🫀Patron Poll: Do You Want a Darker Orphan?
Added 2025-09-06 17:40:53 +0000 UTC
Precious Patrons,
Purveyors of Pleasure and Punishment,
The abyss stirs. Cradle is already a citadel of chains and cruelty…
But there are darker passages I could carve and that you might yet crave.
Murder. Torture. Sadism.
Ruinous confrontations with the horrific and grotesque.
These themes already breathe in Orphan’s marrow; I want to know if you wish me to plunge deeper and darker into these twisted depths. Should I bring more of the monstrous and the ruinous into your path? Or hold to the balance between shadow and flame?
I know the weight of such visions. Too much darkness, without pause or rhythm, may numb rather than ignite. The tale risks becoming an unbroken dirge instead of a living saga. That is why I turn to you, those who walk deepest with me, so that I may gauge your appetite.
If the will of this circle leans darker, I won't hesitate. The Academy’s nights will grow more perilous, the nobility more depraved, shadows more merciless. You will see murder in the alleys, the screams of the tortured, and the cruel games of the powerful made manifest.
If the will favors balance, then I will continue to temper horror with reprieve; keeping ruin and ecstasy in rhythm, chained together as one.
The future of Orphan has always been shaped by your voices, your desire, your devotion.
This question is no different.
Cast your vote below, and shape the future of Orphan’s tone.
🩸 Onward.
– Truth @ Exalted Text
Comments
I'm someone who is very familiar with numbing brutality and it can quickly ruin things if it isn't done tastefully. think of it like spicey food. making something spicey can either enhance or ruin a dish. I enjoy unrelenting brutality but there has to be a point to it and there also have to be breathers. While this is definitely a story with a dark tone it still isn't as dark as say: fear and hunger or berserk. these two series are examples of darkness and brutality done well and if exalted text takes a page out of their book it can work but i'd also rather have exaulted text be a little bit lighter and more fun than these two.
Redcube
2025-11-20 09:08:30 +0000 UTCReally funny how one sided this is so far. It's only divided between people who want darker stuff and people who want darker stuff but to be sure they are activated by choices.
Zelther
2025-09-06 20:05:47 +0000 UTC
