#tw immortality

[thatolliefann]

This may look like crap but whatever

[loreleiloon]

Whump idea: Whumpee is kept alive as an immortal severed head, similar to Nick from "Lollipop Chainsaw" but in a much less comedic context.

This is the perfect scenario to create a reluctant "whumpee turned whumper." A poor creature forced to manipulate in order to survive or get any help at all.

Or you could even do "Whumpee turned Caretaker" as Whumpee feels their only purpose now is to give advice and "be wise." It's a burden taking care of a talking head, after all.

Finally, imagine a team of treasure hunters find an oracle head with clouded eyes foretelling the future. But as the living head's prophecies come to pass with alarming accuracy, the team realizes listening to it might be the only way they stay alive.

And Whumpee realizes that their newfound power is the only way to keep their new friends safe.

Forever.

[justyouraveragebird]

Thinking about the concept of immortality, and replacing the body with machinery. Aside from the brain, of course. That soggy meat lump is what makes us sapient, after all. An entirely customizable form, wrapped up in an... admittedly probably very expensive and incredibly invasive surgery, but I do believe it'd be possible, with a long enough time period for the researchers to do their job, and the right funding. Routine maintenance would be necessary, as well as an internal, low energy cost distress signal, just in case. Also, likely needing some form of stem cell shot to the brain to keep it from degrading too much, and even then, my guess is on there being a memory limit. I believe it was around five hundred years? Hundreds of thousands, potentially millions of wires would need to be connected to the brain stem, in order to feel sensation, and some kind of charger would also be needed. Should one forget to charge their body, I choose to imagine there'd be internal energy stores from when one has charged too long to run on til you can get a charger, and even then, I imagine one's body would send out the previously mentioned distress signal. Hopefully, the internal battery is enough to last about a week, and I do believe one would feel tired or dazed, perhaps, considering it's literally running out of energy.

[defeatedbyamerechild]

Random Alt-HC sketch...

Recently thought about this headcanon bit about Lysandre having chronic pain since the accident in Geosenge... (Plus being immortal now, which is the only reason he didn’t die in said accident). That combined with my sad, sad headcanon that Cyrus has post-traumatic stress disorder since the Distortion World thing results in (possibly) the most tragic Pokémon ship ever, ince said headcanon is the same one in which I ship Cyrus with Lysandre.

Anyways, just a reminder that none of this applies to my comics, of course. In the DBAMC universe, Lysie and Cyrus are not romantically involved, Cyrus is aroace and Lysie is in love with Sycamore, and also Lysie doesn’t have chronic pain. Cyrus DOES have PTSD in both headcanons, though.

[dreamsclock]

Like I’m surprised no ones said this yet but....what if Dream has a history with the contents of Schlatt’s book? How much has he known about necromancy, and has he ever brought anyone back before? Despite how long he’s been in there, no one has really discussed how the resurrection’s going to actually happen.

Could a person resurrect themselves? Because that could explain the immortal!Dream hc. he isn’t, really, he’s a guy, but he keeps coming back, like a glitch in the matrix. he keeps stitching himself back together until he’s unrecognizable. It could be like a respawn almost, maybe there’s a certain way to use it for infinite respawns, though the ones after a last canon life are different. technically, he’s human, but he knows he’s wrong, he’s dead, and every time he comes back he feels like he’s desecrating his own body. maybe he doesn’t know how to make it stop, to really die. Perhaps he made an inbetween type place for comfort for the feeling of resurrection, made it his own fantasy and guided the occasional lost soul.

He was Cornelius, stuck in Karl’s innocent game, suffering a scarring and traumatic death that was never really taken seriously, lost whatever family he had, crawled out of his mediocre grave, and was left to start from scratch away from the place he called home, just like he told Tommy to do every day. The mayor (idk name) even called him ‘the old and wise’ despite catboy confirming he was physically younger than the mayor himself

He was Hubert, (I’m assuming this from how ranbutler was treated but idk) who was worth nothing to the man he served, not allowed to speak, not to be seen or heard, was not called by his name, and treated less than dirt. This could be part of his history with the egg (why he was worried when he saw it, said the prison has to be finished sooner, seemed to know what it was) as well as additional trauma from being denied human rights (literally billiam said his butler wasn’t a person), and completely subservient and powerless to a cruel force. He projects this onto Tommy in exile and it makes his prison time and relationship w the warden so much worse. It also makes sense with how he’s not talking

Think of how many times Dream could have reset himself. I usually don’t like these hcs cuz I prefer to think he’s human, flawed and capable of feeling, but this technically wouldn’t make him immortal I think. Yes, he’s ‘living forever’, but it could also be that after a certain point he can’t come back anymore, and then death’s looming over him again and it’s so absolutely terrifying and earth-shattering be for so long he seriously considered himself above death itself, a god, but he isn’t. Perhaps it’s because he loses the book, and he is frantic, stuttering when Wilbur asks for tnt, fighting against his own friends. He’s erratic until Schlatt offers him the book and he’s just so desperate for control over his life and death, and he switches sides so quickly because no one, not tommy or Wilbur or sapnap, is as important to him as this power

I think Dream would realize eventually that because of how many times he’s died and because of how he’s never had to accept the inevitability of death, he has an irrational fear of it. There is also the frustration that he should act immortal and god-like, because he has that power, right? He should be cold and unfeeling, hardened, so why does it keep hurting every time he uses his ‘blessing’. Why does every life bring him more pain than the last. As he deteriorates in prison, he could begin to see this power as a curse, and that someone as horrible as him doesn’t deserve life in the first place, and he sets out to find himself true ‘peace’ What if he breaks and admits everything, and everyone blames him because ‘you did this to yourself’ as well as see it as an excuse why nothing they do will ever hurt him, ‘he can’t feel it, he’s an immortal corpse, he doesn’t have to worry about pain’ which would hurt if it wasn’t him who who gave himself the power and he didn’t know how to fix it

He’s using magic to create an artificial respawn, you could say, and it really makes you wonder how ethical any of this is. Should dead things stay dead? Would it really be right to bring Wilbur back, seeing what happened to Dream? Of course they both deserve help and a second chance, but this isn’t natural

sry for the long ask or if I repeat myself I just thought of this and wanted to know ur opinion,,,

YO this is such an interesting take !! it combines the idea of immortality and humanity really well — he’s human, but at this point he might as well not be, and he can’t face his imminent death either. the questions that would be raised about death would be such interesting ones, too, i feel like you could do a lot with them considering how close some characters are to dying permanently with only one life left.

there would also be parallels to be confronted between wilbur and dream, because loads of people would want to revive wilbur, of course, because he’s wilbur....... but then again, doesn’t that mean dream also deserves another chance? or should they let wilbur stay dead?

[detroitbecomeyhs]

Omg so my mind was just wondering and I remembered something. So Sam like withheld food from Grian, and sometimes only have him very little for weeks. Then, this malnourished 17 y/o was frozen in time with immortality or some shit (that at least what I heard about the end of TS idk) and now, he can’t fix it because he is stuck in this body. The other Hermits can’t help ether. He’s just stuck like this with no way to fix it, and his friends have no way to help him. GJXJGDJGDKD

Yep, Grian’s body is so fucked up I wonder how he’s even alive, Malnourishment, Bullets, and eating inedibles, (I’m talking about a whole plastic bag here), either his body is literally frozen in time (meaning his cells couldn’t produce or get the nutrients needed, thus being unable to heal cuts or wounds naturally) or he’s a dead man walking. If his body is frozen in time, does that mean his cells are frozen in time? Is his heart pumping? Are his cells dividing? If he’s immortal does that make his cells immortal too? or would only his conscience be immortal? (this is why I hate immortality)

[chaoticacademiasapphic]

I Am A God - You Can’t Deny It

Okay here me out but *technically* I am immortal till proven otherwise. Like, the only way for me to be proven mortal would be for me to die right? So you couldn’t prove I was mortal without killing me. 

So I mean......I am immortal until proven otherwise, bow down to me peasants. 

[ladylike-foxes]

go die .

Ah, would that I! Alas, I cannot. I was punished to this plane of reality and emerged from within the abysmal wells of gravity that later bore the first stars; thus that same infinite gravity binds me here until my sentence has been justly served. Perhaps one day, They will see fit to grant me pardon and allow my weary Essence to seek eternal rest, but one can only hope.

Rest assured, though, darling. This current corporeal vessel will only last another 50—60 years, at most. Although, then I will likely be compelled to possess another ¯\_(ツ)_/¯