Darkness the oldest member in Kazuma's
party. Darkness is 18 years old at the
start of the series and she should be 19
years old now since she has admitted
celebrating a birthday while being a
party member. Which by the way Darkness
thought it was better not to invite
Kazuma, Aqua and especially Megumin.
There three were just too much potential
for trouble. In the original web novel
Darkness was much older. She was 22 years
old at the very beginning.
Turns out darkness is not only the
oldest but also the tallest party member.
She comes in at 5 feet 6 inches or 170
centimeters. Of course Darkness's job
is officially a crusader. Unofficially
it's being a hardcore masochist.
She simply fits her job perfectly. Who
else is better suited for tanking enemy
damage than a person who gets off by
getting hit? This is truly a match made
in heaven!
You know this blonde holy knight as
Darkness also known as Lalatina
Dustiness Ford. So where exactly did
this Darkness alias come from? You may be
thinking, oh it comes from her inner dark
herself as a masochist. I mean after all
whenever Lalatina is in the presence of
other royalty she does a really good job
at hiding her masochist side. Her persona
as Darkness allows Ms Lalatina to fully
embrace her true self. So that could be
part of it. Although her name as Darkness
is likely a reference to Final Fantasy.
In the Final Fantasy games there is as
negative Darkness status this negative
status reduces your accuracy causing
your physical attacks to miss most of
the time hmm. Doesn't this sound familiar?
Your favorite masochist Crusader is
voiced by Ai Kayano.
She's a veteran voice actors with a
bunch of notable roles. Her voice actors
has voiced Saori from Girls Und Panzer.
Inori the spectacle that was Guilty Crown.
Chizuru from last year's ReLife. and
the lovable little Shiro from No Game No
Life. Pretty soon Ai is going to be
teaming up with Sora again this time for
a different anime. She is going to be
voicing another blond knight. Meet Alice.
She's one of the new female knights for
SAO season 3. Expect Alice to be similar
to Darkness without that masochist part
and much more serious.
An important
part for what defines Darkness is her
being a daughter of royalty. All over the
kingdom she's known as Lalatina from
the Dustiness Ford family. Her royal
family is described as being a super
powerful noble clan that is a top
adviser to the nation. Most of this
actual work is handled by her father who
is 45 years old. dDarkness seems to have
this Disney princess type of thing going
on. Her mother passed away when she was
too young to even remember her face.
Despite darkness preferring to be in the
front lines as a knight herself,
Darkness does hold the values of her
family very close. That is, to protect the
citizens of their nation. It's funny
because if Darkness really wanted to
she could easily abuse the power of her
family name. You've seen that super important
family pendant that she carries around
to identify herself. Using this pendant
Darkness can really get away with almost
anything.
They describe it as being as powerful in
this world as what a master ball is to
freakin Pokemon. After finding out about
it Aqua even try to make a fake one.
Unfortunately Darkness quickly smashed
it. Although Darkness is careful when to
actually use her family name, Darkness
has taken advantage of her family name
to hide the fact that she's technically
divorced.
hmm. Darkness herself may not believe
that Aqua is divine at all although
Darkness does have a strong connection
to a different goddess. She openly
displays her strong faith as a member of
the Eris church. We saw her take
advantage of this when she was trying to
keep those looney Axis cult members
away. Der faith in Eris isn't something
by coincidence. Before Darkness became an
adventurer, Darkness used to visit the
Eris Church every day.
She prayed that one day she would find
an adventurer party that would accept her.
Not too long after that Darkness
happened to run into Chris while on her
way back from church. Chris ended up
becoming her first friend outside of the
royal house. Even to this day you could
see Darkness expressing her full faith
in Eris simply by the way she
dresses.
Darkness what this gem that is similar to the
one that Eris has and on one shoulder
Darkness has this feather-light design
which is also similar to what Eris
herself wears. Although unlike Eris,
Darkness does not need to pad her chest!
Darkness's most notable trait by a mile
is her being a fan of Fifty Shades of
Grey. She's a hardcore masochist.
You see Darkness talking about these
extreme wild fantasies in her head but
in reality she's still a virgin. When it
comes down to actually getting together
with someone intimately Darkness gets
extremely shy. In fact later at one point
Kazuma and Darkness find themselves
together one night alone with minimal
clothing. The perfect mood is set and
nothing happens. . . The outcome of this is
only a peck the cheek by Darkness.
Despite this Vanir later reveals
and confirms something for everyone
about Darkness. Darkness actually goes at
it really hard solo every single night!
Yeah
fun times after dark Of course this
should surprise no one. Oh and this is
probably the best place to mention it. In
case you were wondering, and I know you
were. Darkness wears black undies.
-You're welcome. Originally Darkness was
in Axel Town at the startled series
because she ran away from her family to
avoid getting married. One of many time.
In fact Megumin happened to run into
her during this time before they even
joined up in Kazuma's party. Their family
Butler was going around asking everyone
around the village to help find her and
even was offering up a generous reward.
Megumin who was completely broke at this
time definitely wanted to help find her
after hearing about this. The problem was
that Megumin pictured a cute pure little
blonde girl in her head. It was funny
just how off she was. Megumin and Yunyun
even passed by Darkness soon after this.
They just had no idea that this knight
could be that runaway a little girl. At
this time Darkness was hanging around
with Chris, screaming out "There seems to
be a demon in the forest! Let's kill it
in the name of the goddess Eris!". Now let
me ask you how popular do you think
Darkness really is? You seen Megumin
and Aqua come up in my videos about them.
Perhaps this blonde masochist just doesn't
mix that well with others in Japan.
Forget about being in the top three
Darkness didn't even make it into the
top five characters in KonoSuba. Ms
Lalatina
came in sixth place. You might be able to
blame Darkness's much lower ranking
due to her being a masochist.
Some people just find it harder relating
to her love of pain. So how about you?
Is darkness your favorite girl in KonoSuba?
Maybe blonde girls are your things
too.
You know Darkness as this super tank
monster. She's truly amazing at taking
hits, but actually doing damage let's go
ahead and leave that to Megumin.
The reason for this is just that part of
her joke is that Darkness is always
missing her enemies. I was thinking why?
Why is this? There has to be an actual
reason. Turns out there's two. The first
one you could guess pretty easily.
Darkness has consciously decided to put
all our skill points into upgrading her
physical and magical defense skills. This
means Darkness has not raised her
mastery with the sword at all. She really
wants to become the ultimate tank. And
reason number two. This is more why she
wants to be purely defensive. Darkness
has purposely gone all these things in
hopes that her sword skills would miss.
Not hitting her enemy for Darkness
means that she's going to get
embarrassed, which means that she's going
to be soaking wet. So in the end even
this comes down to her inner masochist
desires. Just imagine if Darkness could
actually hit something. It seems that
she's really naturally powerful to begin
with. When Vanir had his mask on her
Darkness truly was a super soldier.
Taking out everyone around her was a
piece of cake. Perhaps both of these
should team up together for their fight
verses the demon king one day. And talking
about Darkness's iron defense, how tough
is she really? In general the role of
Darkness of some party is to take blows
that will easily kill any of the other
three.
Especially the soft squishy Kazuma let me
go ahead and give you a few examples of
how tough Darkness really is. One,
Darkness taking on the Megumin's explosion.
This is one you've seen in the anime. So
far almost nothing has been left
standing after taking it on on an explosion.
For good reason too. Two, Darkness
withstanding Kazuma's drain touch. As a
comparison later on Kazuma has been able
to take down the kingdom's largest role
guard commander simply by using his
drain touch on him. Darkness however has
been the only one to withstand this and
remain
standing. She eventually got turned on
and fell though. Three, surviving getting
swallowed by a Hydra monster.
This Hydra beast had already killed
someone else and dissolved that person's
body. Darkness not only surviving
inside of it just fine,
her body was not liquefied at all.
Athough I can't say the same thing
about her armor. Four, Darkness took a hit
from Vanir's one hit killer Ray. Even
Vanir was shocked by this. The name
one-hit killer Ray is no joke. Vanier
thought that this must have been due to
her super high magic resistance or
perhaps it was just her super thick
muscles. Darkness might even make the
Rock jealous with that. By the way you
could thank Aqua for why Darkness even
got hit by this killer move in the first
place. Number five, the most outstanding
moment about Darkness in my mind. In a
situation where Darkness disrespected the
kingdom's princess, an elite roll guard
trying to slice off Darkness's hand as
punishment. However this is Darkness we're
talking about. The sword blade only hurt
her a little bit. It only managed to tear
into her skin and muscle a little.
Darkness didn't even flinch from this. No
surprise that Darkness holds the title
for the winner in the annual endurance
competition in Axel Town. Thanks for
watching! Really hope you enjoyed this. I
was really surprised to see how many
people wanted to see a video on Darkness.
Maybe she is just more popular outside
of Japan. So let's find out! Who do you
think is the best girl in KonoSuba? Is
this masochist crusader similar to your
taste? Also please be sure to give the
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Especially if you love KonoSuba! There's
a new one of these videos every week. I
wonder who should be in it hmm. Anyway
definitely be sure to check out the
video on Aqua and Megumin and I'll see
you guys later