choo choo

[antigravitysocks]

Train to the After Life
tickets please

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.

» POST with your character
» 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.
» have FUN & TAG AROUND

TRIGGER WARNING!!
this meme obviously deals with death and may deal with other unpleasant themes as a result. please be cautious.

Comments

[dyaddyissues]

[ He is well aware of her studying him, but to be fair, Ben is doing his own staring. She's pretty, he would be blind not to notice. Tanned and freckled which spoke of a life under the sun, with chestnut brown hair up in a way that frames her face.

And he can't help but note... there is something familiar about her, or her presence at least. If she were one of... the students, he would've recognized her.

The question is meant as a distraction, but in reality he realizes a moment too late it's a reminder that they're not going to pick their destination. Ben doesn't have a lot of hope, not really. But he finds... he hopes Rey gets to go to her island. ]

I think I'd like to go somewhere remote. A farm, or somewhere where there's mountains. Maybe a heard of bantha or two. As long as it's peaceful, I could go anywhere.

[ After living in the city, after a jedi temple full of kids; and having a voice in his head all of his life Ben thinks he'd like that kind of tranquility. ]

[bewithme]

[ A lot of the initial tension she'd held is starting to dissipate the longer they sit there companionably. When he answers, the corner of her mouth hooks up into a soft smile. The scavenger rarely smiles, at least sincerely at other people, she can't even remember the last time she did, but the image he paints elicits one of her few. ]

That sounds nice. I've never seen a mountain before.

[ Rey realizes after she volunteers that fact about herself that it may be more than he cares to know about her. For whatever reason - that odd, inexplicable familiarity - the energy around them is tentative, but... easier than anything she's ever had with anyone that she can recall in memory.

Abandoning her pretense she cares as much about what's outside the window, that she's impassive about his presence, she turns her body more to him. ]

I'm from Jakku. There's only sand and wreckage there. Can I.. ask where you come from?

[dyaddyissues]

I've seen them, even climbed a couple. [ It's easy to talk to her, in a way it hadn't been easy to talk to anyone in a long time - other than Tai, that is. He'd been one of the only people to be able to see him, as an actual person. Rey, meanwhile, doesn't know who he is, so she doesn't see him as only a legacy, or a disappointment to the family name. ]

That sounds... awful, honestly. [ Ben answers bluntly. ] No offense.

[ He stares down at the floor; the first few years of his life were spent in the comfort of his mother's apartment ... but that wasn't it anymore, was it? His parents moved on. And the temple on Yavin had never been his home. ]

I was born on Chandrila. I haven't been back there in a long time, though.

[bewithme]

[ Jealousy twinges through her. Rey can only imagine what climbing a mountain would feel - it seems an impossible feat. Maybe, if the stars are kind, she might learn. They never have been before. ]

None taken. You’re not wrong.

[ She shrugs. Jakku was very deserving of that particular adjective, she won’t disagree with that. He doesn’t know the half of it. Nevertheless, as she thinks back on the dry planet, she realizes with an ache that there were parts of it she will miss - her AT-AT, sliding down the dunes on scraps... that moment when she just knows where a salvageable piece of machinery is in that way she always does, that way that has kept her alive. For all its cruelty, the galaxy had given her a small stroke of luck to get this far... only to die.

He takes a moment to answer and her eyes drop in the meantime to the contraption secured to his belt. It looks like a tool, but it’s unrecognizable to her. Something niggles at the back of her consciousness and she blinks back up at him, almost in a daze.

Fascination stretches across her face. ] Chandrila. That was the Republic’s capital once, wasn’t it? I’ve heard about it. [ She’d always enjoyed hearing about other people’s travels, when traders from far flung corners of the galaxy would visit Niima, usually on their way to better places. ] I always wanted to visit the Core. I thought my parents —

[ She stops abruptly, a little choked breath coming out of her as she realizes belatedly that she stumbled into dangerous territory. Her face falls and she swallows, shifts a little more into herself to try to save face. ]

I thought my parents would take me. [ Bitterly: ] I was wrong.