((CW: Death, Vague religious themes, possible graphic descriptions of death (not within prompt), coping with the afterlife, etc.
Modern Morbid Supernatural AU wherein Dirk is a reaper upon a pale horse, and due to his frequent difficulties harvesting souls on account of him not being a particularly People Friendly dude, he’s gotten assigned to train another reaper (y/c). The cause of death for your character is entirely up to you, and if you’d like to do some ooc worldbuilding or plot-planning once we’ve gotten into the swing of things, I’d be thrilled. All questions are welcome, and romance and smut are on the table so long as you’re 18+.
Desired Characters: Dave/Alpha Dave (my heart and all its contents for a good Dave), but I’ll accept …show more content…
She was his partner in this work, the Bert to his Ernie, the Chewbaca to his Han Solo, the Starsky to his Hutch.
Although in this simile she was also Starsky’s Ford Gran Torino since she had reaper-familiar powers, and was thus /incredibly/ convenient to ride on.
However, apart from his brilliant and lovely familiar, Dirk Strider was entirely unlike the biblical figure of death. While Death was one of a foursome of hellish apocalyptic prophesy, Dirk had been around and reaping since the early twentieth century, and he wasn’t unique in that.
Reapers, as a class, were a supernatural subsection under Fate, primarily dealing with death and the transportation of souls into the afterlife. Mostly, they were nonviolent, tended towards passive involvement, and stayed unseen (unless encountered by a human or animal which can see Beyond The Veil).
Reapers themselves became so usually with little warning and although many reapers report having experienced supernatural events during their lives, usually these events are regarded as unrelated. Merely they die, and then during the process of their own culling, the reaper who finds them has a red (reaper) sheet for their soul signature, rather than a white (afterlife) …show more content…
He’d taken most of the night away from Dirk single handedly, setting him back half a night’s worth of souls, but it was better to waste his time trying to get one soul than to abandon them, and let them warp into a lost soul, or a ghost, which was the fate of all unguided souls. He’d only encountered them a few times, but when their papers lost, there was only a steady, spiritual decay left, and then eventually a reaper would have to dispose of the soul—rather than send it on.
Similarly, if a reaper didn’t collect souls, they’d experience “reaper rot,” an aptly named condition where their physical forms began to wither and weaken. It was never something he’d experienced himself, but he’d heard it was painful (from the reaper who trained him) and had no desire to experience it himself.
While reaping was a job, it was also a state of existence, the closest supernatural form to human that Dirk was aware of (although reapers tended to separate themselves from humans as time moved on). Failing to do the job violated the red contract they’d signed when they’d been culled, and therefore their existence weakened. It was
Modern Morbid Supernatural AU wherein Dirk is a reaper upon a pale horse, and due to his frequent difficulties harvesting souls on account of him not being a particularly People Friendly dude, he’s gotten assigned to train another reaper (y/c). The cause of death for your character is entirely up to you, and if you’d like to do some ooc worldbuilding or plot-planning once we’ve gotten into the swing of things, I’d be thrilled. All questions are welcome, and romance and smut are on the table so long as you’re 18+.
Desired Characters: Dave/Alpha Dave (my heart and all its contents for a good Dave), but I’ll accept …show more content…
She was his partner in this work, the Bert to his Ernie, the Chewbaca to his Han Solo, the Starsky to his Hutch.
Although in this simile she was also Starsky’s Ford Gran Torino since she had reaper-familiar powers, and was thus /incredibly/ convenient to ride on.
However, apart from his brilliant and lovely familiar, Dirk Strider was entirely unlike the biblical figure of death. While Death was one of a foursome of hellish apocalyptic prophesy, Dirk had been around and reaping since the early twentieth century, and he wasn’t unique in that.
Reapers, as a class, were a supernatural subsection under Fate, primarily dealing with death and the transportation of souls into the afterlife. Mostly, they were nonviolent, tended towards passive involvement, and stayed unseen (unless encountered by a human or animal which can see Beyond The Veil).
Reapers themselves became so usually with little warning and although many reapers report having experienced supernatural events during their lives, usually these events are regarded as unrelated. Merely they die, and then during the process of their own culling, the reaper who finds them has a red (reaper) sheet for their soul signature, rather than a white (afterlife) …show more content…
He’d taken most of the night away from Dirk single handedly, setting him back half a night’s worth of souls, but it was better to waste his time trying to get one soul than to abandon them, and let them warp into a lost soul, or a ghost, which was the fate of all unguided souls. He’d only encountered them a few times, but when their papers lost, there was only a steady, spiritual decay left, and then eventually a reaper would have to dispose of the soul—rather than send it on.
Similarly, if a reaper didn’t collect souls, they’d experience “reaper rot,” an aptly named condition where their physical forms began to wither and weaken. It was never something he’d experienced himself, but he’d heard it was painful (from the reaper who trained him) and had no desire to experience it himself.
While reaping was a job, it was also a state of existence, the closest supernatural form to human that Dirk was aware of (although reapers tended to separate themselves from humans as time moved on). Failing to do the job violated the red contract they’d signed when they’d been culled, and therefore their existence weakened. It was