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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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[dead_black_eyes]

L glances up, surprised at how much he wants tea now that it's been offered. Slowly, he reaches out and accepts it, sunken eyes unwavering as they take in the kind white-haired boy.

"I suppose you're also deceased."

A fair assumption, perhaps... and a typically abrupt and tactless entry into what qualifies as a conversation with the socially obtuse investigator.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded, sitting down next to the man with his own can. "Un. I think we all are, on this."

[dead_black_eyes]

"Yes... I suppose that's a fair assessment."

The words sound as hollow as they did when L said them just minutes before his death.

"Why are you in such good spirits? You're dead. Clearly at a young age. It wasn't something you wanted, was it?" L asks, fingers falling on a brochure that's conveniently resting on the seat next to his.

[shiromadoushi]

"Not especially," Bakura admitted. "But there's no point to being upset about it. And after the first time, really, I'm just sort of glad I got any extra time at all," he smiled softly. "I'm sort of hoping the rest of my family will be there... even if for a little while."

[dead_black_eyes]

L would have expected it to be jarring to hear someone so... complacent about what had happened, but he had to admit that it was soothing in a bizarre way.

"Did you find a pamphlet like this...?" his eyes scan the brochure, explaining the broken life he's about to step into.

[shiromadoushi]

There was the first hit of unhappiness at the question as Bakura nodded. "Un... Not quite sure how I feel about a lot of it, to be honest," he admitted. "but some of it... some of it I'm looking forward to."

Even if his parents would both be lost to him... having grandparents that took care of him in his parents stead... he still would have family.

[dead_black_eyes]

"Do you think it's a punishment?" he asked, lingering on the paragraphs that seemed to be his worst fears realized. "Logic dictates it can't be, but... logic has failed me, lately."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura was thoughtfully quiet a moment. "I don't know... I guess.. it would depend on how you believe things are. If you did things you regret in the life you just left... it could seem like that. But..."

He trailed off a moment. "No life can be perfect, I think. So the good and the bad mix together, right?"

[dead_black_eyes]

"Sometimes..."

L's words were absent-minded as he continued to look over his pamphlet, wondering if it was a cruel joke, or if it was indeed repentance for the advantages he'd had, and taken, in his last life.

"It's just that if ever there was a compelling case for euthanasia, I'm looking at him. I always thought of myself as strong, but... I don't think I'm strong enough to live this life."