Post by The Nihilists on Oct 25, 2018 17:57:44 GMT -5
~The XHF Network again cuts to static. Then fades to black. This time however it remains black. If not for the Network logo in the corner you could be forgiven for thinking that the feed just shut off. But no this is an intentional black screen. There is nothing to see here. We hear movement implying there is someone here to cut a promo.~
”The eventual home of everyone. The eternal end for everything that at one point lived and existed in this plane of existence. The dark and empty final resting place for reality. To quote Spinal Tap, ‘what’s more black? None more black.’”
”From time to time it is beneficial to simply return to the embrace of the emptiness and focus on the task at hand. The darkness gives us a certain sense of clarity, of serenity, of peace. And it provides a fitting scene to talk about the other half of the tag team we are attempting to annihilate in three short days’ time. Dylan Viper nee Black … how fitting it is that you are one of the men to step into the ring with us, the barons of the black, the emissaries of emptiness. For when you were at your apex you were known as Black and now here you sit coming out of what could be considered the nadir of your career and yet you do not get to lay claim to the name that intimidated foes in AXW. For so long you and Dackle were tag champions as the Darkness. A man named Black in a team called the Darkness. It’s almost flattering, if the void could experience emotion. But times have changed and you have fallen off hard. You took it personally when your partner was condemned to that asylum or whatever the place was. You were set up to receive a tag team title shot and he left you, or was taken. And from there it seemed your life and career began careening over a cliff in terms of success.”
”It is always sad when a talent with such poise and promise Is cut off at the knees instead of being embraced by the federation as a whole. When you and Dackle were at your zenith you had complete control and autonomy to do whatever you desired. And then when you went to take it global it all fell apart. Do you even have tag team titles within AXW anymore? It is our great regret that there are none in AWF. Which is why there will be once this mission is complete. The XHF Global tag team champions will sit within the halls of AWF in the Midwest United States on the shoulders of the most talented, well-polished tag team this federation has seen. We will surpass the GUNS, we will overcome the Icons, and we will crest the summit and stand on the shoulders of giants as the great masked faces of the tag team division. And people will ask us what fuels the undefeated Nihilists. And the answer will be what you see on the screen now. Black.”
~Shuffling is heard and we hear a few metal clinks and soon a lighter is struck and a single flame illuminates a small area of the darkness. The flame is lowered and when it lifts a second flame remains. This repeats four more times until five candles sit lit on screen illuminating enough of the room to see the two men meditating on the floor but nothing beyond or around them.~
”Black is more than just a color you see XHF faithful. It is a symbol. Some see it to be evil, black and white are polar opposites and light is white so darkness must be black after all. But people often falsely assume morality to be black and white, light and dark, good and evil. But it is a gray. Blackness, darkness, emptiness … is not at its heart evil. It can be powerful force and like any weapon can be aimed at whomever and tends to be seen as good or evil depending on who wields it. Black may be the color of darkness by necessity and physics but it has no persona of its own. It is not weighed down by your trivial notions of what it should be based solely on your own prejudices and preconceptions.”
”Dylan, why is it that you gave up your persona, your name, your identity? Why did you even offer it up? For to be so willing to cut ties with what and who you are, you preconceived your own destiny. If you are oh so willing to just throw away, cast aside, the very thing that you are, you have to be ready to see the consequences. You must have known going in that to be willing to part with the black you were already gone. It had already abandoned you. You showed no faith in yourself, no love for your identity, no need to stay within the loving embrace of the emptiness. A name you were gifted by the family ties you had, you were so willing to just be done with. And now you are stuck calling a bag of hot wind your father while he films himself having intercourse with your mother, the woman who gave you life. You have to live in the same pit as him, full of despair and sorrow. Regret in your mind must be an oppressive crushing weight Dylan. I do not envy you. And here you stand trying to make something of yourself. Trying to overcome the anchor you yourself tied to your legs and rise once again to the top. But with a weight as heavy as Jeffrey Viper, competing in his name, from his house, you will never rise. You are stuck swimming upstream against a rushing tide of cat videos, interrupted dinner dates, intrusions to your privacy, and forced rap battles. The talent, the creativity, that made you so respected in AXW is still there but it is buried under an avalanche of detritus, most of which sat firmly within your father’s pants in Alcatraz.”
”We have been here focusing our minds and thoughts to better serve our success Sunday. Our bodies needed a rest from all the crazy action in these two rounds of the Annihilator and we wanted to have all our senses finely tuned for the match. Make no mistake, we will not be taking you lightly Team Viper. You have achieved much despite coming from so little recently. But we are not undefeated for nothing. We have honed ourselves into finely tuned weapons of the void. We do not simply pay lip service to the black the way you did Dylan, we forged our entire beings into vessels for the abyss to live and dwell within. It guides us and calms us, it centers us and allows us to accomplish amazing feats. Our faith in ourselves and each other is always at its peak. It allows us to overcome any mistakes that may happen in a match. Let’s be honest everybody screws up sometimes. We have the unifying force of the black to keep our tempers tethered and make sure we overcome the mistake instead of letting us slip down the cliffs of madness. You … punched your father in the face last week. Justified or not that is not a very Zen action to take to make a point. And he returned the favor by abandoning you, and interrupting your date because his video game was a piece of paper.”
~The two men slowly settle back into their meditation poses~
”Dylan, one day you may come to understand the black and make it your own namesake again. One day you may look up and see that we were right, that the message was always there. All you really need is a bit of clarity. And that can’t come in the company of that oaf you tied yourself to. When you want to overcome the trivialities of life and become a force in the ring once more … maybe you will look us up. Maybe you will simply learn from this moment. We can only hope that it is true. But until then we will center ourselves within the soul of the void and march ever onward in our quest to stand atop XHF as the global tag champions and use the platform to spread the good message.”
~They extinguish the candles and return to meditating. The scene fades back to static and the Network programming resumes.~[/b]
”The eventual home of everyone. The eternal end for everything that at one point lived and existed in this plane of existence. The dark and empty final resting place for reality. To quote Spinal Tap, ‘what’s more black? None more black.’”
”From time to time it is beneficial to simply return to the embrace of the emptiness and focus on the task at hand. The darkness gives us a certain sense of clarity, of serenity, of peace. And it provides a fitting scene to talk about the other half of the tag team we are attempting to annihilate in three short days’ time. Dylan Viper nee Black … how fitting it is that you are one of the men to step into the ring with us, the barons of the black, the emissaries of emptiness. For when you were at your apex you were known as Black and now here you sit coming out of what could be considered the nadir of your career and yet you do not get to lay claim to the name that intimidated foes in AXW. For so long you and Dackle were tag champions as the Darkness. A man named Black in a team called the Darkness. It’s almost flattering, if the void could experience emotion. But times have changed and you have fallen off hard. You took it personally when your partner was condemned to that asylum or whatever the place was. You were set up to receive a tag team title shot and he left you, or was taken. And from there it seemed your life and career began careening over a cliff in terms of success.”
”It is always sad when a talent with such poise and promise Is cut off at the knees instead of being embraced by the federation as a whole. When you and Dackle were at your zenith you had complete control and autonomy to do whatever you desired. And then when you went to take it global it all fell apart. Do you even have tag team titles within AXW anymore? It is our great regret that there are none in AWF. Which is why there will be once this mission is complete. The XHF Global tag team champions will sit within the halls of AWF in the Midwest United States on the shoulders of the most talented, well-polished tag team this federation has seen. We will surpass the GUNS, we will overcome the Icons, and we will crest the summit and stand on the shoulders of giants as the great masked faces of the tag team division. And people will ask us what fuels the undefeated Nihilists. And the answer will be what you see on the screen now. Black.”
~Shuffling is heard and we hear a few metal clinks and soon a lighter is struck and a single flame illuminates a small area of the darkness. The flame is lowered and when it lifts a second flame remains. This repeats four more times until five candles sit lit on screen illuminating enough of the room to see the two men meditating on the floor but nothing beyond or around them.~
”Black is more than just a color you see XHF faithful. It is a symbol. Some see it to be evil, black and white are polar opposites and light is white so darkness must be black after all. But people often falsely assume morality to be black and white, light and dark, good and evil. But it is a gray. Blackness, darkness, emptiness … is not at its heart evil. It can be powerful force and like any weapon can be aimed at whomever and tends to be seen as good or evil depending on who wields it. Black may be the color of darkness by necessity and physics but it has no persona of its own. It is not weighed down by your trivial notions of what it should be based solely on your own prejudices and preconceptions.”
”Dylan, why is it that you gave up your persona, your name, your identity? Why did you even offer it up? For to be so willing to cut ties with what and who you are, you preconceived your own destiny. If you are oh so willing to just throw away, cast aside, the very thing that you are, you have to be ready to see the consequences. You must have known going in that to be willing to part with the black you were already gone. It had already abandoned you. You showed no faith in yourself, no love for your identity, no need to stay within the loving embrace of the emptiness. A name you were gifted by the family ties you had, you were so willing to just be done with. And now you are stuck calling a bag of hot wind your father while he films himself having intercourse with your mother, the woman who gave you life. You have to live in the same pit as him, full of despair and sorrow. Regret in your mind must be an oppressive crushing weight Dylan. I do not envy you. And here you stand trying to make something of yourself. Trying to overcome the anchor you yourself tied to your legs and rise once again to the top. But with a weight as heavy as Jeffrey Viper, competing in his name, from his house, you will never rise. You are stuck swimming upstream against a rushing tide of cat videos, interrupted dinner dates, intrusions to your privacy, and forced rap battles. The talent, the creativity, that made you so respected in AXW is still there but it is buried under an avalanche of detritus, most of which sat firmly within your father’s pants in Alcatraz.”
”We have been here focusing our minds and thoughts to better serve our success Sunday. Our bodies needed a rest from all the crazy action in these two rounds of the Annihilator and we wanted to have all our senses finely tuned for the match. Make no mistake, we will not be taking you lightly Team Viper. You have achieved much despite coming from so little recently. But we are not undefeated for nothing. We have honed ourselves into finely tuned weapons of the void. We do not simply pay lip service to the black the way you did Dylan, we forged our entire beings into vessels for the abyss to live and dwell within. It guides us and calms us, it centers us and allows us to accomplish amazing feats. Our faith in ourselves and each other is always at its peak. It allows us to overcome any mistakes that may happen in a match. Let’s be honest everybody screws up sometimes. We have the unifying force of the black to keep our tempers tethered and make sure we overcome the mistake instead of letting us slip down the cliffs of madness. You … punched your father in the face last week. Justified or not that is not a very Zen action to take to make a point. And he returned the favor by abandoning you, and interrupting your date because his video game was a piece of paper.”
~The two men slowly settle back into their meditation poses~
”Dylan, one day you may come to understand the black and make it your own namesake again. One day you may look up and see that we were right, that the message was always there. All you really need is a bit of clarity. And that can’t come in the company of that oaf you tied yourself to. When you want to overcome the trivialities of life and become a force in the ring once more … maybe you will look us up. Maybe you will simply learn from this moment. We can only hope that it is true. But until then we will center ourselves within the soul of the void and march ever onward in our quest to stand atop XHF as the global tag champions and use the platform to spread the good message.”
~They extinguish the candles and return to meditating. The scene fades back to static and the Network programming resumes.~[/b]
