Well, now that you're dead...

[toastysocks]

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

[sk12]

[ not for sale? he raises an eyebrow, expression stuck between confusion and indignation at the fact Keener thought he'd want some gaudy ass watch. it's too complicated and too technical, something you'd see in on the arms of fobbits instead of actually in the field. he raises a hand, showing off a simple, nondescript timex expedition. the glass is fucked and the time has arbitrarily stopped, something he notes with a tsk ]

It's not to my taste.

[ and really, where they were going, a watch wasn't going to do them much good. let go of all earthly attachments, or something like that. he'd never really listened those few times he'd been in church. like recognizes like, and even as content as he is to sit in silence, there's catharsis in talking over things that were like distant memories. ]

I've seen one similar before. Perhaps not the same, but close enough to catch my eye.

[ ie, you got fleeced mate ]

[luke_1511]

[He's sharp enough to catch the diss, but decides to let it slide. There are things worth fighting over - a watch (that is, in fact, a little gaudy) is not one of them.

In a disinterested, blasé tone:]

Have you? Hm. You must get around.

[He hadn't seen anybody like Buck in the Dark Zone in the weeks before Parker made her incursion, but as much as he liked to pretend otherwise, he didn't have eyes everywhere. Someone like him could have very well slipped in without his knowing, if they were lucky.]

So. What got you?