History WhoWantsToLiveForever / FanWorks

* ''Fanfic/TouhouIbunshu'', as a DarkFic of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', naturally has characters that were originally on the LivingForeverIsAwesome side of things take a turn closer to this trope. Mokou is the most spectacular and insane example, having lost her mind completely a long time ago (she claims to have spent a decade or so experimenting on interesting ways to kill herself), but the most altered from the original is [[spoiler:Yukari]], who is so utterly ''bored'' of being confined to the same old Gensoukyou for centuries that she decides to [[spoiler:obliterate Gensoukyou entirely, which would finally give her a chance at being free]].

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] ''FanFic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'', it's stated by Yukari that one of the reasons why she's the jaded, cynical ManipulativeBitch she is is actually this.

* Not Sakuya of the Franchise/{{Castlevania}}[=/=]VideoGame/{{Touhou}} crossover ''FanFic/PrinceOfDarknessNoMore''.

* The Legendaries in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{Forsaken}}''.

* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/162801/best-friends-forever Best Friends Forever]]'' has Twilight Sparkle constantly using an [[FountainOfYouth Age Change Spell]] on her friends and had closed off all access to the outside world in order to preserve their lives. [[spoiler:This all stemmed from Twilight being turned into an Alicorn by Celestia, and being forced to watch as those around her died from old age; with Fluttershy's death being the final straw that broke Twilight's mind. Twilight's usage of the regression spell shown that it also spread the mindset of Living Forever being a terrible thing to her friends when looking at a picture of one of them: [[EmptyEyes showing how lifeless their eyes were now]]. Near the end, Celestia manages to kill Twilight (who could be argued that all of this was simply her trying to use SuicideByCop so [[TogetherInDeath Twilight could be with Fluttershy again]], considering that she might have already tried [[DrivenToSuicide killing herself]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate only for it to not work.]]]]

* In ''Fanfic/TheRivalPrefectsTrilogy'', [[spoiler:Thomas finds life as a statue unrelentingly boring.]]

* ''Fanfic/AncientSins'': After the defeat of The Nothing/Tadmir, Dante is cursed with ''CompleteImmortality''. Meaning he can't be killed by anything, even other immortals. This is done purely to torment Dante by making him witness everything he loves die. [[spoiler: He does manage to find a way to rid himself of this, after everyone is dead, and proceeds to do this. Discord, being the only other fully immortal being in the universe, also joins in on this and the two die from all their years catching up with them.]]

* The central theme of the ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4497208/1/Matters_of_Time Matters of Time]]'', in which Viral finds himself bestoed with immortality.

* In the TranscendenceAU for ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Dipper becomes a demon, and his view on his immortality changes between this and LivingForeverIsAwesome.

* In ''Fanfic/TheBestNightEver'', theoretically, should Blueblood desire to do so, he could stay eternally youthful within the GroundhogDayLoop forever. He instead tries his hardest to get out. [[spoiler: After hundreds of repeats, he eventually does.]]

** When Navarone gains a much increased life expectency after his accidental EmergencyTransformation, he's rather despondent.

%% * Apple Bloom has a bit of this in ''Fanfic/LunaTheMatchMaker'', especially seeing as [[CantCatchUp everyone is finding their mates for life and cutie marks]] while she’s still lost and alone.

* In ''Fanfic/TheBestNightEver'', theoretically, should Blueblood desire to do so, he could stay, eternally youthful, within the GroundhogDayLoop forever. He instead tries his hardest to get out. [[spoiler: After hundreds of repeats, he eventually does.]]
* In ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'', Cadence is genuinely afraid of outliving everypony she has ever cared for. Celestia and Luna as well, to a much lesser extent.

* ''Fanfic.AncientSins'': After the defeat of The Nothing/Tadmir, Dante is cursed with ''CompleteImmortality''. Meaning he can't be killed by anything, even other immortals. This is done purely to torment Dante by making him witness everything he loves die. [[spoiler: He does manage to find a way to rid himself of this, after everyone is dead, and proceeds to do this. Discord, being the only other fully immortal being in the universe, also joins in on this and the two die from all their years catching up with them.]]

* The ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' AU ''Fanfic/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsdayStories'' plays with the idea in the case of Austria. While he was eventually able to shrug off, albeit with difficulty, the chaos of [[WorldWarIII Doomsday]], his denial of [[spoiler:Hungary's death]] until several years later proved to damage his sanity. Fortunately, things do get better. But had [[spoiler:Hungary]] not shown up, he would have spent the rest of his life in perpetual grief, if not turn into a deranged {{Yandere}}.

* The ''[[Manga/AzumangaDaioh Azumanga]]'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3754902/1/ Forevergreen]]'', is a TearJerker that dives into this in detail.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanworks:
** The fic ''[[https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1zZZnizNM_2hh_UQ22gmk2VChBrlFCmyLevNuCbKbSaQ Circle of Friends]]'' has this as the whole theme. [[GodEmperor Princesses Celestia and Luna]] abdicated to Twilight Sparkle so they could die, then she allowed her friends to live as long as they wished to, they lasted a couple centuries before they could no longer take it. At the end Princess Twilight is training her successor so she can [[TogetherInDeath join her friends]].
** Princess Celestia reflects on this trope a bit in ''FanFic/{{Whispers}}''.
** Princess Celestia also goes through this in one episode of ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoovesAndAssistant'', [[spoiler:as a result of the cyberponies trying to break her will to convert her into a living battery for their planet.]]
** Played with in ''[[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/05/story-merely-mare.html Merely A Mare]]''. Celestia and Luna have been around for more than four hundred '''[[TimeAbyss million]]''' years, created and witnessed the extinction of entire species, and have near perfect recollection of ''everything'' (except that Celestia can't remember ponies' faces and Luna can't remember ponies' names). Despair is a frequent threat to them, but ultimately they decide to soldier on because they have no choice.
*** Played very straight with [[spoiler:the original alicorns]], and the reason for their extinction. They were immune to age or disease but still died from accidents or violence, except they ''didn't'' have the princesses' near perfect memories, meaning they eventually forgot their dead loved ones but still kept the pain and grief, now with no idea ''why'' they felt this way. It eventually drove them insane and they started slaughtering each other.
** Parodied in ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/59796/1/celestias-big-day/suicidal-failure Celestia's Big Day]]'' (warning: sort of NSFW), where Princess Celestia holds this view, even as Cadence and Luna point out the common reasons for this trope (loved ones die around them, no one else understands immortality, is forced to remember every event of their lives, both good and bad, boredom, etc.) do not apply to alicorns. Does not stop Celestia [[CrossesTheLineTwice from giving suicide the old college try though]].
*** It's also explained by both Luna and Cadence that this happens every few centuries and it's just better to let her get it out of her system.
** ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'' is a response to all the "immortality sucks" fics. According to Celestia and Luna the idea that one would get "bored with life" is ridiculous and Malthus was an idiot. The only thing that makes it heartbreakingly painful for them is the whole "outliving your loved ones" bit, and they're working on that by trying to make everypony else immortal.
** [[Fanfic/PastSins Nyx]] spends most of the first chapter of ''[[FanFic/RealityChecksNyxverse Alicornundrum]]'' angsting over the fact that, as an alicorn, she'll outlive all her friends and loved ones... and is naturally thrilled beyond words when [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E13MagicalMysteryCure Twilight becomes one too]].
** In the [[FanFic/TheNuptialverse Nuptialverse]] sidestory ''Metamorphosis'', Celestia and Luna are revealed to despise being immortal [[spoiler:because its a constant reminder to them of how Discord murdered their family and friends.]]
** Spike also suffers from this in some fanworks.
** A repeated theme in ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman'':
*** Discord desperately tries to find an outlet for his boredom having lived for billions of years.
*** Celestia mentions she would rather have lived a normal life and died thousands of years ago, a sentiment it can be assumed Luna shares.
*** When Navarone gains a much increased life expectency after his accidental EmergencyTransformation, he's rather despondent.
** In ''FanFic/{{Duties}}'', Rarity and Applejack are saddened by the fact that due to them being immortal alicorn rulers now, they will see their family and loved ones die one day.
** In ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaProjectHorizons'', Rampage doesn't. Apparently, several other Reapers ([[spoiler:and many of the former Marauders]]) have this problem.
** In ''FanFic/ItTakesAVillage'', Spike is not happy about his projected lifespan, although Princess Luna did provide some perspective along an offer of friendship. On the whole mostly averted once Spike decides that by living as long as he will he can keep the memories of his friends alive for their descendants.
** Brought up in the cases of Spike and Celestia in ''Fanfic/LastOneStanding'', who are doomed to outlive everyone they know.
** Apple Bloom has a bit of this in ''FanFic/LunaTheMatchMaker'', especially seeing as [[CantCatchUp everyone is finding their mates for life and cutie marks]] [[TearJerker while she’s still lost and alone.]]
** Bon Bon's attitude toward her Fae heritage in ''FanFic/{{Mendacity}}''.
** In ''FanFic/NightOfTheShy'', certainly not Birostris Oswaft after ten thousand years of being the LastOfHisKind, so he convinces Twilight to MercyKill him.
** Discussed and averted in ''[[FanFic/{{Petriculture}} Pi]]''. Not only does Penumbra not put any stock in this trope, it turns out that it isn't even applicable. Alicorns aren't actually immortal; they just "don't leave until they're ready to go."
** In ''FanFic/TheBestNightEver'', theoretically, should Blueblood desire to do so, he could stay, eternally youthful, within the GroundhogDayLoop forever. He instead tries his hardest to get out. [[spoiler: After hundreds of repeats, he eventually does.]]
** In ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'', Cadence is genuinely afraid of outliving everypony she has ever cared for. Celestia and Luna as well, to a much lesser extent.
** In ''FanFic/TheGreatSlaveKing'', Arch Duke Fifi le Yipya wishes for nothing more but to die and rejoin his old master. He [[DontYouDarePityMe does not take kindly to pity]].
** In ''FanFic/TheJewelleryBox'', Spike mourns the loss of his friends [[spoiler: because they died hundreds of years ago. His desire to have them back is what triggers his greed growth again, but because he feels he can never really have them back he retains his rational mind.]]
** The beginning of PeggySue fic ''FanFic/TheTroubleWithTimeTravel'' features Twilight being bored of being the Element of Magic.
** The DarkFic ''FanFic/TwilightsDollhouse'' deals with Twilight's insecurities about outliving her friends in a rather tragic way.
** In ''[[FanFic/TwilightThenTwilightNowUniverse Twilight Then Twilight Now]]'', [[spoiler: Applejack has been immortal since the first fall of Tambelon. She continuously regrets that she ever became immortal. Admittedly, a large part of this is the fact she has lived through ''multiple'' {{Gotterdammerung}}s and watched her beloved home pushed to the brink of annihilation, only to survive by decaying into a CrapsackWorld, which has left her rather... broken]].
** Explored with in ''FanFic/WithinAndWithout'' as Luna comes to terms with her past mistakes. [[spoiler: It's also revealed that the Elements of Harmony grant their bearers the choice of immortality.]]
** [[http://goodmorningcelestia.tumblr.com/post/88214804584/if-she-was-immortal-i-suspect-timing-would-be This fancomic]] suggests that "Immortal Twilight" fics go one of two ways. If the author is [[EmoTeen 20]], she gets all {{Wangst}}y. But if the author is 30:
--> '''Twilight''': ''"[[LivingForeverIsAwesome Wooo! In your face Grim Reaper!]]"''
** In ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/99216/forever-young Forever Young]]'', Discord has cast an immortality spell on Fluttershy so he wouldn't have to outlive her. Problem is, Fluttershy doesn't want to outlive her friends either. Discord offers the same spell to any of her friends, but Fluttershy asks Rarity and realizes they all have friends and loved ones they wouldn't want to leave behind. [[spoiler:Discord ends up secretly casting a mortality spell on himself - when Fluttershy ultimately dies of old age, he's not far behind.]]
** The 4everfreebrony song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94Zop1dRHOU Chant of Immortality]]" .
** ''Fanfic/PrincessTrixieSparkle'':
*** Starswirl was an immortal unicorn who, after several centuries, felt weary of his extended lifespan. Eventually he found a replacement and transferred his immortality to her.
*** [[spoiler:Astelle]] was given Starswirl's immortality but ran off after he rejected her love. She came back afterwards mainly became she didn't want to be immortal if they couldn't be immortal together. She takes it poorly when it's revealed that Starswirl "cursed" [[spoiler:her younger sister Celestia (and their younger sister Luna)]] with the same immortality. [[spoiler:A thousand years later, Astelle's immortality is broken when she's BroughtDownToNormal and turned back into an Earth pony]].

-->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' I think that is the root of a lot of madness among Loopers. Offer Dash nothing? Gilda, she has hope of seeing her friend now, not an endless parade of someone wearing your face that can't remember the real her anymore.

* The ''Powerpuff Girls'' oneshot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5162433/1/Deicide Deicide]]'' is about Blossom having an existential crisis over her invincibility. She [[NotGrowingUpSucks can't age over five]] and is functionally immortal. It gets to the point where she has a breakdrown and tries to kill herself.

* Elsa has this to a degree in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13443988/1/Lady-in-White-Legacy Lady in White: Legacy]]", although she prefers to think of herself as just staying the same while everything changes rather than consider herself outright immortal; she doesn't 'want' to die per se, but mourns how she has outlived her original friends and her sister, and had to witness her nephew being during an anti-royalty revolution (that she believes was provoked by outsiders) and had to instead focus on protecting his children.

* In the ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{Yetagain}}'', the Oogakari suffer from this.

* Pretty common in RationalFic inspired by the above, such as ''Fanfic/ScarsSamsara'' in which the title character tries to grant everyone in the Pridelands immortality ''by the end of chapter one''. Sadly, not only the antagonists but also the [[TooDumbToLive Pridelanders themselves view this as wrong]].

* Miser in the '' SonicTheHedgehog'' fic ''FanFic/FutureGenerations'', who is 'blessed' with immortality and looking for a way out of it.

* In the ''Fanfic/EchoesOfEternity'' series, Maria died in 1962 at age 12, but she became a ghost because of her UnfinishedBusiness involving Shadow. Alas, Shadow is stuck comatose in a government facility for over 40 years. Maria quickly becomes tired of this "life" of never talking to anyone, never being acknowledged, and never aging. All she does is stand around all day waiting for Shadow to wake up. It gets to the point where Maria daydreams about sinking into the ocean and falling asleep forever, which is much preferable to her tiresome existence.