last words meme.

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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

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Comments

leo fitz | mcu

[leofitz]

Yang Xiao Long ∞ RWBY ∞ ota

[ballisticfists]

[motherofthesun]

[6-4-5... So, probably an untreatable/improperly treated (maybe even hidden oooh) injury from battle that just comes back weeks later?]

Ellie | The Last of Us

[alligot]

Tara Knowles [Sons of Anarchy] Ota

[ibelonghere]

[Het for relationship 1 please.]

loki ♛ mcu

[snowborn]

→ willing to dip into AUs if the prompt calls for it
→ pairing prefs, if applicable, are in his journal!

Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock (BBC)

[consulting_freak]

quinn fabray ♔ glee

[ambitious]

Thorin Oakenshield | The Hobbit

[heirwithouthope]

6/2

[elvenking]

[What has he come here to say? All he knows is that he should be here.

The Elvenking looks down at the King Under the Mountain mutely. His face is still smudged with orc blood, but that seems as good a sign as any. Still, he can't think it would be comfortable, and a dying person should be as comfortable as possible, he supposes. Mortality is so strange and alien, thinking about dying never to return, one's last moments in this world, and he suddenly has the idea that he is taking part in something of great importance. He moves to the bedside and draws a damp rag from a bowl of water. Kneeling, he gently begins to wash the grime from Thorin's face as the attendants look on warily.]

Akira | Togainu No Chi

[sanguinecure]

Baron Franz d'Epinay | Gankutsuou | OTA

[feelingsofloveandhate]

trucy wright ✚ ace attorney ✚ ota

[cardtrick]

[ Cool with being the dying or the survivor! ]

kate galloway ✚ original character ✚ ota

[altitude]

[ I'm fine with either role. Lovers relationship only for people she's threaded with before! ]

Loras Tyrell | ASOIAF

[dyingisnotdead]

impulse tag, not sorry. (immediately post-battle of blackwater)

[fatheroflions]

[There are several ways to have a protracted death from a battle-wound, and not stemming the bleeding in time is the way he would've chosen and the way apparently chosen for him. The battle's done and he's being attended to now, but it won't help much. He's been informed of having lost a lot of blood as it is, as though it could possibly come as a surprise to him. If that doesn't kill him, there's the bodily shock, and even surviving that he could easily develop infection and then succumb to fever. He's found that he can't stand on his own power, but he does sit upright. No one's quite bold enough to tell him that he would be better not to do that. There's a fearful and grim urgency in the maesters and attendants around him, but that's in spite of his own pragmatic bearing, not a reflection of his mood. He hasn't allowed for alarm. He's somewhat preoccupied, having to get through this and then — potentially to the exclusion and rebuff of everyone else — have final words with his daughter. He's attentive, not simply coherent, with his gaze steadily affixed on his visitor.]

Ser Loras. What is it you want?

[It is, perhaps, an unreasonable and discourteous demand, considering Tywin was the one to issue summons. Hard to say whether he would have been this impolite, if time was not a factor and pain was not an issue. He means to ask a larger question than what Loras himself desires, of course, since he has seen that already. It was obvious from the young man's countenance on the battlefield, from his single-minded ire afterward, and becomes further apparent in his discontent with the knowledge that Stannis Baratheon is retreating from the reach of vengeance.

The Lord of Casterly Rock wishes to know how the Lannisters and the Tyrells may be of further benefit to one another, in the wake of their mutual victory, costly though it was. There are arrangements to be made, irrespective of his imminent demise, and it falls to Loras to attempt a discussion that Tywin would otherwise have had (upon her presence and convenience) with Lady Olenna. It is beneath consideration whether the arrangements he makes now will be honored after his death. He'd make them anyway, since the alternative would mean accepting that something is beyond his influence.]

Phil Coulson | MCU | OTA

[superbabysitter]

[haxx]

( would a skye be acceptable? ・◇・ )

Jack Harkness | Torchwood/Doctor Who

[timelocked]

[He is around for more people's last words than he would like to be.]

Quentin Lance } ARROW

[scpd]

Derek Bliss | Vampires: Los Muertos

[rather_be_surfing]

Sherlock Holmes | BBC Sherlock

[seesobserves]

[thetruthismine]

[He talks to Mycroft sometimes. Sherlock knows it, may not always like it, but it is a thing that happens every so often. Jane is unpredictable in these meetings, and Mycroft knows it could be easily mischief, malice, or mundane. The look of tension is always enjoyable no matter what the occasion.

This one... Mycroft had expertly worked in a hint so casual Jane had to give credit. 'Our mother had that- unfortunate turn in any age of medicine'. It explained a lot: the distance, the odd physical tics, the weight loss. Things Jane normally chalked up to stress or disease, but ignored the latter because so much of what they did now was on a national scale. Just because Jane didn't much care about the British Government didn't mean Sherlock felt similarly...or that was his reasoning.

Everyone has blind spots.

He walks into the flat, heeding Mycroft's advice to confront his brother. But there's something heavy on Jane's shoulders, a feeling of dread and the threat of an imminent singularity. Sherlock is somewhere in the kitchen from what he can hear, likely huddled over a microscope. The implications nearly make Jane lose his nerve, but he has to know.]

Spoke to your brother today.

jemma simmons | agents of shield

[unpronounced]

clara oswin oswald | doctor who

[bustled]

hayley ☾ tvd/the originals

[feralis]

belle blake ⇢ malavita/the family

[racquet]

aurora ↬ once upon a time

[roust]

Felix | Golden Sun | Other/variant

[venusadept_2]

[Specifically, a variant on Death In Battle: in this case it's an "I'm not going to survive this, but I've got to go anyway." But if you'd like another cause, other than suicide because I don't go there with him, feel free to ask.]

Puru Two | Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ

[donttouchthequbeley]

[ooc: no lovers.]