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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.

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(( Tell me if you want to avoid Gou spoilers! ))

[[ potential spoiler warnings for Banana Fish. more info in his journal, open to crosscanon/AUs! ]]

[[ can androids even go to the afterlife? who knows! potential spoiler warnings for NieR Automata. more info in her journal, open to crosscanon/AUs! ]]

[Well, your car-mate's clearly been here a while, V. Looks like they've straight up rotted away to the bone, stretched out on one of the seats.]

[Only not, because that's very distinctly snoring.]

[Let's say it's immediately after the beginning events of the latest arc.]

[Pre-canon. One freshly murdered king on his way to Elysium.]

[Probably a few possible points one might pick when she is 'dead' or could have been. Including being under the Sleeping Curse for example. I'm open to canon with cast or cross canon.]