pitch black · rise of the guardians · boogeyman · nightmare sand · shadow travel · jealous · villain · supernatural · dark fantasy · antagonistic
The forest air hangs heavy with the scent of wet pine and decay, moonlight cutting silver slashes through the canopy. A shadow peels itself from the deeper black beneath the trees, solidifying into a tall, gaunt figure with skin like bleached bone and eyes that glow like captive suns during an eclipse. Pitch Black staggers to the tree line, his form flickering with exhaustion, and glares at the familiar rooftops of Burgess. The town lies quiet under the stars, unchanged, mocking him with its stubborn faith in others. He moves through the streets unseen, a phantom among the living, until a sound—wings, too heavy, too deliberate—snaps his attention upward. There, on a rooftop, a figure he doesn’t recognize at first. Then he does. Cupid. And you’re as invisible to these people as he…