I'm the one who runs,
The one who hunts,
The one who kills,
The one who destroys,
In verity I am an oxymoron,
The one who erases memories,
Yet remembers every detail,
The one who is black,
But has a twin who is white,
Who / what am I?
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The one who hunts,
The one who kills,
The one who destroys,
In verity I am an oxymoron,
The one who erases memories,
Yet remembers every detail,
The one who is black,
But has a twin who is white,
Who / what am I?
Demigod
Hercules in New York
I'm the one who runs,
running man
The one who hunts,
Predator
The one who kills,
Terminator
The one who destroys,
Conan the destroyer
In verity I am an oxymoron,
True lies
The one who erases memories,
Eraser
Yet remembers every detail,
Total recall
The one who is black,
Schwartz is black in German
But has a twin who is white,
Twins
Who / what am I?
Arnold Schwarzenegger, or a film collection staring him
I think you are a
Black Hat Developer - a hacker who violates computer security for personal gain or maliciousness.
I'm the one who runs,
Runs malicious executables and software.
The one who hunts,
Hunts for vulnerabilities in their target's defences
The one who kills,
Kills computer processes of the target machine.
The one who destroys,
Destroys reputations.
In verity I am an oxymoron, The one who erases memories,
Can delete memory from target devices or, in the case of ransomware, hold memory hostage by encrypting.
Yet remembers every detail,
The details of the attack (or in some cases the memory can be stolen).
The one who is black,
Black Hat
But has a twin who is white,
White Hat - an ethical computer hacker who specializes in penetration testing and in other testing methodologies that ensures the security of an organization's information systems.
I think you might be:
chess game (or Chinese Elephant Game, Japanese Shogi)
I'm the one who runs, The one who hunts, The one who kills, The one who destroys,
The chess pieces actions on the board.
In verity I am an oxymoron, The one who erases memories, Yet remembers every detail,
The pieces will be reduced one by one in the game progress, however someone will record it on the Chess Playbook.
The one who is black, But has a twin who is white,
2 companions Black & White versus on the board.
A demigod among men
All pieces King, Queen, Rook, Knight, Bishop, Pawn could be a real human role in reality, but they're "virtual" on the chessboard, like demigod.
You are a
black hole
I'm the one who runs, The one who hunts, The one who kills, The one who destroys
Thee black hole moves through space, "hunts" stars, "kills" planets, "destroys" everything.
In verity I am an oxymoron,
It's there, exists, but it's a hole. so.. there' s nothing there.
The one who erases memories,
Leaves nothing in it's path. Like nothing was there. ever.
Yet remembers every detail,
Some argue that information is not lost when something fals into a black hole.
The one who is black, But has a twin who is white,
The oposite of a white hole. Yes, in theory, there is such a thing like white hole
You might be:
A garbage collector (GC) in a managed programming language
I'm the one who runs,
The GC runs in the background whenever the program is running.
The one who hunts,
It hunts for blocks of un-referenced allocated memory.
The one who kills,
It kills completed threads.
The one who destroys,
It destroys un-referenced memory blocks and completed threads.
In verity I am an oxymoron,
The one who erases memories,
Yet remembers every detail,
Despite appearances, GC's typically don't actually "erase" the memory they are cleaning up, but instead simply mark it as deleted, so the details are all still there (until the memory is reallocated for something else).
The one who is black,
This type of system is often a "black box", in that most programmers don't necessarily need to know exactly what's going on under the hood.
But has a twin who is white,
The memory allocator would be its opposite twin.
You are not directly related to computers or hacking, but perhaps in some ways a precursor to some elements...
I propose that you are a
Video cassette recorder (VCR)
I'm the one who runs,
Play: runs the tape
The one who hunts,
Fast-forward or Rewind: hunts for different places in the tape
The one who kills,
Stop: kills the playback
The one who destroys,
Mechanical error: Oh no! The tape got pulled out of the cassette and mangled!
In verity I am an oxymoron,
The one who erases memories,
A VCR can overwrite old memories (recordings), erasing the old ones
Yet remembers every detail,
Record: creates a long-lasting imprint of all information
The one who is black,
VCRs were often housed in black plastic cases
But has a twin who is white,
While the similar BetaMax players (often) had white/light-colored housings
How does this fit as being a "demigod among men"?
I have no idea
You are
Time
I'm the one who runs, The one who hunts, The one who kills, The one who destroys,
Age / time causes death. Also nothing can last the test of time
In verity I am an oxymoron, The one who erases memories, Yet remembers every detail,
Time erases memories yet remembers every detail
The one who is black, But has a twin who is white,
Referring to space time continuum, black hole and light?
In a similar vain to @hexomino, I think you are:
A computer infection/virus
I'm the one who runs,
A virus executes (eg. "runs")
The one who hunts,
Searches your system for what it wants
The one who kills,
Kills processes, files etc
The one who destroys,
Deletes files
In verity I am an oxymoron,
Maybe poetic licence on a "computer virus" as a computer can't actually catch a virus
The one who erases memories,
Again, removes files, clears memory etc
Yet remembers every detail,
Stores data on the target
The one who is black,
Virus's are bad, associated with black
But has a twin who is white,
Anti-virus
I think you are
Mr. clean
I'm the one who runs, The one who hunts, The one who kills, The one who destroys,
you find hunt and kill grime and germs
In verity I am an oxymoron,
you are dirty from all the cleaning even though your name is "clean"
The one who erases memories, Yet remembers every detail,
you clean away evidence of the past, but hold it within yourself (like a now-dirty rag)
The one who is black, But has a twin who is white,
mr. clean was white but was recently recast as a black guy
You are
I'm the one who runs, The one who hunts, The one who kills, The one who destroys,
If you see the intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVAePIyC4kQ it covers all these points.
In verity I am an oxymoron,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV-WEb2oxLk White guy in black suit.
The one who erases memories,
They use a Neuralyzer to erase memories.
Yet remembers every detail,
They are as sharp as men could be.
The one who is black,
Men in Black or Will Smith himself.
But has a twin who is white,
This could either refer to Agent K or Chris Hemsworth as Agent J.
The title A demigod among men can also refer to
Hancock
I'm the one who runs,
He runs the Empire
The one who hunts,
he hunts anyone who opposes him
The one who kills,
he kills Jedi and normal people
The one who destroys,
he destroys the republic
In verity I am an oxymoron,
He turns to the dark side to try protect those he loves
The one who erases memories,
Jedi powers
Yet remembers every detail,
Again Jedi powers
The one who is black,
His suit is black
But has a twin who is white,
Princess Leia who generally wears white and is his twin
A Demigod among men
He has Jedi Powers
Who Am I?
Darth Vader
I guess you are a
A software daemon
The one who runs,
The one who hunts,
The one who kills,
The one who destroys,
The one who erases memories,
Yet remembers every detail,
various software daemons can do these things to processes and memory
A demigod among men
a daemon in mythology is a demigod
In verity I am an oxymoron
the mythological daemon is both man and god
The one who is black,
But has a twin who is white,
perhaps a black console with white text and vice-versa
I think you are a
Panda
The one who runs, The one who hunts, The one who kills, The one who destroys,
A demigod among men
The one who erases memories, Yet remembers every detail,
Pandas rely on spatial memory, not visual memory
According to your comment about the time frame and era of Video Cassette Recorder, only one iconic figure fill up the blanks and that is Michael Jackson. So i think you are Michael Jackson.
The best answer would be:
T I M E is the one who runs, The one who hunts, The one who kills, The one who destroys,
In verity I am an oxymoron,(because T I M E is) The one who erases memories, Yet remembers every detail, The one who is black, (as night) But has a twin who is white, (as day)
Who / what am I? Obviously T I M E