Death of the Endless

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2021-05-01T19:22:23Z

Llama

May

PLatform
Shouldn't be here *Potato, *Ea-Nasir, *Thanatos, *Demyx, *Inigo, *Tidus, *Kitty, *Cassie, *Haneul, *Casper, *Ryo, *Noctis, *Bacon
A matter of joints *Leia

What Their Eyes See: Start
This is your babysitter *Katsuya, *Lea
Monitoring *Yondu

What Their Eyes See: Aftermath
Soup *Lea

Sanctuary Moon *Murderbot

June

Platform
Bonding Yondu
Her nature *Elidibus

The god thing *Della

Soul things *Mami, Haneul, Thanatos, Casper, *Soldat, *Danny, *Beetlejuice, *Atem

Butlers *Guri

Merriment

July

PLatform
New roomie *Ienzo
The long way *Usagi

So Familiar a Gleam: Start
Harmless granny *Prompto
Comedy Gold *Phil

So Familiar a Gleam: Ongoing
Halfway *#Danny

Sleepover
Angst *Thanatos

August

Platform
Stubborn walls *Izo

Ghost hunting *Danny

Surprising Goldfish *Allen

Rest and Relaxation
Death takes a holiday Cassie, Inigo, Potato

Nebula

September

Platform
Ghost Danielle

Wings of Wonder: Start
Diplomacy Yondu

Wings of Wonder: Ongoing
Except for the care of the Reaper Ryo, Romeo, Sizhui, Katsuya

October

Platform
Comfort Thanatos

Not a killer Murphy

Never Have I Ever
Names Sanzo

Enemy Unknown
Educational Danny

Orchestra

November

Platform
Mortal food Persephone

Connected to death *Ryo

December

Waking of Neran
Memorial *Yondu
Charming Thanatos

Time for Death's Opinion Jake

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2021-04-23T04:10:22Z

Player Information

Name: Yubsie
Age: 36 as of right now
Contact details: yubsie,
Other characters: Hera Syndulla

Character Information

Name: Death
Canon: Sandman
Canon Point: About a year before the New 52 nonsense happened
OU/AU/CRAU/OC: OC
Age: Ten billion… to one significant figure

World Information: The main DC continuity (1976-2011 definition of main)

Personal History: The wiki hits the high points

Personality: The most immediately obvious thing about Death is that she is a little ray of sunshine. She’s very good at finding the best in people and events. She takes joy in the simple things. While mortal she has previously expressed the sentiment that apples are amazing and generally raved over little things like food. She figures it’s just as easy to be nice to people as it is to be creepy, and it’s definitely a lot more fun.

She also loves absolutely everybody. Being Death means that she knows everyone, and is able to understand them. Since "No one is creepy from the inside" she can’t help loving people. Additionally, she is genuinely interested in people’s lives. Not surprisingly, she will quickly throw herself into getting to know the rest of the characters, no matter how curmudgeonly they might be. She has long considered getting to meet so many neat people to be the best part of her job, and takes particular joy in getting to meet people when they aren’t terrified on account of having just died.

Despite the usual fearful reactions, she is a very down-to-Earth anthropomorphic personification. Death is a steady job, and she’s had plenty of time to grow accustomed to it. Out of all the Endless, she is by far the most well adjusted (admittedly, this isn't hard). She empathizes with people, but she also knows when they need someone to pull them out of a funk. And if that takes the form of throwing a loaf of bread at them, so be it. She’s even less likely to put up with that sort of nonsense from people she is particularly close to. This is quite the opposite of a lack of patience though, motivated by an honest desire to help. That said, it is possible to make her angry, and going out of one’s way to hurt people is a good way to do so.

Although she enjoys her job a great deal, she does take it very seriously. Having seen firsthand what happens when she doesn’t do it right, she knows full well her place in the universe. She is generally quite uncompromising in her responsibilities (she can’t afford not to be), but has been known to make exceptions. Notably, she made Hob Gadling unable to die because she felt that Dream needed a friend. There have been other cases, usually because she has some sort of prior connection to the person, but these are very rare. In the end she knows she has a responsibility to make sure everything runs smoothly.

One thing that Death is going to struggle with is the notion that they are being sent to different worlds to interfere. Given the sheer magnitude of her power, she has a general policy of not meddling in mortal lives. Unlike her younger siblings, she generally does actually stick to it. It’ll probably take a while for her to fully embrace an active role in missions, but she’ll manage support.

Key themes: Understanding- Death never judges anyone because she can always see where they’re coming from
Responsibility- Death knows how powerful she is and that means she has obligations to treat mortals properly

Main Motivation: Love. Death genuinely loves everyone and that drives her to be kind and to keep doing her job.

Skills:Today we play an exciting game of “nerf ALL the powers!”. Death is an anthropomorphic personification, which is pretty darn far from being human. She is able to control her appearance, including clothing. She generally keeps her appearance somewhat in line with the styles of the current era.

Mortals are only able to see her if she allows them to. In a setting like this, she will generally allow everyone to see her unless she has a compelling reason not to. She also treats walls and doors as suggestions, though generally suggestions she takes. Obviously this will not work on any doors that are impassable for plot reasons. She is also able to be in multiple places at the same time, which can be reduced down to teleporting.

As Death, she is the most truly immortal of all the Endless. However, since that is rather twinky in a game environment it will be reduced to being free of the lesser inconveniences of mortality such as needing to eat or sleep and generally quite difficult to kill.

She collects the souls of the deceased with a touch, which is unlikely to come up in game. It should be noted that her touch does not in fact kill. Additionally, she can breathe life into inanimate constructs, which she rarely does. This is presumably right out.

She is also has a near omnipotent mastery of sorcery. Obviously it will be far from omnipotent in game. Unfortunately, DC magic somehow manages to be even more “a wizard did it” than Harry Potter. Magic includes manipulation of energy/elements, creation of wards and creation of illusions. More generally, it stems from the interplay of order and chaos and bringing one to the other. It requires a source of magical energy, which in Death's case is internal. Mortal sorcerers generally need a considerable amount of concentration in order to wield magic, which will be an adjustment for her.

Item: Ankh necklace (it doesn’t have any particular powers, it’s symbolic)

Sample: TDM

Notes: I’m totally willing to work with you on the powers if you need something else adjusted! I realize she’s ludicrously OP.

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Jaunt Information

2016-12-30T23:32:06Z

Ouroboros Retrogade

Setting Information

Kara/Death
Infiltrator/Investigator

Kara is a full time Dreamer thanks to her current cryosleep status. Champion of Death is a bit of an unusual aspect, but she embraces it with the same good cheer as anything else. And Binky her skeletal rat spirit companion is cute in a weird bony way.

And then the Arcana got involved and someone had to remind her who she really is.

Skill Goals: Spirit Companion

Night Falls on Yensid

Setting Information

Death Valley
Infiltrator

Death Valley was pretty happy with whatever Armin's overlay is named. And then she got turned into stone and woke up a thousand years later oops.

Retained Skills: None

The Unquiet Dead

Setting Information

Death/Debbie
Investigator

Death was infiltrated as a goth named Debbie for approximately five minutes. Because of course Death was going to be awfully useful to have around in a Jaunt full of ghosts. Armin returned her to herself, allowing her to talk to the ghosts. And get declared a pain by some ghosts. And to ultimately send Bernkastel's spirit on to the beyond after Armin separated her from Nyarlahotep.

Retained Skills: None

Showtime

Setting Information

Secret Agent Agent Susan D'Eath
Plot Infiltrator

Susan D'Eath is a perfectly normal name and she is a perfectly normal concertgoer. There's no Area 54 what are you talking about? Her investigations at the music festivals never did track down her missing alien. But she did notice that there were a lot of weirdos. A few strategic kidnappings made her realize there were interdimensional wanderers among them. So never mind that alien, they're going to focus on that new problem.

Retained Skills: Secret Agent Training, Home Phone

Olympus Upended

Setting Information

"Teleute"
Investigator

This may just be the Malik Gambit to end all Malik Gambits. She has a perfectly good identity in mythic Greece in the form of Teleute, so she might as well use it while attempting to wrangle the various investigators. This was, apparently, enough to convince the Necromancer Euphrasia of her claims. Death spent the Jaunt providing a wealth of knowledge about millenia of infighting among this particular pantheon.

Retained Skills: None

Pogémon!

Setting Information

Didi
Infiltrator

Didi thinks that Pogemon are adorable, and none are cuter than her particular partner. She's not terribly interested in battling competitively. She's more interested in having fun with her Pogemon partner, who she sees as a fantastic friend. So it was a bit unfortunate when fighting spilled into the streets.

Retained SKills: None

The Haunted Isle

Setting Information

Dia
Infiltrator

Dia is an orca mermaid in the Crownbreaker school. She lost loved ones in the transition to the island and is determined to not let anyone destroy what they've built here. She's a Siren and has been one for a considerable time with all the complications that brings. After Singing for so long, hearing something new that is like Song but not quite is almost impossible to resist. Knowing that she was going to lose to the compulsion eventually, she joined in the expedition to locate the Deepsinger.

Retained Skills: Siren Song I & II

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2016-11-02T02:32:22Z

P L A Y E R;
NAME: Yubsie
AGE: 31
PLAYER JOURNAL: yubsie
TIMEZONE: Eastern
CONTACT: yubsie
OTHER CHARACTERS PLAYED: Wash, Jaina Solo, Minerva McGonagall

C H A R A C T E R;
NAME: Death
CANON: Sandman
POINT IN CANON: About a year before the New 52 nonsense went down
AGE: Ten billion... to one significant digit
APPEARANCE: However she wants to look. As a general rule, she is on the short side, with white skin, wild black hair and heavy goth makeup. She also dresses almost exclusively in black. This is a fairly typical example of how she tends to look At least in the modern era, as her appearance changes considerably depending on what century it is.

CANON HISTORY: Have a wiki
CANON PERSONALITY: The most immediately obvious thing about Death is that she is a little ray of sunshine. She’s very good at finding the best in people and events. She takes joy in the simple things. While mortal she has previously expressed the sentiment that apples are amazing and generally raved over little things like food. She figures it’s just as easy to be nice to people as it is to be creepy, and it’s definitely a lot more fun. On a side note, she is likely to find Death the Trump's bone motif a little distasteful.

She also loves absolutely everybody. Being Death means that she knows everyone, and is able to understand them. Since "No one is creepy from the inside" she can’t help loving people. Additionally, she is genuinely interested in people’s lives. Not surprisingly, she will quickly throw herself into getting to know the rest of the characters, no matter how curmudgeonly they might be. She has long considered getting to meet so many neat people to be the best part of her job, and takes particular joy in getting to meet people when they aren’t terrified on account of having just died.

Despite the usual fearful reactions, she is a very down-to-Earth anthropomorphic personification. Death is a steady job, and she’s had plenty of time to grow accustomed to it. Out of all the Endless, she is by far the most well adjusted (admittedly, this isn't hard). She empathizes with people, but she also knows when they need someone to pull them out of a funk. And if that takes the form of throwing a loaf of bread at them, so be it. She’s even less likely to put up with that sort of nonsense from people she is particularly close to. This is quite the opposite of a lack of patience though, motivated by an honest desire to help. That said, it is possible to make her angry, and going out of one’s way to hurt people is a good way to do so.

Although she enjoys her job a great deal, she does take it very seriously. Having seen firsthand what happens when she doesn’t do it right, she knows full well her place in the universe. She is generally quite uncompromising in her responsibilities (she can’t afford not to be), but has been known to make exceptions. Notably, she made Hob Gadling unable to die because she felt that Dream needed a friend. There have been other cases of her making exceptions, usually because she has some sort of prior connection to the person, but these are very rare. In the end she knows she has a responsibility to make sure everything runs smoothly.

One thing that Death is going to struggle with is the notion that they are being sent to different worlds to interfered. Given the sheer magnitude of her power, she has a general policy of not meddling in mortal lives. Unlike her younger siblings, she generally does actually stick to it. So she is going to disapprove fairly strongly of the fact that the Trumps are playing a game.

POINT OF DEPARTURE: N/A
ABILITIES: So remember how Harry Potter magic was so ill defined that this section started with muffled sobbing? Let's just say... it's probably for the best that this is the last character I am permitted to app.

Today we play an exciting game of “nerf ALL the powers!”. Death is an anthropomorphic personification, which is pretty darn far from being human. She is able to control her appearance, including clothing. (This part probably translates to Wardrobe Manipulation) She generally keeps her appearance somewhat in line with the styles of the current era.

Mortals are only able to see her if she allows them to. In a setting like this, she will generally allow everyone to see her unless she has a compelling reason not to. She also treats walls and doors as suggestions, though generally suggestions she takes. Obviously this will not work on any doors that are impassable for plot reasons. She is also able to be in multiple places at the same time, which is probably best translated into one of the Teleportation skills.

As Death, she is the most truly immortal of all the Endless. However, since that is rather twinky in a game environment it will be reduced to being free of the lesser inconveniences of mortality such as needing to eat or sleep and generally quite difficult to kill.

She collects the souls of the deceased with a touch, which is unlikely to come up in game. It should be noted that her touch does not in fact kill. Additionally, she can breathe life into inanimate constructs, which she rarely does. This is presumably right out.

She is also has a near omnipotent mastery of sorcery. Obviously it will be far from omnipotent in game and avoid any spells that would coincide too closely with any Liminal/Psychic skills. Unfortunately, DC magic somehow manages to be even more “a wizard did it” than Harry Potter. Magic includes manipulation of energy/elements, creation of wards and creation of illusions. More generally, it stems from the interplay of order and chaos and bringing one to the other. It requires a source of magical energy, which in Death's case is internal. Mortal sorcerers generally need a considerable amount of concentration in order to wield magic, which will be an adjustment for her.

INVENTORY; Ankh necklace, two pennies, black jeans, black tanktop
ANYTHING ELSE WE SHOULD KNOW? I am so sorry DC magic is somehow vaguer than Harry Potter magic

S A M P L E S;
ACTIONSPAM SAMPLE: Ataraxion thread
PROSE SAMPLE: Fourth wall thread

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IC Contact

2015-08-17T22:17:41Z

Blah blah blah contact there's not even a network right now

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Memories

2013-09-30T00:59:15Z

Generally, the day to day feelings you're going to get off Death are pretty cheery. There's a side dose of wanting to take care of everybody.

Likely clues in memories: Seeing her hands, since few on board have quite her complexion. It should be noted that her siblings generally call her some variant on "Sister" rather than Death.

Deathy Memories

- Reaping memories. Pick a dead famous historical figure and they're in there. Or a not so famous one. Except for very early (universe is roughly a billion years old early) memories, these involve reassuring the frightened recently deceased. For an example of how she deals with just random people, see her fist appearance (CW: child death)
- Or if you want to be really sad, collecting her own siblings (Despair, Dream)
- Dealing with the dead coming back after Lucifer shut down hell
- One day mortal out of every century, always ending in her dying (if you're really feeling morbid!)
- Trying to talk Orpheus out of returning to the underworld to retrieve his wife, but ultimately helping it. (It ended poorly)

Family Memories

- Any number of family meetings that break down into screaming arguments between various siblings
- Taking Delirium to see 101 Dalmations. Del thinks the butter tastes like earwax.
- Trying to calm Delirium down when she's having an episode
- Talking to Destruction Krypton about how anyone could know everything, but it would be unbearable
- Throwing a loaf of bread at Dream because he's whining too much

Mayfield
- Waking up in bed with a skeleton wearing pajamas
- You can get really meta and get Memories of her and Slugger trying to fight off implanted memories!
- Helplessly watching everyone around her succumb to radiation poisoning
- Discussing mutual confusion
- Getting very tired of zombie outbreaks
- Selling makeup and baking brownies for the grandkids (Arya features in this one)
- In general there are a lot of day to day memories of Death Clan, composed of her, Discworld!Death, his actual granddaugther Susan, her fake husband The Riddler who is also somewhat of a little brother to Death and the grandchildren Luke Triton, Little Slugger and Tiffany Aching

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