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Who: Vash and you!
Broadcast: Yes
Action: The Space Bar
When: Right now!

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[It's taken Vash a lot of talking to get himself to make this post. He was embarrassed and shy which was making it very difficult. Still, it was something he had been thinking about for months now so he really needs to do it. No point to keep putting it off.]

So, ah, I know there are some doctors on board. People skilled with magic too. Is anyone good with getting rid of old scars. Like really bag, old scars? The kind make up won't cover up?

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[Vash will also be working his bartender job at The Space Bar later on. Standing behind the bar with a big smile on his face.] What can I get you? [Come tell the bartender all your problems!]

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Yeah? It's rare? I'm glad that most of the time they have loved ones around them. It's important to have those you care about in such hard times like saying goodbye.

I may only have had to do it two or three times in my years, and when I did it was the relatives who removed them. Those are horrible times. I understand it's hard on them and I try to keep everything at a distance for them.

That must be so hard. To go through something like a loss all on your own.

Oh, yes. There's a lot of uncertainty in the human world about what comes after death, and it's frightening. Until they find out for themselves that it's not all that it seems. Funerals wouldn't be sad if they knew that. Might even be an actual party.

What do you mean in the human world? Do you know what happens?

[There was a time when he would keep this information hidden. These days? In these worlds? After everything that had happened in his own home world? There isn't a point. That and he loves watching their reactions. It's quite amusing.]

Indeed. I've spent most of my time there as an agent of the afterlife. It's terribly boring, all business as usual. But, if you don't end up where I did, you end up in with one of the gods or another in their world. Never been there, but I can't imagine it's any different.

Really? But a good boring? Like the peaceful type of boring?

[A light shrug.]

Peaceful enough, I suppose. I've never been where the gods take souls after they're collected, but where I have, it's one big business and not far apart from what you might know in the living world. People get paid for doing a good day's work and then they go home and do it all over again the next day.

So you don't know what happens after the souls are collected? Is-- is it suppose to be a good thing? [He can't help but be curious.]

Not by experience. But then no one ever complained about where they went after. At this rate, I might never know, but I've all the reason in the world not to care. [Namely, one Earl Ciel Phantomhive.] Not yet, anyhow.

Why don't you care? Even if you're immortal surely you know someone you cared about to want to know what happened to them.

[He'd seen that coming, but it still touches on an open wound in him. He sighs and looks up at the ceiling, smile softening but not fading.] There's nothing I can do for them now. Even being a grim reaper who can walk back and forth between the worlds of the living and the dead, there are places I'm not allowed to go.

But wouldn't it be nice to know? I think it would be at least.

[Another moment's hesitation.] Oh, it would be a relief, one way or the other. But there is nothing I can do. Believe me when I say I've tried.

Well, I suppose it's also nice to have a bit of mystery in the world. [Although he really wishes this was one mystery that was solved.]

It's not a bad one at that. People just think it's bad because they think it means an end. [And now he takes that time to turn it back around.] What's it like in your world? You said you've lived a long life and after what I just saw, I'm inclined to believe it, but surely you must have seen something.

There's not a lot to tell really. My home is a desert planet. It's really hot and dry. I think just about anyone back home would be thrilled to wake up on this fleet that travels to a bunch of different planets that has weather that is more than just hot or hotter.

[Sorry, it you want information about those scars you're going to need to press Vash a bit harder than that. He's not good at talking about himself.]

[He could, but he won't. That's Vash's decision, whether or not to tell him. They've really only just met and he's surprised the man is still speaking to him now that they've determined what to do about those scars.]

Mmhm. I mean in the afterlife aspect of it. Mine seems to have a unique take on how that all gets handled and I can't help but wonder. You understand.

Oh! Sorry! We don't know anything for sure about the afterlife. Everyone has theories and there are religions based around it, but I'm not completely sure what I think. But I like to believe there is something after we die and that it's where we can all live our lives in peace

[A nod.] It's a nice thought, and I hope you have something peaceful waiting for you where you'll go. We'll all reach that point some day. But, I hope you don't see that for a long time. It's right difficult to get back and forth once you do.

(ooc: I wanted to ask! Do you want to try and see if Undertaker can do something for Vash before the endgame?)

I believe that. Before coming here I've never heard of or met anyone who went back and forth from being alive and dead.

In fact I would have said it was impossible before coming here.

(OOC: Sure! That sounds like it could be fun!)

[There's a light shrug.]

Not often that it happens back home for me either. At least it didn't until I became one of them. Amazing what a little shift of reality will do for someone.

(ooc: 8DDD! I'm poke u on plurk about it if you want!)

So there aren't too many who can go back and forth where you are? It at least doesn't sound very common.

(OOC: Sure! I'm

zigzag123)

Not everyone gets a chance to go back. Usually, it's a one way street, but every now and then, I suppose they get passes to come back to the living. I don't write those rules, I just followed them.

But if you go back and forth doesn't that mean you're breaking the rules?