Actually, I'm Dead and I, Monster: How dark can they be? · 11:54am Aug 8th, 2017
Recently, a comment appeared in both of Nightwalker's and mine stories, Actually, I'm Dead and I, Monster.
Before I read this, what is the Dark tag for ?
And how bad does it get ?
At first, I didn't pay them too much attention. However, after reconsidering it, I decided to answer it with the following, which I want to share with you, my faithful reader, in order to give you a clearer view of this strange look into the abyss that is our story.
If I had to describe it myself, the dark tag comes from the graveness of the matter at hand. The main character begins her journey through the story through dying, that's the first door this story makes you go through. From there, the darkness surrounding the characters sources from the ver-present threat of an external force that can, and has before bring misery and pain in ways they can't fully understand.
That last part is what ties with the horror. The primal fear here is to the unknown, always hidden under a veil of darkness that, with the passing times, becomes a frightful sight on itself. The fear is not only on what may happen, but also on not knowing about it. The characters, specially the protagonist can't really tell when are they in danger and when they aren't.
However, I'm probably making it look harsher than it is. The tone is still recognizable lighthearted, as the canon series. If I had to compare, this is closer to Edgar Allan Poe's horror, closer to the mysteries of the occult, and maybe Howard Philip Lovecraft's fear of things beyond common understanding. So rest assured that nothing will go down the more used, and frankly abused, ideas of dark just being violence and horror being degraded as impressionist imagery.
That's a long winded way to say "Trixie dies horribly multiple times and comes back as an increasingly disturbing monster, all the while with a demon threatening to take over her mind." I'd say that, compared to other stories with the dark tag, this one is pretty light, so they shouldn't worry too much.
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Yeah, pretty much. I could have said it that way, but I just finished reading the first two volumes of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, so I guess some of the style got stuck at the moment.