#Blood Reaper

[celestiall0tus]

The Blood Reaper rises

The first unification of Bloody Bug! Through Trixx and Tikki, the end result is the Crow of Hallucination, illusions so real they make you question your sanity (providing you're still lying to yourself that you are sane)

The Crow's power is called Fog, which allows them to plant hallucinations into the target's mind. The flute and yo-yo merge into an instrument is a variation of the wind harp, a stringed instrument that is played by the winds.

Now, why a crow? Well, I was a little stuck on what animal to make this initially. You're basically taking a bug and a dog and mashing them together. Well, the decision ultimately came when I looked into common spirit animals and saw crow was among the list. Why spirit guides? Because the hallucination aspect, sometimes a process people undergo to have spiritual journeys, but that process is a whole different thing that I'm not qualified to talk about.

Furthermore, a crow can be a good and a bad omen, much like the ladybug being a good omen while the fox is generally a bad omen (but it can be a good one too)

[chaosprinceundivided]

Ghorgen, Executioner of the Godslayer

The first of Rulek's personal retinue, manifested from the gathered visera of the Bloody Harvest's altar pulled from the marrow and muscles of Norscan defiance. The Bloodreaper was a powerful one. With the size and skill that beguiled even those leading Rulek's bloodletter companies, he quickly earned his status and favour from the Daemon Prince in his undeterred fervour on the battlefield. One would say no different from any daemon-spawn of Khorne, until Ghorgen personally dragged a traitorous champion of grand aspiration to Rulek's growing court.

Finding little reason of the Bloodreaper to even drag this despot to him, the Undivided Prince tore the traitor's heart out and personally fed the gore to Ghorgen's gaping maw, proclaiming him to be his champion and executioner.

And with the newfound companionship, even as other joined the retinue, Rulek and Ghorgen have marched on the battlefield together and became closer in the march into Khorne's Realm. Here, Ghorgen further proved himself against his own kindred. A vicious gladiator that turned blades and claimed heads in every vicious swing, the Mark of Undivided burning on his chest, he kept his Prince's madness in their goal; for the Soul of Khorne's Princeling Champion.

Scourging through the Lord of War's realm, Rulek claimed a sword of unnatural making - one of churning teeth that devoured armour and flesh with ravenous excess of blood and gore. A Chainsword forged from Khorne's very hellforges claimed from the claws of a war-made Saurus Champion and seeing no other worthy, Ghorgen was gifted the weapon.

In the Realm of Khorne and after, the Executioner had used it well.

[mildarka]

Headcanon that these two are incredibly divorced but will immediately team up to start roasting everyone else in the vicinity the second they see each other

[forgetcrowbinot]

ah (there’s a next part that I reblogged)

[anstarwar]

Gree protect

[vellichorom]

to that one person who asked awhile back for my take on The King beloved... i hope i did him the marshmallowy peepy justice you thought i had in me...

transparents below the cut so you can Behold my newfound watercoloring skills in their lone glory. yes they are very tiny i can't change that

[maxi-millien]

Blood was spreading on his lips where they split, and he grinned at you, the red liquid had already coated those pearly whites as well.

“Was that all?” he asked, licking at the blood on his mouth.

I need him. Carnally.

[2009kidcore]

reaper-neko on deviantART

[bluepr1ntyy]

Lux and Raven being friends propaganda, this is lux birthday art because I forgot about it,,

Lux by AlainaPrana

Raven by @echoiarts

[webdiggerxxx]

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[jand87sportsgirlie]

Still here..

[sejanusarchive]

“Your own father used to say those people only drank water because it didn’t rain blood” vs two district boys who are assumed to be murder machines, yet prove that statement wrong multiple times: Reaper and Marcus.

PART ONE: REAPER

When Reaper is first introduced to us, we learn he’s rangy but muscular; we read about him wrapping his hands around Coriolanus’s throat on the truck headed to the zoo and about Dill, his District partner, saying he has killed a Peacekeeper before in District 11, without ever getting caught. 

Our first impression of him is that of a dangerous person, one who’s even clever in his lethality, and because of that we know he’s a presumed possible victor.

Lucy Gray mentions him more than once as one of the biggest threats, when talking about how she’s going to try as hard as she can to win the Games.

She also tells Coriolanus how Reaper apologized to the other tributes for having to kill them and told them he is going to make it up to them after, by taking revenge on the Capitol. Everyone takes this as him meaning it maliciously and with arrogance, ‘cause how else could he possibly mean it, right? Coriolanus thinks that he’s not only powerful, but good at mind games too. 

But the truth is that Reaper meant that genuinely, even with a certain innocence, and naivety to how it could have been misinterpreted. There was no malice or arrogance in his statement, but there was guilt and regret and grief, because of being forced into taking lives. He went into the arena fully prepared and resigned to kill the others to save himself, but not without obvious dissent.

When the Games start, he arms himself and heads to the stands. Coriolanus thinks he does so to begin his hunt, even if everyone else had fled in other directions and he had made no move to go after them.

Right after this we read about how Tanner, someone who’s also a presumed possible victor, is able to climb up to the first row of the stands and sit in the sun for a while, completely unbothered and unharmed. Reaper doesn’t try to fight him, even if it would have only been to his advantage, since he could have easily taken out his strongest opponent now that the Games had just begun and he wasn’t exhausted and starving.

His first interaction with another tribute in the arena is with a dying Dill, carrying her out of the tunnels, placing her in the sun and talking to her in the last moments of her life. 

His first act with another tribute, is comforting a dying child. 

This is when the “murder machine” image starts to crumble. Coriolanus’s classmates talk about how he doesn’t look so tough, doesn't look like the person who “promised to kill all the others”, which he never actually did.

But still, after all this, Coriolanus sees his distressed pacing around Dill, as him possibly being “eager to get back to the hunt”, a hunt he never even began, and not just him feeling pained and powerless at Dill’s condition. 

When Coriolanus is sent into the arena to get Sejanus out, Bobbin, Mizzen, Tanner and Coral are the tributes who go after them to try to kill them. No sign of Reaper at any point.

When Lucy Gray gets out of the tunnels with a rabid Jessup after her, he makes no move to kill them either. Coriolanus points out how he lets Lucy Gray go and only walks up to the bottles of water on the ground.

Again and again and again, he has a chance to easily take a life to save his own, or take a small revenge against the Capitol, but he doesn’t. 

His second interaction with a tribute is with Lamina. He walks up to her, they negotiate an exchange of something both of them desperately need and that forms a bond between the two of them.

Then Coral, Mizzen and Tanner appear and he leaves, he goes behind the barricade and he falls asleep.

When he comes back out, he’s shocked to see Lamina and Tanner dead on the ground. And this is when he starts to make true his promise of avenging the tributes after their death. 

He lifts Lamina up in his arms and places her next to Marcus’s and Bobbin’s corpses and then collects Tanner, Dill and Sol as well, and covers them all with the flag of Panem. And he keeps doing this with all the tributes for the rest of the Games, right until his death. 

This is the best form of revenge he could take. Not only because he disrespects the flag, causing great disdain among Capitol citizens, but most importantly because he humanizes the tributes and gives them dignity, two things the Capitol has tried in every way to take away from them. He gives them as proper a burial as he can manage in those circumstances, makes it so now they can finally rest, tucked in a corner and covered, their corpses no longer on display for a bunch of sick people’s amusement. He honors them. He could have left them all scattered out on the dusty arena ground, but he didn’t. He took care of them.

Even when it’s just him and Lucy Gray left and he’s one step away from winning, he shows no signs of wanting to attack her. Doesn’t matter that he could easily take her out, save himself and finally go home. No, even then his main concern is that the tributes can properly rest with their corpses concealed. 

Everyone expected him to kill the most people, but he died in that arena killing no one and without ever even attempting to. He died holding strong to his humanity and making sure the fallen tributes could hold strong to theirs as well even in death.

Contrary to what we and the Capitol are made to believe initially, Reaper turns out to be pretty innocuous. He’s not a naturally violent or aggressive person, not a natural born killer and he refuses to be as well. This was a life or death situation and yet he didn’t even harm anyone. He has killed before, he is capable of it, but if he didn’t even do it in this case, even when all it would have taken for him to save himself was killing a girl smaller and younger than him, then imagine how dire and desperate the situation must have been when he had to resort to it.

He defied the Capitol by not participating in the Games, by not letting them turn him into the murder machine they wanted and expected him to be, and by honoring the corpses of the children whose lives have been so cruelly and unjustly cut short.

(Before moving on to Marcus, I wanna clarify some things in case anyone who’s reading this has only seen the movie. Reaper snapping at Clemensia during the one-on-one mentor-tribute interviews never happens in the book, neither does him looking angrily into the camera in the arena and challenging the Capitol to punish him arrogantly. Like we’ve just seen, this perceived arrogance and aggression in Reaper is a very surface level misconception of the people around him, that’s easily debunkable, that who made the movie took and ran with wrongfully. 

And actually there’s a few heartbreaking scenes in the book that contrast heavily with the image the movie created of him, like him tying a piece of the flag around his shoulders like a cape and spinning around, watching it fly behind him, and then running in the sun with his arms spread wide; and him rocking gently back and forth on himself for comfort, after the snake attacks, which is not when he dies in the book. He’s not the threatening, angry guy who tests the Capitol that they made him in the movie, he’s just a severely traumatized kid. Nothing more than a kid.

The movie made tons of stupid changes like this, that completely miss and disregard the whole point of both characters and story. Trust me when I say 99% of the characters are portrayed very wrongfully in it. So please keep that in mind.)

PART TWO: MARCUS

Marcus, like Reaper, was initially seen as a probable winner in the Games, before being murdered. Coriolanous makes note of his size multiple times, describing him as “towering”, as having a “colossal frame”, as “dwarfing the other tributes” and comparing him to a grizzly bear. 

It’s exactly because of his size that people think of him as a sure winner, as capable of taking down everyone else, as threatening and deadly.

But then we hear Sejanus, the only person who actually got to know him at some point, talk about him, and the first and one thing he mentions about Marcus is his kindness. 

He tells Coriolanus how when they were still classmates in Two, he hurt his finger really badly and Marcus helped him by bringing him a cup of snow he scooped from the windowsill. He says he did it without being prompted by anyone, without consulting anyone, not even the teacher, and without even being friends with Sejanus. 

That’s actually the very first thing Sejanus tells us about him. They weren’t enemies, but they weren’t friends either. Marcus had no real reason to do it, especially considering how the Plinths were, and still are, deeply despised in Two, for having helped the Capitol win the war. He did it almost as a reflex, because that’s who he is as a person. 

And this pure, unconditional kindness, told by the one person who actually knew him, goes against the image of him everyone formed by just looking at him, against what everyone assumed because he’s district, he’s a tribute, and he’s tall and strong and broad, so he has to be dangerous and lethal, he will brutally kill everyone to save himself, he’s capable of it anyway.

As I already said, the Plinths are deeply despised in Two, Sejanus is a filthy traitor in his eyes, one who’s benefiting from a luxurious, safe life in the Capitol, thanks to blood money; blood of thousands of what were supposed to be his people, blood whose spillage made them lose the war and caused the realization of the Games, bringing Marcus to that very situation.

Sejanus doesn’t have to worry about whether or not he’s going to be able to fill his stomach everyday; whether he’ll be able to finish his studies or will have to drop out of school early to go work to help sustain his family; whether the dangerous working conditions will be the cause of his early demise or being sent to an arena to kill or be killed by a bunch of other children for amusement will be, and what will happen to his family once he’ll be gone. All of this thanks to his family’s betrayal.

No doubt he resents Sejanus and is angry at him, a part of him maybe even faults him a bit for everything, but he never takes it out on him. It would be easy to single him out, pick him and make him pay for this situation, since he can’t make the whole Capitol pay; take some sort of revenge on Strabo Plinth in the name of Two and Thirteen and all other Districts, by harming his son. 

Sweet Sejanus, who brings the tributes food when no one else thought about it, who keeps pleading with him to accept it, who tries to help them however he can, would probably let him do it. He would take the hit, metaphorical or not, because it’s clear he has guilt gnawing at him and would feel like he deserves it. And Marcus is definitely aware of it. 

But he never gets violent, physically nor verbally, never tries to attack him or spit insults or hate at him. Instead he just ignores him.

He had many chances to do harm, even to kill Capitol citizens and Peacekeepers as revenge, a small and trivial one, but still a revenge, and he had many chances to let his frustration and anger out on Sejanus and use him as a punching bag, but he never did, because despite what everyone assumed about him, that’s not the type of person he is.

PART THREE: SEJANUS 

Sejanus, whom I’ve already mentioned several times in this post, is another District boy with the ability to take lives, but who’s repulsed and disturbed by the mere idea of it. 

With Marcus and Reaper, it’s a matter of first impressions and then getting to actually know them and learn they’re not like they seemed. With Sejanus it’s the opposite. 

First thing we learn about him in the book is his background: born in District 2, his father made fortune during the war and was able to buy his family a life in the Capitol. 

But the first thing we learn about him as a person is that he’s shy and sensitive. 

Throughout the entirety of the book, over and over and over again, we see that he’s good, and kind, and gentle, and sweet and takes things so to heart. It’s constantly pointed out by the people around him. 

And it’s constantly shown to us by him as well, with the passion he puts into standing up against the dehumanization and mistreatment of District people; with how affected he is by these aspects and by the Games; with how he tries in every way he can to help the tributes; with how he made it his life mission to make things better for the Districts; with how he’s never mean or spiteful to people who bully and disrespect him.

Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is at its very center a discussion on human nature. He (alongside Dr. Gaul) is the main character who explicitly talks about it, and he believes in the inherent goodness of humans and constantly advocates in favor of it. All the injustice and atrocities he witnessed, never made him change his mind or his actions, never made it so compassion and love weren’t his driving forces.

His heart is big, and kind, and pure. And he wears it on his sleeve all the time. He’s referred to as “emotional” and “compassionate”, his eyes are soulful, his face is incredibly expressive, and there’s so many instances in which he’s described as speaking with a voice so full of sentiment, so many instances of his eyes filling with tears, of him wiping his face cause they spilled out. 

It’s well established how good and uncorrupted he is, how devoted to humanity he is, how much he values life.

And then in the third part of the book, we learn he’s an excellent marksman, a natural one even, who has been training in shooting every week since he was tiny.

He’s so good, that the sergeant in Twelve, as to not lose someone with Sejanus’s ability, refuses to give him the recommendation he needs in order to train to become a medic, even when Sejanus purposefully shoots much worse than he’s capable of, to hide his talent. 

The boy who values life more than anything in the world, has the ability to take one even with his eyes closed.

When he arrived in Twelve, wearing on his body the signs of the toll the Capitol, the Games and what happened to Marcus had taken on his mental health, with the prospect of building a new life for himself in which he could help the world become a better place, of training to be a medic and save lives, Coriolanus noted he had a much lighter air to himself, as if a heavy weight had been lifted off of him.

But when he is confronted with the reality that he is now a soldier and is expected to kill, Coriolanus says that his expression goes back to being as gloomy as it had been in the Capitol, the heavy weight now back on his shoulders. 

At dinner he doesn’t take a single bite of food, which is a behavior we’ve seen from him before, one he falls into when his mental health gets concerningly bad. And the reason is that he is terrified by the idea of having to kill someone, or someone dying because he can’t bring himself to shoot first. Because to him, every life is precious and none is disposable, and the possibility of being the cause of one being taken away, is an unbearable thought.

Reaper and Marcus had many chances and what could be considered reasons to kill, but they refused to. Sejanus, who is expected to kill because he’s a soldier and the best shooter, who would be punished, possibly even with execution, if he didn’t, refuses to. 

All three of them have the power to take lives with little effort but choose to cherish and honor them instead, choose kindness, choose humanity even over their own self preservation, proving both the Capitol and Crassus Snow’s statement about District people being bloodthirsty, wrong, by simply being their honest, uncorrupted selves until the end, by being truthful to who they are no matter what.

[kanyerealdaughter]

# SOUL REAPER ICHIGO PT. ||

angst.

part | here ! | part ||| here !

SOUL REAPER ICHIGO who’s slightly but surely becomes depressed after breaking up with you and having second regret but he thinks he did the right thing.

SOUL REAPER ICHIGO who had not slept, nor really eaten anything since he broke up with you. he just laid in his bed, staring at your empty side of the bed with a frown. he felt awful.. how could he be so careless..?

SOUL REAPER ICHIGO who’s since he had broken up with you, you had been feeling absolutely miserable. you had tried to text him, call him, anything to talk to him- but he was ignoring you and of course you found out he blocked you and now he was just laying in his bed, staring up at the ceiling.

SOUL REAPER ICHIGO who his own friends tried to get him to open up about his whole relationship about you but he didn’t give in at all.

SOUL REAPER ICHIGO who just continued to lay there, his feelings for you not fading in the slightest. he still felt heartbroken, and the need to talk to you overwhelmed him. maybe he should just give up and try to move on, but he refused to do that. He refused to accept it.. that he did this … he was one that did it.

SOUL REAPER ICHIGO when he arrived at school and saw you, he felt an immediate pit in his stomach. you looked well..? which in a way, at least relieved him a little bit.. but still, he had broken up with him a few days prior. he tried to stay away from you as much as possible, but his eyes still ended up always being drawn to you..

SOUL REAPER ICHIGO who even one of his best friends tried to get you back together ichigo had ranted to chad about the situation, so naturally, chad took on the mission of trying to convince you to go back to Ichigo. it wasn’t that he was being forced to do it, he just wanted to see his best friend happy again.

he thought maybe he could help fix things. He approached you, with a gentle and kind expression on his face.*

"hey.. could i talk to you for a minute..?"

you lifted your head up slowly from the desk and you bit your nervously once you realized it was chad but you nodded “ um.. yeah sure..”

he noticed your reaction, but didn’t make much of it as he sat down in the seat next to you. he gave a small sigh and glanced up at you. “listen, I’m probably going to sound real pushy, but.. i’m sure you know how ichigo’s been since you two broke up, right?”

you just nodded slowly encouraging him to continue.

“well.. he’s absolutely miserable and still really upset over you. he was devastated when you broke up with him..” he explained, his kind yet stern gaze still on you.

“ okay…? he was the one who broke up with me..” you mumbled quietly.

“right.. sorry- i wanted to ask a favor. could you… at least try to talk to Ichigo? he really misses you..” before you could say anything else the school bell rang which meant it was time to go home. chad stood up from his seat, giving a small sigh as he heard the bell. it was just his luck that the bell had to ring right when he was about to ask that..

“yeah… just… please think about it, alright? ichigo’s really not doing well..”

“ … sure.. i’ll think about it..” you said quietly under your breath as you watch chad walk out the classroom.

SOUL REAPER ICHIGO who just prays and hopes that he has convinced you to talk to him even though he knew the whole thing was his fault and is too ashamed to admit it.

𖣂 KANYEREALDAUGHTER SPEAKS - as much i hate it a part three coming soon 😔 don’t cook me.

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[daily-xisuma]

[132] Reign of Terror

[the-violet-reaper]

Centross sat on the floor of his bedroom, in the corner tucked away. Blood came from small indents on his hands from digging his nails and small drag marks on his arms also from his nails beaded with small amounts of blood. He was breathing heavy.

[a-scary-lack-of-common-sense]

When AI is so prevalent everywhere nowadays that even Death starts to invest in cheap grim reaper robots /j (that keep eventually gaining sentience and becoming spiteful and lost spirits but shhhh, that's too much lore)

Inspired by the Korean folk lore of Death: 저승사자- a psychopomp deity who's job is not to judge or kill, but to simply guide newly deceased souls to the afterlife. They are traditionally depicted wearing a black (한복) hanbok with a black (갓) gat.