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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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[Bertholdt ends up sitting down across from Eren, leaning on his knees and staring at the floor for a long time. They're dead, him and Reiner and Annie and everyone he cared about. It's what they wanted, in the end, so why does it matter? It's what he'd been told to want, anyway. He feels so conflicted. It's over... but he also knew they were being given another chance.]

[He doesn't feel like he deserves it.]

[For a while, Eren just looks at Bertholdt, trying to work out his feelings. He's glad the Colossal Titan is dead, no doubt about that. He doesn't remember how it had happened, but he hopes he'd been the one to do it. And yet, at the same time... there doesn't seem to be much point in holding on to grudges when you're on your way to a new life. He's not sure how he should feel.

Eventually, the silence gets too uncomfortable and he feels like he needs to break it.]

You better not think I'm gonna feel bad for you if you sit there moping.

[Bertholdt looked up at him slowly, before giving one of his small, sheepish smiles.]

No one should feel bad for me, Eren. I don't expect them to.

[That smile and that complete lack of standing up for himself just piss Eren off more. He'd been trying to hold his anger back a little bit, but now it's just too hard to rein in the urge to punch Bertholdt in the face.

So he does it. PUNCH.]

[The punch stuns him a little. It seems in the afterlife, they don't heal, so when he feels his teeth loosen and his nose snap there's no steam to accompany the blood. He spits on reflex, gasping a little at the pain before looking to Eren again, one of his eyes starting to swell. He doesn't even stand up.]

You can hit me again, if you want.

[Dammit Bertl stop making it weird. There's no satisfaction in hitting someone who won't even try to defend himself. Feeling a little sick (with Bertholdt or with himself? who knows) Eren glares at him before just turning to look away.]

There wouldn't be any point.

[He lifts his hand to press to his bleeding nose, letting out a sigh. He hasn't had a real injury in his life, so he just sort of lets it go. Not that it matters here, he can't die when he's dead.]

I'd deserve it.

Yeah, you would. You deserve far worse. But I'm not gonna hit someone who doesn't even have the balls to stand up for himself.

There's no point, since I'm already dead. Right?

You never had any spine when you were alive either. Maybe now would be a good time to change that.

I can't tell my... next self what to do.....

[He can't even tell himself what to do. Not even if it was possible.]

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[Eren scoffs at him, disgusted.]

Fine. Keep on being a pathetic piece of shit, then. Doesn't make any difference to me.

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