#screamer

niightcore? more liike niightmare!

Sure, creepy jumpscare in a weirdcore video was enough to earn eyes, but Ikimono herself was just so...out of place compared to the puppet characters. For one, she wasn't kitbashed together, she was hand-drawn and smooth(ish)ly animated, but more striking was her more horrific look. She was dressed in a very old, clearly damaged straight jacket with odd stains, her skin was slightly greenish-purple, and she was rotten. Her eyelids were tacked open, her cheeks were full of holes looking into her mouth, she had black fluffy patches on her face and neck that looked like mold, her hands had rotten holes that let you see her bones, and the tips of her fingers were either cut off or degloved. I have no idea how someone who had to have been as young as wendiesdoodles was at the time could have animated that, but bravo to her for doing it because it had screamer potential if Bread and Circuses ever went mainstream. Christ. What a first upload. I know theres some kid out there with trauma from getting it recommended to them.

Ikimono was the puppeteer of the circus, and from what information we had about the other performers, she was there the longest (some speculated she was there longer than Sunshine). She tended to be more secluded away from the others, as she was either in the rafters during the show or in her boxcar reading or mending her puppets. She really liked gothic horror and classic lit, and when she was alone in her boxcar she played dress-up with old costumes to look like a victorian lady or dandy. She drank a lot of tea and kept a little garden on her windowsil, and all of her furniture was salvaged from a scrap heap. At the start of uploads, she did not have much personality-wise, and she was not named until later and only referred to with it/its pronouns or only by name throughout the series. Her only change in appearance throughout was a purple bandana that she wore in any episode not directly related to her performance in the circus, as it covered the bloody noose scar she had around her neck from the first video.

I feel like of every video to be found, it has to be this one, but it will probably only be the ending/screamer bit, or conversely the rest of the video except the screamer. The video got taken down a couple times or restricted because it depicted "suicide", but there was at least one person who reuploaded it so a copy probably exists somewhere. That or it's been edited as a jumpscare for another video. I've seen it referenced in a couple more modern analog horror videos (namely The Walten Files? HELLO???), so surely someone has to have it.