Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24482836-20140131021153/@comment-11764949-20141217170651

I know there are proverbs and people that would disagree with me. But I believe light because, while darkness can't exist without light, light can exist without darkness. Darkness is the concept of lack of light, while light is a thing. Photons/waves specifically. If light were everwhere, to the point where there would be no concept of darkness, light would still be a measurable thing (via measuring the intensity). But if light did not exist, there would be no concept of darkness because there would be nothing to compare it to. "A man who has not seen a straight line has no concept of a crooked line". By that I mean in a world without light, a man might say to his friend, "It sure is dark out today." and his friend would respond with, "Compared to what?" Darkness can't have intensity because it simply IS dark, not a certain amount. Digressing.

In a superpower/supernatural sense of darkness vs. light, it really depends on the laws of opperation or physics in that canon. If you want to create a story where light always wins, light always wins. If you want to create a story where darkness always wins, darkness always wins. If you want to create a story where they are equal, they are equal. However, in our universe, darkness cannot overwhelm light.