Well that's terrifying... · 3:00am Oct 29th, 2014
I'm pretty sure I've found the most terrifyingly subtle, yet at the same time overt villain I've ever encountered in any fiction.
This might have been done before, but I've never encountered it. And the way it's described is so eerily similar to something that will be appearing in my own story soon, yet for an entirely different reason and circumstance, is just downright strange...
It comes from enemies in the new video game DESTINY
So, there are these robot enemies called the Vex. Not much is known about them, but they are the central enemies in certain sections of the game, and in a raid/dungeon on Venus called the Vault of Glass, they're up to no good. Inside the Vault, it is said that Vex can control reality itself. However, what they can do is limited in scope and vicinity, as in they can't do it outside the vault. And they weren't kidding. There is a section where a type of Vex is so powerful it can literally will you out of existence if it notices you.
But the scariest thing is the implied goal of what the Vex are trying to achieve. It's kind of hard to understand, and I hope more light get's shed on it soon. What the Vex want is to become part of the universe. Sounds kinda strange, right? I mean, we're all part of the universe. We're carbon based life, and carbon comes from stars. But it's more than that. If physics is a set of rules that the cosmos uses to calculate itself, the Vex seek to plant themselves inside the calculations. To become a law of reality, inseparable from existence.
They don't want to transcend to another level of existence like so many other characters in fiction, they want to become existence. They don't want to be the most powerful piece on the game board, they want to be the board itself. How scary is that? Imagine an enemy that you can't fight or eliminate. Like fighting gravity, you can't do anything about it, it's a law of the universe. You can find ways to subvert it, to limit it's effects, but it's always going to exist no matter what you do.
I dunno, I just spent a while thinking about it on my morning jog and decided to write down my thoughts.
