Literally no trope emotionally fucks me up faster than “Character outlives their lover by many years and at the end of their life their lover comes to escort them from the world” like I only have to think about it hypothetically to start crying.
My dungeons and dragons character sacrificed himself to save the world and left his elven husband behind.
At the end of the elves life he was gathering water from a river and found the wedding ring my character was wearing when he jumped into the world soul. That night my character came and took him to the next life.
Their rings are now a magical item. You get 2+ to your armor and attack if you wear them both,or you are within 10 ft of another person wearing the other ring, or if you give one to someone else no matter how far you wander from each other you will always return to each other. The rings want to be together.
This might be the first time I’m using this pic unironically