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thatsright ([personal profile] thatsright) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2013-08-17 12:38 pm

body horror meme

WARNING -- POSSIBLE TRIGGERS (violence, pain, parasites, zombies, etc)

body horror meme


Something's gone wrong. Maybe it was a little parasite, wiggling under your skin. Maybe something bit you that one night in the woods. Maybe someone decided they didn't like you and placed a curse on you, or maybe the local psychotic AI decided she liked you and filled you full of nanites. In any case, you're changing, body and soul. There's no way to stop it. No way to reverse it. And above all, it's the most painful thing you've ever experienced...

HOW IT WORKS:
- Tag the meme, leaving your character name, fandom, and any preferences in the subject line
- Other character tags you
- You tag back, and use the random number generator to select from the following options. Or don't, and do whatever strikes your fancy. If you roll something your character already is, either roll again, go for human, or pick something that otherwise suits your fancy.
- Other character reacts, or is free to also roll on the table
- Play out the results.
- Have fun, but respect the preferences of others.

1. Water-dwelling. You're growing gills, or your skin is turning translucent, or you're sprouting fins, or maybe you're outright turning into some form of sea life. It doesn't matter what you're turning into – what does matter is that you're slowly losing the ability to breathe air, and there's no water in sight...

2. Animal. Something bit you, and you're turning into an animal. Your bones lengthen or perhaps shrink, break, twist, and reform, your teeth lengthen or shorten, and above all, you feel your instincts being overridden. Your senses sharpen; you notice smells you never did before, your vision becomes more sensitive to movement. If you're a predator? Man, these people look mighty tasty. Prey? OHGOD, EVERYTHING IS TERRIFYING. Lizard? Enjoy your new inability to regulate body temperature. Bird? Have fun with the whole beak and hollowing bones. And don't even get us started on insects and arachnids...

3. Parasitic Something's inside you, and it's changing you from within, chewing up your insides and altering your thoughts. You're not sure how much longer you're going to be you, and when the parasite's going to take over completely...

4. Demonic You've been meddling with dark powers beyond the ken of mortal man, and it seems you've accidentally sold your soul. Will you be the traditional kind of demon, horns and hooves, or something far more terrifying and ineffable?

5. Undead: No doubt about it, you're dying, but as you are, something's been altered in you. Maybe you're becoming a vampire – and not the fun kind, either, we're talking ugly, ravenous, and mad. Maybe you're a zombie, or a ghoul, and human flesh looks mighty tasty. Or maybe you're just turning into a ghost bent on vengeance. In any case, death is never fun.

6. Cybernetic Get captured by the Borg? Strapped to an operating table? Injected with nanites? Whatever happened to you, you're slowly turning into something half man, half machine, your squishy bits being replaced by mechanical components.

7. Lovecraftian You've heard their song, the terrors from beyond the stars, and even now they sing in your blood as your flesh transmutes into something ineffable and unknowable. You revel in the pain you feel even as you seek to spread it, to herald the end of all things... or maybe worse, you're aware of the transition as your mind becomes not your own.

8. Fusion/Hivemind You begin to fuse with the first person who tagged you – physically, mentally, or both. Soon, you can't tell who is who, which one of you is the real you, as your thoughts become one. Join in the fleshsong, mortal...

9. Inanimate Your body slowly petrifies and hardens, turning to stone, wood, glass, or something stranger still; or perhaps you liquefy, turning to some kind of liquid, or maybe you dissolve into the air itself.

10. Wildcard / pick your own Pick whatever you like, combine a few options, or make up your own.

Meme originally posted by [personal profile] teal_deer.
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Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock (BBC)

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Kain Highwind | Final Fantasy IV / Dissidia 012

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Merton J. Dingle | Big Wolf on Campus | OTA

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Will Graham | Hannibal |

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gotodogheaven: (a good hunt; none escape)

zwei

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[It's so childishly simple, the truth; so close within reach for so many years, fluttering behind closed eyes on the very peripheral of conscious thought-- the beasts are not men, for all Moreau's brilliance and misguided efforts, his grand design so perfect in its flaws. They can never be men, not truly, not completely (though they grovel in the dirt like pigs -- like men -- to know the Law, to obey the Law, incapable of ever grasping the Law within their feeble, fragile minds. So like men, scrabbling to understand the word of their God). Moreau's grand design: his search for perfection. To become a God; to create man, from beast, in his image.

He'd simply gotten it backwards.

A scalpel clatters to the floor in his wild grab for a syringe of morphine, so delicate and so long is the operation, days of drugs he doesn't have (wish) to spare -- stretching each as long as the will of the creature before him lasts, until the blinding, uncomprehending pain is too much, the screams too brittle to carry on without soothing it once again into painless unconsciousness, as near to bliss or of kindness as he is capable of giving at this stage. While it takes effect, he strokes the creature's (raw; exposed; flayed open and laid bare under his knife) face, whispering soothing sounds and gentle affirmations of love and devotion until dreamless sleep claims its victim once again.

(His only visitor, after Moreau's death: a man with understanding eyes, who didn't flinch away in fear or disgust from the beast -- what had been a dog, and then a man, and now a dog again -- at his heels. Montgomery had watched them together, with one critical eye, seen how well the man took to the animal; gradually, and with such immeasurable understanding, extracted the story of the man's 'family of strays.' By the time his machinations were to be set into motion, his heart felt ready to burst with anticipation. How he loved this man; this animal of instinct and reason. His would be the greatest gift.)

Montgomery doffs his gloves, stroking sparse bristles of fur over slowly mending flesh. He sleeps in the remnants of the House of Pain, there should the creature awake in the night, always within reach to pet and soothe and shush and lull into the haze of a drugged slumber once more, "Just a little longer. Only a little longer, that's a good boy..."]

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[Info here.]
thin_white_duke: (our beloved leader)

Lovecraftian

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There are many ways to rebuild a world. There are many places a person can turn to in times of terrible crisis. The Duke is not a man one would expect to turn to religion when the plight of his people grows dire, but then, he does not keep to any common religion. He doesn't even see it as religion, himself, but as incomprehensible science. Knowledge beyond what their minds can comprehend. It is only the limitations of their animal brains that makes it all seem so mystical and impossible.

He stands, sleeves rolled up to the elbows and sweat beading at his brow, over a strange table...an altar of sorts...with his consort, Cinder, sprawled nude upon its surface. This is the first thing Jack sees when guards point him down the spiral staircase into the large, circular room. There are strange old symbols drawn on the Duke's face and arms, as well as over Cnder's bare body, all in what appears to be blood mixed with something gritty. In the dark outer edges of the room, several other sordannh --their species' natural empaths-- kneel in thin robes, stating at nothing and chanting in the same strange words as e Dke himself until he stops to greet his brother.
"Jack. Good. I wanted ou here to witness this. To be a part of the birth of a new world for us. To ring in the salvation of our people." He begins to chant again, strange old language words that Jack's never heard. Strong emotions emanate from the sordannh, but not like any emotion Jack's ever felt. Not like something anyone has felt. A combination of terror and elation that should not exist...and a longing. A call for something.

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Yukiko Amagi | Persona 4

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Jason Todd • DC Comics / DCnU

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( Open to all, but Fusion; Hivemind is a maybe. )
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[Well, Jason is Eddie's favorite Robin...before DCnU, at least. I rolled a two if you're up for it, but I'm open to most of the prompts.]
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[ most likely her martel angel illness that crystallized her body ]
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[[If you want 6 I've got you covered. Not restricted to just that, though!]]
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[At a glance, he'd simply assumed it to be a simple mission, passing by a desperate fortune teller who had called for aid. Provide the energy to do a few street displays, some energetic seances, a basic day's work, aiding another spiritually-inclined individual.

That illusion had broken the instant he'd connected their energies. Instantly, his soul had been diverted into a summoning ritual, a trap set in wait for some foolish helper like him. Perhaps he should have heeded the warnings from friends that was a bit too self-sacrificing.

His teeth gnashed in their desperate attempt to bite back any cries of pain while his blood literally began to boil, burning from the outside in. His breath scalded his throat as he choked it out in desperate, pained bursts.
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