Well, now that you're dead...

[toastysocks]

The Train to the Afterlife Meme
 

 

Congratulations: You are dead.

Maybe you know how, maybe you don't. Perhaps the memory is fuzzy, or perhaps it's crystal clear down to the look in your comrades' eyes. Maybe it was your time; you've done all you wanted to. Or maybe you weren't at all ready to go, maybe you went out kicking and screaming - but none of it matters. You know you're dead, and the train is taking you to an afterlife. Perhaps an afterlife of your choice; you might've earned that heaven. Or perhaps you've earned something else entirely.

It'll be a bit of a journey, though, so you might as well take your time and talk to the other people in your coach. Death knows no place: most of them are strangers, even from faraway worlds. But death knows no time either, so who knows, some of them may be people you know, even if last you knew, they were alive - or long gone.

Oh look, here comes the snack cart.


All the usual:

• Post with your character's name and canon in the subject line.
• Said character is now dead for whatever reason - canon, AU, what have you. They are on a train with other dead people from many other times, places and worlds.
• Characters don't know for a fact where they're headed - just a general awareness that they're going to some kind of afterlife. Whatever they think it is is up to the player.
• This meme is built especially for cross-canon interaction, and potentially for threadjacking and group threading - if you're interested, may be a good idea to state as much in your subject line.
• Tag around and play nice!
• TRIGGER WARNING: Meme obviously deals with death and may deal with other unpleasant themes as a result. Please be cautious.

Comments

Shiro | Voltron: LD

[headspacedad]

[sure. we all saw that trailer. why not? open to cross-canon/medium as well]

I ACTUALLY HAVEN'T SEEN THE TRAILER YET but yeah....

[abondingmoment]

[They say death brings peace, quiet, an ease of burdens and worries. They say it's easy, like slipping off to sleep.

"They" are full of shit.

Keith didn't die quickly. No, the Galra had been determined to squeeze every last ounce of agony out of him before his heart finally gave out. And even then, knowing that he had failed, that he was supposed to take care of everyone like Shiro had asked and he hadn't...it didn't bring him peace or comfort or rest.

He paces in his train car, chasing off anyone who tried to enter. He's not ready to move on yet, he refuses to let it go. He has to find some way to fix this.]

https://youtu.be/8uvIUbbFYGM just in case you want some torture first thing in the morning

[headspacedad]

[Shiro's been waiting.

He doesn't know how long he's been waiting, he'd like to think decades. Centuries. But he's been waiting.

Because even here he can't abandon his team or let them go through this alone. He may be dead. He may have given his team to a new leader.

But he's still team leader.

And so, each time the train stops and picks up new passengers, Shiro paces the aisles of every car and checks the faces. Again and again and again. He stays until the mission is done. He stays until everyone under his care comes home.

The fact the car is empty is the first tip off but its only a half heartbeat ahead of him spotting that familiar form in red and that dark messy hair and his feet plant hard near the door he's come in.

His voice is soft though. The same way it was at the end.]

Keith...