Summer of Horror 2024

!Please, just because I have more prompts or more to say about a fandom (or prompt) doesn’t mean I want it more, it just means that I have more to say. I want all of these equally!

In terms of gifts written for me, I’m all for ‘Optional Details are Optional’ – if you have an idea for one of the fandoms or characters I’m asking for that doesn’t fit with my prompts, but you think is awesome please, write me that awesome fic! Along those lines, if a prompt I give for one character or situation really inspires you for another character or situation run with it – you’ve probably just thought of something I’d love to get and never even thought to ask for, which will make the fic even more fun.

I’m also fine with mention of unrequested characters and background pairings so feel free to include them if you have an idea that works better including them.

 

General DNWS:

Permanent Protagonist death (killing antagonists is fine - I specify antagonists because this being horror, a protagonist could be a villain)

Mindbreak/loss of sense of self (I want the character to have some hint of what they were, even if they're not totally the same)

Scat/Watersports

Mundane AUs (but I love ‘what if?’ style fics and AUs focused around bad ending scenarios)

Vore (cannibalism, monsters mauling/eating someone are all totally fine and even encouraged when appropriate, I just don't want anyone getting swallowed whole)

All the way through penetration

Characters ending up as mundane zombies (any sort of more heavily mutated zombie adjacent things are fine though)

 

Additional notes for this exchange:

Based on the ‘how to prompt’ post on the Dreamwidth page I’m including additional optional details.

- On & pairings – I am not opposed to smut, explicit or otherwise, if you enjoy writing that or feel it would improve the story. Given that one of my favorite sorts of horror is body horror the two can go hand in hand. At the same time, I enjoy friendship, established relationships and characters simply working together to get out of a bad situation (or make it worse depending on the characters!).

- On how I like things to end – I prefer the main characters to survive to the end of the fic. If they die in canon, please either write an AU or stop before their death in canon. This being horror I don’t mind if they’re not in a good situation as long as there’s the possibility for me to imagine them getting out of it in one way or another. Suspenseful ends are always welcome, ending right when the tension is greatest, when danger is right around the corner and leaving me wondering how the protagonist is going to get out if wonderful. If you want to wrap things nicely, leaving nothing to the imagination and give me a cute, fluffy, happy ending I’m also totally up for that. Sometimes you just need to write that kind of story and, despite my love of horror, I’m a sucker for happy endings and fluff.

 

Starting with my requests based on songs, because five minute fandoms are always a good place to start.

 

From The Stars – Rabbit Junk

Song

The narrator’s part of some agency, there are other such agencies. But what do those agencies actually do? What’s the point of investigating such structures? Clearly there’s some reason to it as the narrator doesn’t seem surprised by the body of an unknown agent.

Expand on the story in the song or tell another such story, maybe something from the narrator’s past or from the perspective of a different agent.

Or in art, I’d love to see the final moments of the song, the narrator being attacked by the creature, whatever it is, or an image of one the structure itself, dark and imposing and unnatural.

 

Burrow Your Way to My Heart – Darkest of the Hillside Thickets

Song

A romance song about a young woman full of vermin. What is she? What does the narrator see in her? Or tell me her story, her life before she met the narrator. Clearly she’s been this way for a long time, ever since she was a child and she the insects and parasites that live in her were her friends even then. How did that happen? Her father seemingly human and disturbed enough by her nature to try and remove the parasites, but what of her mother? Was she unnatural, but in a different way?

Here is where I’d love to see art, her all full of bugs and squirming things, yet lovely and vibrant and alive. The contrast is so fascinating to me, something vile romanticized and made sympathetic, the object of desire and longing. I would love to see her depicted as she is, horrific, and yet as lovely as the narrators seems to feel she is.

 

Jolene (H.P. Lovecraft Version) – Michael Kelly

Song

There’s this meme about the song Jolene, where the narrator keeps describing her and describing her in increasingly vivid and unnerving terms until the only thing you know about Jolene is that she’s not human and that she’s horrifying. This song is that meme.

If you’re in the mood to create art for me I’d love to see your depiction of Jolene in all of her might and horror. Is she beautiful? Horrifying? Incomprehensible to mortal eyes? Draw heavily from Lovecraftian elder gods and monsters if you want to, things like Nyarlathotep, Eihort, Shub-Niggurath and all of the others.

For written works, outright Lovecraftian style horror about a cult that worships this entity and seeks to bring her to the world would be awesome, but I was thinking something else. There’s the trend in history, for horrific things to be referred to by pleasant names to avoid offending them or drawing their attention and now we do the same thing with hurricanes, winter storms and typhoons. So I’d love to hear the story of Anomalous Event Jolene, or something similar. What are these events? How often do they happen and is there any way to prepare for them or prevent them?

 

H.P. Joelcraft – Julian Velard

Song

Okay, this one takes some explaining, it’s Lovecraft’s Nemesis sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s Piano Man. What I’m looking for isn’t something directly based on the lyrics, I do not want a fic about Nyarlathotep, which is what the original poem’s about. What I want is something that captures the feeling created by this song – Imagine walking into the kind of piano bar where the man (is he a man? They seem man-shaped, but their eyes are the only thing that you can clearly see, except sometimes there are no eyes, just amorphous blots of deeper shadow where you expect a face to be) sitting at the piano would play a song like this. What are the patrons like? What is the place where the bar is like?

What on earth is the stranger who’s stumbled into this place even doing there?

Give me some creepy small town vibes, or one of those places that seem to exist outside of time and reality as we know it.

Or if you want to do art, silly as it is, I’d love fan art of Billy Joel how he looked back in the 70’s, with focus on his eyes in such a way as to make him subtly unnerving. The man has a creepy, unnervingly intense stare no matter what the situation he’s in. Or you can do a horror riff on one of the old album covers of his – some of them feel like they’d work pretty well for that kind of thing.

 

Golden Age of Leather - Blue Öyster Cult

Song

At the surface, this song is a highly romanticized depiction of an outlaw biker gang that’s decided to have one last huzzah, going out in a blaze of glory and violence as, after a night of drinking, drugs and sex (I love the line about ‘a wanton child too dead to care’ being ‘passed from man to man’ – it’s so awful and bleak) they take sides, fighting and killing each other in an orgy of violence, that ends with the dawn, not a trace of the men or their bikes left, save for ‘the glint of a solitary shaft of chromium steel’.

You can write me a fic about that night, as it is in the song, give details about specific men, the terrible things they’ve seen and participated in, or the events that led up to them making the pact that they consummate in the song.

On the other hand, if you want to get surreal, the Blue Öyster Cult is fond of the theme of supernatural, or preternaturally evil biker gangs. So perhaps this particular band of bikers isn’t just a mundane outlaw biker gang. Perhaps they, as a group did something that bound them together to the degree where the completion of the task brought them to the point where there was nothing left to live for (martial themes are used in the song, referring to them as drunken soldiers and describing what they do as a last crusade). Did they vanquish some supernatural evil, possibly a rival gang of inhuman nature, and now this ritual suicide is seen as the safest way to keep said rivals sealed away for all time? Alternately, will death in this ritualized battle allow them to exist past death, carrying said rivalry beyond the grave and into the home turf of their ghostly rivals?

For artwork based on this prompt, I’d love an image of an aged, weathered and generally beat-to-hell biker in full regalia, holding a bloodied metal or braided leather getback whip loosely in his hand. I’d love bold, heavy outlines and shading if you go black and white, and if you do color maybe warm, sunset colors to reflect the sense of ending and finality in the song. Oh and one thing I’d really love to see a Blue Öyster Cult symbol hidden somewhere in the piece.

 

Pinocchiho – Tech N9ne

Song

The narrator’s a monster, but he hates it, he longs to be normal. I want the story of that, expand on the details of his date as mentioned in the song, or tell me why he’s that way? Has he always craved the flesh of women, or was he cursed with cannibalistic desires through some circumstance? Is he even human? Expand on his backstory please! Is he a vampire? A werewolf? Descended from a demon of some sort?

Oh, and while the song’s set in modern times, I wouldn’t mind it being used as inspiration for a historical or fantasy setting.

For art, I’d love a picture of a handsome, well dressed, yet horrifying, wild and desperate looking man, covered in blood in the immediate aftermath of the events of the song. Fangs, claws, and inhuman eyes are always a plus in my book.

 

And now for things that aren’t five minute fandoms…

Prototype

 

- Robert Cross – With Cross I have two wildly divergent lines of thought. One is that I’d love a fic about him doing his job, tracking down runners and killing them and all the infected they might have created. Or to put it another way, Cross being a horrifying, masked pursuer, mercilessly tracking down a frightened young girl, killing everyone she’s met in her attempt to escape him and then killing her. Because his job description is basically ‘be the villain of an old slasher movie to protect humanity from a horrible, mutagenic virus’.

If you do fan art for this prompt, just Cross being masked and menacing, looking like a horror movie villain would be amazing.

My other line of thought is a sort of bad end AU where he ends up infected, somehow, not like in the game where the supreme hybrid consumes him and steals his form and memories, but Cross himself genuinely infected. I want to see either how it happens, or his thoughts on becoming what he’s spent the better part of his life eradicating. Is he conflicted, wondering how long he should let things carry on before reporting what’s happened and turning himself in to be destroyed (or worse, kept for research?) or does he keep at it, determined to track down Alex and have one last victory, trying to die a hero rather than a monster?

With this idea, I’d love fan art showing him battered and bloodied, his uniform torn (possibly with obvious claw marks, hinting at how it happened) or him starting to show signs of infection – maybe a hint of claws or fangs or some other bit of wrongness.

 

- Dana Mercer – There’s a lot to do with Dana. Her being alone and scared while the city goes to hell, her trying to reconcile everything Alex has said with what’s going on. The missing scene of her in the hive with Greene. A bad ending AU where Green infects her, or Alex, or anything that results in her being infected. If you do go with her being infected, graphic descriptions and messy transformations are something I love.

 

- Alex Mercer – Since he’s a not human, I’d love something focused on that, him fighting the infected, him tracking down someone to consume them, him dealing with all of the conflicting memories he’s acquired. Or him trying to pretend to be human for Dana’s sake. Or him losing control of his powers, becoming something more obviously inhuman, fighting with instincts that he doesn’t want to act on. Body horror is my jam here and Alex is body horror the character.

For Alex, I would love fan art of him using his powers, partially mutated or anything like that. If you really want to go wild, having him rip apart some sort of infected would be so awesome!

 

Resident Evil

 

- William Birkin & Albert Wesker - These two were genuinely friends, evil, horrible mad scientist friends. Something centered around them is the perfect opportunity to delve into all of the messed up science experiments Umbrella was doing. Not to mention the two of them technically worked together to murder James Marcus. A fic around that would be awesome, especially because I imagine that the whole thing would be such a struggle for William with how nervous and high-strung he comes across as.

 

- Annette Birkin & William Birkin & Sherry Birkin - The difficulty of being scientists for an evil corporation while still being parents. I like to imagine that William and Anette at least tried to be good parents with all of the normal fears and concerns that parents have, plus so many more. How did they manage that and manage to keep Sherry ignorant of what they were up to? Or did she suspect something and worry about her parents?

 

- Annette Birkin & William Birkin - I was just thinking it would be interesting to see a fic about two terrible people who are surprisingly not! terrible for each other. They clearly have to love each other, even if their respective research projects often get in the way and they did raise a daughter together because I hold no illusions that if they thought that Sherry wasn’t worth the time they spent raising her they’d abandon her or worse without a second thought.

As a couple they’re great for horror potential as they’re both Umbrella researchers doing horrific human experimentation. Maybe sometimes they worked together, or maybe they talked to each other about their respective projects looking for the other’s opinion – can you imagine them talking about watching people mutate or get torn apart by monsters in detached, clinical ways over dinner together? I can.

Or, since they’re a married couple with a daughter their fears could be more mundane. If you totally want to write a horror story centered on the idea of them being parents and all the fears that come with that I’d love it so much. Like for a small, mild bit of horror, maybe Anette didn’t have an easy time or it when she was pregnant with Sherry and William was helpless and panicking. A totally mundane, ordinary fear and it would be so interesting to see that with these two.

Or stick to the events of the games and write a fic set as things were starting to fall apart. William’s final moments, Annette’s horror when she realizes that he’s injected himself with the G-virus.

 

- Annette Birkin - Annette is a horrible person, but also a wife and mother. At some point she fell in love with William, she pulled him out of a deep depression, the absolute lowest point in his life until the very end of it, and had a child with him. That says something because the Birkins strike me as a couple who would have not issue not having an unwanted child. This means that Sherry was loved, which means that Annette tried to take care of her as best as she was able. I would love to see something focused on that, her concern over William slipping back into obsession with his work, ending up infected and because she knows what the G-virus does, knowing what she has to do to protect Sherry.

Or write me something about her trying to raise Sherry right or being afraid for her after Sherry’s infected, the helplessness she must have felt.

 

- Excella Gionne - I love fic featuring the different Resident Evil antagonists and Excella is no exception. Give me a story from her past before we see her in the games, or some event during RE 5 from her point of view. What does she think of Wesker, does she suspect that he might be planning to betray her or at the very least let her die?

Or give me an AU where she survives or mutates into something more. I love Excella and just want more content featuring her.

 

- Excella Gionne & Jill Valentine - At some point Excella became a favorite character of mine and I started looking for any opportunity to request fics featuring her, especially fics featuring both her and Jill. The fic can be from either character’s point of view – maybe Excella is performing some experiment on Jill at Wesker’s behest, maybe she’s just tormenting Jill because she’s bored and Jill can’t fight back, or maybe there’s a situation where Excella is trapped with Jill, the P-30 controlling her starting to wear off and Excella knows for a fact that she cannot win a fight against Jill, being trapped with a human monster of your own making is pretty horrifying…

I’d prefer if both of them survive the fic, though I’m not opposed to one or the other getting badly injured along the way.

AUs are also welcome, especially dark or bad-end style AUs. Maybe Wesker sets his plans into motion just a little sooner and Excella survives in a fashion? Maybe Excella or Jill ends up mutated into something inhuman and it’s a desperate fight for survival.

Hell, give me a single scene from a bad-end Au where Wesker wins and the two of them have to begrudgingly work together to survive is a wasteland full of mutants and danger and I will forever be in your debt.

For art, anything that shows the contrast between the two of them is great, Excella cruel and in control while Jill is helpless, Excella in white, Jill in black, anything.

 

- Sherry Birkin - Ah, adorable little Sherry. Give me missing scenes of her out in Raccoon city, searching for her father, her encountering him where he’s mutated beyond recognition, delirious fever dreams when she’s infected, her growing up basically belonging to Simmons as a pet project, bargaining for her freedom, getting sent out on a mission that she only half understands, finding out the truth about Simmons, ending up a captive of NeoUmbrella. There’s so much potential for horror with Sherry.

Again, because I’m predictable, infected AU situations are always something I’ll enjoy. Claire being too little too late to save her and us finding out what successful integrating of the G-virus with a host means, her mutating under Simmons’ care (possibly as the result of something he does to her, not that she might know), hitting puberty and having the added horror of becoming something not at all human (and all too reminiscent of her late father?), or something happening while she’s a captive of NeoUmbrella.

With fan art, just making Sherry into something that resembles her father, either from the original game or the remake would be so neat and have so much potential for horror. Trying to capture the terror she would feel at such a thing happening would be amazing.

 

- Sherry Birkin & Jake Muller - I just love these two as a couple, him the tough guy, cynical and jaded, Sherry incurably optimistic and endearing despite having been through hell. An extended or missing scene from the game, a chance encounter between them on some future mission, anything where the two of them are getting through some tough situation together.

If you want to go with something full on horror, I’m always up for depictions of Sherry where her G-virus infection does more than make her stronger, more durable and makes her age at a slower rate. Eyes in unnatural places, extra limbs, fangs, things being just not right are very fun for me if you want to play around with body horror ideas. Sherry having to explain or show Jake why she doesn’t want to consummate their relationship would be awesome, and Jake’s reaction is up to you, ranging anywhere from totally fine to nope! and being glad that Sherry doesn’t want their relationship to get physical.

Or, since the G-virus does funny things to the infected, making it so that reproduction comes first and foremost, maybe Jake doesn’t get a choice in the matter and is lucky to survive an encounter with an amorous (visibly infected?) Sherry. Despite my love of monsters, Sherry doesn’t need to be one for this situation, Jake being ravaged by an amorous, adorable little blond who won’t take no for an answer while the two of them are captives of NeoUmbrella would be so much fun.

For art, anything where Sherry’s visibly infected and resembling her father in any way would be amazing! I love the extra eyes, exposed muscle and bone, and extra limbs. Of course, monsters aren’t necessary – as I said, Jake and Sherry part of some NeoUmbrella experiment where Jake’s strapped down to a table, helpless as a perfectly human Sherry has her way with him is great.

 

- Jake Muller - With Jake there’s so much potential. Missing scenes from his time a NeoUmbrella’s captive, post RE6 him continuing work as a mercenary, fighting B.O.W.s, escaping from them, the people who created them and possibly the BSAA while he’s there. He could end up in a bad situation because some organization manages to discover that he’s Albert Wesker’s son (imagine how valuable that must make him for research purposes!).

And because I’m always up for infected characters, maybe being Wesker’s son doesn’t mean he’s immune to the viruses of the setting, maybe it just means that he stays sane and himself after being infected. An AU where he’s not as resistant to the C-virus would make me so happy, or maybe something set post-RE6 where Jake starts realizing there’s something wrong with him. Maybe it starts as receiving an injury that should have killed him, but doesn’t, or he realizes he’s stronger, faster, his senses and reflexes seem better, which is awesome, but it doesn’t stop there…Mutations could be subtle or drastic, how does he cope with them? Is he bothered, or is there something about what’s happening to him, some mental change that means he’s not as horrified as he knows he should be? Maybe it takes actual effort for him to keep track of what’s going wrong. Does he seek help or does he continue working as a mercenary afterwards?

For art ideas, feel free to draw him as a J’avo (all those extra eyes!” or come up with a mutated version of him (something halfway to being a Tyrant in full combat gear?)

 

- Carlos Oliveira - Okay, what happened to him post game is a huge mystery and I'd love to see a horror story about his adventures after escaping raccoon City, or a horror story explaining why we haven't seen him since (captured and experiemented on by an offshoot of Umbrella? I do love body horror after all). On the other hand, tell me the story of what he was doing before he was recruited by the UBCS, afterall Umbrella was recruiting from some pretty shady areas, so how did he end up in a situation where he'd catch Umbrella's notice (or think that working for them would be a good thing)?

 

- Jill Valentine - Missing scenes between the mansion incident and being pursued by Nemesis would be fun, her dealing with STARS being disbanded and discredited, regarded as mentally unstable because of what she’s seen and how no one could possibly believe her.

The worry she felt during any of the times that Chris went missing, vanished without a trace.

Her thoughts falling out the window, hands at Wesker’s throat, only to wake up in a lab.

Her time as Wesker’s captive, the experiments she must have been forced to help him with, or been a test subject for.

After that, being rescued by Chris and then seeming to vanish from the series. Were there lingering effects from the P-30 and everything else she was exposed to?

Or infected character AU scenarios. When Nemesis infected her with the T-virus, if the T-Abyss virus vaccine didn’t work, her time as Wesker’s captive and test subject (Jill infected with Uroboros is an idea that’s long fascinated me). Or even go post canon, the reason she’s vanished is complications from all of everything she’s been exposed to and she’s not exactly (or if you want to go all out, even remotely, human anymore).

For art seeing Jill transformed (or in the process of transforming) into any of the various types of monsters from the series would make me so happy. Torn clothing, visible injuries, nonhuman anatomy (claws, fangs, tentacles, extra limbs) are always enjoyable.

 

- Piers Nivans - Okay, I’m going to be upfront with you here, I’d love to see an AU fic where Piers lives because of additional mutations from the C-virus, fights his way out of the ruins of the NeoUmbrella facility and has to figure out what to do from there as a monster. Or stop the fic before he gets out and have it be a fic of him, as a B.O.W. fighting other B.O.W.s in the ruins of the underwater facility. Plenty of opportunity for good horror there.

Or take it past that point and tell the story of him as a B.O.W. working for the BSAA (or some other organization) on a mission too dangerous for human agents.

And in terms of fanart I am a simple person with simple likes and those likes are mostly horrific monsters. What’s your take on a fully mutated version of Piers? I love extra eyes (or missing eyes, eyeless monsters are always great), extra limbs, asymmetry, exposed muscle, claws, fangs, generally unsettling appearances, but really with monsters anything at all makes me happy.

- Claire Redfield - Claire doesn't get enough love and I'd love for a piece featuring her. I was thinking something set during the events of Resident Evil Revelations 2, because a fear virus is perfect for a horror situation, but something set during her first time encountering Umbrella's monsters and having to come to terms with how horrific the company her brother used to work for actually is. Or go back further and write about some mundane childhood fear she had when she was just a kid.

 

- Chris Redfield - There are so many things you can do with Chris, him tracking down Wesker, him trying to track down remaining Umbrella researchers early on in the series, him searching for Jill, AUs where things go wrong and he ends up in an even worse situation (my fondness of body horror says infect him with one of the many viruses in the series!) - RE6 is a great opportunity for things to go from bad to worse, but Village is also great for horror potential - him dealing with monsters straight out of a horror story in a winter woods at night. Very fun there.

 

The Backrooms

I love the weird, liminal space horror that this creepy pasta is based on and the whole expanded setting that’s sprung from it is fascinating to me.

For stories, I’d be interested in just about anything you can think of – exploring how characters ended up stuck in the backrooms, characters trying to explore them (either having ended up there accidentally or deliberately), trying to make sense of them, dealing with things that might be lurking there, or trying to get out. Anything is awesome. The backrooms can be empty, because that’s pretty horrific, or there can be supernatural threats there, or humans can be a threat to each other, or really anything.

With art, just creepy, out of place, hard to make sense of places are just so neat. I love how the backrooms make dull, ordinary settings just wrong enough to be horrifying. That disconcerting feeling from hallways slightly out of perspective and doors that don’t make sense is just so much fun. And shadows around corners with no hint of what’s casting them…

Crossover

Any Group of Characters You Can Assume I May Know

Mix and match any of the above fandoms, or ones I’ve written for in the past.

On that note – there are plenty of five minute fandoms out there, be they songs, short videos, commercials, pictures, short stories (creepy pastas are so fun) and the like that are widely available and easy to access you should feel free to include as one of the fandoms to use – if you make it clear what that fandom is and where to find it it’s totally A Fandom You Can Assume I May Know so you should totally use it (this is not me trying to subtly discover new and fun five minute fandoms, definitely not).

I’ll give you a kind of random list of ideas and fandoms I can think of if you want, but it’s by no means exhaustive.

Some favorite creepy pasta type stuff of mine are the Left Right Game, it works because any character can end up participating in it, either as a joke, not believing it works, or because they want to see if it’s real. And the Backrooms is also really versatile, anyone can just open the wrong door, fall through the cracks, slip sideways and end up there.

Put any character from Resident Evil or Prototype into the kind of peculiar town or situation from one of those songs.

Robert Cross from Prototype descending into madness as he discovers the runner he was chasing is actually an avatar of Jolene or pursuing her to the kind of town where that ‘H.P Joelcraft’ song might be played in a bar…

Any of the Resident Evil characters in the above situation works too.

Umm, Jill Valentine going on a blind date with the narrator from Tech N9ne’s Pinocchiho? That works.

To save you from needing to look over what I’ve written and requested in other exchanges here are some other random possibilities written pretty much as a stream of consciousness:

I’m a fan of the Prince of Persia series, both the Sands of Time trilogy and Prince of Persia ’08, so putting maybe putting the narrator from From the Stars into an archeological site from one of those games (does some trace of the Sands or Ahriman linger on to this day?)

Silent Hill is always a possibility, you can send anyone there.

I’ve written Sesame Street fanfiction, so maybe give me a very special episode from some other setting?

Untitled Goose Game is good for humor. The viral samples have gone missing! Who could have done it? HUNK from Resident Evil meeting his match as he pursues the goose, trying to get back what it’s taken?

Calvin and Hobbes – Calvin’s overly active imagination takes him into a dire situation.

Fallen London gives all sorts of potential for weirdness and horror.

If you want to go really wild, take the Black Rabbit of Inlé from Watership Down and have a human character be haunted by them as a premonition of death. Or, hell, if their job involves enough death and killing, maybe they see the Rabbit and think of him as a sign of good luck that they’ve never dared tell anyone about.

Corruption of Champions for all of your terrifying porn needs. Send any one you like to the demon realm from there and watch the funtimes happen… Seriously, body horror is horror and some of the transformations in the game are pretty darned horrific.

Animorphs is really just cosmic pessimism for middle schoolers.

I love pretty much all of Ursula Vernon’s short stories, Jackalope Wives, or Digger the Wombat are favorites of mine with their magical realism, as is The Dark Birds.

I’m crazy fond of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle though I’ve only seen the first movie. Feel free to put the characters from that into a different setting or game if you want, or put characters from another setting into Jumanji. That would be pretty awesome

Dead By Daylight is a great setting to put random characters together. Feel free to have a character from one of the fandoms I like end up as one of the killers (Alex Mercer or Robert Cross as a killer? Yes please!)

Umm, other games and settings I like…

Metal Gear Solid and Metal Gear Rising: Revengance. Mixing one of them with Resident Evil or Silent Hill, or Prototype could be fun, or anything else really.

I’m quite fond of H.P Lovecraft’s work so any of his stories would work.

Army of Two is one of my guilty pleasure games.

Final Fantasy X has horror potential and you could always justify a character from another setting ending up there however you want.

Anarchy Reigns is so good for over the top anything, but again, the cyberpunk style dystopia can be fun and gives lots of opportunities for horror.

Oh, right, how could I forget about Doom?

I also enjoyed the first two InFamous games.

The Suffering and The Suffering Ties that Bind games are pure horror and the events of that series could easily work their way into another setting.

Wow, I can’t believe I forgot to mention this, since I’m using songs as canons feel free to use anything by the Blue Öyster Cult or Billy Joel. Like Captain Jack could be selling drugs to the Transmaniacon MC. Or Billy Joel’s Downeaster Alexia, there’s actually all sorts of potential for a horror crossover there because strange things happen out on the open water, with anything by the Blue Öyster Cult, or with something Lovecraftian.

Right, and I just thought of this, I’m a huge fan of Lucha Underground because why not use wrestling as a jumping off point for horror? It works.

Ooh, and I see Zootopia in the tagsets from time to time and that’s totally a movie I love. For this I’d like it if you made the crossover characters animals as well because I’d love to see what animals you think that they’d be. Or, if you’re curious, favorite animals of mine include Spotted Hyenas (and other Hyenas in general), Fisher Cats, Giant River Otters, Saiga Antelopes, Mountain Lions, White-tailed Deer (atypical and peruke bucks are great for horror potential, though refrain from looking them up if body horror and malformations are a big squick for you), Maned Wolves, Fossas, Manatees, and Leopard Seals.

And if you think you’ve seen me talking about something and want to extrapolate from that or run it by a mod to contact me, feel free to do so.