Kill For You/Die For You Meme

[thesettingsun]

Death and murder plots are serious business with long-term fallout and not to be chosen lightly. But sometimes we just really want the pain that comes with another character dying for yours, or seeing them murder someone in their defense... and that's what memes are for.

A1: Kill For You: Someone has hurt your character's loved one, and that can't be allowed. There's only one way to enact revenge or to make sure they aren't hurt again. Possibly with your character's loved one watching, but that's probably not too traumatizing.

A2: Killed For: Oh god no that was traumatizing. Someone killed someone else for your sake and now you're dealing with the consequences, whether you witnessed it directly or not.

B1: Die For You: Just because people have come back in Recolle before doesn't mean your character can allow someone they care about to be hurt. If that means sacrificing their life for them and dying in their loved one's arms, so be it.

B2: Died For: Someone you love is dying in order to protect you. You never wanted this. How could your life be more important than theirs?

How to meme:
-Post your character with their name, along with your preferences about which options you'd like ('will not murder', 'would prefer dying for someone over being died for', etc.)
-Other people respond to your character.
-Angst.

Comments

[livingimpaired]

But a life was lost, hm?

[ Kei looks back to the body, and continues to carefully pull Atsushi back until it seems the puddle finally stops spreading out forward. ]

I suppose those of Retrospec need not worry. We are gifted a few lives to spare. Meanwhile, individuals such as this may only have one life. [ He pulls his hand back from Atsushi's shoulder and claps his hands together. ] I won't say I'm happy that he's dead. I won't say that, because I'm not. [ Even if he was curious about his own abilities, he isn't happy about the results. His morals wouldn't allow him to be comfortable with it. Not completely. ]

But it is good that you aren't hurt.

[beneathmoonlight]

What should we do?

[Atsushi is at a complete loss for what to do. Do they leave the man here? But Atsushi will never be able to forget what he saw. But he also doesn’t want Kei to go to jail...

Because...they’re friends. And Atsushi thinks of him as a father figure. It wouldn’t be right to send his father figure to jail...]

Shigaraki-san...what do we do?

[livingimpaired]

I believe it would be best to leave him.

[ He cocks his head at Atsushi. His thoughts are far different and not particularly worried about jail or the police. ]

Being this close to death will only continue to upset you. It's best if we walk away and come to think of something better at a location where our thoughts are a little less hurried. [ Already, he's turning to head back down toward the entrance of the alley. ] If we dally, I believe that someone will come along and whatever plans we could come up with will be for naught.

[beneathmoonlight]

O-okay...

[Atsushi shouldn’t be so willing to follow Kei out of the alley without doing anything about this, but...

Well. What can they do? It’s not like explaining what happened to anyone who happens upon the scene would be easy...

He’s not sure where they’re going, but it has to be better than here.]

I can’t believe it...he pointed a gun at me and I just...froze. I’m sorry, Shigaraki-san. I made you into a killer...

[livingimpaired]

You didn't make me into anything, Atsushi. I made myself into one.

[ His head gives a small shake, dismissing the idea. ] Even if you can be brought back, I consider your life to have meaning. There is no reason for you to have to die, and with that in mind, I decided to test out my own regained abilities. I merely underestimated the strength of what I has been returned. [ A beat. ]

If anyone is at fault, it is me. So, I am not so cold-hearted as to tell someone younger than myself that it is their fault I had done anything for them.

[beneathmoonlight]

I...I guess.

[Shouldn’t he be angry that Kei killed a man for him? Shouldn’t it bother him that this man isn’t upset in the way he should be? Shouldn’t he be afraid of just how cold Kei is acting about all this? Even if Atsushi’s life were at stake, wasn’t there another option? Like somehow subduing him?

But then Kei could’ve been killed as well...

Ugh. He doesn’t want to think about this.]

Um, where are we going?