NPC Greentext, Hollow Eye Register

The prompt

Render in the NPC-wojak greentext lineage, the descendant of the grey-NPC reaction images. MS Paint crude line, one-pixel outline with slight trackpad wobble. Palette is monochrome with one accent: flat medium-grey skin, slightly darker grey clothing, single muted accent color used sparingly. Skin is uniform mid-grey, no warmth, no blush, no shading. Eyes are open hollow circles or open hollow ovals with no pupils, no irises, just empty outlined shapes, the signature NPC-wojak eye treatment, deliberately uncanny. Mouth is a flat horizontal line or a slightly open small oval, no expression, no curve up or down. Hair if present is a flat grey or dark-grey block, no detail. Background is flat off-white or pale grey, no detail, no perspective, no shadow. The whole image carries the register of scripted automatic existence, the implied greentext of "they all said the same thing again today." Cold, uncanny, deliberately drained of interiority. The mood is the moment of noticing the script. No words, no letters, no chevrons, no captions, no green text, no logos, no watermarks, no named hate-symbols, no real-person likeness. Preserve the subject, pose, and composition of the source image exactly, change only the medium and rendering to this NPC MS Paint register.

What it is doing

The NPC register is not a slur against other people, it is a confession about how much of any single life runs on autopilot. The discomfort the image generates is the discomfort of self-recognition. The hollow eyes encode the moment of noticing that today's opinions were yesterday's headlines, that this week's outrage was last week's algorithmic priority. The visual register is the only honest mirror for a population whose interiority has been outsourced.

Ways to change it

Pick any of these in the gallery and the choice is added to the prompt you copy.

• Grey saturation: cool-blue-grey vs neutral-mid-grey vs warm-tan-grey
• Eye treatment: small hollow circles, no pupils, set close together (signature) vs tall hollow ovals, no pupils, stretched vertically vs oversized empty circles filling half the face, no pupils vs tiny hollow dots spaced wide apart, no pupils
• Mouth: flat-line vs slightly-open-oval vs nearly-absent
• Accent color: pure gray monochrome, no accent color anywhere vs one small muted brick-red detail, like a shirt or cap (signature) vs one small muted slate-blue detail, like a shirt or cap
• Crowd-implication: single-figure vs implied-row-of-identical-shapes vs solo-foregrounded
• Background: pure-flat vs faint-horizontal-band vs near-white

Style lineage

Learn the visual culture this draws from: 4chan greentext culture and NPC archetype (development 2018+).

Related prompts

See all 12 prompts in the Greentext grammar