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When an Artist Plays God
Dark Mousy the great phantom theif. The eternal criminal passed down generation to generation within the Niwa family. Going on 400 years Dark has been sharing bodies, now it's young Daisuke Niwa's turn to inherit his identity. A new name, a new body, but the feeling remains the same through the ages. Just a whisper in someone else's body, in someone else's mind. Dark, one half of the black wings is forever cursed to be a bodiless entity for all time.
Daisuke Niwa is human. He laughs, feels, and even loves. Everything Dark wishes he could do. Daisuke can watch the sun set, walk freely, and love the woman he chooses. Dark can't. Dark will never have his freedom. But what Dark envies most about Daisuke is, his time. Daisuke can grow, change, mature, all over time. Eventually after living a wonderful life Daisuke's spirit will be freed and his time will end. Dark never changes, he never ages. His time is endless, his spirit can't be freed.
So what does that make Dark exactly? Daisuke likes to think that dark is a real living person, a real man. Dark never believes it when he says it. An endless shadow of the mind could never be a real person. Real people have their own bodies and have their own thoughts. Real people have freedom and voices. Real people can love, and real people can die. Dark can't be real because all he can do... is steal.
The Great Phantom Dark is doomed to suffer eternal misery. An animal trapped in the cage of Daisuke's body, only released occasionally to steal. Too bad stealing got old a couple hundred years ago. A thief who is cursed to never have is heart realized, never get close to another, only to live out his endless days with one sided love.
He can never love. As much as he wants to hold his love in his arms she will always slip away like the endless sand of Dark's cursed time. All he can do is love from afar. Watch as her beauty fades away, watch her health fade away until he sees her die all alone. Dark will be always left with the haunting wish for the memories they could have had together. Intead he is forced to see the world go by from the inside of a glass box prison. He can see out, but no one can see in. Dark truely is just a shadow of the mind. Damn the Hikari's and their tampering hands.
No matter what Dark chooses he will always be on the outside looking in on lives that could never be his own. His most secret desire is to become human and have a body of his own. This wish burns deep within him every day, consuming every thought. This reminds him of the way Krad thinks, so Dark hates himself for it. But really what Dark and Krad wish for is the same thing, a life of their own. But the blackwings will never have their wish granted...That's what happens when an artist decides to play God.