Xyr

Name:
Xyr 


Gender:
non-binary


Age:
appears 20 years old, but is really ageless. 


Occupation: Entertainer 


Mastery: Scholar 


Height:
5'6 


Appearance:







Personality: 
They say that the dead or a doll for that matter do not have a personality, or rather the dead tell no tale.   That would be mostly incorrect for Xyr at least, for they are not exactly living or dead.  More of a spirit that is confined in a doll's body.  For the textbook worth, Xyr should be lifeless, and more of a talking husk of themselves.  That is for the most part true, but they care for more about life, than they do about what they do on a day to day basis.  They are overly agressive and supportive of those who are live, prefering that they do not end up harvesting souls, of which means that they easily get overly attached on souls that they slowly grow close too.   The more attached they get, the more chances that they are going to be hurt. 


History: (Optional)







Name of Species:
shinigami & Haunted doll hybrid


Baseline Dimension:
shinigami: 
What they were when they died, is what they shall be in death. Reapers don’t have a define appearance aside from the appearance of the soul forced to atone as one of death’s ‘happy’ little workers. What they were, race, age or appearance hardly changes as to change it would mean altering a person’s soul and that…aside from appearance is as impossible as a soul coming back as bone and flesh on their own.

Haunted doll: 

Baseline Appearance:

Shinigami:
Know how the eyes are the window to the soul? For a reaper it’s one of the tell-tale signs of how to tell one apart from the rest of the undead family. It’s their eyes, the eerie, almost ethereal glow they have once the light hits or whenever they’re using their abilities to channel their connection to death to collect a soul. That glow is just about the most unique feather a reaper has that shows their own covenant with death and a subtle reminder how their souls are practically bound to serve death as punishment.

Haunted: 
In terms of features these creatures are extremely diverse they can have any eye color, hair color, skin color, or other feature as they were created.


Culture/Origin of Species:

Shinigami:
Death is and has been bound behind life since time few started. Life wouldn’t be complete without the hand of death holding out his hour glass to maintain a sense of balance. He is balance, the keeper who maintains the cycle of life that flows within each living creature. Where there is life, its twin is bound to be right around the corner watching over every living being until their time runs out and the very last speck of sand falls from the hourglass of time. Each mortal, small or large possessed their own hour glass from the day they were conceived to the day… they draw their last breath.



Now what happens if… the glass shatters? Or what happens if the sand hasn’t run empty and already the once brimming life it has was cut by the hand who owns it? What then?



What happens to a soul who’s time wasn’t meant to go but was now forced into a stuttering halt due to suicide?



This is where the long tale of reapers begin, since for as long as despair rains down on mortal minds then so does the thoughts of suicide. Death himself is a neutral being, but seeing a mortal spill his own life sand annoys the deity. Despite it shouldn’t be the case for him since he gains another soul but… the headache of closing down a half written chapter within the person’s book of life. It’s not right. But that’s not that tickled the deity’s the wrong way. It’s… the unholy backlog worth of paperwork. Yes, the afterlife does have paperwork. Nasty little creation that no one can escape. Life or death, the amount of records every soul has to their name needs be archived within death’s halls.



Even the after life… has a government of sorts, a way to handle the flow of upcoming decease waiting to be judged and sorted to their way within their journey through the realm of the ten kings? Bet you didn’t see that coming? People often expected their route to either end in god’s doorstep or the devil’s back porch but in reality it’s a long road with each stop being the palace of one of the ten kings of the afterlife. Each one judges a person through a glance at their book of life, or through their past actions before being sent further down the road. Through numerous trials and deep scrutiny from each judge. Normally a soul only has to reach the fourth king, the leader of the ten to receive their verdict but…not uncommon to go past the fourth king should the decease committed a far serious offense.



But back to the reapers. A reaper is a soul who personally chose to cut their own red threads by committing the act of taking their own lives in an act of suicide, no matter what the reason is be it selfless or selfish. They still ended their books prematurely. That… the council frowns upon. As such are condemned to work for their ‘final rest’ a condemned soul would know no rest. Upon their entrance into the afterlife they’re forced upon the mantle of a reaper. A being task with the collection of their fellow decease while in the side lines watch as those they collected earn their place within the land of the dead. A fitting punishment isn’t it? To watch those who can achieve what they wish while at the same time those guiding them aren’t allowed to touch such sweet peace.



But don’t fret, its not for eternity. Like a prison sentence it does have an end. The only thing is that the reaper wont know when their sentence will end. It could be two hundred years or three of service before they’re deemed ‘atoned’ and are able to finally cross to that sweet release.



A reaper’s life is one of loneliness. People cant see them, not every race is capable of seeing death’s little helpers unless they’re personally touch by dead themselves. Unlike ghosts they cant always manifest, for them it takes double the amount of required energy to turn themselves solid because their job had never been about interacting. A reaper’s duty is merely to observe.

haunted doll: 
Haunted Doll’s begin their lives as normal dolls often even being made normally. Eventually over the course of the dolls life? Something, most times something unholy or undead in the spectral sense, temporarily makes the doll it’s home, slowly developing a connection to the objection which sometimes results in the entity becoming sealed inside the doll sometimes even losing its prior species; At that point, a haunted doll is born. Sometimes a person will make a doll with the intention of sealing an entity inside of it for numerous reasons. At one point in history Haunted Dolls were only recognized as their sealed entities, their classification as their own kind is relatively recent, made official when it was realized sealed entities lose a portion of their abilities sometimes even ones essential to their identity. Due to having other entities sealed inside of them, Haunted Dolls are a species that frequently ends up as hybrid’s, particularly when the seal was placed by someone inexperienced, forced violently, or unexpected preventing a clear severing of the prior identity. Shockingly, in spite of being recognized as a species it is not uncommon to find haunted dolls contained in museums, collections or for families to even come into possession of one unwittingly as the species carries a vast spread of individuals. While some are intelligent and capable of living among society? Other’s are simple hauntings which can do nothing without malice or did not mature enough before sealing to control their own power. Though sometimes ‘violent dolls’ are just lashing out to a perceived threat that is not actually any threat due to lower mental capacity, trying to fulfill its purpose of keeping its entity sealed. Two simple tests one of fine power control and the other of mental stability is used when a haunted doll is discovered unowned to determine if it must go into the custody of someone capable of preventing it from causing damage or if it’s allowed to live on its own.


Traits:


Shinigami:
• Hand of time || Shinigamis from ancient times were labeled as messengers of death. Beings task with the retrieval of a decease soul back into the cycle of time to be judge through their actions. As such reapers can naturally see a person's lifeforce whether it be a healthy man or a near dead pauper hanging by a thread before a reaper comes and severs the soul's connection to their mortal remains. Appearing as ethereal hour glass over an individual's head the amount of sand on top shows the remaining time a person has before they pass. To the reapers its both a gift offered to them by the god watching over death and at the same time a curse that reminds them how fleeting life is and their choices when they first committed the sins that landed them into their current predicament.

• Requiem || When someone said Daemons and Reapers get along... its the biggest understatement possible within the scope of the universe. No they 'rarely' and I stress that part get along so to speak. How can they? When said buggers feast on the souls they're task with to collect? Not exactly what any reaper would call productive? And being souls themselves... anything feasting on fellow souls is highly unlikely to sit well with them. The only pro bono they have against the buggers is unlike their fellow dead. They at the very least have the capabilities to defend themselves against the blighters. Requiem is more or less a secondary ability they have when it comes to dealing with Daemons. Every soul has the right of redemption thus given how reapers can connected to collecting souls they have limited capabilities, given the right timing in theory they can extract a soul from within the gullet of a newly fed daemon. Note the highly stress notion of timing. It has to be done approximately within the first two or three days after the daemon has ingested the poor soul and only in that time frame after the limit goes so does the chances of saving the eaten soul. (Please ask your fellow Daemon FIRST before you attempt this. Not everyone is keen on having a hand rummage through their gullet. AKA ask the guy playing it first. Godmodding is highly frowned upon folks.)

• Glamour || What they want others to see... is what they'll get.



Glamour is a skill nearly all veteran reapers know how to use. Its a spell that allows them to alter to appearance right to the color of their share or the shade of their eyes. This however is a mere illusion to cover their real appearance. No spell weak or strong can alter the true appearance of a soul. What they can do however is manipulate how others see them by casting an illusion over their appearance in a way to 'change' it. The more added 'features' a person wants for example...anything beyond the scope of a regular human's appearance tends to be tricky. Even for the high practice reapers. Because of this most reapers tends to stick with either altering their age or hair and eye color. Like every illusion however this CAN be broken just like normal illusions all they need to do is break the reaper's hold over their glamour. Easier said than done, but doable.


• Gate to the afterlife || Just like the name advertise, given as their sole task is to guide the dead back to where they should go for judging. Reapers can open the gate connecting the living world to the world of the dead.

Haunted doll:
•Since they have the bodies of dolls they require no sleep nor do they require any sort of food, water, hygiene, and they don’t age.

Due to the power fissure present when they are around caused by a shell containing vast power they cause technology within 3 feet x their strength.


•When threatened or extremely weaken beneath 1/4th of their health a haunted doll can teleport to a location it deems safe.



•If some part of their exterior they can rapidly regenerate it to keep the entity sealed within, the only way to free something from a haunted doll is to entirely destroy the doll or it will regenerate and suck what was contained back in.

Flaws:


•If some part of their exterior they can rapidly regenerate it to keep the entity sealed within, the only way to free something from a haunted doll is to entirely destroy the doll or it will regenerate and suck what was contained back in.

• Manifestation || For a reaper to be visible outside the aptly named species list mentioned earlier they would have to force their bodies out of their spiritual forms and into a more solid appearance but unlike how a ghost can manifest themselves to be seen a reaper needs to take extra effort in order to be somewhat visible outside the undead spectrum. Frankly because of one... certain reason. Reapers are meant to observe. Not interact. Effort ladies and gentlemen, effort is key which sadly not everyone has the patience for.

•Being surrounded by thick glass can often dampen the abilities of Haunted Dolls resulting in -1 to their strength.



•In spite of the body of a Haunted Doll being notoriously hard to destroy? Being left in a fire will eventually destroy their body regardless of material. The time this takes to destroy them is day x their strength.


• Unseen || Another side effect of being a reaper, aside from the obvious being dead... is that unlike their regular ghostie counterparts there's only a limited set of species that can see a reaper without them manifesting first. The living arent supposed to see those task with collecting the souls of the departed. Those who's sole job is to wait by the dying person's bed side until the very moment the last drop of sand drops from their hour glass thus being given the go ahead to sever their strings. So far the only species able to see Death's little brigade are fellow undead, (Ghosts, Vampires, Grims ETC) Angelic beings, Fallens, Daemons for obvious reasons, and Phoenixes. As long as they touched with death then they would be able to see these condemned souls.