Oh yeah I meant to ask earlier: you made a post about a fic you liked that inspired you to write and etc, “Teaching Darkness” or something? Is it good? What’s it about? I’m curious lol. Sorry if that’s super random lol
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You come into MY CORNER OF THE VOID and you ask about MY FAVOURITE FANFICTION EVER—
I squealed with joy when I saw this ask!!! Thank you so much thank you thank you thank you
This is going to be very biased and based off of my memories.
SO!! Teaching Darkness by Rae Logan is a long series focused around an AU version of Mephiles the Dark. In this AU, he made a last-ditch effort to survive by possessing Shadow. It Did Not Work Very Well™ but Stuff Happened™ that cumulated in him getting his own body, and seemingly removing The Dark from him. Back in my day it was the most popular fanfiction on fanfiction.net about Mephiles.
Of course, that was just the beginning.
In the next installments, we start getting into the real juicy stuff. I won't spoil any of it, but suffice to say The Dark is not done with Mephy, and he does not appreciate the adorable marshmallow of a precious cinnamon roll that he's become. Shadow struggles to reconcile Mephy with the monster he used to be. Rouge just wants everyone to be okay. This naturally leads ✨found family✨ and fluffiness. What follows is a glorious amount of psychological exploration, humour, drama, fluff, violence, and enough angst to feed two of me. It put stars in my eyes when I read it for the first time. My favourite entry in the series is Flux.
It's a very long read, but if you love Mephiles, you'll probably love everything about it. I won't even start on why Dark is my favourite OC to ever exist, you can find that out for yourself.
My explanation can't do this series justice. It changed my life. It's the late 2000's and early 2010's in a bottle. Rae Logan is my favourite writer to ever exist and I always hope they're doing well and thriving. They moved away from the series quite awhile ago, I believe partly due to religious family putting pressure on them for writing about demonic characters, but what they've written is solid gold. And they still channel that awesomeness through lots of Darkwing Duck fics, which makes me so happy!
Back in the day Teaching Darkness even used to have its own Tumblr! @crystalhedgehogboys
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to scream about my favourite thing ever. 💖💖💖
