I Resist the Muses

warning for possible NSFW material
Character: Celena Ducayne
Fandom: Decay of Dreams; Original Character
Word Count: 204
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( Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there? )

Muse: Grey MacNamara
Fandom: None, Original

Do you believe in an afterlife? What do you expect to find when you get there?



Muse: Pandora Halliwell
Fandom: Original Character
Word Count: 219

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Muse: Niki/Jessica Sanders
Fandom: "Heroes"
Word Count: 155

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Fandom: "Young Riders"
Words: 132

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Fandom: X-Men AU
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Fandom: "Black Jewels" by Anne Bishop
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Fandom: "King Arthur" Mythologies
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Character: Ray Vecchio
Fandom: due South

Prompt #23 - Believe in an afterlife?

Prompt #24 - Snow

Character: Benton Fraser
Fandom: due South

Prompt #23 - Afterlife?

Prompt #24 - Snow

Prompt #17 What is the best -- or worst -- advice you have ever received? (Open)
Prompt #23 - Do you believe in an afterlife? (Open)
Prompt #24 - Snow (Open)

Muse: Piper "Les" Allison
Fandom: Original

( Prompt #22 - Write a letter to your mun (the person that writes you). Tell them everything that's on your mind )

( Prompt #23 - Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there? )

#14 - What Do you Dream about? -Closed
#15 - Mistaken Identity - Closed
#16 - What moment from your life do you wish you could re-live again? - Closed
#17 - What is the best or worst advice you have ever received? - OPEN
#18 - What was your most embarrassing moment? - OPEN
#19 - In your time of need who will you turn to? - OPEN
#21 - "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you." - Mayay Angelou - Closed
#22 - Write a letter to your mun - Closed
#23 - Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there? - Closed

Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there?

I believe those who die in God's grace and friendship live for ever with Christ. I believe in purgatory, where the souls of those who died in a state of grace are cleansed to be fit for Heaven.

I believe God, the Creator and Redeemer of all the faithful, will grant to the souls of His servants departed full remission of all their sins. I believe that through devout prayers, they may obtain the pardon which they have always desired.

When I was a parish priest in M*A*S*H 4077th, I gave the last rites to more people in three years than most parish priests ever do in a lifetime: young men, mostly, horribly dead of wounds.

When I first started working there, I realised that no one would listen to me unless I was in the OR: that was difficult. I'm not very good with blood. It was a whole year before I could bear to eat liver. I thought at first that I would pray - offer last rites if I was asked for them, pray for the patients when they lived. (Mostly they lived.) But I found that corporeal works of mercy were needed, more than my prayers, and besides, I could pray on the run, as it were: I could fetch x-rays and bring orange juice and sandwiches, or hold a retractor or bring a pint of blood. I'm not sure how useful I was, but at least I wasn't in the way. So many of the people I knew there are dead now.

You asked about what I expect to find.

I don't know. All the torments of hell, they say, but God's grace at the end. I hope for company on the road.

I pray for it.

(Eternal rest grant to them, dear Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.)

Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there?

I've come close to dying... well, enough times that I've actually thought about dying. You really do think about it when you're falling out of the sky or getting the crap beaten out of you.

Religiously, I'm not sure what you'd call me.

I believe in evil. I believe in being evil. But I really suck at it.

I wonder if it's possible to suck at evil so bad I go to heaven?

I dunno. I don't really believe in heaven or hell. I'm not sure about reincarnation. I probably ought to believe in it, but it's hard to get my head around.

Probably there's a line. I bet the afterlife looks like the DMV. It'd be just my luck.

Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there?

I suppose that I should have to believe, not that it matters, for I am here whether or not my beliefs have aught to do with it. I used to believe that the afterlife was what the Holy Mother Church taught us. After my eighth birthday celebration, I knew better. The spiriti spoke often to me, and my own mother was a sorceress, and the rest of the family... they were well schooled in the world beyond the veil.

There are three worlds beyond. There may be more, but none have yet returned to explain them. I am curious, but in no great haste to lose myself in the expedition. Eternity waits... eternity waits.

Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there?

There was a time I was convinced it might look a little like what you'd find in Dante - the deep chasms of Hell, the Circles, the meticulous hierarchy of crime and sin to earn you your station. Machiavelli allegedly said that he would be quite content with going to Hell: at least there he'd be in the company of popes, princes, and philosophers. I naturally assumed that I was destined for the same; not so much due to my sins - rumoured, imagined, or otherwise - but because indeed, everybody who had ever been somebody, with capital S, dwelt down in the Inferno. Purgatorio and Paradiso seemed positively dull in comparison.

Certainly not alluring enough to mend one's ways, enter a monastery, or found a charity.

After a while I stopped imagining the afterlife. I had too much on my hands, simply trying to survive. In the end I found, much to my dismay, that the beyond consisted of an unending chain of mishaps. Of waking in the rain and crawling through the mud, of getting lost in the woods, one rainy morning in March. It consisted of a thousand regrets, and of unquiet graves. Of bones that crumbled when they were lifted from a hollow carved underneath Calle de la Rua.

I've heard it said that only those who are forgotten are truly dead. What, do you think, does happen to them then? Do they fade, losing both will and presence? Is there a black veil to descend on them, to softly close their eyes? Fingers that press into their mouths to silence them forever?

I don't know. At this point in time I would prefer not to think about it.

Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there?

I'm not able to say I believe in an afterlife. Most religions do have their version of such whether it be heaven, hell, or the Elysian Fields, but I am a man of science. There is no scientific proof of such existing. Maybe some will call me a man of no faith, some may see me as an atheist, but I need proof of something. It's how I work and those who know me well enough can see that.

Maybe in a perfect world we should all have faith in something more past death. Some would think it was the normal thing to do. Me however? I don't have time to sit and wonder whether the victims have gone to heaven or hell. I don't have time to wonder where their souls have laid to rest. My job is to focus on the crime. To focus on the body and the scene of the crime to try and find who took the person's life. My faith lays in my team and the job they do to gather evidence. To piece the puzzle together to find the suspect. To set a victim's family at ease and give them closure and justice.

When a case is over do I have time to wonder whether they went to a good place or a bad place? No because in the City That Never Sleeps there is always a murder to solve. Science gives me something to focus on, my job gives me a purpose.

Gil Grissom // CSI // 250 Words

Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there?

Well, yes, apparently.

I didn't though, in the past. For the Eldar, we are supposed to not die but sail into the Undying Lands, to Valinor. However because of my family's misdeeds, such a fate was barred to us and we were not permitted to re-enter Valinor.

"To the Everlasting Darkness doom us if our deed faileth."

Such was my fate, and that of my brothers and my kin. I feared death because of that, and when death finally came to me at the end of the First Age, I did find myself in that darkness. It was not to last, however. Whether I am redeemed, or if Namo merely tired of my presence, I cannot say. Either way, I find myself reborn, given a second chance.

There is an afterlife, and I am in it.

Character: Maedhros
Fandom: The Silmarillion

Do you believe in an afterlife? If so, what do you expect to find when you get there?

Ambrogino Giovanni
World of Darkness: Vampire the Masquerade
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