Dark Steve (Rainbow Quest)

**Dark Steve** is a major antagonist in the *Minecraft* roleplay series *Rainbow Quest*.

He appears as the secondary antagonist of seasons 1 and 2, and a posthumous character in subsequent seasons.

He is a fragment of the Darkness who can absorb and possess entities, turning them into his vessels he can use a a disguise. He was able to finally control a vessel with the help of Nightmare Steve, becoming his right-hand man until his demise and deciding to continue his legacy before eventually redeeming himself. He is Light Steve's arch-nemesis.

He is based off his original counterpart.

## Personality

Upon being created, Dark Steve shared many similarities to the person who brought him into the world: cruel, malevolent, destructive and murderous. Through time, he became increasingly intelligent, calculating and smart, learning to adapt to situations and how to get his way. Dark Steve is an expert manipulator due to his shapeshifting abilities when absorbing a Steve, being able to perfectly mimic their voice and pull off a convincing act for long periods of time. Despite his intellect and great planning skills, he does display a massive ego and is prone to throwing fits when he doesn't get what he wants, such as information.

Dark Steve also possesses a very anarchistic view on life, as he views chaos as the only weapon that can be utilized, and that laws and order are only there to give hope to the weak. Beneath his tough exterior, Dark Steve is a complete coward, as he begins running away from Light Steve when he proves to be much stronger than him, even begging him to stay away and making false threats to unleash his full power.

Despite his intense villainy, Dark Steve appears to be quite insecure about himself and who he is as a person, and that he only knows how to be evil. He's willing to talk to Sabre just to get his thoughts out and tell someone how he feels and is even willing to help Sabre to deal with Reverse Steve, even if it lasted only for a while. After being separated from Reverse Steve, Dark Steve felt extremely remorseful and was willing to be separated again if it meant giving his vessels their freedom back, showing that in his last moments he was willing to do the right thing.

## Biography

### Rise to Power

Dark Steve was originally created alongside the rest of the Darkness by Void Steve as part of his plan to establish peace across the world, however, the Darkness fragment seemed to stray from their ideals and only desired chaos, actively enjoying being evil.

After the Darkness started its second rampage across the world, the Darkness fragment was captured by Nightmare Steve and experimented on in his secret facility, eventually being condensed so he could easily take over a body. Nightmare Steve decided to use his assistant to give the Darkness fragment a body, and it successfully managed to possess him, as well as gaining shapeshifting abilities to manipulate his enemies. He leaves Nightmare Steve to enact on their plan as he leads the Darkness to the kingdom to lay siege to it. Before Dark Steve can deliver the finishing blow, Orange Steve uses all his power to teleport Dark Steve and the Darkness to parts unknown.

After Orange Steve leaves Sabre to pick flowers, Sabre is left alone as Dark Steve appears (out of Sabre's view), telling Sabre not to move or speak. Dark Steve threatens to destroy Sabre on the spot unless he tells him exactly what happened near the end of his seige at the Yellow Kingdom. Sabre refuses to tell him until Orange Steve arrives, noticing something on Sabre's back, and uses his lightning and Dark Steve appears. Exposed, Dark Steve once again threatens Sabre to tell him how he was teleported away from the kingdom, and knowing that they won't tell him, resorts to violence, attacking Sabre and Orange Steve with spheres of darkness. Although Orange Steve tries to attack, Dark Steve proves to be far more powerful, leaving the two to retreat.

Later on, Dark Steve is seen alongside another part of the Darkness and Nightmare Steve rounding up hostages in the orange village as a way to lure Sabre. Sabre eventually gives in and allows Nightmare Steve to take him, but demands Dark Steve and the darkness fragment don't follow him. Nightmare Steve agrees and dismisses the two. After Sabre returns from the land beyond, he discovers that the orange village has been destroyed by Nightmare Steve, but Orange Steve is still alive, but infected and dying. Sabre takes Orange Steve down to a secret area and locks Orange Steve into a machine to prevent him from dying. However, Sabre reveals that he knows Orange Steve is Dark Steve in disguise as Dark Steve congratulates him for figuring it out. Sabre threatens to leave Dark Steve trapped in his machine if he doesn't tell him where Orange Steve is. Dark Steve finally gives in and tells him that they're on an island before Sabre leaves him. Orange Steve would later reveal that Dark Steve absorbed Happy Orange Steve and was able to take on his form. When Sabre comes down to see him much later on, he discovers that Dark Steve was freed by Yellow Steve thinking he was Orange Steve.

Orange Steve and Sabre teleport to the Yellow Steve Outpost and discover the Yellow King. However he immediately becomes suspicious of the Yellow King since the outpost is vacant and demands him to reveal himself as Dark Steve. Dark Steve appears behind the Yellow King's throne, revealing that the Yellow King is real and that Dark Steve is holding him hostage. Dark Steve attempts to fight Sabre but is stopped by Light Steve who goes outside to fight him, who proves to be an equally powerful opponent. Dark Steve loses the battle and Sabre manages to contact the Yellow Assistant and Happy Orange Steve, who Dark Steve had possessed and absorbed. Upon revealing that they're still inside, Dark Steve teleports away.

### Temporary change of heart

Sabre later accidentally finds Dark Steve near a lake after being teleported away by Rainbow Steve, and Dark Steve greets Sabre and the two talk, as Dark Steve laments about his identity and how to move forward. Sabre tells Dark Steve that he is able to make choices that impact his future and show that he can change, and Dark Steve takes Sabre back to the catacombs. The two encounter Ghost Steve and are able to locate Reverse Steve, but are unable to stop him from activating his machine with Rainbow Steve inside. Before Sabre and Dark Steve can do anything else to prevent him from carrying out more of his plans, Reverse Steve offers to take in Dark Steve and finish what he started and states that unlike Nightmare Steve, Reverse Steve wont abandon and fail him. Sabre successfully sways Dark Steve back to his side, but Reverse Steve manages to get a hold on Dark Steve after immobilizing and Dark Steve joins him. Dark Steve tells Reverse Steve that he has a plan and leaves.

After leaving the catacombs and cleaning up Reverse Steve's mess, Sabre is teleported to the lake where he found Dark Steve before and furiously confronts him, despite Dark Steve asking to be heard out. Dark Steve tells Sabre that there's no point in trying to pursue him and that Nightmare Steve is alive before sending Sabre away, much to Sabre's anger.

After defeating Faceless, Sabre attempts to teleport to the Rainbow Hub, but he is transported to the lake where he had talked with Dark Steve, although the area was corrupted and the water replaced with lava. Sabre watched Dark Steve appear floating above the lava as he told Sabre to run before Sabre was teleported safely back to the Rainbow Hub. Dark Steve soon arrives with Reverse Steve, destroying most of the Rainbow Hub in the process. Dark Steve stands aside as Reverse Steve gloats, but also takes in everything Sabre states about him, seemingly regretful. After finishing, Reverse Steve approaches Dark Steve and they fuse together, creating **Chaos Steve**. Rainbow Steve approaches to try to stop them, but he is teleported away alongside them.

### Redemption

After being separated from Reverse Steve, Reverse Steve is taken into custody while Sabre stays behind and expresses his disappointment in Dark Steve for going along with Reverse Steve's plans and refusing to do the right thing. Seemingly ignoring Sabre, Dark Steve asks Rainbow Steve for a favor, asking specifically to be separated again to free Happy Orange Steve and the Yellow Assistant from his control. Dark Steve reveals that when separated he'll either die or return back to the Darkness, and allow Rainbow Steve to prepare himself to separate him. Before disappearing, Dark Steve thanks Sabre for showing him a better way, before separating from his vessels and vanishing, presumably dying or returning to the Darkness once more.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* *Nightmare Steve CAPTURED me!*
* *Nightmare Steve's EVIL plan..*
* *Dark Steve is CREATED!*
* *The Fall of the Yellow Kingdom.*
* *Dark Steve is a PART of me!?*
* *Orange Steve VS Dark Steve*
* *Nightmare Steve TRAPPED Orange Steves!*
* *Orange Steve is DYING!*
* *Dark Steve can TALK!?*
* *Dark Steve CAPTURED True Yellow KING!*
* *Light Steve VS Dark Steve*

### Season 2

* *I was TRAPPED with Dark Steve!*
* *Discovering GHOST STEVE!?*
* *Dark Steve BETRAYED me..*
* *My secret meeting with DARK STEVE*
* *Destroying FACELESS.*
* *It's all RUINED, Can I fix it?*
* *WOW.. Ultra Steve did THIS to Chaos Steve*
* *Why would Dark Steve BEG Rainbow Steve for THIS??*

## Trivia

* Similarly to his original counterpart, Dark Steve is still Nightmare Steve's top minion.
* Dark Steve is the first antagonist in *Rainbow Quest* to be redeemed.
* Although not shown, both Light Steve and Rainbow Steve state that Dark Steve has destroyed several Steves.
* Assuming that Dark Steve didn't die in season 2 and instead returned to the Darkness, the ending of season 3 cements his fate as deceased as the Darkness has began to stop existing following the death of their leader.

## Navigation

***Steve Saga***
The Parasite
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***Steve Saga Origins***
Green Steve Tribe
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***Rainbow Quest***
Demon Steves