bakerstreet | body horror meme

Body Horror Meme

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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[ up for smaller things like scars/burns/etc, as well as more dramatic transformations (demonic/parasitic/lovecraftian probably work best) - honestly, throw it at me and I'm probably gonna be game! ]

[ TL;DR - former child soldier and orphan who has slowly learned how to function as a human being again and who works as a professional ghost writer because it helps her grasp how to be human again. A little bit repressed, but better at dealing with (and expressing) emotions now.

For this particular meme, interested in playing around with Lovecraftian stuff, maybe water-dwelling or animal or possibly undead. She lost her arms in canon and they've been replaced by mechanical prosthetics, so that might be something that can be incorporated? ]

Edited 2021-10-30 22:37 (UTC)

[hell yeah babey, body horror is the BEST

cybernetic is kind of a given but i'm down for most types! i especially dig a good parasite every now and then. there are all kinds of possibilities for an experiment gone wrong, for either character or both!]

[ canon petrification here ]

[ canon did not lean nearly hard enough into just how horrific g'raha's transformation actually is. would you be interested in some kind of au shenanigans where estinien gets yoinked to the first so he can wtf at this crystal bullshit or the partial petrifaction is a residual aftereffect in crossing back to the source? ]

[ id be more than down!! ]

[ animal, aquatic, and demonic are my preference, but i'm not against the others if the prompt is right. the legend of zelda series plays with transformation as a theme multiple times, so link facing a painful, potential bad end would be great. i'm very open to plotting as well. ]

[ canon transformation is a weird fusion of cybernetic/parasitic. think science experiment shit. down af for they're both specimens, down so hard for someone to play scientist, ota otherwise. permissions here. ]

[ his whole canon is lovecraftian/body horror. info in journal. ]

[Oh, hell yes. There's a lot to work with in his canon, between the cybernetic arm, the nonconsensual experimentation, and the brainwashing, but I'm up for AUs, too.]

[ Uh oh. ]

[Well, he did become a floating magical skeleton one day...]

[What if radiation has some really weird side effects? Besides from 8, open to all ideas.]

[If you're open to parasitic? Then Astarte's an ancient alien parasite (from Stargate SG-1). Legasov could be called to an archaeology excavation with a sarcophagus giving off radiation only to get body jumped by Astarte? She usually prefers beautiful women as hosts, so she'd really be slumming it with Legasov, but she'd be able to cure him of the effects of radiation poisoning...just get her off this ghastly world! xD]

Oh that idea sounds awesome. Do you mind writing the starter?

Replies may be slow during this week due to me having nightshift and mobile replies can be a pain :(

February 20th 1988

'It is quite extraordinary Professor Legasov, we’ve dated the sarcophagus to over 6000 years ago and somehow it is producing power readings! In all my life I've never seen anything like it.'

[The archaeologist smiled ingratiatingly, doubtless hoping to ingratiate himself with the Moscow official, an effect that was ruined a moment later when their 20-year old UAZ hit a bump in the road, drawing cries of pain from the occupants of the van as they left their seats and then came back down again with a thump.]

'I don't know what the Central Committee told you, the KGB have classified all of this as top secret after all, but I'll summarise. At first we thought that the site was just another Pre-Scythian holy site, I've dug dozens like it, but then we found a tunnel leading down to a burial chamber. It's simply unbelievable, a burial chamber in the middle of Yakutia covered in Egyptian hieroglyphics, two thousand years older than the pyramids, it shouldn't be possible!

[The archaeologist shook his head for a moment before continuing.]

Inside the chamber there's a sarcophagus, as far as I can tell of the purest silver I've ever seen, somehow it isn't remotely tarnished. We scanned it with a spectrometer to see what's inside and discovered it's emitting a mild amount of radiation. We withdrew and were ordered not to disturb it, stop all work and wait for an expert to arrive. I can't tell you how excited we are that you're finally here.

[The UAZ ground to a halt with a squeal of breaks, guards at a checkpoint checking driver's papers before waving them through, the barrier opening to let the van bump its way into a wide clearing in the forest, dotted with excavated trenches. Navigating its way through the site, the UAZ made a half-turn, coming to a stop beside a wide stone ramp leading down into darkness.]

Edited 2021-11-07 21:34 (UTC)

[A classical, old-fashioned changeling child with all the weird shit that comes with it. Bring on the gore.]

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