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

Wirt | Over the Garden Wall | OTA

[worrywirt]

Kid Loki | Marvel-616 (Journey Into Mystery) | OTA - cross-canon, but no group threading

[notaswicked]

[This is...actually pretty nice.

He didn't expect to even get this much.

How bad can death be when there's a snack cart? Not to mention nicely comfortable seats.

Loki actually seems okay with being here. He makes sure to grab a window-seat, and will occasionally wander to entirely different sections of the train just to see if the view is any different. After all, it's a nice train, but he is curious as to where he might be going. Occasionally, he doesn't think and winds up putting his feet up on the seat in front of him. Feel free to tell him to cut it out if it's yours'.

And he'll occasionally approach an interesting looking individual, offer a bag of pretzels, and ask with what might be considered slightly disturbing casualness from a child:] So. What are you dead for?

[Because in death, maybe people will finally stop caring what his name is. The boy does like people, generally. But in life, most people didn't like him.]

[waxinglight]

[Michiru Kiryuu has been sitting very quietly and observing people when she's finally approached by someone - he probably can't be too much younger than she is, though that's up for debate. She was created to look 14, after all, but she doesn't remember how old she really is.

She doesn't bat at eye at the casualness, instead eyeing the dark haired boy for a moment.]

I betrayed my father and died protecting my friends.

[She'd never been one for lying, after all.]

Steve Rogers | MCU | OTA

[morethanashield]

[So, this was...probably inevitable, all things considered. And, from a certain point of view, long overdue.

Still. Kind of a shame to go out to a sniper's bullet when there are giant metal robots that exist. Even that didn't kill him right away, but, well, the efforts to save him had been rough enough that Steve had been relieved to finally slip away.

Even in death, the shield is still on his back. Kind of a relief, really. He's almost forgotten life without it. Whatever comes next, Steve knows he'll be prepared for it.

For now, however, he's just got to find a seat. Which is harder than one might think. It's a very crowded train, so Steve's got to pace the aisles a bit. Hopefully he doesn't block the way for anyone.]

hope you don't mind

[leatherjackets]

[ emma doesn't think much about her death, it's easier that way. all she knows is that she left her family, her town behind much better. it figures things turned out this way. you don't get stamped 'the savior' without realizing you're going to have to make the noble sacrifice someday. she just didn't think it was going to be so soon.

the man pacing has caught her eye more than once. she's been on the fence about waving him over to the spot beside her. the idea of giving up her solitude was her only hold up. but eventually her conscience gets the best of her and emma finds herself trying to catch his eye with a hand wave. ] There's a seat next to me.

balthazar | constantine

[lickin]

[squadsight]

[The end, when it comes, is sudden and violent. All it takes is one missed bullet. One shot that veers just the slightest bit too wide from its target. Then there is an almighty roar in her ears. The crushing force of a giant meaty fist to her ribcage. The world veers sharply upwards, and for a moment, Katia Vega is flying-]

Guh!

[-She snaps awake in an empty train carriage. Dim lights flicker on the other side of the windows. The air is thick with stale cigarette smoke. She inhales reflexively, then spends a moment doubled over hacking on a sudden lump in her throat. There's blood down the front of her fatigues. Dirt in her hair. A spectacular black eye is already blooming on her face. But when she looks up at Balthazar, it's with sharp eyes.]

Wh-what the... the hell? Where's the Muton? Where's Meer? What the- what- am I-

[Is she dead...?]

Aikawa | Dorohedoro

[chaoticshambles]

[The gigantic man looks quite shell shocked, quiet and staring at the gas mask like helmet in his hands.

After a while of silence, he suddenly perks up with some soft, hesitant laughter.]

It's... [His sentence is interrupted by his own giggles, which break into a full, joyous laugh.] It's over! At last!

Rock Lee | Naruto

[niceguypose]

laurent | fire emblem: awakening | ota

[tomefaires]

Aang | Avatar: The Last Airbender

[savedtheworld]

decides to tag you on the worst meme ever b/c i'm nice like that

[breezings]

[ It's a little hard to remember the details about how she got to here. Ikki's aware of what happened, more or less. Kind of. They'd been in Zaofu, hadn't they? And then...something. Her memories go cloudy, and all she can guess is that she's in the Spirit World. Ikki isn't Jinora; she's not the one who walks with spirits and walks through the spirit world, the one who relies on those powers more than anything else.

But she thinks she can recognize a realm that isn't her own. Something tells her, in the back of her mind, that she's been in other places before, too. But it's so hard to remember...

She has to find someone. She left someone behind, hadn't she? Somewhere along the way. Jinora, Meelo, Korra - she'd left them behind in Zaofu, but they weren't who she was supposed to find. There had been a promise of some sort. That she wouldn't leave, like the others had...

But who had she said those words to? There's a vague impression of feathers, flight, a trill of birdsong. Memories of another life sleeping inside her own - Soren. But nothing more comes, for now, and so she goes through the train cars one by one, scanning the seats for familiar faces. Her siblings aren't there, and that's - good? But Jinora would be able to lead her out of this place. Maybe.

Ikki has no way of knowing how much time has passed when she finally spots yellow-and-red out of the corner of her eye, and blue tattoos. She turns, a smile already lighting on her lips, but it isn't her father or her sister. Instead, it's a statue come to life. Paintings. A player. She's seen Aang before in all of those things, but never in real life - or...has she? There's that niggling feeling again, like she's forgotten something, and for once there aren't really words, just surprise. ]

Oh. [ But what did it mean when you saw your dead grandfather on a train in the spirit world? ]

Loki | MCU | OTA

[jotunblooded]

[None of the old songs or stories mentioned a train.

Loki is well past caring, though. Frankly, he's relieved to finally be dead. Especially given the ultimate circumstances that led to it. They were...somewhat gruesome. Pain would have been an improvement. Death was the release he'd always dreamed it was.

And the train was a welcome respite from all of that. A place to catch his breath and maybe get ready for whatever might be coming next...however unpleasant it might be. Though Loki didn't fear Hel as much as many other Asgardians did. Valhalla wouldn't have suited him to pass eternity in anyway.

He sat, looking out of the window, occasionally reaching out to munch absently from something out of the bag of some snack or other he'd been passed from the cart. When someone sat down next to him, he didn't so much as twitch.

He did, however, speak.] So. Where do you think you're going?

[combatnotcavalry]

I think we both know.

[There is a low snort of laughter as Agent May crosses one leg over the other, regarding Loki with her lips pursed into a thin, withering line.]

Michiru Kiryuu | Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star | OTA

[waxinglight]

[She remembers fading away while her friends screamed her name. And she was sure that would be the end of it - becoming one with nature, all of that. She'd never been truly human, just a person made from darkness. Surely she'd return to it, just as she was always meant to.

So she doesn't expect to suddenly be on a train.

It's filled with unfamiliar faces. Michiru watches them for a while, wondering what brought all these people to the same place.

She doesn't see her friends or her sister. That's a relief, at least. As the train keeps going, she turns to the closest person.]

Where does this train lead?

[breatheinthefog]

[You didn't see her because she was wandering around the cars. Having retrieved half the snack cart's worth of bread, Kaoru approaches and frowns.]

Hello.

Eleventh Doctor || OTA

[madman_in_abox]

[unpossible]

( this couldn't be happening. it just couldn't. not like this. not to him. she's scared but she's trying to show it, she's trying to be brave.

at least they're together - that counts for something, doesn't it? except in the circumstances she isn't sure if anything counts. )

Doctor?

Jiminy Cricket | Disney Animated

[whistlenotchirp]

[who fucking stepped on him.]

bolin | legend of korra | open

[bolincredible]

rachel | animorphs

[likexena]

PETRE ( oc )

[nowheres]

[aarj]

Y'know, I read somewhere that you're not supposed to ask guys in prison what they did to get there, [Stiles says by way of an icebreaker. He doesn't do well with long silences.] Y'think the same principle applies here?

Clara Oswald | Doctor Who

[missionimpossiwald]

Kain Highwind | Final Fantasy IV / Dissidia 012

[dragoon_pride]

[soldier_of_gondor]

[ Boromir entered the train car, and took a seat. He'd never seen anything like a train before. He would be fascinated with it perhaps if he were still alive. But, since he was dead, it didn't fill him with that great of interest.

He looked out the window, then realized the car wasn't empty, sitting opposite of him was Kain. He gave him a nod, but said nothing. Though he was dead, he could only hope that the Fellowship would succeed, and that Frodo could possibly forgive him for his weakness. ]

Chuck Hansen | Pacific Rim

[suicidemission]

[ Completely inevitable. With that bomb strapped to Striker's back, it covered the escape pods.

What else was he supposed to do? ]

[furrylittlebeast]

[ He probably wasn't expecting this...

Rocket enters the train car and takes a seat. He looks around, looking angry - he has none of his weapons with him, and he feels naked without them. He looks at Chuck. ]

You Terran?

homura akemi ( pmmm)

[ex_plus110]

kate fuller ✝ from dusk till dawn

[crucifixes]

Joan Watson | Elementary

[formersurgeon]

Sansa Stark / ASoIaF(GoT)

[princessofwinterfell]

[cursedkitty]

[ Why is he still a cat? He's not sure. He wandered between the cars quite easily though, finding an empty seat and hopping up, then laid down in the chair. He'd hoped to see his parents, or his sister Emily. The train was unexpected, but pleasant. Binx welcomed death - it had hidden from him for so long that he was ready when it finally did arrive. ]

Uchiha Obito | Naruto

[infrareds]

Quasimodo | The Hunchback of Notre Dame

[le_bossu]

[themusicofthenight]

[ Erik sat politely in a car by himself, his ever-present mask has not abandoned him, even here in the after-life. He sings a song to himself, a song of a lost love - the one and only woman he ever loved, and who ever loved him. He turns as the door to his train car opens. ]

Bucky Barnes | Marvel 616 | OTA

[sidecars]

[ Bucky's sitting, but it sure isn't quietly. His leg is tapping a mile a minute on the rubber flooring. And it's not even from nerves or fright or anger. It's petulant frustration, like he doesn't belong here. And he doesn't!

Waiting on Cap to get his rear in gear and bring him back from the dead shouldn't be taking this long. He had literally bitten the bullet for them, shot right in the back while he tried to protect the Cosmic Cube. It doesn't matter; Cap isn't going to let the Red Skull keep it. He'll return the timeline to its original state, and that means him alive.

But all this sitting! It's getting to him as more and more people get on and get off around him. ]