My name is Alliander. Alliander Black, if you need the details. My name is given, though the account I am tied to is named Xenex. Xenex is more of a title generated from an old unpublished story I wrote, but Alliander is my name.

But, recently, through exploration and self relfection, I have found another name. In my previous introspective journals, one may have noticed a darker aspect of my personality. One that whispers and screams through moments of weakness, anger, and vulnerability. An aspect I had previously given the moniker of "my darkness."

It seems so foolish, maybe uneducated to give one's aspect of personality such a generic and obvious name. It's a deep seeted, and ravenous quality, one that is far too prominant to ignore, or brush off with such elementary terms. And unfortunately, or fortunately it has "grown" in its prominence, and it has revealed to me its desires.

A name.

Ash.

A name befitting its host; a darkness no longer feared by the one bearing it, and a force living beside the wishes and dreams of hope and peace.

All people live in dichotomy and split desires, and perhaps this revelation is simply my way of becoming more... Human? More of a person? I don't really know.

All I know, is that I no longer cower in fear of the dark potential of myself, and that may be a highly negative thing.

Acceptance of one's innate "evil" is... A touchy subject. One that I am still wrestling with. Either way, I am now the owner of two names.

Alliander Black, the hope that all struggles end in the brighter future.

Ash Black, pure desire, the Id, the ravenous hunger for the world; the absolute need of expression.