2T4U/Supernatural Beings Abilities/Reaper Abilities

Reaper Abilities

A reaper is the soul of a once living being that was placed in Purgatory in their afterlife and assigned to Death to work off the debt of their sin. They have all of the abilities of a ghost without needing to practice, but have a few other powers given to them by Death.

• Sin Sense: Reapers can read the sin on a soul. Sin is defined by belief. Christian sin is different than Agnostic sin, etc.
• Soul Collection: Reapers can collect the souls of the dead.
  • Souls that feel VERY strongly that they left something EXTREMELY important unfulfilled in their mortal life can resist the reaper's grasp, but this is rare.
  • Reapers carry souls to the afterlife and/or reincarnate them according to the soul's beliefs and their earthly actions.
    • Atheist's souls disperse upon death, and therefore cannot be collected nor become ghosts.
    • While belief creates afterlives, it takes large numbers of believers to do so.
    • Small cults and an individual's beliefs do not produce afterlives, so the closest afterlife is chosen.
    • Agnostic souls go to the most believed in afterlives . . . therefore Christian for now.
• Forgetfulness: Most beings will not remember their encounter with a reaper. Reapers can allow them to remember, but this is rarely done.
• Reaper's Scythe: Reapers carry a scythe that was forged with a piece of Death itself. A single strike from the scythe will instantly kill any living being. Reapers are held accountable for anyone they kill, so they only use the scythe when their own existence is threatened.