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
- reposted from here.
josh foley | marvel 616
Date: 2020-08-20 01:40 am (UTC)prompto argentum | ff15
Date: 2020-08-20 01:40 am (UTC)damian wayne | dc's injustice
Date: 2020-08-20 01:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-20 01:53 am (UTC)suddenly, they're not in the restaurant anymore. they're in an alleyway in the east end, a light rainfall touches their heads as the laughter from the street dies in the empty alleyway. the voice that comes out of his mouth isn't his, but when he looks down at his hand it's large and imposing, and holding back a small, frightened boy. he's his father.
and he understands. the world moves at a standstill. he understands that this is it. while their deaths irrevocably changed his life forever, he understood what his father was doing in the moment he moved against joe chill. protect your family. protect them at all costs. in reality, he pushes the robber away and feels only warmth in his chest as he begins to fall. the sound of silverware clattering to the ground sounds distantly like pearls... ]
no subject
Date: 2020-08-20 10:24 am (UTC)but people dying for him does.
he notices a second too late. the fork in his hand could've become a projectile, knocking the gun askew. he could've ducked. he could've vaulted over the table. he could've done anything, anything, anything.
instead he'd been distracted. enjoying his father's attention. appreciating how for once it was undivided, how he wasn't competing with a sibling or a mission.
and so someone else tackles the robber. someone else shouts for help. damian only freezes and turns his head, watching the consequences of his inaction play out. ]
Father!
[ he's a masterclass in medicine. he knows more than anyone his age rightfully should about all the ways there are to kill a person, and he knows a fatal injury when he sees one. still, he turns and does what he can. his hands are no longer the tiny hands of a child, but they're were built for taking lives. not saving them. he can't staunch the flow. ]
no subject
Date: 2020-08-20 03:14 am (UTC)But it was bound to happen sooner or later. People have been trying for years now. The bomb wasn't filled with traditional explosives and didn't trigger any of the usual alarms, but when it landed and spilled artificial red sunlight over the room it was only a matter of time before a sniper followed up.
There might be blood, but everything is too red to tell for sure. But Superman is down on one knee, clutching his chest.]
no subject
Date: 2020-08-20 10:31 am (UTC)real conversations. ones that go beyond orders being barked without room for argument. when clark speaks to him he leaves space for agreement and disagreement. never has damian left a conversation with him feeling as though he's not been heard.
people call him a tyrant. he calls them whiners. they don't know what's good for them if they think batman is better.
he's a fraction too late. the birdarang leaves his hand moments after the trigger is pulled, lodging itself in the assailant's throat. he assumes the sound is from the bomb, that clark's fall is from the sudden burst of energy zapping his strength.
he assumes wrong. ]
How the hell - [ he starts to snarl, upper lip curling in disgust as he turns back to the table. the sword leaning against it is in his hand before he notices what he should've to begin with. that clark isn't getting back up. that he's holding himself all wrong. ] Clark?
[ the sword hits the ground. damian's at his side in an instant, panic setting his heart racing. ] What the hell did they - let me see!
no subject
Date: 2020-08-20 01:14 pm (UTC)...I'll be fine. [He lies. There's a pain worse than usual humanity spiking in his chest.] The assassin...
[They need information. Who sent him, how he got access. They need to find the weak hole in their security. They need to know whether they've been betrayed again.
His hand slides away from the wound, something darker and messier than a gunshot wound should be. There's a glint of gemstone amid the oozing mess; something else rode the bullet into his body.]
Kal-El / Superman | DC's Injustice
Date: 2020-08-20 03:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-08-20 10:49 am (UTC)he was the only human member of the league. trying to keep up with aliens, machines, and gods. damian could run circles around any rogue in gotham, but on the world stage, the boy was never going to be more than a distraction.
than a robin.
resented it enough to be reckless. hated himself enough to be careless. eventually - eventually whatever luck kept him alive this long was going to run out, and he wasn't going to get up the next time someone smashed him into the ground. he knew this. they all had to know this. but he'd presented himself as immortal, untouchable, just as inhuman as the rest of them.
cyborg scrapes him up from the pavement. puts in a call to the league (damian's hurt) and does what he can to keep the kid going (it's bad, it's real bad) long enough to get him back up to the watchtower. the med systems are down, the whole thing is in shambles, batman's latest attack hadn't taken into account how angry dick grayson's friends would be based on his biased version of events. how some of them didn't take so kindly to his no kill policy. that a warrior race would believe that an eye for an eye was the only way to set things right.
he only asks for clark. to report what he knows. ]
no subject
Date: 2020-08-20 01:40 pm (UTC)He's at Damian's side in a flash, gripping his hand and watching him. His eyes are impassive as they scan him for what the medicine will take too long to figure out. He makes the conclusions they won't dare speak aloud to him.]
Report.
[He listens for Damian's heart. The faintness of it. The irregularities in its beating. How close it is to faltering.
It reminds him of his child.]
no subject
Date: 2021-01-20 04:47 am (UTC)[ Damian has too much pride to stumble over his words. Even brutalized almost beyond recognition. Perhaps, under different circumstances, he would wonder about what that means. How the Titans survived when they should be dead.
But he doesn't.
He trusts Clark too much to wonder. To question. He expects his biological father to lie to him, he barely seems cognizant that Clark Kent is capable of it. ]
B... Batman turned them against us.