Choo choo!

[littleredsock]

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.

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• 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!

Comments

death ( the sandman )

[deathing]

she often appears as a psychopomp, but is the act of all birth and death across the universe filtered to digestible form. pretty nice all around. loves the snack cart.

Edwin Payne - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA

[technicallyhellbound]

[He's well aware that he's dead, but the train is a new development.]

Rocket | Sucker Punch | OTA

[the2ndthing]

[Ooh a train, how original ಠ_ಠ]

Steve | Stranger Things | OTA

[the_hair]

[Look, as long as he went protecting one of the kids, he's not going to be too upset about the whole thing.]

Shiny \ Fabulous Killjoys OC \ OTA

[twice_as_shiny]

[She was bound to get dusted sometime, everyone does, and people with her hobbies tend to sooner rather than later.]

till | alien stage

[blink]

Eliot Spencer | Leverage | OTA

[90minutesofsleep]

[No one's going to be surprised that one of his near-death experiences was more 'briefly' than 'near']

Nicky | The Old Guard | OTA

[allandmore]

[He won't be here long, he rarely is.]

margaery tyrell | game of thrones

[versigny]

( 🫠 ota! defaulting to her canon outcome, but happy to do some sort of AU variant as well. )

natsu | original character | ota

[haikai]

[ She long since accepted the ephemeral nature of all things (she says), so death is only an expression of that. The train, though? She's never seen anything like it, how fascinating! Moving so fast... ]

Chrissy Cunningham + Stranger Things + OTA

[cheerybomb]

[Hers was clearly not a peaceful death if the way she's wedged her back into the corner of the compartment so she can see the door, and startles at any loud sound or talking is any indication.]

Eddie + Stranger Things + OTA

[jukebox_hero]

[This is... definitely not what he expected. The fact that he doesn't have a mark on him now is something that he knows should be reassuring, but is actually a little distressing, no proof that it worked even though he knows it did, it had to.]

Charles - Dead Boy Detectives - OTA

[just_aces]

[He knows he's dead, just not why he's here.]

Rinko Asagi | Murcielago

[punishing_love]

[Rinko is morose, but not upset the way you'd expect of someone her age...]

Joe | The Old Guard | OTA

[nicely_tousled]

[Either he's been here for a lot of short trips, or this is someplace he never expected to see.]

Klaus + Umbrella Academy + OTA

[ouiking_ouija]

[Yep, he's been here before, not as familiar as his empty plateaus and half-crumbled beach houses, but it's not new.]

Patrick | Companion (post-canon AU) | OTA

[piecedit_together]

[He's not really sure he's supposed to be here...]

dr. stephen strange — mcu.

[emits]

( can be during one of his numerous deaths by dormammu, or another time. it's definitely temporary though. )

[spellcrafter]

[ something post-mom where she can, you know, properly apologize? ]

Chris Cunningham + Stranger Things R63 + OTA

[ccunningham]

[He probably looks a little shell-shocked still, occasionally running his fingers over his arms or knees, or checking his hands and arms for damage that just isn't there anymore.]

Sam Winchester | Supernatural

[hellunbounded]

hades | greek myth | ota

[agetes]

Ticket, please. [ you’ll have one to give him: name, age, cause of death. he’ll mark it, copy some information into a notebook, and move on. unless you have a question for the god of the dead. ]

[holdshisown]

[He'd not really expected there to be any sort of paperwork involved in dying. But he does indeed seem to have some slip of paper on him. He hands it over with a slightly confused look.]

And here I thought I'd be thrown straight out into the Void at my passing. Am I... going to have to wait a long time for that?

[For some reason he seems a bit annoyed to have to wait for it. One would think he'd be relieved for the respite.]

hades | greek myth | ota

[nekipas]

[ hades spends most of the trip in the bar car. hey, it’s her train, she knows how to stock it well. when she feels somebody sit down next to her, she doesn’t even bother glancing up. ]

What.

jack klein — original.

[musts]

( well. shit.

info. )

Yato | Noragami

[intertwinedfates]

[Either he's escorting someone, just taking a ride, or got bumped off himself finally.]

Tenjou Utena / Shoujo Kakumei Utena

[tenjou_utena]

[punishing_love]

[Someone else closer in age. Middle school, maybe? Lankier than Hinako. Really pretty, and a couple of years older than Rinko.

Dead just like Rinko. Unless her previous cope that this is just a morbid guilt dream holds up; she's not sure that she'd invent a girl like this, but stranger things have happened.

So, she just nods politely at the pink haired older girl for a start.]