The number of fanfics that have been begging me to write them for the past I-don't-know-how-many-years that would've done just this...

Takuma Nuva

The number of fanfics that have been begging me to write them for the past I-don't-know-how-many-years that would've done just this...

 

 

Takuma Nuva

 

on a totally unrelated note, any editors around, you know, let's, just, chat sometime

Yeah, neither is good or evil and they are both morally ambiguous. I think most of our aversion to darkness is just human nature. Something done at night is far more sinister to us than something done in daylight.

If somebody is digging a hole in daylight, it's probably to plant a tree, or in my state, to plant a cactus, or maybe even planting dirt, because that'll give you a good chance as anything of growing something.

But if they're digging a hole at night, it's probably to dispose of a body or something. I mean why else would they be digging a hole at night?

Obviously neither of those is a safe bet, but it seems to be a logical conclusion, or at least from what I've heard people say.  I think there's a part in A Series of Unfortunate Events that gives the authors feelings on that and it's pretty much that, minus planting dirt.

In Digimon Frontier, Light and Shadow are both good.

It's funny how BIONICLE really tried to get at this, but just couldn't make it all the way.

Kingdom Hearts is doing relatively okay with it, too; the main bad guy is trying to abolish what he calls "the tyranny of light", which is a fascinating way of putting it.

But, all the same, darkness represents the unknown, and subsequently the negative. Obviously Yin and Yang exist throughout assorted cultures and mythologies, but stories are told from the majority, which is light.

Kingdom Hearts is doing relatively okay with it, too; the main bad guy is trying to abolish what he calls "the tyranny of light", which is a fascinating way of putting it.

 

Yeah, most Darkness specialists in Kingdom Hearts still tend to be evil while the Light specialists are good, but they have acknowledged that the problem lies in how people are using Darkness rather than Darkness itself.  It helps that the Keyblade we usually see Mickey using is actually from the Realm of Darkness, but he still uses Light magic and they don't really go into it that much, so...I dunno, it still needs some work, I guess.

Also, *dramatically points at Riku*

Yeah this doesn't bother me. You bring up Ying/Yang, which is cool, but isn't a philosophy BIONICLE ever tried to adhere to (or at least I can't recall any instances) so it's moot. It's also a toyline meant for kids, and having distinct good and evil is easier to understand than morally ambiguous characters. And since darkness is strange and scary and light is warm and comforting, it seemed like the obvious thing to do.

Star Wars does this as well, where bringing balance to the force means wiping out all Sith. It's not a wrong convention, just a different way of thinking about it.

It isn't so much Western culture corrupting Easter philosophy as it is Western philosophy fundamentally differing. Look as far back as Beowulf and the idea of light=good dark=bad is already well-engrained in our culture.

I do agree that it is overplayed at this point - which is why it is a shame they pulled the original plot with Makuta being good out from under us.

Wow. This got a lot of feedback. O.o

You gave me Riku feels.