Grim reapers are skeleton figures that always roam about the earth seeking the dying with a lantern containing their own soul, they use this lantern to guide the dead to heaven. They are capable of teleporting like my OC #pkBones Their job is to avoid having the soul become lost and wander the earth, which does happen sometimes if the person has strong unfulfilled desires on earth and refuses to follow the light. Grim reapers can’t die (duh :P) and are normally genderless beings since they were never created for the purpose of populating the earth. They are not capable of physically or emotionally feeling anything and solely rely on logic, reasoning, and a set of rules that all grim reapers know and abide by.
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Da rules! >
Guide the souls of all living things that crawl upon the earth
Don’t associate or make relations with the living
Don’t take the soul for any selfish gain or reasons beyond your task of guiding them
Seals are forbidden (keeps an image created by a pure-hearted humans mind on your skeleton)
Don’t neglect your duties as grim reapers
Do not give in to temptation or desires even if they are pure. Etc. u – u
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Grim reapers developed a bad reputation thanks to movies, novels and comics depicting them as evil beings with scythes. But they were never evil, to begin with. They have been around since the first sin was committed so our boy Death is REALLY Old. :’D older than any human in the present time.
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A seal is looked down upon amongst the reapers and doesn’t normally happen either since reapers normally can’t be seen in the physical plane anyway unless A.) your pure-hearted and have no dark desires. B.) you have strong spiritual powers which in this case Grace had both traits! :3 and C) the reaper decides to reveal themselves in the physical plane.
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Grace was near what reapers call “The Brink” which meant the body was near expiring. Grim reapers can see clocks above people’s heads so they know exactly when their body will expire and can no longer contain the soul, in some cases like if the host is immortal, they will not have a clock at all. Death went to meet her since her timer was nearly up to guide her soul but something unexpected happened. She saw death and she started talking to them.
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Grace: who are you?
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Death: ???
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Death would hide behind the curtain next to her bed (because I know hospital beds have those)
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Grace: I’m sorry did I scare you?? ‘o – o
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Death: no . . . I never met a human who could see me before . . . I mustn’t speak to humans
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Grace: why is that?? :O
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Death: . . . . . . grim reapers must not associate with the living but I’m here to take you to heaven u – u
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Grace: Grim reapers? I see . . . don’t you ever get lonely? *tilts her head* OoO
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Death: Lonely? No I don’t feel loneliness like humans do.
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Grace: Really?? What is that like? ^o^
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Death: . . . I feel nothing, nothing at all . . ??? wha . . . !?!? *A heart and flesh started forming within his skeleton*
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Grace: Mr. Death??
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When she said this the image, she imagined for death began to form so they became a “he/him” turning into a young human man. Luckily, she couldn’t see it happening but seeing flesh and skin grow on a skeleton is gory. ‘oxo He could breathe, he felt the heart beating, the warm air in the small hospital room and intense emotion of sadness and fear washed over him like an ocean wave.
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Grace: Mr. Death before you take me away can I talk to you? I want you to be my friend, I’m always here at the hospital by myself . . . Mom visits sometimes but she’s always so busy so I never want to trouble her ‘oxo but it always gets lonely here so . . . just for a little while do you want to stay and talk! :D
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Death got very overwhelmed by the new look he got but also by the fact she was going to die soon.
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Death: you . . want to be my friend??
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His voice was no longer very deep, and he no longer spoke in a monotone voice. He felt empathy for grace since he learned of the feeling of being lonely.

“If she died then not only will her mom miss her, but I will miss her too!!” He did something that grim reapers don’t normally do and he cured her lung cancer for her. Allowing Grace to live much longer. Even though it was forbidden he wanted to be friends with Grace, so he sealed the image she created for him to his frame. (the green symbol above) Grim reapers have strong healing factors they can use on humans but don’t normally use them unless told to do so by the regular angels in heaven. He was very shocked at how much time she had on her clock, it was 1186 years long, she was definitely not human but he doesn’t know she is of the “nameless race”
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Death is an emotional guy with the appearance of a 16-year-old, if I were to describe him, he’s very silly!! :’3 Death cares for Grace very dearly and is his first friend. He shows a lot of emotional expressions and loves being human! He thinks emotions are amazing and terrifying at the same time! He’s still learning though since he never had flesh before. So, he can’t just straight up walk into water whenever he wants to anymore, he needs oxygen. Yup, it’s that bad!! X’D
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the other reapers were not liking what he was doing since he broke 4 of the rules. The other reapers still call him they/them and he really hates that. :/ He liked being a guy (yes, he could have been a she depending on how the image the pure-hearted person imagines death to look like) they kept telling him to get rid of the seal and his relations with grace, but he refused, to him the image from grace was a gift so he kept it. He liked the feeling of having emotions and being alive. He also treasured his relationship with grace above all else.
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This was something unheard of amongst the reapers, so they tried to sever his ties with Grace by making him scare her unintentionally. One of the reapers stabbed his heart in front of grace and all his flesh fell to the ground. When the heart stops the flesh can no longer stay on death’s frame leaving his bones all white. she was terrified and ran crying. Death realized what happened after he no longer felt anything physically anymore and he looked down and saw that all his flesh and organs were no longer on him. The seal was still there but hovering over his rib cage (if he had skin it’d be on his chest) the seal still lets him keep his emotions, so he felt devastated and very afraid of losing his relationship with grace (A strong bond prevents the seal from fading out).
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He tried to go after her and talk to her, but she was too afraid to talk to death. The seal does allow him to regenerate the image but only works if he were to speak to grace for 5 minutes. ‘^o^ it took him a whole year and a half to calm her down. At first, he did not dare approach grace, he started to hate himself for making her so terrified. But after a while of thinking the idea of never seeing her again scared him A LOT and he learned what the feeling of “emptiness” was like, it was very horrible. He finally went to talk to her after half a year passed by, but she would always be afraid and run away. Death never gave up though he would attempt to talk to her once every day. It was very challenging for him because Grace wouldn’t stop running away from him. He almost gave up after a year passed by but suddenly had an idea!
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He decided to try and speak to her with his face covered and he kept a large distance. It took a lot of effort, but he was able to talk to her with his face covered from far away and he regained the image. He was not very happy with the other reaper’s actions, so he no longer associates with them. The seal never faded because deep down Grace still cared about Death so when he regained his flesh, she hugged him crying and apologizing a lot. Death would never get mad or hate her in a million years!! (literally xD)
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oooh boy I hope you really love reading my bad!!! ‘oxo

just one last detail! I'm not very good at drawing skeletons so I made a design based solely on my style. he has no jaw so he communicates through the mind. if I were a professional artist/animator the show would be rated R only because of seeing death lose his flesh! 'x-x very gory. '0xo

Thank you for the nice comment mit Made me really happy :) been following you for a while and i like your style a lot. Thought id tell you that

Re: Thank you! :D

Your story is always amazing!'o'
I read this with translation as usual,but it's very readable and fun to read.
Your imagination is amazing!!
I was impressed by the relationship between Grace and Death.;v;
The skeleton is cute. I like bloddy and gore depictions rather,so maybe I like it.
Re:Hi Shelly! Of course,yes!
Let's do art trade!
My requeat is that you can freely select and draw from #mbwh or #haworthiaOC ?:3
I'm sorry that it takes a little time to post.Now I'm a little depressed,but I'm glad your comment!;v;

I love all kind of characters that represent Death! This is amazing, he looks cute <3

That bit about Death losing his flesh and guts was mean. Bad, other Reapers! >:o

But I'd still watch it if you made this into a show. :3 Nice work on him! :D

@Haru-kun You're very welcome!! >w< I love scenery and landscape art very much but I am not very good at it. T v T I admire artists who are capable of making cool stuff like that!! :O I'm like . . . HOW??? XP I'd have to partner up with a few people if I ever wanted to try making manga who would help me with the backgrounds and scenery! that would be very helpful for me! :D I'd appreciate them very much!! :'3
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urr..thank you in all honesty that made me so happy that I was not sure how to reply to that!! ; v ; I really love your art a lot too, I'm very fond of your profile picture also!! ^w^ I'm happy that you replied cuz it was unexpected! but very nice!! >w<
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I hope you continue to make more awesome art and I hope to see and enjoy it! \(owo)/ I don't always comment because life can be stressful for me and my college classes have been changed to online so I apologize in advance!! 'oxo

@haworthia I'm glad you enjoyed and read the story!! >w< It took me a very long time to write out!! it is a character description, the actual story is more longer! :'D I normally keep my stories to myself because they are very long and I didn't think anyone would ever read them. ; v ;
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Grace and death are besties!! X3 I highly value my friends and family. I express it in some of my stories. uwu -
The skeleton design was a bit tricky to make but it ended up turning out pretty good! :3
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I don't really mind a little bit of gory stuff as long as it's not over-exaggerated! 'oxo
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ok, sure thing!! >w< I will get working on that once I get homework out of the way so please be patient!! '> - < I have a lot of homework thanks to spring break having to be extended. T - T I would like to see death and grace in your style if possible? I would really love that very much, but please take your time!! '> - <
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I wish I could help you, I did not know you were depressed. I wish I could help somehow but I'm not sure what to do. ''''x - x watching funny videos or watching a favorite show or movie always helps me whenever I'm depressed!! :O perhaps you can give that a try? :D

@XNei_YuiX Thanks paly!!! XP

@Prometheus the other reapers are not very nice and only want to remain in an unchanging cycle. any change is against the norm to them! u - u
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thanks!! I really wish I could make that happen!! T v T

@haworthia when you draw grace and death, draw death in his human form! Thanks!! :3 i didn't think of it till just now! :'D

XD i was Only Gonna Read a bit Cuz it Was Very long but i Got Caught up and enjoyed the Story lol
you Did Good i Liked it!

I love how smooth your coloring
always looks!
And great work on the character design!

Re:Thanks for the advice, Shelly.
Your comment helped me!;v;
I will try them and make me feel better.
I like watching funny GIF videos so watch it or eat delicious sweet treats!:3
Okay, I draw Grace and Death in human form.Please wait a moment.