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Ar'krax: The Blight of the Mind

by YamiVolcarona

YamiVolcarona Who is Ar'krax?
Also known as "The Lord of Night Terrors" and "The Image of Nightmares", not much is known about this seemingly demonic entity, except for the fact that they used to hide in the nightmares of children and young adults. It seems to take pleasure in others' fear and paranoia, but finds the most "enjoyable" fear inside the minds of teenagers.

According to victims, Ar'krax would invade their dreams looking like a dark and twisted version of themselves. It would converse with them, telling then that there would be no escape from what it was about to do. Then, the dream would fade to black, and the victim would wake up with some sort of sizable scar or bruise. For the next few weeks, Ar'krax would make them dream about their fears and their hopes and aspirations being shattered. Anyone directly affected who tried to stay awake for extended periods of time would not be able to, and victims would not feel rested after sleep. Those close to victims noted that the afflicted would scream or talk in their sleep when they never have before. After weeks of dream torment, one of many things would happen. The afflicted would give up, and Ar'krax would steal their bodies to perform one last act of terror to shake the surrounding area (such as throwing the body off of a large building or setting fire to an important place, burning the body in the process),the victim would keep fighting, but eventually their body couldn't keep up with their soul and would decompose at a heightened rate, or the affected could commit suicide and spread fear by their own actions.

Some defining characteristics of Ar'krax's presence are hallucinations, minor tech glitches, and the darkening of surroundings. It appears to speak in a language of its own, yet is still able to understand English and other languages easily. While shown to be able to possess nearly anyone with different effects to each, some common physical changes to the host include their left eye being replaced with a red glowing substance, red runes going down the right arm, the irises of the right eye turning a deep red color, and the pupil of the right eye splitting into three slits. Other recorded effects include skin and muscle loss in the face or arms, sharpened teeth, black spikes protruding from the spinal vertebrae or shoulders, and the sharpening of fingernails and toenails.
Recently, Ar'krax was sealed into the mind of a teenage girl to keep others safe from insanity. An adverse effect of this "mental prison" approach is the fact that Ar'krax can possess the teenager's mind in order to spread fear through her actions much easier than if it tried to weaken her mind first.

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