byok ([personal profile] byok) wrote in [community profile] bakerstreet2016-05-12 04:55 pm

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:

♦ 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.
missionreport: (mask 012)

Bucky Barnes | MCU

[personal profile] missionreport 2016-05-13 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ 2, 11, 13, 15, 16, 17 ]
springlocking: (Default)

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

[personal profile] springlocking 2016-05-13 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
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
avenger_leader: (Default)

Kyp Durron | Star Wars Legends

[personal profile] avenger_leader 2016-05-13 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
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
buttercup_eater: (* Seems like it's losing itself.)

Chara - Undertale

[personal profile] buttercup_eater 2016-05-13 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[OTA prompts, honestly.]
mercybutton: (pic#10241630)

blind!Frisk | Undertale | OTA

[personal profile] mercybutton 2016-05-13 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
[pLEASE I LOVE CREEPY WRITING
no 1 or 9 please!]
dustless: (Default)

2

[personal profile] dustless 2016-05-13 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
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?'
hellstorm: (profile)

Daimon Hellstrom | Marvel | ota

[personal profile] hellstorm 2016-05-13 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[this shit's my jam]
buttercup_eater: (* You felt your sins weigh on your neck.)

[personal profile] buttercup_eater 2016-05-13 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
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.'
dustless: (visible silence)

[personal profile] dustless 2016-05-13 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
Frisk does what they ask, after a nervous flinch.

For the moment there's no urge to move forward, even though they know Toriel's waiting right up the stairs. They shift from foot to foot by the SAVE point as the seconds tick by (but won't count in the end, they know, in the file, and they're not sure how they do, they just do. And have. Just as they know the sky is blue and hearts pump blood, not worth thinking about).

They settle down into the leaves as silently as they can, straining their ears to try to catch whatever Chara is listening for. But there's nothing.
carryon_crow: ((◡‿◡✿))

[personal profile] carryon_crow 2016-05-13 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
[creepy writing you say]
buttercup_eater: (* Shouldn't proceed yet.)

[personal profile] buttercup_eater 2016-05-13 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
...They're not here?

No. Just because they can't feel the urging... They don't hear anything either. But their "partner" could still be there. Watching the two of them, from that south-side, top-down angle. How much do they know? Have they even realized that there are two children?

Or maybe they know that and more. They're the one who just reset the timeline, after all. What else are they capable of?

'Why aren't they doing anything?'
dustless: (...?)

[personal profile] dustless 2016-05-13 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
'...I don't know?'

Frisk's hand goes for the locket, hand closing on empty air. Right. Very gone, and so it will be for a while.

'You okay?' It's a dumb question even as they ask it. Something happened, enough that the happy ending they'd gotten before was reset to murder and then reset again. But they aren't sure what, why Chara is like this suddenly.

They start slapping the stick against the palm of their hand rhythmically. 'What'd you hear?'
nyan_nyan: (*Kira*)

Ranka Lee | Macross Frontier | OTA

[personal profile] nyan_nyan 2016-05-13 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Sixteen years old, super cute pop idol, please ruin everything. ]
buttercup_eater: (* Contains illegible scrawls.)

[personal profile] buttercup_eater 2016-05-13 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
'Figures,' Chara snaps.

They feel Frisk's hand reaching out, and Frisk will feel their throat automatically tighten in response. Chara doesn't dignify Frisk's first question with a response. This is not okay.

'Didn't you hear them?' Chara thinks, incredulously. 'They said they "didn't want their data wrecked." At the last bit, Chara affects a mocking tone. They don't know for sure if they can't be heard but hey, maybe a bit of mockery will make them respond.
dragon_blossom: (A weird thing!)

Umi Ryuuzaki | Magic Knight Rayearth | OTA

[personal profile] dragon_blossom 2016-05-13 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Fourteen year old magical knight girl person. All prompts. Anything. Be awful. ]
dustless: (Default)

[personal profile] dustless 2016-05-13 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
They swallow hard.

'Didn't hear anything,' they say quietly. What counts as quietly in their head, anyway. 'Haven't in a while, I don't think. Before the RESET.'

Data? Frisk's hand goes for their cell phone before remembering right, they don't have that yet, either.

Their head lifts so they can peer over their shoulder.

The silence continues.

They should go see Toriel, they should keep going, but it's...hard to actually think of why. They need to SAVE everybody, of course. Right? Yes. Nobody else can.

...

But they can't do it.
Edited 2016-05-13 05:28 (UTC)
buttercup_eater: (* Knows best for you.)

[personal profile] buttercup_eater 2016-05-13 05:52 am (UTC)(link)
'I did,' Chara tells Frisk. 'They spoke, right after the last time Sans killed us.'

'They're quiet now. But. They could still be watching us. Maybe they're thinking about what to make us do next.'
shwarm_after: (pic#7991193)

Tony Stark // MCU

[personal profile] shwarm_after 2016-05-13 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
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.]
Edited 2016-05-13 06:06 (UTC)
chronologicalpulse: (What the fuck?)

Karkat Vantas | Homestuck | OTA

[personal profile] chronologicalpulse 2016-05-13 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Let's just rewind this shit back to murderstuck, shall we?]
strongestcoward: (wooooOOOOooooOOooo)

Kishin Asura ΦΦΦ Soul Eater

[personal profile] strongestcoward 2016-05-13 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
[Wow it's not like this is his whole thing. All sorts of weird powers for your use.]
dustless: (...?)

[personal profile] dustless 2016-05-13 11:07 am (UTC)(link)
'...who...?'

Frisk pauses, revises their next question. Not that it hides their confusion much.

'What'd they say? Just...the data stuff?'
mercybutton: (o(^∀^*)o)

[personal profile] mercybutton 2016-05-13 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
[:D
Any you have in mind?]
Edited 2016-05-13 11:43 (UTC)
buttercup_eater: (* Tummy rubs are forbidden.)

[personal profile] buttercup_eater 2016-05-13 12:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Unfortunately for Frisk, Chara catches onto that confusion: And they definitely do not like what it implies.

'What do you mean, who?'

They hiss it, insomuch as they can hiss anything at Frisk.

'The Unknown, Frisk. The Anomaly. Our partner.'
dustless: (visible silence)

[personal profile] dustless 2016-05-13 01:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Their fingers lock tightly around the stick.

'...thought we were the anomaly. And Flowey.' That Frisk and Chara were the only partners there, they don't say.

not_so_delicate: (Freakout)

[personal profile] not_so_delicate 2016-05-13 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
(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...!)

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