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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_tears_by_blackenedkrono_d57ioao.jpg]]
2	-> ''A long time has passed ever since they kidnapped me. I curse the day I choose to leave my home. Truly, that day changed my life forever. Like many, I have wondered: what comes after death? I think I know the answer.''
3	-->-- '''N°73'''
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5	''Black Tears'' is an 8 page one-shot published by Mexican author Blackened Krono. It was sent to a one-shot contest hosted by anime review magazine ''Conexión Manga'' and chosen as the winner for issue 258 in September 2012.
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7	The short story is about a nameless protagonist, kidnapped by a mysterious organization for its experiments. Our character, named N°73 by one of the doctors, soon discovers that they captured more children to turn them all into what the scientists feared the most: the darkness. N°73, finding out their reason for turning them into monsters, decides to kill them all, [[DeathOfPersonality and falls to the darkness]].
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10	The work hasn't been rereleased nor ever translated to English. You can find the author [[https://twitter.com/BlackenedKrono here]].
11	!! Tropes present in this short story:
12	* BodyHorror: N°73 and many other youngsters were kidnapped and experimented upon to become chimera-like creatures based on the darkness the scientists were afraid of the most. 73 has crab-like legs for hands, and a bat-like wing skeleton coming out of his back, and his entire body is surrounded by eyes. 73 remarks he can't even feel his heart anymore.
13	* BookEnds: The story starts and ends with the same words, "I curse the day I choose to leave my home".
14	* DownerEnding: The story ends with 73 killing his kidnappers, but in the process, the darkness covered everything in a matter of minutes, [[DeathOfPersonality ending his existence too]].
15	* DeathOfPersonality: The ending is vague, with 73 saying the darkness consumed everything including himself. It is implied 73 lost his personality, becoming the darkness-- an animalistic monster.
16	* EldritchAbomination: The demonic presence the scientists called "the darkness", a being they all feared.
17	* MadScientist: The scientists that captured N°73 have kidnapped countless children (if our protagonist number means anything, almost a hundred) and turned them all into monsters, all with the purpose of creating what they fear more: [[EldritchAbomination the darkness]]. They are stereotypical one-note madmen, with them having spiral glasses, and we don't know how or why they got funded for their research, or why they even decided to give a body to an entity they fear.
18	* NamelessNarrative: No character is named in the story. Our nameless protagonist is named N°73 by one of the scientists.
19	* ShoutOut: What little we know of the entity the scientists feared, it's called "the darkness" or "the dark" by them. That's the same name for ''ComicBook/TheDarkness'', an antihero with ancient demonic powers.

Context Comicbook / BlackTears