bakerstreet | the body horror meme

Body Horror Meme

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

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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(Prompts 2 or 5 greatly preferred.)

[ooc: no 8, please.]

[Not sure how 9 works. I'm good with all, they're very interesting~ PM me if you need details on Naomi ]

[Open to anything except 4.]

(no 9, 8 or 7)

[6 is basically canon for him.]

Edited 2014-11-13 20:12 (UTC)

(Not especially into 1, 6, 9-- preference for 4, 5, 7, maybe 2?)

[Most interested in 2, 3, 5, or 10.]

[Desmond has never been in this much pain before. His feet and legs are throbbing down to the bone, his fingers feel like someone's put them in a vice, his shoulders feel heavy. He can't control his Eagle Vision--it comes and goes intermittently, plunging his world back and forth between monochrome gray and glowing auras to the normal patterns of colors and light. He knew the fever was bad. He was coherent enough to know it was bad, but he had a feeling it was going to get worse. A lot worse.

Hence why he needed a doctor the Assassins could trust. Someone who wouldn't ask too many questions if any strange genetics that came back on blood tests. Someone who had more important things to worry about than a gunshot wound. Though given Eph's usual line of work, Desmond's condition might be a bit more familiar...not exactly a good thing.

Eph will find Desmond sitting on the edge of the examining table, one hand massaging his right temple while the other scratched at an itch on his shoulder. His Eagle Vision is going on the fritz again.]