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ahh! real monsters

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

teal_deer.

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[yes yes just don't forget who you actually are :|

Bartz pats Boco, who looks pretty glad, if kind of paranoid that maybe some other monsters will leap out at them.]

[Yes... keeping his mind intact at all is going to be a challenge- already Kain is starting to think like one of them, more than the way he used to.]

[Eventually he finds an area that seems promising to him... he's tired himself out at this point, so a place to settle will be idea. He slows more and paces around as he decides on the location for sure.]

[oh, man, please don't- much as he could, Bartz would still rather not put a sword through you.

Settling sounds good to everyone! Boco ruffles his feathers, glancing around, and Bartz slumps forward a little, breathing out.] This good? …I don't think we're going back for a while.

[…no no Boco doesn't want to stay with the wolfthing he can totally take a trip back :|]

[...better hope he doesn't lose it fully then...]

[Kain paces and sniffs around and then abruptly sits down. He's more or less satisfied with this as a resting-grounds.]

[oh he's hoping like a mad thing, believe you me]

[Bartz slides off Boco, who flaps and is clearly not happy with this state of affairs but what can you do when the rider is mad… Bartz comes over to Kain, patting him and trying to get a good look at his eyes.] Here, then? Yeah, it looks pretty good… you still with us, Kain?

[His eyes are perhaps a bit more monster-like than they would have been earlier. It also takes him a moment to respond, growling and grunting in return. Yes, he's here. More or less.]

[…ohhh hell. Bartz pats the side of his face- muzzle? Whichever.] Good. You remember everyone still, right?

[Everyone? Those tasty-looking... No, no, no, that's wrong and bad. Kain gradually nods. He remembers them. They're allies. Not food.]

[oh, hell. taking Kain's head with both hands, this is absolutely a good idea. Boco is the least impressed, making a sound that says Bartz is a complete idiot.] Listen. You have to remember them, until I come back and after, okay? If you don't, when I die I'll come and find you and smack you for being such an idiot.

[and if he thinks of something better to do in the meantime he'll do that too]

[Kain growls, hopefully that's agreement. Right? Of course it is. He's trying to cling to the few memories that are even staying with him, at this point.]

[Bartz is going to assume that's agreement, because it doesn't sound like anything else. It sounds like a warning to Boco though, who warks and then grabs Bartz, because clearly he's a complete idiot who doesn't know when to get when the going's good.] …all right, all right! [patting Boco, and looking back at Kain] We're going to go, but… we'll be back as soon as we've got answers. You stay safe! [and getting on Boco, who pretty clearly wants to be out of here asap]

[That poor chocobo... who smells really delicious. Kain attempts to withhold himself from something regrettable, though it's a challenge.]

[Kain then nods and grunts at Bartz. He'll attempt, as much as he can. That's the most he can do right now.]

[Bartz nods back and just in time, because Boco is so ready to be out of here as clearly the only sane one in this operation. Just try to catch these tail feathers.]

[[do you want to go on to attempted retrieval, or should we stop here…?]]

[Kain will just be here growing more in touch with his monster side as time goes on.]

[[He's welcome to come back to attempt if you're up for it. But really, I'm good either way! XD]]

[[it doesn't actually… read like a proper ending to me so LET'S GO BAD END /o/]]

[Bartz really didn't want to leave Kain alone for too long, figuring that the monster was likely to have taken over most of him if he took too long, but… it couldn't be helped. Almost no one in the Ancient Library had even heard of anything helpful, and even with Bartz's help (and maybe partly because of it) the one researcher who knew of even the whisper of a cure took a long time finding any documentation for it.

Then you add in the time needed to gather all the ingredients, and while Bartz has got himself a pretty good counteragent (he hopes, and packed away carefully so it won't break if he gets attacked) he's really not too sure who or what he'll be returning to.

This time, Boco gets left behind in a clearing, where he can take care of himself and leave if he needs to. Boco's worried about Bartz, but not totally willing to follow… and Bartz swore he'd take care of himself. He's got people to return to, after all- and if it comes to it, Lenna and Krile and Faris are more important to him than Kain. He hopes it won't come to that. He hopes Cecil and Rosa will forgive him if it does.

He approaches Kain's hideout with plenty of trepidation, sword by his side.]

Kain?

[[Bad end ftw!]]

[Kain- or more accurately, the monster he's become- is just finishing up feasting on yet another creature. His teeth dripping with blood, he heads over toward the sound of the voice... But this time when he greets Bartz he moves into a pre-attacking stance, growling in warning.]

[[\m/]]

[Bartz stops a good distance away, hand hovering between the hilt of his sword and the package the draught's in. The information the researcher eventually found… it said, if it'd progressed to the stage Kain was already at when he left…]

…Kain, you idiot. I told you to remember! This doesn't look like remembering!

[It's too late, isn't it? Not that Kain is concerned about that, or paying any attention to the moral dilemma. He just sees a human, and his instincts are to attack them on sight. So Kain tenses up... and then springs into the attack, claws lashing out.]

[oh god if he's doing that then definitely! Bartz dances back, out of the way- claws should be all right, it's the teeth to watch out for, and he's not absolutely certain what the conditions are for it to be catching (infectious? wasn't that the word?), but he'd really rather not, all the same.]

Kain, snap out of it! I am not dragging you back as a corpse!

[you'll be a very heavy corpse like this for one

okay before we fight for real TAKING THIS DRAUGHT OUT AND THROWING IT AT YOU that's bound to work a treat

…really that's not how it's supposed to be applied but he's pretty sure he's not going to get close enough to try any other way now]

[The beast understands nothing of this concern. All he cares about is attacking the human, bringing him down, feasting on his blood-]

[That magical draught splashes all over him- and it... seems to work, at first! There's some kind of transforming going on. But then it abruptly stops. Kain's form is only half-changed, altered to something that's between man and best. It does nothing for his mind though. He just keeps on clawing and trying to bit Bartz.]

[For a moment, Bartz has hope- they can get through this without any trouble, he'll get Kain back to Cecil and Rosa and anything lingering can be fixed-

and then Kain's claws catch him, and he lashes back on instinct, trying to win enough space to get back, figure out what went wrong.]

Kain! Come on, idiot, don't give up, why would you ever give up!

[the draught. he got it wrong, he must've- misread some of the ingredients, got it at the wrong age.

maybe he just wasn't good enough, not enough learned from Chemists before him. he'll never know. he doesn't have a second chance, reaching for his sword. If Kain's gone…

he needs to be put down, before he does anyone harm.]

[Not listening! He only has minimal understanding of your human-language! Kain is just in a frenzy right now, wanting to feast on tasty human flesh. He makes another lunge toward him-]

[yeah NO DEAL here distract yourself with something that absolutely looks like Bartz but… doesn't go crunch for some reason. Image is very very handy.

Meanwhile, the actual Bartz will be coming in from another angle, aiming for Kain's heart. Fast and clean is the way to go, he hopes.]

[That does distract, enough that Kain is clawing at the image, and then suddenly- MASSIVE ROAR OF PAIN as he's stabbed. The Kain-beast collapses on the ground, claws-that-are-kind-of-half-hands moving feebly for a couple moments as his life drains away.]

[good timing, then, as that image fades away shortly after. Bartz… tears his weapon free, which… probably hurts a lot, but.

if Kain attacks again.

just in case.

Softly, unsure:] …Kain?

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