I absolutely love ships where one character is usually serious and distant, but when they talk to that one person, their voice turns soft and gentle and is suddenly filled with fondness that they don’t show to anyone else.
So I had this dream a couple months ago but I thought it was cool so here it is.
Aku, in his efforts to kill Jack, finally lost it and went completely mad. One by one he started murdering Jack’s friends and allies and people/entities he suspected of being friends of Jack regardless of if they actually were or not. He found them by digging his tentacles into the earth like roots and ripping them out from their homes.
Finally he came after Jack and somehow ripped him out of reality and into another dimension. This other dimension was a black void overlooking a portal into an equally black void? Aku could not be seen by this point but he was laughing as he dangled Jack over this portal. It was weird because there wasn’t just one laugh, it sounded like a bunch of different laughs in various pitches (high and low) superimposed over each other but still Aku’s voice.
What I remember very clearly was right at this point, when Aku was about to drop Jack into the abyss, he spoke in this really evil voice: “Now, Samurai Jack, you will join your friends.”
And then Jack started to fall. That’s how it ended.
So now I’m thinking, damn, what if my Aku actually went down this path? Like what if he just… snapped one day? It’s sort of tempting. Maybe I should create a verse where he completely loses it…
The Shogun of Sorrow 