CHALLENGE 2

A Blink in the Dark

(Or, Harry Potter/The Darkness/Dishonored Crossover)

BACKSTORY

1- The Dursleys abandoned Harry at an orphanage at the age of 3. And when I say Orphanage, I mean an horrible, Oliver Twist-Like kind of Orphanage filled evil, sadistic Nuns quite fond of beatings.

2- At the age of 5, Harry is visited in a dream by the Outsider (Dishonored), an elegantly dressed man who should represent some sort of Whale-Like Eldritch Abomination from a plagued universe. He recruits him as one of his agents, giving him pretty much the same speech he gave to Corvo and Granting him his mark (The tattoo on the back of Corvo's Left Hand in the game, the one that permit him to have all his cool powers). Harry can now use Mark I Blink (Teleportation) and Mark II Dark Vision (Can see people/Useful Stuff/Runes and Bone Trinkets/Etc behind walls/Darkness/Etc. He can also sense the presence of Runes and Bone Trinkets). He needs to get Outsiders Runes in order to get new powers.

3- The Outsider Mark, however, clash against Voldemort's soul in Harry's scar. as the Horcrux and the Mark fight against each other (Causing Harry serious physical and Psychological pain, by the way) a third party awakens, deep inside Harry. It's the Darkness (The Darkness), another Eldritch Abomination from the void before the creation. It claims Harry as his new Host, destroying the Horcrux in the process and granting the Mark to successfully take hold. It now grants Harry with:

A: Two tentacles growing from his back, both ending with semi-sentient shark jaws, one to slash, the other to grab. The tentacles disappear if he's touched by direct light.

B: 5 Darklings (Think "Insane, violent house elves of Doom that dies when touched by direct Light"), the 4 from the first game and "Jack" (As in Union Jack) from the second one.

C: Super-Regeneration/Immortality as Long as Harry is not touched by direct light.

4- After achieving all those almighty powers, 5 years old Harry BURN THE ORPHANAGE TO THE GROUND, TRAPPING THE NUNS INSIDE BUT FREEING THE OTHER ORPHANS.

5- He's shortly after kidnapped by The Brotherhood (The Darkness), who rises him as one of they own, providing him with some sort of family, if not a corrupted, twisted one.

6- At Harry's Twelfth birthday, after an act of accidental magic, the Brotherhood put Harry in a padded cell. They then strap him to a chair, reassuring him that they're doing it for his own good, and then STARTS TORTURING THE LIFE OUT OF HIM.

7- After the Third Torture (The Blinding Sun (The Darkness II)), Harry, enraged, levels the Brotherhood temple to the ground, extinguishing the Brotherhood.

8- He then receives, one year late, his first Hogwarts Letter.

THE STORY BEGINS WITH HARRY STARTING HIS FIRST YEAR AT HOGWARTS ONE YEAR LATE AS HE BOARDS THE TRAIN, HIS DARKNESS POWERS HIDDEN IN ORDER TO NOT STARTLE THE NORMAL WIZARDS, HIS DARKLINGS CRAMMED INSIDE HIS THIRD TRUNK. (Harry has Three Trunks. His Second Trunk contains several relics he had stolen at the Brotherood, along with a recently captured Boggart (As Anti-theft measure), while the first one contains his school stuff.

THE STORY MUST HAVE:

1- Power-Hungry!Mad!Dark!Chaotic!Evil!Ravenclaw!Harry: Harry get's sorted into Ravenclaw, and has a Deadpool approach to Mayhem and death. He starts Hogwarts during the 91/92 school year (BOOK 2), but he's forced to start as a first year despite being twelve. He also hears The voice of The Darkness telling him to kill and maim and murder and rape. He tends to do stuff just "For the Evulz", and would do everything in order to achieve more power. He currently owns An Augurey (Hedwig), a Boggart (Bob), the Abysmal Maw (He knows the words to make it work), the Crescent of the Sun, the Deceiver Grasp, the Thumb Screws, the Blinding Sun (All relics from The Darkness) and the one-handed crossbow from Dishonored. He has to obtain Gryffindor's Sword later in the story.

2- Angelus!Follower of the Abbey of the Everyman!Luna: Luna is the host of the Angelus (The Darkness), the embodiment of Light's Righteous Rage (Basically, the ultimate Knight Templar), like her mother was before her. She's still Luna, thought. She becomes friends with Harry, since both of them are in the same year, same house, and both of them are ostracized by their schoolmates. Both of them know that, one day, they will probably be forced by the forces their playing host to to kill each other. They also have pet name for each other, "Frigid Light Whore" for her and "Psychopathic Dark Filth" for him. She's also a follower of the Abbey of the Everyman (Dishonored), and owns an Overseer Music Box (Dishonored Again), a device whose music disrupts Harry's powers of the Outsider, and the Roanoke's Bane, a relic from The Darkness II. She must quote/be seen follow at least one of the seven strictures (Dishonored) at least once in the story.

3- Dead!Ghost!Hermione: Since Harry never went to Hogwarts during the 90/91's year, Hermione got killed by the Troll. She returned as a Ghost, where she discovered that her parents memories of her had been wiped out shortly after her death and that she cannot leave Hogwarts unless she find something to bind to and asks someone to carry it outside the castle, in which case she's unable to leave a certain radius from it. She's found by Harry weeping in the Library, where she's now residing. They "Befriend" there. She has also made friends with Peeves, who has taken pity of the poor child and have taught her some Poltergeist Powers, just like he taught Myrtle how to flood her bathroom way back in the fifties. She can now alter her appearance in order to resemble herself at any given age so that she's not forced to remain in the body of a eleven years old forever. She also hates Ron Weasley with all of her might, since she consider him the cause of her premature death. Only Harry and Luna can touch her.

4- Ron and Draco!Mild Bashing: The don't have to be shown under the best of lights, that's all.

5- Good but Senile!Dumbledore: Who still thinks that Harry is a poor, fragile boy who needs help.

6- Harry/Hermione/Luna very weird LOVE TRIANGLE: (IF YOU WANT TO END IT WITH LUNAR HARMONY, THAT'S FINE, JUST START IT AS A LOVE TRIANGLE AND THEN MAKE IT END AS LUNAR HARMONY)

7- A Bittersweet Ending: (Something like: "Our hero and his girl(s) are fine, living their lives in luxury on some kind of tropical beach, but Great Britain has descended into chaos because they had let the bad guys win.(IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT)).