Here's my spin.
When it was revealed that Fray was your character's Darkside made manifest, that was pretty much all I needed to know about where the DRK draws its power from--essentially from your more impassioned and aggressive tendencies. An Aetherial Sith, but with powers levied against corruption as opposed to being fed by it.
The way Steel grasps this fount of power is a deeper level of her Inner Beast. As she was a Warrior longer than she was a Dark Knight, she has just begun to break the surface of what sort of things her Inner Beast can do, moving from a motivating force to an aetheric one. Since both concepts of the Inner Beast and the Darkside paralleled in my opinion, it was an easy transition.
Think of it where Warrior is Steel using Kaio-Ken and Dark Knight is Steel at SSJ1, so to speak. At least conceptually--she doesn't actually undergo a physical transformation, but does reach a new level of personal power and ability. Since she doesn't weave aether normally, this works for her concept. Additionally, her training is done "off-screen" until such time as she finds someone wanting to RP tutelage, so she's reaching new prowess, but gradually so. Even if it's only in head canon.
Despite what the Darkside is and where it comes from, it's not a force that spurs her mood. It's like tapping in to a desire or memory and using that as a weapon when needed. She's still the tough, smirking, huggy, smart-mouthed Roe badass she's always been. Just now slowly understanding a form of aetheric manipulation.
When it was revealed that Fray was your character's Darkside made manifest, that was pretty much all I needed to know about where the DRK draws its power from--essentially from your more impassioned and aggressive tendencies. An Aetherial Sith, but with powers levied against corruption as opposed to being fed by it.
The way Steel grasps this fount of power is a deeper level of her Inner Beast. As she was a Warrior longer than she was a Dark Knight, she has just begun to break the surface of what sort of things her Inner Beast can do, moving from a motivating force to an aetheric one. Since both concepts of the Inner Beast and the Darkside paralleled in my opinion, it was an easy transition.
Think of it where Warrior is Steel using Kaio-Ken and Dark Knight is Steel at SSJ1, so to speak. At least conceptually--she doesn't actually undergo a physical transformation, but does reach a new level of personal power and ability. Since she doesn't weave aether normally, this works for her concept. Additionally, her training is done "off-screen" until such time as she finds someone wanting to RP tutelage, so she's reaching new prowess, but gradually so. Even if it's only in head canon.
Despite what the Darkside is and where it comes from, it's not a force that spurs her mood. It's like tapping in to a desire or memory and using that as a weapon when needed. She's still the tough, smirking, huggy, smart-mouthed Roe badass she's always been. Just now slowly understanding a form of aetheric manipulation.
