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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(Swiped from 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

Comments

Mamimi Samejima / FLCL / 4 & 3

[mabaseisburning.livejournal.com]

[After letting day after day slip through her fingers in a trickle of waywardness and reckless living, if they knew then nobody would be surprised that Mamimi's life was running its course to such a regretfully early end.

Nobody but Mamimi herself, at least.

It's just a summer cold, it will go away. She's just slightly sick, she'll be fine. She's always fine. As much as she repeats that to herself the evidence is proving harshly otherwise, in the way every time she breathes it's like inhaling a chest full of fire and her body is heavy and weak, and the sunsets she watches from beneath the bridge burn with a poignancy unlike those before them.

Sitting slumped over with her bare feet hanging still in the water, Mamimi fumbles languidly in her pockets for a cigarette and her lighter. The lighter sparks weakly but refuses to ignite, and the never knows best ritually inked into the cigarette's paper only stares at her in silent condemnation. Mamimi pulls the whole box from her pocket and flings it into the river before folding her arms upon her legs and burying her face against them.]

Tane Kitsu / Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei / 1 & 4

[cleanmeinstead.livejournal.com]

[Ahaha, well...wasn't this the most suiting end? It wasn't as if she'd never vaguely considered this would be the consequence of her way of life in the end. As spiritually content and comfortable one can become surrounding themselves with junk and waste, it's something the body itself can never get used to. Over the years Tane's immune system has become a resilient force against the germs she was always swathed in, but one infection, one wrong misplaced step onto the sharp lid of an old discarded can, a cut that was then not cleaned out as thoroughly as she thought it had been, and bacteria had swarmed into her system, becoming so embedded into her body that the infection could no longer be culled.

She's sick and slowly growing weaker with disease, but she keeps her spirits up. Old habits stick until the end - spending her days cheerfully wandering the hospital's halls and gardens until the nurses decided enough was enough and confining her to her room after she caused so much wreck and ruin in her wake, only to become infuriated when somehow Tane's near immaculately clean room became inexplicably full of trash from seemingly nowhere. So for now she can keep herself amused and her mind off the inevitable. For now.]

Alien Invader Deoxys / Pokemon OC / 4 & 1 / I have *no* suitable icons for this meme

[villainousvirus]

[He'd had a right to have been so cautious and on guard, he had. Leaf had tried to convince him over and over that he was being irrational, deluded and too easily swayed as always. He was a mutated virus from the depths of space, it was questionable whether he even had an immune system to become infected in the first place. He had never believed her anyway, wasn't prepared to risk it, but she had been wrong, she was wrong. Earth's bacteria was an extraterrestrials deadliest threat, why did nobody believe that?

At least, he assumes this an Earth illness. But what else would it be? He doesn't know. All he knows is that the inside of his chest is searing with an intolerable amount of pain. Trying to see is a struggle as his vision refuses to focus and his eyes burn in the light, and the crushing nauseous feeling through his body makes it near impossible to move. He's stuck in his human forme and attempting to switch back to his natural forme or use his powers exhausts him and the agony isn't worth it. This was wrong, all wrong. Villains never died this way in movies, they didn't-! Why is he, now?]

Gold | Pokemon Special (AU) |6 and obligatory 1/2

[stalkerwithacap.livejournal.com]

[Well it's not like he expected anything else, he kinda always thought he'd go down fighting. But now that he's bleeding out he's idly thinking it might have been better if it was instant--as much as he wants to say goodbye to some people if he can, it might make things worse for them...]

Lapis | Pokemon OC |2

[relevantribbons.livejournal.com]

[How was Lapis supposed to guess that that guy would use Toxic on a trainer, much less a kid?
It just hurts so much... but at least it's not blood everywhere]

Red || Pokemon (AU) || 6 and 2

[exileforfreedom.livejournal.com]

[A fight in a cave, of all places... Of course it would end without a winner. It had started shaking, and then it turned into a race to escape before the caves collapsed. They had continued fighting during the run.

In the end, Red's enemies got away. He just hadn't been fast enough and got caught under the rocks. Shit... He knew he'd been living a dangerous life, and that it would probably get him killed, but he had hoped he could at least finish what he started.]

ARCHIE | POKEMON (SURROGATEVERSE) | 2&1

[aquaboss.livejournal.com]

[That was a cheap shot, Geechisu. ...Sure, Archie threw a shark at his head, but that was only because Geechisu deserved it. Maxie's taught him how to fight, but there was no way he could have avoided the repeated Psychic attacks.]

[He doesn't have long left - Archie's lucky enough to still be alive after repeated attacks directly into his brain.]

5-1 Double death???

[silveramati.livejournal.com]

[If it were anywhere but a desert he's very sure they would've survived. If anything, it was the desert that ultimately screwed them over. The Dehydration certainly sped up the process of their demise and added to the miserable feeling they've both fruitlessly endured. His eyes are a pure mess from the sand blowing around that got in them, but it doesn't matter anymore, he's majorly lost the will to live and go on at this point.

He has an half hour to an hour left and he wishes it was shorter. The two of them the past few days have cracked jokes, shared fading dreams, and even tried to treat this as normally as possible...but what now?

He laughs weakly and the action makes him stumble and fall onto his knees. ]

I wonder... will we become a pile of bones here and never be found? [Cough cough] I'll say... it was quite the trip we've taken, don't you think?

[While he wants this to be over, he's not quite bitter... ]