#another day in the life of torment for silver the hedgehog

[libelelle]

revenge for every thursday of my life

AUGHHHH YOU FUCKING GOT ME

[rxbelling-hxrald]

Timeline so far

// Long post warning, I’ll put it under a read more to save space but this is going to be a rough but overall flow to Dan’s story and interactions as a whole so far in his main verse over the years I’ve RPed as him. Not counting resets. So those of you more new to meeting him can get a taste of how far he has developed.

Seriously, You’ll be in for a long droning read. This is only if your genuinely interested in catching up how Dan got to the stage he is in now. This will probably sport several grammar errors and terrible pacing but I might fix that in time, right now my priority is just wanting something for myself and others to refer too as to where Dan actually is in his story.

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Upbringing and Arrival on Mobius - After several years of torment and harsh training in the demon realm to become the next perfect vessal, Dan finally breaks free of his father’s influence over him and promptly begins fending off his demon counterparts in a desperate bid to evade being consumed. The battle lasts for a day as Dan constantly tries to flee before finally being beaten down by the hordes. His father permits the torture to continue believing it as the end before one powerful strike from an brute type abomination sends Dan flying accidentally into an abyssal portal. With the last of his remaining energy  Dan manages to block the entrance as he flies through it and sending him flying through the multi-verse pathways. His father immediately orders a hunt to reclaim the prize though it would take time to break the seal Dan left on the portal.

By chance he ends up roughly landing on green pastures and surrounded by trees. beaten, bleeding and clueless as to what he was seeing and spending several hours too terrified to even dare to move, All of the colors and plants were things he didn’t believe actually existed and with him fading in and out of consciousness it was tricky to assume it was even real to begin with.

With enough time his body was able to recover and he’d pluck up the confidence to actually try touching the flora, then when it seemed safe, he began trying to eat them....flowers, twigs....you name it. Some were obviously more edible than others but he was starving and didn’t care what it was as long as he could munch it down.

Discovery and In Hiding - It took several days for Dan to finally begin venturing out from his initial landing spot, in that time he’d learned the existence of wildlife and had ended up disturbing them frequently both due to his presence as a demon and the fact he’d also attempt to hunt them like a savage with his bare hands. Unlike the demon realm listening out for sounds caused by the surroundings and wildlife was much easier and night would prove little difficulty for him to traverse being used to the eternal void of space in the demon realm.

One day, Dan would eventually stumble across a collection of structures as he pursued some curious looking birds, hiding in the shrubbery he’d finally catch a first glimpse of the local inhabitants in the form of mobians. Of course initially being the next closest thing to a sentient creature like the demons Dan was actually more intimidated by them seeing their apparent mastery in every field given their well developed common life. who knew what powers they might also possess if they were capable of such decor?

Dan would spend a good period of time observing them from a safe distance, watching their habits and motions. These views soon enough revealed that mobian hedgehogs were a surprisingly common sight and so plans begun to blend in as one, which is what prompted the black hedgehog visage nowadays, their lack of clothing only made it easier to mimic their general physique and after a few tries, Dan was able to completely shift himself into a mobian hedgehog.

Even though most mobians seemed to prefer a lack of clothes, it was peculiar to Dan not to wear anything at all even if he was only used to dirty rags and scraps. So one night he’d sneak along towards the establishments again and stole one single uniform he liked the look of which was his favoured black coat. It also proved to be useful with his powers over shadow allowing him to blend into the night almost seamlessly.

First Encounters and Emotional learning - While he was now able to mimic mobian looks and even got himself some suitable clothing to go along with it, He still had little clue how to actually communicate like them and next went about in public, trying to pick up on certain mannerisms and how others generally acted.

It was difficult to even act like the mobians in a calm and casual manner due to his wary nature that they were still supposedly some unknown powerful group of creatures, like the demons or worse, though it was becoming apparent they didn’t appear to hold any frequent fatality gatherings. They simply spoke to one another.

As Dan had been trying to focus on learning, his demon brethren had finally managed to open up the abyssal portal pathways and quickly squads of scouts were dispatched at regular intervals, unable to perfectly align with the same circumstances their quarry had been sent through they figured exploring enough realms in enough quantities they’d find him sooner or later.

They were right. a group of these demon scouts whose speciality was infiltration would blend almost perfectly with the mobian locals. It didn’t take long for them to silently dispose of figures that were able to find them access to more information in mass and pose as them and with their nature to sense other forms of darkness it didn’t take too long for them to learn Dan’s position.

Another fight would ensue in the forests after Dan had decided to fall back away from the populations, he’d win with his foes not nearly being as deadly as others he’d fought, but he was injured enough for others to more clearly notice him which is how he’d eventually gain the attention of future lost friends in the form of Tails and Silver. Tails wanting to help the injured ‘hedgehog’ after Dan stumbled across his workshop and Silver after having witnessed one of the battles going on later on, thinking a capable but innocent civilian was being attacked.

Unfortunately, the failure of the scouts coming back to report told the demon lord all he needed to know as to where Dan was exactly.

New faces and Lost friends - During this period, the kindness shown to him by both Tails and Silver were what made Dan realise that the mobians in of themselves were not actively hostile, eventually Dan would come clean as to both who/what he was to the pair of them but they genuinely didn’t seem to care about his origin in the kindest way with him not being a threat. but with the danger of more demons arriving on learning his location they needed to find a means of keeping them guessing.

Tails was the one that introduced him to the concept of warp rings and after a few attempts of giving Dan a few to try out, the bright two tailed inventor gave him a custom warp ring device, allowing Dan to input any assortment of coordinates so that he could travel between the zones/realms of mobius near instantly.

While Dan never got the hang of remembering the exact coordinates, it gave him the means to keep ahead of his enemies while also allowing him to learn and explore all the more freely, this is what truly enabled Dan’s wanderlust and picking a direction with little care of where it might lead. It was during this time with the warp ring device Dan would encounter several others whom he’d befriend on his travels such as Voltage and Harmony . Things were a little shaky and Dan would frequently try to avoid coming into proper contact with people too often for fear that the demons would learn to focus the innocents down.

Unfortunately, One encounter with more of his enemies resulted in the warp ring device malfunctioning after sustaining damage. Silver would assist while Tails attempted to fix the device but the damage was worse than expected, while more hordes kept arriving to only further pressure the trio. When one demon attempted to attack the young fox, Dan would get in the way though it would prompt a collision, the device being dropped and activated...everyone was sucked in but cast across various locations.

Dan was alone again, until he was able to find his way back by another warp ring he was able to take for himself but not being a custom built design, the ring only warranted a one way trip.

Wandering and Training - While circumstances had changed, the plan did not as Dan had little else he could go for...evade capture, try to skip between the realms and zones, learn as much as possible and try to keep demons from terrorizing the public, especially his new found friends in the face of losing the duo who had previously helped him so much.

This is why he holds Tails and Silver alternates to such a high value, he wants to repay them for all of their help, so he views him helping them and keeping them happy is paying back what was given to him.

Realising that the threat of his father was constantly looming no matter where he ran too, the only way for this to end was for him to become powerful enough to destroy his kin completely, he was getting sick of running and he knew he had a potential with the darkness unlike most of his kind. Between travelling and the occasional act of thievery, Dan would train alone, honing his instincts, techniques and powers, weaponizing his anger and determined to inspire fear in his enemies by becoming an overwhelming powerhouse with his already impressive traits as a demon.

Most demons in Dan’s kind only respect power, at the same time they both fear and envy those with it. Only Dan’s father had such an uncanny level of power to hold such dominion over the hordes, being the collective consciousness of several ‘dark lords’ that were meant to be maintaining balance, instead they were twisted and wanting to end everything to end the constant struggles between light and darkness, what better method than to deny existence itself so there was no need for a balance in the first place?

Instead of a game of cat and mouse, Dan intended for it to eventually turn into a clash of titans but he needed greater access to power while also being able to spread terror amongst the demon hordes. Hence his travels would now begin focusing on any artefacts, traces of demonic energy any other ‘dark’ types within the zones/realms.

It didn’t take too long for Dan to become obsessed with the topic of one the mobians called Dark Gaia.

A Greater Understanding With A Hint Of Insanity - A long period would be Dan exploring, training and getting into encounters with his friends on their own adventures. He was happy to lend them a helping hand but it was becoming evident that his emotions were getting the better of him.

He wanted to protect them, to live with them but also stay away from them as fear of losing more close friends terrified him. He’d been alone during his younger years and he wasn’t going to allow himself to lose contact entirely. As much as he’d wish to live normally, he was a demon and it would be impossible for everyone to truly accept him so why care? He’d only bring more terror with him being present in their realm or fail in his mission and become another enemy of them anyway.

The paranoia and fear continued to eat away at him, getting increasingly agitated with the lack of success in finding anything he could work with to gain an advantage, Chaos energy proving to be something he had no affinity for, the Light would burn and deny him. Technology being either too frail or beyond his understanding, with a last ditch wish to summon and consume the being of Dark Gaia to further strengthen himself not being favoured by most he knew at all.

It was just not possible to apparently get the message across to those he did know why they should avoid him or help him in his mission, Their care for him was only proving to be a weakness....he was sure of it. If they wouldn’t see the truth then he’d both prove their doubts wrong while also saving them.

Another asset to this increased intense mentality was the essence of his defeated kin he’d began to absorb with each he slew. The most powerful of which was a particularly able and strong, yet failed earlier vessel attempt that had been discarded by his father for being too easily twisted by his power, the creature loved to refer to Dan as his brother. After the battle with the apparent brother was over....the tremendous levels of dark energy gained would soon begin to strain on Dan’s body.

Within hours his right hand that he’d used to impale his ‘false’ brother had become completely overwhelmed in demonic essence, the power was great but it had forcibly transformed against Dan’s will, even the so called perfect vessel evidently wasn’t entirely immune to the twisting power of darkness, it showed a small hint of what Dan truly was in appearance, reminding him once more he was not a mobian by any means.

The ‘Attempted’ Resurrection of Dark Gaia - At first it was just his hand, but the power flow was so great it too began to corrupt Dan’s forearm....then his elbow, his shoulder. Forcibly reconstructing his entire right limb to take the visage of the monster he feared to become and given that his veins would burn with a faint purple glow, it was soon clear that this new increase in power had only tainted him. He needed to win his battle against his father before this ‘infection’ took over his entire body and mind.

At the same time, with his friends growing increasingly concerned and wary of his new developments, Dan’s mind drifted deeper into doubt, assuming they still didn’t believe in him to be able to defeat dark gaia, which in turn meant he was still too weak to fight his father.

Determined to prove them wrong, Dan decided he’d go all out in allowing his new found powers to not only tempt the diety back into the world, but then crush it and add its strength to his own. the demon-hog had learned of a method he could use to possibly incite a reaction. By making use of one of Eggman’s old facilities and repairing a super laser aimed directly into a bottomless chasm, wishing to infuse the beam with his own energy, believing it would be enough to hit the centre of the planet and therfore awaken the beast within.

After managing to even capture a relic of Dark Gaia’s previous existence and successfully managing to control it albeit with some difficulty and resistance, Dan felt it was a sign that he was going to wipe out a future threat to the planet and then destroy the current threat to the universe.

The plan would never actually begin however, after weeks of trying and despite all of Dan’s methods and practice he was unable to get anyone capable of repairing the super laser or being able to infuse it with his own tainted energy. The corruption spreading across his body was reaching a boiling point and he was sure that he was going to lose it completely.

Avoiding Disaster and Return - Unbeknown to Dan this entire time, the ‘infection’ was simply the result of an overflow of darkness, to a degree not even his body was used to withholding. Dan believed it was a genuine demonic disease of sorts which would affect not only himself but others.

While there is a degree of truth to the transforming process to become a fully fledged demon, it was not a spreadable disease by common methods.

Expecting the end, Dan felt that the best course of action was to go out with a bang as he willingly opened up one of the abyssal portals he’d spent so much time closing before now, then entering so he could battle the hordes and his father.

The return to the demon realm was as you’d expect, violent but Dan was still not a match for the overwhelming reserves of energy his father had. Dan would take down scores of the lesser nightmares but would be unable to even land a scratch on the dark lord.

Eventually his father would take a hold of Dan’s demonic limb as they struggled, Dan’s physical prowess may have been stronger but even he couldn’t resist the several thousand worth of dense solidified darkness that his father had used to grip him and within an instant, Dan lost the limb...ripped clean off and promptly absorbed into the mass of shadow that was the dark lord.

Even after a year of fighting, training, nothing had changed in the power scale between them, even if he had become strong enough to reduce the other monsters to dust in minimal time, the fight that mattered? Was still beyond his abilities.

It seemed like that was it, the fight was lost as the demon-hog bled profusely over the soot covered ground, several lesser demons already eyeing the crimson liquid to enjoy once this was over. The father went to end this resistance by wishing to repeat the process on the rest of Dan’s body.

It was in these brief seconds that both father and son were reminded of their combined feats. Dan knew he could transform his body, but he’d never attempted to shift himself into a similar state like his father existed as, a gassy, ethereal like creature of horrors. the demon-hog uses his mastery of umbrakenesis to shift his entire body to gas. appearing as the same thick black smoke his father did as he’d phase out and away from his father’s grip.

Naturally the father roared and attempted to regain control by grabbing Dan again, but each attempt simply resulted in the same result of no physical contact being made on any plane. The difference in power was evident but they both had control over their own darkness and in the material plane of gas, any contact made would simply give space for more to float on by. The now ethereal demon-hog quickly floated on out of another abyssal portal that had erupted in sight nearby, repeating the same trick he’d done a year ago.

The father would unleash his rage by killing several of his minions in a single swipe, ordering the immediate retrieval of Dan. The sense of deja vu was aggravating to the dark lord beyond all else.

Dan would also have a similar experience as he’d hit the ground with a painful thud after emerging from the portal and returning to a physical, mobian form. He was armless but the one advantage of having an arm comprised of that twisted, writhing flesh the demons were infamous for, was that it was capable of regeneration given enough time and that right arm was already long tainted by his previous gains.

The New Status Quo - The battle and subsequent survival by going into a different plane took a huge quantity of energy out of Dan, as such he’d soon realise that his previous level of strength had faded but in doing so it had stopped the spread of the ‘infection’ his right arm might be forever tainted now but it was a blessing in disguise much like the rest of his origin being able to survive, endure and eventually regenerate into its mutated mess.

It took several weeks to properly regain its previous muscle mass and deadly array of protruding spikes, but Dan had time, time he spent practising his control over using the abyssal portals, both to seal and to travel so the demons no longer had a method of reliably tracking him down through them without the risk of running into him midway.

By the time they had once again regained access to the portal’s vast array of tunnelling pathways through the universe, Dan had already managed to lock off the majority of access points on the other ends too with his new experience over them. Now he had more time to prepare and plan, while also attempting to get back in touch with his friends and hopefully get past his entire phase of madness.

The Now - Dan has not given up his mission in eventually overcoming and destroying his father so that he can truly drop the threat of demon invasions across the universe. But he’s not as naive as he once was and he’s gained a lot more insight and power in the process even if he is not quite as strong as he was back when he wished to bring back Dark Gaia.

Not much can be said as to what he’ll actually plan to do in future achieve this, but he’s come to realise he should trust his friends more and will need their help and methods rather than relying solely on his own pure brute strength as the apparent ‘Heir of Darkness’  For now he focuses on strengthening his bonds with those he both tried to push away and make the most of his life on mobius, he’s come to understand that he’s not mobian and there’s no point hiding in the shadows anymore. He will be more likely to achieve greater help and strength should he be honest with the world around him.

Who knows, perhaps your muse will hold the key to his success? or maybe something else entirely. Compared to what he once was he’s no longer the anxious and clueless wreck, this was thanks to those he has met and gave him the time of day.