#horror plot

[oneiromania]

Plot Idea #4 - Every Shade of Blood

A list of plot ideas for your (serial) killer characters!

1. The Most Pathetic People

Serial killer X serial killer, but they're both just. Really pathetic.

They both have their own reasons for doing what they do - maybe they're valid, maybe not at all, and they become flustered whenever their poor victims try to stall by asking Why are you doing this?, only to get a really silly/stupid/embarrassing answer. Maybe they don't know why they're doing this, or they know why and only do it because they have to. The two killers accidentally meet - maybe they went for the same victim, or they happened to bring their respective victims (or their corpses) to the same place, and now they don't know what to do. Never really ran into a fellow blood soaked, knife-weilding person in the profession... Maybe one of them is really bad at it, and the other has to teach them. There are a lot of nuances with this one, since it largely depends on their personalities and motivations. Regardless, their shared trait is that they're not cool about it, maybe not even super talented. It's kinda sad to look at, actually.

(Personally, I would love to do a plot like this with an MxM ship, probably modern setting, though something historical might also be fun.)

2. Oh You're A Little Fucked Up, Actually.

A serial killer x victim (?) plot, where the victim is... Not as innocent as they seem.

Maybe the victim is a fellow killer in disguise, or they've simply always thought about it but never gone through with it. Funnier option is that they're a big fan of true crime or TV crime shows. They're supposed to be pleading for their life, sobbing and clawing at the floor, struggling to try and get away alive. They're definitely not supposed to look weirdly excited, though. Maybe they want some lessons from a pro in the field, or they just want to have the front row seats, a closer look into the mind of a murderer. They're oddly fascinated, and don't seem in the least bit bothered at the thought of still not being spared.

The serial killer is... Stumped. Maybe they're baffled, flustered, excited to be appreciated and asked about their hobbies. Maybe they're angry, frustrated that their night has been ruined because their victim won't stop asking them stupid questions about things Hollywood clearly got wrong, and now they don't even wanna go through with the murder, but they don't know what to do with this weirdo. Maybe they let them go with a phone number and a promise for coffee, or they kick them out with a warning that they're dead if they let out a single peep about the serial killer, but now the ex-victim won't leave them alone.

Could have even more variations, but the general idea is that the "victim" is having the time of their life with this.

3. This Isn't You, Darling

Serial killer x detective!

There's a lot of ways it can go, but my main idea is that the two characters are already romantic partners and have been for a while, probably fiancees or married. Maybe the serial killer has been doing their work in the shadows, and the detective has been oblivious to it until they finally start working on the murders that they don't know were committed by their partner. Or maybe it's a case gone cold that the detective is now reopening for one reason or another. Cue angst, drama, etc.

[mr-nauseam]

Au where everything is the same except that everyone in the Capitol is a vampire except the Plinth (well maybe only Ma and Sejanus <3

[heartxshaped-bruises]

✧･ﾟ 𝐏𝐋𝐎𝐓 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐁𝐘 "𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐅 𝐈𝐍 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐇 " by Emily Ross

       Someone close to Muse A has vanished - their sibling, their partner, parent, friend, anything goes - and nobody but Muse A cares to figure out what happened. Nobody takes them seriously. Cue Muse B: The local baddie who has something to do with the disappearance of their loved one, whether they were directly involved or just know something. Muse A doesn't know that their loved one left a clue behind for them to put the puzzle pieces together and in order to not incriminate themselves and destroy the evidence of their involvement, Muse B tries to get close to Muse A.

       They "team up" to find the missing person, but both have their own ulterior motives to follow: Muse A wants to follow the suspicion that Muse B knows more than they let on, Muse B tries to get their neck out of the rope. If this ends well for any of them is purely up to the chaos gods.

[exiledlvsts]

plot–the librarian might have an ulterior motive for getting that address tbh open to all genders any type of t*boo is allowed; uneasy horror and stalker themes

"i'll just need your license for proof of residency," gray mumbled the words as his fingers moved swiftly along the keyboard. his eyes flickered up momentarily to scan the features of the other person. "have you ever had a library card before?"

[aeymii]

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[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

Part 2/2

By the time Stanley had realized he wasn't as alone as he believed himself to be entrapped in this ravenous abyss; he had honestly begun to suspect that he was finally starting to properly lose his mind.

In all the ceaseless miles that Stanley had journeyed during his apparent permanent residence within the dark devouring void, not once had he encountered another conscious, walking, talking being similar to himself. Every other formerly living creature that he had crossed paths with had been so... silent. Empty. Dead, in every sense of the word. It was as though the very essence of life itself had been sucked out of their bodies with a straw, their forms slowly falling apart piece by piece under the vicious gluttony of the darkness that surrounded them. They looked like they actually were supposed to be there, unmoving and comatose, unlike him.

So, when Stanley first began to encounter the twins, all of a sudden, he wasn't the only one in the dark.

When meeting the first pair of them, he found himself standing in a lake.

He hadn't even noticed the changes at first. It felt as though he had been walking for weeks on end, his body moving purely on autopilot and his aching legs leading him towards a destination only it knew. A thick fog of forgetfulness and flickering memories had descended upon his brain like a heavy blanket of numbing static as he had traveled. In this absentminded state, he hadn't even realized that the ever-present undulating, buzzing darkness surrounding him had begun to gradually shift and morph to form a horizon line; stretching into tall looming cliffsides that almost seemed to close in on him. Once the nonexistent floor beneath his soles abruptly began to ripple and warp, like the disturbed surface of a shallow puddle; only then did he finally notice his transformed environment.

The transition was seamless, almost dream-like. One moment, he was still surrounded by that filthy, overwhelming abyss; and the next, his boots were suddenly plunged deep into the cold, dark lake water.

The silence didn't leave, however. It still choked and stuffed its way into Stanley's ears to clog up his mind with thick cotton; the eerie quiet not quite matching the calm, almost serene scenery the void seemed to have abruptly transformed itself into. Like a movie with its sound cut off; leaving only the unsettling hum of the projector to fill the empty air.

It was odd. The lake was surely incredibly deep. He could obviously tell from how thin and pathetically small the shores appeared all the way from where he now unceremoniously stood in the middle of the lake. Stan could look down and see the darkness below his feet swallow what meager light that managed to break through the murky waters. The overwhelming black almost seemed to beckon him, gaping and haunting; a bottomless underwater pit of pitch black that never seemed to end.

And yet, he didn't sink. Stanley remained perfectly level, the almost ink like waters stopping just at ankle level, as though he were held up just above the surface by some invisible force. Even the writhing waves seemed small and low, as though the waters were shy to climb up his legs further than that. It was odd, so very odd.

However, it wasn't nowhere near as odd as the sight that greeted him when he finally lifted his eyes from the waters.

Stanley had crossed paths with truly unbelievable sights in this strange somewhere; from bursting, collapsing stars; to the imploding heat death of entire universes, but none of them seemed to hold the candle to what he saw then when he lifted his eyes:

Children.

Two, to be exact. Two, nearly identical looking children stood motionless before him; completely soaked through to the bone as though they had taken a plunge into the frigid water that pooled around their ankles. It was a girl and a boy, both adorned with twin expressions utterly devoid of emotion, their wide eyed stare seeming to burn holes into his thin jacket. Their drenched clothes sagged off of their scrawny frames; thin rivulets of water dirpping off of them and disturbing the glassy surface of the water at their feet. The little girl's hair had messily stuck to her face in thin sodden strands, her cheeks still full and round with youth just like the boy's. They looked young. Too young to be in a place such as this.

Oh, but their eyes; their eyes.

They burned with such anger; such injustice, brighter than any dying star or galaxies he had ever seen. Anger towards the world, to fate, to whatever cruel deity that had deemed them fit to be sent to this wretched place so prematurely. They were too young to be here; to be entrapped like he was amongst this hungry darkness. And yet, here they were, sheer denial against their own untimely deaths being the only thing keeping them awake and conscious amongst the dead and rotting. A show of juvenile defiance to nature itself so vehement even the all-consumign darkness seemed hesitant to devour them whole just yet.

It saddened him. It saddened him to know that they belonged there, that they were supposed to be there. He could see it, he could feel it; they were dead. No amount of determination could deny that universal fact.

When they spoke, Stanley could hear anger:

Stan chuckled in a futile attempt to lighten the suddenly heavy atmosphere that threatened to crush him whole. "A lake monster? You kids and your imagination," he teased, hoping to somehow rid the poor kids of the haunted look that seemed to whirl in their glares. No child should have been burdened with such a knowing look; such eyes that looked like they had seen everything there was to see about the world, the horrid and the good.

Clearly, it had been the wrong thing to say, and Stanley's faux pas was rewarded with a scowl from the little boy. A world's worth of sour contempt etched into every contorted groove that his grimace seemed to dig into his much too young face. Stan suddenly felt guilt squeeze at his weary bones for having caused that.

"That's what they all said," the boy spat out, eyes shining with a sheen of wetness Stan wasn't sure he was prepared to deal with.

Stan left that first interaction with the twins with the feeling of guilt and sorrow still clining to him.

He couldn't have known, at the time. He couldn't have known that this wouldn't be anywhere near the last time that he would meet the pair. He hadn't realised just how many of them there were. After that first pair, his endless journeying within the Abyss was hardly be spent alone anymore. Countless more times, he came face to face with the exact same two young and impossibly worn faces; forced to meet one pair of beaten and bruised kids after another.

Not one pair had died the same death as another. Some had gotten lost, prey to whatever threat that had snatched them up out in the open; some had fallen from high up; some had been crushed under an incredible weight; some had burned; some eaten alive; some zombified. Some didn't even seem physically harmed at all, body perfectly intact, and yet that same faraway, distrubed look in their eyes remained.

He thought the worst ones were the ones he found alone. A little girl or a little boy, left all lonesome without their other half there. Twins, he remembered a pair of them telling him once.

Once, he had come across a town full of silent, stone statues. It was a rustic, shabby, almost nostalgic looking town- odd and strangely familiar. The sight of it had tugged at an aged memory that had long since wasted away in the back of his mind. It was serene, almost deceptively so. The sun shone; the air smelled crisp and fresh; numerous waterfalls continued to crash down from the tall cliffsides; and a soft nonexistent breeze whistled through the thicket of pine trees that blanketed the outskirts of the town. None of it seemed to match the gruesome scene of the hundred wailing statues that littered every inch of the town.

He had found the boy's statue on the other side of town, deep within the green forest and toppled over the gnarled roots of a towering tree. Like the rest of the townsfolk, he too, was frozen mid-shriek; his stone face twisted and contorted into a mock impression of a silent scream as his body lay paused in a writhing struggle. He made sure to be gentle when he carried the boy's statue over to place it beside the girl's, whose statue stood far deeper into the forest, sporting the same rictus grimace of terror as her brother's. It somehow felt wrong for them to have been so far apart from one another, even in death.

He had come to dread meeting of the twins. He hated every second he had to confront yet another pair of dead children that did not belong here, but fate had decided they did. He despised having to listen to their tales of woe as they wept about the injustice of the world, of having died young; he despised himself for being unable to do more than weep with them.

"We don't belong here, Grunkle Stan," he would listen to the little girl weep, calling him a title he didn't recognize. He never remembered if they had ever told him their name, but they all seem to know his, without a fail. "If we're dead, then what about you? What about Grunkle Ford? Mom? Dad? What about them? We can't be dead, we can't be," they would say, confusion and frustration written all over their faces. They didn't understand. They didn't understand why they had come to the darkness so early, so unfairly.

He never knew what to say, he'd never been good with words.

All he could do was kneel down to their levels and engulf them in his arms, hoping he could somehow squeeze the pain straight out of their bodies in his embrace. He hugged them, because what else could he do?

[suntails]

GAME START

[sualne]

luffy and his dads stretching

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

love how Solar Opposites started out as a sitcom about two aliens who can't stand each other, stuck with their teenage clones (whom they also can't stand) & a toddler antichrist (whom they view as a sort of self-sufficient free-roaming hamster?) on a stupid planet they can't stand

and 4 seasons later it's a sitcom about a family of genderqueer aliens, headed by a gay couple in a happy & horny open marriage (with a graphic off-screen sex life, despite their canonical lack of genitalia?) teaching themselves to be okay parents to their 3 kids (whose Sci-Fi Antics now slightly-less-frequently revolve around wreaking havoc on human bystanders, and slightly-more-frequently revolve around alien-clone-sibling-bonding*), to the point that the central plot point becomes "We need to provide our toddler antichrist with a stable home environment."

(also the grumpy alien husband is too busy ingratiating his family with their suburban neighbors to even remember whom or what he dislikes. what is this show)

[bunnieswithknives]

Gore, Violence and Blood under the cut

What a mess

[qdkdraws]

They were together, but they screwed up and were punished

He's locked in a cycle of short, miserable lives She became a restless spirit

Centuries later she finds him again But now she's practically insane, monstrous and overprotective And he doesn't remember anything about her

or

another AU where Adam half the time is sure that he is possessed by an evil spirit, but it’s just his girlfriend who came for him

[dustbar]

mr bartender you are so cool can i have a bottle of absinthe i swear i can take it please

how did u even get in

[traffrogers]

this week on traff getting obsessed with an au that barely exists

[sacchiri]

Some fanart of Take Your Vampire To School Day, a delightful crackfic by @freshlyjuicedbeetles!

[yume-fanfare]

happy halloween! the cast from fist of idol: togenkyo have reunited again to bring us...... a horror movie?!