#edgelord: reaper

[lazycranberrydoodles]

honoring my 13 year old self by drawing gabriel reyes in 2024

[johannepetereric]

Which Beyblade character(s) would you do a lightsaber battle over?

[thxgrxmrexpxr-archive]

[HUNK: *Calls every Ghostface he meets a sentient Halloween costume*

*Casually ignores that he has a whole ass Grim Reaper getup at one point*]

[parasite-core]

Guess who’s making a new pathfinder PC?

[toffee-hammer]

Grenth help me I'm maining necro now.

[alviboi10]

INTE OVERWATCH OCKSÅ😭😭😭😭

*tar ofrivilligt fram plånboken*

R.I.P. Tomura Shigaraki 😔 synd att du dog, men du lever åtminstone kvar i Fortnite

[andernell]

post-EW Palennia. Living the edgelords dream as a Reaper WoL these days. I'm sorry Ley Lines, I still love you bby TTwTT

[atsadi-shenanigans]

FSBE 7 - The Power of God and Anime

Y'all make friends.

On AO3.

You kinda jinxed it, huh? Y’all’re threading carefully down a scraggy, narrow trail—eying the branches overhead that move a little too much like they’re trying to grab you—when Wyll makes a sound. He’s at the front, torch in hand. Beside him, Scratch stands stiff-legged with his fur all on end. Sweetums, who’d been tagging along behind, bolts back for the safety of your legs.

Word filters back along the line: torches. Voices. There’s people up there. Or possibly “people” as in muppets with shadow hands up their asses. Or cultists.

You got half a mind to suggest staying quiet and going around. But Wyll looks unsettled when he cranes around in your direction. Says, “The Emerald Grove tieflings.”

Oh. Fuck. They went this way, you vaguely remember. They was talking about taking a road that led through here.

“Is this really our problem?” Shadowheart says.

You try not to side-eye her. Try not to read in what you know about her now.

Fail both.

“What if we just look?” you say. “If they’re assholes or them cult fuckers, we slink off.”

Astarion rolls his eyes but draws both his knives. So there’s that, at least.

“If those istik cannot defend themselves, let them perish,” Lae’zel says. Earns her a begrudging nod from Shadowheart. Great. They’re bonding over being edgelord lesbians. Fan-fucking-tastic.

“The curse grows stronger with everything it takes,” Halsin says. “It would be wise to check.”

“That,” you say. Send him “thank you” eyes.

Which predictably annoys both edgelord lesbians, as they like tactics that fuck over an enemy (which, they’re not wrong, but in this case?).

It ain’t goblins. It’s a group of humans (or near enough) carrying torches, all lightly armored and armed. Except for the one writhing around on the ground.

“Yanos!” one of the women says.

“Fuck him!” snaps another. “The shadows have him. We need to go!”

And shadows do have him. It’s hard to see the guy in the magic darkness; just the hint of a silhouette twisting and flailing. Bending wrong.

“Oh lord,” you say, too quiet for anybody to hear. If you was on Earth, anyway. Because Yanos the Shadowman snaps up, hollowed face pointed at the cluster of trees y’all crouch behind. He raises an arm—moving wrong, wrong—and screams in your direction.

“Fantastically done, darling,” Astarion says before shadows lift out of the gloom and come alive.

Things go to shit shockingly fast. Everybody explodes into movement. Light flashes. A thunderclap shockwave blasts through your ribcage. Karlach roars and lights on fucking fire to chop a shadow monster in half. Vertically.

You stay out of the way.

All the bombs and potions you was hoarding got swept off or stolen down in the Underdark. You got your supply of dirt potions, a cache of health potions, a cursed dagger, and some rations. You briefly got another whacking stick—courtesy of more dead duergar—but lost that one in a lava lake a while back.

It works pretty well, staying on the fringes. Plastering yourself flat against a tree and staying (relatively) small and quiet.

Until it don’t. Until Yanos Shadowman himself lurches outta the dark like a frothing zombie, reaching for you.

You catch a flash of his face: tendrils of shadow bursting out around his eyes, from his nostrils, from his gums like worms in the dirt after a hard rain. The skin of his hands splits open as more shadows spill out of him. And you know, on a cellular level, that if he touches you, you’re next.

A sound tears outta you. Then you’re running. Past Wyll and Karlach tag teaming…is that a fucking grim reaper? Past Shadowheart as she shouts with her new mace and blasts another shadow in the face with a bolt of pale light.

Somewhere safe, somewhere safe, where’s Astarion?!

Them people y’all found are busy—trying not to get bit or infected or taken by other shadows. And Yanos howls after you. A rabid dog. A feral thing.

Weapon! You need a weapon! Not the knife, too short, too close—

A woman drops at your feet. Damn near trips you. Her front is ripped clean open, white fingers of broken ribs jutting out, through her skin, the gaping cavity that used to house her guts—

Nope. Not looking. Not thinking. Not today, Satan.

But she drops a spear. One that glows yellow. Like light. Light that keeps monsters away.

You don’t actually think. Just scoop it up. Whirl around. A hum sweeps through your palms, winds up your forearms like that time you accidentally stuck your finger into an electrical outlet. You taste…caramel corn?

Then Yanos is on you, and even those trace thoughts vanish. Everything is cold. Calm. His body rushes you.

The spear is long. The handle solid. His middle is wide. Squishy. Leather vest, thin enough. A good target.

So you jab. The point hits. Resists the leather for a second, but his own momentum pushes him forward and it punctures. Slides into flesh. Scrapes over bone.

He’s still coming. That’s physics. You got more mass than he does, probably, but he’s got movement. Kinetic force. Can’t absorb all that energy barreling at you.

The ground can.

No thoughts. No reason. No emotion.

Just cool observations as you shove down. Wedge the back of the spear into the ground and brace your body against it.

The physics of Faerun seem to hold true to Earth ones. Yanos’ mass channels into the lodged weapon. The shaft bows, but the earth takes up all the slack and throws it back through the wood and into the point of the spear.

In less of a second, Yanos hits, sticks himself, and then his feet leave the ground as he impales fully through into the air.

His dead mouth falls open. Eyeballs melt to ooze as you watch (shouldn’t watch, shouldn’t look at the face, the face increases trauma he’s an it not a he). Then the spear flashes bright. Like lightning. And when you blink again, the lights gone out.

Yanos, the former man, hangs off the spear. Slack. Dripping. Heavy.

You let it fall.

Your chest hurts. Your lungs hurt. You can’t feel your hands or your feet or your face. Just the screaming need to breathe. To claw enough oxygen into your convulsing lungs the edges of your vision stop going gray.

“Still alive down there?”

Karlach. A couple feet up the slope (where even are you), peering down in concern.

The fight is over. A quick head count, and they’re all here, plus extras. And there. Silver hair. Astarion wiping down his knives as he makes his way over to you, stepping daintily over bodies. He looks to the dead man you stabbed. Hums softly.

“Well done, darling,” he says. Then steps in close. Hooks a finger under your chin and turns your face this way and that, studying you. “And you still have your nose.”

Right. That…yeah.

You stand there and shake. Astarion lights another torch and holds it out for you. But your hands is still meat paws, and you fumble it a few times before he frowns.

You’re probably in shock. Which is almost funny? It’s bullshit, is what it is. You killed people here. Freaked out about it, yeah, but not like this. Nothing like this. Not since…

Yanos the Former has a dark beard, pointed at the end. Dark hair pulled into a half tail.

He must have had kind, brown eyes before they oozed out as sludge.

Like Gandrel.

Oh god.

“Darling?” Astarion says.

You’re shaking hard now. Almost seizing. Teeth chattering so hard you almost bite your tongue when you manage, “N-need-d t-to res-st.”

Astarion’s gaze goes sharp. Worried. Then he twists around. “Cleric! Get over here!”

[adozenkisses]

𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒆𝒓 & 𝑯𝒊𝒔 𝑻𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝑰𝒏 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒄

♡ On the off chance he does get to indulge in some music, I think his go-to genre would definitely be industrial/anything heavy.

♡ Being the edgelord he is (affectionate!), bands such as KMFDM & slick idiot are his guilty pleasure. For the simple fact that their music hits his ears hard and drowns out any thoughts.

♡ And Reaper is a man with MANY thoughts, so this brief mental clarity the music gives him is much needed lol…!!

Another small one bcs I lowkey SUCK at writing long stuff </3...00

[ratpinkartiste]

I wish there was more deranged Kite content !! He is always portrayed as a stoic guy and he certainly appears so lot of the time BUT he does summon a fucking roulette clown that screams at him.! He definitely is an edgelord of some kind I mean one of his attacks is called Grim reaper: silent waltz!! Not to mention he punches children out of danger. He is a little deranged and he does not chill and that’s ok and cute

[iamumbra195]

Random Incorrect Quotes and Vibes from the Bleach AU I will probably never write (Rukia is killed by Aizen and them in the SS arc)

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Ichigo: *feral teenager with slightly cat-like tendencies because of his hollow*

Shinji: 

Sakanade in his head: M I N E

...

Shinji: *explaining the inner hollow and everything that happened with Aizen and how they trained their hollows*

Ichigo: *a nerd who likes literarture and knows exactly what werewolves are*

Ichigo: Can I say something--

Shinji: *has questioned his reality more than once because of this kid’s weird questions* NO--

...

Ichigo: *goes to his inner world to see why the fuck Shiro is constantly screaming in his ear*

Shiro: *leaning over his body omniously with his big smile because he has been seperated from Ichigo for so long and this is the first time they’ve interacted without Old Man Zangetsu getting in the way so he’s happy*

Ichigo: wtfwtfwtf--

...

Shiro: *a feral tiny cat that likes to fight too much*

Sakanade: *a feral big cat the puts him in air jail*

Benihime: *the sadistic instigator*

....

Karin: *snooping through Ichigo’s room because she’s worried and finds Rukia’s asauchi*

Karin: *touching Rukia’s sword after Ichigo told her what happened and feeling a weird jolt or reiatsuand urge to keep it*

Ichigo: *who felt the reiatsu* ...

Karin:...

Karin: I have been CHOSEN--

Ichigo: NO--

...

Ichigo: What do you have there?

Karin: A Zanpakuto!

Ichigo: NO!

...

Karin: *facing a hollow while Ichigo was at the SS and losing*

Kangetsu (her Zanpakuto): cAN YoU hEAr mE?

...

Hitsugaya: *looks vaguely like her Zanpakuto spirit*

Karin: *softly* Holy shit

...

Ichigo: Goodnight moon.

Ichigo: Goodnight tree. Ichigo: Goodnight ghosts that only I can see.

...

Karin: Is stabbing someone immoral?

Isshin: *Joking* Not if they consent to it

Ichigo: *Serious* Depends on who you’re stabbing

Yuzu: *the one sane non-soul reaper in the family* YES?!

...

Ichigo: *walking into his room* Hello people who do not live here

Renji: Hey

Ikkaku: Hi

Yumichika: Hello

Rangiku: Hey!

Ichigo: You’re only supposed to come here for emergencies!

Renji: We were out of Doritos *they’re on a mission, he’s just fucking with him*

...

Orihime: I impulsively bought a snake, what do I name hime?

Ishida: *scared of snakes* You did WHAT--

Ichigo: William Snakespeare

...

Renji: *while they were going to save Rukia* This is such a bad idea

Ichigo: Then why are you coming along?

Renji: One of us needs to be able to talk the Gotei out of arresting us when this goes wrong

...

Ichigo: Do you think I can fit fifteen marshmallows in my mouth?

Ishida: You’re a hazard to society

Renji: And a coward. Do twenty

...

Orihime: If I were a drink, I’d be a strawberry vanilla coke. If you were a drink, what would you be?

Ichigo: Bleach (PUN FULLY INTENDED XD)

Keigo: *he found out ichigo and Chad didn’t fail like him* Sewage

Orihime: *concern*

Tatsuki: Calm down edgelords

...

Okay, that’s it

Some of these were canon, some of these were just random shit from my fic that i might never write

[quietbluejay]

The Buried Dagger Take 2 #1

Anyways, in doing this I have completely left any objectivity behind at the station. If you're a Garro fan, you're probably not going to enjoy me complaining about him every time he shows up. If you're a Mortarion hater, you're not going to enjoy the simping. If you're a Swallow fan...well I do have a few nice things to say about his writing, but I also have a few harsh things, and some things that are probably unfair! Swallow's writing can be really hit or miss for me, even within the same book.

now on with the show!

man I remember the first time I read the sample, my entire reaction was basically "okay, edgelord" "of COURSE his name is Mortarion" "of COURSE he's mad at his dad" little did I know he would become blorbo

but observe the first paragraphs:

the people of Ynyx don't have mouths! honestly i think one of the book's flaws is that it goes a bit too far into edge and ends up in the silly zone

I'm waking up/I feel it in my bones

blah blah everyone took drugs but it doesn't matter, they're all gonna be dead by nightfall the prose is kind of dancing on the line between purple and evocative

so we're on page 4 and we know a few things about mort: -sir kills a lot -edgy -hates his dad -cares about the Death Guard

lol lmao you know what you thought the perturabo playlist was cringe? the mortarion one is gonna be even cringier

he's breathing in the chemicals i know i made this joke the first time i read it, i don't care, i'll make it again he's so cringe (affectionate) Mortarion looks at the faces of the puny mortals, looking for understanding

dumbass also, heh so he just shoots them all with his fancy energy pistol "Why did Horus send me here?" Mortarion breathes in the chemicals again the tldr is this planet is basically useless strategically or in terms of what they can loot and sending Mort and the Death Guard was a huge amount of overkill

after having actually seen them being buddies in Vengeful Spirit and The Path of Heaven, this is kinda sad little does mortarion know he can't even trust himself it gets a bit into his daemon research he haaates it but the reasoning is that you can't afford to not be pragmatic on Barbarus let's put a pin in this there's a scene I'm thinking of that happens fairly late in the book that'll be interesting to look at

also, Magnus gets described as an "arrogant braggart" my salt is being fed

you could just say "chill", Swallow it's okay doesn't "the chill hand of the immaterium" sound much better? wait i missed a chance to make a joke about the horrors every day Mortarion gets emails

LoreLover:

which Chaos god would give the worst spam e-mails? Tzeentch: Constant phishing attacks and scams. Slaanesh: Shock videos, plastic surgery, extreme fashion adds Nurgle: Nothing but viruses and worms to corrupt your data Khorne: Physically cutting your cables because get outside and fight me panzy.

on the topic of the horrors, Mortarion thinks about possessed!Grulgor who is chilling in a cage right now poor Grulgor also yeah how'd he end up here i really hope it explains in a short story somewhere because what happened in Vengeful Spirit was VERY confusing in vengeful spirit mortarion was like "here have some geneseed" like he was feeding pigeons and plague daemon grulgor showed up Grulgor: let me kill for you, Mortarion Grulgor: please ask me to kill for you Mortarion:….

Mortarion doesn't let Grulgor do it, because a) that would be too easy b) he's worried it's a trap by Chaos

juuuust like dear old dad oh hey ends justify the means take a shot

im back on my anti-consequentialism bullshit again~

LoreLover: Oh, please Mortarion. You guys used goddamn man-reapers instead of normal swords and spears. You lost the pragmatism argument ages ago.

quietbluejay: don't you see, he has to do it it makes things so much easier~ genuinely, why do i like this guy again oh right McNeill tried to make me hate him also he's so dramatic

fight time it doesn't take long though but, how are they gonna get inside the building

it was kind of cool the ground is sand and the dudes were hiding underground so it's like - when you guys were kids, if you walked down those stairs that don't have backs, did you ever have your parents or someone grab your ankles through them? it's like that except it's not stairs sorry i don't know if that made any sense

HES BREATHING IN THE CHEMICALS

i made this joke last time, but I think Swallow's Imagine Dragons CD has a scratch in it also wait how many times has he been described as pallid so far or gaunt

anyways the grenade breaks open the wall of the citadel

Morarg POV! he's picking off any survivors that Mortarion leaves which is like, not that many people lol

a lot of the time there isn't much to do for Morarg but stand and watch sorry "act as witness to the unchained maelstrom that was Mortarion's cold wrath" Morarg is cool with that

there's a bit about all the 7s because it's a lucky number "now seen as a simple tactical nicety"

so in addition to being Mortarion's equerry, Morarg is also the closest thing the Death Guard have to a lorekeeper gene-modified guardians show up and Mortarion kills those two as well owo while Morarg is watching Mortarion kill things, he gets an alert on his phone er, his helmet

so they get to the boss room and it's triggering for Mortarion because it reminds him of the throne room on Terra

yes the final boss is a brain in a jar

welp rip two of the deathshroud get blasted into the magma lake Mortarion: I taste witchery no, literally, he calls it witchery, and he tastes it

geez, calas, don't you know he's got a thing about killstealing? anyways mort squishes the brain Mortarion: you chose this moment to show your face again so dramatic

as much as i'm kinda mocking the edge, it's got a kind of charm to it, you know?

but now it's time for Mort and Typhon to catch up

typhon starting to talk like a daemon lmao the orders are from horus, it's time to attack terra! but first, an actual discussion

but not yet it was too soon "The embrace would come when due. Nothing would stop that from happening" Mortarion is going to get hugged whether he wants to or not!

TemplarWarden: Man really pulling on that 'I don't like you but I kinda like you' brotherly vibe. LoreLover: Tsundere Mortarion

Typhon thinks about how Mortarion bound daemon!Grulgor which is apparently a feat of some skill also heh "satiate his desire for knowledge" whoooo does that sound like

LoreLover then posted a TTS!Magnus meme

I'm going to tldr a silly discussion about 30k characters as FSN characters except to leave you with

Perturabo is like the unholy lovechild of Sola-Ui and Kirei

Typhon has some Sakura similarities (childhood friend. dark secret. starts eating people)

Typhon, you've officially moved into the "creepy" zone

uh oh… the diamonds are a surprise tool that will harm us later

meanwhile, Typhon isn't sure what sort of reaction Mortarion wants him to show about Barbarus being killed by the Dark Angels

TemplarWarden: That's less a foreshadowing or Chekovs gun and more a foresolar eclipse or Chekovs ICBM

Typhon thinks that he would have been among the ones who were angry before, but not any more, not after Zaramund where he found clarity

TemplarWarden: this man has so much edge I'm getting papercuts from it quietbluejay: wait til we get to his childhood

Typhon: anyways we can get vengeance on the Lion at Terra Mortarion: yes

and that ends the first chapter and all i'll do for tonight, don't want to strain the arms next time we're over to the worst subplot ever

TemplarWarden: Ah yay once again the classic primarch twisted logic. Well it doesn't matter to me actually but I'm still gonna do the vengeance.

Arzach (our resident no 1 Mortarion fan): That remind me : in this book and in Dark Imperium, Typhon/us reasons for his betrayal are not pettiness or dislike of Mortarion but almost a brotherly love, a genuine desire of « helping » his friend / brother to be better. And it’s somehow worse.

[welcome-to-green-hills]

I think the flaw in sonic is that he is made by Sega to be flawless and positive. It is okay to be vulnerable, we as humans need to know that. Shadow is misunderstood as a careless edgelord. When he does have compassion, He is not a heartless reaper, he does care about others, he just has his own way of showing it, and it is not as radiant as Sonic’s. I hope some scene like that makes its way to Sonic Movie, like a heart to heart on who they loved and lost.

I can understand that, my dear. Game!Sonic is a very static character. His characteristics are like Monkey D. Luffy in a sense. Game!Sonic is meant to inspire/encourage us, the players, while dealing with a difficult situation. Whereas Sonic W. is designed to grow up and learn with the audience.

I’m definitely looking forward to Sonic Wachowski’s heart-to-heart with Movie!Shadow.

[agnerd-bot]

Ragna man take him by his azure hand

I'm glad you never get sick about asking me about Ragna because lord knows I never get sick of answering.

favorite thing about them - I love how Ragna's design, motifs, weaponry, and snarky attitude all point towards him being a complete and total edgelord, but in reality he's just... so kind. Yeah, he has anger issues(hard to blame him considering his life), and yeah he's a smartass, but even with that he still chooses to show kindness to others, to sacrifice himself to protect people. There's just something about a man titled 'the Grim Reaper' ultimately being the one to save the world, even when the world deems him to be a monster.

least favorite thing about them - Do Platinum's 'jokes' count?

favorite line - I use his "WHAT" so many times it's not even funny(it's definitely funny).

brOTP - Ragna and Nine. As much as Nine hates Ragna in canon, the two have so many similarities with the tragic nature of their lives and their determination to defy the will of the gods to create a happy ending for the people they love. In an ideal world, I do feel they would sass each other to hell and back but also begrudgingly respect each other(heck, they actually do so in Phase Shift).

OTP - Ragna x Taokaka. I've come to really like this ship over time at least partly because A) Tao's not one of Ragna's siblings/his adoptive mom and B) they have a really fun dynamic. It helps that Taokaka's consistently one of the nicest characters to Ragna in canon and Ragna actually does enjoy living in the Kaka Village and babysitting the kittens.

nOTP - Ragna x any of his siblings. For obvious reasons.

random headcanon - Due to his upbringing, Ragna actually knows quite a bit about theology and various belief systems within the world of Blazblue. I don't see him actively practicing any form of religion(in no small part because of the whole 'the universe hates his guts' deal) but he does know about them. It helps that under the jacket, he does resemble a priest a bit.

unpopular opinion - As much as I love Ragna and want more of him, I do think that for his story, it'd be for the best that he stays dead/gone. So much of his life has been filled with being forced through an endless cycle of death and rebirth, being puppeted around by gods, mages, Observers, and everything under the sun, with so many routes ending tragically and in pain. Having his story end on his own terms, being able to save the people he loves and finally just rest after so much tragedy feels like the best way to end his story.

song i associate with them - Aside from his canonical themes, I heavily associate inHuman from Death Battle with him, mainly because he's very much Cole MacGrath coded to me.

favorite picture of them

*gross sobbing* I MISS HIM SO MUCH!

[eidolonshiva]

Coming in again with content that will appeal to no one but me. Here's what class I think some of the Kimetsu characters would be if they were in Final Fantasy:

Starting with Aizetsu, as this was the most obvious for me. He's basically already a Dragoon. He uses his polearm in the same way that Dragoon's do in battle. I always find it interesting when people think he's the weakest clone, because Dragoon's are the most valuable person in each party. They're absolute tanks on the battlefield.

Sekido would be a Black Mage; he has a staff and uses lighting attacks. Vivi would be proud.

Urogi would be a Bard due to his vocal attacks. Imagine him casting viscious mockery.

I struggled a bit with Karaku's class, but I think he'd be a Dancer. You need at least one healer in your party, and I think his movements synch up with the way class moves on the field.

Next up is my babygirl Daki. I think she'd be a Summoner with how she can summon her brother. Plus it's a strong class that she would share with the best girls, Garnet and Yuna.

Gyutaro would be one of the newer classes, Reaper. His sickles kind of look like scythes, and I feel like the "edgelord" feel of the class suits him.

Akaza was another obvious one. As a martial artist, he'd be a Monk.

Douma gets to be a Red Mage. One because of the colour of the outfit, and two because the versatility of the class fits him.

Tegen would be a Theif because he's a dual-blade wielder.

Mitsuri can be a Warrior because she's ripped and it would be cool to see her carrying an axe.

Obani is a Ninja due to his stealth.

Kyojuro would be a Paladin due to his sense of honor.

An Shinobu would of course be a White Mage (the best class, but I'm biased as this is my class lol. Bratty healers rise up.)

[fantasyfantasygames]

Beyond Satan

Beyond Satan, Black Dog Games, 2016

A while back I reviewed HellBlaster, the 2009 game from Black Dog Games. Beyond Satan is the 7-years-later successor, sort of in the same way that Werewolf: the Forsaken is the successor to Werewolf: the Apocalypse but still very much its own game. Only HellBlaster and Beyond Satan have more edgelords. Sooooo many more edgelords.

Unlike HellBlaster, Beyond Satan is definitely in on the joke, which gives it a lot more space to breathe. HellBlaster was trying to be death metal; Beyond Satan is successfully cheese metal. For instance, the six mega-demons who replaced Satan are called the Sextality of Evil. Speaking of which, at game start, your characters have just killed Satan. However, months later, evil still abounds in the world, because there are even more powerful badasses behind him. You have to use the power you took from Satan to fight evil with evil.

I appreciate that the Sextality (hee hee) are not given ever-more-gross things that they do in the way that the Book of Vile Deeds did. They're defined by ability and personality rather than each having one type of evil. In fact, the book specifies that they often fight over bad-guy turf. There are also safety tools provided that lean into the game's theme. You don't touch the X-card or call for a veil, you mimic a guitar riff and say "Woah! Not Cool!" and the GM says "Fuck I fucked up!" and you figure out how to continue thrashing evil. Yes those phrases are straight from the book, and yes the guitar riff is mandatory.

The rules are massively streamlined, taking some inspiration from the (imo) better parts of the OSR community. It's still built on a core of AD&D1e, but number go up and damage reduction exists (reducing the opponent's die type). All my previous comments about "twice the number of rolls" no longer apply. Explosive critical hits are included but not quite so gruesomely detailed. Some of the old classes are back - Demon Summoner and Power Fist return - but others were trimmed and replaced. The Pyro and Detonatrix got combined. The Doom Reaper got a total overhaul. The spells got rebalanced and streamlined, and the edgelordier items removed.

The biggest loss from the original game is the 4th-color art process with the fluorescent green. I do like the style of the new stuff better (less gore), but it doesn't have that psychedelic dorm-room touch.

Beyond Satan has a slightly smaller audience than HellBlaster. Beyond Satan is widely recognized as the definitively better game, but Hellblaster's grunge, kibble, and eXXtreme aesthetic just grabs on to people and holds them. I can't say I'd ever want to run HellBlaster, but I get the appeal.