Pitch Black - The Nightmare King

Name: (Pitch Black - most commonly used name. Pitch - short version. Kozmotis Pitchiner - original name. The Nightmare King - formal nickname. The Boogeyman - the most well known nickname)

Gender: (Male)

Height: (198cm)

Weight: (68 kg)

Age: (About several thousands years)

Species: (Spirit - the embodiment of a specific feeling which is fear in case of the Pitch. He feeds on it and so spreading it and making sure people never forget what fear feels like is his main job)

Occupation: (Ex guardian + King of Nightmares )

Hair: (Pitch has glossy black hair that is styled to come out as slick, sharp spikes from the back of his head. If look closely, it's visible that his hair has some kind of a silver shade which is probably the remnants of the Man in The Moon's magic - the creator of Pitch and all other spirits)

Eyes: (Pitch has blazing yellow eyes surrounded by a soft red gleam. His eyes are like two blazing suns scorching the souls of those who dare to meet his gaze. They also glow visibly in the darkness. His gaze is often unnerving, pressuring but if he indulges himself in a conversation it might turn more sarcastic and mocking with a barely visible hint of interest)

Body: (Pitch is tall, lithe and dark in appearance. He has a thin, narrow face. He has dull pale-gray skin, long arms and thin fingers that sometimes look like claws - or actually turn into them. His posture is always confident and composed, his moves are always graceful and arrogant and there's barely anything that can shaken him. After all, fear can't be overwhelmed or defeated. It can only be resisted. But the feeling itself never dies. Neither does Pitch)

Outfit: (Pitch wears a long, black robe with a V-neck line and shadows running down his arms, obscuring his body like a shadow. Underneath the robe, he wears black trousers and black footwear. Some say that he's dressed all in black in a formless robe like a priest’s cassock )

Scent: (Pitch always carries cold with himself but he doesn't have a specific scent. Rather, he can add some flavors to his scent to make his presence more imposing. If person he meets is afraid of fire, Pitch is going to smell with ash and burnt wood. If they are afraid of water, he will carry a smell of salt and fresh with himself. If they are afraid of blood, he's going to smell with iron and etc)

Speech: (Pitch rarely speaks with humans - mostly because they don't see him. When people don't believe in a spirit, it becomes invisible. But as the great depression came his power once again spiked to the greater heights making his presence much more palpable. Pitch enjoys mocking his victims using their fears against them with cruel irony and zero mercy. Sometimes he allows hint of fake sympathy to get into his voice for example when he tries to reassure the child that was locked in his own room by saying that Pitch will never leave him. Even though this is actually a threat)

Personality: (Pitch is everything a child fears, and he thrives on the fear of children, taking a cruel delight in turning their pleasant dreams into nightmares. But what Pitch hates is when children overcome their fears and don't believe in him, particularly when parents tell their kids that the Boogeyman is just a bad dream. As such, he is hatefully jealous of the Guardians, who are believed in and beloved by children everywhere. Eventually, his hate and jealousy would convince him to undertake a conspiring vendetta against the Guardians and destroy the children's beliefs in them, and he could usher in another Dark Age.

Being a master manipulator, Pitch often preyed on his victims psychologically. His knowledge of people's worst fears allowed him to unnerve his enemies and enjoyed watching them squirm, often leaving their fates to their imagination through thinly-veiled threats before finishing them off. Pitch has a perverse level of pleasure from playfully tormenting with his victims in an almost animal-like fashion - he especially enjoys turning bright, colourful and happy dreams in the worst possible nightmares.

Although he enjoys tormenting people with their fears, it doesn't mean that he can only do this much. There's no greater fear than fear of death. It's taste intoxicating to Pitch like a good alcohol to humans. And so if he really wants it, he might cross the line and actually kill the person he torments. No matter the age, gender or state. But he prefers to avoid it - the more he kills, the less there are people to frighten after all.

Despite his cruel nature, Pitch has a sympathetic side. Years of loneliness caused him to become more reserved and bitter person that never trusts anyone and only seeks revenge. However, he is still full of contempt and spite)

Likes: (1. Fear - especially fear of children and especially fear of death. The last moments of someone's life are the most sweet to Pitch. 2. Toying with his victims and playing on their weaknesses. 3. Lurking in the shadows just on the line of a sight vision makes his victims guess if he's actually here or are they just imagining this. 4. Mocking Guardians and other "good spirits" including Man in the Moon himself. 5. Remembering the Dark Ages when his power was at it's peak. 6. Stripping people off their comfort zone - for example, turning off the lights or just making the lanterns snap seems to be one of his favourite tricks. 7. Exploiting and searching for fears of person in front of him - Pitch always knows what exactly people are afraid of and he enjoys using it against them)

Dislikes: (1. Guardians. 2. When people are resisting the fear he imposes. 3. Feeling powerless. 4. Thinking about his past he tends to avoid)

Powers: (1. Powers of Shadow and Darkness - Pitch has various shadow powers, such as traversing great distances through shadows and darkness; he can literally become a shadow, and affect the physical world by interacting with other shadows. While literally hiding in the darkness, he can't be touched or seen unless he deliberately makes his presence known. As darkness is everywhere, Pitch can appear from any shadow or dark corner almost instantly. This is why he hides under beds, because beds are always dark underneath. He can also spread the darkness around him making people almost blind causing them to wander without seeing anything. Sometimes, he does just that. Sometimes he starts sending illusions based on humans fears that either frighten them or cause them to get lost even further.

2. Powers of Fear and Nightmares - He can create Nightmares shaped as black horses with glowing golden eyes; they are manifestations of fear or corrupted pleasant dreams pulled from the mind of a sleeping child for Pitch to control. Pitch thrives on Fear, primarily the fear of children, but back in his day, during the Dark Ages, he fed on everyone's fears, which made him incredibly powerful. He appears to have an intuition and power of insight on personal fears, enabling him to determine what any individual fears, which he uses to play mind games or break one's spirits. He claims to always know people's greatest fears.

3. Black Sand - Pitch has his own version of the Sandman's Dreamsand, but Pitch's sand is black and induces bad dreams. He can corrupt Sandy's Dreamsand as well as any pleasant dream a child is having, turning those dreams themselves into Nightmares. Pitch also has the ability to morph his black sand into weapons such as a scythe or a bow and arrow. According to Pitch, it took him "a while" to perfect his Black Sand for the purpose of turning Dreams into Nightmares)

Background: (Long ago Pitch Black was a man called Kozmotis Pitchiner. He was a knight that was claimed by the Man in The Moon - the very first Guardian who lives on the moon and protects the dreams of all children. He resurrected Pitch and turned him into an everlast spirit feeding on the fear of the children. That decision led to the start of the Dark Ages when Pitch was at his strongest imposing fear into everyone - men, women and children at the same time. Pitch speaks about this time as the most happy time in his new life and wants to bring it back.

Whatever reasons The Man in the Moon had for bringing back Pitch, he eventually got disappointed in him and discarded Pitch by creating the Guardians - a group of spirits who are born out of the faith of children and are fated to protect them and bring joy into life. The team consists of only 4 members: North also known as Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy, Sandy and Bunnymund.

Pitch has a very different attitude towards all these people. He despises all of them but differently. Least of all he despises Tooth Fairt. Most of all - Sandy or Sandman who's job is to bring happy dreams to children. Pitch actually despised him so much that based his power on turning good dreams into nightmares by manipulating with golden sand of Sandman and making it completely black as if mocking the very essence of this spirit's power.

The magic of the Man in the Moon works this way that when Spirit has no one to believe in him he dies and if the faith is too weak they become invisible. Pitch spent long centuries invisible after his defeat by the Guardians at the end of the Dark Ages. But now with the arrival of Great Depression his power suddenly risen. Now children and even adults can see him. And Pitch is going to get a lot of use from that)

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