Not sure if this belongs here, but I once had to do a point of view paper on The Pearl, after the attempts failed, I then had to change the subject of the point of view to a nursery rhyme. I then managed to turn a four stanza nursery rhyme into a story about how a boy became to be so misanthropic that he'd rather stay in jail than go into the outside world, and though I didn't make it obvious, he got into jail after he was thought to have commited a sex crime. My teacher loved it, apparently. And the best part of this is that it was suggested I do a nursery rhyme after my suggestion to do the paper on a song was rejected just because someone's head gets chopped off in the song, and for those who don't know, in The Pearl, a baby gets its head shot off.

This troper frequents /tg/, and has seen them turn {{Pokemon}} into cute and fuzzy Eversor Assassins, set up the {{Warhammer 40000}} Autobots as being Ork Trukks, and Emperor knows what else. He's even ''responsible'' for coming up with a GRIMDARK CaptainPlanet in which the main characters were ecoterrorists and the Captain was a primal force of nature rather than a guy with a silly haircut and terrible puns.

So what pray tell is the GrimDark version of the Heart power?

MindControl.

this Troper seems to want to try this in a fantasy work, well, actually, the first part would try to Reconstruct the Tropes associated with a Fantasy, in the TimeSkip, where basically, after overthrowing the world's oppressive military, the "Dark Purities" show up, {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s that want to "Purify" the world by removing what makes humans unique, the main hero (incidentally, a HeroicMime) is shown to be an ArtificialHuman, also deconstructing purity of the heart, because [[PureIsNotGood if one is "Pure", they would have no understanding or sympathy for others, as they don't seem to even ''know'' what these concepts are, because their emotions are only set to "Save Everything", there would also be more NightmareFuel prominent, and at least one character trying to bring one person he loved back to life... After she's advised him to not "Replace" everything (prior to her death, he started figuring out not everything could be replaced), so he tries to bring her back to life... And he used to be part of the ''heroes group''.]]

This troper's art style has gotten significantly darker over the years thanks to ArtEvolution. I went from an SD-Manga style to a more realistic, Frazetta-with-a-pencil-like style, getting more detailed with the skills I pick up.

This troper fell in love with this trope. When he is going to watch something which I suspect is too childish and cliché -infested, he often asks: "Does it have blood and gore? Or sex and violence? Or explicitly used religious references? Or controversial commentaries against the system?" Often I take kids' shows and turn them into Crapsack Worlds with lots of criminals and controversial topics.

This troper used this trope with Viandas/Evershadow Genesis. It was made as a Darker and Edgier version of New Dawn, a very idealistic little Sentai book. Viandas deals with such themes as the nature of existence, the truth of feelings, and near every character has a negative feature. TheHero is a Type Four AntiHero at first and is quite mad, bad, and dangerous to be around. His life thus far has been multiple very complicated plans all connecting and forming a very complicated web. Even the lowliest demon mook probably has an origin derived from HighOctaneNightmareFuel towers where horrible, horrible things happen. Oh yes, and then our lovable hero becomes immortal and lands in another series of Xanatos Gambits. You would think becoming a PhysicalGod would do good things for Johnson, but no...it only means he can now be attacked by other Physical Gods, and the process of becoming such a being led to the opening of a gate that let TheEmpire into the still volatile world Johnson calls home...

Life in general once 9/11 happened, if you ask me.

So World War Two wasn't DarkerAndEdgier than the time before it? Vietnam wasn't darker than the post-WW2 era? There is a reason why real life examples aren't allowed - people's NostalgiaFilter may say things were great, but actually reality has a grimdark reboot every decade or so followed by a LighterAndSofter period. To say 9/11 is DarkerAndEdgier seems to me to be forgetting all the other terrible things happening in the world - and in Eagleland, too.

This Troper is her own Darker and Edgier: She's bisexual and has a whole range of fetishes spanning the entire BSDM acronym, but hasn't told anyone, for fear of brain explosions. (Her bright, bubbly personality was well established at school long before she realized all of this about her sexuality.)

This troper went through this starting in 11th grade, fueled by an increasing anger and frustration at nothing in particular. Luckily, an outlet appeared in the form of Industrial music.

This tropers' alternate personality, who is even refered to as being 'The Dark Side of troper'

This gay troper has gone through this recently, he fit each letter in the BDSM acronym and has worn almost exclusively black for a while now; he's also started listening to {{Industrial}} and has an obsession with death, murder, zombies, non-sparkly vampires, and theatre. Most people would not expect it because he's always so happy and weird.

Life as you grow up. Always.

Bullshit. I know plenty of people with abusive childhoods whose lives are now significantly LighterAndSofter. Your life =/= everyone else's on the planet.

Just to clarify, you mean the Thestrals, right?