The Stuff of Nightmares

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The Nightmare Fuel Meme

WARNING: This is not a nice meme, and will likely contain triggers for violence, pain, death, sexual situations, and all kinds of other unpleasant things. Click through at your own risk.

Nightmare Fuel: This is the stuff so horrifying that it can give people the creeps for years. This scares the pants off of just about anyone to the author/creator's delight. This makes you shrink in the back of your chair, look over your shoulder, and remind yourself that what's going on is (usually) only fictional....

HOW IT WORKS:
♦ Leave a comment with your character's name and fandom, and state any preferences. If you'd like to roll for/pick an option here, go for it. If you'd like, you can fill out this handy form to make things easier for others:
<b>Character:</b> [insert name here] <b>Age:</b> [insert age here] <b>Description:</b> [one-sentence description] <b>Want:</b> [options you would particularly like] <b>Do Not Want:</b> [options you do not want to play out]
♦ Tag another character. Pick one of the options, either by using the RNG or just selecting one that interests you.
♦ Play out the results and respect others' preferences.
♦ Have fun and/or be traumatized!


1. ACID TRIP - Things are starting to get weird. Very weird. Your hands just popped off and are dancing the tango in the living room with your pet alligator while a Weeping Angel watches from the corner. There are invisible spiders crawling all over you and you don't dare open your mouth lest they fall in. It can only get as strange as your imagination will let it.

2. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE PARANOID DOESN'T MEAN THEY AREN'T OUT TO GET YOU - You just can't help the feeling that someone is watching you. Someone is out to get you. Who are your real friends? Is that person really an alien in disguise? Are there surveillance cameras in your bedroom walls?

3. THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES - Think about the worst nightmare that you've ever had. Guess what. You're now in it, and you just can't seem to wake up.

4. FUN WITH PHOBIAS - What do you fear? The dark? Heights? Swarms of insects? Snakes? Drowning? Whatever it is, it is now your reality.

5. TRANSFORMATION SEQUENCES OF THE NON-SPARKLY KIND - Something has gone wrong. You're...changing. And not in a good way. Are you turning into an animal? A demon? A monster? Were you assimilated by the Borg?

6. AND I MUST SCREAM - You can't move. You can't scream. You can't do anything but remain conscious of every passing second. Did you choose the wrong words for your wish? Were you turned to stone? Trapped by a curse? Turned into a doll, unmoving but forever beautiful? Sealed inside a tree for a thousand years?

7. A PLAGUE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES - The dread spectre of disease has raised its head. Do you have days to live? Hours? Seconds? Or will you waste away slowly? What will happen in the meantime?

8. EYE SCREAM, YOU SCREAM - Something terrible has happened to you. It could have been an accident, a curse, an attack, a disease, or a surgery gone terribly wrong. But you've been horribly mutilated (or are in the process thereof) and are disturbing to see. Perhaps the Phantom will let you borrow his mask.

9. HORRIBLE TO BEAR - Congratulations, you're with child! Except...this wasn't supposed to happen. Did you just wake up one morning and discover the surprise? Is it part of a bizarre science experiment? Are you carrying the child of the devil? Or did you just get a Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong and hellspawn is about to burst out of your chest?

10. THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO - This is a really tiny space you're in. And it looks like you're going to be here for an awfully long time. Did the other person shut you up in here? Are they a fellow prisoner? Or can you somehow convince them to let you out?

11. WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE - The world is ending. In fire, in ice, in the zombie apocalypse, in a collision with a giant asteroid? Whatever it is, it's horrible. Do you even want to bother trying to survive?

12. SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE - You're hungry. Really, really hungry. Nothing seems to satisfy you, nothing at all. Except that other person standing nearby looks awfully tasty. Cannibalism? Can you?

13. MINDS ARE FOR GAMES - Mind control? Brainwashing? Total amnesia? Whatever it is, you certainly aren't completely in control of yourself. Perhaps the other person is....

14. THE PLURAL OF DIMENSION IS DEMENTIA - Everything looks familiar, but it's just a little bit off. Did your neighbor always have that mustache? Was the sky always that shade of green? Welcome to the mirror universe, where you're the crazy one.

15. THE LATEST DISPLAY MODEL - You're so pretty that you belong on a shelf. Or behind bars. Perhaps magically frozen in place so that you can't escape or mar those lovely features. Maybe someone just wanted you safely hidden away, kept all to themselves. Or did they want to show everyone in the world that you belong to them and them alone?

16. JUST KEEP RUNNING - Something is chasing you. Maybe you don't even know what it is, you just know that you have to keep running, because if you stop the consequences are worse than you can bear to consider. No matter how exhausted you are, you just have to keep going.

17. WILDCARD - Pick another option, mix and match, do whatever you'd like. After all, when it comes to nightmares YMMV, so feel free to invent your own.

Comments

Bucky Barnes | MCU

[missionreport]

[ 2, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 ]

Charlie | Five Nights At Freddy's: The Silver Eyes

[springlocking]

Character: Charlie
Age: 17
Description: Proud(?) holder of a protagonist card and survivor of five nights at Freddy's.
Want: 3, 4, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17
Do Not Want: 7, 9, 12

Kyp Durron | Star Wars Legends

[avenger_leader]

Character: Kyp Durron
Age: 16-ish
Description: frequently angry, powerful orphan Jedi and former political prisoner
Want: 10, 13, 15
Do Not Want: 1, 12

Chara - Undertale

[buttercup_eater]

[OTA prompts, honestly.]

2

[dustless]

Somewhere:
("Fuck Sans. He's too much, it's been days, it's done, I'm done, I don't want my data wrecked or whatever anyway.")

Reset.

A name has already been chosen.

Chara

No                Yes

Everything goes white.



Frisk wakes up in the flowers.

...not what they were expecting, but alright.

"Really, Chara?" Flowey says once they stand up and head off, towards the RUINs proper. With Toriel. Alive.

Chara. Right. Chara's there. It's hard to think about that, about anything, part of them still lost in a haze of dust and jerky movements--until they hit the SAVE point. It's easier to turn inward, there.

'...Chara?'

[buttercup_eater]

They heard them.

They're not sure how, or- but that was them. They know it. They're real. Chara had thought they were real, had even tried testing it but that... that was their partner's voice.

Their mind's reeling over it, around and around and around. It's hard to really notice or care when they're surrounded by their grave flowers, or even when they meet with Chara's family. They've seen it all before, and now...

It's the other child who jolts Chara out of their partly-formed thoughts, and it takes Chara a flustered moment before they can respond:

'Quiet!

'I'm trying to listen.'

blind!Frisk | Undertale | OTA

[mercybutton]

[pLEASE I LOVE CREEPY WRITING
no 1 or 9 please!]

[carryon_crow]

[creepy writing you say]

[mercybutton]

[:D
Any you have in mind?]

Re: blind!Frisk | Undertale | OTA

[glitched_morale]

[Creepy writing you say? How about a Papyrus from Underworld AU for option 3 or 8? He comes with a heavy dose of body horror but otherwise is himself.]

Daimon Hellstrom | Marvel | ota

[hellstorm]

[this shit's my jam]

Ranka Lee | Macross Frontier | OTA

[nyan_nyan]

[ Sixteen years old, super cute pop idol, please ruin everything. ]

Umi Ryuuzaki | Magic Knight Rayearth | OTA

[dragon_blossom]

[ Fourteen year old magical knight girl person. All prompts. Anything. Be awful. ]

[not_so_delicate]

(OoC: Oh, lord, I'm feeling quite cruel but I don't know what to choose! Part of me wants to do Phobia and the other part wants to do Transformation...!)

Tony Stark // MCU

[shwarm_after]

Character: Tony Stark
Age: 45
Description: Genius Billionaire Playboy Philanthropist. ALSO MAKES REALLY BAD DECISIONS.
Want: 2,3,4,6,15,17
Do Not Want: 12, 14, 10, 9

[Castmates and previous threadders preferred. Also m/m only for shipping unless you're Pepper or Natasha.]

[avengeme]

((OOC: So I got this idea as I'm reading the prompts. Alien kidnapping with Coulson being physically controlled (but not mentally) to tend to Tony when he's not being put on display as a live frozen model who is conscious of every passing second?))

Karkat Vantas | Homestuck | OTA

[chronologicalpulse]

_{[Let's just rewind this shit back to murderstuck, shall we?]}

Kishin Asura ΦΦΦ Soul Eater

[strongestcoward]

[Wow it's not like this is his whole thing. All sorts of weird powers for your use.]

Kurt Darkholme (Nightcrawler) | Marvel Comics | OTA

[ecclesiophobic]

Character: Kurt Darkholme/Nightcrawler
Age: 30
Description: One of the final surviving X-Men from a literally post-Apocalyptic world, this Kurt is violent and basically a poster boy for PTSD.
Want: Literally anything except--
Do Not Want: 9, 14

carswell thorne ( the lunar chronicles ) ota

[captainisking]

Age: 20
Description: He's a "Charming Rogue with a Heart of Gold™" who's running around as a smuggler after having deserted his cadet post in the American military, calling himself "Captain" the whole way.

Nina Sergeevna Krilova | The Americans

[utselet]

((Open to anything except 1, 8, or 12.))

Jesse Pinkman | Breaking Bad

[thelab]

((Open to anything!))

Papyrus | Underworld AU of Undertale game

[glitched_morale]

[Ripe with body horror inherently, and lends to 3 and 8 but open to other suggestions.]

For Ayeka~

[asukasama]

Jurai was a beautiful place to be, especially in dreams, with the blooming plants and trees for miles in every direction. For example, a secluded glade, well hidden from prying eyes at the Royal Palace, was of particular note for it's stunning beauty. The ground was super-soft, with it's comfortable grass, and it was especially comfortable against the thin blue ankle-slippers the Princess wore.

But there were also dangers present; that a First Princess must be weary of.

The clearing seemed deceptively plain, but hidden underneath the soft earth was the sucking, popping grip of quicksand.

The First Princess's attendant was with her, of course, even here. But that might not be enough to save her.

Making sure not to lose sight of the First Princess, Ilia tried to keep pace as she continually fused over the purple-haired beauty. "Miss Ayeka, is this place to your liking? I know we're not supposed to be out here, but..." Ilia didn't have the courage to mention just how stunning the First Princess looked in this mid-morning light, with all the pollen and dust motes dancing in the wind.

Re: For Ayeka~

[not_so_delicate]

Oh, Ilia was such a fussy creature, but Ayeka couldn't help but admire her for her determination to watch over her. At her question, she smiled and nodded.

"Yes, it is. I know it's quite dangerous, but I know my way around this." She reassured.

Oh, if she knew things always changed here...