<p>There is nothing confirmed, but there are a lot of possibilities.</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Darkness is a status effect in Final Fantasy, which is also known as Blind. It makes the affected miss their attacks. So her nickname could be a reference to this.</p></li>
<li><p>It could refer to her masochism, her inner "Darkness"</p></li>
<li><p>It could be a slightly modified Dustiness. 
Dustiness in Japanese is ダスティネス. Darkness is ダクネス.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Keeping the first and the last two katakana of Dustiness, changing the "su" ス into a similar looking "ku" ク and discarding the other two katakana, and you have Darkness.</p>

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Bryan Tan
<p>We understand she's embarrassed about her real name Lalatina and noble status. But was it ever explained how/why she specifically came to choose to go by Darkness of all possible names?</p>

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2016-08-30T00:01:38.870Z
could be that is kinda sounds like her middle name [Dustiness](http://konosuba.wikia.com/wiki/Darkness)
Hakase
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2016-08-30T04:39:55.757Z
because "Shadow" IGN already taken :P
Tanya von Degurechaff
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2016-08-30T18:42:41.683Z
Because her soul is dark with masochism.
絢瀬絵里
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2017-04-28T22:10:02.437Z
Because chunyibo
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Why did Darkness pick the name "Darkness"?
# Why did Darkness pick the name "Darkness"?
Posted by: username_0 on 2016-08-29
We understand she's embarrassed about her real name Lalatina and noble status. But was it ever explained how/why she specifically came to choose to go by Darkness of all possible names?
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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: could be that is kinda sounds like her middle name [Dustiness](http://konosuba.wikia.com/wiki/Darkness)  
> **username_2**: because "Shadow" IGN already taken :P  
> **username_3**: Because her soul is dark with masochism.  
> **username_4**: Because chunyibo  
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## 1 answers
### Answer by username_5 on 2017-11-22. Score: 6
There is nothing confirmed, but there are a lot of possibilities.

1. Darkness is a status effect in Final Fantasy, which is also known as Blind. It makes the affected miss their attacks. So her nickname could be a reference to this.
2. It could refer to her masochism, her inner "Darkness"
3. It could be a slightly modified Dustiness.
   Dustiness in Japanese is ダスティネス. Darkness is ダクネス.

Keeping the first and the last two katakana of Dustiness, changing the "su" ス into a similar looking "ku" ク and discarding the other two katakana, and you have Darkness.
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