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Lucy P. Oswald, Grim Reaper 
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+5'0"
+There are countless Reapers all over the world who guide souls to the next life, they all work for Death.
+Grim Reapers have no memories from before they became reapers. Some believe that they were all once human who for one reason or another were choose after they died. Others believe death created them fully formed, that they have no memories from the before because there was no before. Lucy doesn't really care either way.
+Can be seen by everyone, but can make themselves invisible and intangible if they so choose.
+Every Grim Reaper has a skeleton key that allows them to turn any door into a portal to any other door. This allows them to travel long distances instantly.
+Lucy uses a war scythe as opposed to a regular scythe
+Only breaks out the scythe for difficult or particularly unsavory charges
+Keeps her scythe in a pocket dimension along with a number of other items including but not limited to her standard issue black cloak (really only worn on formal occasions, think of it as the reaper version of dress blues,) her skeleton key, a number of stuffed animals, a bicycle, the entirety of her wardrobe,  and some loose change.
+She keeps the stuffed animals to give to the kids she has to reap.
+Doesn't need to eat but likes to. Especially crepes. And pomegranate (yes she realizes the irony.)
+Has a Bernese Mountain dog named Peaches, though his full name is Peaches & Cream

Full Bio

Character: Lucy P. Oswald
Abilities:
Lucy is a Grim Reaper, this means she is immortal, unaging, and has the ability to make herself invisible, and/or intangible. All Reapers possess a scythe, and a skeleton key.
Reaper scythes do not do any physical damage to those they cut, instead what would be fatal blows banish a soul onto the next life. Non-fatal cuts will give the victim an out of body experience, which are the cause of near death experience hallucinations and visions. Using the scythe is not actually required in the act of reaping, and often reapers will guide souls into the next life far more gently. I

Skeleton keys allow reapers to connect any two doorways in the world. This allows them to travel near instantaneously around the world, and access the Other Side, the reaper's realm that exist's parallel to the living realm.

Flaws/weaknesses:
When it comes to anything besides her job Lucy is flaky, absent minded, unreliable, irresponsible, and spoiled. Time means little to an ageless being and so she's always showing up late with Starbucks to everything non-work related. What's a few extra minutes when you've been around for, and will be around for further, centuries? Intellectually Lucy understands perfectly well that live ones have a limited amount of time on Earth, but she doesn't realize that emotionally she has no understanding of what it's like to know you are mortal.

When Lucy wants to indulge she indulges, there's no reason for her not to. Everything she could ever want (materially) is provided for her in the living realm thanks to her Reaper Union issue credit card, and so she doesn't really understand the value of material possessions or money. Her skeleton key means she can go anywhere she wants whenever she wants. She doesn't need to eat but does it anyway because she enjoys food.

History/background:
Lucy P. Oswald was given her cloak and scythe seven hundred (or was it nine hundred? she could never remember) years ago, and before that there was nothing. Some reapers believed they were all once humans, that upon their deaths they had been chosen by Death himself to take on the mantel of Reaper. Others believed the had been born fully formed, Death's own creations. Personally Lucy didn't care either way.

Her early years as a reaper were the most violent. In those days the use of scythes in reaping was still standard procedure, as was the dark cloak that acted as their uniform. Humans whispered about the dark beings that came in the night (a ridiculous misconception, reapers came at all hours,) and lead you to your death. Some reapers took pleasure in the fear they invoked but Lucy never much cared one way or another. Death was simply the natural order of life, there was no reason to fear it. Still even Lucy couldn't deny that the reputation served her purposes well any time she was tasked with guiding an abuser of children.

As the times changed so too did the Reaper community. The late 1800s saw the formation of the Reaper's Union. In contrast to the struggle of living workers in the western world this was in no way a controversial move, and was widely regarded as a grand idea. The RU proved itself to be actually effective during the Great Migration of the early and mid 1900s. Though some reapers had always choose to make their homes among living rather than in The Other Side the 1900s saw reapers choosing to settle into the living realm in unprecedented numbers. The RU was tasked with providing every colony Reaper proper documentation, sufficient funding, and a method of communication to receive their assignments (in modern years they developed an app for that.) It was during this period that the black cloaks of old were retired for all but the most formal of occasions (such as for the birth of new reapers,) and the use of scythes began to fall out of style as anything but show pieces.

It was during the Great Migration that Lucy joined the ranks of colony Reapers. The year was 1910 when Lucy moved into her first apartment in NYC, and it didn't take long for her to fall in love with the living realm. Lucy spent the next century (barring the brief period between 1930 and 1950 where she was simply utterly swamped with work) indulging herself in all the pleasures the realm had to offer. Food and drink were a novelty she never tired of, though cars lost their appeal after a couple decades (once everyone had them the streets were far too crowded to really enjoy the things.) It seemed as if every time she tired of one toy two new ones would appear to capture her interest. Her propensity for indulgence only got worse once the UR issued all of the "company" credit cards.

Personality:
She isn't apathetic, rather, Lucy exists in a middle ground of emotion. On any given day she can be bothered or pleased, amused or annoyed, but most days that's the greatest range she can muster. The most extreme emotion she can feel is righteous anger, and even then that can only be mustered for children. Children do not exist among Reapers and it is for this reason that Lucy finds them fascinating and precious. It is the only kind of death that ever feels wrong to her, and for this reason she tries to guide them as gently as possible. She keeps countless stuffed animals in her pocket dimension to give the children she must visit as she's found they often give the children comfort and strength.

It isn't that Lucy is incapable of extreme emotions, but she's never been a situation where she actually developed them either. The truth is she's never really loved anything or anyone that she didn't know would be around forever, and those have all been a comfortable, familial kind of love. She's been fond of things that were temporary, but never enough for a death to reallymatter to her. She's a Grim Reaper, death is the inevitable conclusion of life.

Lucy has a slightly off kilter moral compass. She considers the taking of the life of one human by another human to be deplorable in every way (unless they were trying to take yours of course,) but she has no problem with a wanton destruction if nobody dies. As long as nobody's time is cut short what does it matter? She has no concept of value when it comes to material possessions or money. She's irresponsible and spoiled in a "doesn't know better" sort of way in all areas not related to her work. Her job, and by extension, death are the only things she takes seriously.

For all she's completely disconnected from the human condition Lucy is generally genial, polite, and excitable. On the surface she seems completely normal though she makes no effort to hide her disconnect. She doesn't even realize there might be anything wrong with how she treats the world. In that way she could be considered almost naive.

Background setting:
Lucy's world is almost identical to our own on the surface. Under the surface though Grim Reapers walk among the living, guiding souls onto the next life. The home of the Reaper's is The Other Side. Here Death himself watches over the clocks of every living human of Earth and when one runs out a Reaper is assigned to collect them. Though some reapers choose to make their homes on Earth more reside in The Other Side, choosing to commute to Earth to do their jobs. Though Reapers appear physically identical to humans they do not have childhoods as humans understand them, they do not age, and they cannot reproduce.

Physical description:
PB: Bella Heathcote
Lucy is petite at a flat 5 foot. She has shoulder length brown hair and appears to be in her twenties. She's fond of "vintage" style clothes from the late 1950s and 1960s. She's been equally fond of them since those years, but now she's considered fashionable for it. She carries a war scythe, with a black wooden handle.