The Astral Darkness

The Astral Darkness is the Sekaigas of the beginning, children and the darkness that gives way to the light. His name is also Nullue.

Hugaussians have summoned into the world for the fog of not knowing has heard. His form is completely devoid of all light and is receptive to any energy imaginable to be voided or transmuted. His large horns sense nearly everything around him making him extremely protective but also violent.

Nullue was once a human who fought Voliath to decide what to do with the Golden Star Frontier's power as an Aegis but Nullue ended up losing. As a result Voliath not only took all of the light in Nullue's body turning him into a an almost formless monster but also just doesn't agree with what Nullue wanted to do. Leaving Nullue to churn around frustration in his head for many years as he writhes below in search of the light.

Nullue was once a huge threat to Hugauss because of how much he hates Voliath's version of Hugauss but after being completely overpowered and helpless he has no choice but to rely on Hugaussians. Hugaussians want to extend the lifespan of the world by normally destroying Voliath while Nullue wants to completely replace him then switch places by forcing Voliath to wander in darkness for centuries so he can have his turn finally. They are both the same. Even though they are openly against eachother, Nullue still does some of the extra scrubbing to maintain it.

## Backstory

Astral Darkness has been around since a while after the scariest times of Hugauss, the dawn of the Abrazon Plague which killed many Hugaussians. As the plague dwindled an extremely rare sekaigas formed at the edge of Hugauss as a result of the negative feelings.

During the time, many Hugaussians isolated themselves and subjected their time to addictions by abusing starlight's ability to create independent spaces because of the broken world around them causing massive stress on the younger Astral Darkness until he went on a rampage until the very fabric of that dimension collapsed to be rebuilt.

By Golden Star Frontier's order, Astralus is not expected to be a perfect world of bliss but it does have to last forever which is something that Astral Darkness enforces. Only the darkness can last long enough to carry out the light's endless determination to see this order through. Astralus can't truly defy all of realities laws but the Astral Darkness can manipulate and absorb things enough to create the illusion that it has.

His floating pentagram is a crib mobile. The thing that hangs from the ceiling to stimulate babies visually. His simplistic dark look is also reminiscent of childhood wonder. How children are excited over the simplest things.

## Abilities and Weapons

Astral Darkness carries a starlight powered wand which is far more powerful than most Hugaussian astral armaments. Astral Darkness is so psychically empowered he can manipulate starlight without the natural connection to starlight with mere telekinesis as if he was a master star follower. It is also accompanied by a Chimeric Heart that contains a solairy companion to further amplify his starlight powers. He also can engulf nearly everything in pitch black void but he doesn't always bring out the innermost darkness immediately as once it comes out it seldom stops coming out so the wand is mostly damage control.

Most of his power comes from him, his hanging lights can fire waves of dark ether and his body can change size, intertwine to form hands and regenerate. While he does change size he usually don't change shape. The 5 point star can also change size and can expand.

The entity above Nullue's head, the Astral Darkness is like a concentrated omnipresent nexus that can supply a negative Astral Armament called the Darkrose. It's more powerful, but is susceptible to karma and if used for malice it can consume those who use it. Because of how corrosive it is, it can't be touched even by the masters of it because it can doom anything that touches it to eternal fantasy and obscurity. It's best used with an end in mind to serve as a foundation for free flight.

## Astral Maternity

When viewed from the eyes of children 7 years and younger, Astral Darkness looks like a Hugaussian girl, who has three eyes, white hair, white clothing and yellow eyes. She looks about 13 years old. Her heart and throat are glowing and multicolored, but mainly pink and yellow. The inner part of her hair is glowing yellow as well.

Not much is know about Astral Maternity as it was explained by Sovi, a former daughter to this mysterious being.

When children are cared for by Astral Maternity, they have a vastly lower chance of getting addicted to things, but they won't have a real mother and it isn't chosen by birth. Also, while nothing bad will happen to them in their life, nothing that good will happen either.

These people who are known as Solairies are sent to Astral Maternity by Hugaussians themselves to help regulate and stagnate the world in harsh times to prevent wars and massive downfalls, however being a child of Astral Maternity in a time where Hugauss has already been established is very bad, since they will miss out on many things.

Upon arrival to Hugauss at the age of 13, they will have lavish clothing and a marking on their chest which appears as small colorful glowing orbs about the size of quarters.

They appear deep within wooded forested areas of Hugass in groups of 1-2 and slowly fade into existence laying in the grass wearing pajamas.

They also have the added ability of resisting other Hugaussian and Sekaigas's negative energy and can calm others by putting their orbs onto others using a special starlight based spell. It doesn't completely manipulate or stop attackers but it can help with preventing fights. It's not always guaranteed success because it depends on the skill of the Solairy.

Eventually, if the world is plunged into absolute disaster, Solairies will eventually populate the world as a whole then Hugaussians will slowly become their normal selves as years go by and Solairies diminish due to age, but they allow Hugauss to become immortal and escape the shackles of time's decay.

It takes a lot for Solairies to start being born in massive numbers. The world would need to be at a point of no return in terms of chaos, so it serves as a last resort. A few can still be found even in normal times, but are just there to settle fights which there are rarely any.

Their name is a combination of Solitude + Fairy = Solairy.

The saddest thing about Solairies, is that their afterlife is no longer Helevor which is where all the Hugaussians go. Solairies are on a different plane of existence while everything else has starlight rooted into it. Even the sekaigas to an extent.

Their afterlife realm is known as the Solitude Forest. Similar to the Pink Void in a way.

## Awareness and Omnipresence

Astral Darkness is not all knowing, but he has a somewhat limited radar of where addictions and excessive enjoyment are happening. It can take him trial and error to track it down, but he doesn't need to know the exact location the detriment is taking place for him to initiate an attack.

Being a sekaigas, he is not actually like Tenebros and Ceroplax in terms of godliness. Astral Darkness was born from an event and not as an inner working put into a form. However, this is a middle ground case where Astral Darkness is actually inevitable and can appear across multiple realities the same way he did for ancient Hugauss during the Abrazon Plague. So he's still far above the sekaigas who live casually with Hugaussians in terms of omnipresence, since he is recurring no matter what.

## "Home"

Astral Darkness's home is located in a deep part of Sourceless Bells dimensions. It is a massive room. The walls are bright blue with primitively drawn depictions of babies feeling near ecstatic euphoria in an uncanny way. There are clouds on the walls. The floor is green and the ceiling has strange silver/metal grates on them that lead into dark square tunnels that eventually turn pitch black further down.

There are many pitch black cribs scattered throughout it, resembling a nursery.