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[sadandsingle]

I suppose this is a question that has been asked before, but not in my (admittedly brief) time here. I apologise if it's a subject that comes up entirely too often, but it's one that I've been curious about for quite some time now. It's also a delicate topic, I know, so feel free to reply privately if you feel uncomfortable talking about it. Or don't reply at all. That's fine, too.

[It's certainly a difficult subject for her to talk about at times. That's why this is in text, rather than voice or video. But getting to the point...]

Who among the Travellers is dead back home? Not in some nebulous future 'everyone dies eventually' sort of way, but something rather more immediate, in that you died just before coming here. What do you expect will happen when you leave Asgard? Do deceased Travellers simply return to being deceased? Is there some sort of afterlife in your world?

[She remembers all too well Owen and Suzie mentioning the darkness that's all that exists after death. It's something that's kept her up at night more than a few times.]

I don't ask this for the sake of any sort of theological debate, mind, but out of curiosity. I don't personally subscribe to any particular system of belief, but I respect those held by others. I just want to know what you think will happen.

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[fishdouche]

im dead back home
got chopped in half wwith a chainsaww by one a my best friends
im not sure wwhat wwill happen if i go back so im just not goin
ill stay here or go to another univverse

[sadandsingle]

[What is this guy even on, Tosh wonders. Still, she's used to the Internet, so she can look past his strange typing.]

Do you think that's an option, though? And what if you disappear from the city against your will, like so many people do?

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[howstrongiam]

Um, yeah, I was dead. I'm not sure it counts, though. I'd been dead for a few years, and was walking around as a ghost.

[sadandsingle]

A ghost? Ghosts exist in your world, then?

[Tosh isn't especially weirded out by the concept, just curious.]

I'm assuming you're fully corporeal again, right? (I do hope that isn't terribly rude to ask.)

[bruxisms]

[ He may not be dead just yet, but it is a question that is weighing on him. ]

It would seem that almost half of those from mine own realm perished before arriving here.

[ His younger brother included, but he is not going to mention that, not when he knows very well who one of the instigators of his death was.. ]

What is your reason to ask such a question?

[ Suspicious, as always. ]

[sadandsingle]

A friend of mine died back home, and I've been wondering about it since I came here. If the dead can be brought back to life here, then you'd think it ought to be permanent, rather than just a temporary respite.

[It's true, just not the whole story.]

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[necrowmantic]

I WISH I could tell you about a super-cool death back home, but as far as I know I'm still alive and kicking. I can tell you about the times I've died here, though! I even have pictures from one of 'em.

Buuuut I've heard that dead folk stay dead at home, even if they're brought here. Don't know what they're basing that on, but if nothing we do here affects what happens, then I guess it stands to reason we can't revive the dead either.

[sadandsingle]

You have pictures of your own death?

[...that's just weird. Sorry, Henry. That's not an invitation to show them to her, either.]

But they're reviving the dead by bringing them back to life here in the first place, not to mention all the resurrections that occur when people die here. It seems unnecessarily cruel to return people to that state when they leave.

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[sirenae]

I was dead for at least a year prior to my arrival in Asgard. It was confirmed by people I knew from my world that I encountered here.

[ Lucy schools any trace indicator of emotion to a watered-down caricature in her response, but it still takes her quite a while to answer the latter question. ]

I honestly have no idea what will happen when I leave. [ When, not if. ] I suppose it doesn't matter anymore, but for what it's worth, I don't recall a light at the end of the tunnel.

[sadandsingle]

I was shot in the stomach and died just before I arrived here, hence the pertinence of my question. I knew a couple of people who returned from the dead back home, and they spoke of an all-consuming darkness. No afterlife, just...nothing.

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[5thchild]

I am dead in my world. However, I am not granted anything like an after-life lilin would imagine. Instead, my soul is meant to be reborn again and I will exist once more in a new time-loop.

Why do you ask?

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[sadandsingle]

There are people in my world who believe in a similar system of reincarnation. Do you remember anything when you're reborn, or is it simply a rebirth of the soul, rather than of the entire self?

I know people who have died back home, and I'm simply curious as to what will happen to them should they leave the city.

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[torchwoodteaboy]

[It's after much debate that Ianto speaks up here. He doesn't know whether it's the right time to get into this, but. Then again, he's not sure whether there is a good time. He's locked this to keep Jack from butting in and stopping him (and making him lose his nerve).]

Tosh... [Even without saying it yet, his face probably gives him away.]

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[sadandsingle]

[Oh, shit. Somehow, the possibility that other people she knows might have died - that Ianto might have died - never occurred to her. Tosh feels a sudden lump rise in her throat, and she blinks back tears as she rises from where she's seated on her bed and goes to seek out Ianto. She taps on the door of his room; this is something she'd rather talk about in person, rather than over the network.]

[mortuimagistri]

Though I am not dead myself, I find myself wondering what this place does to the disruption of the lives of the dead with some frequency. If I may ask, what are your theories? I find mine are rather stale; what I have been taught of necromantic thaumaturgy made little room for Nordic theology.

[sadandsingle]

Is necromancy common in your world, then? We don't really have such things where I'm from, but the organisation I worked for did discover an artefact that would raise the dead briefly.

[Or not-so-briefly, in a couple of occasions.]

The first-hand accounts I've heard all involve, well, darkness, and not much else. But those I spoke to were terrified by the prospect of returning to it, so it's not quite as simple as it sounds - or it could just be an extreme existential crisis.

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[notsogrimreaper]

I'm kind of a rare case, because I may be dead back home, but I was still conscious after the fact. I know what will happen to me, but it's rather unlike what a normal human will go through after life.

But I can still tell you, if you're curious.

[It's not really his favourite subject, but as long as he doesn't get onto the topic of Minato...]

[sadandsingle]

I knew a couple of people in a similar situation back home - or what I imagine to be a similar situation. If you don't mind telling me what your experience was like, I'd be interested in comparing the two.

[grimmig]

Dead as a doornail. I assume I'll be just as dead when I wake up.

Or don't.

[sadandsingle]

So, did you go through the other four stages of grief first, or skip straight to acceptance? Does that even count when you're talking about your own death? A psychoanalyst would have a field day with this sort of thing.

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[standsonhigh]

I'm probably dead but I'm not worried over it, I always find a way back.

But the afterlife? It's just darkness, that's all there really is. Darkness and a vague sense that you're not alone. But it's not the best sense.

[sadandsingle]

[Jack's warned all of them about the Master. Repeatedly, in fact. And while she knows he would probably prefer she didn't respond to him at all, Tosh doesn't see the harm in a simple text conversation.]

I do hope none of those ways back involve strange metal gloves.

That's what I've heard about the afterlife from people who've been there. It's hardly reassuring to have it confirmed, though.

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[needsnoheadsman]

The last thing I remember before coming here is dying. [It's said vaguely, in a flat tone, because to tell someone he barely even knows about dying is bad enough, he can't bring himself to give more details about how.] I remember nothing else, between the moment of my death and my arrival here.

[A breath, then:] Why would you ask this, my lady, other than idle curiosity? [Which he doubts is the only reason.]

[sadandsingle]

[Oh, it's that man she'd spoken with before. She switches to voice for this one, and her tone is as sympathetic as she can manage.]

It's rather more than idle curiosity, I must admit; I'd like to know what awaits me should Asgard ever grow tired of me.

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < i did die back home right before i got here :((
:33 < according to my friends i end up in the dreambubbles afterwards
:33 < which shouldnt be too bad
:33 < but i still purrfer being alive

[sadandsingle]

What's a dreambubble, if you don't mind me asking?

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[didntbelieve]

One of the kids here from my world is dead back home. So far as she's concerned it hasn't technically happened yet, but it isn't too far off. One of the others from a few months forward must have told her about it because she knows. Can't say I know what happens to her after that, but there's a few supernatural things out there so maybe there are ghosts, or afterlives, or something out there for her.

[sadandsingle]

That must be difficult for her, knowing that she's returning to her own death. At least for most of the people I've spoken to - and for myself - death is something that's already occurred. And there is at least one person who says they're a ghost back home, so I would consider it a possibility, I suppose.

[most_qualified]

I'm not sure what will happen. My hope is that I can go back to the mainframe.

[sadandsingle]

Like a computer mainframe?