Nightmares Redux, consolidated post.
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Nightmares (redux)
Sentences have been arranged by canon. There is a standing warning for gore, disturbingness, implicit or explicit spoilers, and the occasional sexual act.
Berserk
Farnese
Farnese had no idea that lace had tiny fingers in it, like insects do, that graft into your pores like roots. Or maybe she did.
Final Fantasy VI
Celes Chere
It is true, what they say. Her blood is so blue and so cold that it does not even flow, when they hack off her head.
Final Fantasy VII
Dr. Maximilian Hojo
She looks up at him from around Valentine's cock. "Oh," she says, muffled by the girth, "Max. Join us?"
Ivalice (includes Schwanengesang OCs)
Reks
He can carry it, he promises, just a couple more steps--
Bergan
The egg cracks. It has always been hollow. Or perhaps, thinks Bergan, I cannot see what hatched.
Drace
Oh, she can take this. What do her hands matter? Her feet? Her eyes, ears, tongue? These things are not her. What she is, no searing blade can reach--but drips out of her with her blood, all the same.
Zargabaath
He imagined being torn to shreds like this would actually hurt.
Reks Halim Margrace Dalmasca
Mother is clawing out her stomach, desperate, urgent, desperate, whimpering, as if if she does not kill it soon it will grow too strong for her--
"Let me," says the Judge, and runs her through.
Heios Nabradia Solidor
And then his father takes the sky away too, turns it into crystal, locks it in his desk drawer. "Now you have nowhere to go," he says, and smiles snaggletoothed. "Stay where you are loved."
Ramza Beoulve
The dead don't speak, but somehow they blame him for everything.
Zalbag Beoulve
"Father," he says, and watches himself say it, and raises his hands to strangle this doppelganger, too hesitant, too late, "you deserved it."
Delita Hyral
You would think knocking out all the bastard's teeth would make him smile less.
Ashley Riot
The dream begins, at least, this time. Instead, he wakes.
Grissom Laertatison
It turns out that there is a God, and he does know everything.
Joshua Bardorba
He cannot climb any higher.
Yoshua Dances-the-Spiral
Even Mother slips and calls him Sydney.
Liberi Tenebri
Quistian Baron Trepe
Quistian wakes to bright slats in his blinds, humming insects, the smell of bread. He has no idea who he is.
Ouran High School Host Club
Suoh Tamaki
"Maman," says Tamaki, "I'm--I'm back!"
"Yes," she replies. "But who are you?"
Revolutionary Girl Utena
Arisugawa Juri
Shiori's smile is perfect and plastic, her mouth electricity-warm. She clutches so hopefully at Juri's lapels, upturned and wanting. There is buzzing, white light, as vacant as her eyes.
Kiryuu Touga
He is small and plain again, and still they fawn on him, with their liquid smiles and cocksure eyes.
Tatsuki Shiori
Just a bit more, Shiori thinks, listening to the chrysalis peel. Just a bit more, and then everyone can see what I really am.
Tsuchiya Ruka
Clocks tick, for Ruka, fractions of a second off from each other, coagulating into one explosive buzz that never climaxes.
Saiyonji Kyouichi
--and then she bites.
Suikoden
Apple
Mathiu's brains are spilling out. "Oh," says Shu.
Lightning Flik
And then the wires cut effortless through his knees.
Sierra Mikain
The world is shining and new again. There are exciting things in it, simple ones, the sheen of the sun on a flower, the sound of a passing gnat. And then she wakes.
Mathiu Silverberg
Every mirror in the house shows Leon, except one. That one shows Odessa.
Yuber
He runs the bastard through hacks off his helm rips out his spine and nothing happens--
Percival Fraulein
The world's gone beyond desert and into wasteland. Nothing can thrive here. But the earth is still greedy, and drinks everything he pours out of himself, all his magic, all his filth, all his blood.
Euram Barrows
The paint smells horrid, crackling like this. The carpet, worse. The wood, much better when the fire gets to it. It never gets thin enough for his fists and tears to break, though.
Luserina Barrows
The strings start to break. Instead of collapsing, the puppets turn back to her, and frown, and tie themselves back on.
Dinn
Salisha's kiss is as dry as the desert and stretches for as long. This wouldn't vex him at all, if the battle around them was over. It's not. And she has his lips, his hands, and his sword.
Sialeeds Falenas
She wipes Arshtat's blood off the crown and purses her lips, applying a thin coat. Gizel's reflection is beside hers--she remembers, eyeliner.
Gizel Godwin
His mother embraces him from behind and tells him that she is proud. He wonders if the dagger made it all the way through his belly, into hers.
Craig Laden
They are surrounded. The mounts are restless. Craig knows he will be the last. This is wrong.
Lucrecia Merces
Apparently, she decides just before her skin turns black, water is insufficient.
Norma and/or Ernst
They find the mage, at last, at last--. He smiles and says, "but that is his true form."
Oboro
This time, he's with the mice, scavenging. The battle's already over before it began--the general's in bed with his camp-follower--she's crying instead of sounding the alarm--her tears are poison.
Georg Prime
"Hey," Ferid chuckles, "thanks."
Rahal
Darkness has weight, enough to make his shoulders groan, enough to stifle the chaos of voices calling, enough to muffle his own. But none of the others are crying for him--or in the voice of anyone he knows.
Rania
Eventually, silence.
Zegai
"There had been peace," says Zegai to himself. "Better that than freedom." He agrees.
--
There. Wasn't that shiny?