Dark (Element)

"Darkness is a friend, an ally. Darkness allows us to understand others, to see what they value when they believe no one else is looking. It allows us to be honest with ourselves, to express those values that we would disavow in the light. The light blinds us. It is only in the dark that we see clearly, and there is a great dark hidden among these worlds."

― Darth Revan (Star Wars)

Top: The moon illuminates against the darkness, yet it also represents duality.

Bottom: A dark gray sign is a black crescent moon that represents the unknown, fear and control, duality, introspection, and sometimes taboo.

Dark (Tagalog: madilim; Maori: parauri; Japanese: 闇 "yami"; Emoji:🌑) is an inorganic element that is commonly found in nature.

Umbrakinesis is the superpower to create, control, and manipulate darkness or shadows. It is the mystical opposite of Photokinesis, embodying secrecy, fear, and power drawn from the absence of light.

Definition

Umbrakinesis is from Latin:

“Umbra” = shadow or darkness

“Kinesis” = control or movement

Umbrakinesis literally means “control of shadows or darkness.”

A person who wields this power is called an Umbrakinetic or Shadowmancer.

Other Real-life Terms/Fiction-Specific Terms

Blackness Manipulation/Control
Darkness Control
Erebokinesis
Scotokinesis (or Skotokinesis)
Scia-/Sciokinesis (or Skia-/Skiokinesis)
Achluokinesis
Zophokinesis
Shadow/Shade Manipulation/Control/Bending
Umbrakinesis
Umbral Manipulation/Control
Darkness/Shadow Magic (Fairy Tail)
Dark/Shadow Magic (Black Clover)
Obtenebration (Vampire: The Masquerade)
Void (Hollow Knight)
Shadow Summoning (The Grishaverse)
Dark Type (Pokemon)

Darkness is the condition resulting from a lack of illumination, or an absence of visible light.

The Dark Element is represented by traits that are considered feral and untameable, specifically those born from adverse and intense complex social conditions; by traits that evoke a negative leaning nature—from having a nocturnal day cycle, exhibitions of unusually cruel, crafty, and clever intelligence, belligerent aggressiveness, the sentient awareness and choice to harm and/or inflict ill will—and by traits that represent the negative end of nature and reality, such as shadows, declination, "the survival of the fittest," destruction, comings of darker times; and to the unknown but potentially dangerous aspects of the mysterious and enigmatic.

By juxtaposing light-value colors against dark-value colors, we create “contrast.” Through contrast, the human eye can quickly identify the important design principles of proportion, line, form, texture, and movement as part of evil ideas.

The creature or survivor has the ability to create, sculpt, and control shadows and darkness. One can control and manipulate the beings that are present there, create and remove shields and areas of complete darkness, make constructs and weapons, teleport oneself through great distances using shadows, and more. Darkness is primarily used to cover everything in total darkness, but it can also be channeled to a variety of effects, both as an absence of light and a solid substance.

The user may control the night, including how long it lasts, as the dark element rules because nightfall occurs whether or not the sun is shining in those regions of the planet. They have some limited control over the moon and stars, darkness, and nocturnal optical phenomena.

Advanced creatures or survivors can build, shape, and manipulate all parts of a moon or moons, including its gravity and the impact it has on the planet, its reflecting surface, the ability to tell time, etc. They can also utilize its lunar energy. This is because the dark element rules.

Due to the Moon's prominence in the sky, which results from it being the second-brightest object in the sky after the Sun, and its regular cycle of phases, the Moon has had a significant cultural impact on language, calendars, art, and mythology since ancient times. The ocean tides and little lengthening of the day are caused by the moon's gravitational pull. The moon appears approximately the same size in the sky as the sun due to its current orbital distance, which is about thirty times the diameter of Earth. This allows it to almost perfectly hide the sun in total solar eclipses using only mental incantations.

Users can reanimate corpses and dead creatures, giving them the ability to move and respond within the dark element's laws. Although the corpses are typically under the user's control, they must be closely watched because they are probably mindless. Some users might be able to develop sentient or somewhat sentient undead, though.

Umbrakinesis represents:

- 🌑 The unknown — mystery, secrecy, and the hidden self.
- ⚫ Fear and control — the power of the subconscious.
- 💀 Duality — light cannot exist without shadow.
- 🧘 Introspection — mastery of one’s inner darkness.

Shadow users often walk a fine line between balance and corruption, making them complex antiheroes or dark guardians in fiction.

Weapons and armor can be imbued with the element of darkness. Some species of creatures are imbued with it. Using dark sources or other naturally occurring materials. When a dark weapon strikes, it releases a black, purple, or green energy from the darkness into the wound, which can be extremely effective against certain creatures.

Combinations

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Common Abilities

Depending on skill and focus, an Umbrakinetic can:

Shadow Generation: Create and expand darkness in any area, even in full light.
Shadow Manipulation: Shape shadows into weapons, tendrils, creatures, or constructs.
Darkness Solidification: Transform shadows into tangible objects, such as armor, blades, or shields.
Shadow Travel / Shadow Stepping: Move instantly between two shadows, allowing teleportation through darkness.
Fear Inducement: Draw on darkness to amplify fear, despair, or anxiety in others — a psychological side effect of the power.
Cloaking / Invisibility: Blend into darkness or turn invisible within shadows.
Energy Drain / Light Absorption: Absorb light energy to strengthen darkness or weaken light-based attacks.
Shadow Possession: Merge with or control the shadows of others — even influencing the person attached to that shadow.
Dark Construct Creation: Manifest shadow beasts, clones, or weapons made of condensed darkness.
Dimensional Connection: Access a “Shadow Realm” or dark dimension that exists parallel to the physical world.

Known Skills

Offense Skills

Dark Punch
Dark Kick
Dark Spit
Dark Blast
Dark Ball
Dark Slash
Dark Explosion
Dark Fang
Dark Blade
Dark Beam
Dark Shot
Dark Slash
Dark Breath
Dark Stumbled
Dark Arrow
Sucker Punch
Torment
Bad Accused
Muted Chop
Night Blast
Moonlight Beam
Moonlight Punch
Moonlight Kick
Embargo
Bone Slam
Bone Club
Bone Blade
Crime Teaser
Fake Cry
Fake Surrender
Malicious Slam
Nope for Me
Beat Me
Snatch

Defense Skills

Moonlight Shield
Shadow Trap

Exclusive Ultimate Skills

Solar Eclipse Beam/Sǧʰriūl (Mothsol only)
Primeval Wrath (Titanios only)
Hacked by Black Saturday (Nigrostra and its subspecies only)
Shadow Exodusucks (Black Shug Monkey\ only)
Waste Plasticificate (Moha-moha only)

Passive Abilities (everyone)

Shadow Lies - Powers up the Dark Element moves, if during Nighttime.
Justify - When the creature is hit by a Dark Element attack, its Attack stat is boosted by its sense of justice.
Harsh Combat - The creature gets scared when hit by a Dark-, Spirit-, Fae-, Light-, Combat-, Chaos-, or Bug-type attack or if intimidated, which boosts its Speed stat.
Solar Eclipse - Turns the ground into darkness when the creature enters a battle.

Relations with Other Elements

Strong Against

Arcane✨ - because these represent fears, which can take over the mind and affect one's concentration.
Metal🔩 - The machines don't feel fear since they don't have emotions or feeling, causing alternatively bad glitching by the dark magic called AI Takeover.
Sound🎵 - because travels faster at night causing the sound wave to refract back towards.
Light🔆 - Because of the lack of light of either darkness or evil people, and fear is known to disrupt one's rationality and cause blindness.
Time🕒 - Because the time is wasted. However, experimental demonstrations of altered time perception in depressed patients are not conclusive.
Aether🌌 - because they can be affected by light to the space and soul.

Weak Against

Rock🪨 - because some rocks and crystals absorbs light.
Leaf🌿 - because plants absorb light from the chlorophyll called photosynthesis for their own benefit.
Sound🎵 - because it does not really affect sound, sound travels in waves and exists only within a medium. Light also travels in a wavelike manner but light has electric and magnetic properties
Dark🌑 - because of the lack of light of either darkness or evil people, and fear is known to disrupt one's rationality and cause blindness.

Resisted Against

none

Immune Against

none

Random Chances

none

Known Users

Individuals (Earth Responsibly)

Watchers
1. Uatu
Fomorians
1. Balor
2. Lugh
3. Dean Breathnach
Antediluvian Saurfolks
1. Erlin Khan
Common Saurfolks
1. Meranie Jorpassadal
2. Jared Jorpassadal
Isu
1. Thor
2. Loki
3. Sigyn
4. Zeus
5. Hera
6. Artemis/Selene
7. Apollo/Helios
8. Aphrodite/Venus
9. Hephaestus
10. Ares
11. Hades
12. Persephone
13. Chang'e
14. Quetzalcoatl
15. Odin
16. Frigga
17. Yahweh
18. Marduk
19. Bathala
20. Ranginui
21. Papatuanuku
22. Susanoo
23. Amaterasu
24. Tsukuyomi
25. Indra
26. Satan
27. Yaldabaoth
28. The Holy Ghost
29. Saraswati
Angels
1. Michael the Archangel
2. Gabriel the Archangel
3. Raphael the Archangel
4. Uriel
5. Samael
Humans (pre-2100)
1. Gilgamesh
2. Moses
3. Pythagoras
4. Leonidas I
5. Alexander the Great
6. Darius III
7. Roxana of Bactria
8. Artabanus of Persia
9. Peter the Apostle
10. Paul the Apostle
11. Saint Valentine of Rome
12. Agnes of Rome
13. Constantine the Great
14. Sir Lancelot
15. Queen Guinevere
16. Dymphna
17. Eivor Varinsdottir
18. Eleanor of Aquitaine
19. Princess Aurora
20. Varian Debussie
21. Arianna of Corona
22. Rapunzel of Corona
23. Julius Sonne-Pierre
24. Marielle Pierre-Muller
25. Florent Sonne-Pierre
26. Ruben Sonne-Pierre I
27. Pierre Sonne-Pierre II
28. Vivienne Sonne-Pierre
29. Lady Josette Sonne-Pierre
30. Alicia Sonne-Pierre
31. Cassandra Lunlac
32. Anthony Pierre
33. Maurice Pierre
34. Maribelle Pierre/Princess Belle
35. Cinderella
36. Anna of Arendelle
37. Miguel Rivera
38. Mirabel Madrigal
39. Sofia Balthazar-Winslow
40. Cedric the Sorcerer
41. Elena Castillo Flores
42. Anastasia Romanov
43. Berengar Horvath
44. Constantin Sanatescu (WD-2)
45. Diana Spencer
46. Nilan Punzalan-Pradep
47. Guaiya Punzalan-Padilla
48. Pingking Punzalan-Peng
49. Lesley Punzalan
50. Noel Punzalan
51. Ginhawa Punzalan
52. Carlito Asad Bautista
53. Maleek Badawi-Bautista
54. Mateo Badawi-Bautista
55. Omar Badawi-Bautista
56. Valerianna Badawi-Bautista
57. Gorca de Pascua
58. Juan Nantellontil
59. Timoteo Nantellontil
60. Donald Nantellontil
61. Gaspar Nantellontil
62. Zhong Yi Linjin
63. Meijing Linjin
64. Ronaldo Galicinao-Kealani
65. Paolo Galicinao-Kealani
66. Maia Galicinao-Kealani
67. Alina Galicinao
68. James Galicinao
69. Joszef Horvath
70. Heloise Szekely
71. Manuelito de Jesus
72. Shay Cormac
73. Arno Dorian
74. Desmond Miles
75. William Miles
76. Tony Stark/Iron Man
77. Norman Osborn/Green Goblin
78. Harry Osborn/New Goblin
79. Eddie Brock/Venom
80. Akuma
81. Ryu Hoshi
82. Mr. Bison
83. Jin Kazama
Humans (post-2100)
1. Helga Miracle
2. Yosef Buenaventura
3. Clarissa Jasmin-Buenaventura
4. Archie Buenaventura
5. Arnold Buenaventura
6. Allison Buenaventura
7. Rapunzel Solcorvauld-Morrison
8. Isabella Solcorvauld-Morrison
9. Nicolette Solcorvauld-Morrison
10. Jericho Morrison
11. Arianna Solcorvauld-Morrison
12. Amethystine Regina
13. Dominic Regina
14. Chiara Wilson
15. Odette Regina
16. Clarabelle Regina
17. Lorenzo Villaroel
Human-Isu Hybrids
1. Adam
2. Eve
3. Ryomen Sukuna
Human-Angel Hybrids
1. Sunny Starlen
2. Lumina Starlen
Elves (post-2100s)
1. Galadriel Hegrikultras
2. Amberley Hegrikultras
3. Melissa Hegrikultras
4. Geraldine Fifhtrasso
Thatrollwans
1. Delphina Dlerraz
2. Antoinette Dlerraz
3. Jeanne Dlerraz
4. Santiago Gutierrez
Fairies
1. Emily Blair
2. Sarah Blair
Dermochlories
1. Ji Yi Ko Ashton
2. Gi Ga Ko
Berbanian "Gods"
1. Asraq/Uwawu
2. Wannor
Comieos
1. Thorimiyer Ankawor
2. Katackalos Ankawor
Eldritch Terrors
1. Typhon
2. Tiamat
3. Jormungandr
4. Apep
5. Trentren Vilu
6. Caicai Vilu
7. Bakunawa
8. Yamata no Orochi
9. Ellen Trechend

Individuals (non-EarRes)

Humans
1. Obi-Wan Kenobi
2. Padme Amidala
3. Anakin Skywalker
4. Luke Skywalker
5. Leia Skywalker
6. Sabine Wren
7. Ezra Bridger
8. Kanan Jarrus
9. Captain Rex
10. Satine Kryze
11. Bo-Katan Kryze
12. Sheev Palpatine
ugh
1. Yoda
2. Ahsoka Tano

Faunas

Synapsids
1. Fomorian (varied)
Mammals
1. Dokkaebi (varied)
2. Isu (varied)
3. Human (varied)
4. Agarthan Human (varied)
5. Elf (varied)
6. Dwarf (varied)
7. Goblin (varied)
8. Angel (varied)
9. Fairy (varied)
Reptiles
1. Nessie
Non-Avian Dinosaurs
1. Antediluvian Saurfolk (varied)
2. Common Saurfolk (varied)
3. Seashore Saurfolk (varied)
4. Volcanic Saurfolk (varied, minority)
Avian Dinosaurs
1. ugh
Saurischian Wyverns
1. ugh
Elder Dragons
1. ugh
Amphibians
1. ugh
Fisherps
1. ugh
Bony Fishes
1. ugh
Cartilaginous Fishes
1. ugh
Jawless Fishes
1. ugh
Cnidarians
1. ugh
Segemented Worms
1. ugh
Mollusks
1. ugh
Chelicerates
1. ugh
Crustaceans
1. ugh
Insects
1. Mothsol
Automatons
1. ugh
Extraterrestrials
1. ugh
Constructs
1. Rajah Gakal

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