http://mabaseisburning.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] mabaseisburning.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] sayitwithpocky2011-07-01 09:15 am

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

(Swiped from [livejournal.com profile] memebells ♥)

(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

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you're going to keep trying them and I'll make sure your buddies get some too.

[Gold seems pretty calm, all things considered. He'll use his unoccupied hand to dump Lapis's bag, pick out the berries and balls, and toss the latter far enough that the littler kid can't see the 'mons inside when they come out.

Okay, good, there's... a single Pecha berry in here, apparently. Not as much as he would like.]

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[A single Pecha and a bunch of others, and some pokeblocks.
Kel's dizzy but awake, Vanny and Sandy fainted due to poison and Frills dangerously close to dead. Lani doesn't see them and doesn't even have the strength to look, because at that moment his stomach contracts and tries to make him throw up its contents, as if that could rid him of the poison, and he blocks it with a hand to his clothed mouth]

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[That's pretty close to useless. Gold turns to look at the team. Kel is awake but useless, Vanny and Sandy might make it if he gets them help later, and Frills is a goner. Okay. He snaps his attention back to Lani when he nearly vomits.]

Take some deep breaths, okay? I need you to keep this down. [First aid is not his forte. Not at all. He's thinking hard, but there's no way to get the kid to a place where they can get help in time. Even if he used Murkrow or called back an Arcanine.]

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Breathing fast through his nose in near-panic, but he forces himself to swallow back and calm down enough to open his mouth]

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Gold does not know how to be comforting or calming. He's good at scaring people, but never had any practice with the opposite. There's... not much he can think to do except try and stroke Lapis's hair a bit.]

Here. [He lifts Lapis up just a little more and tries giving him the berry. This better work. He really really really hopes this works.]

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
[He munches on it... slowly, trying to keep more urges to throw up down. Focus on the juice... he starts clinging with his hands, one in his own skirt and the other on Gold's arm]

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Gold puts his own hand on the one clinging to his arm and squeezes it a bit. Maybe a little too hard, but he's not trying to hurt the kid.]

You can do it, Lapis. Just... try, okay? [That doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but he doesn't want to shut up right now.]

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Munch munch munch... swallow. With a muffled little whine because it hurts even to do that. He pants again and rests his head against Gold's arm too. So tired]

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
[Gold holds Lapis closer, though now he's digging his nails in just a little. It's intentional this time. Can't have you falling asleep.]

Lapis, hey. I know it hurts, but talk to me. Whisper if you want. Do you feel any better?

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Wince at the nails biting in] A bit... [Not really. It hurts less but he's feeling weaker and weaker]

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you can't go to sleep until you're feeling a lot better. [It's a bit of a relief to hear that, but only a bit. It's enough for Gold to finally realize he was tensing up in the first place, though.] Let's keep talking. Ask me something. Anything you want.

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[slight whimper, but he bites it back again] Hey Gold... you never said... why you have that tatoo...

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Ha, this? [To him, it seems almost unimportant right now.] Some bullies were picking on me, and I got it when I decided I wanted to scare them right back.

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
That's cool... [little pants] Hey, Gold...

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know. [Granted, it's probably what's going to get him killed. But whatever.] What, Lapis?

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Think I could've been... a pretty girl when I grow up?

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
Silly, you're going to be beautiful. Maybe not as pretty or cool as Kris, but close. [High praise, coming from him.] You're the cutest little girl in Hoenn already.

[And he's not lying, either. Those two two are the only girls he cares about, so they're loveliest people in his life. Nevermind the ones he never looks at, or stupid things like whether the kid is "Lapis" or "Lani".]

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[that nearly makes him giggle] She'd be jealous if you said I was...
[cough]

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[He'd laugh if that cough didn't stop him first. Two berries should be enough to get rid of the poison, right? As long as the damage wasn't too bad...] No way, she doesn't care what I think. Unfortunately.

/tries out new icon like a derp

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Doesn't look like it, because he's coughing again, and it's leaving red on his hand. You got to him too late and berries don't work that well on humans, even if it wasn't toxic instead of simple poison] You're... [cough] ... you're a cool guy, Gold.

\o/

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[There are a lot of colorful words Gold can think of in response to that, but he's not saying any of them in front of Lani. He grabs the boy's hand to hide the blood from view and just hugs him closer.]

...Yeah. [Not cool enough to impress her or protect you, though, apparently.] And you're a sweet kid, Lapis. Best little sis ever.

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[snuggling into that hold] Hmmmm. Thanks.
...
...
...
Gold, I can't... [move my legs anymore]

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm? Can't what?

[...oh, was he holding Lapis too tight? Well, he was holding the kid tighter than he thought he was, so he'll loosen his grip a little.]

[identity profile] relevantribbons.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't let go...
[He can't move his own body anymore, he doesn't want you to let go, it's the only thing stopping him from crying]

[identity profile] wantedforarson.livejournal.com 2011-07-02 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I won't, don't worry. [...he doesn't like that Lapis isn't moving as much anymore. But no matter how hard he thinks, there's nothing he can do here.]

...Sorry.