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It was a wig, I was testing a new character look for work. Wish I'd thought about how much it wouldn't be a problem to just wear that out to get some remover shit! The good news is that I'm not wearing it anymore, the bad news is: Ow!

Oh, okay, I see. Dare I ask what you got literally stuck wearing? And how embarrassing will it be in your day-to-day?

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What's the weirdest/least conventionally scary thing you've ever scared someone with?

That one time that one guy had Arachibutyrophobia. Unconventional tends not to be to common in my regular work, occasionally when working an indie haunt? There was one time where I was working a room that was built to look like a fun house mirror hall. Except several of the mirrors were actually clear glass and we'd walk around behind the guests, just out of the corner of their eyes, that sort of thing? Turns out, lots of people do not like that!

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Is there anything that you don't currently know how to do that you wish you could?

Be less jumpy I'd love to learn how to garden, I'm not particularly good at keeping even succulents alive.

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What is something about you that may surprise people?

Is it weird to say that I like to go out into the woods and just sit out there? I find it calming, helps that it's my backyard but still.

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What's your favorite kind of candy?

Anything sour, but not like the wimpy sour you find in most corner store candies. If it's not physically hurting you it's not sour enough!

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I'm sorry, on what now?

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It was a wig, developing a new character for an upcoming season and I was doing a full test to send pictures back for my boss... Upside is it looked great?

@knowwhatfearis: You’d hope, I certainly wasn’t planning on moving my whole hairline back by an inch today, and yet here we are.

At least hair grows back. What was the glue sticking if I might ask?

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What is your favorite "scare moment"? What made that one more memorable than the rest?

I like scaring little kids, not in like the mean make them cry way... In the, give them a first taste of how fun fear can be way. I remember a particular family came through one day, cutest twins you'd ever seen hanging off each parent. I was working the very end of the house that day, it was close to Halloween so we were giving out candy to the kids and I could hear them coming all the way, they were not having fun. So decided to tone it all the way back, made sure they could see me before they even got in the room that sort of thing. Took one look at me, (I think I playing undead bride that day?) and started crying all over again. That's a really tough spot to be in, on one hand gotta do your job and on the other we're not here to scar children for life or anything. So I dropped down to be eye level, dropped the character voice and asked if they wanted the candy I had. Held it out so they could see it and if they didn't want to get too close wouldn't have to. Took a little bit to coax one of them over, but once one of them was taking the candy the other wasn't far behind. Told them that I wasn't actually hurt that bad (we tone the gore down when it's not Halloween season but still had some light injury makeup) and asked if they wanted to touch it to see. I think letting kids get to peel the curtain back a little bit can be a really good way to help them to process the fear and see how it can be fun. Maybe it ruins the magic, I don't know. What I do know is that my room was the only one those boys walked out off with a smile on their faces. Does that count as a "scare moment?"

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Yes? it's usually sold with it?

Wait, you’re supposed to have remover for gum? 

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What's the best dream you've ever had?

Honestly? I dreamt I adopted one of the stray cats I see sometimes, it was really nice... Unfortunately cats tend to hate me.

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SpookyTheBear 45 Minutes ago Eh I lean EHS, obviously you shouldn't touch the weird rocks and like, play stupid games, win stupid prizes but... OP's friend seems pretty unempathetic about the whole thing, anyone would be pretty disconcerted about their hand glowing. That is assuming this is even real, which based on the user name and the incredible lapse in judgment this would even take, I doubt.

Online Forum: Wicked's Restless

Thread Title: I touched a Mineral Abnormality and now my hand glows in the dark, AITA?

Posted by u/superstargl0w 7 hours ago

After the rumors about Mineral Abnormalities, my friends and I all went to see what the big deal was. They all peer pressured me to touch one of the abnormalities, and so I did. But now my hand glows in the dark. I've tried to clean it with everything, including bleach, but nothing seems to help! I ended up calling my friend who was insistent that I touch it to curse him out, but now everyone thinks that I'm being an asshole. AITA?

GussieDapple 1 hour ago

YTA. You touched something that you shouldn't have. Your friends didn't pressure you to do it, let's be honest. You WANTED to do it! Enjoy your new glow in the dark hand, I bet it is really cool at parties. If I was you, I would go and rub your whole body on it just to see if you can get your whole self to glow.

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You'd hope, I certainly wasn't planning on moving my whole hairline back by an inch today, and yet here we are.

Hopefully it wasn’t somewhere too painful?

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It’s a skin safe adhesive used in special effects makeup to attach things like prosthetics or lace front wigs, they are typically sold with removers so you can safely dissolve the glue and avoid irritating the skin. Operative word here being typically.

Too bad, I’m asking how you know this because I don’t really know what the hell it is you’re saying in the first place. What’s spirit gum?

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Pro tip: Don’t apply spirit gum before checking if you have remover, you’re in for a lot of pain if you don’t... Don’t ask me how I know this.

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What is it about Halloween that you like so much?

Assuming you mean beyond just supplementing my income, the atmosphere. I've always liked the whole feeling the holiday gives off, plus the decorations are cute.

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Name: Winona Brooks Species: Bugbear Occupation: Scare Actor (Bigfeet’s Adventureland year round and for hire at Halloween) Age: 32 Years Old Played By: Lolaf Face Claim: Margot Robbie

“People get spooked by ghost stories but humans are just about the damn scariest thing on this planet, everything else is just a distraction.”

TW: Medical blood, drug manipulation, underage drinking

Winona used to be like many other bugbears, raised in and around a small forest town she was exposed to both the world of her ursine cousins and those of humans, it made it easier to blend in amongst them, something she and her family had to do to feed both on actual food and on fear. But more than that it meant Winona got to have friends her own age, she’d been the only cub born to her parents and being as close to people as they were most other bears knew well enough to avoid the town so humans became her first friends. Of course she’d been taught to keep her true nature secret, she had learned how to keep so much of herself from peeking through and dang if she wasn’t good at it. Sometimes her parents would joke that if they hadn’t seen her turn into a bear themselves that they’d assume they’d just had a human daughter. The biggest thing Winona never really mastered was fear, she was well known amongst the other children as fearless willing to do, frankly, inadvisable things just because it seemed like fun. She absolutely earned a few broken bones and more than a few scrapes and bruises. But it also earned her the respect of the local children as their fearless leader!

And so her early life went, well into her late teens before she started to become significantly more reckless, in truth Winona didn’t want to keep the secret of her reality from her friends but she had heard the horror stories from her parents. (The irony of bugbears trying to scare their children into good behavior was not lost on her.) But she was sure to always be careful, she never lost control, she was in total control so why not get a little adventurous?

And nothing more adventurous than a little underage drinking. It was only going to be a bit, it was going to be around friends, it was going to be totally safe. It was going to be. But Winona did not know just how easy it was to lose her inhibitions, and that little part of her that wanted to share her secret with her friends… Well it won out.

What happened next was a blur, screaming and people rushing past her, voices yelling about who they needed to call and in the middle of it in a euphoria of delicious fear was Winona, at some point new people showed up, they yelled at her and then-

When Winona woke up next her head was pounding and the white clinical light did very little to help her. This would be her most vivid memory of what she would eventually learn was a lab, the white hell as she took to calling it. In the end it’s not clear exactly how long she was kept there, poked and prodded, blood drawn and transfused in equal measure, she was given foods and drink, and the most prominent thing Winona understood was that her mind never cleared up to where it had been when she’d first woken up. It took much longer than she would ever want to admit to eventually learn they were keeping her docile through the food.

Luckily for all the time they’d spent studying Winona they never learned the one thing that would have saved them, not to fear her. It was an explosive escape, the anger that flowed through her as she swatted massive paws at anyone who stood in her way, giving anyone with a weapon illusions of what had been her own personal hell for who even knew how long. And eventually she was free. Now a young woman well into her 20s Winona did the only thing she could think to do, she went to the one place she’d been told to go if she ever had to go into hiding.

It grated on her, it never sat well with her how the town played up their connection with the supernatural, but gave her the perfect place to hide, to build herself a new life and easily accessible fear to eat upon. It’s different now though, she knows what fear is, has felt it more viscerally than most other bugbears, she is no longer totally immune. And she never let herself get complacent, let herself trust humans again. Never again.

Character Facts:

Personality: Anxious, empathetic, enervated, observant, critical, reliable, petty, self-sufficient, untrusting

Has a long scar on her left bicep (From her escape)

Skilled at various aspects of costuming but especially sfx makeup

Her bear form, an unusually large Grizzly, is well known by wildlife enthusiasts as “Big Barda” she has often been spotted in the pines from hiking trails but despite many attempts Big Barda has managed to evade capture for tracking. It is believed her territory is quite extensive.