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The Train to STE Meme (SPOILERS for canon deaths)

You know those Train to the Afterlife memes? In STE the canon versions of all our characters are dead. What if there was a train bearing their spirits on to reincarnation here?

This is a meme where canon versions of the characters can interact. They all know they're dead. They may or may not remember just how they died, or how they got to be on this particular train. Doesn't matter if they'll be born decades apart - that just means some people disembark a little earlier than others. Go over brochures about what your new incarnation will be like, spontaneously turn or be human, try the snack cart, fail to convince the friendly but very busy conductor to give you a transfer, or simply chat.

You just can't stop the train, or leave it. Not yet.

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[On a bench somewhere off in a corner is one very injured looking Dwarf. He's also very confused--this isn't the Halls of Mandos, or at least they don't like any halls he'd ever imagined. Then again, why would the halls of the dead look anything like Middle-earth?

He's pretty sure they're not supposed to be moving, though.

Kili's unable to stand right now so he's just lying there, watching all the strange (yet interesting) people walk by him.]

[ Garrus has mostly been staying quiet up until this point when something (or someone) catches his eye. Now that's... a very oddly-proportioned human. ]

Hey. Do you need some help? If my omni-tool still works here, I might be able to get you a bit of medi-gel.

[ He doesn't even assume that this human wouldn't know what that was, or that he might've never seen a turian before. Or that logic has any bearing here. ]

[Kili has two reactions: confusion and panic. Unfortunately, it's the panic that hits him first and he tries to scoot away despite the pain in his leg and everywhere else]

Wh-wha--?

[Oh, why did all his weapons vanish when he woke up? Not that he'd be able to use one right now, but he'd feel better if he at least had a knife!]

[ Okay. That wasn't exactly the reaction he was expecting. He puts his his (three-fingered) hands, trying to make it evident that... he's not going to attack. ]

Hey! I'm not going to hurt you, or anything. I'm trying to help.

[ Not that it'll do them any good, considering that they're dead. ]

What are you?

[Because he looks kind of like an Orc but he doesn't sound like one, not really, and he also offered to help.

Orcs don't do that.]

[ Wait... what? Okay, this was definitely kinda weird. You'd think a human would be able to recognize one of their fellow council races. Unless of course, time was playing really screwed up tricks or something, but given the afterlife thing... it really wouldn't be that surprising. ]

I'm a turian. You know... Palaven... Biggest military in the galaxy... Fellow Council Race... That doesn't ring any bells?

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[Right. Not an Orc.

Kili just shakes his head, momentarily speechless in the face of all the strange words this...turian was saying. Galaxy? Palaven? The last word sounded sort of Elvish but...

He needs a drink. Can he get drunk now that he's dead? He could really use a drink]

I've never heard of any of that. You're...not of Middle-earth, then?

Middle-Earth? [ He cocks his head to one side, trying to figure this out. Was it another one of those human sayings he'd never quite been able to grasp? ]

So, is that why you're such a short human? Because you live in the middle of the Earth?

[ Damn it. His turian was definitely showing there, wasn't it? ]

[Rude. Kili huffs, offended]

I'm not short! I'm taller than my brother and nearly as tall as Dwalin! And I'm not a Man either--I'm a Dwarf.

Hey, I have no idea who Dwalin is, but I'll take your word for it.

[ Though now he's kinda confused. Seriously, if you're not supposed to be human... why do you look so much like one, Kili? ]

I don't know. You still look a lot like a short human to me. Is that the biggest difference between your species?

No! There is a great deal more that's different between us and if I could stand I'd show you just how much!

[Short human. Kili's not usually given to losing his temper but...well, he's a Durin. They all have them, and Kili's temper happens to be triggered when people assume he's anything but a Dwarf.

Lack of beard will do that]

You know, you could just tell me. I'm not trying to insult your... dwarfian pride or anything.

[ Especially because he can't help but feel any fight between the two of them would be... really one-sided at the moment. He's de-aged back to his prime, and this guy looked like death.

...Okay. that was a little insensitive (the temper does remind him a little of a krogan, though). ]

No, I couldn't.

[And he very clearly will not argue that. Kili was never very good at remembering which bits they could tell others and which they couldn't so he generally never talks about being a Dwarf. Showing off's more fun, anyway]

What're you, anyway?

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[ Have a tiny annoyed blind girl, Kili. She's walking down the aisle of the train, and pauses around the time she's about to pass Kili. Maybe his hand is touching the metal frame of the wall while he lies there, or something.

Whatever the case, there's enough for her to pause, turning her head in his direction. ]

Hey, are you dying or something? Can people even double-die?

I don't think so, no. I hurt but not like I'm dying again.

Okay, cool, because I'm not a waterbender.

[ She could slap mud on a wound! If she...had mud.

Damn trains.

So she could slap metal on a wound. That might not help much.

Either way, Toph plops down in a nearby seat. ]

So, how'd you die?

Water-what?

[What sort of place was this?

He starts to gesture to his wounds but he finally notices her eyes. Blind, then]

Orcs shot me through more time than I care to count.

Bending. Geeze, I don't think anyone on this damn train knows a thing about bending besides me.

[ She's checked. It worries her, not that Toph Beifong would ever admit to that. ]

What's an orc?

How do you bend water? It's a liquid! And an Orc is a nasty, vile monster that'll kill you soon as look at you.

[ In answer, Toph reaches forward to the metal back of the chair in front of her.

And...peels it off in one swipe. PROPERTY DAMAGE, HELL YEAH. ]

I don't. I bend earth. And metal.

Never heard of an orc before, but that sucks.

['Scuse him, he's too busy gaping]

You just--that metal, you ripped it clean off and you're smaller and younger than me!

[ Yeah, feel free to gape. SHE'S AMAZING, SHE KNOWS IT. Only truly amazing people get huge statutes of themselves built. ]

I'm the greatest earthbender who ever lived!

[ Or died. Um. ]

Of course I ripped it off. ...Eh, I don't feel like putting it back.

[ Whatever. ]

You could put it back? But there's no forge and--how could you put it back?

...Same way I ripped it off, but in reverse?

[ She's just more naturally inclined to break stuff than build it sometimes. ]

[Kili is the most amazed Dwarf in the history of Dwarves. He laughs]

That's incredible! Oh, there are smiths who would kill to be able to work the metal like that I'd wager, so easily and quickly. Not so sure how they'd take the lack of a forge, but...