I've started an ambitious story. A lot of it is going to be flashback of the characters' lives, but this is going to be the glue of the overarching story.
It's about two centuries old alchemists who make a potion that allows them to be young again. They move into a trailer park for retirees before making the potion again, when one of them decides that he wants to die naturally and skips it. He then repeatedly withers and grows close to death until he gets instinctually fearful of death and saves himself and sinks lower and lower in depression while the other one still wants to live and is trying to persuade him otherwise. The one who wants to die finds the willpower to do so, but once he's close to his death rattle, the other alchemist has fears of being alone and sad and saves his friend against his will, rejuvenating him with the potion. This causes the newly rejuvenated, suicidal alchemist to get angry and lose it. Since I only have this outlined, it's a little murky at this spot but I think he's going to get outrageously violent and kill a few people before getting taken out by the police.
After all that, the remaining alchemist gets overwhelmed with guilt and decides he can't live with it, but knows he can't sustain the willpower that the other alchemist did. So he brews a rejuvenating potion with a twist to turn himself into an ant so that he can't remember how to make the potion and he can experience the death his friend wanted.
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