Please fill out the following form before 11/14 — the game isn't until 11/24 & 11/25 but I'm going to need a lot of prep. And I'm putting this up early because it might take some time for you to write it up.
Character Name Bakugou Katsuki Character Team Marigold
Symbol of Restraintthis entire set if it's possible, otherwise those bindings on his hands! They restrict his ability to use his Quirk so the idea of it would be upsetting
Fear Bakugou's biggest and most crippling fear would be failure! Like not in a "I fear I will fail so I won't do the thing" but "i did the thing and somehow discovered I'm not the best?". He detests feeling/appearing vulnerable, detests the idea that his own power alone might not be enough, but the root of all that is a deep fear of failure. He is SUPER DRIVEN and determined to be successful, so falling short of his own expectations in any way is just about terrifying. Being unable to protect someone he cares for, being unable to reach a goal he set for himself (ie becoming a hero) or being unable to defeat someone he's challenging all fit in this. Related to this would also be becoming Quirkless /losing his ability to use his Quirk, as his power is very strongly tied in his view of himself! As for what failure would feel like, I think the most accurate would be humiliating, so failing would leave him feel like he's 100% worthless because if you can't be the best all the time every time what even is the point. He'd be out of breath and probably unable to process it for a while like, completely shocked. And THEN he would also rage because that's what he does LET ME KNOW IF THIS IS NOT DESCRIPTIVE ENOUGH.
Unsettling Images/etc Being locked into a pitch-black room, foreign things being showed into his throat (but like not dicks) or coming out of his throat, BEING HELD DOWN BY A SHITLOAD OF HANDS. He's mostly upset by things that would actually involve him but for imaginary seeing like. Discarded body parts and shift would upset and creep him out to an extent, and of course seeing people he cares about as THOSE MISC BODY PARTS would be even worse (Marigold, Kirishima, Khuur, Deku, Kuuha, Robin would count)
Missing missing his quirk for sure but since that's just a power which could be off during the game to begin with, his hands being cut off would do just as well since that's the source of his power (it'd also leave him feeling helpless in general because, no hands). His memories being missing would also be a huge, huge thing he'd freak out about, like just remembering forest stuff only and nothing of his actual life.
Character Name Kirei Kotomine Character Team Anemone
Symbol of Restraint Probably something actually like rosary beads, including cross and all. If that's taken or another character asks for it, snakes; for a third option, a crucifix or the nails associated with a crucifix, or wreaths of thorns.
Fear I'd say the only one thing he's really afraid of is that there is really no hope for him, and he's been abandoned by God forever. A few bullet points:
it's more a thing that he thinks he'll never have a "place" in the world—he'll never feel like he belongs—than that he expects God to bless him or bring him glory or anything; he already knows he doesn't deserve that
he's not afraid of death or his own sociopathic impulses in the slightest
he knows he's a faulty creation/he receives happiness in ways that aren't ""okay"", but it could be said that his worst fear is remaining the same he has been his entire life—alone, not knowing any others like him, never being able to be happy to the extent he wants to be, forever thinking he's a mistake/defective in the world
he doesn't have the complete memories of her yet, but his wife is a huge part of his fear, actually! He may have truly loved her (a big, rare thing for Kirei), and she was the one person he knew who worked hardest to fix him and did love him, so in general the fact that he may have experienced love back really fucking scares him because he just let her die in front of him (why is he so messed up)
another point based on the above—thinking that he has some hidden ability to really feel normal people emotions normally... Overall, that frightens him.
things i usually associate with Kirei's fear include vast emptiness, solitude, being on the verge of mental breakdowns, dissatisfaction and spite towards God, and keeping a desire to act out and hurt others carefully buried deep within your soul; it's like you're two people
Unsettling Images/etc Yeah, this is probably gonna be his dead wife (dead wives???)... I can't honestly think of much else, because he'd be turned on or be like WOW THIS IS RAD about 99.9% of other really fucking disturbing stuff. Maybe just symbolism of marriage, being married, or wives would work—as well as other things specifically associated with Claudia, his wife. She was very sick and frail, so bandages, etc., would be fine.
Missing I don't actually think missing anything would terribly distress Kirei (if anything, he'd be happier if he lost some of what he is), so I'll go with what would be most enjoyable for me—maybe he'll lose his brain's ability/association to receive immense pleasure from suffering, meaning that even if he sees someone suffer or makes them suffer, he doesn't feel a corresponding thrill from it.
It's possible I'll have another character in the game by the time the deadline for this approaches (PROBABLY ANOTHER FATE/ OF SOME KIND), so I'll be sure to fill this out for them if I can! ALSO TY FOR DOING THIS
Edited (made a few changes) 2016-10-17 18:36 (UTC)
Symbol of Restraint IF IT'S SOMETHING RESTRAINING HER THEN IT WOULD BE COP'S HANDCUFFS if she's restraining others she has bondage vines
Fear CONCRETE FEARS: Beheadings, house fires, reporters swarming en masse, the sensation of getting splattered in someone else's blood, an old woman in a lace mask ABSTRACT: fear of everything around her going to shit, people she cares for dying and it's her fault just because it is, BASICALLY HER BIGGEST FEAR IS NOT LIVING UP TO HER EXPECTATIONS OF HERSELF, she is never good enough not to feel like depressed shit 24/7. her attempts to save people end horribly (which is not due to her incompetence but rather just how fucking awful an adversary she was up agains) but these failures reinforce the idea that she is No Good and No Good Shall Come From Her. She's also down in her gut deeply afraid that only the shitty old lady was actually a god, and that all the other recurrence gods were just normal assholes who got power and were groomed for her to eat.
Unsettling Images/etc severed heads, old ladies in lace masks, Tron Aesthetic, twitter accounts with the egg icon
Missing missing her godhood would be MAXIMUM HORRIBLE she would revert to being a suicidally depressed teen human. Taking any part of her power would be bad, muting her would also be awful, I'm a big fan of blindness ETC
Character Name Kirishima Eijirou (Red) Character Team Hemlock
Symbol of Restraint Blindfolds. Chains. Actually locked room would be your best bet but if that's not available then anything like chains and blindfolds are your best bet.
Fear Losing himself. Kirishima highly values his sense of self, especially with his lack of memories, but this extends towards how he handles friendships, heroism and everything. For him, abandoning friends, doing absolutely nothing to fix a situation and doing something that is unlike him causes him to falter, but it's even worse with 'inaction'. Inability to take action because he feels restrained, feels trapped, etc etc is the worst, bonus points if it makes him lose people he cares about (This could be just anyone really).
Unsettling Images/etc Dead bodies everywhere. Even worse with Hemlock/Bakugou/Amane/Ren/etc etc. Actually the worst is Bakugou because it's also due to not really actively looking for his memories like haha blame him for being a shitty friend
Missing Sight and movement. I think the images would be better in his mind, like he can't see or touch anything so all that he knows are what's projected in his head and voices of dead people
Fear FEAR OF BEING ALONE, FULL STOP. Specifically, becoming so by either the people she's come to care for turning on her/realizing that she's a disgusting monster after all or because she killed all of them \:'D/ (People would be like. Uriel, Kuuha, Dark, with maybe Giovanni and Yonah as well)
To some extent to go with this, her ~monstrous self~ tainting others? She firmly believes her own gross desires for violence/vengeance/assorted other selfish impulses that are in fact incredibly human but she thinks she's not allowed to have can "infect" other people, particularly via the team bond.
Loss of control in general is also Bad— which is a broad concept mostly because nearly any kind wigs her out. Accidentally hurting someone due to loss of control? Yep. Loss of control over herself due to berserking? YEP. Loss of control over a situation/someone else? Yeeep. She associates it universally with Bad Things Happening and starts feeling panicky and trapped and desperate.
Drowning: GIRL ONCE SPENT A FULL 24 HOURS UNDERWATER WITH THE EMOTIONAL EQUIVALENT OF THE SONIC DROWNING MUSIC IN HER HEAD AND IT STILL RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING THINGS THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO HER. She's too heavy/dense to swim but can't actually die from lack of oxygen in any way s o.
Unsettling Images/etc Fire, deep water (particularly if the bottom can't be seen), medical/science horror bullshit, bloody hand prints, crushed/deformed objects where you can see the imprints of what did the deforming, mirrors and other reflective surfaces in no particular order (bonus points for distorted reflections). She's esp phobic of deep water and mirrors etc make her sick though for maximum [ internal screaming ] Adding apples/other Christian imagery on a lesser scale, particularly if it's damaged or decayed.
Missing Sight, empathy/morals, or her "self control" (inhibitions/brain to mouth filter) for a lower level one! Sight would basically physically paralyze her and empathy/morals would not really bother her until after the effect is removed so I guess it depends what kind of effect you want for the game.
Character Name Katou Yue / Saber Character Team Lycoris
Symbol of Restraint LARGE, THICK CABLES/WIRES.
Fear His biggest fear is that in the end, he's just a piece of shit and doesn't really matter in the long run, that he'll be forgotten and that he never really mattered or meant anything at all to anyone. It's the fear that Setsuna will forget him, Uriel will forget him, his team and everyone he's ever known won't even think about him five minutes after the last time they see him. That he's so unimportant that he's worth less than nothing, that he isn't even worth a passing thought.
Another fear that's almost as strong is the fear of forgetting everything. He's already experienced his memories slowly slipping away before, and the thought of losing everything again is terrifying.
Unsettling Images/etc ANTIQUE MUSIC BOXES, pictures of his family, Kira's brand of cigarettes... Symbols of his past, basically.
Missing HIS MEMORIES would be the biggest thing, losing everything he had before showing up in AFD. Body parts are pretty SHRUG at this point, though losing his sight would be fun, too.
OR OH OH OH if he only forgets what he looks like, that'd be hilarious because he'd be wandering around the game with no face AND THAT'S ALWAYS FUN.
Symbol of Restraint A small cage, barely big enough for a red-tailed hawk to fit in. Clipped wings so he can't fly.
Fear I MEAN, RIGHT NOW, HIS BIGGEST FEAR IS YEERKS TAKING OVER? So I mean. Alien slugs taking over everyone's bodies, especially his teammates. That he's not really dead, this has all been some test and he's lost and now he's betrayed everyone and Earth is going to be taken over and he's lost the war for human freedom.
Unsettling Images/etc ALIEN SLUGS THAT CRAWL INTO YOUR HEAD AND TAKE OVER YOUR BODY.
Missing Oh oh oh oh, take away his hawk vision, leave him fucking blind, he'd super hate that.
Character Name Midoriya "Deku" Izuku Character Team Hemlock
Symbol of Restraint Bandages.
Fear Deku's biggest fear is being unable to save someone. Being too late, too weak, too slow, that feeling of if you'd just been a little bit better you could have done something. He hasn't made a lot of solid connections yet but for Hemlock/Bakugou/Kuuha it'd be awful. He also fears being powerless for much the same reasons, along with that added feeling of being completely useless and having no worth as a person, although this is less potent without his memories.
Another fear is friends turning against him, helplessness as all of a sudden people who were kind to him reject him, that he did something wrong but he doesn't know what and can't fix it no matter what he tries THANKS KACCHAN. Thanks to him as well Deku's scared that one day he's going to remember doing something awful and unforgivable, but he doesn't know what it is and it's a very heavy weight on him, this crushing pressure of the unknown, the certainty that he must have done something terrible to make Kacchan this mad at him. And he's scared that Hemlock is going to find out what he did and hate him for it, since Kacchan was friends with half of them first. Combination rejection/you are terrible/abandonment issues.
Unsettling Images/etc Churches and religious symbols unnerve him a little bit after the cult prison. Dead bodies! Dead bodies of friends! Dead bodies of strangers that you know mean something to you but you can't remember what it was, who are they? Exposed brains also gross. Dead or mangled rabbits.
Missing His powers, the ability to move his arms, sight.
Character Name Sohma Isuzu — "Rin" Character Team Sakura
Symbol of Restraint A red string of Fate, except one part is tied around her heart and the other part is tied to some figurines that represent the Zodiac and Akito/the Jade Emperor/God.
Fear Rin's biggest fear is that she never actually died, that she's trapped forever in the Cat's Room. It's the fear that she'll never actually die, that she doesn't have this chance AFD is giving her to go back and do what she wanted most— to break the Sohma family curse. Because if she's trapped in that room, she can't do anything. She can't leave, she can't do anything. The curse will remain unbroken forever and she'll never get to free Haru and never get to purse her final rest,
Unsettling Images/etc A broken vase with the words "Remember Hatori's eye" somehow associated, a pair of scissors with strands of long black hair nearby, something something a mutilated black and white ox?!
Missing Losing the ability to talk would be SUPER DISTRESSING, YEAH!!! Failing that, taking away touch would suck, too.
Character Name Hinata Hajime Character Team Asphodel
Symbol of Restraintone of these capsules it's hard to get a sense of the design there but this should be ssssimilar. they have different functions but brainwashing/vr tanks probably have a lot of crossover.
Fear Fear of becoming someone else, tied into lobotomies and medical horror and memory loss AND VR shit. Fear of loss of control, also up with the medical horror, being drugged etc. Fear of being buried alive. Since he has been, recently, thanks Kuuha. FEAR OF USELESSNESS/normalcy, regression to the completely average person he used to be. Fear of being a monster, regression to the actual sociopath that lobotomy left him. Basically he's a guy who's managed to marry two completely opposing personalities into one person and he's absolutely terrified of losing any part of that.
Unsettling Images/etc MEDICAL HORROR UP THE WAZOO. Syringes, nondescript pills, rooms full of mysterious medical equipment, straitjackets, that sort of thing. open or freshly filled graves.
Missing EMPATHY, memory, or failing that just take all of his skills. all of them.
Symbol of Restraint collar, like the one he's wearing here!
Fear Right now he's very afraid of finding out he'll remain a slave forever. He knows he WAS one, and that his life has been pretty abysmal up to the point he remembers, and he's afraid to the point where he's not even keen to win games and does it just for the sake of his teammates in case he discovers he just...lives and dies an abused slave. So feelings that go with that...uselessness, powerlessness, trapped, constrained, failing to live up to one's potential, debased, humiliated. That kind of thing.
Unsettling Images/etc Whips, canes, absolutely anything that symbolises slavery/restraint (so like handcuffs, chains, that kind of thing)
Symbol of Restraint Muzzle. Leash. Hand and wrist cuffs with chains to prevent standing upright so he'd have to stay on all fours...
Fear Complete abandonment? So like...being alone and completely unwanted by anyone at all (but particularly by people of importance to him). That comes with a panicky kind of terror but also a deeper, more pervasive sadness like a hollowness in the chest and waves of nausea and just...despair.
Unsettling Images/etcTra-la-la! also like....images of Angelika sneering, and those dog-mask soldiers from DOGS.
Missing Missing sight, missing sense of touch, but also if his collar was missing he'd be distressed as fuck. Missing regen powers also freaks him out a whole lot annnnd can lead to fun stuff.
Character Name Kawanokami Amane Character Team Marigold
Symbol of Restraint Snakes, or puppet strings.
Fear Ooh boy, here we go. Amane is a bucket of many fears. Some of them she's either repressing or has surface-level awareness, but she won't acknowledge them. Ever. idk if you wanna play with that, but I'll mark them.
Overview: Fear of loneliness, ineptitude, uselessness, lacking, having no place in the world, never reconciling with her sister
Amane's world is near entirely defined and set by two people, her mother and, to a lesser, but still highly significant degree, her sister. and maybe her dad i guess sometimes he's kind of a fuckboi tho w/e.
Amane has felt something like a lack inside her, and she's also been largely isolated from others her entire life, not because she's been locked up--though that has and does happen, among other things--but because of a number of factors, including her own personality, she's tended to feel very alone in a crowd. This fear tends to leave her feeling numb and hollow, like she doesn't really exist.
With exactly ONE. outside relationship (before forest), she fears doing anything to jeopardise the relationships with her family, or, any of them really. Which, for her mother, means not performing to expectations and being abandonned or thought of useless and, as a result, worthless. She also fears losing the relationships with the people she's grown close to, here. Like they'll all come to their senses and leave. This fear runs the fucking gamut. It's immediate, gripping, very visceral, but quiet. She'd probably quickly accept it (or make herself believe that she was).
Amane exists she believes to serve her mother's ambition SO YOU KNOW being useless and incapable is the worst. being useless to others is also the worst Also visceral and gripping, tends to get her into shocked-like states, or drives her to lashing or acting out very recklessly to try and remedy a situation to correct her mistakes. she tends to quietly accept the rest of her fears or shortcomings and sees them as inevitable, but this one is, in some ways, her most desperate fear. She won't take it lying down. It will also leave her feeling hollow and will break her down, because welp there goes the meaning for her existence why else is she here then if she can't do simple things?
She isn't aware of it, but she's afraid of never reconciling with her sister, and that her sister will never find true, healthy happiness. On the surface, Amane believes that she deserves everything that happens to her, and also doesn't deserve to have things fixed between them as a result. She wouldn't know how it makes her feel because lol not acknowleding, but it would make her feel terribly sad and despairing.
For some concrete shit, being COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY restrained with no magic. You can put her in full bdsm gear, that's fine tbh it's the fact that she'd be restrained with no ability to fight back in a serious context. Even full body ropes aren't enough, it'd have to be more suffocating. like being buried alive, with or without a casket. she's afraid of the dark. sheeeeee doeeeesn't like snakes, but she's knowledgeable and capable of handling a lot of them, even venomous ones.
Unsettling Images/etc Groups of snakes. Giant snakes. u get the idea. sneks are bad. Her father turned into a doll, absolute darkness, the sensation or sight of being inside a body cavity. Deep wells/pits that one cannot get out of. If those pits have snakes fuck. that.
Missing sight and/or touch together would freak her the fuck out, because it would just reinforce her existential angst.
Character Name Elaine Felkin Character Team Sakura
Symbol of Restraint Hands. Failing that, cloth measuring tape - the kind you'd use for tailoring.
Fear
- Being grabbed around her neck/throat is on the small side compared to the rest but she feels a lot of discomfort from the restrictive aspect - not so much the loss of breath but just being held in a way that gives someone else influence over her faculties in general. A very specific example of anxieties surrounding loss of bodily agency I guess?
- WAY BIGGER THAN THAT IS her fear of being alone. It's not just being alone because she's been alone her entire life, but the idea that everyone important to her (which is just Sakura honestly, Arjuna, Kuuha, Maribel and Haku then everyone else just sort of generally) will just up and leave her in favor of relationships with people they care about more than her. Because those people are better than her somehow and better at fulfilling their needs than she is, because she's just - nothing. She's nothing and has nothing to give anyone and is completely devoid of any intrinsic individual value. All of her value comes from what others make of her so if they can get the same thing better from someone else then what good is she? So it's not as simple as being "alone," it's ending up alone because you lost the people that stopped you from being alone. Having nothing when you used to have something, because you weren't enough and everyone left because they realized they could do better.
It doesn't really have to be people, though - part of her anxiety with Kuuha is that if he starts to enjoy Indulging too much then there won't be any reason for them to keep talking the way they do (even if they moved off of that topic forever ago) so he'll move on from her now that she's not necessary anymore. There is some unrelated general anxiety surrounding that topic, but the actual fear is that he'll throw her away and she won't have that anymore.
Unsettling Images/etc Wide, empty spaces; she has a strong stomach but reminders of her experiences can get to her pretty quickly. Rooms with no people and sparse/no furniture, deep bottomless water, pits, the vastness of space. The Void. A big bed with a dent where a human would go. Apothecary's bottles/flasks, syringes. A long, vacant dinnertable.
Missing Hearing or touch would both be equally bad because she relies on both in her interactions with others and starts to get incredibly anxious without any noise at all. Taking her ability to speak works too, or you can stop her from using her arms/hands again since that is obviously working out really well for her right now.
Symbol of Restraint A cross charm hanging at the end of a long black chain necklace. The cross looks like this.
Fear Fear of losing his reason for living; he knows he lost it once before because he killed himself, but he's afraid of falling into total despair again. He's afraid of being rejected by the people who matter to him, and at this point no one really does, so it's more of an abstract concept than a possibility. He's afraid of being alone, too--completely and totally isolated from others. He'd freak out a bit and it might trigger an anxiety attack.
Unsettling Images/etc The aforementioned cross necklace, blood underneath fingernails, standing at the edge of a cliff with an empty abyss below, being held in someone's arms as they slowly dissolve into nothingness (maybe ash, or dirt), a spray of blood from a neatly-opened artery filling up the space you're in until you drown in it. ETA Zombified and/or dead animals are now #1 in this category.
Missing Sense of touch would bother him a lotttttt.
Symbol of Restraint corset piercing ribbons and/or the threads from Hedera's intro event tbh
Fear losing himself to the mask entirely and torturing and murdering everyone he loves in the name of justice \:'D/ SPECIFIC IMAGERY: the porcelain mask, loved ones hanging by their tongues over eternal flames, curse runes, scythe. lmk if u need like more feelings descriptions
Unsettling Images/etc eyes, rot/decay, the feeling of being watched and isolated simultaneously, ghouls, blood and flesh in teeth, torture/execution devices, hooks, metal scraping noises, the smell of burning flesh
Missing his "sense" of his surroundings, souls, earth, etc.
Character Name Keith Kogane Character Team Marigold
Symbol of Restraint Collar and leash. (From the idea that his temper makes him run into things and there have probably been times when the others express wanting to keep a leash on him / the feeling of needing to pull himself back)
Fear FEELINGS. He's afraid of having feelings about people, not having his feelings returned, having to communicate his feelings and failing to do so - feelings are stupid. This is linked to his fear of being abandoned and rejected by people he cares about; since he's an orphan it's likely that he's been through foster families who couldn't deal with his temper or otherwise were just kind of shitty, so that established a pattern of abandonment. He closes himself off from other people because it's safer, so he's not afraid of being alone, but rather of letting someone in and then losing them.
Also just, anything bad happening to Shiro, again. Pls no hurt Shiro.
Unsettling Images/etc Purple glowy liquid (corrupted quintessence), Galransymbols, dead bodies, the vast and empty abyss of space with no-one around to reach out to, weird creepy masks.
Missing okay but take his arm and give him a Galran robot arm like Shiro's he'll flip out. but uhhh. his heart (because Shiro is gone).
filling out some info for characters that may be placed by the time of the game!
Character Name Queen Semiramis of Assyria, Assassin of Red Character Team N/A
Symbol of Restraint Red, winding Command Spell chains across the skin, or poisonous, briar thorns like you would find on some plants.
Fear Wow, it's like next to nothing... But probably that she will never understand how she's supposed to act around or feel about Kuuha. That their ultimate plan would fail to succeed, and she wouldn't become the ruler of the world. Another big fear is that she is in actuality just a "dumb woman" the same as any other—she's not extraordinary—she's doomed in the end to fall prey to a man's charms, get tied up in having kids, live a boring life where she's used, and feel guilty and weak for it. Being completely and utterly alone, abandoned by the one she loves (Kuuha would suffice for this, if you need a person). Ending up hopelessly confused. Never-ending heartache.
Unsettling Images/etc Being poor, unglamorous, living in drudgery. Basically anything that defines her existing as less than royalty. Being subjugated or molested actively by a man, and being unable to stop it or fight back. Forming a 1950's happy housewife and husband couple with Shirou Kotomine, they have 2 kids and a dog and various adventures. Also she just keeps popping more babies out. Yay, moms! For a visual picture your typical, stereotypical domestic kitchen scene.
Missing She would not enjoy suddenly missing her face. Perhaps she could lose the ability to feel arousal/satisfaction.
Character Name Sakura Matou Character Team N/A
Symbol of Restraint Shadows, especially the "shadow ropes" of a manifested Angra Mainyu. Fine, silky but constraining insect threads, like for building cocoons, or strands of worm guts/slime.
Fear Ohhhh, boy. The biggest one is probably fear of losing everyone she ever loved, and it being her fault or done at her own hands. This is full of soul-crushing guilt, sadness, anger, self-hatred, despair, and insanity. Figures in her life she's especially terrified of losing forever include Shinji Matou (her brother), Rin Tohsaka (her sister), and Shirou Emiya (the boy she loves). She's also scared of the emptiness and finality of death, even at this point. She hates being in pain and wants to escape it but also fears that escape, so she can't pursue it. That she's unlovable, that she's an impure woman for reasons beyond her control, that others hate or dislike her or that she's always just a "wrong" individual.
Unsettling Images/etc The dead bodies of those she loves. Endless worms. Her loved ones suffering (in any way you see fit) for her supposed enjoyment. Probably whatever Angra Mainyu feels like tapping at her brain to show her, aka 6 billion curses in her head—distorted, evil, immensely cruel images and sounds, feelings, etc.
Missing Missing her heart! If it left a gaping hole in her chest, that would be even more traumatizing!
Symbol of Restraint ♥ Tree roots or vines ♥ A digital wall ♥ Arrow pinned to a tree.
(just listing a few, pick whichever)
Fear ♥ Honor. In a sense, it is the idea of how he can never actually reach something that he secretly wishes for. He had learned to accept it so mostly it's not there, but then sometimes there are reminders of how he really would like to try out being a noble fighter or receive a noble death. It's that bit of hope that what makes the fear strong. ♥ Disappointment! He already hates himself and understands that his nature is very bad because he tends to favor cowardly attacks like poison and guerrilla warfare. But still, it's not like he likes it when his masters don't like him or feel like he failed. He tries to set them up to low expectations for that reason. ♥ He probably is not necessarily AFRAID of fire, but he sure doesn't like it at this point lol. It's mostly related to the princess maker game where they were trying their best to raise a kid, but they were being accused of being witches. People from the village had fire torches, wanting to burn the child at the stake. ♥ Friendship. Getting close to people is weird and strange and it's only gonna get fucked up, at least that is what he imagines. Lately in Forest, he's had some great relationships building, even making friends! And he's finding himself comfortable. And there is a fear that all of that will be lost.
Unsettling Images/etc -Swords (knighthood) -Fire (a recent development lol) -Anyofhis master's face with disappointment all over them. -Dahlia team being put into pieces -Dead Trees -Scorn in villagers' eyes
Missing -His memories as long as he realizes that he's missing them. -He probably wouldn't enjoy losing any of his senses. -His bond with his master maybe?
Character Name Excalibur | Doudanuki Masakuni Character Team Sakura
Symbol of Restraint STRAPS. Just... lots and lots of straps
Fear Doudanuki's biggest fear is the fear of being considered useless. Not even just being unable to do anything, but that everyone will find something that's better than him. He's gotten enough memories to know that he's been placed in storage for centuries. Even amongst the swords, his only value is to be used, he knows he's not good looking enough to be used for display (not that he wants to be used for display in the first place). He works hard to try and be considered useful, but it seems that no matter what he does, it's worthless.
Unsettling Images/etc Being locked away, being dismembered
Missing TAKE HIS SWORD FROM HIM, since it is...actually him
other than that, take his eyesight
Edited (OK I THINK I'M GOOD) 2016-11-22 00:39 (UTC)
Symbol of Restraint HAIR PULLING specifically his hair
Fear The fear of being "loved" by others, which in this case specifically means being hurt by others who claim to love you \o/ In general, he was raised being told and believing that only one person could and would ever "love" him, and that the things they do(emotional, physical, sexual abuse etc) are all because of that "love."
Unsettling Images/etc Dusty blonde feathers, or the deteriorated bodies of past teammates(solomon, gilgamesh, chairo, etc)
Missing Touch, sight, or his ability to shift to dragon form/his magic.
Fear Superboy values himself a lot, if only because everything about him is still technically so new. He values his memories since he's already lost them once, and became an uncontrollable force.
He's also afraid of not being enough. He's not a perfect clone of Superman: can't fly, can't heat ray, can't freeze breath, not as strong and not as tough. Superman himself doesn't want anything to do with him, so he can't help but think it's because he's not good enough, especially since his human DNA donor is Lex Luthor. Not only that, but he's still a little traumatized from, you know, being killed by him, which is terrible when coupled with him realizing that he actually wants to be Superman in the future.
Unsettling Images/etc - swords - Superman turning his back on him - dead bodies of Hemlock/Robin - m o n k e y s
Missing His memories, if he's aware that he's missing them His powers
Symbol of Restraint Iron chains in the shape of ivy vines
Fear Powerlessness, particularly before captivity or death. Asterion craves freedom and life and desperately needs to be powerful enough to claim both of them for himself.
As a baby god he was repeatedly sent on a cycle of being born on the shores of an island full of mystic hippies, partying with them, being brutally sacrificed, journeying through the underworld, having his soul devoured by the lord of the dead, and being born again on the shores of an island...this is all he consciously remembers of his divine childhood, but in between his soul being eaten and his being reborn, he was kept
--in a cage in the deepest depths of the underworld, in the center of the moon in the starry night sky, forced into an enchanted sleep of death, far away from any other being, unable to speak or dance or feel the joys of life, chained in case he woke up--
--and his greatest fear is being forced back into that state for good.
Unsettling Images/etc Chains, dead ivy, sacrificial knives, "the moon is a cage."
Missing His tangibility, such that without it he becomes a ghost unable to touch anyone or grasp anything.
Fear CONCRETE: the smell / sounds of the dying (bonus added fear points of if these include his team and especially his fiancee and Kuuha) and the tortured around him, the sight of corrupted grail muck, the sensation of being bound and restrained
Unsettling Images/etc P R I S O N S. grail muck, being bound or restrained at all, organs, piercings
Missing Missing his Servanthood and just being human
- loss of those around him -- the weight of someone dying in his arms
- FUCKING SNAKES. snakeskin/ snake contact
- THE PLENTIFULNESS OF HUMANITY!!1 but no more like Too Much of anyone one thing to a degree it becomes distasteful; ants/worms/etc
Unsettling Images/etc FUCKING SNAKES, grail mud again, dickworms, tree branches/roots, basically any of the shit from here is free game (rotting corpses kept barely alive, parched lips, emaciated + limbless bodies)
Character Name Zephyr (aka Hiyori Iki) Character Team Aconite
Symbol of Restraint A paper ofuda with the word 押さえる written on it (meaning to restrain/curb/pin something down/suppress etc)
Fear Helplessness. Being unable to help, or having all of her efforts to help not working, or working against her. Her first and foremost instinct, always, is to try to help people with their problems, or to step up whenever there's an issue to be dealt with, and she tends to be a very caring/compassionate person bent on being able to comfort or help others.
She's also afraid of her teammates, especially Yonah and Komaeda, going off the rails and getting unnecessarily violent toward other people in an effort to win no-matter-what.
She has a lot of undiscovered issues too but those will have to wait for some memory regains.
Unsettling Images/etc Disembodied limbs, especially fingers and thumbs. The sight of her friends and teammates hurt (suffering from said disembodied limbs) and in obvious pain. Her friends killing others.
Missing Maybe missing vitality? Like. Feeling sickly, listless/energyless, and weak. She isn't very conscious of it yet but she's very spry and energetic, so having the rug pulled out from underneath her like that would be very shocking.
Symbol of Restraint Locked doors, specifically chain locks. When he was younger, he would be locked outside of the house as punishment.
FearDrowning. The fire in your lungs, the dread in your stomach. Being immobilized or held under water, unable to escape. In his early teens, Ren was punished by his step-father by being held under in a bathtub/kitchen sink filled with water until he almost passed out. He doesn't swim -- the idea of holding his breath = nnno. Won't happen. Wading through a stream/river/shallow water wouldn't frighten him, but anything higher than chest height will make him start to feel queasy.
Second fear is loss of autonomy. A bit trite, but not being fully in control of his own fate pokes a needle straight into the meat of all these pesky existential fears he tries very hard to pretend he doesn't have.
Unsettling Images/etc Physical abuse of children -- kids with bruises, burns, cuts. Most of his own abuse resulted from being unable to keep his temper around the father of his younger half-siblings when the man tried to become violent with them. Ren left his siblings behind when his grandparents moved him into their own home. He currently remembers nothing about his childhood, but he'll still feel an implacable sense of guilt because that would be fun to play. He abandoned his own siblings and mother to fend for themselves against a known abuser.
Fear -Body parts. He has an intense fear now of seeing his teammates just in pieces, organs lying around everywhere. This includes himself as well! I mean it's just gross and a sign of this is the stuff that's to come in this place.
-Fear of Fear. Iin one of his first games, his teammates literally had to give up bodyparts to win, and he always felt guilty about that. He, himself, was too scared to participate so he felt selfish for letting everyone else go through with it. There's a little bit of resentment too since he couldn't understand why they were so willing to give it all up in the first place.
-Fear of hackers, the unknown. In his memories, he remembers that someone hacking into his chatroom that he had made himself. He didn't know who was responsible or how, but it left a deep, unsettling feeling within his stomach. With that, his memories being missing makes it even harder not to feel discomfort and fear of what he's gonna discover.
Unsettling Images/etc -The sight of his honey buddha chips or phd pepper being crushed -His expensive sports cars being totaled -His teammates being mutilated -Himself being mutilated -Unknown things. Think like a door opening into a dark hallway or the default avatar on dreamwidth where you have no idea who is behind it.
Missing -sight or touch -gaping wounds whether its his hand missing or just holes in his body where he can see organs. -Some sort of relationship thing with his teammates! Whether it's not being able to understand their words or remembering who his teammates are at all. He knows they are his best connection so it would make him SAD.
Fear -Ororon, his youngest brother. Seventh son, the only one that mattered to Othello from his family. At five years of age, Ororon showed him sympathy and he vowed he would always support him as the future king. There is a bit of fear knowing that his brother has more compassion than any of the others in his family because it meant he had the most enemies. Compassion is also a weakness.
Futaba, his wife. The person he genuinely loved. There was a strong fear when she had an iimpensing execution ordered by his father. He had learned to rely on her strength as his own and if she died, he would find himself without it. But more importantly, he had to face that she would be dead.
Mitsume. Someone he finds way too many similarities with, a person who had no reason to live. Through him, Othello manages to make Mitsume hate enough to want to live. Does that mean he, himself, wants to live? Is there something else that can make him want to live? But they died. Theoretically, Mitsume can claw his way back to life, and he still plans to, but what would happen if he gave up?
The fears are very "what will happen?" He lives a very shallow life through sex and laughter, covering himself up with garbage so that he could try to avoid going any deeper within himself and finding something he doesn't want to see.
Unsettling Images/etc -Love -Any of his brothers besides Ororon -Ororon dead (lol he doesn't remember this) -Any image of his wife Futaba dead, or missing her head or some sort of post-execution -Dead Mitsume
Missing -Being unable to laugh or lie something away (like a truth effect) -Losing Mitsume's eye -Touch -His dick idk???
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Character Name amakusa shirou tokisada, kuuha of sakura Character Team sakura
Symbol of Restraint wooden stakes
Fear - fears losing his vision (physically) - it's less like "holy shit this is horribly awful (highkey screaming)" and more "wow this is going to be incredibly uncomfortable uhm (lowkey screaming)" - fears losing his vision (metaphorically) - losing sight of god or losing god in general, it's like the earth is crumbling underneath him and he can't stand up anymore. losing god is like breaking down his foundation and very reason for existence and life. it shakes him up super bad. - fears himself, to a certain extent - he's a little distanced from his canon self because of the amnesias and him going straight from idealistic to getting back memories of him doing, really shady things, and on one hand he does believe the ends justify the means but he doesn't remember the end or what his goal irl is so he's like, well, what if i'm doing all of these things but actually for a bad reason? - he's frightened of losing his people (sakura, friends) to the forest/the kudzu - he's also frightened of losing himself, not only to the forest but also to his alter who. he acknowledges might actually just be his more tittybaby child human side. losing to alter is basically the acknowledgement of losing to god, because then he'd, be more worldly, but also he's afraid of becoming a monster and alter is like, a monster to him. TO DEFEAT MONSTERS....... WE CREATED A MONSTER......
Unsettling Images/etc kirei --------- uhm, a dark creepy forest with no light, kudzu creeping around/consuming things like buildings and stuff, places that look homey but have had visual A Bad Thing Happened Here kind of thing -- not quite like furniture being upturned but like a spot of blood and a vase knocked over, or child-sized bloody handprints. lifeless bodies, the more lifeless bodies the more unsettling but particularly if they're children bodies. child sized bodyparts would also be super unsettling.
Missing i wanted to say arms but i have done that before uhm. a lung is always good. eyes also, he will be upset over eyes. his magic in general, also his own forest memories. also like, losing his memory of people in specific - names or etc but KNOWING that he knows them somehow would be fun to play i think. ALSO EMPATHY, LOSS OF EMPATHY, loss of shame
Fear - genghiskhan - his presence is super fucking intimidating like a wolf with a million eyes that will keep ravaging and ravaging and ravaging and burn everything in its path indiscriminately. plus he carved burning characters that make up "slave of tangut" on yurul's back so he is, reasonably not very happy about him - more than that fear, he fears becoming like genghis khan - he took it upon himself to sacrifice literally everything and even murder in order to fulfill his goals of becoming the great khan to save writing, but that also means that he has to face the idea of becoming, like this incredibly terrifying man. not in the sense that he himself would be intimidating but that he might lose himself or his goals - he's afraid of losing his goals due to losing his memories too, via forest, which means he's also afraid of losing any games. he Has His Goal and he needs to return to life and complete his goal (of making sure that the tangut writing is preserved) and it grips him so much that he is desperate to do literally anything to make sure he accomplishes his goals even murder, so the idea of going on living without even knowing those goals anymore or knowing how to read tangut is like, pretty scary as fuck. a cold fear gripping at his heart and poking at his brain that makes his back burn
Unsettling Images/etc burning books, blood on the walls, dead dogs, dead tigers, generally a lot of dead bodies. wolves with millions of eyes.
Missing the ability to read/write will fuck him up real bad, what about loss of morality/empathy tho, just, saying,
Fear Her existence having no purpose or meaning—like having never existed at all. Being forgotten, replaced, erased, trivialized, dismissed, told she does not matter, told that she is useless... does indeed scare her! What Echo seeks is not fame, but her life having some kind of value. Whether she's remembered as the weird girl who learned to live life at her own pace, or as the person who tried to help others even if it meant being nosy and annoying, Echo wants to have meant something to ANYONE... assuming she's not remembered absolutely abhorrently or in a manner that's trivialized.
For something more specific, since I've been REALLY BROAD I THINK, Dahlia: she's scared of being seen as a useless teammate who could easily be replaced, and/or being informed that her presence on Dahlia means nothing. Getting lost in the forest, being forgotten and replaced, scares her more than she could ever let on.
Additional Imagery/Feelings/Events: • sinking underwater helplessly, being forcibly held underwater, watching everything from underneath water where you can't speak/breath/hear, DROWNING ALSO • not being able to move; frozen solid; hearing only noise, static, seeing static • being instructed to switch with Noise; "yeah, Echo, you're not being useful, you're not doing anything for me, just switch with Noise" • her diary—the PROOF she hopes to leave behind—being destroyed, rendered blank, or meaningless to anyone who read it • being hated for something Noise did; Noise's existence overshadowing her own • seeming invisible, going completely unnoticed (not with achievements but quite literally) • getting lost in the forest and the aforementioned taking place • in fact, getting lost in the forest because the associations with getting lost (ie being replaced/etc) is scary enough
Unsettling Images/etc broken BJD parts (esp if they're life-sized), scissors and torn stuffed animals, puddles/bodies of water (partic if they seem dark and bottomless,) pages torn from books, bloodied blue feathers........
Missing Noise being ~removed~ would be fun to play with; after all, if Echo can't sense her presence in their body anymore, it'd rattle and unnerve the hell out of her. She's not going to be able to relax or think straight if the personality she had been born to protect is SUDDENLY GONE. she loevs noise in spite of everything, noise going missing would def distress her.
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Edited (i added a little more i'm sorry I HOPE I'M DOING OK) 2016-11-20 16:11 (UTC)
Fear - fear of becoming the traitor to great britain just like her mother said she would become. she's afraid of betraying her ideals and goals and her king that she serves, and she hates the idea of being nothing but a puppet for her mother. she wants to be more than that - defy her destiny that morgan le fay said she was doomed to - so the idea of being nothing but the puppet she was meant to be and the traitor she was slated to be is, upsetting, to say the least, - fear of being a puppet, again, losing agency. losing control of her body, like, literally losing control of her body. - fear of being rejected by her king. it's the feeling of so much adoration and respect and at the same time a feeling of crippling disgust for oneself, that one looks dirty, and then the idea of that object of idolatry looking to one and seeing all of one's faults like they're on public display. a feeling beyond humiliation - the sort of dread one feels when they're overly aware of their own faults and are waiting for the person they love to acknowledge it any day now, that suspenseful feeling that twists the gut
Unsettling Images/etc graveyards, tombstones, spooky magic things like pentagrams etc, dead bodies, anything that reminds her of her mother. fairies.
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Character Team Marigold
Symbol of Restraint this entire set if it's possible, otherwise those bindings on his hands! They restrict his ability to use his Quirk so the idea of it would be upsetting
Fear Bakugou's biggest and most crippling fear would be failure! Like not in a "I fear I will fail so I won't do the thing" but "i did the thing and somehow discovered I'm not the best?". He detests feeling/appearing vulnerable, detests the idea that his own power alone might not be enough, but the root of all that is a deep fear of failure. He is SUPER DRIVEN and determined to be successful, so falling short of his own expectations in any way is just about terrifying. Being unable to protect someone he cares for, being unable to reach a goal he set for himself (ie becoming a hero) or being unable to defeat someone he's challenging all fit in this. Related to this would also be becoming Quirkless /losing his ability to use his Quirk, as his power is very strongly tied in his view of himself! As for what failure would feel like, I think the most accurate would be humiliating, so failing would leave him feel like he's 100% worthless because if you can't be the best all the time every time what even is the point. He'd be out of breath and probably unable to process it for a while like, completely shocked. And THEN he would also rage because that's what he does LET ME KNOW IF THIS IS NOT DESCRIPTIVE ENOUGH.
Unsettling Images/etc Being locked into a pitch-black room, foreign things being showed into his throat (but like not dicks) or coming out of his throat, BEING HELD DOWN BY A SHITLOAD OF HANDS. He's mostly upset by things that would actually involve him but for imaginary seeing like. Discarded body parts and shift would upset and creep him out to an extent, and of course seeing people he cares about as THOSE MISC BODY PARTS would be even worse (Marigold, Kirishima, Khuur, Deku, Kuuha, Robin would count)
Missing missing his quirk for sure but since that's just a power which could be off during the game to begin with, his hands being cut off would do just as well since that's the source of his power (it'd also leave him feeling helpless in general because, no hands). His memories being missing would also be a huge, huge thing he'd freak out about, like just remembering forest stuff only and nothing of his actual life.
kirei's player/ginko!
Character Team Anemone
Symbol of Restraint Probably something actually like rosary beads, including cross and all. If that's taken or another character asks for it, snakes; for a third option, a crucifix or the nails associated with a crucifix, or wreaths of thorns.
Fear I'd say the only one thing he's really afraid of is that there is really no hope for him, and he's been abandoned by God forever. A few bullet points:
Unsettling Images/etc Yeah, this is probably gonna be his dead wife (dead wives???)... I can't honestly think of much else, because he'd be turned on or be like WOW THIS IS RAD about 99.9% of other really fucking disturbing stuff. Maybe just symbolism of marriage, being married, or wives would work—as well as other things specifically associated with Claudia, his wife. She was very sick and frail, so bandages, etc., would be fine.
Missing I don't actually think missing anything would terribly distress Kirei (if anything, he'd be happier if he lost some of what he is), so I'll go with what would be most enjoyable for me—maybe he'll lose his brain's ability/association to receive immense pleasure from suffering, meaning that even if he sees someone suffer or makes them suffer, he doesn't feel a corresponding thrill from it.
It's possible I'll have another character in the game by the time the deadline for this approaches (PROBABLY ANOTHER FATE/ OF SOME KIND), so I'll be sure to fill this out for them if I can! ALSO TY FOR DOING THIS
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Character Team Lycoris
Symbol of Restraint IF IT'S SOMETHING RESTRAINING HER THEN IT WOULD BE COP'S HANDCUFFS if she's restraining others she has bondage vines
Fear
CONCRETE FEARS: Beheadings, house fires, reporters swarming en masse, the sensation of getting splattered in someone else's blood, an old woman in a lace mask
ABSTRACT: fear of everything around her going to shit, people she cares for dying and it's her fault just because it is, BASICALLY HER BIGGEST FEAR IS NOT LIVING UP TO HER EXPECTATIONS OF HERSELF, she is never good enough not to feel like depressed shit 24/7. her attempts to save people end horribly (which is not due to her incompetence but rather just how fucking awful an adversary she was up agains) but these failures reinforce the idea that she is No Good and No Good Shall Come From Her. She's also down in her gut deeply afraid that only the shitty old lady was actually a god, and that all the other recurrence gods were just normal assholes who got power and were groomed for her to eat.
Unsettling Images/etc severed heads, old ladies in lace masks, Tron Aesthetic, twitter accounts with the egg icon
Missing missing her godhood would be MAXIMUM HORRIBLE she would revert to being a suicidally depressed teen human. Taking any part of her power would be bad, muting her would also be awful, I'm a big fan of blindness ETC
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Character Team Hemlock
Symbol of Restraint Blindfolds. Chains. Actually locked room would be your best bet but if that's not available then anything like chains and blindfolds are your best bet.
Fear Losing himself. Kirishima highly values his sense of self, especially with his lack of memories, but this extends towards how he handles friendships, heroism and everything. For him, abandoning friends, doing absolutely nothing to fix a situation and doing something that is unlike him causes him to falter, but it's even worse with 'inaction'. Inability to take action because he feels restrained, feels trapped, etc etc is the worst, bonus points if it makes him lose people he cares about (This could be just anyone really).
Unsettling Images/etc Dead bodies everywhere. Even worse with Hemlock/Bakugou/Amane/Ren/etc etc. Actually the worst is Bakugou because it's also due to not really actively looking for his memories like haha blame him for being a shitty friend
Missing Sight and movement. I think the images would be better in his mind, like he can't see or touch anything so all that he knows are what's projected in his head and voices of dead people
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Character Team Larkspur
Symbol of Restraint Medical restraints.
Fear FEAR OF BEING ALONE, FULL STOP. Specifically, becoming so by either the people she's come to care for turning on her/realizing that she's a disgusting monster after all or because she killed all of them \:'D/ (People would be like. Uriel, Kuuha, Dark, with maybe Giovanni and Yonah as well)
To some extent to go with this, her ~monstrous self~ tainting others? She firmly believes her own gross desires for violence/vengeance/assorted other selfish impulses that are in fact incredibly human but she thinks she's not allowed to have can "infect" other people, particularly via the team bond.
Loss of control in general is also Bad— which is a broad concept mostly because nearly any kind wigs her out. Accidentally hurting someone due to loss of control? Yep. Loss of control over herself due to berserking? YEP. Loss of control over a situation/someone else? Yeeep. She associates it universally with Bad Things Happening and starts feeling panicky and trapped and desperate.
Drowning: GIRL ONCE SPENT A FULL 24 HOURS UNDERWATER WITH THE EMOTIONAL EQUIVALENT OF THE SONIC DROWNING MUSIC IN HER HEAD AND IT STILL RANKS AS ONE OF THE MOST TERRIFYING THINGS THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED TO HER. She's too heavy/dense to swim but can't actually die from lack of oxygen in any way s o.
Unsettling Images/etc Fire, deep water (particularly if the bottom can't be seen), medical/science horror bullshit, bloody hand prints, crushed/deformed objects where you can see the imprints of what did the deforming, mirrors and other reflective surfaces in no particular order (bonus points for distorted reflections). She's esp phobic of deep water and mirrors etc make her sick though for maximum [ internal screaming ] Adding apples/other Christian imagery on a lesser scale, particularly if it's damaged or decayed.
edit to add HA HA BASICALLY THIS VIDEO...
Missing Sight, empathy/morals, or her "self control" (inhibitions/brain to mouth filter) for a lower level one! Sight would basically physically paralyze her and empathy/morals would not really bother her until after the effect is removed so I guess it depends what kind of effect you want for the game.
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Character Team Lycoris
Symbol of Restraint
LARGE, THICK CABLES/WIRES.
Fear His biggest fear is that in the end, he's just a piece of shit and doesn't really matter in the long run, that he'll be forgotten and that he never really mattered or meant anything at all to anyone. It's the fear that Setsuna will forget him, Uriel will forget him, his team and everyone he's ever known won't even think about him five minutes after the last time they see him. That he's so unimportant that he's worth less than nothing, that he isn't even worth a passing thought.
Another fear that's almost as strong is the fear of forgetting everything. He's already experienced his memories slowly slipping away before, and the thought of losing everything again is terrifying.
Unsettling Images/etc ANTIQUE MUSIC BOXES, pictures of his family, Kira's brand of cigarettes... Symbols of his past, basically.
Missing HIS MEMORIES would be the biggest thing, losing everything he had before showing up in AFD. Body parts are pretty SHRUG at this point, though losing his sight would be fun, too.
OR OH OH OH if he only forgets what he looks like, that'd be hilarious because he'd be wandering around the game with no face AND THAT'S ALWAYS FUN.
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Character Team Marigold
Symbol of Restraint A small cage, barely big enough for a red-tailed hawk to fit in. Clipped wings so he can't fly.
Fear I MEAN, RIGHT NOW, HIS BIGGEST FEAR IS YEERKS TAKING OVER? So I mean. Alien slugs taking over everyone's bodies, especially his teammates. That he's not really dead, this has all been some test and he's lost and now he's betrayed everyone and Earth is going to be taken over and he's lost the war for human freedom.
Unsettling Images/etc ALIEN SLUGS THAT CRAWL INTO YOUR HEAD AND TAKE OVER YOUR BODY.
Missing Oh oh oh oh, take away his hawk vision, leave him fucking blind, he'd super hate that.
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Character Team Hemlock
Symbol of Restraint Bandages.
Fear Deku's biggest fear is being unable to save someone. Being too late, too weak, too slow, that feeling of if you'd just been a little bit better you could have done something. He hasn't made a lot of solid connections yet but for Hemlock/Bakugou/Kuuha it'd be awful. He also fears being powerless for much the same reasons, along with that added feeling of being completely useless and having no worth as a person, although this is less potent without his memories.
Another fear is friends turning against him, helplessness as all of a sudden people who were kind to him reject him, that he did something wrong but he doesn't know what and can't fix it no matter what he tries THANKS KACCHAN. Thanks to him as well Deku's scared that one day he's going to remember doing something awful and unforgivable, but he doesn't know what it is and it's a very heavy weight on him, this crushing pressure of the unknown, the certainty that he must have done something terrible to make Kacchan this mad at him. And he's scared that Hemlock is going to find out what he did and hate him for it, since Kacchan was friends with half of them first. Combination rejection/you are terrible/abandonment issues.
Unsettling Images/etc Churches and religious symbols unnerve him a little bit after the cult prison. Dead bodies! Dead bodies of friends! Dead bodies of strangers that you know mean something to you but you can't remember what it was, who are they? Exposed brains also gross. Dead or mangled rabbits.
Missing His powers, the ability to move his arms, sight.
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Character Team Sakura
Symbol of Restraint A red string of Fate, except one part is tied around her heart and the other part is tied to some figurines that represent the Zodiac and Akito/the Jade Emperor/God.
Fear Rin's biggest fear is that she never actually died, that she's trapped forever in the Cat's Room. It's the fear that she'll never actually die, that she doesn't have this chance AFD is giving her to go back and do what she wanted most— to break the Sohma family curse. Because if she's trapped in that room, she can't do anything. She can't leave, she can't do anything. The curse will remain unbroken forever and she'll never get to free Haru and never get to purse her final rest,
Unsettling Images/etc A broken vase with the words "Remember Hatori's eye" somehow associated, a pair of scissors with strands of long black hair nearby, something something a mutilated black and white ox?!
Missing Losing the ability to talk would be SUPER DISTRESSING, YEAH!!! Failing that, taking away touch would suck, too.
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Character Team Asphodel
Symbol of Restraint one of these capsules it's hard to get a sense of the design there but this should be ssssimilar. they have different functions but brainwashing/vr tanks probably have a lot of crossover.
Fear Fear of becoming someone else, tied into lobotomies and medical horror and memory loss AND VR shit. Fear of loss of control, also up with the medical horror, being drugged etc. Fear of being buried alive. Since he has been, recently, thanks Kuuha. FEAR OF USELESSNESS/normalcy, regression to the completely average person he used to be. Fear of being a monster, regression to the actual sociopath that lobotomy left him. Basically he's a guy who's managed to marry two completely opposing personalities into one person and he's absolutely terrified of losing any part of that.
Unsettling Images/etc MEDICAL HORROR UP THE WAZOO. Syringes, nondescript pills, rooms full of mysterious medical equipment, straitjackets, that sort of thing. open or freshly filled graves.
Missing EMPATHY, memory, or failing that just take all of his skills. all of them.
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Character Team Marigold
Symbol of Restraint collar, like the one he's wearing here!
Fear Right now he's very afraid of finding out he'll remain a slave forever. He knows he WAS one, and that his life has been pretty abysmal up to the point he remembers, and he's afraid to the point where he's not even keen to win games and does it just for the sake of his teammates in case he discovers he just...lives and dies an abused slave. So feelings that go with that...uselessness, powerlessness, trapped, constrained, failing to live up to one's potential, debased, humiliated. That kind of thing.
Unsettling Images/etc Whips, canes, absolutely anything that symbolises slavery/restraint (so like handcuffs, chains, that kind of thing)
Missing Let's go with sight.
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Character Team Larkspur
Symbol of Restraint Muzzle. Leash. Hand and wrist cuffs with chains to prevent standing upright so he'd have to stay on all fours...
Fear Complete abandonment? So like...being alone and completely unwanted by anyone at all (but particularly by people of importance to him). That comes with a panicky kind of terror but also a deeper, more pervasive sadness like a hollowness in the chest and waves of nausea and just...despair.
Unsettling Images/etc Tra-la-la! also like....images of Angelika sneering, and those dog-mask soldiers from DOGS.
Missing Missing sight, missing sense of touch, but also if his collar was missing he'd be distressed as fuck. Missing regen powers also freaks him out a whole lot annnnd can lead to fun stuff.
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Character Team Marigold
Symbol of Restraint Snakes, or puppet strings.
Fear Ooh boy, here we go. Amane is a bucket of many fears. Some of them she's either repressing or has surface-level awareness, but she won't acknowledge them. Ever. idk if you wanna play with that, but I'll mark them.
Overview: Fear of loneliness, ineptitude, uselessness, lacking, having no place in the world, never reconciling with her sister
Amane's world is near entirely defined and set by two people, her mother and, to a lesser, but still highly significant degree, her sister. and maybe her dad i guess sometimes he's kind of a fuckboi tho w/e.
Unsettling Images/etc Groups of snakes. Giant snakes. u get the idea. sneks are bad. Her father turned into a doll, absolute darkness, the sensation or sight of being inside a body cavity. Deep wells/pits that one cannot get out of. If those pits have snakes fuck. that.
Missing sight and/or touch together would freak her the fuck out, because it would just reinforce her existential angst.
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Character Team Sakura
Symbol of Restraint Hands. Failing that, cloth measuring tape - the kind you'd use for tailoring.
Fear
- Being grabbed around her neck/throat is on the small side compared to the rest but she feels a lot of discomfort from the restrictive aspect - not so much the loss of breath but just being held in a way that gives someone else influence over her faculties in general. A very specific example of anxieties surrounding loss of bodily agency I guess?
- WAY BIGGER THAN THAT IS her fear of being alone. It's not just being alone because she's been alone her entire life, but the idea that everyone important to her (which is just Sakura honestly, Arjuna, Kuuha, Maribel and Haku then everyone else just sort of generally) will just up and leave her in favor of relationships with people they care about more than her. Because those people are better than her somehow and better at fulfilling their needs than she is, because she's just - nothing. She's nothing and has nothing to give anyone and is completely devoid of any intrinsic individual value. All of her value comes from what others make of her so if they can get the same thing better from someone else then what good is she? So it's not as simple as being "alone," it's ending up alone because you lost the people that stopped you from being alone. Having nothing when you used to have something, because you weren't enough and everyone left because they realized they could do better.
It doesn't really have to be people, though - part of her anxiety with Kuuha is that if he starts to enjoy Indulging too much then there won't be any reason for them to keep talking the way they do (even if they moved off of that topic forever ago) so he'll move on from her now that she's not necessary anymore. There is some unrelated general anxiety surrounding that topic, but the actual fear is that he'll throw her away and she won't have that anymore.
Unsettling Images/etc Wide, empty spaces; she has a strong stomach but reminders of her experiences can get to her pretty quickly. Rooms with no people and sparse/no furniture, deep bottomless water, pits, the vastness of space. The Void. A big bed with a dent where a human would go. Apothecary's bottles/flasks, syringes. A long, vacant dinnertable.
Missing Hearing or touch would both be equally bad because she relies on both in her interactions with others and starts to get incredibly anxious without any noise at all. Taking her ability to speak works too, or you can stop her from using her arms/hands again since that is obviously working out really well for her right now.
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Character Team Anemone
Symbol of Restraint A cross charm hanging at the end of a long black chain necklace. The cross looks like this.
Fear Fear of losing his reason for living; he knows he lost it once before because he killed himself, but he's afraid of falling into total despair again. He's afraid of being rejected by the people who matter to him, and at this point no one really does, so it's more of an abstract concept than a possibility. He's afraid of being alone, too--completely and totally isolated from others. He'd freak out a bit and it might trigger an anxiety attack.
Unsettling Images/etc The aforementioned cross necklace, blood underneath fingernails, standing at the edge of a cliff with an empty abyss below, being held in someone's arms as they slowly dissolve into nothingness (maybe ash, or dirt), a spray of blood from a neatly-opened artery filling up the space you're in until you drown in it. ETA Zombified and/or dead animals are now #1 in this category.
Missing Sense of touch would bother him a lotttttt.
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Character Team Larkspur
Symbol of Restraint corset piercing ribbons and/or the threads from Hedera's intro event tbh
Fear losing himself to the mask entirely and torturing and murdering everyone he loves in the name of justice \:'D/ SPECIFIC IMAGERY: the porcelain mask, loved ones hanging by their tongues over eternal flames, curse runes, scythe. lmk if u need like more feelings descriptions
Unsettling Images/etc eyes, rot/decay, the feeling of being watched and isolated simultaneously, ghouls, blood and flesh in teeth, torture/execution devices, hooks, metal scraping noises, the smell of burning flesh
Missing his "sense" of his surroundings, souls, earth, etc.
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Character Team Marigold
Symbol of Restraint Collar and leash. (From the idea that his temper makes him run into things and there have probably been times when the others express wanting to keep a leash on him / the feeling of needing to pull himself back)
Fear FEELINGS. He's afraid of having feelings about people, not having his feelings returned, having to communicate his feelings and failing to do so - feelings are stupid. This is linked to his fear of being abandoned and rejected by people he cares about; since he's an orphan it's likely that he's been through foster families who couldn't deal with his temper or otherwise were just kind of shitty, so that established a pattern of abandonment. He closes himself off from other people because it's safer, so he's not afraid of being alone, but rather of letting someone in and then losing them.
Also just, anything bad happening to Shiro, again. Pls no hurt Shiro.
Unsettling Images/etc Purple glowy liquid (corrupted quintessence), Galran symbols, dead bodies, the vast and empty abyss of space with no-one around to reach out to, weird creepy masks.
Missing okay but take his arm and give him a Galran robot arm like Shiro's he'll flip out. but uhhh. his heart (because Shiro is gone).
filling out some info for characters that may be placed by the time of the game!
Character Team N/A
Symbol of Restraint Red, winding Command Spell chains across the skin, or poisonous, briar thorns like you would find on some plants.
Fear Wow, it's like next to nothing... But probably that she will never understand how she's supposed to act around or feel about Kuuha. That their ultimate plan would fail to succeed, and she wouldn't become the ruler of the world. Another big fear is that she is in actuality just a "dumb woman" the same as any other—she's not extraordinary—she's doomed in the end to fall prey to a man's charms, get tied up in having kids, live a boring life where she's used, and feel guilty and weak for it. Being completely and utterly alone, abandoned by the one she loves (Kuuha would suffice for this, if you need a person). Ending up hopelessly confused. Never-ending heartache.
Unsettling Images/etc Being poor, unglamorous, living in drudgery. Basically anything that defines her existing as less than royalty. Being subjugated or molested actively by a man, and being unable to stop it or fight back. Forming a 1950's happy housewife and husband couple with Shirou Kotomine, they have 2 kids and a dog and various adventures. Also she just keeps popping more babies out. Yay, moms! For a visual picture your typical, stereotypical domestic kitchen scene.
Missing She would not enjoy suddenly missing her face. Perhaps she could lose the ability to feel arousal/satisfaction.
Character Name Sakura Matou
Character Team N/A
Symbol of Restraint Shadows, especially the "shadow ropes" of a manifested Angra Mainyu. Fine, silky but constraining insect threads, like for building cocoons, or strands of worm guts/slime.
Fear Ohhhh, boy. The biggest one is probably fear of losing everyone she ever loved, and it being her fault or done at her own hands. This is full of soul-crushing guilt, sadness, anger, self-hatred, despair, and insanity. Figures in her life she's especially terrified of losing forever include Shinji Matou (her brother), Rin Tohsaka (her sister), and Shirou Emiya (the boy she loves). She's also scared of the emptiness and finality of death, even at this point. She hates being in pain and wants to escape it but also fears that escape, so she can't pursue it. That she's unlovable, that she's an impure woman for reasons beyond her control, that others hate or dislike her or that she's always just a "wrong" individual.
Unsettling Images/etc The dead bodies of those she loves. Endless worms. Her loved ones suffering (in any way you see fit) for her supposed enjoyment. Probably whatever Angra Mainyu feels like tapping at her brain to show her, aka 6 billion curses in her head—distorted, evil, immensely cruel images and sounds, feelings, etc.
Missing Missing her heart! If it left a gaping hole in her chest, that would be even more traumatizing!
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Character Team Dahlia
Symbol of Restraint
♥ Tree roots or vines
♥ A digital wall
♥ Arrow pinned to a tree.
(just listing a few, pick whichever)
Fear
♥ Honor. In a sense, it is the idea of how he can never actually reach something that he secretly wishes for. He had learned to accept it so mostly it's not there, but then sometimes there are reminders of how he really would like to try out being a noble fighter or receive a noble death. It's that bit of hope that what makes the fear strong.
♥ Disappointment! He already hates himself and understands that his nature is very bad because he tends to favor cowardly attacks like poison and guerrilla warfare. But still, it's not like he likes it when his masters don't like him or feel like he failed. He tries to set them up to low expectations for that reason.
♥ He probably is not necessarily AFRAID of fire, but he sure doesn't like it at this point lol. It's mostly related to the princess maker game where they were trying their best to raise a kid, but they were being accused of being witches. People from the village had fire torches, wanting to burn the child at the stake.
♥ Friendship. Getting close to people is weird and strange and it's only gonna get fucked up, at least that is what he imagines. Lately in Forest, he's had some great relationships building, even making friends! And he's finding himself comfortable. And there is a fear that all of that will be lost.
Unsettling Images/etc
-Swords (knighthood)
-Fire (a recent development lol)
-Any of his master's face with disappointment all over them.
-Dahlia team being put into pieces
-Dead Trees
-Scorn in villagers' eyes
Missing
-His memories as long as he realizes that he's missing them.
-He probably wouldn't enjoy losing any of his senses.
-His bond with his master maybe?
If you need more, let me know.
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Character Team Sakura
Symbol of Restraint STRAPS. Just... lots and lots of straps
Fear Doudanuki's biggest fear is the fear of being considered useless. Not even just being unable to do anything, but that everyone will find something that's better than him. He's gotten enough memories to know that he's been placed in storage for centuries. Even amongst the swords, his only value is to be used, he knows he's not good looking enough to be used for display (not that he wants to be used for display in the first place). He works hard to try and be considered useful, but it seems that no matter what he does, it's worthless.
Unsettling Images/etc Being locked away, being dismembered
Missing TAKE HIS SWORD FROM HIM, since it is...actually him
other than that, take his eyesight
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Character Team Aconite
Symbol of Restraint HAIR PULLING specifically his hair
Fear The fear of being "loved" by others, which in this case specifically means being hurt by others who claim to love you \o/ In general, he was raised being told and believing that only one person could and would ever "love" him, and that the things they do(emotional, physical, sexual abuse etc) are all because of that "love."
Unsettling Images/etc Dusty blonde feathers, or the deteriorated bodies of past teammates(solomon, gilgamesh, chairo, etc)
Missing Touch, sight, or his ability to shift to dragon form/his magic.
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Character Team Hemlock
Symbol of Restraint Inhibitor collar
Fear Superboy values himself a lot, if only because everything about him is still technically so new. He values his memories since he's already lost them once, and became an uncontrollable force.
He's also afraid of not being enough. He's not a perfect clone of Superman: can't fly, can't heat ray, can't freeze breath, not as strong and not as tough. Superman himself doesn't want anything to do with him, so he can't help but think it's because he's not good enough, especially since his human DNA donor is Lex Luthor. Not only that, but he's still a little traumatized from, you know, being killed by him, which is terrible when coupled with him realizing that he actually wants to be Superman in the future.
Unsettling Images/etc
- swords
- Superman turning his back on him
- dead bodies of Hemlock/Robin
- m o n k e y s
Missing His memories, if he's aware that he's missing them
His powers
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Character Team Aconite
Symbol of Restraint Iron chains in the shape of ivy vines
Fear Powerlessness, particularly before captivity or death. Asterion craves freedom and life and desperately needs to be powerful enough to claim both of them for himself.
As a baby god he was repeatedly sent on a cycle of being born on the shores of an island full of mystic hippies, partying with them, being brutally sacrificed, journeying through the underworld, having his soul devoured by the lord of the dead, and being born again on the shores of an island...this is all he consciously remembers of his divine childhood, but in between his soul being eaten and his being reborn, he was kept
--in a cage in the deepest depths of the underworld, in the center of the moon in the starry night sky, forced into an enchanted sleep of death, far away from any other being, unable to speak or dance or feel the joys of life, chained in case he woke up--
--and his greatest fear is being forced back into that state for good.
Unsettling Images/etc Chains, dead ivy, sacrificial knives, "the moon is a cage."
Missing His tangibility, such that without it he becomes a ghost unable to touch anyone or grasp anything.
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Character Team Sakura
Symbol of Restraint Iron shackles + chains ( or like if u want variety one of the leathery shits covering his hands -- )
Fear CONCRETE: the smell / sounds of the dying (bonus added fear points of if these include his team and especially his fiancee and Kuuha) and the tortured around him, the sight of corrupted grail muck, the sensation of being bound and restrained
Unsettling Images/etc P R I S O N S. grail muck, being bound or restrained at all, organs, piercings
Missing Missing his Servanthood and just being human
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Character Team Anemone
Symbol of Restraint Branches
Fear
- death/dying; memento mori shit in general
- loss of those around him -- the weight of someone dying in his arms
- FUCKING SNAKES. snakeskin/ snake contact
- THE PLENTIFULNESS OF HUMANITY!!1 but no more like Too Much of anyone one thing to a degree it becomes distasteful; ants/worms/etc
Unsettling Images/etc FUCKING SNAKES, grail mud again, dickworms, tree branches/roots, basically any of the shit from here is free game (rotting corpses kept barely alive, parched lips, emaciated + limbless bodies)
Missing Self-esteem
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Character Team Aconite
Symbol of Restraint
A paper ofuda with the word 押さえる written on it (meaning to restrain/curb/pin something down/suppress etc)
Fear
Helplessness. Being unable to help, or having all of her efforts to help not working, or working against her. Her first and foremost instinct, always, is to try to help people with their problems, or to step up whenever there's an issue to be dealt with, and she tends to be a very caring/compassionate person bent on being able to comfort or help others.
She's also afraid of her teammates, especially Yonah and Komaeda, going off the rails and getting unnecessarily violent toward other people in an effort to win no-matter-what.
She has a lot of undiscovered issues too but those will have to wait for some memory regains.
Unsettling Images/etc Disembodied limbs, especially fingers and thumbs. The sight of her friends and teammates hurt (suffering from said disembodied limbs) and in obvious pain. Her friends killing others.
Missing Maybe missing vitality? Like. Feeling sickly, listless/energyless, and weak. She isn't very conscious of it yet but she's very spry and energetic, so having the rug pulled out from underneath her like that would be very shocking.
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Character Team Asphodel!
Symbol of Restraint Locked doors, specifically chain locks. When he was younger, he would be locked outside of the house as punishment.
Fear Drowning. The fire in your lungs, the dread in your stomach. Being immobilized or held under water, unable to escape. In his early teens, Ren was punished by his step-father by being held under in a bathtub/kitchen sink filled with water until he almost passed out. He doesn't swim -- the idea of holding his breath = nnno. Won't happen. Wading through a stream/river/shallow water wouldn't frighten him, but anything higher than chest height will make him start to feel queasy.
Second fear is loss of autonomy. A bit trite, but not being fully in control of his own fate pokes a needle straight into the meat of all these pesky existential fears he tries very hard to pretend he doesn't have.
Unsettling Images/etc Physical abuse of children -- kids with bruises, burns, cuts. Most of his own abuse resulted from being unable to keep his temper around the father of his younger half-siblings when the man tried to become violent with them. Ren left his siblings behind when his grandparents moved him into their own home. He currently remembers nothing about his childhood, but he'll still feel an implacable sense of guilt
because that would be fun to play. He abandoned his own siblings and mother to fend for themselves against a known abuser.Missing Loss of hearing!
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Character Team Aconite
Symbol of Restraint Handcuffs or computer wires
Fear
-Body parts. He has an intense fear now of seeing his teammates just in pieces, organs lying around everywhere. This includes himself as well! I mean it's just gross and a sign of this is the stuff that's to come in this place.
-Fear of Fear. Iin one of his first games, his teammates literally had to give up bodyparts to win, and he always felt guilty about that. He, himself, was too scared to participate so he felt selfish for letting everyone else go through with it. There's a little bit of resentment too since he couldn't understand why they were so willing to give it all up in the first place.
-Fear of hackers, the unknown. In his memories, he remembers that someone hacking into his chatroom that he had made himself. He didn't know who was responsible or how, but it left a deep, unsettling feeling within his stomach. With that, his memories being missing makes it even harder not to feel discomfort and fear of what he's gonna discover.
Unsettling Images/etc
-The sight of his honey buddha chips or phd pepper being crushed
-His expensive sports cars being totaled
-His teammates being mutilated
-Himself being mutilated
-Unknown things. Think like a door opening into a dark hallway or the default avatar on dreamwidth where you have no idea who is behind it.
Missing
-sight or touch
-gaping wounds whether its his hand missing or just holes in his body where he can see organs.
-Some sort of relationship thing with his teammates! Whether it's not being able to understand their words or remembering who his teammates are at all. He knows they are his best connection so it would make him SAD.
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Character Team Hemlock
Symbol of Restraint Prison bars, hands
Fear -Ororon, his youngest brother. Seventh son, the only one that mattered to Othello from his family. At five years of age, Ororon showed him sympathy and he vowed he would always support him as the future king. There is a bit of fear knowing that his brother has more compassion than any of the others in his family because it meant he had the most enemies. Compassion is also a weakness.
Futaba, his wife. The person he genuinely loved. There was a strong fear when she had an iimpensing execution ordered by his father. He had learned to rely on her strength as his own and if she died, he would find himself without it. But more importantly, he had to face that she would be dead.
Mitsume. Someone he finds way too many similarities with, a person who had no reason to live. Through him, Othello manages to make Mitsume hate enough to want to live. Does that mean he, himself, wants to live? Is there something else that can make him want to live? But they died. Theoretically, Mitsume can claw his way back to life, and he still plans to, but what would happen if he gave up?
The fears are very "what will happen?" He lives a very shallow life through sex and laughter, covering himself up with garbage so that he could try to avoid going any deeper within himself and finding something he doesn't want to see.
Unsettling Images/etc -Love
-Any of his brothers besides Ororon
-Ororon dead (lol he doesn't remember this)
-Any image of his wife Futaba dead, or missing her head or some sort of post-execution
-Dead Mitsume
Missing
-Being unable to laugh or lie something away (like a truth effect)
-Losing Mitsume's eye
-Touch
-His dick idk???
This is so late and I dont actually expect u to add it, I understand if u dont, but mostly i wanted to add it for u to yell at me i love u
i'm sorry i'm bad
Character Team sakura
Symbol of Restraint wooden stakes
Fear
- fears losing his vision (physically) - it's less like "holy shit this is horribly awful (highkey screaming)" and more "wow this is going to be incredibly uncomfortable uhm (lowkey screaming)"
- fears losing his vision (metaphorically) - losing sight of god or losing god in general, it's like the earth is crumbling underneath him and he can't stand up anymore. losing god is like breaking down his foundation and very reason for existence and life. it shakes him up super bad.
- fears himself, to a certain extent - he's a little distanced from his canon self because of the amnesias and him going straight from idealistic to getting back memories of him doing, really shady things, and on one hand he does believe the ends justify the means but he doesn't remember the end or what his goal irl is so he's like, well, what if i'm doing all of these things but actually for a bad reason?
- he's frightened of losing his people (sakura, friends) to the forest/the kudzu
- he's also frightened of losing himself, not only to the forest but also to his alter who. he acknowledges might actually just be his more tittybaby child human side. losing to alter is basically the acknowledgement of losing to god, because then he'd, be more worldly, but also he's afraid of becoming a monster and alter is like, a monster to him. TO DEFEAT MONSTERS....... WE CREATED A MONSTER......
Unsettling Images/etc kirei --------- uhm, a dark creepy forest with no light, kudzu creeping around/consuming things like buildings and stuff, places that look homey but have had visual A Bad Thing Happened Here kind of thing -- not quite like furniture being upturned but like a spot of blood and a vase knocked over, or child-sized bloody handprints. lifeless bodies, the more lifeless bodies the more unsettling but particularly if they're children bodies. child sized bodyparts would also be super unsettling.
Missing i wanted to say arms but i have done that before uhm. a lung is always good. eyes also, he will be upset over eyes. his magic in general, also his own forest memories. also like, losing his memory of people in specific - names or etc but KNOWING that he knows them somehow would be fun to play i think. ALSO EMPATHY, LOSS OF EMPATHY, loss of shame
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Character Team lycoris
Symbol of Restraint thick rope
Fear
- genghis khan - his presence is super fucking intimidating like a wolf with a million eyes that will keep ravaging and ravaging and ravaging and burn everything in its path indiscriminately. plus he carved burning characters that make up "slave of tangut" on yurul's back so he is, reasonably not very happy about him
- more than that fear, he fears becoming like genghis khan - he took it upon himself to sacrifice literally everything and even murder in order to fulfill his goals of becoming the great khan to save writing, but that also means that he has to face the idea of becoming, like this incredibly terrifying man. not in the sense that he himself would be intimidating but that he might lose himself or his goals
- he's afraid of losing his goals due to losing his memories too, via forest, which means he's also afraid of losing any games. he Has His Goal and he needs to return to life and complete his goal (of making sure that the tangut writing is preserved) and it grips him so much that he is desperate to do literally anything to make sure he accomplishes his goals even murder, so the idea of going on living without even knowing those goals anymore or knowing how to read tangut is like, pretty scary as fuck. a cold fear gripping at his heart and poking at his brain that makes his back burn
Unsettling Images/etc burning books, blood on the walls, dead dogs, dead tigers, generally a lot of dead bodies. wolves with millions of eyes.
Missing the ability to read/write will fuck him up real bad, what about loss of morality/empathy tho, just, saying,
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Character Team Dahlia
Symbol of Restraint CHAINS. Yeah... just chains.
Fear Her existence having no purpose or meaning—like having never existed at all. Being forgotten, replaced, erased, trivialized, dismissed, told she does not matter, told that she is useless... does indeed scare her! What Echo seeks is not fame, but her life having some kind of value. Whether she's remembered as the weird girl who learned to live life at her own pace, or as the person who tried to help others even if it meant being nosy and annoying, Echo wants to have meant something to ANYONE... assuming she's not remembered absolutely abhorrently or in a manner that's trivialized.
For something more specific, since I've been REALLY BROAD I THINK, Dahlia: she's scared of being seen as a useless teammate who could easily be replaced, and/or being informed that her presence on Dahlia means nothing. Getting lost in the forest, being forgotten and replaced, scares her more than she could ever let on.
Additional Imagery/Feelings/Events:
• sinking underwater helplessly, being forcibly held underwater, watching everything from underneath water where you can't speak/breath/hear, DROWNING ALSO
• not being able to move; frozen solid; hearing only noise, static, seeing static
• being instructed to switch with Noise; "yeah, Echo, you're not being useful, you're not doing anything for me, just switch with Noise"
• her diary—the PROOF she hopes to leave behind—being destroyed, rendered blank, or meaningless to anyone who read it
• being hated for something Noise did; Noise's existence overshadowing her own
• seeming invisible, going completely unnoticed (not with achievements but quite literally)
• getting lost in the forest and the aforementioned taking place
• in fact, getting lost in the forest because the associations with getting lost (ie being replaced/etc) is scary enough
Unsettling Images/etc broken BJD parts (esp if they're life-sized), scissors and torn stuffed animals, puddles/bodies of water (partic if they seem dark and bottomless,) pages torn from books, bloodied blue feathers........
Missing Noise being ~removed~ would be fun to play with; after all, if Echo can't sense her presence in their body anymore, it'd rattle and unnerve the hell out of her. She's not going to be able to relax or think straight if the personality she had been born to protect is SUDDENLY GONE. she loevs noise in spite of everything, noise going missing would def distress her.
THANK YOU FOR LETTING US SIGN UP LATE AJ, AND I'M SORRY FOR GETTING TO THIS SO LATE. also i hope this suffices!!
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Character Team dahlia
Symbol of Restraint puppet strings.
Fear
- fear of becoming the traitor to great britain just like her mother said she would become. she's afraid of betraying her ideals and goals and her king that she serves, and she hates the idea of being nothing but a puppet for her mother. she wants to be more than that - defy her destiny that morgan le fay said she was doomed to - so the idea of being nothing but the puppet she was meant to be and the traitor she was slated to be is, upsetting, to say the least,
- fear of being a puppet, again, losing agency. losing control of her body, like, literally losing control of her body.
- fear of being rejected by her king. it's the feeling of so much adoration and respect and at the same time a feeling of crippling disgust for oneself, that one looks dirty, and then the idea of that object of idolatry looking to one and seeing all of one's faults like they're on public display. a feeling beyond humiliation - the sort of dread one feels when they're overly aware of their own faults and are waiting for the person they love to acknowledge it any day now, that suspenseful feeling that twists the gut
Unsettling Images/etc graveyards, tombstones, spooky magic things like pentagrams etc, dead bodies, anything that reminds her of her mother. fairies.
Missing sense of touch, limb control, strength