…… Hmm.
Anti.
I could go into a literal essay answer (and almost did), but I think it’s Anti.
I always see Dark as ‘corporate evil’. Dark has a very business-like appearance. He uses patience and tactical ‘business’ decisions to get his way. He speaks as a manager; using corporate jargon to twist lies into professional, fool-proof logic. He abuses power and twists your needs for his own gain; his greed, his lust for control. He IS evil, but he’s quiet, insidious evil and that tends to fall under the radar. Nobody really trusts him, but nobody knows the full extent of his plans until it’s too late. He sits under the radar, ‘I provide a service’, he drones in a warm, deep voice, ‘I can give you everything you need’, he whispers ‘Go back to sleep’.
Anti is chaotic evil and that’s the most jarring. It’s in your face; no apologies, no secrecy, no hidden agenda. You can immediately SEE that he’s a psychotic, highly dangerous threat. And man, what a threat he is. He will force you to watch as he slits the throats of your loved ones – or, rather, as he forces them to slit their own throat for your entertainment. He will laugh at your pain as he draws out torture for fun, slowly tearing a panicked doctor apart from the inside out over months. He leaves blood and broken psyches like footsteps in his wake and publicly toys with every host he destroys. He’s not above creating a loved one JUST so he can rip them away and laugh at us. We’re fascinated. We’re terrified. We’re hooked to the show from Minimum Safe Distance. Or so we think.
On a personal level Dark will give you what you think you need. He’ll entertain you, distract you, claim to protect you, coax you into doing his bidding. On a global level that gives him outrageous power.
Anti will fascinate and terrify you, keep you glued to the screen until he finds a way in. He’ll shift and squirm and scrape in your mind, eroding and glitching and slicing his way into your psyche. He’ll torment and torture and bring you screaming to your knees and he’ll laugh.
Dark will enslave the world’s population.
Anti will bring it to an agonised, screaming halt.
Which of those two outcomes is the most evil, is down to interpretation.
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Well said.
For me, it depends. Anti is clearly more evil, but in terms of what is scary, they’re both terrifying. Anti, as you have said is very in your face, loud and leaves people with broken minds and exhausted bodies. He will tear and scream at the camera, demanding that you pay attention, that you can’t look away, so look! Look at him! Whereas dark is a much quieter evil. He’s unpredictable, impossible to read. Which scares the crap out of me. He has a hidden anger that occasionally will boil over in out of character shouts and screams. He demands that you look with a single word, with a single, furious eye movement. So which is more evil?
Again, very damn well said.
How they present themselves to scare us is very different, but equally terrifying. Dark is sophisticated. Anti is chaotic. Both of you explained why above me.
But switch roles for a sec. We’ve seen Dark boil over, losing his composure, his shell shatter only a few times. If we ever see that more expanded/ realized, it would be terrifying. You know it’s possible; we’ve seen it, and the fact that we never know when it might happen or what caused it?… For someone so in control of himself, to have it lost and at his mercy is like a ticking time bomb.
Anti on the other hand, we’ve seen him in a literal full rage. Yelling. Violent. Uncontrollable. To the point he cursed at us for the first time. It was scary to witness. But (at least, on camera), we’ve never seen him as calm as Dark’s ever present demeanor. If we did… Imagine for a sec how unnerving that would be. If we got a video where it started off with Anti calm and collected (oh- still having the effects and glitches so we would know it’s him, but even they would be reduced), before exploding into his usual glitch frenzy.
Those brief times where Anti just watches us, calm and calculating before slipping into a smile are the most unnerving moments for me (besides that one time he externally made Jack glitch by touch)
Calculating Anti is fucking terrifying.
Yes.
He is.
you do you think is inherently more “evil’? Anti or Dark?
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