text / anonymous / encrypted

[unmasking]

[There are some things you can't run from. For Peter, he's been trying to run, but things keep coming up, keep reminding him. He went a good month of pretending that he was just a normal guy who made it out of his world alive. It was a good lie. Even for those people who knew him as Spider-Man, no one needed to know that his final moments in his life were spent saving Aunt May. They didn't need to know that he had given his all and that he was actually happy with what he managed.

But there's dying. And then there's finding out you aren't dead. There's finding out that you have a whole new life, and that somewhere, in another dimension, a "you" managed to grow up. Sue knew him. Bucky knew him. Even that grumpy Nathan guy knew a Spider-Man. And for all that, he's been trying to make it less obvious that he's surprised that he grew up. It's been hard, and he knows it'll continue.

It has to, after all. With great power and all that, and this world has bigger problems than his.

But still, he sets out to ask this question, because he knows it's better to ask now than later. He had to be careful about what thing he said to Charlie that one day. When he phrases his question, he rereads it a couple times, taking out anything that sounds too much like him. The last thing Peter needs is someone tracing it back to him.

He's not ready for those conversations.]

I've got a question, but first, please don't try to trace this back to me. If you've already done that and broken my encryption, let's just pretend you didn't. [Also, you're a jerk, but he had to cut that part out. Too ... him.]

What happens if you died before you came here? What's left for me after this all ends? Before you ask, yeah, I definitely died.

I just thought I'd ask.

Comments

Voice

[changeitroundsome]

[Now this...this is a question he's been asking himself. He's not sure if he has an answer yet, either. Still, he'll try to avoid bringing his own experiences into it as best he can. No need for everyone to know his personal business.]

This place, it's all about time travel, right? Maybe all that's needed is to change the past a little bit, fix it so you never died. I figure if they can change these great, big events that change this whole world, they can tweak the timeline here or there to save a person's life.

It's the least they owe you, what with kidnapping you and all.

[He's not sure if this is even possible, but hey if this person wants to go ahead and try it first, he'd be very okay with that]

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

I don't know. My death kind of had to happen. It was one of those "I die or my loved ones die" scenario, and there's only one aspect of it all that I'd really change.

[text]

[legal_eagle]

Well, there's no real reason to think you'd poof out of existence or anything. All of us seem to be outside the alteration of timelines, etc., so probably you'd just keep on like you are now.

[text] also forever anon

[unmasking]

Yeah, but what happens afterward? I can't just go home. I feel like that'd defy the very laws of existence. So what? People just don't come back from the dead.

[And Peter has a feeling he'd just be seen as a clone even if he could.]

text; poorly encypted

[postpones]

Then you live on here while you can.

I'm not expecting a second shot at life to wait for [backspacing over the "me"] you when you're sent home.

text; forever anon

[unmasking]

It's kind of a crummy place to imagine spending the rest of my life, you know? But I can make the best of it. Not like I had an alternative.

text;

[fairyonacid]

can they resuscitate you?

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

Well, I am alive right now.

text; private

[observingfate]

I am unaware of what happens, unfortunately. Perhaps while you're here, you can find a way to reverse what happened to you. Or maybe you can find a way to continue living elsewhere. Who knows.

Admittedly, I also hold an interest in finding an answer to your question.

text; private, still forever anon

[unmasking]

Also a member of the "I'm sure I have a gravestone" club?

[voice;]

[sorrowfulcry]

You can probably ask to stay here. God knows the people here care barely cope with crisis on their own.

... Or you go back and either meet your maker or deal with whatever your world has to throw at you when you decide to come back from the dead. [a scoff] You'd be surprised some of the stupid shit that happens to bring you back.

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

Happens to bring you back?

[voice | private]

[oldsoldiersneverdie]

You'd be surprised how... impermanent death can be. You could probably return to your own timeline without any major consequences, but if the idea makes you uncomfortable, there are plenty of other places to call home.

text | private | 4ever anon

[unmasking]

What do you know about the impermanence of death?

text;

[totallytrustworthy]

[It's a touchy subject: one with a bit of personal guilt tacked on for the sake of someone she'd screwed over that's now-- well, he's back home. And he'd died off years ago.]

no bloody clue mate. but when do we ever know when dealing with death

for what its worth Ive been here well over a year. theres still time.

text; forever anon

[unmasking]

Time to find out, right? Or time to live? I guess it goes both ways.

video

[liprings]

Nothing, you're totally screwed. Best thing's just fuckin'... don't go home. Fuck that noise, right?

text | forever anon

[unmasking]

How do you know?

text

[ready_to_bloom]

I would think either you get returned to your world, alive, as a ... I suppose, a reward, for what you've done in this world. It doesn't happen all the time, but it can.

Or else I think you'd be given the chance to live in another world. It only seems fair.

And of course, while this isn't our own world, we do have the chance to build a life here, and do good things, while we are here.

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

Yeah, the kind of sad part is that after making a life here, and once I finally know people, most people are probably headed home. That's what makes sense, right?

Text

[wilder]

[he doesn't bother to make it anonymous. He's never hid his death]

[Nor is he one to make things nice]

From what I understand, we'll either go back to being dead or get shipped off to deal with another world's problems.

I mean, I guess you could try asking to stick around- but I haven't heard of anyone succeeding with that. [in fact the one person he knew that wanted to try? disappeared a week later]

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

Like save another world, you mean?

And other people have tried? What happened to them?

voice

[kneecaptain]

It's kinda a big mystery. Like it's supposed to be, probably. [ Sometimes he feels bad about lying about being dead. ]

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

I think if this is the afterlife that we're all wondering about, we'd have a lot more people kicking around.

Probably.

text;

[buttpunch]

I don't know very much about how or why you were brought here... But it sounds to me like you've been given a second chance.

Maybe you should be doing your best to take it? There are so many people who don't get one.

I can't imagine the Initiative would send you back to being dead. Unless that was what you wanted.

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

It sounds like the Initiative might not have a choice.

I'm taking my chance. I mean, as best as I can, for as long as I can.

text; orange optional

[logicist]

That's not an easy question to answer, especially since I doubt too many people here have died, come here, gone back to their world, then come back to Exsilium to answer it. What your question boils down to is more or less, "What happens after we die?"

Which I guess depends on where you're from? Pointless as it is to ask, I'll try anyway:

How's your world's ghost situation? That or "is there a way to bring anyone back to life?"

text / forever anon / orange is okay!

[unmasking]

Well, I haven't met any ghosts, but if we could bring people back to life, I can think of a few big names that would still be around. Good people, actually. No one would let them be dead.

Voice

[astraia]

[Soft and sad.] I wish I knew.

I think the best thing for us to do is just - focus on this, right now. Not things we can't change, or things that might never happen.

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

There's a lot of "us." That's the really depressing part here.

But you've got a point.

Text | is it cool if she breaks it she's kind of a jerk

[bodilesswarrior]

[Her heart twists and her fists clench and it's just easier, really, to stick to text.]

Have you tried asking what's left of the Initiative?

Maybe you can just...stay here, after it's over.

text / forever anon / go for it!

[unmasking]

I'm gonna look into them, actually. It seems like a good place to start, but I haven't really had tea with any of them yet.

text;

[maskmaker]

Nothing, perhaps? The followers of Christ believed in a heaven or hell, depending on your behavior in life and your belief in God, but I think if you leave here, there's nothing.

But like other people say, for those of us dead, asking to stay here might be an option if they can control that device of theirs.

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

Someone apparently got in trouble for trying to stay.

Or it could've been a run of bad luck. I'm not sure.

text

[variates]

You could use it start over.

text

[unmasking]

Yeah, that's the general suggestion.

Though it's kind of a sad suggestion in and of itself.

[biwinning]

you know, ii wa2n't GOIING two break iit untiil you mentiioned iit.
lol.
what'2 the biig 2ecret anyway.
you're not the fiir2t dude two kiick iit.

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

Wow, thanks for the newsflash.

voice

[unholy_rebirth]

[Heyyy guess who likes sadly talking about death and being dead! (its this girl)

Gently.]

I suppose that depends.

Do you expect to come back?

text / forever anon

[unmasking]

What do you mean by ... come back? I mean, exactly. Obviously I'm here typing and breathing. Back home, though? No one comes back from those injuries. A lot of fire. A bullet through my shoulder. I probably had internal bleeding and destroyed organs.

The fact that I got to have a snappy good-bye was sheer luck.

text. private.

[motherofnemesis]

You go back to being dead. Simple as that.

Sorry. It's not a pleasant prospect, I know.

text | private | anon

[unmasking]

No other options?

text;

[beardedflannel]

[ This is a bit of a touchy subject for him what with Tess and all. It sucks that whoever this is died back in their world, but Joel figures it's the same for anyone who's died and was brought here afterwards. They're given a second chance.

Why he ends up responding... Joel doesn't even know.]

Being here doesn't change anything back home.

You get that second chance sure, but for what?

text;

[unmasking]

To try and help, hypothetically.

At least, that's what I'm shooting for.