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Body Horror Meme

WARNING -- POSSIBLE TRIGGERS (violence, pain, parasites, zombies, etc)

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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[Karamatsu can't breathe, but there's enough air left for him to yelp when Ichimatsu suddenly drags him into the tub. He doesn't have the concentration nor energy required to fight it, so he ends up sitting there completely clothed, hoodie, jeans, and all. Not like he wasn't nearly soaked already.

Now he's in the water that he suddenly so desperately needs, so he doesn't answer Ichi at all at first as he just completely dunks his head beneath the water, causing it to splash up over the edge of the tub and onto the floor as he takes in huge mouthfuls to try and satiate this sudden requirement. The act of drinking what is literally bathwater doesn't occur to him as strange in the moment, but once he feels that the water isn't drowning him but instead actually going into his lungs before being breathed out again...well, that's cause for some panic. The skin on his neck has begun to loosen a lot more quickly due to his forceful attempts to breathe. A little too forceful as he resurfaces and starts choking again. Already the skin has begun to peel back on one side, revealing similar stripes on his neck that flare angrily at the open air.]

I-Ichi...mat..s...

[He attempts before having to go back down again, coughing and wheezing and just generally having a terrible time. Exactly what Ichimatsu wanted. Instead of the stripes though...Karamatsu's skin is already starting to show hints of a rather garish hue that's just starting to peek through as he struggles against the confines of his own clothing.]

[HERE KARA, LET HIM HELP YOU. Ichi is possibly a little too entertained as he follows his brother under, helping him roughly yank those obnoxious clothes off and dragging clawed hands across that peeling skin. It's probably a little too rough, and he definitely draws some blood, but to him that's the entire point. How's that, Kara?? Painful??? You should like it just fine then! That creepy grin never leaves Ichimatsu's face.

Flaying skin off his brother! Yay! Hope you don't mind the gigantic striped tail circling around you either, Kara. What you're about to become is on full display, here.]

[That's it, he's dying. He's had a good run, he supposes. He always thought he'd never go out without a fight, but it feels more like he's being attacked than actually fighting anything. It hurts, it burns, yet it's a strange relief all at the same time as the skin clears and he can breathe more easily, not to mention move.

It becomes readily apparent that he has scales as well, but they aren't just scales. These are scales. They shimmer and shine and reflect every speck of light in existence, much less what's just in the room at the moment. They almost seem to sparkle atop deeper ones that are a cool blue that races all along his body. He barely notices the way Ichimatsu is keeping him held in place, though the tail does catch his attention out of the corner of his eye.

For a few frenzied moments, all he can hear is the sound of the water churning and splashing out of the tub as well as the roar of water in his skull as he gets used to breathing it. He flexes his hands, feeling the webbing there that's grown between his fingers.

After all that, Kara finally seems to start to regain his sense of self as he reaches out to try and push Ichimatsu out of his space, a feat that proves difficult in the now very cramped tub, and he hasn't even grown a tail yet.]

Enough- enough, Brother, that's enough!!

[Ichimatsu is more than happy to pull back as much as he's able, giving those scales the deadest look imaginable.

Why. Why this. WHY did he have scales that were possibly EVEN WORSE than those damn sparklepants of his?? He'd thought they might come out similarly since they're identical brothers, but apparently not...

Ugh, if he'd known THIS would happen, he wouldn't have tried biting him. Still, watching Karamatsu look like he thinks he's about to die might have been worth it, and Ichimatsu knows the worst of the pain is yet to come with the tail.

Also, apparently they can understand eachother while completely submerged? Huh, go figure.]

Ah, suit yourself. Just helping.

[More like "helping."]

Eugh...

[Now that he's underwater with no intent of coming to the surface any time soon now that he can actually breathe, it's Karamatsu's turn to take stock of himself. He deliberately ignores what used to be his skin that came off his body like something foreign, replaced with brilliant blue scales that almost seemed purplish if they reflected the light just right. His nails have begun to replace themselves with sharper nails, along with a few webbed points along his forearms that have started to develop. His lower half is just beginning to go numb, lances of pain shooting from that point all the way into his skull and back.

As it stands, looking at himself and how grotesque his body has become on top of how...utterly breathtaking it is, Karamatsu is conflicted. Right now it's hard to find much pleasure in this given how much everything hurts, but even then he can't help but admire how his skin sparkles when he turns his arms over.]

I don't understand...what has happened to us?

[He mutters, somehow not garbled to their ears beneath the water as he looks down at the glimmering scales along his sides.]

We're fish.

[THANK YOU, CAPTAIN OBVIOUS. Granted, Ichi seems slightly distracted - he didn't bother to actually watch his own legs transform, so his stare is fixed raptly on Karamatsu's lower body as his legs start to warp. That's not. That's not awkward or anything at all.

Well, things were going to get awkward anyway. Ichi's tail alone takes up most of the space they have, so once Kara's grows out, they're not. Personal space probably won't be a thing.]

Ah, I bet it was the sushi.

[Makes as much sense as anything, right? His face goes dark as he says this, though, and it's plain as day what he's thinking - "Let's go beat up Chibita." Of course, he'd have to figure out how to get to Chibita first, but...]

S-sushi-?

[Karamatsu grinds out as he leans back against the side of the tub, pointedly looking away from his legs so he won't have to see what's happening down there. God it hurts, and for a moment he can't say anything else as he bites down hard on his bottom lip to try and hold back a cry as another sharp pain rushes through him. He's sure that if he hadn't lost a lot of feeling in his legs it would be close to excruciating, but it's bad enough as it is.

How on earth could this happen? Sure the sushi was bad, but he hadn't even eaten any! But even as he thinks that, he remembers the throbbing pain in his arm, different from the pain caused by the spikes jutting from his skin. That's right...Ichimatsu must have imparted something to him through that bite.

Karamatsu closes his eyes, finding the space in the tub getting smaller and smaller by the second as his body grows long, his own tail starting to form and curl up the same way Ichi's had.]

Hhgh, brother...this won't work. The space isn't big enough!

Oh? Then what do you suggest we do?

[Look at him, acting like this entire thing isn't his fault. Ichimatsu does lean away as Kara's tail starts to fill out, shrinking against the sides of the tub as best he can.]

You're the one who dumped me in here instead of the river, Shittymatsu.

[It's true they're pretty stuck - if they want to move now, they're going to need some help, and probably a lot of it. But can they wait until their brothers or parents get home? Preferably without Ichi killing Kara out of frustration? WHO KNOWS.

In the meantime, that growing tail sure is getting in Ichi's face a lot, so he roughly shoves it aside. Some of the still-peeling skin catches on his claws, so he pulls a patch of it away, and almost without thinking, starts chewing on it.

Hey, he's hungry again, okay? Growing a huge-ass fish tail takes a lot out of you, and if anything, the taste of blood lingering in his mouth from when he bit Karamatsu has only served to whet his appetite.]

If I had, you would've- don't do that!!

[OH GOD THAT IS DISGUSTING. Karamatsu instinctively tries to jerk his tail away, but there's literally no room for him to even do that, so all he can do is sit where he's crammed against one side of the tub, his gills flaring. He'd been trying not to think about the current state of the water they're breathing, and Ichimatsu gnawing on him isn't really helping with that.]

Ah, I'm hungry...

[He says as his gaze remains 10000% fixed on Karamatsu. He may or may not be deliberately attempting to freak him out, new very pointy, very carnivorous teeth on full display as he chews.

Then again, who knows how effective it really is, considering Kara's becoming just as monstrous.]

How long until everyone gets home, I wonder...

[With a huff, Karamatsu leans back against the side of the tub, firmly folding his arms over his chest now dotted with scales. He can feel claws pressing lightly into his forearms, as well as those aforementioned spikes jutting from his elbows. He decides to just not look at Ichi so he won't have to watch him...do that.]

I don't know. It could be a while. And I do not believe there is any way we could make it to the river this way before we lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen.

We might have to stay here.

[Which means, guess what, Ichimatsu? You get to spend the next...whenever with your favorite brother!]

[And guess who's back: Risingfappymatsu himself. No jobs today -- natch -- but all that is moot because he just got the new Nyaa-chan album, and eeeeee.]

I'm hooome!

[Ah, speak of the devil. Ichi isn't sure how he hears that through the water, but he's not one to question that sort of thing anyway.]

Ah... it's Choromatsu.

[FINALLY letting go of the gross skin piece, he rises to the surface, floating there with his eyes above water like the universe's weirdest (and creepiest) crocodile. Hey, this way he can peer over the surface AND still breathe. A portion of his tail and his dorsal fin are visible too; he can't really help that.

...Not that he's actually. Calling out for their brother or anything, though. Ichi are you seriously just going to sit there hoping he comes in and freaks out, are you really.]

[Kara blinks, turning quickly to look past the edge of the tub, as if Choromatsu might walk in any moment. ...then, a second later, he draws in a rattling gasp, chokes, and ducks back under the water because- oh yeah- he has to stay down there to breathe now. It's significantly harder to look towards the bathroom door given their positions, especially now since his legs are gone and his own tail has fully formed. It's like a disco-ball has been placed beneath the water, flecks of light bouncing off every available surface and only made worse by the water distorting it.

He tries to mimic what Ichi is doing, if only so he can see what's going on...and all he can really manage is to start straight at the side of the tub. Nice. Choromatsu, though! Finally, some hope!

After a pause, he looks over at Ichi out of the corner of his eye, bubbles escaping his mouth when he speaks after his momentary stint above-water.]

...shouldn't we call for him? He's our only chance at getting out of here!

[Choromatsu, for his part, remains blissfully ignorant of his brothers' predicament. Not that this will last long, but isn't it nice to see him actually relaxed for once?]

Ah... nobody's here. Oh well. I wonder if there are any pears in the fridge today?

Mmm.

[Well. Guess he HAS to, if he wants to get away from the blinding glimmer that is Karamatsu's tail. WHY did he think biting him was a good idea, again?? He can't even glance in that direction in the water without risking being blinded.

Taking a deep pull of water through his gills - it's sort of the same as taking a deep breath, right? - Ichimatsu pulls his head entirely out of the water long enough to lazily call out.]

Ooooooi... Fappymatsu...!

[Because of course Choro can't remain relaxed, ever, and of course that's the best way to get his attention.]

[Karamatsu can't help but flinch down into the water a little when Ichimatsu calls out like that. At this point he can't even be seen anymore past the side of the tub...well, his human half can't, anyway. Somehow, the sound of their voices seems a lot louder in the air than under water.

He hasn't really thought about it until just now, but...how are they even going to being to explain this to Choromatsu? He still can't quite wrap his head around what's going on.

...oh well. They'll cross that bridge when they get to it.]

[Oh COME ON! He just got home and they're already piling this crap on him?!]

WHO'S FAPPYMATSU?! WHY ARE WE STILL USING THAT NICKNAME?!

[He's already storming towards the source of the voice like it was a homing beacon. Leave it to Choromatsu to become more focused the moment his pride is insulted.]

[Yup, that did the trick all right. Sorry Choro, you're just not going to live literally anything you do ever down.

Speaking of which, weird that someone's calling him from the bathroom of all places, isn't it?]

Hm? You prefer Risingfappyski instead? That's more recent, I guess...

[Ichimatsu's replying from half-submersion now, so a few of his words get garbled with water.]

[Karamatsu, meanwhile, is completely submerged. He's a little afraid to come up too far, lest he suck in a big gasp of air again on accident.

He makes a face, glaring up at Ichimatsu through the water as he continues taunting the third eldest brother.]

Ichimatsu, that's not helping!

[And yet, it's getting him in there quickly, isn't it? Which is exactly what they want, so he can't really complain.

Karamatsu's own voice can't even be heard from above the surface, coming out as nothing more than a series of indecipherable burbles.]

[Right up next to the bathroom door already. Except he's too polite to just burst in. ~~Also he sees them naked ENOUGH during bathtime.~~]

Seriously, who the hell starts in right off the bat with the insults?! Whatever happened to "welcome back brother" or, you know, a little common decency!

[A pause, as the location of their conversation begins to sink in.]

Oi... isn't it a bit early for a bath? What're you even calling me for? Did you forget your towels or something?

Yeah. "Or something."

[Ichimatsu shoots Karamatsu a dark look in the meantime. Why the hell don't YOU speak up, Shittymatsu??? There's no way he can just explain this!!

...But... does he really want to give Choro any sort of impression resulting from him and Kara being in the bathroom, alone, together, at the same time, at a weird time of day, when no one else was in the house...

...Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.]

J-just get in here already...

[That last word might be lost as he sinks a bit and it turns to bubbles and froth in the water, though.]

[In true Karamatsu fashion, he doesn't appear to have caught on to the same implications that have suddenly hit Ichimatsu, because he looks over at him with a raised brow when he suddenly sinks down into the water. Well now Choro wouldn't be able to hear either of them!]

What's wrong?

[He asks (as if EVERYTHING about this isn't wrong), his palms pressing against the bottom of the tub to keep himself sortof held up. His tail is actually starting to hurt a little from the awkward angle it's been put at. Ichimatsu's tail is a lot longer than his, curling and winding around and taking up much more room, which forces Karamatsu to take what little space he can get.]

["Get in here?" When Ichimatsu WANTS people, something is legit up.

He's not really sure he wants to know what they did THIS time, but he gets the sense that whatever it is, it's pretty major. He enters VERY tentatively to see... er...]

Ichimatsu?

[He looks around, scratching his head. Huh.]

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With permission from Ichi's mun...

YES GOOD <333 Choro -> Ichi -> Kara, then?

Sounds good to me!

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