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A friend for the end

the end of the world meme

how are you spending your last days on earth?

What if I told you that the world was gonna end? And you had 15 minutes to spend with me or your friends? Would you take the first bus over to my house? Or would you take the last plane over the West Coast?

Mike Krol

So, the world's ending and nobody knows about it. That's cool. It could be an impending nuclear meltdown, or aliens, or a meteor on a collision course with Earth. You know this is coming, but everyone else in the world is blissfully ignorant. And why would you want to ruin their peace? It's better to let them be happy.

Besides, you can pack a lot of shit in a couple of days.

Better get started.

— comment with your character + prefs.
— live out your last day(s).
— optionally, thread out what happens next, if you want a neat apocalypse thread.

potential ways to spend your last day(s).

Last Love. Romance but make it sad.
Apologies. You can't leave this world without making your amends. Time to call up everyone you know and tell them you're sorry for that bad thing you once did seven years ago. You remember that thing?
Doomsayer. To hell with ignorant bliss. You're telling everyone just what the hell is going on here! Who cares if it starts mass chaos?
Bucket List. There's a lot you've wanted to do and you've only got so much time to do it all. Starting with...
Memories. You want to end things on a good note, so why not spend these last days making great memories? Or reminiscing with someone about old ones?
Sad Sack. You know, crying in bed is also a valid option. This is a natural reaction. Please don't feel ashamed. Do you need some tissues?
Doomsday Preppers. You're not sitting on your ass, no sir. When the end gets here, you want to be prepared. How many cases of water can fit in your basement? Let's find out.
Goodbyes. If you're not going to give out apologies, you can at least say your goodbyes to people. Making a phone call, turn up at their house unannounced, it doesn't matter. The world is ending!
Denial. Yeah, no, everything's fine. This is great. It's probably all a hoax, after all. You're not letting this bother you one bit. In fact, you're opening up a spreadsheet and getting back to work.
Panic. The most realistic response, if we're being honest. Sometimes, you need to lose your shit in a blind panic and you need others to calm you down. And that's okay.
Squad Up. You're building your dream apocalypse team. Let's see, you need someone who's good with guns, a computer nerd, a getaway driver...
Party Hard. Hello? Has Prince taught us nothing? If the world's going to end, you're sure as hell not seeing it all go down while sober.
Best Day Ever. Your last day is going to rock. You're going to make it great, and buy all your favorite foods, and watch all your favorite movies, and it's going to be awesome.
Lawless. Punch a cop! Kiss a grandma! Who cares! If the world is ending, there are no rules!
Wildcard. You're doomed! Have fun!

possible ends.

Zombies. A dropped vial in Brazil can set off an outbreak in Texas.
Aliens. They're taking over the planet, here to enslave humans or something. Or maybe they just want to be friends! Quick to judge much?
Supernatural. Demons? There are demons now?
Meteor. Maybe a big, strong, flying superhero could punch that thing back into outer space.
Nuclear. War? War never changes.
Biotech. Something about messing around with human lives never sat right with you. And look who was right all along!
AI. Looking at you, ChatGPT.
Toxins. Something got into the air that wasn't supposed to. Spooky, scary mutations imminent.
The Unknown. Just because you can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Have we forgotten Bird Box already? Don't look. Or maybe it's the other way around? Blink and it gets you.
Nature. The trees are fighting back.
Biblical. Oh, ye of little faith...
Horrific. Something creepy, and twisted, and wrong. Something out of a horror novel.
Fluke. Nothing happens. Literally, nothing happens. Don't you hate when you get all riled up for nothing? Is it too late to take back all those last-day-on-Earth words?
Wildcard. However it ends, it's not going to be great.

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couple options if it’s incorporated to his world (doesn’t have to be):

a. machine but secretly woke dick!connor or regular woke!connor who knows the u.s. government is on the verge of nuking territories held by androids. of which they can survive radiation, but the boom? who knows where they’d fall.

b. reverse might be he knows a bunch of extremist androids are going to release something he can’t or failed to stop that would fuck up humankind.

[ you mean other than preparing to go to war? the end has a 3-year winter prelude as prophesied but thankfully he's immune to that ~~and may or may not have caused it~~. ]

[ shippy stuff is iffy stuff, but hit me with whatever! ]

( lbr the guy who caused it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or trying to stop it. who knows )

[ ooc; 👀 ]

( they're going out like thelma and louise. but the question is, who's driving the car off the cliff??? )

[I love end of the world things! I have verses in a bunch settings where it could happen. Info on journal, encourage cross canon and assumed cr.]

[bad end au??? brand spanking new apocalypse??? extremely down to play the end or post-apocalyptic stuff too. 18+ for shipping.]

[ We can always pray together. ]

[ so just another Tuesday night. ]

[ Prefs. Am post-game but happy to work within spoiler limitations, just lmk, and also take care to mark spoilers for others. Still voicetesting a lil. <3 ]

[ anything goes. probably his fault tbh! ]

( white walkers in a modern context, let's gooo. assumed CR is great, but as i'd like to write something v emotionally heavy for this meme, pls also feel free to pm for loose plotting beforehand! ota crosscanon/medium, ocs, all loved. )

[World ending is in his job description]

(>.> did he do it?)

[World ending is also in Crowley's job description, technically. Or rather, it was when he had a job. He definitely doesn't miss having a job. Unfortunately even if it's not his job to help bring it about, the world is ending. Again. Second Coming is being arranged, no doubt in accordance with the Book of Revelation complete with boiling seas and the dead rising and all that fun stuff.

(Hard to imagine Yeshua appearing wearing robes of blood, though. Those sorts of dramatics were never in his style. Then again, neither was anything in the Book of Revelation.)

Point is, the world is coming to an end, again. And this time Crowley can't do anything to stop it. No plans in place, no schemes, no angel to ally with and try to stymie things.

So he's drinking, because what else is there to do? He might as well enjoy the top shelves of pubs while they're still around. No good whisky on Alpha Centauri, after all.]

[There is the sound of a stool being pulled back and the flop of someone sitting down next to Crowley with a quiet sigh. The Doctor looks over and chuckles assuming at first this is his 14th self.]

Decided to go ginger at the end then? Not a bad idea honestly.

Whaa--?

[Crowley, in contrast, looks first confused, and then slightly insulted.]

Ginger? This hair isn't ginger, it's not some sort of bloody condiment. It's red. Red as fire, blood, all that stuff.

[The Doctor nods seriously well as seriously as this face seems to take anything for a man wearing a pinstripe kilt at the end of the world.]

It's a very nice red...matches the sky right now.

[There is a sudden sadness as it sinks in that his favorite plaent might soon be gone after everything he did to save it.]

This wasn't my fault this time.

[Crowley just snorts.]

Yeah, I know who's fault it is.

[Blessed Metatron. Crowley never did like him, even back when he was still a sunny-eyed innocent little angel who didn't know any better about anything.

Crowley turns to pay more attention to the person next to him. A pinstripe kilt is an...interesting fashion choice, it's true. But he's seen stranger. Worn stranger, come to that.]

You often bring about the end of the world then, whoever you are?

No normally I'm the one stopping the end of the world.

[Now that he's gotten a good look at this being he can see the face is similar but not completely the same as 14 and 10. He offers his hand.]

I'm The Doctor..just the Doctor.

[ Girl under orders to activate when world population is under 3%. ]

( biotech? walrider? uncontrollable nanites destroying everything in its path??? or pick your own flavour, i'm down for anything! )

( so, remember in the age of ultron dystopia alternate timeline where marc was a mess who tried not to sleep (what's new) and needed the black widow to keep him some degree of grounded? yeah?

me too.

aka moon knight's not the best company to end up with but, yk. he'll try. )

[ do you mean: exactly what's happening in canon right now. info/prefs; will likely swing wildly between nihilism, misery, and violence. ]

[ happy to plot beforehand but really anything goes. ]

[ something set on gunsmoke, where the end of the world always feels eminent? Or modern AUs welcome. ]

[ M/F 25+ for shipping, OTA for gen. Down for leaning on each other in survival situations as far as building some CR and making it a whole surviving the apocalypse thing. Zombies are a particularly loved thing, aliens are already a deal in the MCU, as is the whole supernatural thing to an extent, open to others. ]

[ It was a waiting game. The enemy was coming, but their ships wouldn't enter Earth's atmosphere until late morning in Wakanda.

Still, Steph wears her suit as if the battle might commence any second, the suit already in a state of disrepair after her time on the run. The shield she'd been lent lies on the ground by her feet, within easy reach. Her sidearm is in its holster on her belt, her knife tucked in her boot, as if either weapon would make a difference in a battle against an invading alien force.

On her lap is a sketchpad. She's been hard at work for the last half hour, drawing the faces of her friends and allies as if the pad was some sort of memorial. She starts at the crunch of feet against the grass and looks quickly behind her, but it's only Bucky, emerging from his little hut with something to drink. With a small smile, she pauses in her sketching, tucking the pencil between the pages before closing the pad.

She accepts her drink with a murmur of thanks. Her fingers, despite the serum, are shaking from the nerves — and the complicated tangle of feelings in her chest. Because there's a sense of finality to all this. It makes her think of that time she stood on that snowy mountain, awaiting the train that carried Zola; those seconds before the plane crashed into the ice; when she let go of the shield and the Helicarrier fell apart around her and she fell into the water. ]

This it, you think? [ Her voice is quiet, her gaze distant. ] The end of the line?

[ Shipping, gen things, enemy things, establishing some CR in the apocalypse are all good. Zombies are a top tier love, aliens are already an issue from MCU/her side of canon…plus there’s the space travel, lmao AI being killer robots ALSO a thing from her side of Marvel canon, down with supernatural and other discussions and making it a whole apocalypse AU. ]

[ if the apocalypse comes, beep her. ]

[Someone convince him to do something better with his remaining time than still seeking revenge on everyone who has ever wronged him.]

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A friend for the end

james buchanan barnes | mcu

connor ( d:bh )

Raziel | Legacy of Kain | OTA

hodr odinson | the prophecies of ragnarok

dr ratio | hsr | m/m

Lucy MacLean - Fallout

dr. stephen strange — mcu.

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Sophie Hallow *Original* OTA

Toki Wartooth | Metalocalypse | ota

Delmar O'Donnell | O Brother Where Art Thou | OTA

Fabian Aramais Seacaster | D20 Fantasy High

verso | clair obscur: expedition 33 | ota

higgs | death stranding

margaery tyrell | game of thrones

The Doctor (15) | Doctor Who | ota

Re: The Doctor (15) | Doctor Who | ota

So, hijinks? can switch to prose if you'd rather. :)

Re: So, hijinks? can switch to prose if you'd rather. :)

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BB | FGO

miles upshur / outlast

sam / until dawn

nei takarai ♡ gokurakugai

marc spector, marvel comics

asa mitaka | chainsaw man

chu wanning | husky and his white cat shizun

geto suguru | jujutsu kaisen

meryl stryfe | trigun stampede

bucky barnes | mcu | ota

okay but what if they had more time to do tropey things

daisy johnson | marvel’s agents of shield | ota

buffy summers | buffy the vampire slayer | ota

dana polk / cabin in the woods

nancy holbrook | nightmare on elm st.

Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter | MCU

Sophie Hallow Original OTA