sayitwithpocky | On my last night on earth, I won't look to the sky, just breathe in the air, and blink in the light

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(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.)

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.

CAUSE OF DEATH
1 - 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.

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.

HOW IT WORKS:
1. Using it 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. They then post to the meme with their name, canon and the results of their roll. (For example: "Jane Doe | That One Series | 1 2" would mean Jane Doe from That One Series died of accidental causes and has a few hours left to live.)

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.

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

4. Have fun!

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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[He'll wrap shaky arms around you, trying to comfort you as much as himself]

[A pained sound slips. He even cringes a bit, gripping at your chest.]

I'm sorry...
[He is, he really is. As scared as he is, it's for you he feels worst]

[It's like you're pulling it out of him, Gold. It's more than a slip up now.]

[Holding you with what strength he has]

I'm sorry I'm so weak--even right now...

You're not... [small smile] You're alive. [That's a relief at least]

[He's trying to pull himself together. It's so difficult, even more so with the anxiety you can leave any moment he wastes with his blubbering.]

[kiss to your hair]

[He wants to ask why, how are you so calm about this? What am I going to do? He also wants to call you an idiot and spitingly claw you to share how he feels in his chest. But he does none of those things, he just lays there, slowly curling against you. Even with the feeling of blood. If he ignores all of that, it's still the same.

Abandoment is starting to settle.]

[Because he doesn't want to show you he's scared, and because just having you here is soothing. The tension can probably be felt in his body, though, he doesn't have the strength to hide it completely]
'm glad I could... protect you at least.

[That makes him a little bit bitter. Not that he would want to die, but he rather this have not happened.]

[He didn't want to either, he really wanted to come back to you after this]
Amati...

[He can't get himself together, as much as he's trying. The feeling of being left behind, is all to familiar, but unfamiliar in the sense that this is permanent and there is nothing after this.]

[Shaky voice, he's bordering on tears himself] Amati please...
[He's scared and dizzy and in pain, and now he's scared you won't even forgive him]

[He tries to talk, he only sobs instead. It hurts a lot--you promised. He wanted it kept because promises are never kept with him. And this is a stake in his heart in more than one way.]

[slight sob] I'm sorry... I tried, I swear, I did my best... 'm sorry I wasn't strong enough... [tear] I love you... I wanted to come back, I'd promised I'd come back... [slightly incoherent with emotion and fear]

...You were the best thing to happen to me...

[clinging and still crying, you broke his own self-made numb bubble]
I love you...
[He doesn't want to go]

[~~Only thing fair in this situation.~~... He just holds you. It stings to say it but:] I love you.

[That pacifies him just a bit, burrying his head in your shoulder and clinging weakly. He's losing strength and he can feel it]
...
The best thing in my life too... the most precious... [You made him want to live, as ironic as it is right now]

Edited 2011-07-01 16:14 (UTC)

[He's also a little pacified. They're a bit too synched. He nuzzles your face. before kissing it.]

[A-aaaaaah face kisses. They feel so good right now compared to all the pain and make him wibble and nuzzle into them]

[Its kind of uncomfortable...because you're dying...but in the end you're the one who needs the comforting most, even though being the last makes his heart pound.]

[If he wasn't so damn weak right now he'd feel bad for taking this even though it must be hard for you... but he's already slipping and the comforting really helps.
Angling his face slightly, maybe hoping for a kiss to the lips]