Body Horror Meme

[ioniconeirologist]

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.

Comments

[karappo]

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.]

[kittymatsu]

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...

[karappo]

[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!]

With permission from Ichi's mun...

[be_acknowledged]

[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!

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

[kittymatsu]

[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.]

Sounds good to me!

[karappo]

[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!

[be_acknowledged]

[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?

[kittymatsu]

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.]

[karappo]

[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.]

[be_acknowledged]

[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.]

[kittymatsu]

[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.]

[karappo]

[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.]

1/2

[be_acknowledged]

[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!

[be_acknowledged]

[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?

[kittymatsu]

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.]

[karappo]

[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.]

[be_acknowledged]

["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.]

[kittymatsu]

Shut up, Shittymatsu.

[It's muttered just before Choro enters, and Ichimatsu floats back up a little as he sees him]

Ah... hey.

[Yeah he has. NO idea how to broach this. Karamatsu help he knows he just told you to shut up BUT... However, while that's definitely Ichimatsu in the tub, there's also a VERY LARGE dorsal fin and part of a fish tail jutting out of the water. Well that's. Unusual.]

[karappo]

[It had been a reflex earlier for Karamatsu to break through the water's surface when they heard Choromatsu. This time, though? Admittedly, he's a little scared to try again, so when he tries to follow Ichi to the surface he only makes it halfway, swallowing a large gulp of water to pass through his newly formed gills. Not to mention the fact that he's still a little smashed against the edge of the tub, so to get up there he'd really have to push against Ichi to make room.

...so yeah, he's actually taking Ichimatsu's order to heart for once, surprisingly content to just. Stay resting at the bottom of the tub with his tail uncomfortably half in, half out of the water.

Ichimatsu can handle the talking for now, right? ...right?]

1/2

[be_acknowledged]

[...Er.

Of course, well. He's the logical one. The clever one. He can handle the fact that his brothers appear to have giant fish parts with all the calm confidence that is afforded someone of his personality ty]

2/2

[be_acknowledged]

[Ha ha no just kidding it's Choromatsu. He screams like a little girl and falls on his ass in shock.]

Wh-wh-wh-wh-WHAT THE HELL IS THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?!

[kittymatsu]

[That scream DOES sound louder and sharper than it should, and Ichimatsu visibly flinches, his expression going sour and dark.]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeh? You wanna find out? Come closer...

[ICHI NO. You can't mer-curse your ticket to more comfortable accommodations! And out of Karamatsu's general vicinity. His tail thrashes a bit though - probably smacking Kara in the face in the process - and he almost looks like he's ready to lunge. He might. Need to be stopped. He's certainly not about to explain.]

[karappo]

Pfeh-!!

[Kara's head whips to one side as Ichi's tail gives him a good slap. It also puts his ear to the surface, letting him hear the tail end of what Ichimatsu said to Choromatsu just then and no he isn't about that life today-]

Ichimaaaaatsu-!

[BLURBLBLBBLHHH comes Karamatsu's voice from below the surface as he reaches his arms out and throws them around Ichimatsu's torso in an attempt to hold him back, lest he try to grab Choro and pull him forwards. The last thing they need is three brothers suffering from this affliction; they can barely both fit as it is!]

[be_acknowledged]

[Oh you bet your ass Choromatsu has just butt-scooted as far away from the tub as possible. He's not sure through the sounds of the water, but wasn't that Karamatsu currently holding Ichimatsu back? And were those scales? HE HAS SO MANY QUESTIONS.

Like why are Ichimatsu and Karamatsu alone in a bathtub together NOT THE MAIN ISSUE HERE, BRAIN]

Wh...what happened? Why do you have a fish tail? Is that Karamatsu with you? What's with his arms?! What's going on here?!

[A pause.]

Please don't say it's Dekapon. That's so cliche at this point.

[kittymatsu]

[Great, so now Kara is HUGGING him, and he's so, so done with this. There's a vague attempt to wriggle out of his grip, but Karamatsu is... quite a bit stronger than he looks, and Ichimatsu was never one for much effort.]

Hey, don't...! Tch!

[Normally he'd hold Kara's head under the water but... THAT DOESN'T REALLY WORK ANYMORE DOES IT.]

No, it was bad sushi... get off, Shittymatsu!

[Acting mostly on instinct, Ichimatsu gives as big a kick with his tail as he can muster in the small space, which is just enough to loosen Karamatsu's grip. Twisting out of it, there's a second kick and a shove, and oops there goes Kara in all his glittery scaled glory over the side of the tub and onto the floor.

Also, sorry for probably drenching everything in the room, including you, Choro.]

Ah, that's better.