Hellooooooo! Tis me again! Yes, yes, save your naggings about finishing what you start. I know, I know. I have much work. But this begged to be written! It is set in the same SI/RP world, pretty much, as "Sword Of Damocles" and "Oregon Trek Of DOOM" so, read those for backstory.
This little fic is an IZ/Eternal Darkness crossover. u.u Eternal Darkness is an awesome Gamecube game. Probably the best so far. Anyway.. Jhonen owns IZ stuff and the ED stuff belongs to Nintendo and Silicon Knights.
Sanity's Redemption
"Deep into that Darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering...
Fearing...
Doubting..."
-Edgar Allen Poe
How were any of us to know what would come? We were all so naïve then. Blind to what was happening, ignorant of the power around and in us all. It never touched us, never mangled or twisted our lives into horrible shapes. We never knew the truth.
And we were happy.
I shall never forget the day this all changed. How everything I knew, even fear itself, was changed in the light of our new knowledge. I wish I could forget. Let the memories drop away and vanish into the very Darkness which they sprung forth from. Let the horrors dissolve with the sanity, the sanctity of the light. Let the fear disappear into nothing, just as so many innocent lives had before we finally knew the awful truth of this planet, this plane.
Knew its fate should we fail.
"All the world shall be plunged into eternal Darkness! The Darkness is coming!"
I have passed beyond fearing anything I once feared. I am stronger now, but I have paid the price. Truthfully, I would give anything to be ignorant and fearful again, rather than knowing and unafraid of the mundane. What has happened has changed my perception of the world so greatly, that I am almost unable to take pleasure in anything anymore. Nothing seems to help me forget the Darkness, the fear, the horrors I had both fought and seen. You would not recognize me now, had you seen me before all this. I fail to even know my own reflection in the mirror.
Perhaps this will change you as it has me. I hope not. What has happened to me, to all those I love, should never happen to anyone. Why we were chosen for this madness, I cannot say. Some say there are no such things as coincidences, that we were meant to know fear, embrace death, and shape reality to our own little safehouses with our perception alone. What we once perceived safe and secure, things like faith, like home, were ripped apart and shown to be something sinister and unreal.
Perhaps you will come to know fear as we do. Know the absolute, encompassing terror of being alone against a dark, almost unstoppable evil. One that only needs the thing you cherish above all else to enslave humanity and the other races of all planes. The fear of knowing that despite how strong you thought you were, nothing you can do is enough to stop this evil and save the only light left. The sheer terror of your perceptions being torn limb from limb beside your loved ones and allies. The horror of things that shouldn't be, things that you see only in your deepest, foulest nightmares, crawl about in living flesh and bone.
And perhaps, just perhaps... you, like me, like those I love, will come to know the true frailty of said flesh, and said bone, before the revolting, overwhelming power of the Ancients.
Perhaps you will come to know the Darkness, and perhaps it will destroy your life as well...
-Tallest Purple
Minister to the Great Ancient, Mantorok
This little fic is an IZ/Eternal Darkness crossover. u.u Eternal Darkness is an awesome Gamecube game. Probably the best so far. Anyway.. Jhonen owns IZ stuff and the ED stuff belongs to Nintendo and Silicon Knights.
Sanity's Redemption
"Deep into that Darkness peering,
long I stood there, wondering...
Fearing...
Doubting..."
-Edgar Allen Poe
How were any of us to know what would come? We were all so naïve then. Blind to what was happening, ignorant of the power around and in us all. It never touched us, never mangled or twisted our lives into horrible shapes. We never knew the truth.
And we were happy.
I shall never forget the day this all changed. How everything I knew, even fear itself, was changed in the light of our new knowledge. I wish I could forget. Let the memories drop away and vanish into the very Darkness which they sprung forth from. Let the horrors dissolve with the sanity, the sanctity of the light. Let the fear disappear into nothing, just as so many innocent lives had before we finally knew the awful truth of this planet, this plane.
Knew its fate should we fail.
"All the world shall be plunged into eternal Darkness! The Darkness is coming!"
I have passed beyond fearing anything I once feared. I am stronger now, but I have paid the price. Truthfully, I would give anything to be ignorant and fearful again, rather than knowing and unafraid of the mundane. What has happened has changed my perception of the world so greatly, that I am almost unable to take pleasure in anything anymore. Nothing seems to help me forget the Darkness, the fear, the horrors I had both fought and seen. You would not recognize me now, had you seen me before all this. I fail to even know my own reflection in the mirror.
Perhaps this will change you as it has me. I hope not. What has happened to me, to all those I love, should never happen to anyone. Why we were chosen for this madness, I cannot say. Some say there are no such things as coincidences, that we were meant to know fear, embrace death, and shape reality to our own little safehouses with our perception alone. What we once perceived safe and secure, things like faith, like home, were ripped apart and shown to be something sinister and unreal.
Perhaps you will come to know fear as we do. Know the absolute, encompassing terror of being alone against a dark, almost unstoppable evil. One that only needs the thing you cherish above all else to enslave humanity and the other races of all planes. The fear of knowing that despite how strong you thought you were, nothing you can do is enough to stop this evil and save the only light left. The sheer terror of your perceptions being torn limb from limb beside your loved ones and allies. The horror of things that shouldn't be, things that you see only in your deepest, foulest nightmares, crawl about in living flesh and bone.
And perhaps, just perhaps... you, like me, like those I love, will come to know the true frailty of said flesh, and said bone, before the revolting, overwhelming power of the Ancients.
Perhaps you will come to know the Darkness, and perhaps it will destroy your life as well...
-Tallest Purple
Minister to the Great Ancient, Mantorok
