How would you suggest I kill darkness? - Page 5 - Writers Forum

WriterDude · 09-29-2008, 10:06 AM

Interesting thought, Tsaeb. There is still an obvious problem. I can trap the creature in a collection of lenses and bathe in light to seriously weaken it, but how can I kill it? If the lenses break, the creature will be free again and back to full strength in no time at all.

Or maybe it simply can't be killed? The story already evolve around two different worlds / dimensions, so maybe I could send it to a third world or dimension? Maybe build a prison for it where it will constantly be exposed to strong light? It could still escape, but I leave that for the sequel.

Annanan1 · 10-01-2008, 07:18 AM

there is only one enemy to darkness and that is light. somehow you need to get the sunlight in. that would destroy the darkness, make sure there are no shadows lurking.

WriterDude · 10-01-2008, 09:15 AM

Ah, you assume it's a natural darkness.

I think I found a pretty cool way to solve the problem. It will not only be just one dog, but there are a lot of different legends about a black dog with burning red eyes all over the world. I'm using those legends as a base, so it won't be just a physical manifestation of darkness. It will be far worse than that, but at the same time it can be destroyed in other ways. Not sure how, though. I think the best way to solve it is to send it back to where it came from in the first place somehow. The story evolves around two parallell dimensions, after all. Sending the dog to a third one shouldn't be so hard in theory.

JHB · 10-04-2008, 06:09 PM

How is this dog related to the Darkness? Is the dog its true form?

WriterDude · 10-04-2008, 06:42 PM

Ah, right. My bad. Yes, the darkness looks like a big dog.

ThePinkBookworm · 10-10-2008, 06:54 PM

I have a great idea for you: Watch Doctor Who. If you have no idea who that is, it is a BBC t.v. show and in their 4th season (the new ones) there is an episode on these little evil creatures who live in the shadows and eat any living that comes into it within 1 second. They are like little piranas, except smaller and like darkness. In the show they are visible as those little spects of dust that float in there, all innocent and what not. The Doctor does not kill them because they are only killing people who invaded their home (a library because they live in the trees the books' paper are made from) but he does kill a couple who took over the bodies of their victims.

This is hard to explain because you need to see that episode (I cannot remember what it is called) but just rent Doctor Who Season 4 and watch the episode on darkness. It may help you in what you are looking for.

But be warned, it will make you paranoid about shadows

Hope that helped!

WriterDude · 10-10-2008, 07:48 PM

Doctor Who? Hm... seen it, didn't like it.

But thanks for the tip!

Tsaeb XIII · 10-11-2008, 09:12 AM

Without sounding too indignant, I mentioned that particular episode earlier. The biggest problem with it is that the creature in that particular episode cannot be destroyed (or at least the episode itself does not reveal how to destroy them), so with regards to the OP, we're back to square one.

And as for the lenses thing, perhaps once it is trapped it can be destroyed by light. While it is free, light could merely weaken it, but once it is trapped and vunerable, the light could be powerful enough to completely destroy it.

thatdaftmackem · 11-15-2008, 06:53 PM

Maybe you could just run away from it, hide out till morning. You know, bleed it out so to speak. Could make for good horror writing if you leaned towards that type of writing.

But then again when I think. Running away from these creatures would be hard as they're made from darkness and so at night darkness would be everywhere. Would this make the creatures everywhere as well?

Sorry for random thought lol

WriterDude · 11-15-2008, 07:18 PM

Running away from it until morning? Hm... that would make a great story, if done right. The problem is it doesn't matter how much light there is on the outside if you are trapped on the inside.

I solved the problem, though. Let's just say sewers are huge, have very few places where someone can hide and are full of flammable gasses... One little spark in the wrong place, and bye-bye monster. And everything else.