time for halloween nightmares

[enthymeme]

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 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.
♦ 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. Or is it even stranger than that?

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, perhaps a disease. But you've been horribly mutilated 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

SHODAN | System Shock | OTA

[lookatyouhacker]

Fiona Belli | Haunting Ground | OTA

[azothmaiden]

Naoto Shirogane ⊗ Persona 4 ⊗ OTA

[pishirogane]

17 - a bit from this, a bit from that...

[tofantheflames]

[The world behind the television screen can be a strange, often unpredictable place, can't it? It had seemed like an ordinary enough corridor as the group ran through, but when everyone else passed through the doorway, Naoto, bringing up the rear, encountered only a flash of light followed by the darkness of unconsciousness.

And now when she awakens there isn't much more light to be seen: a few stubs of candles here and there, flames sputtering as they half-drown in wax, barely enough to hint at the crumbled wreckage of a building. Naoto will find herself inside a rusty and somewhat dented human-sized birdcage, resting at a slight angle against a heap formed by a fallen wall.]

Tony Stark | Marvel Cinematic Universe | OTA

[starkingenuity]

Tsuzuki Asato | Yami no Matsuei

[idealism]

Yukiko Amagi | Persona 4

[tofantheflames]

12

[samantha_grey]

[The advertisement in the paper had said that this individual was an extremely capable cook, willing to offer private lessons and tutelage in proper techniques. Their fees had been at least sensible in nature, and their references impeccable.

The tutor, a "Samantha Grey," arrived precisely on time, after the staff had left for the evening. Nobody would be staying over tonight, not with all of the media's hype, but at least the lesson offered the possibility of a change of pace. She wore a long, plaid red and black skirt, coming to just past her knees with her tail wound around her thigh to keep it out of sight. A cute looking white blouse and red beret joined the ensemble, the latter concealing her horns while a pair of green contacts and just a bit of light perfume ensured that the last vestiges of the demonic were not painstakingly obvious until it was too late.

Admittedly, the smile that the twisted creature currently aping human behavior was wearing was as false as her resume's contacts. Still, she always had been as good at lies as she was cooking...]

Clint Barton/Hawkeye | MCU | OTA

[broken_arrow]

He had barely slept since Manhattan, since the war, since the Chitauri, since Loki. Every time he closed his eyes, every time he drifted off he would see the god’s face, that wicked smile; he would see things he had done, tragedies he had helped bring about. The worst dreams, though, were of what might have been had Natasha not broken Loki’s control, particularly what he would have done to her.

It was easier to just not sleep.

Eventually, though, lack of sleep always caught up. The doctors gave him drugs, they isolated him, and at this point he didn’t know what was real and what was a dream. He never felt free of the control he was under, always feared he would snap and go under again. Sometimes he saw faces, he had visitors, and sometimes he heard only voices in the dark. Sometimes he saw Loki, heard commands whispered in his ear and the next thing he knew he was trying to walk out, trying to do... something. What was real? What was fake? What was reality? He couldn’t tell anymore, he didn’t know.

Most recently he had started to believe that Natasha had indeed killed him and he was now living in his own private hell.

[herbestdisguise]

She watches him from the doorway, not saying anything, not making noise. She doesn't know if disturbing hi is best or not and she hates that. She hates not knowing what to do. It makes her angry and she's spent many a night in the gym letting out her rage on various things to relief herself and let her deal with the days ahead.

Finally, she finds herself unable to just stand there anymore. It's useless to remain passive the way she is now. At least if she talks to him, if she interacts somehow, she can try and pull him from his delusions for a little while.

"Clint," she says, walking into the room, one hand reaching out to touch him.

dale cooper | twin peaks

[cooperisms]

[no 5, 9, 12, or 15, please. everything else is fair game! up to discussing who's affected by the roll, etc.]

[headtrauma]

[Run, run, as fast as you can.]

Ise Nanao | Bleach

[isefukutaichou]

[no 1, 12, or 16, otherwise ota]

Yue | Cardcaptor Sakura

[winged_moon]

[No 7/12/16 but especially interested in 6/13/15]

Rei Hino | Sailor Moon

[guidedbyflame]

[ota but bonus points for 5, 6, 9, 13, and/or 15]

Rue | Princess Tutu

[tochterdesraben]

rolled an 11! hope this set up is cool c:

[motioned]

[So it started out a relatively calm, peaceful day until a burning asteroid flew through the wall of her dorm, narrowly avoiding the bed and sending her running out of the building in a frenzy.

She's dismayed to find that it's not much different outside; the pavement is cracked and some parts of the very ground seem to be coming apart entirely. She's searching the panicking crowd outside for a familiar face. As soon as she spots one, she's running towards the dark haired girl, crying out as she approaches.]

Rue!

Alice Liddell | Alice: Madness Returns

[queensbane]

[If you can make it into Alice's mind we've got all the nightmare fuel you can ask for, especially in the area of body horror and eyes where eyes should not be.

No 6, 9, 10, 15, or anything in the 'imprisoned/frozen' genre.]

Kain Highwind | Final Fantasy IV/Dissidia 012

[dragoon_pride]

[NO: 9, 15]

[WOULD LOVE TO DO: 3-8, 10-14]

feel like some 5?

[mindifitakethat]

[It really wasn't common for Rikku to wake up somewhere with no memory of how she got there. It was even less common for her to not recognize the place. At all. In fact, the plants around her weren't even a species she knew existed, so where on Spira they might grow she wouldn't even hazard a guess.

She pushed up to a sitting position, grimacing both at the throbbing headache that gave her and the weird-looking leaves that had been crushed beneath her while she was lying on the ground. They felt uncomfortably prickly, like nettles, and she was sure that looked like a rash developing on her leg and arm there. Oh, wonderful. Just peachy. Just what she— hey, wasn't that someone else over there?

The consequences of getting overly familiar with unfamiliar plant life momentarily forgotten, Rikku scrambled to her feet and half-staggered over.]

Hey! Hey, you okay?

Kakyouin Tsubaki | Yami no Matsuei

[heartsicklove]

RED Scout || Team Fortress 2 || OTA

[quickly]

[OOC: No 9.]

Castiel | Supernatural | OTA

[ofthursday]

[No 7, 8, 9, or 12, everything else is fine! Either or Both characters being affected is cool also, for rolls it would work for.]

2/16/17 mashup?

[servingmichael]

((Mutual hunting each other?))

Rikku | Final Fantasy X-2

[mindifitakethat]

[leeeet's skip 12 but otherwise come at me bro]

Peter Hale | Teen Wolf

[hotashale]

[Because after being the nightmare for so many, he really deserves to have some nightmares of his own.]

[[OOC: I'm cool with the prompts except for nine. Other than that, go nuts.]]

Rin Okumura | Ao no Exorcist

[flameofsatan]

Ahiru | Princess Tutu

[motioned]

[No option nine, please!]

10

[ex_symbioses706]

[ It's dark.

That's the main impression she gets as she's thrown into the room with a shriek, door slamming shut behind her. ]

Wait - !

[ She turns but in her haste trips over her own feet, going back down with another yelp ]

Mitsuru Kirijo | Persona 3

[obeymycommand]

[do not want: 1, 7, 11, 12, 16

want: anything else. seriously.]

5

[pishirogane]

[OOC: Though, I must ask. Would you like Naoto to be the one transforming or Mitsuru?]

Annette | Castlevania | OTA

[alwayskidnapped]

Let's have some awful fun, shall we? 18, with just a touch of a few others...

[masterofthewhip]

It had been hours since Annette had been saved. Richter, then Maria, had gone off to face Dracula... but as the castle crumpled, only one set of footsteps left the ruins. It was Maria, Richter slung across her back and tears in her eyes, who made her way to Annette. When she got close enough, she laid his body on the ground, and ran into her sister's embrace, tears streaming from her eyes.

"I'm so, so sorry. I couldn't save him." Behind her, though, barely noticeably, Richter's hand twitches slightly...

Integra Hellsing | Hellsing | OTA

[integra_hellsing]

16

[gothams_joker]

As he rounded the next corner, he pulled out yet another knife. He chuckled to himself, pursuing. Always pursuing.

"Hahahahaha, boy this is fun!" He said, with a grin. "I'm so glad you made me lose the gun. It's so much more fun this way!"

Gilbert Nightray || Pandora Hearts

[ex_devoue66]

[Make it awful, it probably can't be worse than canon.]

13 -your mind is my toy :D /almost canon suuuure :) /please establish setting? I'm so lost. T.T

[jamais_etre]

[Jack hasn't been te most honest with Gilbert, but when faced with such a task as successfully merging the world and the Abyss, sacrifices had to be made everywhere. Gilbert knew all too well of sacrifices as did Jack, but Jack needed to be sure that Gilbert wouldn't get in the way of things again which was why he found himself here now.]

Good evening, Gilbert.