Darknight Identity

Dark Mode (影の滅竜魔法・暗面の覚醒 (ダークモード), Dāku Modō lit. Shadow Dragon Slayer Magic: Awakening of the Dark Side): A most unique and a secret art of the Shadow Dragon Slayer Magic. It is a very rare ability, which can be awakened, when a Shadow Dragon Slayer reaches their full potential. Because of its unique capabilities and affect on the user's body, such ability is highly lost and usually abandoned even with Shadow Dragon Slayers. So far, the only user of this ability is Rogue Cheney.

Description
As every person has their own dark side, the users of Shadow Dragon Slayer Magic have much deeper and grimmer dark side, than anyone ever have or had. Such Dark Side has its own consciousness, as it even has the ability to speak with other, utilizing the shadows of other. As Rogue Cheney was fighting with Gajeel Redfox in their final battle, his own Dark Side got the control over his body and mind, while giving to him much more power to a degree, that possessed Rogue almost kill his sworn brother. The Dark Side's consciousness and its powers have their own source - the user's emotions. Usually, the Dark Side becomes stronger with negative feelings. As negative emotions are hatred, rage, killing intent, sadness, etc. are very dark, they passively makes the Dark Side of Shadow Dragon's more stronger. However, on few occasions, Shadow Dragon Slayers can show their pure feelings and poisitive emotions. As a result of such aspect, Dark Side can become stronger with positive side, which can be named as a "Light". Moreover, the Dark Side can become even more powerful with this "Light", than with "Darkness" emotions.

As Dark Side has its own consciousness, it can be considered as user's Inner Side, their inner "I". Within Rogue, his Dark Side was referred as "Dark Rogue" by Sting Eucliffe. Interestingly, that not every Shadow Dragon can awaken its true power. Only when the user masters his Magic and his own powers to the peak, they can awaken their Dark Side. But even with this, only when the user gets in touch with and accepts their Dark Side, they can grow stronger. The stronger Dark Side becomes, the stronger the negative/positive emotions of the user grow. But, with the use of this form, there is also a risk within it. As Dark Side can easily take the control over his user, the Dark Side can fully block user's consciousness and mind. As a result, user's personality can become darker. On a few occasions, it's known, that several Shadow Dragon Slayers were possessed by their Dark Sides to the point, that their own consciousness and mind were erased away, resulting in Dark Side tributing and soon abandoning of this Mode development. As Rogue stated by himself, when he was thinking about his changes on Grand Magic Games and what he discovered from Natsu about his future self, the Future Rogue was indeed possessed by his Dark Side, and when Frosch died, the consciousness of Future Rogue fused with his Dark Side, hinting, that some tragic moments in user's life can drastically enhance their Dark Side and also be a catalyzer to a further possessing process.

When the user of Shadow Dragon Slayer Magic enter their Dark Side, their body attains some shadow markings, and when the user has a deep connection and bond with his Dark Side, they attain even more shadowed appearance, as their parts of body can become covered in black-coloured deep shadows. When using it, both physical and magical performances of the user grows in several times, as it was shown with Rogue Cheney. When he fully realised himself and again entered his Dark Side, he said, that he felt, how his powers was enhanced in three or even four times at once. On a real thing, as it was shown in Rogue's battle with Gajeel, the user of Dark Side attain a better control over their shadows, as well, as become more cruel fighter with no hesitation in greatly harming or even killing somebody. Dark Side-enhanced Shadow Dragons become more savage in their way of combat. Moreover, they rely more on their own instincts and physical capabilities, which can reach the level of becomin a berserker, who doesn't matter on his wounds and body's condition. The user is also able to use some new spells, while his own spells become stronger and taking more shadows in using.

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 * This article was aproved by Perchan.