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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
- reposted from here.
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Date: 2020-05-18 01:20 am (UTC)pump them full of chemicals. throw them into battle. wait for them to burn themselves out, one way or another. perhaps if cloud had been privvy to private documents he wouldn't have coveted the title. wouldn't have thrown everything that was safe and familiar away to chase a dream that would have him dying before fifty.
he's twenty-six. he had survived sephiroth, jenova, the lifestream, and geostigma. he'd wrenched his mind back from the brink and regained himself, twice, but... in the end, he couldn't reclaim his body. the damage hojo had done to it went far beyond a handful of jenova cells and mako injections.
tifa finds him unconscious on the floor one midsummer day. pale, unresponsive, and cold to the touch. he hadn't even remembered passing out, coming to just as the ambulance arrives and some poor unfortunate EMT gets within striking distance. he's unconscious again well before they even get him out of the house.
they can't fix it.
what he has in store is a slow, painful decline. cloud is a fighter by nature and his body will fight, and fight, and fight - up until it has nothing left to fight with. the wro is looking, the say, they're going to find something. he has to hold on, and so he does, for their sake. he's allowed home until he takes another spell and something (liver, he thinks, he wasn't paying total attention) important starts to quit, and then he's back here. they're buying time until they find something in hojo's research that can help - until they aren't.
then they're just trying to keep him comfortable.
he's not getting out of this room. ]
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Date: 2020-05-18 01:44 am (UTC)Geostigma had left his body weakened but his resolve was still strong. He had been given a second chance he knew he didn't deserve so it was not something that he was going to waste it. Part of that was trying his best to atone for the past and heal old wounds. He knew that Cloud would not accept any help from him but that didn't stop him from doing what he could to help him. He owed a great deal to Cloud and though there was no way he could ever repay that debt, he would do what he was able to do.
It was Reno who called him that day Cloud was brought back to the hospital. He had Reno and Rude keeping him updated on Cloud's condition and he had been doing everything he could to get his hands on Hojo's old research. Reeve and WRO had been cautiously helping him but it wasn't an easy task.
There was little he could do but he still had Tseng drive him down to the hospital in Edge that day, arriving just as Tifa left Cloud's room. She frowned when she saw him but didn't stop him from going in by himself. He went to Cloud's bedside, looking down at him.]
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Date: 2020-05-18 01:57 am (UTC)the room is dim. cloud's on his side, sheets pulled up to his chin. the light burns his eyes now, he keeps them closed most of the time. they crack open now to take in the sight of the older blonde, expression haggard and worn down to the bone. ]
What do you want?
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Date: 2020-05-18 02:13 am (UTC)[Rufus sat by Cloud's bedside, looking directly at him. What was happening to Cloud happened to the rest of Hojo's experiments and he hadn't been able to do anything in their cases. He wasn't going to let go of Cloud easily and admit defeat. They had known each other for too long for that.]
I'm going to have you taken to Healen to stay with me. You'll be comfortable there- the medical staff there aren't former Shinra medical personnel.
[Something he had been very thorough about ensuring. He had never met any of Shinra's medical staff who weren't interested in Hojo's projects. It was rather disturbing.]
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Date: 2020-05-18 02:21 am (UTC)It's a waste of your time and resources. I'm not of use to anybody right now.
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Date: 2020-05-18 02:50 am (UTC)[Rufus knew that he had done horrible things, he was to blame for a lot of grief in Cloud's life and while this wouldn't entirely absolve him of his crimes, he was still going to do it.
And then were the suspicions he didn't speak to anyone about, even the Turks aside from Tseng. It had taken a lot of work to get the records since Nibelheim had been destroyed and then rebuilt but his suspicions had been proven correct eventually. His father had been a busy man.
Lazard had been a terrible older brother to Rufus and so he was trying his best when it came to watching out for Evan now, Cloud. ]
The Turks are working with Reeve to hunt down Genesis but I can get you the best care available. I've already spoken with Tifa- she's not thrilled but she knows you'll be looked after.
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Date: 2020-05-18 02:55 am (UTC)Well, she's in charge.
[ power of attorney and all of that. a terrible burden she hadn't wanted, but with his track record... one could scarcely trust him to make his own decisions when it came to his medical care.
Even now, she probably knew what was going through his head. How he reacted when he had no power over his fate - how his first impulse was to take it into his own hands, by however means were necessary. ]
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Date: 2020-05-18 03:07 am (UTC)[And he's glad for Cloud for having Tifa. He and Tifa would never trust each other but he did trust how she cared about Cloud, as ridiculously sentimental as that was. It was his duty to care for his younger brothers the way Lazard and his father had failed them.]
You'll like Healen. It's just me and the Turks there now.
[Not to mention that it was secure. He was sure that Genesis was going to make a move soon enough so he would have to protect Cloud the best he was able to.]
Tifa and the children will be able to visit any time they want so you won't be alone there with just us for company.
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Date: 2020-05-18 03:21 am (UTC)Don't let the Turks in my room.
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Date: 2020-05-18 04:02 am (UTC)[Rufus could understand that. He hadn't allowed the Turks to witness when he was ill despite his close bond with them. It wasn't surprising that Cloud wouldn't want the Turks close by.
He supposed he shouldn't be surprised that the Turks weren't fond of any of his brothers.]
My concern is your health, Cloud.
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Date: 2020-05-18 05:40 am (UTC)[ weeks. months, maybe, if he's lucky. it isn't about prolonging life it's about precisely what rufus said - comfort. unless they can get genesis, unless they can get his cells. his organs will fail, bit by bit, and his cognitive function will begin to rapidly decline.
if he remembered anything from all those years ago, he'd laugh at the bitter irony of it. but he doesn't. he settles on his back, letting out an exhausted sigh. ]
Concern won't do anyone any good.
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Date: 2020-05-18 05:49 pm (UTC)[Lazard and their father had been the losers who died. Rufus may have been the one who had used the air vent tunnel but he was alive. And he knew Cloud took after him in many ways. They were Shinras- there was power in their blood that couldn't be denied.
Rufus reached down, lightly touching Cloud's cheek for a moment before suddenly pulling away.]
Why are you so willing to give up?
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Date: 2020-05-18 08:10 pm (UTC)now he can't even do that. ]
We all run out of time eventually.
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Date: 2020-05-19 01:27 am (UTC)[Rufus sat on the edge of Cloud's bed. He knew he wouldn't be the same after Geostigma but he had survived. He would continue to survive if he had to fight tooth and nail to do so.
His expression was understanding as he looked down at Cloud. From up close they really did look a lot alike, though Cloud had less of their father's features than Rufus or Evan. Lazard and Cloud took more after their mothers but the resemblance was still there]
Do you think your time is out then?
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Date: 2020-05-19 01:38 am (UTC)[ the second masamune had cut through him. that should've been it. ]
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Date: 2020-05-19 02:11 am (UTC)[He had been so angry with himself at that time for thinking that. He was quiet for a while as he debated his next words. Telling Cloud the truth would be difficult- he doubted that Cloud would take the news well but he decided to be honest with him. He owed Cloud that much.]
It's not in your blood to just accept death though. I would know, we share the same blood.
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Date: 2020-05-19 02:13 am (UTC)[ confusion spreads slowly across his features. ]
What blood?
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Date: 2020-05-19 02:52 am (UTC)[This wasn't going to be easy but he was resolved to do this. Cloud could not believe him, that was fine but Rufus had to tell him before it was too late.]
You're my younger half brother. I wasn't able to confirm it until recently but there is no doubt about it.
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Date: 2020-05-19 02:54 am (UTC)[ he expects rufus to crack a smile, to laugh, to show some sign that this is some stupid petty joke. ]
No. My father died before I was born.
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Date: 2020-05-20 02:00 am (UTC)[He gave a wry smile at that. In some strange way he was grateful to Sephiroth for finally being able to do the old man in but he just wished he could have done it himself.]
We have two other brothers. We're the middle- we have one younger brother and one older. He's dead though.