Permissions post
Kayako hates you all. She wants you all to suffer and die.
ut as much as she would love to haunt and kill EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, I don't want to step on anyone's toes. So for that reason, I'd like everyone to read the following information about Kayako's powers and fill out the form.
Canonly, anyone who comes into contact with her becomes cursed, and she will haunt and eventually kill that person. In Wonderland, Kayako retains all her powers, which include all of the following:
☠ Curse: "It is said in Japan that when someone dies in extreme sorrow or rage, the emotion remains and can leave a stain upon that place. Death becomes a part of that place, killing everything it touches." The curse created by the circumstances of Kayako's death dictates that anyone who comes into contact with her and her home will die, generally at Kayako's hand. Strictly speaking, this curse is an energy or force attached to a specific location (the Saeki house), and it is coming into contact with it that enables Kayako to be able to haunt people no matter how far away from the house they may travel or how far in the future she might choose to manifest and do away with them. Time and location mean nothing to her or the curse.
☠ Haunting: Kayako haunts the Saeki house in general, but she also haunts anyone who comes into the house, even after they've left. She will follow them anywhere and everywhere, tormenting them until she either catches up to them or until she simply chooses to strike. Because she's dead, actual physical and temporal barriers don't affect her, so it's likely that she just enjoys toying with people and that is why she often haunts people for awhile before killing them. Her haunting capabilities include but are not limited to things like the following: appearing in peoples' homes or workplaces, following them, manipulating electronics (in one case, she turns on a copy machine and makes copies that start out totally black but eventually turn into a picture of her face), placing calls to peoples' phones, mimicking peoples' voices or creating apparitions of them, moving objects without touching them or even being present, and so on.
☠ Shape changing: Kayako's normal appearance is a pale woman with long, black, tangled hair, often but not always covered in blood, wearing white or sometimes wrapped in plastic, who is only capable of making odd croaking noises, whose broken neck makes crunching sounds as she turns her head at extreme angles, and whose movements are jerky and uncoordinated. However, she is capable of altering her appearance and her voice. Sometimes she appears as a dark shadow, sometimes she is capable of walking and moving gracefully, somtimes she speaks in a normal voice. She can make her hair grow out to extreme lengths, wrapping it around people to immobilize, smother, or strangle them. It seems that she alters her appearance to whatever will most benefit her terrorizing the person she's dealing with, but ultimately, and especially when seen in the Saeki house, she manifests in her bloody, jerky, croaky form.
☠ Temporal distortion: In at least one instance, Kayako's haunting manifests in a temporally distorted way. Two of the characters in Ju-On: The Grudge 2 hear and see certain parts of their own deaths days before they happen, but don't put the pieces together until it's too late to escape. In another instance in Ju-On: The Grudge, she shows a man who has come to he Saeki house to destroy it a vision of his daughter six or seven years in the future as she and a group of friends enter the house to mess around and drink. The daughter, from the future, is also able to see him.
☠ Spiritual possession: There has been at least one instance (described explicitely in the novel, but implied in Ju-On: The Grudge) in which Kayako chooses not to kill a person she is haunting but instead bides her time, following the woman around and gradually subsuming and altering the living woman's personality in a bid to gain a new life. In Ju-On: The Grudge 2, she haunts a pregnant woman and manages to possess and take control of the fetus she's carrying, allowing her to be reborn. Either way, the possession process is gradual.
☠ Demonic possession: This goes along with the general haunting, and describes the examples I gave above, such as Kayako's ability to manipulate electronics, move objects around, place phone calls, and so on. She can apparently induce visions concerning herself, such as coming out of a person's chest. Conversely, she can also manifest physically, touching people, though they may not be able to see her after she does.
In addition to these powers, Kayako's appearance apparently induces such fear in her victims that they're unable to fight back--none of them, regardless of their personalities or skills, ever attempt to physically attack her, but are instead paralyzed with fear.
That all being said, obviously, if Kayako posts, you're free to respond or not respond, depending on how much trouble you want for your character. Network posts and communication WILL NOT activate Kayako's curse under normal circumstances. Action interactions with her will, unless your character has a way of getting out of it.
TL;DR: Fill out this form, please. Feel free to cut out questions that don't apply (like if you answer no to a question and the next one starts with "if so..." you can exclude it). If you're responding for multiple characters, please fill out the form separately for each of your characters. If you don't fill out the form at all, Kayako will not interact with your character.
ut as much as she would love to haunt and kill EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU, I don't want to step on anyone's toes. So for that reason, I'd like everyone to read the following information about Kayako's powers and fill out the form.
Canonly, anyone who comes into contact with her becomes cursed, and she will haunt and eventually kill that person. In Wonderland, Kayako retains all her powers, which include all of the following:
☠ Curse: "It is said in Japan that when someone dies in extreme sorrow or rage, the emotion remains and can leave a stain upon that place. Death becomes a part of that place, killing everything it touches." The curse created by the circumstances of Kayako's death dictates that anyone who comes into contact with her and her home will die, generally at Kayako's hand. Strictly speaking, this curse is an energy or force attached to a specific location (the Saeki house), and it is coming into contact with it that enables Kayako to be able to haunt people no matter how far away from the house they may travel or how far in the future she might choose to manifest and do away with them. Time and location mean nothing to her or the curse.
☠ Haunting: Kayako haunts the Saeki house in general, but she also haunts anyone who comes into the house, even after they've left. She will follow them anywhere and everywhere, tormenting them until she either catches up to them or until she simply chooses to strike. Because she's dead, actual physical and temporal barriers don't affect her, so it's likely that she just enjoys toying with people and that is why she often haunts people for awhile before killing them. Her haunting capabilities include but are not limited to things like the following: appearing in peoples' homes or workplaces, following them, manipulating electronics (in one case, she turns on a copy machine and makes copies that start out totally black but eventually turn into a picture of her face), placing calls to peoples' phones, mimicking peoples' voices or creating apparitions of them, moving objects without touching them or even being present, and so on.
☠ Shape changing: Kayako's normal appearance is a pale woman with long, black, tangled hair, often but not always covered in blood, wearing white or sometimes wrapped in plastic, who is only capable of making odd croaking noises, whose broken neck makes crunching sounds as she turns her head at extreme angles, and whose movements are jerky and uncoordinated. However, she is capable of altering her appearance and her voice. Sometimes she appears as a dark shadow, sometimes she is capable of walking and moving gracefully, somtimes she speaks in a normal voice. She can make her hair grow out to extreme lengths, wrapping it around people to immobilize, smother, or strangle them. It seems that she alters her appearance to whatever will most benefit her terrorizing the person she's dealing with, but ultimately, and especially when seen in the Saeki house, she manifests in her bloody, jerky, croaky form.
☠ Temporal distortion: In at least one instance, Kayako's haunting manifests in a temporally distorted way. Two of the characters in Ju-On: The Grudge 2 hear and see certain parts of their own deaths days before they happen, but don't put the pieces together until it's too late to escape. In another instance in Ju-On: The Grudge, she shows a man who has come to he Saeki house to destroy it a vision of his daughter six or seven years in the future as she and a group of friends enter the house to mess around and drink. The daughter, from the future, is also able to see him.
☠ Spiritual possession: There has been at least one instance (described explicitely in the novel, but implied in Ju-On: The Grudge) in which Kayako chooses not to kill a person she is haunting but instead bides her time, following the woman around and gradually subsuming and altering the living woman's personality in a bid to gain a new life. In Ju-On: The Grudge 2, she haunts a pregnant woman and manages to possess and take control of the fetus she's carrying, allowing her to be reborn. Either way, the possession process is gradual.
☠ Demonic possession: This goes along with the general haunting, and describes the examples I gave above, such as Kayako's ability to manipulate electronics, move objects around, place phone calls, and so on. She can apparently induce visions concerning herself, such as coming out of a person's chest. Conversely, she can also manifest physically, touching people, though they may not be able to see her after she does.
In addition to these powers, Kayako's appearance apparently induces such fear in her victims that they're unable to fight back--none of them, regardless of their personalities or skills, ever attempt to physically attack her, but are instead paralyzed with fear.
That all being said, obviously, if Kayako posts, you're free to respond or not respond, depending on how much trouble you want for your character. Network posts and communication WILL NOT activate Kayako's curse under normal circumstances. Action interactions with her will, unless your character has a way of getting out of it.
TL;DR: Fill out this form, please. Feel free to cut out questions that don't apply (like if you answer no to a question and the next one starts with "if so..." you can exclude it). If you're responding for multiple characters, please fill out the form separately for each of your characters. If you don't fill out the form at all, Kayako will not interact with your character.