Fade away
Fade away verb - Become weaker.
Both terms in one sentence
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She realizes at the last moment she's dangerously close to becoming She Who Fights Monsters and manages to stop herself from finishing the job, preferring to fade away as Twilight Sparkle instead of becoming a monster, even if no one, not even her, will ever know.
Source: Set Right What Once Went Wrong - Youkai (most of the cast) are created from humans ascribing the mysterious to unknown forces, and will fade away if people stop believing in them.
Source: Clap Your Hands If You Believe - Corpses will generally only fade if you stop looking at them for a few seconds, but if you kill enough guards in the same area, you can watch them fade away.
Source: Everything Fades
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