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DarkAsteria — Out of the Light

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Published: 2015-12-10 14:31:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 703; Favourites: 18; Downloads: 0
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Description Into the darkness.


The biting cold of the air touched their skins. In the shadows they stood, silent and calm, exchanging no words, but staring into each eyes. For a moment time seemed to take a halt; nothing moved, not even the earth rotated around its axis. All motion in the universe seemed to be frozen down to zero Kelvin degrees; and only the faint vibrations of the atoms where left.

Then Loui finally put an end to the fascinating, yet awkard stillness. “You know, there is no hope for me. Or both of us,” he said and took a cigarette out of the pockets of his brand new snow-white labcoat. “I am the kind of person you should not trust. And I will get you into trouble. And in the worst case you will die,” he held the cigarette in one hand and snipped with the other; the friction from his fingers he used up to perform a fire spell to ignite the cigarette. He leaned back to the cold wall behind him and inhaled and then exhaled the smoke. “Ah, that's good. I didn't have one since a while now.”

Nikolai didn't say anything at first. He just observed Loui; mustered every movement his opposite made. Whenever their gazes touched it felt for a moment as if they both would be loosing themselves in each of their eyes. It was a feeling both were afraid of; for there was really no way of them becoming entangled. The danger was too high, let alone the moral dilemma resulting from such an intimate relationship.

“But,” Nikolai began, “why are you so obsessed with me? Why do you keep to return and clinge to me? Wasn't it better for both of us, if we would just stay out of our ways?” Of course it was hypocritical what he said. After all, he developed the idea that it ws his task to help Loui, to become his friend and companion on the hard way of resocialization or integration, as the therapists would say. It was him too, who could not part.

Loui pulled on his cigarettes, his green eyes starting to glimmer under the dim light of the street lamp. Suddendly there was it again; that familiar and freightening look in his eyes that screamed danger. “You really want to know? Well – I like the pain. I enjoy torturing myself and I am addicted to it. So I come back for more.”


Lame ass scene in my story, writting very badly and on a whim. As people have repeatedly told me, I should just let the words come out for the first drafts, so excuse if there are any mistakes.

Now it looks like it's a cliché Yaoi Fanfic, but I promise, there will hopefully a lot more interesting things. And Niko's and Loui's relationship is far more complex than a serial killer falling in love with a naive, good hearted (but also somewhat deluded) psychiatrist. The question wheter or not someone as dangerous and broken as Loui deserves to be loved is one of the main plot points (Loui's one of the main protagonists after all)

This drawing took forever to make, because I was lazy and demotivated. It's an experiment with light and shadows. Nikolai does not appear because I wanted to focus on Loui here.

Loui is my OC.
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Comments: 12

UltraLiThematic [2015-12-23 03:13:45 +0000 UTC]

It's nice to see Loui again.

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Quazar501 [2015-12-14 08:07:11 +0000 UTC]

Zero degrees Kelvin means that not even "the faint vibrations of the atoms where left"!
Very nice drawing however!

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DarkAsteria In reply to Quazar501 [2015-12-14 12:47:29 +0000 UTC]

Actually there are still vibrations inside the particle. I am on mobile, so I can't send you links now, but at zero Kelvin there is still energy left, so called Zero Point energy hence atoms will vibrate, though it's veeeery weak. Zero point energy is the minimum amount of energy matter can have (lowest energy state). It's got something to do with conversion of energy; I am sure you will find a lot of interesting things about that (google zero point motion). Didn't knew this myself until few months ago when I watched a vid about quantum cooling.

Those are the kind of things you learn in school in a simplified version, so I guess that phrase may sound very incorrect without better phrasing. I may expand on the physics shit once I have the first draft of the story completed. Which may take some time *cough*

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Quazar501 In reply to DarkAsteria [2015-12-14 17:39:05 +0000 UTC]

Fancy! *-*
I'm curious for more physics shit! ^-^

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DarkAsteria In reply to Quazar501 [2015-12-14 22:49:15 +0000 UTC]

Here is the video by the way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jT5rb… :3
Good, there will be much more (and magic)

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Quazar501 In reply to DarkAsteria [2015-12-15 11:30:06 +0000 UTC]

Any magic could be "just" some kind of sufficient advanced technology!

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DarkAsteria In reply to Quazar501 [2015-12-15 18:03:20 +0000 UTC]

Well, that's pretty much what magic in my story is :3 Hence Loui is both a magician and a scientist.

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Quazar501 In reply to DarkAsteria [2015-12-15 19:29:58 +0000 UTC]

But the fundamental principle of science is that anything can be described and repeatedly verified anywhere in the universe, while magic has to outcast those fundamental principles in some way, otherwhise it would be science too. I don't think magic and science can get along each other that well...

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DarkAsteria In reply to Quazar501 [2015-12-16 16:37:18 +0000 UTC]

you are contradicting yourself, since you quoted Clarke's third law in the first place (and that's what i was referring to with my comment).

Since we are disputing from the angle of fictional stories and not reality (where magic is no thing, unless we talk about the days when science was considered occultism, which have been long gone): I’d say it depends. In my story magic is definitely some kind of science/technology. The setting is an alternate universe of our own; history has taken different courses and there is a seemingly magical (because yet unexplainable) power that enables you to manipulate your surroundings.

I can understand where you are coming from, but I feel you are too fixated on over explaining things. To me, disputing whether or not something called magic is actually science in a work of fiction is nerdy cherry picking. In its most basic understanding both magic and technology are tools to manipulate matter for a certain purpose/outcome. Of course the difference is, that in regular technology we have a good understanding how it works. In magic we probably don’t. Plus: there are so many magic systems and ways to bend physical laws in fiction it's really hard to say where science and magic begin or end. So I think they can go along very well with each other (see science fantasy); it's a matter of your setting and how well you explain things. Also i never bought it that magic always has to be purely supernatural and unexplainable; in a post-industrialized world where magic exists someone must have at least thought of studying it. And as you say: everything can be explained. It's only a matter of whether or not we humans have the capacities to understand it (and that's what Clarke also meant with “advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”.

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Quazar501 In reply to DarkAsteria [2015-12-17 11:17:03 +0000 UTC]

Chapeau!

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DarkAsteria In reply to Quazar501 [2015-12-17 13:14:15 +0000 UTC]

Sorry, I didn't want to talk you down. Sometimes I get too much into writing walls of words, hups

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Quazar501 In reply to DarkAsteria [2015-12-17 14:15:09 +0000 UTC]

No you're absolutely right with what you have written! But the most elegant way to get out a argument you have nearly lost is with a very short catch phrase which either changes the subject, relativises the opposite opinion by changing the perspective (especially change the perspective from the argument to the real world, which can make it to an extremely powerful tool) or simply terminates the conversation completly! But be careful! Although I have called them elegant you need a bit of language skills, humor and a feel for dramaturgy to use them correctly or you will appear pretty bitchy.

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