three weeks for dreamwidth: gen horror prompt fest

[fiachairecht]

It is 3weeks4dreamwidth time and I am celebrating extremely old-school style and bringing a mini version of my old beloved sharp_teeth to Dreamwidth! The fest is open to everyone and runs here for the full three weeks (until it's no longer May 15th in any timezone)

Rules

☠ This is a comment meme for creating works focussed on horror for any canon, including original works and crossovers. summerofhorrorexchange has a list of horror subgenres for your inspiration!

☠ This is a comment meme for gen (in the relationship sense, i.e. not focussed on romance or sex) fanworks. Background pairings are allowed, but should not be the focus of the work.

☠ This is a comment meme for Dreamwidth. Works should be Dreamwidth-exclusive for the duration of the event, to the extent possible (e.g. artists and podficcers obviously need to host somewhere, but fic should not be posted to AO3 until after the 15th). You can crosspost anywhere on Dreamwidth (your own journal or fic comm, other thematically relevant comms) at any point during the event, and anywhere else after May 15th.

☠ To participate in the meme, all you have to do is leave a prompt or reply to a prompt with a fill.

☠ Post your prompt as a comment to this post, one prompt per comment. Prompt comment subject lines should follow the format Fandom, Character(s), short description of prompt, for example Zone Blanche, Camille, came back wrong.

☠ 'Any fandom' and 'Specific fandom, any character' prompts are allowed.

☠ If you want to use an image or video as a prompt that's fine, but please link to it with a description rather than putting it directly in the comment.

☠ Post your fills as replies to the prompt comment. Fill comment subject lines should follow the format FILL: title, rating.

☠ If filling an 'Any' prompt, fandom and/or ship names in the fill titles are appreciated but not mandatory

☠ Warnings at the start of fills are appreciated but not mandatory. In fact, the entire comments section is a choose not to warn-friendly space.

☠ Link your fills in the fills thread below. I'll collect them in a masterpost after the event ends.

☠ Multiple fills and self-fills are allowed.

☠ You can use fills you create for this event to fill prompts in other events, as long as those events are also hosted on Dreamwidth and their mods are fine with cross-fills.

☠ Be 18+ and don't be a fuckwit. Complaining that you don't like a prompt, character-bashing, and other wankery will get you banned from my journal.

Friends

Gen horror not your thing? There are other prompt fests ongoing! If you're running one as well, drop the link in the Questions/Etc thread and I'll add it here.

☠ lailah_tov is running Flash Flood Prompt Fest on the theme of sex fluids/bodily fluids kinks.

☠ flowersforgraves is running Nonconaprompt, for noncon/dubcon works.

☠ javert is running a Pokémon prompt meme for all Pokémon canons.

☠ moon_blitz is running a Digimon prompt fest, for Digimon works.

☠ kalloway is running a Cygames prompt fest, for everything Cygames

Comments

Questions/Comments/Squee/Etc

[fiachairecht]

Here!

Re: Questions/Comments/Squee/Etc

[kore]

Nice!!

Fills

[fiachairecht]

Link them here!

Re: Fills

[sonofgodzilla]

Untitled, PG13 (Original Work, Original Humans & Original Mermaids(Ningyo), Ningyo Sushi)

Fakesverse, Jack & Elyse, haunted house

[flowersforgraves]

Unexpected teamup? Trapped together? Mutual enemy? Accidentally tried to to trap each other and got stuck themselves? Just put them in there.

New Japan Pro Wrestling, TJP, transformation horror

[flowersforgraves]

TJ's terrified of losing himself when he becomes the aswang.

Sunless Sea, The Cladery Heir, self-mutilation

[flowersforgraves]

After the conclusion of her storyline in-game, she starts noticing other obsessions of her own.

Batman, Jason Todd or Jason Todd & Joker, Trauma manifesting as tangible horror entity(ies)

[sarriathmg]

Trauma (of dying, of torture, of being a child soldier, or of being buried alive) isn't just something in Jason's head. It has limbs and claws and eyes that watch. It manifests as something that consumes and destroys and fractures. It has a form, a name.

It absolutely can and will hurt you.

Maid Maleen (Fairy Tale), Maid Maleen, The Tower was a Death Sentence

[sarriathmg]

The tower was never meant to be a prison. It was a death sentence. Everyone knew - the king, the prince, the maid. Everyone but Maid Maleen herself.

Hazbin Hotel, Human!Alastor, Eat away your victims eat away your soul

[sarriathmg]

Before Alastor was an overlord in Hell, he was a human serial killer and cannibal. With each new victim he kills and consumes, another part of his humanity is lost, another part of his soul corrupted.

Any fandom, any characters, a spooky encounter in the woods

[lailah_tov]

Lost in the woods at night, a human traveler encounters an inhuman creature.

FILL: The Grinning Cat, G (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)

[sarriathmg]

For a time, Alice found herself lost in a forest.

It had grown darker since she entered. Trees that looked more like columns closed up on either side of her, and she couldn’t see her surroundings all that well.

She’d still been thinking of the baby that had turned into a pig, how curious that was, and she imagined the ugly duchess with a pig in her arms, then giggled.

A giggle matched her own came from the woods.

“Hello?” Alice said, looking closely through the dark, squinting. There were many trees.

“Hello,” echoed in a raspy voice.

“Who is there?”

“The Cheshire Cat,” said the voice.

It was very dark, but Alice didn’t think the duchess’s cat looked all that cat-like.

It didn’t have the shape of a cat. Too many legs; too many eyes, too large and sprawling. And she could see it on the tree on her left, on her right, staining the leaves overhead, scattered on the soil down below.

But it was furry like a cat. And it did grin. Its claws were very long, and it had a great many teeth, so Alice thought it best to treat the Cat with respect.

“Sir,” Alice did a curtsy and said, fascinated by the trees shuddering all around her when the creature moved. “Could you please tell me where I should go? I am dreadfully lost.”

“That depends on where you want to get to.”

“I don’t care much where, as long as I get somewhere.”

“You’re sure to do that if you walk long enough.”

Alice supposed that was true, and she should trust the Cat, because it looked like it knew a lot. And it must have known the forest well, seeing how it had eyes on every branch, and parts of it were littered on every rock Alice could see.

“Could you tell me what sort of residents live about here?”

“You could find the Mad Hatter if you turn right,” said the Cheshire Cat, pointing with its tentacle-like whiskers, “and the March Hare if you turn right. Visit either if you’d like; they’re both mad.”

“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice said.

“You can’t help that,” said the creature. “We’re all mad here.”

Alice supposed that was true.

“Will you show me the way?”

“I’m afraid I have no time. I have to be there for the Queen’s croquet game.”

“Oh,” Alice said, a little sad.

“But I’ll leave my grin with you. All you have to do is to follow it to the Hatter’s tea party.”

“That’ll be wonderful, sir.”

And so, the Cat disappeared, every part of it, on every tree branch. Starting with the furry feelers, ending with what Alice assumed was its head.

Then, only its grin was left. Alice had never seen a grin without a cat, and she was fascinated to see how each tooth had eyes of its own.

She followed the grin out of the forest, still thinking of whether she’d seen the Cat coiled around a small pig with its claws before they both disappeared.

Any fandom, any human characters, gore with gore on top

[lailah_tov]

Sometimes the worst monsters are human. Write me anything where people do awful personal hands-on gory splattery things to other people, and don't regret it.

Zone Blanche, Camille or Marion, came back wrong

[fiachairecht]

And then perhaps came back again wronger, and then again worse, and then it just keeps getting worse?

Original Work, Original Humans & Original Mermaids(Ningyo), Ningyo Sushi

[sarriathmg]

In Japanese mythology, it says consuming a mermaid(ningyo)'s flesh grants you immortality.

In the modern age, an entire industry is built around the fishing/farming of mermaids for human consumption.

FILL: Untitled, PG13

[sonofgodzilla]

“It’s good, isn’t it?”

Aika nodded with the slow caution of a household pet let outside for the first time, trying not to offend, trying not to be overwhelmed.

Next to her at the stall, Takeshi leaned back, talking even with the sight of it between his teeth, tiny chunks of pale meat, a smudge of soy sauce on the lips, a grain of rice on the cheek.

“Man, I couldn’t believe it when you told me you’d never had it!” he said with almost indignation, his breath sweet with the sour scent of beer. “Your folks aren’t from the coast, aren’t they?”

Aika nodded slowly, reaching up to push dark hair behind her ear, the plate before her almost untouched.

“Near Nagoya,” she clarified. “A small village. Not far.”

He nodded, enthusiasm and eagerness, the sound of traffic behind them, the sound of footsteps, people on their way home, people on their way out. She was 22-years-old, and she found it difficult to understand people here. She had let herself hope for too much when he had asked her out. She looked down at the plate before her, tried to ignore the man behind the small counter of the stall, the sound of his knife on the cutting board. She had thought that this was going to be a real date.

“When you said you’d never had it, I knew I had to bring you here!” he continued, leaning in conspiratorially even as she tried to recoil from the sudden closeness. “Between you and me, this place is the best. They say they get the produce fresh from the contested waters those big Russian boats patrol, go out there in the middle of the night and everything.”

She hesitated with her chopsticks. Cheap disposable ones, she thought, and she remembered her grandfather, his insistence on using only the best when eating those he brought home with him. It would be a disservice to them otherwise, he had said. I am grateful for their lives, grateful for how they will nourish my own.

She remembered watching him as he went out to fish in his little boat. Sometimes, in the distance, she would catch sight of a shape in the water, arching up towards the dawn sun, the grey sky, glistening scales, pale flesh. Would she be coming home with him, Aika always asked whenever she saw one of them well enough in the cold waters.

This place was cheap, it was ugly, they didn’t know the right way to eat ningyo.

“So come on, tell me,” Takeshi continued, the smell of his breath stinging her eyes, “why’d you never have it if you lived so close to the sea?”

On the horizon, she recalled the sight of him in his little boat, wrestling with them, the glint of his knife cutting through the grey of the morning fog.

“I didn’t like the noise they made,” she said simply.

Takeshi frowned.

“Huh?”

“They scream,” Aika said coldly. “It’s unsettling.”

The sound of a car, the noise of passing conversation. Where shall we go next? Whom shall we meet?

Like this stall, the people here were cheap, they were ugly, she thought. They settled for too little. They didn’t know what it was to tighten your hands around the throat of a fish with a woman’s face, they didn’t know what it was like to see their own grandfather floating in the water, half-eaten, immortality unwelcome when your intestines are drifting out to sea.

She felt his elbow in her ribs.

“Come on. Eat up. Don’t let it go to waste.”

She was not grateful for this nourishment.

Christian Lore, Any Divine or Demonic Being & Any Human, Divine Beings are Eldritch Abominations

[sarriathmg]

Angels have six wings and wheels covered in eyes. Doomsday locusts have human faces and stingers like scorpions.

The Bible is eldritch. Let's take it all the way and make that divine visitation utterly incomprehensible and thoroughly madness-inducing.

Any fandom/Silent Hill, any characters, crossover

[rionaleonhart]

Silent Hill is a great fandom for crossovers. Send any character you'd like into the town, and let's see how they cope.

The Locked Tomb, any, The River

[gloss]

I just find the River so gross and creepy. What the hell is wrong with it? Anything about floundering in its murky, monstrous depths, awash with unhappy souls and nasty viscera, would rule.

Any fandom, Fallen London AU

[snickfic]

Your faves in the 'Neath.

The 100, Any, pilot canon divergence

[elasticella]

100 to 1 - or, only one person survives the dropship's landing on Earth.

Star Wars, any, hyperspace is horror

[fiachairecht]

Go wild with this! Ghosts in hyperspace lanes, people irrevocably changed by hyperspace spacewalks, the way someone's mind is warped by spending too much time in hyperspace, any kind of cosmic horror of your choice...

Star Wars (Disney canon), Depa Billaba, medical experimentation

[independence1776]

Please, please, please something with Depa being experimented on because she's Force-sensitive. Imperials (in a no-Order 66 or O66 happened differently AU), random scientist(s), bounty hunters, etc. Heck, if you want to have the Republic do it in some sort of "the Jedi are forced to serve the Senate however the Senate says instead of the Order being semi-autonomous" thing, go ahead.

(If it matters, I greatly prefer the Kanan comics canon over TBB.)

The Silmarillion, Maglor and Sauron, Third Age Sauron tortures Maglor

[independence1776]

What it says on the tin. Graphic torture very much wanted.

Witcher Books, Francesca & Dol Blathanna, the land remembers and so does she

[fiachairecht]

Every inch of her valley was bought with blood, and she will never be able to forget that.

(Are all flowers dead girls? as the Mariana Enriquez quote goes.)

AEW, Julia Hart, the (haunted) house always wins

[fiachairecht]

I think ... the House of Black should have a literal haunted house ... and maybe Julia is haunted or maybe Julia haunts people or both ... one need not be a chamber to be haunted ... my two brain cells are working so hard to make a semi-coherent prompt ...

FILL: Quit While You're Ahead, teen

[flowersforgraves]

“Julia?” Anna asks, into the open, empty foyer. It’s dark in the House, lit only by a series of bizarrely-proportioned candelabras, and thickly-draped cobwebs insulate the bare walls. “Julia?” she calls again, as loud as she dares.

She blinks, and all of a sudden she sees a warmly-lit room with paintings hung on the walls, a clock ticking along merrily, a fire burning in the hearth.

She blinks again, and the cold, barren foyer is back.

She takes a few steps forward. “Malakai Black, where are you?”

“Go home, Anna Jay,” says Malakai, from behind her. She whirls around, but there’s nothing there.

“Go home, Anna Jay,” says Buddy Matthews, from her left. She turns. There’s no one.

“Go home, Anna Jay,” says Brody King, and, again, there’s no one.

“Welcome home, Anna Jay,” says Julia, and Anna turns once again to face in toward the house. This time, Julia’s there, and Anna’s running toward her before she thinks better of it.

The lights go out, candelabras snuffed in a heartbeat. Anna stops in her tracks, clenching her fists. “Julia!”

“Welcome home,” Julia says again, right in her ear, so close Anna can feel her breath. It’s strangely cold; no heat comes from Julia’s body behind her. Anna turns, stretching a hand out to grasp for Julia, and in that instant the lights come back on. She sees that warmly-lit room again, and her arm drops to her side in confusion.

She blinks, and the foyer is back. “What’s going on?” she asks aloud. “Julia? I just – I just wanted to talk.”

“You could have talked to Julia whenever you wanted,” says Julia. Anna’s heart drops. “Why did you come here?” Her voice moves, as if she’s circling Anna. “Why did you enter the House of Black?”

“I just want to talk to my friend,” Anna repeats. In retrospect she really, really should have told Uno where she was going. Or dragged John with her. Or something, so she’s not alone.

“Are you yet afraid?” asks Malakai. He, too, sounds like he’s circling her. They’re both out of sight, in the shadows of the candlelit foyer, and Anna’s starting to think about running.

“Give me my friend back,” she says.

The lights go out again.

“Julia was never your friend,” says Julia, so close Anna jumps and nearly screams. “Julia is better now than she ever was.”

“Give me Julia back, you Dutch bastard!” Anna shouts, and sprints toward the last place she heard Malakai’s voice.

Instead, she runs smack into a stone wall she swears wasn’t there a second ago. Pushing off it like she’s running the ropes, she turns and almost breaks her nose on another wall. “What the hell is happening?” she yells. She turns around again, and even before she starts running she reaches out, and can feel the wall growing closer. “What – Julia! Julia, help me!”

“Should’ve quit while you’re ahead, Anna,” says Julia from the dark.

Star Trek Discovery, any character(s), ghost spaceships

[adriennefae]

Whether literal ghosts or some kind of technological variation.

Any fandom, any character, creepy woods

[sholio]

Put your faves in a creepy forest!

Biggles series, any character, evil doppelganger

[sholio]

Who isn't acting right, and who notices?