Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-24469175-20160228194417/@comment-26205772-20160419191111

Your world in general seems pretty pessimistic (although, to be fair, that's because it seems every villain is a bastard to the third degree and the only hero I've heard about seems to be pretty morally conflicted).

In terms of my own canon, Earth Negative's far away from a World Half Full. It's kind of strange because on two separate occasions humanity does manage to prevail against the eldritch, once by driving it away and mind-wiping everyone that had contact with it (it's the only story in that universe that has a happy ending) and the second by outright killing it. However, the only reason why humanity was capable of doing such was because in the first instance, they had help from the supernatural (essentially the personification of Limbo) and the second was because A. said people that killed the eldritch god were basically half-human and had mental powers roughly on par with the god's (the battle was a mental one), B. the god itself was in its weakest form, and C. the god itself was by far one of the most human of its kind. Ultimately, the true source of all the crapsack is a sadistic Eldritch Abomination beyond any compare, and it ultimately cannot be fought against or stopped in any regard, by neither humanity nor their supernatural aid.