the 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

Dick Grayson | Batman | OTA

[justlikeacircus]

Whyyyy the hell not.

[cold_shoulder]

*The man doesn't seem to want to settle down and just travel. Mostly, he's looking into the pitch-black outside the window.

He only has one arm. Mechanical arms can't die, after all.*

Gaius Maecenas | Rome | OTA

[smirkinbackground]

Fenrir | Norse Mythology | OTA

[ragnarokwolf]

Biffy | Parasol Protectorate | OTA

[justdandy]

[atadflamboyant]

{Well. His companion is certainly mostdisheartening for the ride. Lord A lounges back against the seat in his compartment, waiting for his train partner to wake.

Given the circumstances, it wouldn't do to leave Biffy alone.]

abraham lincoln {abraham lincoln: vampire hunter}

[1865]

((specify whether you want book or movie-verse.))

the eleventh doctor | doctor who

[aintno_grave]

Let's make the Doctor smile, shall we?

[thelaughingderp]

[It shouldn't be a surprise to find anyone on the train feeling melancholy or depressed -- you're dead, after all!

But instead, there comes the faint sound of singing down the hall, octaves going up and down...]

Oh woe is me, oh woe is me,
I use to have a hamster tree~!
But it was eaten by a newt,
and now I have no cuddly fruit!

Kain Highwind | Final Fantasy IV / Dissidia 012

[dragoon_pride]

[gunslingerqueen]

[Apparently dead people still need to sleep, that or Nariko just hasn't woken up and realized she's actually dead.

Either way Kain, there is a sleeping twenty-five-year-old leaning on your body. Hope you didn't think there would be personal space on this train.]

peggy carter {mcu}

[ex_queenvictoria804]

Ryo Marufuji | Yu-Gi-Oh! GX

[kaisered]

[cyberdancingqueen]

[She's waiting for him when the doors open, dressed in the neatly pressed blue suit coat and slacks she wore during her teaching days, the only difference being her hair around her shoulders.

Perhaps it's surprising she's there for him, they had fallen out of touch after her first year at the academy, both lives pulled in different directions. Then again, with the car accident, she's the only one there for a man with a bad heart.]

Hello Ryo. It's good to see you.

Carly Nagisa (Dark Signer) | Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's

[fortunehummingbird]

ellen ripley • alien

[xenomorphia]

James "Jim" Tiberius Kirk

[caelus]

loki / mcu

[snowborn]

Agent Clint "Hawkeye" Barton

[nested]

victor frankenstein | frankenstein [modern au]

[pyr]

Itsuki Koizumi | The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya | OTA

[dontmindmepleasecontinue]

dr. curt connors ↳ the amazing spider-man / mcu

[connors]

dr. julian bashir | star trek: ds9

[kukalaka]

Suzie Costello | Torchwood | OTA

[gets_inside_you]

[Well, this is different from death the first time around. Maybe this is a good sign. Or maybe her stop will be a drop off into the darkness. Train's a much better alternative, anyway.]

Botan | Yu Yu Hakusho | Open to All

[ferries]

[She's not dead, at least not in the traditional sense. Instead, she's here to help you accept your death and move on to the next realm.

Sorry, were you expecting a skeleton in a robe?]

Nariko Lunae | OC | OTA

[gunslingerqueen]

fitzwilliam darcy | pride & prejudice [modern au]

[ex_querulous960]

[modern au!pride & prejudice & zombies also available.]

Tenjōin Fubuki | YuGiOh GX

[invisblewins]

just some guy / OC / OTA

[ex_unspeaking377]

[ He's found a can of paint, as little sense as it makes. Red. Bold red, not blood-red, and now his hands are stained from it. It's the observation car, or something like it; one wall is just a window, but all there is outside is passing shadows and stars. Impossible to tell what's really there. He paints on it, with the precise strokes of a trained draftsman. The Eastern Seaboard, from Maine to the curve of Massachusetts to New York, the Chesapeake Bay. He begins to fill in the shapes of the states. Clinging to memories? Maybe. Or maybe he just wants something to do with his hands. He hates staying idle.

Is it terrible of him to hope his daughter died first? His wife, too? That somewhere, he'll step out onto a platform and she'll run to him and he'll sweep her up in his arms and hold her for a thousand perfect years.

He notices, with a hint of detached surprise, that a tear has fallen from the outside corner of his left eye. That his vision is somewhat blurred. He wipes it away, leaving a streak of red along his cheekbone, and turns back to the map. ]




[ ooc; Guy is an astronaut and Air Force veteran who witnessed the nuclear apocalypse from space. He hasn't spoken a word since, and probably won't now. He's very gentle, an excellent listener, and rather a troubled and traumatized individual.

His real name is David. ]

[oncewaslost]

[ This is it - again - but Karis can't just sit in a seat and stare out at the empty landscape. She's relieved, really. Relieved that it's not another empty nothingness. That she still has a sense of self to feel relief is enough for her. It isn't oblivion. It's something and that means that maybe when she gets where she's going, she can finally say she's sorry to her family for never coming home.

So she's wandering the train cars, avoiding thinking, and she finds Guy painting on the window. She watches him for a while, hands thrust into her pockets. It's not a coast-line that she recognizes, no continents that she knows. But it's something important to him.

And Karis has always had a reverence for death. Ever since her first. ]

That home?

[ Hate and anger and bitterness take too much effort right now. ]

Fujiwara Yuusuke | YuGiOh GX

[lavenderblooded]