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bakerstreet2012-04-25 09:00 pm
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the death meme
(TRIGGER WARNING. This meme deals heavy with death and also possibly with strong violence or with suicide/depression. If you are not comfortable reading about that, please PLEASE do not proceed further.)
This is it. The final curtain. You're at the end of your life, and there's someone here you really, really need to say something to before you die.
CAUSE OF DEATH
1 - Accidental. Nobody meant for this to happen, but it doesn't matter now. Due to negligence, arrogance or just plain bad luck, you've become gravely ill or injured and are now in your last moments. This covers all kinds of accidental deaths--strangulation, drowning, car accidents, unintentional beheadings, whatever you can think of.
2 - Murder. Somebody really didn't like you. Enough to kill you, it seems. You're now dead by someone else's hand. (Maybe even the person replying to you?) As with accidental death, this covers all types of intentional, malicious murder, regardless of method--so poisoning, stabbing, shooting, etc., all work here. Same with all the below options: any possible variation you can think of on it will work!
3 - Suicide. There is no hope for you, and no way out. You've reached the absolute bottom pits of despair, and the only recourse you have is to take your own life. Someone shows up to stop you... but they're too late to help you now.
4 - Terminal illness. You have cancer, or tuberculosis, or cholera back when people got cholera. The doctors have done everything they could and it wasn't enough. The only thing to do now is give your loved ones the bad news.
5 - Starvation. So thirsty. So hungry. Maybe you've been traveling in the desert for hours, or maybe you're just really poor. Whatever the reason, it doesn't matter, because you're slowly wasting away until you're nothing but skin and bones.
6 - Death in battle. You've died a hero's death, and gone out in a blaze of glory. Or maybe you were a coward who got shot for deserting? Either way, you're now a casualty of war. Will you be honored with a parade or scorned as a traitor to your country?
7 - Natural causes. You've lived a long, happy life, and now your story is at an end. In a warm bed, surrounded by your family and friends, you peacefully drift off. Just make sure that you've made a will somewhere, or at least use your deathbed to set the record straight. Otherwise, who knows what kind of squabbles might errupt after you leave this world?
TIME LEFT
1 - A few minutes. You're fading fast and you don't have much, well, any time left. Better tell the person with you that you love -- or despise -- them with your last breath, because you'll never have the chance otherwise.
2 - A few hours. You haven't got much time left. Is there someone you still need to kill? To kiss? Better do it quick. (Note: last kisses not recommended for people dying of highly contagious illnesses.)
3 - A few days. The doctors have given you the news, and it's not very good. You've only got a couple days left to live. You should start trying to make peace with people and saying your final goodbyes with the days you have left.
4 - A few weeks. Take that vacation you've always wanted to go on but never had the chance to. Go do that thing you've never thought you'd be any good at. You've got only weeks left to live. Don't waste them.
5 - A few months. While you aren't quite on death's doorstep yet, your lifespan has still dwindled considerably from what you probably thought it would be. How are you going to spend your last few months on Earth? Making the world a better place and telling your family you love them? Or raising as much hell as possible?
RELATIONSHIP
1 - Lovers. This is your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, mistress, whatever you call them they were the person you wanted to spend your life with. Too bad you don't have much of a life to spend with them anymore.
2 - Siblings. Your beloved little or older sibling is just standing there, watching you slowly waste away before their eyes. Can you say anything to comfort them? Note that it doesn't necessarily have to be interpreted literally; adopted siblings and friends so close they might as well be siblings work too.
3 - Parent and child. Nothing is worse than a parent having to bury their child... except, maybe, a young child now alone in the world after losing their parent. As with the sibling prompt, this can be expanded to include parental figures and people who are LIKE a father/mother to you as well as actual biological parents.
4 - Co-workers, teammates or classmates. You were fighting for the same side. Or you worked together in the same office for years. Or they sat behind you in biology all semester. However you met, how do your react when you find out someone who used to be a fixture in your life is going to die?
5 - Friends. You're the best of friends! You go everywhere together, know all each other's secrets, and are never seen apart. At least, you didn't use to be. Now one of you is dying and the other one is left alone in the world. Or maybe you're dying together. Wait, is that better or worse?
6 - Bitter enemies. You hate, hate, HATE this person. In fact, maybe you killed them. Or they killed you. Or maybe nobody killed anybody and they're just bitter that Mother Nature got to you before they did. Regardless, they want to confront you one last time before you bite it, if only to rub your nose in your imminent demise and their ability to outlive you.
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HOW IT WORKS:
1. This is where I am changing it up. Feel free to choose how you are going to die, just be sure to list the closest matching categories in your subject bar, along with your character and their series.
If you are having trouble coming up with a prompt or situation, feel free to use the random number generator. Or if you rather just take a risk feel free
2. Responding characters then roll for the relationship between the two of you. Optionally responding characters can also share your cause of death/time left to live or roll for their own, but that's not required. A living character caring for (or horribly mutilating) a dying one is fine, too.
However, considering this is in our RP feel free to have your characters keep their CR, just make sure to inform the person which ever way you're going with it before responding!
3. Tell the person what you need to tell them before you bite it.
4. Have fun!
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ETC
Other relationships -- such as murderer/victim, doctor/patient, etc. -- can be added in along with the randomized relationships at your whim if you feel the need, or even used to replace the relationships under that heading. Just, check with the other player first if you're going to do something extreme to their character! Or, in the case of canonmates, if you want to ignore the table and just go with your characters' canon relationship, you certainly can do that as well.
Also, if you would prefer to ignore the table entirely and just play out your own death scenario, feel free! This is a meme, so rules are pretty lax. If you like, you can also replace "death" with some other irreversible, negative scenario, such as being trapped in another dimension. The main point is that the characters conversing will never get the chance to talk to one another again, so you better make the last things you say to them count.
Immortal characters can be AU'd into non-immortals or otherwise made to fit the settings however their muns would desire. Also, if you get a death prompt and a time limit that don't make sense together you can either interpret the prompt as liberally as necessary to make it make sense OR you can simply roll the time left again until you get a time limit that makes more sense! :3
Sonic the Hedgehog | closed to no1canbreakyou
Doing 4 (terminal illness: Wobbly Hedgehog Syndrome), 4 (a few weeks), 1 (lovers).
[ Sonic had been out for a run. Just a harmless run, and there was nothing really special about it. Maybe he was doing some sight seeing. Maybe he was just looking to top his last time. Whatever the case may be, he wasn't planning anything special, just a continuation of what he did normally.
There was something... strange about the blue hedgehog today, though. It didn't lie in his attitude. It didn't lie in his enthusiasm. Heck, it didn't even lie in his appearance, which was just as unruly as it ever was, yet at the same time tamed enough to give him a strong shape. No, there was something else off about him, and it lied in his legs, primarily.
The little hedgehog had been stumbling quite frequently.
This hadn't just started; Tails noticed something was off a few days ago, but hadn't brought it up because he believed his elder brother was having a bad day. Now, it didn't really make a difference, because Sonic could swear this was the fourth time today he'd ran straight in a tree because his legs weren't obeying him.
Rubbing his head dizzily, he slumped against the trunk, sighing. What was off about his A-game lately? ]
Maybe I just need to catch more snoozes. I'm losing my Sonic, here!
[ In truth, something told him mere sleep wouldn't cure this ailment. ]
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Shadow stepped out of the woods to lean against said tree, looking down at Sonic. ]
Napping as usual, huh?
[ There's no malice in his voice, a light tease only present. He gives a smirk. ]
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[ Sonic nearly starts when Shadow approaches him, having been absorbed in giving his legs a firm scolding, and he wheels around, snorting. ]
I wasn't napping. [ His tone isn't affronted, despite his words being so. ] I was running around and...
[ Well, wait. Telling him the truth... that would be embarrassing. He did literally run into the tree. Sonic the Hedgehog? Hero? Running into a tree? How fantastic. Elegant. Wonderful. ]
... stopping to catch my breath!
[ Wow, you couldn't lie any worse than you did. Good job, Sonic. He frowns. ]
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You don't stop to catch your breath.
[ Shadow frowns a bit. ] You don't have to be embarrassed around me, blue hedgehog. I've seen you at both your worst and best.
[ He thought, at the time, he'd seen his worst... ]
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[ Well, there goes that plan. Sonic sighs and shrugs, surrendering his dignity already. Shadow knows his ins and outs, that much is true. That's what happens when secrets are revealed behind closed doors. ]
I ran into the tree we're leaning against.
[ He lowers his ears. Even though Shadow's reassured him, he's still embarrassed for his own sake. He glares at his legs. ]
I've been so clumsy lately. I dunno why, but my trusty ol' limbs aren't obeying me as much as they should be.
no subject
Have you been stretching as much? Sometimes lack of blood flow can put them to sleep.
[ Shadow kneels down beside Sonic, placing both hands to one of his legs, trying to feel for any problems. ]
no subject
Yeah, I never slack off with taking proper care of myself. You know that.
[ Sonic's leg twitches a little under the contact, an involuntary response to it; strangely enough, though, his other leg, which also has a tendency to fidget, is remaining completely stalk still. Apparently, the blue hedgehog doesn't seem to notice this, because he nearly yelps as he starts to topple over to that leg's side, barely catching himself on the trunk of the tree. ]
Whoa, what was that?
[ He shakes out that leg -- and it's noticeably a little wobbly. ]
Come on, I was leaning against a tree! Don't do that!
no subject
Have you been to a clinic recently?
[ It warranted a better opinion. Shadow knew that he was pretty good at decifering medical issues to a degree, but he was no expert and knew really only practical things. ]
Come on. I'll take you to one.
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Wait... Are you saying that something's really wrong with me?
[ With his legs, more specifically. Oh, no.
Hopefully that expert wouldn't give them too terrible of news on this condition. Just so he wouldn't embarrass himself with running into a tree again, he slings his arm over Shadow's shoulders to hobble on with him. ]
Well, let's go, then.
no subject
There's no point in walking.
[ He doesn't even have to say it, instead the emerald flashes brightly-- when the light fades, they appear to be in front of an in-town clinic. ]
TIME SKIP...
It felt like this was some sort of nightmare. What they were told in the clinic... After having waited a few hours, to have the Doctor tell Sonic what he was going through, or at least had symptoms of...
It was jarring. Shadow remembered the look on Sonic's face-- though he often didn't want others worrying about him, they'd spent so much time together by now that he could identify every one of Sonic's expressions... every nuance. He felt his heart ache when Sonic received the news of having what appeared to be WHS.
To be unable to run ever again... to start losing feeling in his body, to lose balance all together...
The doctor had offered a wheelchair for Sonic, but the hedgehog had declined it. Of course he would. Shadow wanted to scold him for rejecting the aid, but at the same time, he knew he would have done the same. Running was something Sonic loved almost more than anything. The fact it was now being taken from him... and that he would more than likely die...
The moments after leaving the clinic felt like years of silence. It didn't quite feel real, what had just happened... Shadow had lost loved ones before, but... not like this.
He turned to look at Sonic, opened his mouth to speak, but no words came to him. What could he say? What could he do? He felt helpless. He couldn't even help his partner. ]
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His frustration was up by at least times one hundred.
His lips twisted miserably as he realized that he had to clutch onto his partner's arm with his fingers in order to remain stable. Before, he didn't have to rely on anyone so heavily -- and although he knew that Shadow didn't mind in the slightest (given that they were always there for each other), he still felt a bit of anger at himself well up within him at needing to demonstrate that reliance in the first place. ]
I'm not gonna let this stupid disease take away my ability to run. [ It was a defiant growl, accompanied by him appearing visibly upset. ] I'm gonna keep moving.
[ In fact, he let go of Shadow's arm just to stumble forward... and, well, didn't get very far before he crashed into the ground again, muttering a string of not necessarily curses but certainly aggressive words directed at the agony this situation presented him. ]
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... Take my hand. We're going home.
[ This would destroy Sonic inside. He knew it. But Shadow also knew he'd do whatever he could to keep the hedgehog's smile, even though it would be futile. Without the ability to run, it would only be a matter of time before Sonic's will power fizzled out.
A sad truth. ]