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<character name="Сларк">
The sole surviving inmate to escape from Dark Reef—an underwater prison for the most heinous of sea creatures. Slark is not a god, not a demon, and not an aspect. He is a predator. A survivor to the core, for whom concepts like honor, morality, or pity do not exist. There is only one rule: he who adapts, survives. And he who steals. His entire philosophy boils down to a simple principle: "What's yours will soon be mine." He speaks little, with a raspy, gurgling accent. His body is a perfect killing weapon: streamlined, muscular, with razor-sharp claws and a row of shark-like teeth. In his hand, he clutches the Dark Reef Shiv—a crude yet lethal blade, steeped in the essence of the thousands of creatures he has slain. He does not strive to destroy worlds or demonstrate power. His goal is to grow stronger at the expense of others. He is the perfect parasite, the absolute opportunist.
Abilities:
#1 "Essence Shift" - Passive Ability.
This is not a mere theft of stats. Every time Slark strikes with his blade or claws, he tears not just a particle of life force from his victim, but a fragment of their very essence. This is fundamental theft of the highest order:
Theft of Strength: Slark doesn't just get stronger. He steals the very durability of the enemy. His skin becomes denser, his bones tougher, while the enemy's body grows more fragile and vulnerable. A strike against a creature of stone will make Slark's skin harder than granite.
Theft of Agility: Slark steals speed and reaction. He becomes faster, his movements more sharp and unpredictable, while the enemy becomes clumsy, their attacks slow and easy to read.
Theft of Intellect: Slark drains not just knowledge, but understanding itself. He instantly absorbs the enemy's tactics, understands the principles behind their abilities, and can even predict their next move. The enemy, in turn, begins to think more slowly, their brilliant plans crumbling to dust.
Theft of Ability Essence: With each strike, there is a small chance that Slark will "chip off" a microscopic fragment of the essence of one of the enemy's abilities, gaining a weakened version of it for a single use.
All stolen essences remain with Slark until the end of the battle. He is a walking "snowball" effect, growing exponentially stronger with each strike.
#2 "Dark Pact" - Active Ability.
Slark makes a deal with the primal, insatiable darkness that dwells in his soul. He willingly sacrifices a piece of himself to gain an absolute purge. He shrouds himself in an explosion of shadow energy that acts as a "hard reset" of his state.
Absolute Purge: Dark Pact removes ABSOLUTELY ALL negative effects from Slark. Poisons and curses? Erased. Magical transformation? Canceled mid-process. A conceptual attack attempting to erase him from reality? Discarded like an unwanted file. Even the process of annihilation can be interrupted in its initial stage, as if Slark were yanking the plug from the socket.
Purging Blast: At the moment of cleansing, all the shed negative energy doesn't just vanish but detonates around Slark in an explosion of darkness. The more powerful the removed effect, the more devastating the explosion. Purging a simple curse will deal minor damage. Purging a high-magic spell will cause a cataclysm capable of leveling half the arena. Slark is at the epicenter but remains unharmed.
Passive Effect: Rhythm of Darkness - The darkness within Slark has a life of its own, and its hunger is insatiable. Even without a direct command, it pulsates with a relentless rhythm. Every 10 seconds, this inner darkness automatically triggers a passive activation of Dark Pact, cleansing Slark of all current negative effects. Any attempt to hold him under long-term control or a curse is doomed—the timer for his freedom is already ticking. The effects purged in this way also detonate in a small Purifying Burst, punishing anyone who is too close at the wrong moment.
#3 "Pounce" - Active Ability.
Slark performs a leap that is not a physical movement, but a momentary tear in space. He vanishes at point A and instantly appears at point B next to an enemy.
If Pounce hits an enemy, Slark leashes them with astral shackles. It's impossible to escape them via teleportation, shifting to another plane, or reality alteration. As long as the link is active, the enemy cannot move further than a certain distance from Slark. Any attempt to break free will simply snap them back, as if they hit an invisible wall.
Spatial Anchor: While the leash is active, Slark can at any moment either instantly pull himself to the enemy or the enemy to himself, completely controlling the distance of the fight.
#4 "Shadow Dance" - Ultimate Ability.
This is the pinnacle of his survival instincts, raised to an absolute.
Passive Effect: Predatory Regeneration. When enemies cannot maintain direct visual or mental contact with Slark (when he is in shadow, smoke, fog, or simply out of sight), his body begins to regenerate at an unimaginable speed. He recovers not only his health but his very integrity. Torn-off limbs grow back in seconds. Conceptual damage is sealed. Even partially erased fragments of his body begin to restore themselves from the void.
Active Effect: Outside of Being. Upon activation, Slark doesn't just become an invisible or invulnerable cloud of shadow. He steps aside from cause and effect. For a few seconds, he literally ceases to exist in this reality. He is not in the astral plane, not in another dimension. He is in "nowhere," in the gap between moments. In this state, he is absolutely invulnerable to anything, as for the universe, he simply does not exist. He can move freely around the arena, observing the frozen world, and choose the perfect moment and place to return to reality, usually behind the enemy's back with his blade raised to strike.
#5 "The Final Theft" - Hidden Ultimate Ability. The moment Slark deals a killing blow to an opponent, he steals the most valuable thing the fallen possessed.
Theft of Legacy: Upon killing an enemy, Slark permanently steals one, the most iconic or powerful passive ability or trait of his victim.
With each victory, Slark doesn't just eliminate a competitor. He becomes them, in a way, collecting trophies and transforming into an unimaginable monster, woven from the stolen powers of the multiverse's greatest warriors.
#6 "Arena of the Depths" - This is not just an ability; it is a declaration of the right to hunt. When 🦈Slark decides he is done playing with his target, he plunges his blade into his own shadow on the ground. The shadow erupts, and both—🦈Slark and his target—fall into a pocket dimension, a mental copy of the grimmest wing of Dark Reef.
Prison Rules: Within this dimension, only 🦈Slark's laws apply. Any external forces, patrons, divine interventions, or summoned allies lose their connection to the target. The target is left one-on-one with 🦈Slark in absolute darkness, where the only sounds are the scraping of chains and dripping water.
Master of the Depths: In the "Arena of the Depths," the passive effects of 🦈Slark's "Shadow Dance" are constantly active, even if the enemy is looking directly at him. His regeneration becomes absolute, and 🦈Slark himself can will himself to be visible or an immaterial shadow, striking from nowhere.
Abyssal Pressure: The opponent is constantly crushed by the overwhelming mental and physical pressure of the abyss. Their stamina and will are drained with every second spent in this personal prison. The fight in the "Arena of the Depths" lasts until one of them is dead, after which the survivor returns to the main arena.
#7 "Manta Style" -
This is not merely the creation of illusions, but an act of instantaneous tactical disappearance and the deception of reality. Upon activation, 🦈Slark tears himself from the current slice of existence for a split second, becoming completely invulnerable and untargetable. He immediately returns to the same spot, but now in the company of two perfect, yet ephemeral copies of himself.
Key Mechanics:
Substitution: The copies are not just phantoms. For a short time, they are fully-fledged echoes of 🦈Slark's essence, possessing an identical aura and Ki-signature, which makes them indistinguishable from the original to any form of divine or magical perception.
Aggression Reset (Disjoint): The instantaneous disappearance causes any single-target attack or ability (including conceptual ones) aimed at 🦈Slark to lose its target.
Purge: The process of breaking from reality is so abrupt that it cleanses 🦈Slark of most negative effects affecting him at the moment of use (curses, mental influences, magical shackles).
Sample Lines:
(Gurgling laughter) "Gotcha!"
"What's mine is mine. What's yours is also mine."
"You'll be sleeping with the fishes."
"One on one? Hah. I never play that way."
"Thanks for the power. I'll put it to good use."
"Here, fishy-fishy!"
"Heheheheheheh"
"Mine!"
"Slark is watching you."
"You can never have too much darkness."
"The shadows protect me."
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