Line #20 NightmareFuel/RubyQuest


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6	Dear God, ''Roleplay/RubyQuest''. Between Filbert wanting to cut the bad out of everyone, Ace's face (or lack thereof!), and a [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]], {{Yandere}} version of Tom Nook, there's no way you'll look at ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' the same way again.
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9	* The multitude of ''BodyHorror [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombies]]'' freely roaming about the facility, for one.
10	* The series is scary from the first time Stitches appears. While exploring, Ruby finds a door, and it looks like there's someone on the other side. Then she opens the door, and finds a mutilated corpse. And then it starts to move...
11	* After [[MagnificentBastard Red]] tears down the tarp in the dummy room, he and Ruby find a mutilated body beneath it. Red [[LaughingMad starts to laugh]], [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/64.gif opening his mouth much wider than he should be able to, and revealing that he has]] MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily in the process.
12	* Every interaction with Subject #6 is creepy as hell. He's first mentioned in a staff memo, which explains that he was moved to Upper Lab B for "increasingly unpredictable and violent behavior" and referring to him as a "highest priority hazard". (Although we find out at the very end that [[TheReveal #6 is actually Tom]]). Later on, we get a look at him when Ruby peeks into Upper Lab B with her ThirdEye, [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/67.gif revealing a ghoulish red face that "seems very distinctly unfriendly"]]. Later still, Ruby and Tom enter the lab, and we see that he's a horribly mutilated bear-person, with amputated legs, [[EyeScream gouged out eyes]], and long, thin arms that end with bony points instead of hands. He's also completely insane, and Ruby and Tom have to tread cautiously while talking him into giving them the key he has. As they talk, pairs of yellow eyes start opening in the room, until Tom flips a light switch and reveals that [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/73.gif the entire room is covered in fleshy growths, and the eyeballs are growing out of them.]] Not only that, [[BodyHorror the growths appear to be connected to #6's body]]. The two escape and lock him in the room, but when Ruby crawls into a maintenance shaft after Bella's death, she flicks the lights on [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1233665608653.gif and #6 is right next to her.]] Even worse, the picture is ''[[JumpScare animated]]''.
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14	** #6 shows up one last time during the final escape from the Metal Glen. He's too terrified of Ace to attack Ruby, but by this point he's so horribly mutated he [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/83.gif looks like a pile of flesh and eyeballs, topped by what's left of his original head]].
15	* The fleshy growths you start seeing here and there are merely gross and creepy, at first. Then you encounter the ''really massive'' growth(s?) spanning Subject 6's room. And ''then'' you find out what they actually ''are'' (the "body" of an EldritchAbomination) and what they're used for (a cure for blindness that also [[BodyHorror causes horrific mutations]] and [[PsychoSerum violent insanity]]).
16	* Let's go back to our good ol' buddy Ace again, shall we? First, he's a basic {{Expy}} of [[Franchise/SilentHill Pyramid Head]]; second, he's [[ImplacableMan basically invincible]]; third, he has a face made of worms, or at least what ''we hope to God to be worms'', and fourth, [[NothingIsScarier we learn almost nothing about him over the course of the story]], just that he "used to be the security guard, and kinda still is".
17	* Cold Storage. An entire room where it's difficult to find a single item or surface that ''isn't'' mindbending and/or terrifying in some way. The entire place is a glaring red, making a stark contrast with the rest of the largely black-and-white comic, the Dummy is there (and now it has tentacle arms), and it serves as both [[TheDragon Ace]] and [[GreaterScopeVillain Cjopaze]]'s lairs.
18	* Even Ruby herself gets creepy once the ThirdEye is introduced.
19	* After Ruby passes out for the first time, she wakes up in her bedroom with Tom in it, his back to her. She turns him around to look at his face, and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1230368757579.gif it has a massive scar down the middle and a too-small mouth]]. She then snaps back to reality, revealing [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/10_4.gif the room is drenched in blood]], and "Tom" is actually [[DemonicDummy a creepy-looking dummy]].
20	* While exploring Staff Wing 4, Ruby casually opens the door to the other staff wings, revealing [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/42_5.gif a "huge door lined with teeth leading into some sort of horrible abyss"]]. She wisely decides not to go that way.

Context NightmareFuel / RubyQuest