male's mind. Or a female's for that matter." He frowned.

She sighed and set the PET back in its charger, picking up a book and plopping back into her bed to read it. Sonance performed his dialy night schedule, sinking the room in a calm and rather welcomed silence, only broken by the sound of pages being flipped by the young woman.

"What are you reading, Nicole?" Sonance asked curiously, intrigued by his operator's choice of literature.

"It's a novel about vampires." She replied without taking her gaze away from her book. She trailed on, explaining bits of her passion to her navi, and finally reading her novel outloud for her navi to hear.

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Sonance grunted softly, tapping a finger in his arm as he heard yet another argument unfold. Why humans were fighting and arguing with each other so much? He couldn't comprehend why humans seemed to bring more harm than good to their equals.

He couldn't help but wonder if Nicole actually enjoyed the treatment from her mate of choice -- they'd fight, yell at each other, hurt each other, but come back to each other, then fight again. Little did he know, he was the sole reason of Nicole's fights with her boyfriend.

"You spend more time with that stupid program of yours than with me. you never want to do any of the things I enjoy! You'd rather lock in your room reading for that... thing." The young man spat, filling the last word with contempt.

"At least he bothers to interest in what I like!" Nicole countered, her face stained with trails of tears and mascara, giving her a rather creepy look.

"That's because you can tell him what to do, and customize him to like whatever you want him to like. I'm a person, I have needs too! With you is just you, you and your interests! You're secluded in your little world and whatever happens with others is not your concern. If you had to choose between saving my life, and saving him, you'd pick your toy rather than save a real person." The boy spat before turning around and leaving.

Nicole sighed, that wasn't true. She loved her boyfriend, but at the same time, she had been looked down and casted aside by society since she was very young. And all of it based on her appearance and her tastes. Nobody cared to see what she was like under the make up and dark velvet clothing, laces and frills.

Even her boyfriend wanted to force her to be different. He wouldn't take her out to take a cup of coffee anywhere if she wouldn't agree to change her outfit to something he'd call 'normal'.

Perhaps she was secluded in her own little world, and perhaps she shapped and customized Sonance to be what she wished her boyfriend was like. But the world had not left any other choice for her. At least in her own little world, she could be herself.

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"Isn't your boyfriend going to come today? I thought you two had a date tonight." Sonance asked, reviewing his Operator's schedule while paying the purchases of a couple of new books she ordered. Sonance had grown interested in her vampire and gothic novels, and he enjoyed whenever she'd read them for him.

"No, he's not coming here again anymore." She replied without enthusiasm, laying her upper body across the desk. Still clad on her nightgown and robe, devoid of her make up, while her hair was pulled together in a simple braid.

"Why is that?"

"We broke up, he decided he can't go out with a freak like me any longer." She mumbled something before glancing to her navi, her luminous blue eyes locked in the figure of the navi she had paid so much to customize to be her perfect friend. "You know, sometimes I wish I could be a navi, like you. To most humans you're nothing but a program. Just a file in an expensive organizer. But you're my only friend, the only one that accepts me the way I am, without thinking I'm a freak."

Sonance didn't quite know what to say. Why humans reacted in such a way to all that was blantantly different from a norm set by a majority? All that wasn't considered 'normal' was looked down, or considered 'unnatural', even diabolic. And even so, humans disposed of each other or those things they didn't need with such ease if they didn't bend to their needs or likings.

If he could, he'd love to change the world.

----------------------------------

Sonance had grown used to see Nicole barely being herself anymore, sinking into depression for not being accepted nor loved, and looked down by everyone based only in her appearance. Her depression would turn into anger, and her anger poured into him. She no longer read for him, and he was forgotten for the most part.

Suddenly, he heard struggling in the living room, Nicole's cries were interrupted abruptly as he saw a man entering the room and approaching to his PET. Darkness evenloped him as his PET was turned off.

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He woke up to the sounds of data being transfered into the area he was plugged into. He looked around as he stood up, surrounded by what he identified as security navis, far less customized than he was. "Where am I?!"

"A security cell. You've been labeled as a threat, you must be deleted." Was the cold, rather automatized reply from one of the navis.

"W-What?!"

"You and your operator have been accused of severe crimes, and you must be terminated."

"You've gotta be kidding. Nicole couldn't have--"

"Enough! Prepare for deletion!" One of the navis charged against him with what seemed to be a blade.

Sonanace dodged it, but found himself in a critical situation. He had been customized into a company and asistant navi, he wasn't customized for net battling, and he was certain Nicole didn't have any actual battle chips suited for a fight. The only skill he was granted through the customization was a sound wave that he never actually used before.

"Sound Wave!" He cried, extending his arms and allowing a wave of sound to erupt from his navi icon, but all he managed was to push the other navis backwards.

"Resistence is futile!"

Sonance let out a pained gasp as he felt the cyber blade pierce through his data, the end of the blade peeking out through the navi icon in his chest. "N-No... I-I cannot..." He cried out as he felt more blades piercing through him, "If... If I had... m-more power..." he choked as he felt his body disolve into particles of data. His red blood eyes closing as he felt himself engulfed by darkness.

Whatever bits of his conciousness remained deducted someone had framed him and Nicole, and he was powerless to help her or himself, being disposed like a piece of trash that wasn't wanted anymore.

"P-power..."

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Several years later, in the depts of the Undernet particles of data danced above the ground of the realm of the outcast, like dust that has been swept by the breeze. A pulse of life still beating through the pixels, refusing to give up in life, but unable to form a being once more. A dark aura began to tingle around the particules, an energy of pure hatred, dispair, betrayal and deception emanated from the flowing data. Still weak, but growing steadily, although slowly, pulling other bits of data close to absorb them. Little by little, the aura kept growing, and more data grouped into the forming core.

-----------------------------------

A pair of red blood eyes opened for what they felt it was the first time, to gaze into a sea of virtual stars in the night time of a digital city. The newly formed navi, clad in a large purple armor and gold trimming, stood up slowly. He looked down into his hands, taking in every detail of them, four fingers ending in sharp and threatening claws, revealing his pale greenish skin. He took in more of his own appearance, with the curiosity of a first born.

"Darkloid..." he spoke softly, the word dangling in his mind, and he summoned a pair of red bat wings, disolving his body into a pack of black bats, flying into the night. A Creepy laughter filled the air, as Shademan's black wing traveled through the virtual city.

He was a new being, born from darkness itself. Sonance was no longer, no memories of him or Nicole existed in the brand new navi. Only the feeling of betrayal, and anger, and disgust for the human race that disposed of his equals existed in his mind.

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Nyahahahahaa... o_o;; the end.
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[Midnight]

I am speechless.

This was absolutely fantastic. A fic that REALLY gets the reader thinking, and does something that I thought would never be done--allow the reader to sympathize with ShadeMan. The name of the navi was quite apt, and it really served to deepen the characterization as well as the rest of the action in this fic. The condensed state also allows for the emotion to flow more freely in the reader's mind. I cannot thank you enough for that.

I can't help but wonder what became of Nicole...as she was merely a victim of an ignorant society. Anyway...another excellent job.
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[Core]

I agree that it is an excellent job Planty, and in reading and considering what is known about Darkloids in the anime and games it isn't that far of a stretch to think that his isn't at all possible for an origin to Shademan or the other Darkloids.
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[Core]

I agree that it is an excellent job Planty, and in reading and considering what is known about Darkloids in the anime and games it isn't that far of a stretch to think that his isn't at all possible for an origin to Shademan or the other Darkloids.
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[Sol]

Excellent.

I like how your protray the characters; it seems realistic enough for it to make sense. You really have to feel Nicole and Sonance and what they feel.

...although, I can't help but feel that the the whole thing with Sonance turning into Shademan felt a bit too much like what happened to Mange-canon Forte. Not completely, but still a bit.

Great writing as usual, Planty.
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[Sol]

Excellent.

I like how your protray the characters; it seems realistic enough for it to make sense. You really have to feel Nicole and Sonance and what they feel.

...although, I can't help but feel that the the whole thing with Sonance turning into Shademan felt a bit too much like what happened to Mange-canon Forte. Not completely, but still a bit.

Great writing as usual, Planty.
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[Dark Liger]

Wow... I'm speechless. Somehow, you once again managed to astound me with your writing skills. This has to be one of the best Darkloid origin stories written. Somehow when you wrote that Nicole was reading a book about vampires, I knew that this was an origin of ShadeMan.

Keep up the good work, Planty. 10/10 :]

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[Neko]

Uwaaaahhh! *gasp* That was wonderful :DDDD

Amazing Planty, simply amazing.
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[Elizabeth]

A very well-constructed story! I guessed it might be about Shademan from the title, and after Nicole was described as 'Goth', I became certain it was about Shademan, but it was still very good.

My only real complaint is that the bit about Nicole being framed happened a bit to suddenly - It would have been nice if there had been something that foreshadowed it a little more clearly. The description of Nicole getting all depressed after the breakup made me think it'd all end in suicide, not false arrest ...

Again, a very good fic, even to someone like me who usually avoids vampire-related stuff like the plague!

[Plantman]

Well, if she suicided it wouldn't relly leave me anything to 'destroy' Sonance to be reborn as Shademan. I considered even having her delete him by choice, but didn't want to make it look like 'goths' are like that. Because chances are many of them are wa happier than the rest of us xDD
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Well, if she suicided it wouldn't relly leave me anything to 'destroy' Sonance to be reborn as Shademan. I considered even having her delete him by choice, but didn't want to make it look like 'goths' are like that. Because chances are many of them are wa happier than the rest of us xDD
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[Kitty-Chan]

I greatly enjoyed this; it was a fascinating look into the depths of a character not often probed.
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[Wackoman.EXE]

...brilliant. This was a stroke of genius. The way the characters are constructed, your vivid descriptions. I love this story, it was very tragic and makes you really think. Absolutely gorgeous, your sketch of Nicole makes it all the better. Keep up the good work.
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