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The Last Words Meme

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.

HOW IT WORKS:

I.
Comment with your character. Using random.org or a similar site, the first character to post rolls for their cause of death and how long they have left to live. Or you can leave it blank and let the person commenting choose for you!

II.
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.

III.
Tell the person what you need to tell them before you bite it.

CAUSE OF DEATH:

I.
Accidental. Nobody meant for this to happen, but it doesn't matter now. Due to negligance, 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.

II.
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!

III.
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.

IV.
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.

V.
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.

VI.
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?

VII.
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:

I.
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.

II.
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.)

III.
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.

IV.
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.

V.
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:

I.
Lovers. This is your husband, wife, boyfriend, girlfriend, mistress - 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.

II.
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.

III.
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.

IV.
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?

V.
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?

VI.
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.

Stolen from memebells.

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[ Sure why not this too. ]

Jack's fading fast....somehow

m/m for shipping options. probably I, IV* or VI if chuck is the one dying.

*exposure to radiation or kaiju blue leading to illness.

Edited 2017-10-28 05:49 (UTC)

f/m for shipping. I, II, IV, VI if Kitty's the one dying.

[modern au available]

Edited 2017-10-28 15:49 (UTC)

"You know, Anika; I do not normally do such things. And too, this is not a safe area, not anymore. Promise me that, whether or not we can find or call her spirit here, promise me that we shall leave once this is over. No waiting, no sad reflection far into the night, do you understand? The undead horde, they hunt and this is but one of their hunting grounds. The living and the dead alike."

Amarante Legarde glanced back at her companion as they carefully looked around the grounds the old, burned out building. "You are certain that she was here before she died? I see nothing, no shade no spirit, no wandering soul. If your friend was here, she has likely passed on." Mara sighed, leaned back against the crumbling ruin of an outer wall.

"Still, if this is so very important to you? I shall do what I can. Tell no one, do you understand? This - gift I have was honed by the teaching those whom I gave great trust to, and I not have their name or their teachings taken in vain."

It was growing darker, the sun a sliver of light on a dingy horizon, the sky grey from the smoke of burning fires that haunted the city of Los Angeles these days. Mara closed her eyes, centered herself and began to pull her power together, drawing it up in a tight ball and thrusting it out as if from a cannon. ONIDA GIRARD! The name, the sounding tore through the veil and into the beyond.

Ani just nodded her head. Her eyes too were staring about the place, warily glancing from one long shadow to the next and keeping half an eye on the setting sun as well.

"It's important. I wouldn't have brought it up otherwise, believe me. I just have to know."

Making deals with the fae, it was stupid. All the books and all the legends, and all the fairy tales mentioned the ominous outcome to making deals with faery folk, no matter what their alliance. Did they even have alliances? Still, Anika felt she had to chance it. At least once.

Keeping a good eye on their surrounding, Ani juggled the keys to the SUV in one hand as she settled across from the faeling and prepared to wait and watch. And listen.

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