[written very carefully with small letters]

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

Were you killed before you came here?

Were you in mortal danger before you woke up here?


If you were returned to your home, would you return to a dead body?

Comments

[opposingheaven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was killed before I came here. I knew I was probably going to die, and I did what I did anyway.

Sort of. It's complicated.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to escape from here?

[clockmongler.livejournal.com]

Twice.

That would be implicit with having died.

No, our kind does not leave behind bodies when killed.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

What happened after you died the first time?

Then, are you a spiritual creature trapped in a corporeal form here?

[demon-beast.livejournal.com]

I died before I arrived here.

I'm not planning on going back. I like it here.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

I see... thank you for your response.

[some attempts at anon, but mostly fail]

[windstwilight.livejournal.com]

I agree completely.

[anonymous]

[meironohosoku.livejournal.com]

I died a long, long time before I ended up here.

I... didn't have a physical body before coming here. If When I return home... I'm not sure if I'll keep this form or return to my other one.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

A long time before you came here... did you continue to exist after your death?

Were you a kind of spirit?

[littlegoblinjr.livejournal.com]

I died before coming here. I'm not sure what would happen if I went back. My father someone else who was dead where I came from is alive here. I never thought about what might happen to me if I left.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

My chief concern at the moment is that, if one who was dead did escape from here, they would simply return to being dead.

This is not an outcome that I am actively seeking, as you can imagine.

[emotionl4arobot.livejournal.com]

My situation wasn't exactly one of 'mortal danger', though I was in danger of losing myself in a way, I wasn't in a position where I would have been considered 'dead' or otherwise.

However, it is my personal theory (and one I've noticed shared by others around the place) that our consciousnesses have been 'copied' and transferred to other bodies here. If this is the case, the 'original' would still be continuing on in your home dimension unaware of your existence. In that case, leaving this facility and dimension would have no effect on your current form, unfortunately.

But there is always the possibility that my theory is incorrect, or that I have overlooked something vital. And should my theory prove to be accurate, then it is equally possible to create for those of us in human bodies new bodies of our natural species and to initiate a similar transfer into those. It is something that has been shown possible with my people's technology, so I should easily be able to duplicate it.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

I see. My personal theory about this ran along similar lines, although questions do arise when someone who was in no danger comes here. If their "original" body is continuing to exist wherever they came from, then they are existing in two places at once... in which case, they are already fundamentally different from their "original" state of being, and now you have two separate individuals that are ostensibly still the same person. What happens when that person leaves this place? Do they replace their original? Does their original replace them? Does the act of coming here automatically fission someone into two separate beings, one here and one there? Can the two reconcile, whether or not one is alive or dead?

I apologize if my reasoning is murky, I don't often spend time thinking about this sort of thing.

If you do find such an ability, to replicate missing bodies and initiate such a transfer, then I would be very interested in it.

[requiemforasoul.livejournal.com]

There was a chance that I could have been killed before I woke up here. My death was certainly a high priority.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

Has anyone else from your home come here?

[heavens-too-far.livejournal.com]

My entire planet was destroyed while I was on it. Not only am I almost certain that I'm dead, but I don't even have my world to go back to, much less my body.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

Would I be correct in assuming you aren't trying to escape here, then?

[so VERY anon]

[for-marian.livejournal.com]

I was killed before I came here and my body has been mostly destroyed. I think I would vanish rather than "return" anywhere.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

Would I be correct in assuming you aren't trying to escape this place, then?

[also very, very anon]

[strange-unlife.livejournal.com]

I'm in a dead body now. I can't see any reason why I'd go back otherwise.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you mean. Perhaps something was lost in translation? If you'd be willing to clarify...

[unmocked-lawr.livejournal.com]

I died before coming here. I have no intention of returning.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

I see... thank you for responding.

[scalyfishman.livejournal.com]

[there are several false starts. The strikes are completely unreadable and nearly tear the page.]

i DiED foR JuSTICE. mY DeATH mEANT X's thE dEaTH of A muRdeRER. If I gO bACk, He Goes bACk wITH mE.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

I... see. Thank you for responding.

[faithful-frost.livejournal.com]

(plain, ordinary, handwriting, though not his own)

Yes, I died before I came here.

I do not know what would happen were I to leave and return home though. It is one of those things I would like to learn...

But a better question would be: if you knew you would go back to a dead body, would you rather be here, trapped and alive? Or there, free and dead?

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

That's my current problem. It doesn't seem to have any easy solution.

[vessavana.livejournal.com]

I was killed once, many centuries before my own present, towards the end of a lengthy and casualty-ridden war.

I was taken from my world performing a ritual that involved me both physically and spiritually committing suicide in order to be reborn, cleansed of a rather obnoxious curse.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

Interesting... I've never heard of such a thing.

[mrmewmaker.livejournal.com]

I died before I came here, and...the moment I woke up here was the moment I was supposed to be waking up alive again.

So, yes. I'd rather be at home, and alive again, the way I was supposed to be.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

If you'll forgive me asking, but how did you know you were supposed to wake up again after your death? That seems against the nature of death itself...

[themotherreborn.livejournal.com]

I...I was in danger. I was going to die, I think. I don't know. I don't...know what I'd go back to.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

I see. There is a chance though, that if you were merely in danger, that you are not dead now.

Although, going back to said danger doesn't sound appealing...

[sheisthecause.livejournal.com]

I wasn't killed, but I've been dead and in the Eighth Underworld for the last four years.

Wish I knew what would happen if I were wherever I was supposed to be. But I don't think it would be to my body in the sense you're probably thinking of.

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with an Eighth Underworld... I assume it's a human religious location, or something of that nature?

((Anonymous as always))

[intoindra.livejournal.com]

I was killed before I came here; to such an extent that if I did manage to find my way back, there wouldn't be a body left for me to find.

Re: ((Anonymous as always))

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

Are you trying to escape from here?

((So anonymous it isn't even funny. Also, not her usual flowing script.))

[tranquil-seas.livejournal.com]

I was led to believe that I had died before coming here.

If possible, I have yet to decide whether I should go back or not.

Are you asking this because you yourself are faced with this dilemma?

Re: ((So anonymous it isn't even funny. Also, not her usual flowing script.))

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

Yes, to an extent... I thought perhaps more information would help me understand my own situation better.

[some attempts at anon, but mostly fail if you know her]

[windstwilight.livejournal.com]

I wasn't killed, but I died. I gave up my life.

I was before I died.


No. I wouldn't. I... faded away. Like I never existed. So... I don't want to return. I want to stay here. And if I can't, I want to go somewhere that accepts me instead.

Re: [some attempts at anon, but mostly fail if you know her]

[wantsyourzex.livejournal.com]

I see... thank you for replying.