I'm sticking with obvious VG/Anime characters so I hopefully don't step on any realism rules, and that's my preference anyways. But you can get liveleak quality horror if you try.

If you want realistic characters though, your best friend is "looks like [character]", and the prompting formula I've found gets great results is easy and simple.


>Photo of a woman [whatever is happening here].
>The woman looks like [character], with [a quick identifying feature, like hair] and wearing her [whatever clothing items].
>The background [flesh out the scene].


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Raw photo of an athletic young woman falling back against a stone wall inside an ancient mayan temple. Many small spears jut horizontally from the wall, impaling the woman. The spikes emerge from her torso, dripping with blood. The woman's mouth is open and her shocked eyes wide in a horrified expression. One of the spikes emerges from her mouth, blood running down her chin. Her hands are open and tensed tensed.

The woman looks like Lara Croft from Tomb Raider, with a tight blue tanktop over her ample breasts, pistol holster straps, and her hair in a ponytail.

The background is the carved stone wall of a jungle temple, with crawling vines and moss. A large circular mayan pattern is carved in the stone, partially obscured by the woman. There are a few blurred spikes in the foreground and some behind the woman, adding depth to the image.
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