The Nothing

The Nothing is the malevolent cosmic entity ruling The Army of The Last Reality that was first introduced during Season X. It is the first primordial entity in existence, before the birth of The Zero Pointhttps://twitter.com/DonaldMustard/status/1599076372994871302, and is the incarnation of the pure Nothingness that existed before the creation of The Omniverse. Its goal is to annihilate all realities so that only it remains. 
It is the main antagonist of Fortnite, acting as the main antagonist of Fortnite: Battle Royale, and the overarching antagonist of Fortnite: Save the World and LEGO Fortnite:Odyssey.
==Overview==
The Nothing is a self-aware cosmic entity and the counterpart of The Zero Point, embodying the pure nothingness that existed before the Omniverse, while the latter embodies pure creation. Seemingly unable to act by itself on The Omniverse, it founded The Army of the Last Reality, a group formed of beings mainly from The Last Reality, and other beings created or chosen by them in order to destroy The Omniverse.
==Appearance==
Nothing is known about the true appearance of the Nothing, or if it even has a physical form. During Season X, it appeared in the form of a Black Hole.
During Bytes Quests, The Nothing speaks through a Chromeified TV.
==Personality==
The Nothing speaks in a sinister male voice, speaking rather slowly in an exaggerated manner, articulating all words. It is looking for worthy individuals; it uses its skills at manipulation to guide them down a path of darkness that takes away their identity and heralds them a useful asset by giving them Chrome powers. The only known individuals chosen by The Nothing thus far has become members of The Army of the Last Reality.
==Powers and Abilities==
Source 	Ability
 	Chrome ManipulationFull control of everything in Chrome. The Nothing gives people it deems worthy the power to use and manipulate Chrome, like The Herald and Bytes.
 	Existence SculptingAlso known as "A fate darker than the worst imaginable". Can shape anything covered in Chrome into something new and different. The Scientist is one of its victims.
"We know your thoughts. How you feel different now. Hollow and afraid." 	Mind ReadingKnows everything about Bytes in Bytes Quests.
"You can't let it in. It'll drag you down and swallow you whole."-Carlos	Mental ManipulationThe source of dreadfulness in The Storm of Fortnite: Save the World.
==History==
===The Big Bang===
Originally there was absolutely Nothing, however without warning there was "Something". The Zero Point appeared and created countless realities. However, that complete nothingness that was once there had a will of its own. Wishing to return everything to its original state where only it exists, it started to predate The Zero Point and The Omniverse. For this, it formed The Army of the Last Reality under unclear circumstances, and under its orders they began to annihilate one reality after another, all while searching for The Zero Point.
===Fortnite: Save The World===
In Save the World's Reality, The Nothing manifested itself as a type of corruption originating from The Storm, being omnipresent in Storm King's Realm. It striked Homebase, making people feel lazy, consuming them with existential dread and making them feels lifeless during Remote Control and Signal Strength quests.
It was revealed in Bandwidth Issues that Dr. Vinderman was aware of the existence of The Nothing along with The Storm King, backed up with multiple weapon plans that were lost.
===Unknown Time Period===
One day, in unknown circumstances, The Foundation found himself in The Nothing. His armor allowed him to survive for a time in it.Batman/Fortnite: Foundation
===Season X===
In an attempt to contain The Zero Point, The Seven turned the whole Reality into Nothing because of a miscalculation "I was not alone, others are outside the loop, this was not calculated, The Nothing is now inevitable."The Blackout#Origin
===Chapter 3: Season 4===
During Bytes Quests, Bytes was chosen by The Nothing itself to be warrior for The Last Reality. In the Paradise Quests, The Paradigm mentioned The Nothing, however the audio is mostly unintelligible. The Herald would eventually destroy the majority of the island in Fracture event.
===Chapter 4: Season 1===
AMIE's test subjects sent through test rifts encountered "It" sculpting The Scientist and the others into something new. The test subjects returned to AMIE corrupted with new forms. 
===Chapter 4: Season OG: The Big Bang===
After the meteor stuck the Zero Point, everything turned into Nothing just like The End event, but only for a short period of time. The Zero Point sprang into being again and caused a new Big Bang. 
===Chapter 5: Season Remix===
The Nothing (TV Form) appear represented on Mom's Spaghetti alongside Hope, Doctor Slone and Aliens.
====Remix: The Finale====
It is revealed that sometime after Chapter 4: Season 4, The Zero Point left alone in the dying Reality Zero was destroyed, though the involvment of The Nothing and The Last Reality is unknown. Several of its shards were seen, with one of them following Hope, Jones and The Looper to Reality: 783.
==Trivia==
*The voice files for the Nothing used in Bytes Quests are named "Distant Voice".
*The Nothing seems to be inspired by the Nothing from The NeverEnding Story.
*It is implied that the Chrome, The Storm, and the Darkness themselves are only manifestations or extensions of The Nothing.
*There were graffiti art of creepy TV with an eye on some location on Artemis during Chapter 3: Season 3. It also appeared on Helios during Remix: The Prelude.
*There is a graffiti art of a broken TV with an eyes being abducted by a Saucer in The Grotto during Chapter 2 Remix.
==Speculation Trivia==
*It is suggested that the The Zero Point and The Nothing may just be two sides of the same coin, similar to the One Above All and One Below All in Marvel.
**Zero is stated to be both "Everything and Nothing".https://x.com/FortniteGame/status/1184136853256986627
**The Black Hole was implied to be The Nothing or one of its manifestation by The Scientist, while it was initially The Zero Point.
**Chapter 2: Season 6, Chapter 3: Season 3, Chapter 3: Season 4 and Chapter 6: Season 1 show that The Zero Point is also a source of darkness:
***In the presence of Zero Point, The Spire was corrupted, imbued with Dark Magic, until its core became similar to Corruption Cubes.
***Bushranger during Chapter 3: Season 3 described the Reality Tree as being "Darknessdarkness big scary", despite being made from the energy of The Zero Point. 
***The ambience sound effect files for the Reality Tree in Chapter 3: Season 4 were named "Nothing Tree". In addition, Chrome emerged from all the Reality Bloom and the Reality Tree itself.
***In Chapter 6: Season 1, it was revealed that The Zero Point was also the source of Magic itself, with one of its fragments returning Magic (including Dark Magic) to Reality: 783.
**In Fortnite X Marvel: Zero War Issue 4, Doctor Doom confirm that the Power of Creation can also destroy. The Imagined Order using this to create The Collider, a doomsday weapon meant to collide The Zero Point with crystals to annihilate Reality Zero.
*Some clues suggest that The Nothing and the The Shapeless Man may be the same entity.
**Neither entity appears to have a physical body.
**Both have observed and chosen individuals (Bytes and Rift Warden Stellan respectively) to help them in their objectives by manipulating them.
**Among the dreams The Shapeless Man showed to Stellan, one was about stars swallowed in darkness, reminding how The Nothing wants to destroy The Omniverse by destroying every reality.
**The Nothing is theorized to be the entity who manipulated Raz dreams since his childhood to make him visit The Spire and fall to Darkness, just like The Shapeless Man did with young Stellan.
***However, other elements seem to indicate that The Shapeless Man would in fact not be The Nothing, but Geno due to an element he had mentionned to Stellan "He always said he imagined a world of perfect order. -Stellan."
==Gallery==
The Blackout - Event - Fortnite.png|The Nothing's manifestation in The End event
The Big Bang (18) - Event - Fortnite.png|The Nothing surrounding the Zero Point in Big Bang event
Vibin' TV - Graffiti - Fortnite.png|Graffiti art found at Rave Cave.
Spaghetti Grotto (Graffiti TV) - Location - Fortnite.png|Graffiti art in Spaghetti Grotto
Spaghetti Grotto (Graffiti TV 2) - Location - Fortnite.png|Graffiti art in Spaghetti Grotto
==References==
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