Train to the Afterlife Meme

[mysockingstory]

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

[gaveherwings]

[He shuts his eyes for a moment and quietly remembers Re-l.... of all that she's discovered and become. Even if all of Romdeau has failed and fell away, still there is that shining and radiant promise of her will, and-

Daedalus Yumeno is tired. He doesn't want to dare think such optimistic thoughts anymore. But even if he's listless, he can offer the stranger some uneasy efforts at conversation.]

I suppose? If some manner of legacy is left behind...

[finale_rosso]

[Thinking optimistic thoughts, or at least not considering death a failure, is what Jedah aims to instil in his conversational partner. He's here to ease the passage into eternity, after all.]

A legacy is a fine example. Isn't that proof that we existed?

[gaveherwings]

[And what legacy? Monad's flight into the sun, foretold perhaps by his very name? Or Re-l, consigned to a doomed world?

Not kin, nor city, or an intellectual heritage to pass on, beyond the hope that Re-l might yet survive to see the Creators' return.

It's troublingly uncertain. He smiles painfully across the train compartment.]

It could be.

[I turned in too soon, perhaps. And it will never be enough.]