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

[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.

[karappo]

[Karamatsu's grip had been firm because he felt it necessary to make sure his brother didn't spread this affliction any farther than it had already gone. What did Choromatsu ever do to you, really!? More surprising than his ability to hold Ichi in place, though, is the sudden kick to his person that would have knocked all the air out of his lungs if he needed to breathe air any longer. It instead manages to stun him, making it all the easier for Ichimatsu to upend his brother right out of the tub and onto the bathroom floor.

He falls facefirst, sliding for a few feet before he comes to a stop on the tile in front of Choromatsu, the head and shoulders of Karamatsu with a huge fishtail where his legs should be. The merman lays there in a puddle for a long moment before he suddenly rolls over, his body convulsing like he'd been electrocuted.]

Hhhgk-! I-c-cchiii-maaatsss-!!

[He thrashes helplessly on the floor, his arms trembling as he reaches up toward the edge of the tub...but his fingertips are several feet away, nowhere near close enough to pull himself back up into it. His other hand is gripping at his neck, trying to hold his gills closed so they won't suck in air and make his suffocation even worse.]

[be_acknowledged]

[And remember, if you are within 10 feet of the strange fish/Matsuno hybrids, you WILL get wet.

It's an awful lot for Choromatsu to process at once. Now that he can see Karamatsu in all his, uh, fishy glory, the word "mermaid" finally connects in his brain properly. Or merMAN, he guesses. The point, of course, is that his brothers were not mermen when they got out of bed this morning. Obviously.

...actually, the more important thing is that Karamatsu is clearly choking to death, and not even King Painful himself deserves a fate like that. Choromatsu yelps and does his best to assist his older brother back into the bath. Not the easiest thing in the world, mind. Doesn't help he's kinda slippery. Also, the whole "getting close to Ichimatsu" thing.]

I'm... hngg... pretty sure even normal bad sushi doesn't cause something like this... guh...

[Man, where's Jyushimatsu when you need him. Or maybe Totoko-chan might know a thing or two about fish hauling. ...or maybe he could just see Totoko-chan and try to forget all this happening BAD CHOROMATSU NO BISCUIT.

He finally manages to at least awkwardly dunk Karamatsu's head in the water. Uh. Progress, right?]

[kittymatsu]

[Luckily, Karamatsu succeeded in ruining the whole moment, and Ichimatsu would rather just kind of sulk than actually try to bite anyone else right now. Also, they DO need Choromatsu's help.

All that splashing around sure drained the tub of a bunch of its water though, so more of Ichi is visible now, even as he lies there blowing bubbles in the water.]

No shit. Ah, Choromatsu, can you get us to the river or something?

[Cause he'll tolerate you cramming Karamatsu's head awkwardly into the water, sure. But try to put much more of him back in the tub and lol no, he'll dump him right back out again. That was WAY too uncomfortable.]

[karappo]

[Well. Karamatsu isn't dying anymore, crisis averted, nobody cares. His positioning now is decidedly more awkward than it was before, slumped over the edge of the tub with his head upside down in the water as he gasps, bubbles rising to the surface all around his head as the air he sucked in is replaced with water. So that's two near-death experiences he's had today, and he would much rather not try for a third.

He's also being blessedly quiet for once, both trying to catch a breath and inaudible to Choromatsu as long as he's still under the water like this. But at least Ichimatsu has room to swim now...sortof.]

[be_acknowledged]

[Phew. No need to have Karamatsu's death on his head. Today, anyway.]

That's a lot easier said than done, isn't it? I mean, just getting you guys over there without you two choking to death's gonna be hard enough, let alone doing so in a way nobody notices.

[Ugh, why does it have to be him to figure this stuff out? And he KNOWS it's going to be him. Osomatsu will probably just crack fish jokes all day, Todomatsu would probably try to disassociate himself from the whole situation, and Jyushimatsu... well, you don't go to Jyushimatsu for clever plans that involve anything more in-depth than either chucking something, wrestling something, or hitting it with a bat. Although he might be useful for extra labor.]

Maybe if we found some way to do a sort of "reverse" scuba helmet?

[kittymatsu]

Could work. Or we could just ask Jyushimatsu...

[GUESS WHO DOESN'T MIND BEING FLUNG ACROSS TOWN?? OR THE PAIN FROM THE INEVITABLE ROUGH LANDING?? OR CARE WHAT KARA MIGHT HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THAT PLAN...]

[karappo]

Blhbuhbhlbhhlbhh-

[...yeah, whatever Karamatsu is trying to say clearly isn't coming out right, so he could either be agreeing or disagreeing with those statements. The world may never know.]

[be_acknowledged]

[A true man of thought
His grand ideas save the day
Our Karamatsu

Dayooooon~

But really, it's not like Choromatsu honestly expects much either way out of Karamatsu. Sorry, bro.]

I guess, but what if he misses the river?

[kittymatsu]

Ah.

[Ichimatsu taps a fist into his palm, as if just coming up with an amazing idea.]

We'd have him throw Karamatsu first, so we know if his aim is right.

[THEY'RE SUCH GOOD BROTHERS, AREN'T THEY?]