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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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< Worse than being reincarnated into an inferior body? I won't even be able to morph anymore. >

And I'll be a parrot.

[He doesn't seem really upset by this.]

These things just happen, it would seem.

[Being a parrot would be worse, as far as Ax is concerned.]

< I would have liked some time to enjoy being myself again before it's taken away. >

< I don't believe I have encountered your species before. Where are you from? >

Fairly deep out in space. I've been on Earth so long, I can't say I remember exactly where.

[But he does not like his original species; this is why he willed himself into becoming the living incarnation of bravery!]

What of yourself?

< My homeworld is several dozen light-years from Earth, but I also spent a lot of time on Earth with humans. Why were you there? >

I had to assist the dinosaurs in fighting for their world against an invading alien menace. The battle lasted a very long time.

[So he'd been one of those invaders. He'd changed his mind.]

How did you make it here?

[If Ax's grasp of Earth history is correct, that was a very long time.]

< Here? >

[He indicates the train with a tip of his head and a tilt of his stalk eyes.]

< I am not sure what happened in my immediate past. I was... absorbed, I believe would be the most accurate term, into an entity that called itself The One. That was the end of my life as I knew it. What about you? >

That's right. Right here. For one hundred million years.

[When you get to be his age, you really don't get all that upset at dying.]

That sounds...remarkably unpleasant. How did you come across this One being?

I allowed myself to be defeated so that I could go into the darkness of the land and purify it from within. It was the only way to stop Earth from being destroyed in the end.

< In the aftermath of the war between my people and our greatest enemy, I was tasked with finding a renegade ship belonging to them. We encountered a ship that appeared dead, and boarded it. I... do not remember clearly what happened after that, but I know The One absorbed myself and my crew. >

[He's quite impressed by the story; all four of his eyes widen.]

< That is a remarkable sacrifice. Worthy of one of my people's warriors. >

[He can't help but feel slightly embarrassed that, despite his reputation, his own end was nothing close to as honorable.]

An unpleasant way to go, indeed. It is probably for the best if you do not remember, but going on such a mission was a brave thing to do.

[He snaps his fingers at the word "brave." And he'll nod at that praise.]

Thank you. I only did what the Earth called upon me to do.

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