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Becoming a Monster

Warning: Body horror, Violence

Something within you is changing. Whatever you were before, there's something inside you that needs to surface. You can feel it coming, fast or slow. The change will be painful, and not pretty. It comes with strange cravings. You're losing yourself to the monster within you and there is nothing you, or anyone else, can do to stop it.

Will you kill? Will you be hunted for the creature you're becoming? Can you count on anyone to help you through it? Maybe your friends will except your new, hungry form. Maybe they'll just put you out of your misery. You could always just drag them down with you.

Whether you're hunting or being hunted, restrained for the safety of others or locked free in a room with your soon to be victim, there is nothing you can do to stop the change that is happening to you now.

☠ Choose a beast from the list, or RNG for one.
☠ Put your Character name, canon and monster in the subject
☠ Write a starter of your character transforming
☠ Be specific or open about the direction you want things to go.
☠ Throw yourself at someone else's beast.
☠ Be a friend, ally, hunter, victim, or maybe even the one responsible for this mess.
☠ Whatever the case, you're now closer than comfortable to a soon to be monster.
☠Be grim and gruesome. This is a body horror meme. Let your monster out.
☠ Go forth and be monstrous

Some Monster Ideas
1. Arachne
2. Centaur
3. Cyborg
4. Zombie
5.Demon
6. Dragon
7. Dryad
8. Faerie
9. Gargoyle
10. Giant/Titan
11. Goblin
12. Gorgon
13. Harpy
14. Incubus/Succubus
15. Kelpie
16. Kitsune/Kumiho
17. Lamia
18. Manticore
19. Merperson
20. Minotaur
21. Mothman
22. Failed Science Experiment
23. Naga
24. Nymph
25. Satyr
26. Shade/Ghoul/Poltergeist
27. Siren
28. Sphinx
29. Troll
30. Vampire
31. Wendigo
32. Were (bear, cat, hyena, wolf, etc)
33. Other/Choose Your Own

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[ naturally. ]

[it's a spell gone horribly, horribly wrong, and Julian honestly wishes that this was the first time he'd been involved in a magical backfire, instead of this being something like a routine occurrence these days. what did he ever do to lady luck? he's going to find the woman and have a talk with her after all this is done, he thinks dully, as the pain starts to mount higher and higher.]

[shapeshifting is familiar, but this horrific twisting of his body is new, unnatural, and he screams. something between a caw, a human yell, and something deep and warped, or all three at once. normal shapeshifting's not supposed to hurt, but this hurts so, so, so, so much and he wants it to st--]

[--there's a tearing sound and he's pretty sure his back just ripped open and his wings are rotating down the sides of his body to a position like human arms and for a moment, he's pretty sure he's going to throw up and gods, it's past the point of screaming, he stops breathing from the pain, his ribs are shifting to accommodate it and he has fingers, now, at the end of his wings. like hands. claws? then another pair of wings bursts out of his back and now the spell is just torturing him, what was wrong with the first pair, but his ribs have stopped moving and maybe it had something to do with the internal structure of his shoulders and it would've been worse to have legs bust out of his chest.]

[then it seems to slow down, or at least become less agonizing, and his legs, back legs now, rearrange themselves into something else, there's a sharp jolt as something happens to his tail, he can't see it, maybe it's shooting out. at least the magic is kind enough to fix the wounds it made, and he collapses to the ground, head fuzzy. new instincts. aggression? he tries to keep it in check.]

[don't want to hurt anyone. last thing he wants. no. keep it together.]

Edited 2016-04-19 16:45 (UTC)

(OOC: Bad end CHAMPIONS OF THE JUST perhaps or more than happy to react to someone else going through the change.)

[He doesn't get what all the fuss is about THIS SHIT IS GREAT]

[Look at this hulking beast of a bear, vaguely humanoid in some ways but down right monstrous in others. For one thing, bears shouldn't have that many pointy teeth. Or be absolutely pleased at the opportunity to terrorize some human. Painful transformations by the light of a moon are nothing new for him-- and you there? You'd better start running, because he fully intends to give this new form one hell of a test drive.]

[Maybe if you provide enough entertainment he won't eat you. Maybe.]

[How'd he get like this? It's a long story, involving a dumb kid and a crazy alchemist and more animals being thrown into the mix than anyone would like to admit. So sure, he looks human at the moment, but there's a big scary alchemical accident lurking beneath the skin. Skin that likes to break out in leopard spots when he's stressed because his life is suffering.]

[So between pretending that Everything Is Okay and trying to stay one step ahead of people who might like to drag him back to a lab, Russell is is just trying to get by. He hasn't been very successful recently. Comes with being a cat-lizard-bear thing.]

[Hm any takers?]

Becoming a Monster

bruce banner | mcu

Julian | OC | gryphon, down for w/e

Dragon Age: Inquisition | Lucan Trevelyan

Vegeta | Dragon Ball Z | Werebear

Russell Tringham | Fullmetal Alchemist | Failed Science Experiment (totally a chimera)

Jak | Jak and Daxter Series | OTA/ Failed Lab Experiment....