Mockery Physiology

Mockery Physiology
Malefactors (The Suffering); embodiments of atrocities humans inflict on each other; they can be either the victims (like burrowers) or the perpetrators (like festers).
Power/Ability to:	Use the traits of mockery.

"The closer they got, the more they suffered."

― Jakob to Dusk Dude, talking about how the last intruders have failed at their mission against Nyarlathotep and Jakob himself, turning them into Horrors. (New Blood Interactive's DUSK)

"Do you know what it feels like, to be made as a mockery? In every line of that smooth, silent face, I saw a twisted reflection in my own. Fragrant skin to molded plastic, soft hair to synthetic fiber, blood to oil. Soul to nothing at all."

"Excuse me if this sounds presumptuous, but I can't imagine feelings like this coming from anywhere but yourself.

"[Shakes head] Can't you see? This is all a part of their plan. When he finds me, when he sees what the Brothers created just to punish him further… he'll go mad.

"Because of what they did to the memory of his wife?

"Not only that. Because he'll see me. He'll see how much I hate her, and how much I hate myself for not being her. Hate being here at all.

"And then what?

"Then…a final realization.

"And what would that be?

"He never won.""

― Dr. Alexander Kovac's second interview with SCP-032 (SCP Foundation)

The power to be a mockery of someone or something.

Also Called

• Mockery Mimicry

Capabilities

The user of this power is or can transform themselves or others into mockeries - grotesque, exaggerated, monstrous versions of themselves or others.

While most mockeries embody negative qualities, even good qualities can be dangerous when taken to their logical conclusion, for example a moral person can be turned into a fanatical zealot who murders people for not being good enough. Depending on the circumstances a mockery can be either a person who committed a crime or the victims of the crime and evil who have returned to punish them.

Applications

• Emotion Augmentation
• Torment Inducement
• Unnatural Presence
  • Menacing Presence

Variations

• Crime Mimicry
• Torture Mimicry
• Trauma Mimicry

Associations

• Id Embodiment
• Irony Inducement
• Personal Demon Physiology
• Sin Embodiment
• Vengeance Embodiment

Known Users

See Also: Karmic Transformation.

Cartoons/Comics

• The Presence (DC Comics/Vertigo); post rebirth
• Slashers (Hack/Slash)
• Cluster Gems (Steven Universe)

Manga/Anime

• Chains (Pandora Hearts)

Films

• Cenobites (Hellraiser franchise)

Live Television

• Demons (Supernatural)

Tabletop Games

• Asuras (Pathfinder)

Video Games

• Servant Brutes (Amnesia: The Dark Descent)
• Servant Grunts (Amnesia: The Dark Descent)
• Suitors (Amnesia: Justine)
• The Crew of the Northwind (Cryostasis)
• Demons (Dante's Inferno)
• Monsters (Dark Deception)
• Joseph Bertrand III (Infamous 2)
• Enemies (Let It Die)
• Horrors (New Blood Interactive's DUSK)
• SCP-032 - Brothers' Bride (SCP Foundation)
• Monsters (Silent Hill series)
• Malefactors (The Suffering)

Gallery

Cenobites (Hellraiser) were humans that opened the Lament Configuration, being tortured to the point of becoming caricatures of their human selves, sometimes even reflecting what they were in life.

Demons (Supernatural) were once normal humans that were sent to Hell for their wickedness in life, becoming tortured to the point where their humanity became stripped away, becoming monstrous spirits out to spread suffering and misery wherever they go.

Cluster Gems (Steven Universe) are shattered Gem-shards forcibly fused together, creating horrifying grotesqueries out of the remnants of dead Gems.

After the Presence (DC Comics/Vertigo) was "killed" with the sword of Azrael, he went into a comatose state where he was reborn...

...as a malformed mockery of himself.

Joseph Bertrand III (Infamous 2), was a hypocritical preacher who uses his position to encourage hatred toward conduits in humans...

...becomes a literal monster...

...who transforms others into conduit monsters.

At certain points prior to Dusk Dude finally taking a stand against Jakob and Nyarlathothep's forces, there are other intruders that had the same goal, but have failed miserably despite their hardest attempts. After those absolute stomps, the intruders have been mutilated into full-blown Mockeries of their former selves by eldritch forces, known as Horrors (New Blood Interactive's DUSK). Distorted and mutilated beyond recognition, the Horrors have presences so fiercely terrifying, and more so than the Fork Maidens and Wendigoes, as well as Jakob himself.

The Monsters (Silent Hill) found within Silent Hill are usually manifestations of the aspects of those trapped within it or the ones in control of the town's evil.

Slashers (Hack/Slash) are people with Black Ambrosia in their bodies who died, having come back to life as twisted, murderous caricatures of their former selves with a mindless compulsion to kill.

Videos

SCP-032 - Brothers' Bride (SCP Orientation)

SCP-1692 Came Back Haunted