Okay so what horror things have I interacted with? (Note: wouldn’t this all have been better for October? Note 2: I was working on the shrines.)
The funniest thing aside from myself being a wimp with horror is that there is a Nintendo adjacent series that I’ve been into for years that does nonchalantly use horror tropes but 1. It’s Kirby and 2. It’s literally the embodiment of the SpongeBob rollercoaster meme. Because like if you list it out Kirby’s had body horror with the dark matter possession thing with dedede always getting the worst of it (bro had teeth on his stomach), like, sectonia was body snatching for the sake of beauty and actively ruining her kingdom with her advisor wondering where everything went wrong and it gets to a point where the pause menu goes “Kirby, you need to kill her for her eternal rest”. The contrast is doubled down when Kirby just blows up whatever’s in his way.

Dark matter’s literally a malevolent force made by a being that can’t comprehend positive emotions so it’s aim is to make everyone miserable, magolor gets sent to hell (he got better though), multiple final bosses have ripped their soul out from their dying bodies in an attempt to kill Kirby, there’s an mirror that corrupts anyone who sees it for too long and it keeps making evil clones, there’s multiple malevolent artifacts that corrupt the people who use them and turn them into empty shells, the wish granting supercomputer in robobot decides to kill everyone and literally deletes a man’s soul from existence, robobot deciding “nah, brainwashing isn’t enough, let’s make meta knight a cyborg too”, the entire dark cult in star allies that had descriptions that had to be censored to the point it was actively detrimental to lore discussions. Like if you look at the current Kirby directors artwork sometimes (Shinya Kumazaki) he is on the same wavelength of the fanbase of drawing demonic horrors to then be inserted into Kirby. It’s dedication. Director’s Gallery
Not all of those are Kirby though. My point still stands.
There is just something in Kirby that gets the large contrast of the childlike dream world and the directors just go “yo let’s add in the creatures from the nightmare dimension.” Even Sakurai did this after he left when he gave Marx new attacks for Smash Ultimate which involved him losing his eyes. The dubious creature. I mean aside from the march creepypasta reading I’m like 50-50 thinking the largest thing that made me make this kind of thing would be garn47/hit single so there is FNF influence. Just not from the actual pokemon related thing. Which I find mildly entertaining. Silly Billy has had more of an active impact than the actual pokemon centric mods.

Out of all the creepypasta I am aware of, I think “okay well if you have evil sonic (not Scourge, Metal, or the british super sonic from fleetway comics) Mario has to be there” and like Mario 64 and Devil Mario Power Star exist which proves once again everything in my mind revolves around sprite animation fight scenes.
And Luigi would just also be Mario 64 Luigi because L is real.
Mario would simply destroy any Sonic though because unlike Sonic who's split into multiple canons, it's all the same Mario.
Like I think there can be like, good rumors. It’s not all just evil bad guys. I just can’t bring myself to have a fully evil Mario.
Fundamentally the issue is “do I want to make this more lethal company like with the whole continuing evil entities thing where they send people to fight it or do i want this to be Devil May cry” Okay the concept imagining in my mind of seeing a pokemon character do the judgement cut took me out for a minute like a prophetic vision
I could make this work, there’s literally a samurai Red and I’ve written about him like once That would make a 5th Red on the roster of guys rotating in my brain.
Bro is multiplying like crazy.
I think my problem is I just see a regular normal thing and go “horror” like to me destiny is a horror because you’re telling me that the concept of fate is real and everything done is preordained and people are not allowed to deviate from that path

What about FF14, that’s got a lot of horror tropes casually in it.
A lot of it is context based spoilers though.
Pandemonium is like the vibe I am thinking about though
We’ve got:

Surf Dracula Cages Horrible experiments that were shunned by their creators and discarded
Eric

I feel like this chatroom went all over the place. I feel like maybe there are also devils like from chainsaw man, but I'd need to actually read chainsaw man in order to properly figure out how to do that instead of learning about it secondhand from memes and my one friend who's into it.

I gave it a thought for a hot minute and like considering that rumors are based on things people believe to be true that are actually false there is a very good chance that the regular Rumors Red that I was saying looked like Pokemon Adventures Red is ALSO a rumor. Because of the concept of "red is alive on Mt. Silver" vs "red is dead on Mt. Silver" happens regardless of whatever story I'm using as inspiration for the users. Like people conceptualized that like, in youtube comments, even before the creepypasta things started setting in because in the games he literally disappears after you beat him. Like, that's a real and weird occurrence.
The basis of a Rumor is if enough people believe it and conceptualize it then it somehow becomes true in the world because magic is real. I'm thinking it could be a pokemon, maybe the unown, maybe a pokemon with imagination power, Giratina acts as the overlord of all the little squabbling half baked ideas stuck in the garbage bin dimension. Everyone is trying to ursurp Giratina.
Okay but what about the actual non ghost glitch Rumor Red then. Oh no. That's 6. That's 6 Red's that aren't the actual Red. Did bro just abstract. He became a concept. Dude, get back into the story.
Let me use a visual to explain the amount of Reds that are currently here
Local ideas guy has figured out how to solve their problem of the writing hole that they made up and could've ignored, Real Red is still MIA. Anyways, uhhh, If Red wasn’t mountain boy then I could see him being a fisher guy because in Red to get the fishing rod you have to answer “yes” to get the rod He gets Lapras too so like, get my boy some bait and let him be a fishing guy he’d love it
Apologies for the total incomprehensible ness. This is basically on the same wavelength of every long term project I’ve ever had that I’ve never written into prose anywhere.