THE DARK SIDE OF THE HOG
Pleasantly understated introduction and usual thanksgiving stuff:
What is the "Dark Side"?
In the common language, Dark is a term used to define something evil… Something destined to succumb over the benign force of Light.
In my opinion, though… Dark does not necessary mean such childish concept but rather, something hidden… Something separated from every day's common knowledge and thoughts… Something that slips from blind certainty and predefined ideas…
The Unknown.
A hidden, dark side of our reality that goes beyond our senses… Our perceptions and believes. Something that we've always feared and basically what has always pushed our will to know The Truth about everything…
A task we may never achieve due to the fact that we can't control what we don't know… And, sadly enough, we don't even know ourselves…
That is, in my opinion, the Dark Side… The hidden feelings and emotions, the biggest fears and hopes that lie in our own mind and soul… Ready to be engulfed in the exposing light of Knowledge… Or to never be showed to anybody… Not even ourselves.
It is the unknown part of our inner Chaos, that, along with our known self (or thought to be known) provides to make us whole. An unbalanced balance that could very well reflect this world's own Chaos.
Schopenhauer had some interesting opinions about this… But I'm just digressing, here.
Let's talk about this collab. now, shall we?
We… The members of the "Dark Side of the Hog" community… A bunch of desperate would be writers with a geeky passion over a certain blue super fast videogame mascot and his wacky world… All have something in common (besides our evident delusions)… We all crave good stories with a fairly good element we consider fundamental for any kind of narration, even more of the plot itself… A little underestimated thing called "Character Development"… The exposure and exploit of a character's issues and feelings that make us feel empathic towards him/her in so many different and interesting ways… In other words, the aforementioned "Dark Side".
This collab. is our collective effort to give to everyone who would love to read it, the chance to see what certain characters mean to us, what we see in them that makes us feel so attached to them… Our own ideas of how they should or should not be, emotionally speaking and, therefore, just a personal point of view that could be contrasted by someone else's idea, but that is besides the point…
The point is this:
We love the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and this is our tribute to its amazing characters… So please, take a seat and enjoy this collection of shorts we worked so hard for… Well, maybe not so hard… But I could be wrong.
See you in this world's Chaos.
Madhog thy Master 3:16
P.S. If you're interested in participating in this project, contact me and let me know what character would you like to choose for it.
Ultimately, I would like to thank all the wonderful people (a.k.a. computer freaks) involved in this collab. You'll know them as this project expanses.
We did it, guys… We did it!
Farewell, for now.