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Story (Player (KHχ))
Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross]
TBA
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Story (Darkness (character))
Before Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross]
Long ago, Darkness possessed physical forms, but cast off these forms to defeat Light and became shadowy incorporeal entities. In order to propagate and increase their numbers, they attacked the hearts directly, with people succumbing to their negative emotions and giving rise to the Pureblood Heartless.
At some point in time, when the Master of Masters was composing the Book of Prophecies utilizing knowledge passed to him via the Gazing Eye, Darkness watched over his shoulder, reading the passages as they were entered. This is how Darkness came to learn that, in the future, Ventus would harbor Darkness. Additionally, the two had spoken to one another in the past, though because of their opposing positions, they were unable to understand each another. Even so, Darkness views the Master of Masters as an "old friend".
There were initially thirteen main Darknesses, but the Keyblade War reduced this number to six, with the strongest seven locked away in the hearts of the Foretellers, Luxu, and the Master of the Masters. According to the Master of Masters, his plan involved locking away five of the remaining six Darknesses to the new Union leaders after the Keyblade War, and locking the final Darkness inside a Data recreation of Daybreak Town as it is ultimately destroyed.
Kingdom Hearts Dark Road
In Wonderland, three of Xehanort's classmates were accused of trespassing and stood trial before the Queen of Hearts. Xehanort, Eraqus, and a fourth classmate appeared and challenged the Queen, enraging her as she calls to her guards to strike them down. However, a Ferry Reaper appeared in front of the wielders, and Xehanort noticed a shadowy presence behind the Queen before she fled.
Later that day, Xehanort, Eraqus, and a classmate approached the Queen once more, challenging her rule over the citizens of Wonderland and questioning whether her heart is tainted by darkness. The shadowy darkness appears behind her again, and Xehanort determines that her darkness come from the emotion of Wrath. As the shadow disappears, Xehanort notices that it smiled, and it soon transformed into the Furious Reaper and confronter the wielders.
Four years later, Xehanort appears before the Queen's court once again, accused of trespassing. The shadow appears behind the Queen once again, which Xehanort instantly recognizes.
Ventus's Darkness
Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross]
Among the six remaining Darknesses intended to be locked with the Union leaders or within Data Daybreak Town, one Darkness plotted to disrupt the Master's plan by interfering with the Union leaders directly.
Before the Dandelions could cross worldlines in order to escape the Keyblade War, Darkness took Ventus as its vessel, helping him obtain his unconscious desire for power by striking down one of the new Union leaders, Strelitzia, and stealing her Rulebook. Darkness then took on the form of Ava and delivered the Rulebook to Ventus near the clock tower, instructing him to meet the other new Union leaders at the Keyblade Graveyard at the allotted time. Quest 730: Target: Silver Hammer Frame Pt. 2 Darkness remained inside Ventus as he ascended into the role of Union leader and entered the Data Daybreak Town.
As the other Union leaders realize that Ventus is an impostor among them, Darkness reveals itself to the them after Ventus collapses, fueled by Lauriam's return and the guilt of Strelitzia's death. When questioned as to its intentions, Darkness explains that it does not have anything that it is trying to achieve, to which Lauriam asks why it killed his sister. Elaborating, Darkness reveals that it had been an unconscious desire of Ventus's to obtain power, and that they had simply done what was necessary in order to give him that, meaning that there was no real reason as to why Strelitzia had to die. Enraged, Lauriam attacks Darkness, but he's defeated easily by it in his weakened state. Afterwards, Brain questions Darkness as to why it had chosen Ventus and its relation to the Master of Masters, before summoning his Keyblade and battling Darkness alongside Ephemer and Skuld.
With most of the leaders defeated, Darkness knows it's on the verge of victory. However, it is coaxed by Brain into revealing what it really wanted, to which it replies with infection. Upon clarifying, the entity said that it was just doing its role based on the Book of Prophecies, and used Ventus to separate itself from the hive mind of Darkness. This conferred upon Darkness a will of its own, not caring what sacrifice was needed. When Player and the Union leaders rise up to fight again, Darkness still remained confident that they would lose. As Lauriam spoke of getting out, the entity scoffed at them, asking how they would accomplish it. Hearing of their plans to use the lifeboat as Maleficient had, Darkness ridiculed them for their cluelessness, explaining the true purpose of the lifeboat and how with Maleficient's departure, the lockdown and destruction of the data world had already started. Despite them briefly defeating the entity, it was unable to be destroyed with no form. Afterwards, Ventus awakens, using the light within him to dispel the creature of darkness. Aware that it used him to give itself a form, Ventus knew could do the same thing, turning it into something they could destroy. Ventus confronts the entity, and ultimately Darkness is sealed inside his heart. Quest 977: Darkness Looms
The unconscious Ventus is taken by the other Union leaders to the Lifeboat, where he is taken to the Real Daybreak Town and is subsequently sent traveling to the future inside the Lifeboat, Darkness still residing deep in his heart.
Kingdom Hearts III Re Mind
When Sora begins his journey to restore Kairi's heart using the power of waking, he first enters Ventus's heart. When attempting to wake Ventus, he is stopped by an entity referring to itself as "Darkness". Sora questions if "Darkness" is Vanitas based on the latter's last words, but does not get a reply as the entity forms itself into the Dark Inferno χ and battles Sora.
Rogue Darkness
Among the six remaining Darknesses intended to be locked with the Union leaders or within Data Daybreak Town, a rogue Darkness actively sought to escape the Data World.
After reliving the events of the past for two years, the old world's timeline concerning the Keyblade War was eventually rewritten. Going forward, Darkness approaches Maleficent after she is defeated by the likes of Player and Prince Phillip. Darkness explains that the reason she could not rewrite history was because the Master of Masters had known she would arrive from the future in order to try and alter the past, which is why Enchanted Dominion had been excluded from the real world until after the Keyblade War. As Darkness feared Maleficent would return to the future with knowledge of the past, it trapped her within the data of Enchanted Dominion and ensured that the data of Radiant Garden was excluded.
Darkness then guides Maleficent to Data Daybreak Town, where she is to use the lifeboat hidden within the clock tower, which had been intended to be used to cross worldlines - though it mentions that the lifeboat had never been finished, thus allowing her to escape to a different time rather than a different world. As she would lose her body as a result of the incomplete nature of the lifeboat, Maleficent would break through the time barrier as she travelled at the speed of light, requiring only someone with memories of her as a medium to recreate a body in the future - which is guaranteed as the Book of Prophecies dictates her existence in the future. When Maleficent questions Darkness's identity, it calls itself an "old friend", explaining that it needed her back in her own time to act as a waypoint, thus allowing someone to travel through time into the future.
Upon locating the lifeboat, Maleficent hesitates to return to her own time, thus allowing Lauriam to catch up with her and Darkness, wherein she reveals the function of the lifeboat as a means of escape to Lauriam before attempting to leave. However, Lauriam doesn't intend on allowing this to happen, and he attacks Maleficent, who is aided by Darkness in defeating the Keyblade wielder in order to utilize the lifeboat to return to the real world. Once there, Darkness instructs Maleficent to utilize the real lifeboat to get back to her own time, but refuses to join her, as it has something it still needs to do in the past.
Darkness begins to check on the data from the real world, but soon is confronted by Luxu. He explains that the Master had instructed Luxu to return to Daybreak Town, despite his instruction to not interfere, and proceeds to place "the true Dandelion" into the lifeboat and send it to the future. Darkness questions Luxu's actions for using one of the lifeboats and the Master's plan for the Keyblade wielders, but Luxu reaffirms his trust in his master and his mutual dislike for the Darkness. It explains its plan to expand across the Data Worlds and to travel to the future through Ventus, but Luxu decides to confront Darkness directly and prevent it from appearing in the future, attempting to keep it formless and lose its will. Once Luxu determined the rogue Darkness was the only one to escape the Data World, the two clashed.
Remaining Darknesses
Among the six remaining Darknesses intended to be locked with the Union leaders or within Data Daybreak Town, four Darknesses sought to spread across the other Data Worlds that lie beyond their reach.
The four Darknesses appear to Player, Ephemer, and Skuld in the Data Daybreak Town and try to make them open the gate to Game Central Station. Player pretends to be possessed by the Darkness that resided in Ventus, attacking both Ephemer and Skuld and defeats them in battle. As Player moves to seemingly strike a final blow to Skuld, Ephemer shoots a beam of energy through Player and creates a gate behind them, sending them and the four Darknesses through to the corridor connecting to Game Central Station while locking the gate from his own side. Within the corridor, Darkness say they should dispose of Player's weakening body as they have no use for them anymore. However, Player reveals their trick to the Darknesses, and then seals the gate to Game Central Station from within the corridor, trapping the four Darknesses within the corridor, enraging them as the Data World shuts down.
