#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*]

[jacqcrisis]

Hnnngggg I can't tell which cross paint I like more for the Halloween Grundo outfit...

[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

[schoenpepper]

Isekai'd Chronicles 6

Intro: Idia in an isekai AU.

Warnings: bad writing, awful grammar, proofread by quillbot, mentions of tax evasion?

A/N: It's just Idia today, so I'll go ahead and schedule an earlier Diasomnia release. Enjoy.

Masterlist

Gods, your friends have just been way too clingy recently! It feels like you're being torn apart by the limbs when Floyd's pulling you to go somewhere as Rook intercepts and Jamil needs you to taste something while Trey has a new recipe he wants you to try and you can't split yourself into 11 parts to satisfy all their needs! Ace, Deuce, Epel and Jack, the wolf beastman you've recently befriended, all snicker at you and smile as if there was something they knew that you didn't. That annoys you. Thus, you decide to live like a hermit and stay in your room as much as possible, playing that new open world RPG that just came out.

It's fun, but you've never really been into games before, which makes you stumble to memorize mechanics you just don't understand. Thankfully, you meet someone in the game who helps you out, and you think that he's really nice, if not a bit smug at times. You two clear dungeons and stuff together, and you marry him in the game for tax evasion purposes. You've gotten so addicted to this game that your friends have been banging on your door to get you to spend time with them, but to no avail. Instead, you spend lots of time with your online husband. It's not until you bump into someone while raiding a village on your phone that this 'online husband' finally gets a face. Your phone clatters to the ground along with someone's tablet, showing the exact same screen, making you gawk at this tall, lanky senior of yours with flaming blue hair and sharp teeth.

How...did you manage to become online spouses with Idia Shroud, the Prince of Ghouls?

He apologizes and so do you, but when you pick up your phone from the ground, you tell him that you're very thankful he helped you out when you were a noob. He takes your gratitude and walks away with what you assume is anxiety. You still play the game, though you've made the decision that you definitely won't be too close to the capture target this time! Right. Until somehow, you're in his room, cocooned in his blanket, and the two of you are playing fighting games in the dead of night as he crunches on some potato chips. Uh, how did this happen?

Anyway, you think Idia's a bit too socially anxious for murder, and he's just not the type for it. So you take off his name from the now very short list of capture targets to avoid, just in time for that RPG to come out with a babymaking update...?

"This sucksss."

"Come on, Idia senpai, just trust me!"

"I don't trust anyone."

You roll your eyes. "Okay edgelord. You'll love it though, promise." You lead him to the edge of your bed and open the cage. A dark gray kitty with blue flames coming out of its ears leaps at you, and Idia gasps loudly. "You got a cat?! What should we name it? Him, her?"

You chuckle softly and place the kitty in his arms, though it doesn't seem to like Idia too much. "Let's name him Grim, like the reaper. You can come by whenever you want to pet him."

[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

[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

[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.

[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.

[meredoubt]

It's just so so funny that Dust de Riva is a full on brooding, threatening assassin. An outcast of the infamous Antivan Crows. an accomplished Reaper stalking the battlefield with an axe named Casket Sharp. interning with the Mourn Watch (I can dream), full on...edgelord supreme

But he insists on being close to his dwarf gf even tho she can kill him by magic, by accident. He knows the odds are comically stacked against him, and yet. Absolute death wish. Survival instinct of a goldfish. He says he's stubborn, and he means it. That man should be dead. To be fair he's never been kissed until he romances someone for the first time, and I do stand by that in every version of him. Demi king sees someone who frightens him or could kill him and says, yes, please

[fictionkinfessions]

tmw you’ve always had kin feelings towards the concept of the Grim Reaper but never understood why so you just thought it was you being an edgelord

and then one night at 4am while you’re dealing with a bunch of other shit you realize youre from THE FUCKING SIMS

box

[paragonrobits]

so for a while I've had a recurring on again-off again concept for a group of antagonistic characters based on the worst aspects of the powerscaling community; the general concept being a team (at least 5 members, with each having their own combat forces or territory, given the focus on empire building and large scale conflict in my story ideas) of extremely powerful, ruthless and smug powerhouses whose abilities are usually based on a mix of characters overhyped by powerscalers (SPECIFICALLY to the extent of badly mischaracterizing them), the worst extremes of the 'isekai power fantasy' self insert protagonist

and very crucially, the attitudes of the people who make these arguments so unbearable; the One Piece fans who endlessly complain about Luffy's devil fruit being silly and not badass, that constantly argue against a series they hate and only want curbstomp attacks and not clever strategies, as an example, or the Dragon Ball fans that depict Goku as a bloodthirsty brute who kills everyone he encounters for the sheer joy of feeling them die

But i've never really gone anywhere with it for two reasons; firstly, I tend to base these character concepts on deliberately edgy vibes, and that winds up giving them a surprising charm. I really value sincerity, lack of irony and genuine enthusiasm, so characters that are unironically sincere about their aesthetics and tone, even if they're malicious and deliberately edgy about it, feel GENUINE. The second is that my main characters tend to occupy somewhat similar grounds; their aesthetics are heavily inspired by heavy metal and punk sub-cultures, and they're usually contrasted against more prim and proper or cutesy and innocent groups as the 'tough and scary weirdos from the Garbage Realms', because of their monstrous powers and often brutal fights, but they're just so GOOFY and cheerfully weird that there's very little actual spookiness about them.

And since 'deliberately edgy', with the visual aesthetics that implies (so things like Overwatch's Reaper , in the sense of a massively over the top edgelord who treats his visual design with absolute seriousness), that makes them quite close to my characters, and they come off not as much as foils as I might like in this case.

So, as I was doing some creative thoughts earlier, I had an epiphany. The main issue is that my examples and inspirations are actually pretty bland and I don't really have that much to work with. On a certain level this could be a good thing and allow me to make these antagonists a fundamentally shallow group of recurring antagonists who are deliberately lacking in character, but I don't know if I find that appealing. But it made me think about a possible missing piece.

There's a kind of person in paleoart communities, I hear, called awesomebros; they're the sort of people who get really hateful and intense about discoveries and theories about dinosaurs that seem to soften them or 'de-badass'-ify them. The ones who complain REALLY loudly about theropods in general being feathered, birds being surviving dinosaurs (they're the ones that make rants about 'HOW ARE BIRDS SUPPOSED TO BE SCARY') or having evidence of complex social structures; in short, people who resent dinosaurs for apparently not being 'badass' or mindlessly violent movie monsters, but actual animals.

There's a big focus on visual design above all else, a contempt for anything except superficial badass-ness, or acting as if scientific investigation is a personal blight on their childhoods, and this synchs up well enough with certain aspects of powerscaling to give me an idea.

Specifically, this antagonist group being mirrored by both awesomebros and the worst of powerscalers; for the latter, SPECIFICALLY the ones that don't want clever fights or complex characters, they just want a continuous series of brutal curbstomps and painfully one sided fights. They want their favorites to be limitlessly powerful destroyers with no real character, just a vessel of destructive power. So combine that with the awesomebro fixation on badass designs and ferocity over anything else, with a bias against anything soft or complex (both politically and in terms of their actual goals), and you have a possible idea for a group of antagonists.

So, based on this, this suggests a group of antagonists and violently minded conquerors, who excel at combat and mainly use overwhelming power and incredibly brutal attacks, and they just want to win fights as brutally and ferociously as possible, always outdoing their previous records. (So a bit of speedrunner aspects in there, possibly with a similar sense of elitism you can see from time to time.)

They don't conquer territory because they actually want it; some of the other factions may be trying to rebuild civilization after a great collapse, unite existing societies together, or build a home for themselves, but these guys have no real interest in it. They conquer so they have a reason to crush and kill, and they pay very little attention to the results, with their subordinates (less powerful but more world wise) doing the actual management. As such they often serve as antagonists because they want to fight and a given situation and provide that fight, regardless of context; they're powerful and not to be underestimated, but their hostility towards clever plans means that basic strategies are effective against them, and they do HORRIBLY against characters with 'puzzle boss' mechanics or loopholes that must be exploited to penetrate their defenses. All they want is overwhelming power and to make a spectacle of applying it, so a situation where it is inapplicable completely leaves them useless.

They also have a fixation on awesome; baroque designs, monstrous appearances, powerful military capability, and a deliberate emphasis on coolness always gets their respect, even if the recipient isn't happy about it.

They may also be virtual ghosts of a kind; the ones you see when fighting them aren't the 'real' ones; all the members of this team have a power or technique of some kind that allows them to astrally project, manifest an avatar to act through, generate a secondary body through ambient energies, and otherwise their real bodies are somewhere else, directing the ones you see as a very literal metaphor about being shallow characters. (This may also indicate a weakness as well as indicating that this group of characters are entitled bullies who don't have the stomach for actual risk or injury; their projections are functionally balloons. They hit hard and they're tough, but are relatively easy to pop once you get past their defenses, and they REALLY hate this, having frail egos.)

As my main character squad are heavily depicted as incredibly stubborn who have a lot of powers based around increasingly high returns for greater effort and weaponizing injuries to motivate them to pull off victories they objectively shouldn't get, it also makes them an excellent contrast.

[mmslooney007]

The (short-ish) Review No One Needed Or Asked For ™ - Tomorrow

Certified tear jerker.

Character-wise

Meet Choi Jungwoong, our golden retriever of a man. He's so desperate for employment that he takes a job in the afterworld. Koo Ryeon, our heroine (?), is vengeance with a killer fashion sense. Lim Ryung-gu completes our trio and is like the common man who clocks out at his eight hours. Very nonchalant personality.

Others to note are Park Joong-gil, our chip-off-the-shoulder, by-the-book edgelord, and the Jade Emperor, the ultimate observer with intense shoulder pads.

Plot-wise

We follow our guy as he works in the afterworld as a grim reaper who saves people who want to unalive themselves under the tutelage of Batman herself and 8hrs-only Robin. Very touching. We explore some reasons why people are crushed under the weight of life and our subplot is uncovering Koo Ryeon's past life to see how it affects the Present, and the future of the Risk Management Team (that devotes itselves to saving people).

Takeaway

Grim Reapers in Korea are serving looks, power, and prestige in cooperate fashion. You get a lanyard in life and death, and (1) day off. The trade off? Powers. That's right. You might be exhausted, but you can stop time and maybe catch a nap.

Props

To the last couple of episodes. Listen, Angel's Last Mission disguised as saving her friend (because friendship IS magic, My Little Pony was right) but really, it was her saving herself. But also, very satisfying to watch because the right people got beat up. You wanna see revenge served? Order coming right up. Koo Ryeon is perfect and did no wrong ever.

My Rating...

9/10

... because why is the rule at Grim Reapers Inc., to not interfere with the living but that's literally what the RM Team does.