Train to the Afterlife Meme

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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

[onteamdyson]

So... how'd you bite it?

[A pretty forward question, but she just couldn't take the silence any longer. She was sitting with her knees drawn up to her chest and pale eyes standing out against the heavy, black eyeliner. It was obvious that she was trying very hard to hide the fact that she was scared.]

[whatyoulike]

[Irene exhausted fear long before the death blow came. Now, and for the past several hours (or days? time is a mess here), she is simply brooding.

She glances up, on the verge of firing off something nasty when she notices how frightened the other woman looks.]

Messily. [Well, perhaps not the most reassuring response, but it was a rather personal question. At least she managed to moderate her tone.] And you?

[onteamdyson]

Also messily... You probably wouldn't believe me if I told you.

[Kenzi scoots a little closer.] Basically, I'm not cut out for heroics.

[whatyoulike]

I might. Try me and see. [She likes a good story, anyway. If they're going to ride this little afterlife train together she may as well hear one.]

[At the mention of heroics, she cracks a small smile. Not her area.] Few people are, out in the real world.