#dbd his supervillain era

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I HAD STRINGS BUT NOW I’M FREE,

danny has no attachment to his physical body or his identity. he barely feels like a person. what danny is, is a hole. and inside that hole, there is every dark, evil deed his father has ever committed. every true horror story. every lesson danny was forced to learn. the drills, the training, and the torture. all of it. lives inside him. in spite of his efforts, his father's legacy bleeds through every calculated thought, every action that danny decisively executes. most fathers taught their kid how to ride a bicycle, or dance, or play baseball. the only skill danny knows, without a doubt, is killing. efficiently. strategically. like a soldier.

danny is not his body. he is a puppet for a horrible ghost. born and raised to carry on in daniel johnson senior’s proverbial footsteps. designed to supplant daniel. to enlist into the navy’s BUD/S training courses as early as 17, through their delayed enlisted program. before that could happen, danny had killed his father (messy, emotional, burying the mutilated body under the woods in utah).

he took his father’s training and twisted it into his own horror story. a better horror story. true stories worth writing about.

when he dons the mask, it is his truest self; a terrified face, a screaming face. a permanent expression of horror. when he kills his victims, he is the only one that can make the horror stop. and there is so much gratification in that. so much power in that.

ultimately, the ghostface designs perception. reality. exclusively through his observable universe. he takes the horrible things that people read about, hear about, and drops it on their safe, isolated suburban doorsteps. with all the gory details.

THERE ARE NO STRINGS ON ME... 

elaborating more on danny’s innate understanding for the entity’s machinations; this unique “dark empathy” allows him to completely immerse himself in the very essence of the fog (night shroud). when danny is focused, fixated, he is completely undetectable within the entity’s realms. he becomes a part of its darkness. an extension of the void.

with night shroud, danny can freely traverse through the fog. to an extent. his ability to focus and maintain a metaphysical symbiosis with the void is not infinite. his connection can be severed, if he loses focus by becoming emotional or angry. becoming human.

danny’s resentment for the entity’s games is petty and calculated. he has every intention of being free from the fog. more than that, he wants to destroy it. everything. every universe. every world. every copy.

existing as a microbial speck among infinite worlds and infinite universes and infinite versions of himself, danny believes that total annihilation is the only truly unique, free choice that he can make.

the only choice that matters.