Trigger warning for scary stuff. (Trauma, horror, murdering robots, random anecdotes) Also this is a long rant.
I have a love-hate relationship with the horror genre.
Cause on one hand, I love Invader Zim, Coraline, and 9. I guess those fall more under psycological horror?
But the moody colors, plot, character dynamics, and clear thought put into worldbuilding is so cool. I read a book with (pretty sure this is the wrong word) but melancholy theming with stars and purple tears and roses and I thought it was neat. If my obsession with my little pony and cute characters didnât win over iâd probably be goth (is that the right grammar? Anyway)
On the other hand. I was traumatized as a kid from FNAF. I still canât stand it today. I hate those roblox horror games. I hate that scps, creepypastas, and other scary stuff typically has no warning and is advertised to children. Just the concept of a monster with no morality or soul that will mercilessly hunt you down and kill you and thereâs nothing you can do to stop it.
And i can perfectly understand that a lot of people like that stuff! Itâs fun to come up with stories, and I myself have tried to do horror characters (iâm not very good at it and i stopped cause it makes me remember all of the above). But it still bothers me. Years later. Like years ago I accidentally clicked on quite a few youtube videos, not really knowing the extent of how horrifying it really is, with no clarification if itâs even real, cause sometimes its hard to tell. And i still get this today! I like listening to iceberg videos because of the facts and for background noise, when all of a sudden at the bottom thereâs a fact about dead puppies or something and im like .. what?? And then i think about it for weeks and I have no rest- And the horror stuff can very easily change the way you think about things and it takes you years to realize. I thought I was going to be eaten alive when I was asleep when I was loosely EIGHT. I developed a weird thing with eye contact cause I hated when my dolls were looking at me. I probably had a couple extra years of playing ahead of me that got cut short because I was scared. I went out of my way to design a line of dolls that had blindfolds. I still have the concept in my digital art folder somewhere. Every once in a while I have a weird thought or strong aversion to something random that later I realise stemmed from the whole thing. Half the time I donât even like to bring it up and I just mention it vaguely. (Itâs hard cause my bffâs little brother keeps trying to show us videos of whatever bloody monster is recommended to him) (ive been trying not to overstep but it feels like i have an oppurtunity to save baby me from the same fate when i know its not like that at all.)
And another facet to the whole thing is that I have an interest in robotics.. like I still flinch when the halloween robots at samâs make eye contact with me. Yet I love ye olde robot entertainment restaurants for the characters and electronics and engineering, and even down to the vibe of the red curtains. How is it even possible to love something that scares you to your core?? I think iâm mostly over that part but I still wonder about it. Also the Rockafire Explosion is great and I have a headcanon that Mitzi broke the rear axle of her boyfriendâs car. Miniâs line delivery in the version of the song adds to the headcanon that sheâs innocent but Mitzi is just like that (tm)
Experimentally I made a game exploring the concept of robot mascots in disrepair that DONT want to kill you but are a hazard because theyâve been abandoned. And this was in coding class in high school, where we used Alice for some reason. Anyway the game wasnât very good but I failed in my point because litterally the five other people in the class were teasing me that it was fnaf when that was not the point.
(One person really liked my game though, and he came up with speedrunning categories like Void% [there was a fog effect] and CatsHead% because there was a glitch where if you stood behind the cat character at the right angle, the head deforms in a way that isnt possible using just code [the game engine was Alice, ther version we used was the 2004 one lol] and it crashes the game. It was kind of funny and I kept crashing the game cause I was having a hard time with the whole thing (exposure therapy I guess?) and it was the only thing that stopped my fingers from going cold. Anyway it was really cool that he liked my game even though it was glitchy and half finished)
So um I rambled a lot but my point is that the brain is a weird thing and people should not advertise horror to children. Also please be kind and give proper trigger warnings please, other than (This is scary! If youre a wimp turn back now!). Also i proofread this like ten times but im worried something bad will happen? Why brain do that?? Is this an ominous warning or because i just dont like talking about this stuff??