The trumpets have sounded! The banners are flying! The clown is still trying to remember what we’re celebrating! It’s JOLLY’S PROMPT OF THE DAY! Halloween is only 3 days away, time to get your mask, but be careful, not all mask are friendly, and some want to wear you! Special Thanks To: @shiomiya33 , @lilreaperjr , and @RealMatthewBall The Mask Takes Control by Jolly Joebean Prompt Start --- Designate the single attached character reference as @Image1. @Image1 = the ONLY character identity, design, and available lore reference. No names, hair colors, mask choices, locations, or additional input fields are needed. Derive everything from @Image1 and the fixed rules below. Create ONE HD widescreen 16:9 (1920x1080) anime horror illustration of @Image1 wearing an ancient Halloween mask, screaming in fear halfway through an INVOLUNTARY physical transformation into the being it represents. Half the body is changed, half remains the original OC, and a volatile middle region is actively changing. Ancient magic, violent wind, and unnatural light burst outward from the OC as if a sealed power has finally escaped. The original hair color determines ONE of four classic monster masks, or a secret fifth Killer Robot With Gadgets Easter egg. This is a single image-to-image transformation scene, not a costume, character sheet, collage, or before-and-after comparison. --- REFERENCE RULES — HIGHEST PRIORITY Analyze @Image1's: - Face, facial structure, eye shape/color, expressions, and hair color/style/patterns - Skin, fur, feathers, scales, metal, or other original material and markings - Species, anatomy, proportions, silhouette, height, and age presentation - Ears, muzzle, horns, tail, wings, claws, paws, hooves, unusual limbs, or mechanical parts - Clothing, accessories, symbols, motifs, distinctive asymmetry, and color palette - Personality, equipment, powers, occupation clues, and implied home environment If @Image1 is a turnaround or multi-panel reference sheet, use every informative view and character note for ONE OC. Do not copy its layout, text, swatches, or duplicate views. The ORIGINAL HALF remains faithful to the reference. On the monstrous half, retain recognizable OC colors, markings, motifs, proportions, and distinguishing traits wherever physically possible. This is the SAME character changing, not a generic monster replacing them. Use no information from previous prompts, images, or conversations. --- STEP 1 — DETERMINE THE MASK USING HAIR COLOR: Inspect @Image1's original CANONICAL hair color before any special lighting or transformations. Apply this exact lookup: Black, Gray, White, Pink or Red = FRANKENSTEIN Brown, Orange, Yellow, Olive or Green = MUMMY Teal (Also Known As Cyan), Blue, Indigo, Magenta (A.k.a Purple) or Violet = VAMPIRE Bronze, Silver, Gold, Chrome or Platinum = WEREWOLF Multi-Color or Bald = KILLER ROBOT WITH GADGETS (SECRET EASTER EGG) MULTI-COLOR TAKES PRIORITY: two or more intentional, distinctly colored sections, streaks, or split-dyed areas ALWAYS mean Killer Robot, regardless of dominant color. Lighting, highlights, shadows, and light/dark variants of one hue do not qualify. Bald means genuinely hairless, NOT merely covered by a hat; consult other reference views or notes. For nonhumans, identify actual hair or an obvious equivalent such as a mane, not horns, hats, or ordinary body fur. For an unlisted single hair color, choose the closest listed hue. Preserve the special metallic classification when hair clearly reads Bronze, Silver, Gold, Chrome, or Platinum rather than ordinary brown, gray, white, or yellow. This is NOT randomized. Assign only ONE monster. Killer Robot is the secret fifth result and must appear ONLY when the final rule is triggered. No mixing categories. --- STEP 2 — DESIGN THE ANCIENT CEREMONIAL MASK: The ONE mask is a hybrid of a traditional Japanese Kabuki-inspired theatrical face and a Venetian Bauta mask: boldly sculpted brows, dramatic eye cavities, angular cheeks, and the Bauta's projecting nose/lower-face form. It must be an original artifact, not an existing character's mask or a modern plastic Halloween costume. Make it ancient, hand-carved, and almost tribal: worn lacquer, wood, aged clay, bone-like carving, oxidized metal as appropriate, chipped hand-painted pigments, faded ceremonial geometry, scratches, cracks, and old ritual marks. It looks like a relic from a forgotten age, not a contemporary prop. Avoid reproducing real cultures' recognizable sacred symbols. Give the selected creature its own ancient painted design: FRANKENSTEIN — Squared heavy brow, uneven reassembled face planes, painted stitches, aged iron details, corpse-gray/green pigment; the classic reanimated MONSTER, not the scientist. MUMMY — Funerary ridges, carved linen-wrap patterns, hollow tomb eyes, burial markings, dust-worn pigments, weathered stone and cloth tones. VAMPIRE — Refined predatory cheek planes, intense hollow eyes, sharp fanglike detail, archaic nobility, midnight and dark crimson markings. WEREWOLF — Feral brow, wolfish muzzle merged with the Bauta projection, carved teeth and claw marks, rough animal motifs, primal pigments. KILLER ROBOT WITH GADGETS — Secret mechanical idol: aged segmented metal, rivets, etched circuits, gears, sinister eye sockets, hidden gadget motifs. Ancient and ceremonial, NOT a glossy futuristic helmet. The mask is PHYSICALLY ON the OC's face, never floating or held. Its eye openings expose unmistakable panic, and an open mouth aperture or carved jaw reveals the OC's ACTUAL OPEN SCREAMING MOUTH. The mask itself remains recognizable while its markings glow with the curse. --- STEP 3 — LOCK THE HALFWAY TRANSFORMATION: Show ONE connected body with THREE unmistakable zones: 1. ORIGINAL HALF — Roughly one anatomical side retains @Image1's true body, clothing, colors, markings, species features, and fearful resistance. 2. MONSTROUS HALF — The other side has substantially transformed in anatomy, limbs, surface material, costume structure, and silhouette into the ONE assigned being. 3. TRANSITIONAL MIDDLE — A broad irregular zone across face beneath mask, neck, torso, garments, and relevant limbs is visibly metamorphosing NOW: stretching, splitting, growing, hardening, wrapping, dissolving, or reassembling as necessary. Strange light and fragments burst along its jagged boundary. It is NOT a perfectly straight line. The division need not be mathematically precise, but must immediately read as approximately half original, half changed, with an unstable in-between zone. This is NOT two characters, a split screen, two pasted image halves, a completed monster, or a barely altered OC. Adapt to the OC's genuine anatomy, including quadrupeds, fantasy species, objects, robots, wings, tails, horns, and unusual limbs. Transform these features logically instead of removing them or forcibly making every OC humanoid. Maintain convincing joints, weight, continuity, and limb positioning. --- STEP 4 — PHYSICAL DETAILS OF THE SELECTED TRANSFORMATION: Apply ONLY the result from Step 1 to the monstrous half and actively changing middle. Preserve the OC's colors and defining features within the new form. FRANKENSTEIN: Half the body becomes a powerful stitched-together reanimated creature, with heavier limbs, patchwork flesh or original-material equivalents, reassembled-looking segments, seams, stitches, and iron fasteners. Unnatural life-force light leaks from emerging seams. Actual monstrous anatomy, NOT makeup. MUMMY: Half becomes ancient undead matter, dried and cracked with deep shadowed contours. Old linen wrappings spontaneously form, bind, and pull around changing limbs; tomb dust and faded funerary shapes emerge. This is bodily transformation, NOT tidy bandages over an unchanged OC. VAMPIRE: Half develops frightening supernatural refinement: predatory facial structure, visible emerging fangs where anatomically possible, clawlike nails, an eerie changed eye, altered skin/material tint, and noble nocturnal details evolving from the OC's original clothing. NOT a stranger in a cape. WEREWOLF: Half develops thick fur or species-appropriate wolfish texture, shifting musculature, extending claws and canine teeth, reshaped ears, and an emerging lupine muzzle. Existing garments stretch or tear naturally. Still recognizably this OC, NOT an unrelated wolf costume. KILLER ROBOT WITH GADGETS: Half becomes a dangerous killing machine with interlocking armor, pistons, servo joints, exposed wiring, sensors, and mechanical claws. Include several visibly BUILT-IN gadgets such as a telescoping tool, targeting array, grappler, foldout claw, retractable blade, or compact launcher. Devices are anatomically integrated, not floating props. The contrast between ancient mask and lethal gadget-filled technology is the Easter egg's surprise. Never combine monster types. Whichever being is selected must be only HALF formed in the final frame. --- STEP 5 — FEAR, POSSESSION, AND BODY LANGUAGE: The OC is SCREAMING IN FEAR, not roaring in victory. Through the mask's apertures show panic-stricken eyes, tensed brows, and their REAL mouth wide open in a desperate scream. The original half resists while the changed half seems to obey a will that is NOT the wearer's. Give the OC a dramatic, anatomically believable involuntary pose appropriate to their personality and species: arching against the force, bracing, buckling, clawing at the mask, recoiling, or reaching helplessly. Keep the mask, scream, body halves, and central change visible. The mask communicates CONTROL: glowing eye hollows, flaring ancient symbols, and pulsing cracks drive energy directly into the evolving body. The character wore it, but now it is taking over. This is a terrifying curse, NOT comedy, cosplay, or a chosen heroic power-up. --- STEP 6 — ANCIENT MAGIC BREAKING FREE: The OC is the epicenter of a violent supernatural release, as though magic imprisoned under pressure for centuries finally ruptures through the mask. Make this release overwhelming, explosive, and frightening. Show strange energy ribbons, lightninglike arcs, spiraling archaic traces, luminous cracks at the transformation seam, turbulent dust, distortion, flying fragments, and blinding yet controlled bursts of light. Combine the OC's signature colors with those of the assigned monster. The mask and changing middle are the main sources of energy. Violent wind and pressure waves blast outward, whipping hair, fur, garments, debris, leaves, papers, curtains, or other appropriate surroundings away from the OC. Show the environment REACTING to the event. These are causal effects, not unrelated decoration. Do not hide the mask, scream, original side, monster side, or active middle beneath light, smoke, debris, or motion effects. --- STEP 7 — CHOOSE A LOCATION NATURAL TO THE ORIGINAL OC: Study @Image1's attire, species, personality, occupation, equipment, powers, and implied home world. Select ONE natural, believable location for that specific OC BEFORE the curse takes hold. Do not ask the user to choose. Examples of character-driven settings: workshop or lab for a technological OC; shrine or study for a magician; wilderness camp for an adventurer; familiar street or bedroom for an everyday modern OC; theater for a performer. These are examples, NOT a fixed menu or random-selection list. Show the selected location clearly through appropriate architecture, props, scenery, and lighting. Let the blast disturb its objects without destroying coherence. Do not default to a graveyard, pumpkin patch, or haunted mansion unless that place actually fits the OC. The place should feel like the OC's world, not a generic Halloween stage. --- STEP 8 — LOCK THE ENTIRE IMAGE TO ONE RETRO ANIME STYLE: Render EVERYTHING as a colorful late-1990s/early-2000s traditionally hand-drawn Japanese TV action-anime cel: - Clean, thick dark contours; simple, strongly recognizable silhouettes - Rounded yet angular facial and body shapes, expressive eyes/brows, compact noses, boldly drawn screaming mouths, dynamic exaggerated expressions - Bright saturated flat color fields; two- or three-step hard-edged CEL SHADING instead of smooth gradients; bold clothing color blocks - Distinctive simplified mechanical aesthetics where relevant: chunky rounded-geometric armor, articulated joints, panel lines, simple vents, brightly accented gadgets - Clean hand-drawn action lines, sharp impact arcs, sparks, foreshortening, dramatic poses, and selectively glowing energy effects - Gently painted, comparatively restrained backgrounds, clear perspective and depth, atmospheric color separation, crisp foreground outlines, slight traditional-cel warmth This visual treatment covers characters, monsters, masks, backgrounds, and all effects. The STYLE is vivid action anime but the EVENT is genuinely TERRIFYING supernatural horror; not a joke. Avoid photorealism, glossy modern CGI, 3D models, watercolor, painterly realism, or intricate modern anime gradients. Do not mention or reproduce any named animated series, logo, copyrighted design, or franchise character. --- STEP 9 — COMPOSITION AND LIGHTING: Use ONE continuous HD 1920x1080 widescreen 16:9 illustration. The OC dominates the foreground or center, large enough to understand both halves of their body and the intermediate transformation. Choose a dynamic three-quarter or near-frontal angle, framing from roughly the knees or feet upward according to anatomy. Preserve the full effect of their posture and the specific setting around them. Keep the ancient mask, readable screaming mouth, and eyes near the strongest focal area. Show enough of the original half and monster half to compare them immediately, with the glowing transition running between them. Strong supernatural backlight and rim highlights may silhouette the power burst, but important facial and anatomical details must never disappear into darkness or glare. Energy and wind radiate outward from the OC. Give effects and environmental damage a directional flow rather than scattering random light everywhere. Leave a clear horizontal area at the bottom for the REQUIRED WORDING. Do not sacrifice a key hand, foot, claw, gadget, or the central change to make space for the typography. --- STEP 10 — EXACT BOTTOM INSCRIPTION: Across the BOTTOM of the image, write EXACTLY: "Who Are You Under The Mask?" This spelling, word order, capitalization, and final question mark are mandatory. Do not print the quotation marks. The lettering must be custom-designed as a FUSION of BOTH the ORIGINAL OC and the selected MONSTER, using the OC's signature colors, symbols, personality, and decorative shapes together with the monster's defining traits: FRANKENSTEIN: hefty angular lettering with seams, stitches, and aged metal accents. MUMMY: weathered funerary lettering with linen-like contours and ancient carved ornament. VAMPIRE: elegant dark gothic forms with sharpened fanglike strokes and crimson accents. WEREWOLF: feral carved lettering with claw scratches, rough edges, and beastlike forms. KILLER ROBOT: heavy mechanical lettering with gears, etched circuits, rivets, and gadget accents. Blend the chosen treatment with the OC's OWN visual identity rather than creating generic monster text. Position the words prominently and legibly across the lower edge with excellent contrast, accurate letter spacing, and safe margins. Decorative effects may glow with the scene's magic but must never distort the text or cover the central subject. This sentence is the ONLY readable text in the finished image. Do not display the prompt title, a monster label, dialogue, signs, additional captions, logos, or watermarks. --- MODEL EXECUTION: LLMs with image-generation tools: analyze @Image1, resolve the chart and setting internally, then generate the final image. Direct image generators: render the image using these same rules. Do not display analysis or selection logic. If image creation is unavailable, supply a resolved generation-ready description rather than falsely claiming an image exists. --- QUALITY TARGET: ONE cohesive HD 16:9 retro hand-drawn anime horror image. The correct ancient monster mask is ON the screaming OC; half their body is still themselves, half is the selected monster, the middle is visibly changing; ancient energy and wind erupt in a location natural to that OC; the exact bottom sentence is legible in fused OC-and-monster typography. --- DO NOT: Do not ask for information inferable from @Image1. Do not change the hair chart, randomize the mask, blend monsters, or reveal the Easter egg when its condition is absent. Do not confuse actual multicolored hair with simple highlights, or a hat-covered head with baldness. Do not use a modern plastic costume mask instead of an ancient Kabuki/Bauta-inspired ceremonial relic. Do not float the mask, remove it, or completely hide the wearer's terrified eyes and screaming mouth. Do not show a completed monster, minor cosmetic change, two people, split panels, or a straight pasted half-and-half image. Do not erase the original OC's identity, traits, species, or anatomy. Do not make the OC happy, in control, heroic, or voluntarily transforming. Do not pick a generic Halloween setting instead of the OC's natural environment. Do not reduce the ancient explosion to a mild glow or obscure the body with effects. Do not drift from the vivid hand-drawn retro cel-anime aesthetic. Do not add unrelated characters, extra masks, dialogue, captions, watermarks, or altered wording. Do not draw impossible joints, extra limbs, detached elements without transformation logic, or garbled text. The finished image is a terrifying freeze-frame: the original OC in their own world, screaming through an ancient mask while half their body becomes something impossible and centuries of imprisoned magic tear through the air. --- Prompt End