willing_sheath: (broken)
Himura Tomoe ([personal profile] willing_sheath) wrote in [community profile] genessia2018-11-29 11:11 pm

005//Anonymous Text

Not long ago someone posed a question about moving on after losing someone important to death.

But this place offers a different sort of dilemma.

I am the one who died. I arrived without memory of my death only for it to return to me weeks afterward. I had been comforted at first with assurances that time is halted in our worlds, that no time will be lost in the interim--but that is not the case for me. If I leave this place I leave to nothing. I have no hope of seeing my family again. I have no hope of knowing what became of them--and the events surrounding my death do not indicate anything good.

What am I supposed to do? When the husband I had arrives fifteen years after my death with too much blood and time separating us to rekindle what we once had... and when that same husband is then sent back without a trace. He will not remember me. He will only remember the ghost that has haunted him for all that time. I am dead to him all over again.

And what of me? Do I continue trying to live as a wife whose husband may or may not ever return here? Who may return again years past and distant? Who may return re-married with a new family? Do I consider myself a widow? Because for me it is as though they have all died. My husband, my father, my brother, everyone I ever knew or loved--all of them out of reach with no hope of seeing them again aside from the whims of whatever these "gods" seem fit to play.

What am I supposed to do with this unwanted "second chance" where I am trapped in my own head to the point that I feel as though I've been consigned to my own personal hell?

What am I supposed to do? What is the right thing to do?
delilahs_death: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] delilahs_death 2018-12-04 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
If it's disloyalty you worry over -- marriages are meant to last until death, and you have died. If you moved on or did not treat yourself as tied to another, I do not think you would be at fault for it.
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[personal profile] delilahs_death 2018-12-05 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
The freshness is -- well, it's understandable, all told, I think. But you really need not decide anything, except to continue on.

As for that...I don't know. I don't know what the terminology is for when the dead exist apart from the living this way. I think if you tell people what you situation is, they will understand even without words for it.
delilahs_death: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] delilahs_death 2018-12-12 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
It's an odd situation. But this is an odd place, all told.