The End of the Line Meme (TW)

[yohko]

The End of the Line Meme

Humanity spends way more time than is strictly healthy contemplating death. But right now, for our characters, it's really the most pertinent topic on hand. For one reason or another, your character is going to die relatively soon, and they know it. Face to face with their own mortality, characters are liable to do any number of things. So have at it!



How this works:
→ Leave a comment with the usual information in the subject line: character name, fandom. Any preferences, including what you don't want, should be included as well.
→ Tag around.
→ Feel free to roll RNG (1-7) if you cannot come up with scenarios of your own.
→ Have fun, and be excellent to each other!


1: ☠Terminal Illness☠ Cancer, smallpox, TB, plague, cholera, pick your favorite life threatening disease, and lose against it. You character has been wasting away, they're past the point of being helped, and soon they will no longer be with us. Perhaps the other players is a loved one, a friend, a doctor, or maybe a fellow patient, (terminal or not), who's there to see the doomed party to their end.

2: ☠Elaborate Plot☠ The spike walls are slowly closing in, or the pit is filling with water, the air is running out in your sealed box, the counter on that bomb is ticking away, the poison has hit your bloodstream, the sharks are closing in, etc. Somehow you've found yourself trapped or cornered, most likely at the hands of some nefarious foe, but not necessarily. Either way, try as hard as you can to escape, you can't. When do you give up, or do you fight until the end? For this one the characters can either be trapped together, or one could be out of harm's way trying to save the other, or gloating and savoring their imminent demise.

3: ☠So Much Bleeding☠ Wow that hurts. Like, a lot. Or...or maybe not? Y'know it's starting to feel kind of light and floaty, and it'd sure be nice to just close your eyes and drift off... For some reason your character suffered a grievous injury. Maybe it was in an epic battle with their nemesis, maybe they sacrificed themselves for player two, or maybe they're just really really klutzy and were running with a pair of scissors. No matter how it went, the point is that now they're bleeding out and have not long left in this mortal coil.

4: ☠Old as Balls☠ Even your wrinkles have wrinkles. You've been alive for like...ever. But hey, all good things must end, and now you feel that you're reaching the end of your rope. Are you a bitter, angry old geezer, or are you content with your life? Heavy with regret, or proud of your accomplishments? Are you saying a tearful goodbye to your friends and family, or maybe flipping the bird to an old enemy one last time? Maybe you're even reconciling with that enemy. Go nuts.

5: ☠To the Gallows at Dawn☠ Innocent or guilty, you are scheduled to hang/firing squad/lethal injection/be drawn and quartered/be decapitated. It is your last night. Chat with your cell mate? Try to escape? Bribe/seduce the guard? Tell your life story to anyone who passes you in the stocks? This one needs a bit more tweaking to properly be an engaging two person thread, but I have faith in your creativity.

6: ☠Final Curtain Call☠ This time, it's not just about you. The entire effing country/planet/universe/dimension is about to go up in smoke and everyone knows it. Break out the condoms and fried cheese, because this is gonna be one wild night.

7: ☠Overdue☠ Waaaait a second, you're already dead! Who would've guessed that? Well anyway, welcome to the afterlife. Maybe you're in some kind of celestial paradise, a torture dimension, or perhaps you're being a clingy fart and hanging around on your previous plane of residence. Finish up your business, or chill out and creep the bejeezus out of people. Your choice.

 

Original meme posted here, on memebells.

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[caelus]

[After everything they'd been through. After everything they'd survived it was going to be this.]

UHURA!

[Jim pushed through the throng of natives, trying to scramble up the steps of the altar, and get to her. Oh god, there was so much blood-- No. No, no, no. It was supposed to be a simple scouting mission. It was just--

Prime Directive be damned, he pulled out his phaser and stunned the nearest priest and the rest screamed about the Gods walking among them and incurring their wrath before scattering. He was pushed back by a wave of people once more before he managed to get up to her. He began to untie her hands and ankles.]

Uhura? Hey, easy, you're okay. We're getting out of here.

[polyglot]

[In all honesty, it was her fault. She'd gotten herself caught and she hadn't been expecting anyone to rescue her. If she could just talk her way out of it... she'd managed so far to avoid anything violating the Prime Directive; if only she could say something to them to get them to let her go, and then she could make her way back to the Enterprise. There would be sanctions and she may be suspended, but it was worth it if it meant living.

They'd only stabbed her once she tried to speak their language. Her mistake. She hadn't been expecting Kirk to come out of the woodwork though, shouting her name and leading a rush to her, attempting to untie her hands and ankles.

Too late, too late. Her mother had always told her she was too smart for her own good. She would bleed out before Bones would even have a chance to look at her.]

Kirk. [ Her voice was choked. ] Don't. You're wasting time. You have .. to get back to the ship.

[caelus]

[Kirk doesn't care whose fault it is. All he cares about is the fact that his Chief Communications Officer is bleeding out on a stone slab on a backwater pre-warp civilization.

He doesn't care that he just broke the Prime Directive by showing them their technology. He'd deal with that later. They'd come down on a shuttle to avoid the atmospheric interference with the transporters, he'd have to carry her there.

He could do this.]

I'm not leaving you behind. [He strips off his uniform shirt, leaving only the black one underneath, and presses it to the wound. He leans down, cradling her under the neck and her knees to lift her into his arms; against his chest.]

Try to hold that there, and put your arm around my neck. We're getting out of here. Both of us.

[polyglot]

[ She would protest that he was wasting his time, but it was difficult when he was tugging her away from the rock at her back; moving was painful and she had to grit her teeth teeth to keep from making noise and attracting undo attention to the pair of them. ]

Captain. As noble as this is, [ she paused to sling one arm around his shoulders, hissing in pain. Nyota is pale, too pale. Soon she'll be a dead weight and he'll never make it back carrying her weight as well as his own. ] no one will blame you if you leave me here. They will blame you if you compromise the entire mission!

[ This entire situation is ridiculous. She's begging him to leave her body on this rock. So she can die. What on Earth...

But they weren't on Earth. That was the entire problem. She was in the middle of some galaxy in the middle of nowhere, with a hostile civilization, bleeding out without adequate medical care. ]