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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Frederick | Fire Emblem: Awakening | OTA

[battlebutler]

3, of course

[taktikos]

[ This wasn't supposed to happen. His greatest fear was that he'd fail like this, make the wrong call, and now he had lost ally, a friend. Too slow. He'd been too slow to turn and defend Frederick, he hadn't been able to reach the knight in time, hadn't accounted on reinforcements from there of all places, hadn't though to try and... excuses. He failed, and Frederick is dying, and it's all his fault.

Robin is quick to reach Frederick and support him where he has stumbled, a Thoron hastily cast in the direction of the nearly-dead Risen chief. There is so much blood. ]

Frederick. Frederick! Stay with me.

Of course!

[battlebutler]

[In Frederick's eyes, the entire blame lay on him and him alone. It would be easy for him to say he should have been more wary of his immediate surroundings and the Risen on the battlefield instead of on his Lord Chrom in the distance but, in the end, he was merely performing his duties.

He has no regrets.

The Risen Chief's spear slid into a gap in his armor and sliced open leather and flesh; Frederick's desperate counterattack sent him stumbling off his mare's saddle and though he was capable of standing, it wasn't without Robin's help. The damage from the wound spreads lightning-quick -- he's bleeding everywhere, it feels like -- and the light is draining from his eyes even quicker. When he opens his mouth to speak, he tastes copper.]

Worry not of me, Lord Robin. Make sure Chrom -- make sure...