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I'm not sure how to translate フォー・ダークネス (alternatively 闇のもの) to English as " ___ Darkness ".
This is the name of some monster. It might be some sort of word play or some reference to the Shoggoth. I cannot tell.
The フォー part sounds like: four, for, foe, pho, fore, foo, ... but I don't think any of them match.
I thought maybe "full" but that's written with フル
Any ideas?
EDIT
Looks like it's a name attributed to a set of monsters
闇のもの【フォー・ダークネス】 の１体 ダーク・ショゴスだ
So this is from 時間停止勇者. I initially thought this フォー is "four" (i.e., ショゴス is one of the four mid-bosses collectively called ダークネス) because having four mid-bosses is a very common trope (aka 四天王 or "Elite Four").
However, in a recent episode, I found that a small unnamed enemy is also called a フォー・ダークネス, so now I think this フォー is "for" (i.e., beings that work "for darkness").
I doubt "foe" is relevant simply because this word is way too difficult to average Japanese readers.
Either way, we may have to forget how it sounds to English speakers, and you do not necessarily have to translate something like this literally.
