asgardeventide | 4 Little Ghosts ☠ Video

[The feed turns on to Norman sitting inside of Hel's Welcome Hall's lounge with his long red scarf wrapped around his neck and a destroyed book on his lap. He's got a slightly nervous smile on, and his hands rub together in a worried manner before strumming along the book.]

Soooooo....who wants to talk about the afterlife?

[Yup, Norman's doing this. That's right, Asgard. There's a 11 year old who wants to talk about death. Although that wasn't the best way to start off this video, and he has to take a deep breath before continuing.]

I'm not actually talking about religious views, but what do you think happens when you die? Uh, I guess religious stuff works too if you really want to talk about that. I've heard a few things about how death works in different worlds, so I thought it would be interesting to hear from more people.

Also, I thought it would be good to talk about it since a lot of people seem to want to help get Freyr back. [Just going to add some not-bizarre reasoning to this.]

So yeah, if you want to say anything, go ahead. If you want to talk about it privately, you can put up a filter. [A pause.] And...if your world has ghosts or you believe in ghosts, that would be great to hear about too.

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In my would, when humans die, their souls go either to the White realm of Heaven or the Red realm of the Pit, depending on their deeds in life. I can't say I know what they do there, though.

[Sounds like Leonardo's Heaven and Hell except without the Purgatory.]

What happens to non-humans then?

[similar but not exact! the color bit is relevant]

They go back to the realms from which they were born, I expect. The ones who are specific, at least. But I'm not actually sure if all animals have anything like a soul.

Ones who are specific? What's that mean? [Bit confused on that bit.]

Animals back home have souls. [He likes to pet ghosts of roadkill. Raccoons can be really sweet once they're dead.]

Ah, there are beings who are associated with specific realms of power. Dragons are of the Purple realm, unicorns from the Onyx. There are some who look like people from the Onyx as well, but they are Elder creatures, like the unicorn.

Not everything has a soul, where I am from.

[Unicorns and dragons...Unicorns and dragons...

Well, there are dragon here too, but still.]

O-oh... [Give him a second, he's not sure what to ask first.] So, each type of living thing that does have a soul goes to a specific realm for them?

[well, at least he believed her. that's better than a lot of people.]

If they have one, yes, I think that's more or less how it goes. But it's not as though there's a unicorn afterlife and a dragon afterlife, I don't think. Realms are...complicated.

[she shudders a little, thinking of the realm she had only just glimpsed]

They're places and not places. We're not made to comprehend them fully, I don't think.

[Well, not many people would believe in zombies, so they're about even.]

Yeah...I don't think it's something we can understand either. I mean, I've seen the afterlife, but it's more like an in-between stage...Since ghosts don't just stay ghosts forever, I think. They have to move on sometime.

[Although that's also guesswork for him.]

You've seen the afterlife? I didn't think one could come back from such things.

I wonder if we have ghosts. Certainly, I haven't sensed one, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.

Well, more like I, uh...see ghosts back home. It's technically part of the afterlife except their spirits are still in the living world.

Ah, I see. I take it that's not a particularly common ability where you are from.

I don't know about ghosts, but two if my brothers have shoulder angels and devils. There was a nest in the cellar. The rest of us can't see them, but I certainly believe they are there.

You're right, it's not. [Which is a relief that she's taking it well.]

I don't know anything about shoulder angels and devils. What were they like for your brothers? [He doesn't know how a nest could be involved either.]

[talking to ghosts is pretty close to the bottom of the weirdness scale for sophie. people who live without any magic at all are vastly weirder.]

Are they just...people, then? Or animals, too, I suppose.

They sit on their shoulders and advise them. Except I gather that sometimes it is rather difficult to tell which is which.

Yup. My grandma's a ghost too, and she told me that people turn into ghosts when they die because they either died suddenly or in a bad way, or if they still have something to figure out.

[A pause because...that sounds like something from a comedy tv show.] Did your brothers ever try to talk to them? Or make them leave?

...those all sound like good reasons. Are they friendly then, these ghosts? Or as variable as people?

[sophie's last name is gargamel. as in the smurf-hunting gargamel. comedy tv turned serious is in many respects her life]

Oh, they speak to them all the time, I think. But I don't think they'd ask them to leave.

They are people, so they're just as friendly as they when they were alive...Unless something changed them.

[He knows that the Agatha he knows as the witch isn't her real self-- not the scared little girl his saw in his vision.]

Why not? I think it'd probably get really annoying.

Changed them?

[she tilts her head]

Perhaps they can be annoying. But it is also perhaps better than being alone and without counsel.

Well, if something really bad happens to you and it's because someone else did it...you might want revenge. So if something changed you to make you bitter or angry, it's hard to let go of that when you're a ghost.

I guess that makes sense. It's like someone's watching over you...

...I'm not sure it's easy for people to let that go when they're alive, either.

Yes, I think that's how it is. It's a bit difficult to tell from outside it.

True... [Very true.] But it still counts in death.

Probably more, if you can't do much about it.

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