Characters / Avatar Of Victory The Reapers

As A Whole

• Abusive Precursors: Well... yeah.
• Affably Evil/Faux Affably Evil: Can play this both ways; while they are often very polite, they can still be very condescending.
• Badass Army: It's the Reapers, what did you expect?
• Brainwashed and Crazy: The main mind of every Reaper, except Harbinger, is a former Avatar who was Indoctrinated and turned into the controlling intelligence for that Reaper.
• Defeat Means Respect: After Shepard manages to beat Nazara, the remaining Reapers^note or at least Leviathan and Silent Dominion all grudgingly respect her, and Silent Dominion and Leviathan both say she would make an excellent addition to the Reapers, perhaps even more so then them.
• Time Abyss: Leviathan, the first Reaper, was built roughly 2.5 billion years ago, and Harbinger was active even before that for an unknown time period.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: They seem to believe that turning organics into Reapers is actually doing them a favor.

Sovereign/Nazara

• Badass Bookworm: The Nazara themselves were apparently a scholar race, but they came closer to beating the Reapers than anyone else, ever.
• The Brute: He was the strongest Reaper, though he was still plenty smart.
• Co-Dragons: With Silent Dominion and Leviathan to Harbinger.
• Killed Off for Real: At the Battle for the Citadel.

Leviathan

• Beware the Silly Ones: Can act almost like a Cloud Cuckoolander at times with his antics. With that said, he's still a Reaper.
• Brought Down to Normal/Brought Down to Badass: After Shepard energybends her, trapping her in her original body. However, it is later revealed she can still bend, but she's lost a lot of her old power, as well as her Reaper form.
• Co-Dragons: With Nazara and Silent Dominion to Harbinger.
• Monster Progenitor: Was the first Reaper Harbinger built.
• Samus Is a Girl: Her original body was female.
• Worthy Opponent: Seems to regard Shepard as this.

Rho

• Crippling Overspecialization: Subverted; he notes that while being a Jack of All Trades like the Reapers does have its advantages, being a specialist has its own as well.
• Mind Rape: His main ability.
• Oh, Crap!: Just before Phoenix catches him.

The Mahna

• Affably Evil: See Meaningful Name for why.
• Meaningful Name: "Mahna" apparently translates as "one who compromises." Fittingly, the Mahna is the main "diplomat" of the Reapers, who (tries to) prevent arguments or infighting. Mahna also translates as to sacrifice despite knowing you can't win.
• Not Brainwashed: A major reveal, as it turns out that the Mahna is the only Reaper who has managed to escape being indoctrinated.
• Thanatos Gambit: The race which formed the Mahna pulled this out of desperation after realizing that they couldn't defeat the Reapers, literally sacrificing themselves so fast roughly 20 billion of them were "processed" by the Reapers in less than a year, allowing them to escape being indoctrinated due to the short timeframe.

Frozen Flame

• Attack! Attack! Attack!: Surprisingly enough for the Reapers, he isn't smart in any way or reliant on tactics, instead utilizing simple strength to win. And while it is shown that said brute force can win if used long enough, blindly attacking got several other Reapers killed in the process.
• The Brute: Even more so than Sovereign, since he isn't interested in bothering with changing tactics, or even using tactics beyond brute force.
• Never Speak Ill of the Dead: After Silent Dominion dies, he admits that he and the other Reapers were fools to not listen to him, and vows to uphold his plan.
• This Cannot Be!: Downplayed; refuses to believe that Silent Dominion was given the Shadow of the Father, even after seeing it in action.

Silent Dominion

• Affably Evil: Has yet to be anything but polite, even to Shepard.
• Co-Dragons: Was this with Leviathan and Nazara to Harbinger. And with him and Sovereign both dead and Leviathan apparently going through a Heel–Face Turn, Harbinger doesn't appear to have any Dragons left.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: His final act is to kill the Meretsegger via The Father's Hand, something previously said to be impossible due to the Meretsegger being a death spirit.
• Super-Empowering: What Harbinger does to him, and it appears to have made him a lot stronger.
• Weak, but Skilled: Apparently much less powerful than the other Reapers. However, he says that his weakness has forced him to be clever, and he is referred to as the most cunning of the Reapers.

Harbinger

• Big Bad: The head of the Reaper collective, who refer to him as "The Father", and the oldest of them all.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: While at least a few of the Reapers apparently believe in the canon reason for their Harvests of preserving organic life from synthetic life, it has been hinted that Harbinger is after something else.
• Physical God: We have yet to see him directly act, but hints in the story seem to suggest that he is even more powerful than Shepard, Leviathan, or Nazara.
• Super-Empowering: He can apparently do this to the Reapers, who refer to it as the "Shadow of the Father", and see receiving it as a great honor.
• The Unseen: Has only been featured in the story when others refer to him, or once at the start of each Book when he speaks with Leviathan and Sovereign. Also, it has been suggested that he's technically not a Reaper at all; he just made them, as well as the rakshasa.