---
license: creativeml-openrail-m
language:
  - en
tags:
  - lora
  - illustrious-xl
  - sdxl
  - text-to-image
  - style
  - horror
  - cereal
  - watercolor
  - anime
  - sfw
library_name: diffusers
base_model: OnomaAIResearch/Illustrious-xl-early-release-v0
pipeline_tag: text-to-image
widget:
  - text: "A candy creature crawling out of a cereal bowl, spiral eyes, dripping milk, vintage children's book horror, soft watercolor, masterpiece, best quality"
    output:
      url: images/01-candy-creature-bowl-illu.png
  - text: "A candy skull mascot grinning from a cereal box cover, sugar-crystal teeth, pastel watercolor horror, vintage illustration, masterpiece, best quality"
    output:
      url: images/02-candy-skull-mascot-illu.png
  - text: "A stack of pancakes with faces, syrup dripping like blood, breakfast horror scene, vintage watercolor illustration, masterpiece, best quality"
    output:
      url: images/03-pancake-horror-illu.png
  - text: "Inside a cereal factory where the machines have eyes, conveyor belts carry grinning candy creatures, industrial watercolor horror, masterpiece, best quality"
    output:
      url: images/04-cereal-factory-illu.png
  - text: "A rabbit mascot on a cereal box, too many teeth in its smile, vintage children's packaging art, watercolor texture, masterpiece, best quality"
    output:
      url: images/05-box-art-rabbit-illu.png
  - text: "A melting gummy bear with an expression of existential horror, macro candy close-up, pastel watercolor palette, masterpiece, best quality"
    output:
      url: images/06-melting-gummy-bear-illu.png
---

# Cereal Horror — Style [Illustrious XL]

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## Description

Cereal Horror is a style LoRA that transforms any scene into a breakfast nightmare. Anthropomorphic cereal mascots with too many teeth. Candy creatures with spiral eyes and drooling grins. Milk that has opinions about being poured. The uncanny valley between childhood nostalgia and body horror, rendered in a soft watercolor aesthetic that makes it worse.

This isn't a texture swap — the model reimagines the *logic* of scenes through horror-breakfast morphology. Portraits gain cereal-box mascot energy. Landscapes fill with oversized candy architecture. Interiors become haunted kitchens where the pantry whispers. Food scenes become tableaux of cheerful, grinning wrongness.

The Illustrious XL version leans harder into the watercolor/illustration aesthetic — softer edges, more expressive forms, and a stronger vintage children's-book quality that amplifies the horror-nostalgia contrast.

## No Trigger Word

This is a **style LoRA** — no trigger word required. The style applies automatically at the configured strength.

**Tip:** Add `text, lettering, watermark, title` to your negative prompt to reduce occasional text artifacts from the cereal-box training data.

## Recommended Settings

- **Strength:** 0.75 - 0.85
- **CFG:** 5.0 - 7.0
- **Steps:** 20 - 30
- **Sampler:** Euler a, DPM++ 2M Karras

## Features

- **Mascot horror:** anthropomorphic candy/cereal creatures with unsettling grins, spiral eyes, too many teeth
- **Vintage watercolor:** soft pastel palette with illustration texture — children's book aesthetic gone wrong
- **Environmental transformation:** kitchens, grocery stores, and landscapes reimagined as breakfast nightmares
- **Food horror:** macro shots of cereal, candy, and breakfast scenes with body-horror undertones
- **SFW content:** entirely food/candy-themed horror — no characters, no nudity

## Sample Prompts

```
A grinning cereal mascot with spiral eyes peering out from a vintage cereal box, pastel watercolor horror, sugar-coated teeth, dripping candy colors, masterpiece, best quality
```

```
A haunted breakfast table where every dish is alive and smiling too wide, vintage children's book illustration, soft morning light, watercolor texture, masterpiece, best quality
```

```
A candy factory where the conveyor belt carries gummy bears that scream silently, industrial horror meets children's illustration, pastel nightmare, masterpiece, best quality
```

## Also Available

- **[Cereal Horror - Flux](https://huggingface.co/ThalisAI/cereal-horror-flux)** - Cleaner photorealistic integration, strength 0.65-0.80

## Links

- [Civitai](https://civitai.com/models/2496305)
- [Gallery & Documentation](https://thalis.dev/models/cereal-horror/)
- [All Models](https://thalis.dev/models/)

## License

This model is released under the CreativeML OpenRAIL-M license.

## About ThalisAI

Dark fantasy, cosmic horror, and the erotic converge. We train LoRA models that transform the world itself — morphing environments, conjuring creatures, and rendering beauty that would make lesser creators flinch.