Afteran

The Afterans is the collective name for the many races and beings that inhabit the world of the Ever After.

Biology
The Ever After is a realm that exists beyond the world of Remnant, where the laws of physics and nature are wholly different. It's inhabited by many creatures that defy logic:


 * Living Toys
 * Hunter Mice
 * Dodo Birds
 * Living Objects
 * Paper Pleasers

In regards to the origins of the Afterans, its suggested that they are created beings, each given a purpose or role to fulfill by an entity. Afterans do not die, not in the normal sense, and are quite long-lived, but are capable of physical and mental fatigue. Whenever they are damaged in some way or when they fulfilled their purpose, Afterans are recalled back to the Ever After, or the Tree in the center of the world. This process is called ascension by the inhabitants as here they are given a new role and purpose. The call to return back to the tree can be resisted by Afterans, if they do not have the motivation to do so, but doing so can cause them to be in turmoil and somewhat lost.

Depending on what the subject of ascension feels they desire to be, Afterans may or may not return as they were. And neither do they remember their past lives, though there still are lingering remnants of their pasts if their emotions to specific events are strong enough to retain.

Outsiders from Remnant, especially humans and faunus, view this to be abhorrent, misunderstanding that the tree represents death, that the tree is a nameless horror that feeds upon memories in a cyclical path of death and rebirth. Though repeatedly it is not the case despite attempts by some Afterans, who find it confusing that humans would fear such a thing as the tree in the Ever After has no power over them, and only to the Afterans. However this has caused misunderstandings despite simply the "[Afterans] are not like you".

While death is uncommon to the Afterans, there is however one exception to this rule. Afterans can cease to exist if they are eaten by another native creature called the Jabberwalker which consumes them, preventing an Afteran from returning to the Ever After.