#sorry i've put an unreasonable amount of thought into the darkrai lore

[occasional-tales]

Anyway. lore for the Occasionally-pokkemon Askblog Cinematic Universe:

Echi, the original Darkrai, I have actually posted before, but they look like this:

Her first four 'Children' are an embodiment of the fear of four things: War, Death, Famine, and Pestilence.

The type of a Darkrai is affected by the fear the embody, and some Darkrai are a 'stronger' embodiment of that fear than others.

Example 1:

War is Dark/Fighting, Death is Dark/Ghost, Famine is Dark/Ice, and Pestilence is Dark/Poison.

Example 2:

Vanta (of Darkvoid-Sun) is ALSO made out of a fear of Death, as is Phobia (SweetDreamsCafe) to an extent. Weakest to Strongest is

Vanta -> Phobia -> Death

This is about how MUCH fear was used to create the Darkrai; though they also get stronger the MORE fear they spread. Phobia was once on Vanta's level, but is now not that far off from Death's.

Since Death was the FIRST Darkrai to embody a fear of death, ALL fear of death was used to make them, making them verrry strong. Vanta, on the other hand, was create from a spike of fear of death when the Ultimate Weapon was activated for the second time in Kalos. He became stronger after SOMETHING coughcough though, and is now above average but still weaker than Phobia.

The stronger a Darkrai is/becomes, the more they will resemble Echi (not including coloration.) See: Vanta Vs Phobia

Phobia is actually the closest to Echi out of any Darkrai in WHAT they embodies a fear of: Everything.

Phobia IS an embodiment of fear, straight up, but has a slight leaning towards death related fear (fear of ghosts, dying, etc). This slight limitation paired with Phobia's connection to Halloween meaning they only appear for a brief portion of the year is really the only reason they aren't stronger than All Darkrai other than Echi themselves.

anyway. that's all the lore rambling.