Urban Fantasy RP -Another shade of the world-

Though Mira teaches in college so I doubt they will meet as teacher and student.

By 'When she smiles' I meant the trope.

Ohhh I see.

I didn't know we had that trope.

• Name: Hugo Waldeburg
• Age: 17
• Gender: Male
• Profession: Student
• Appearance: Long black hair, often in a ponytail, grey blue eyes, thin and tall.
• Clothing: Grey cargo pants and short sleeved dress shirts.
• Personality: Affable, and happy to make small talk with just about anyone. Generally laid back but takes whatever duties he's given (or thinks he is) very seriously.
• Backstory: Hugo's dad died a year ago, and he has just recently come to terms with it. The day after this epiphany, his dad had the balls to show up as a ghost and tell Hugo that he was now the local Grim Reaper. A duty that had been passed down father to son for generations, and his cousin had been substituting while he mourned. After a fortnight of woefully lacking tutoring, said cousin left Hugo on his own. Well, his dad's ghost is still following him giving some advice.
• Skills/talents: He has an interest in acting, and is quite good. Not particularly sporty but has always been very good at endurance things. As a Grim Reaper, he can now see things, walk through walls, becoming unnoticeable to normals, and is developing personal time warping skills (a necessity when he has to reap a guy across time in the time it takes for his teacher to get suspicious of his bathroom break's length), also he's becoming a bit of an insomniac.
• Inventory: Standard school back stuff, high end phone, silver sickle of death.

Seems good, but we have to talk about the Grim Reaper business a little more deeply.

How did you imagine that working? He can take only people that have already died or which time has come? Who does he take, everyone in the city or just a selected few?

I was thinking something similar to Dead Like Me. Hugo's job is to release people's souls from their bodies. Preferably before they die if it's going to be traumatic or disfiguring. Quick stat checking suggests there's roughly 22 deaths per million each day, which even if Volwick is a small city is too much to expect Hugo to deal with himself. I'd say that the whole city and surrounds are Hugo's responsibility but as a general rule he's only required to make an appearance when the newly departed have problems departing. Whether due to surprise, anger, earthly attachment, etc. So he sees a lot more accidents, murders and 'interesting' deaths than old people in their sleep. As for knowing who to reap, currently his dad is instructing him and teaching him to sense people who'll need reaping.

I don't think he'll be able to just 'take' people. Unless they're undead or something. But that doesn't mean he can't slice someone's throat with the sickle. It'd just be no different to him stabbing them with a knife or something.

Hmmm I see. Sounds good to me. Like a medium to help people reach the other side more than The spirit of death. Understood and approved.

edited 2nd Feb '11 7:30:28 PM by daltar

Cool, I'll binge a little and make an appearance later.