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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.

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[The time had finally come for his Game Over, all the Space Marines in Hero's Duty had had only a short warning that their game was going to be unplugged and they had quickly went to work making their final arrangements before leaving to Game Central Station.

The Cy-Bugs didn't understand what was going on, but they knew that something was up. In a fit of confusion, they had all swarmed and attacked the Space Marines as they were making their way out one last time.

Ralph had stayed behind just a second to long, shooting the Cy-Bugs and making sure that all his friends got safely on the train.

During the battle, he hadn't heard them calling for him to come on, and the train had left without him, just moments ahead of the game's plug being pulled.

He didn't know what happened to someone if they stayed in their game when the plug was pulled, the train was a surprise, though rather fitting.

Ralph's got his eyes closed at the moment, resting from his intense final few moments.

He knows he doesn't have to fight any more and he's finally at peace.]

the train to the afterlife meme.

Wreck-It Ralph | Hero's Duty Space Marine AU