Fumiko Entry 1:
Fumiko enjoys walking in the darkness of the thick forest. As far back as she can remember, darkness was her place of comfort. It is simply beautiful. The cold, the calm, the peace of night. The moon, the stars, the clouds in the sky. The beauty of a place exists as much during the night as much as it does during the day (probably even more during the night in Fumiko’s opinion). The forest ecosystem at night is every bit just as full of activity during the day. A different kind of life in the forest stirs when the sun sets, not bad, not good, just different. Nothing in the natural environment of the night signals anything more dangerous than the same natural environment of the day. There is a natural order of hierarchy: producers, consumers and predators in the food chain, high or low in the food chain, regardless if it was day or night.
In Fumiko’s younger days, her friends always wanted to play in the bright sunshine. She would join them but she always got tired quickly. The sunlight drained her stamina and the perspiration made her feel icky. She preferred adventures at night but her friends were always terrified and never wanted to stay out late. Her favorite color was black and that came through her dressings. She found herself to be more alive during the night hours: more energy, more focused, more creative, more effective in whatever she was doing. For many of her younger years, Fumiko will stay up late into the night and continue into the next day with little sleep to accommodate the normal life routines. However, she gradually got tired of that and allowed herself to sync to what seemed to be a more natural body clock for her.
Many say that Fumiko has a talent for the Dark Arts. She could rapidly grasp the concepts of the Dark Arts and apply them with such ease. There was an elegance and sophistication to her dark magic. Her spells seemed to effortlessly flow out of her. Fumiko has a different assessment of herself: she merely has a different perspective on dark magic and not that she is magically talented. It was the sub-conscious paradigms about what white magic (aka true Magic) should be that placed mental blocks on their ability in the Dark Arts. There was a misconception that white magic, or just simply Magic, was good while the Dark Arts were bad. Magic is just magic, there is white magic and there is dark magic. Just like there is a Sun and there is a Moon. Just like there are livings that roam during the day, there are living things that roam during the night. Just like the normal temperature during the day is warmer, the normal temperature at night is colder. Opposites exist for there to be balance in the world!
The Dark Arts behave in an opposite manner and therefore require an opposite perspective (its not a wrong perspective). Livestock are bred with the sole intent for slaughtering them for food or used as tools. Undead creatures are raised for specific purposes as well. Just like there is life in the living form, and there is also life in the afterlife. White magic can be limited by the physical world and scientific principles. For example, white magic can produce fire without firewood or a spark but is still limited to requiring air for fuel to burn. In contrast, Fumiko can start a Ghoul Fire (because of its greenish glow) in underwater because dark magic does not face that same limitation. That is also why the Dark Arts can seem to be more “impossible” and the fear of the unknown only grows.
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