takodana | Bring Out Your Dead

Bring Out Your Dead

It’s been said many times over the centuries returning to the force means becoming one with it, losing your identity and returning to a whole. The dead are gone and ghosts simply Do Not Exist. There is a method of course, of retaining your identity after your passing all but lost until a certain Jedi rediscovered and passed on the secret.

This is not that meme.

The afterlife is a helluva place, full of people old and new who all share a single common thread. You’ve gone and passed from your mortal body and you’re (probably) stuck in the netherworld. It’s a bit boring being dead and all but you’ve got good (and bad) company, it’s hard to die when you’re already dead, and hey! You can sit back and watch the newer generations come and bumble along.

((This is a ~~hastily~~ slapped together post for all your dead character needs. Grandson gone off and done something ridiculous? Loved one making a terrible error (or taking too long to make a move)? This is the place to gather together and complain heartily about it. Passed on first and waiting for your other half to show up to give them the lecture of their unlife? Now's your chance! Heavily inspired by Mulan’s Ancestors and the current art trend of Force Ghost shenanigans. Feel free to tag around with your deceased characters!

And remember; time isn’t linear when you’re dead. ))

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[ okay just listen to all of this, if you subscribe to that spoiler-y theory.

or, she is here for commentary on the events following her death, following a certain someone until he reaches the death star – whatever you want to talk about, satine has A Lot to say. ]

This worries me.

[ Well here's a familiar presence for one. Back again in ~~fighting~~ better form for no reason but he Can. ]

I'm sure they'll figure it through.

Eventually. Perhaps. [ it takes her a moment before turning to face him, folding her hands behind her back casually. ]

They named him Ben.

You never have been one to keep your concerns to yourself.

[ He won't dwell. He can't dwell. Losing Satine had been one of the hardest blows he'd ever personally taken, but going back — living in the past — is not the way of the Jedi. Instead, he finds himself respecting the past. Specifically their past. ]

Why start now?

[ Adding a warm smile to his obvious fondness should say enough about his current temperament. He's here to listen. ]

[ satine chuckles. ] Especially from you.

[ she did not dwell either, with business to tend to, a life to live. for all that she felt for him, she knew that it was best to contain those urges to keep him at her side, using a few choice words that could have changed everything. what they had was a bright spot in those dark days on the move. duty came first.

she moves to him, though still keeping a respectable distance between them. her smile is more reserved but just as warm. ]

The girl, she shows great promise.

[ He considers this, stroking at his beard briefly. He can't say that Satine is wrong, though he worries what else that might imply. ]

She isn't the only one, but... yes. There's an undeniable strength within her, something well beyond that which the Force offers.

-however, she is quite unpredictable at times, isn't she?

[ 8D? ]

[ her eyes briefly narrow at him before she shakes her head, looking away so she can half-heartedly hide the look of amusement on her face. ] How unusual. [ there is a lot that remains unspoken as usual and she clears her throat. ]

Padmé would be proud of her children, both of them. [ hoo boy, here it goes. ]

Pride is a reflection of one's own sense of self, unfortunately.

[ And thus, not something he's been encouraged to feel on his own part. Nevertheless, even spoken ruefully, Obi-Wan does not feel himself entirely divested from the emotion. Especially in this situation. ]

Padmé's decisions — her selflessness in making them — transforms pride from vanity to virtue.

[ in this state, satine allows herself to be a little more open-hearted, though she does look away from him when she speaks next. ] There aren't many like her. [ though they differed slightly in politics, satine had always admired her dear friend. when it came to matters of the heart, padmé had done what satine had never been able to all those years ago, even when all the odds were against her. ]

No. Not anymore.

[ At times he wishes he could be so decisive and principled, that every decision he made wasn't weighed so heavily against what he expected of himself.

His face hardens a bit and his focus turns to something distant. A memory, perhaps. ]

And none quite like you.

[ satine ducks her head in a moment of girlish shyness, tucking her hair behind her ear. she is touched, and decides to move in to gently rest her hand on his arm. ]

We are relics of a different time, I suppose.

[ it should be allowed, showing a little affection, right? they are no longer bound by their duties. ]

[ He follows her head, his one hand resting atop hers. ]

It does tend to feel that way, doesn't it?

[ It nothing else, it tired him in ways that certain types of rest didn't seem to touch. At least there's none of that here. ]

Everything has gotten so... complicated. I can't remember the last time I was fortunate enough to make an easy decision.

Neither can I.

[ everything had been for the sake of her planet, a planet she had worked so hard to protect only to watch it descend into a warrior culture once more, and then home to an imperial academy. it wasn't fair. it just wasn't fair, and it broke her heart to watch it from afar. ]

Even when we were quite young, it wasn't easy.

No, it never was.

[ Lifetimes ago, when they were both so much younger, there had been romance in being on the run. The constant danger was disheartening at times, but the fire it breathed into all of them had set a precedence. In retrospect, Obi-Wan saw in himself much childish behavior, but also the beginnings of traits he prized now, many of which were born of Satine's influence. ]

Is this— [ He meaningfully glances around. ] —any easier?

I'm not certain, [ satine says honestly. death does not give her all the answers. it does, perhaps, relieve her of the underlying pressures and tension that come with simply being around obi-wan. there are few by the end of her life that she knew she could really trust, having been betrayed by so many, and his name had never left that list. it hadn't mattered where they stood politically, because she knew that he respected her. ]

I hadn't thought much of what death would be like.

Perhaps that's because it wasn't your time to die.

[ The unspoken addendum being that he will never stop blaming himself, of course.

At times he's so willful, so very stubbornly steadfast. But he has always seen to cultivating the path straight through that guard specifically for Satine. So effortlessly she leaves him breathless. So easily she makes him feel weak. And so often he overcompensates to show he's not, only to find he falls well short of the strength he really needs — strength that would have surely saved her.

Such attachments are frowned upon, but Obi-Wan can't bear to release the love he still feels for her, even after death. ]

[ she understands the complications, she respects his loyalties to his cause, his commitment to the code. to put herself in the way of that would mean regret for them both. it was the most difficult decision to make as a girl, but they were set on their chosen paths before they even met.

she feels his smile on her and her face warms in a way that it hadn't for years. this time, satine does not hesitate when she reaches for his hand. ]

There was so much more I could have done. Even if I lived until I was a hundred years old, there would always be more to do.

[ His fingers naturally curl around hers. His grip is both unyielding — he will never fully let her go even when they invariably part ways again — and gentle; it's meaningful to have this moment, even if he knows sentiment is only a distraction from other pursuits. ]

Death does not mark the end of your hard work. I believe that lives on.

[ In some part within him, although he often regrets that he can't, even now, hope to practice the same application of peacemaking as Satine. ]

[Long and overly drastic sigh about everything that is Kylo Ren.]

That is not what I was trying to accomplish at all ...

I suppose that quite depends on his point of view.

He has no idea what he's getting into. He's twisting everything around. It isn'tright.

[ooc: I've never killed him before, may as well use this as an excuse to start now. Bonus for the sheer number of different ways we can come up with for how he died.]

Wow.

So that time actually took.

Edited 2016-01-20 03:57 (UTC)

[Someone has seen a lot of shit go down in her time as a Force Ghost.... and she's rather fed up with all of it.]

Maybe if someone would try to live up to their Grandmother's legacy instead of a misinformed one about their Grandfather.

[ :| ]

Have you seen him? He can’t even pull himself together, let alone an entire galaxy.

[ Ani’s pretty sure the kid gets that from Han’s side of the family. ]

If they'd started him on diplomatic studies earlier, maybe.

[She's inclined to agree- though Han's not a bad sort of fellow. She doesn't think...]

They might've sent him away a little too early for that. Leia's always been the diplomatic one, but Luke...?

[ He shakes his head. Luke is more peaceful, to be sure, but he's not the one who was trained in politics for nearly their entire life. Maybe if Padme had been there...

But there's no use thinking about that now, is there? ]

They definitely did.

[There were plenty of things she would have done differently- though that was Leia's and Han's discretion, not hers. Still, it was frustrating to watch...]

If he had spent more time with his mother...

[There were a lot of "if"s to take into account, really.]

That’s not how the Jedi work. [ Anakin, supposedly, is evidence for why they don’t work that way, but he doesn’t have to like it. ] I would’ve thought Luke wouldn’t go for that method, but they both had a lot on their plates at the time.

[ It sounds like an excuse, but it’s true. It’s not easy to be a parent and be a general for the Resistance all at once, and train a Jedi on top of that. ]

You're telling me.

[So nice to finally be meeting the in-laws.]

[Not the circumstances she wanted to be meeting you in, though. A small, sympathetic smile is shared with him.]

My condolences.

[He gives her a crooked little smile, too. It's a little awkward, this, but not the most uncomfortable situation he's ever been in.]

Yeah.

So... you're Leia's mother, huh?

Good to finally meet you.

Padme. [Because if they're going to spend the rest of their afterlife knowing each other, she'd rather not just be "Leia's Mom".]

It's nice to finally meet you, Han Solo. Though, dare I say too soon.

I don't know about that. I'm an old man now. I probably should've died a long time ago.

[ Anakin will just be over here, arms crossed and letting out a huff. ]

I can't believe this.

Edited 2016-01-20 03:40 (UTC)

[ Dry. So dry. ]

It's remarkable it's come to this.

Don't even start.

[Han isn't that surprised to be here. What with the life he's been leading, he's been cheating death for a long time now. Doesn't mean it hurts any less, having been brought here by his own son's hand.]

I hope Leia takes her time.

[He's not really talking to anyone else but himself. He hopes Chewie and Luke don't show up anytime soon, as well, but... hell, they're all old now. Who knows how time works in this place, anyway.]

She'll likely show up when she's good and ready to and not a moment before.

Probably. That sounds a lot like Leia.

Women, huh?

She gets it from her mother.

Not surprising.

Sorry we're finally meeting under these circumstances.

Well technically, we've already met. But this makes for a better chat.

Well, guess there's not much else I can do now except 'chat.'

At least you can appear as a Force ghost or vision or whatever if you wanted to.

I could, but instead I'm sitting here talking to you.

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let's pretend like this isn't horribly late

oh no, you're right on time ;)