Yes, well, if you had been paying attention, you'd have heard me say we were both half-ghost hybrids. Both the boy and myself, you see--his father's stupidity put his own son at the same deadly risk that I myself had been so many years ago.
And so you're... what, half-dead? [Ectoplasm is not a thing where she's from, it's the sort of thing spiritists claim is real during their seances. She's used to things being very cut and dry, very simple. She's not some kind of research nerd, but it's like....
Vlad will get a flash of memory, not much, just the idea of film reels. Nothing detailed, just blurred images flickering in the curling strips of film. The film itself is more the focus of the memory, and you reach out a gloved hand, catch the strip of film at the end of it, see The End and cut there with your curved training scythe.]
That is what humans commonly refer to as "my life flashing before my eyes" as they die.
Grim Reapers, like my~self~ review a human's cinematic record of memories to check for any irregularities, then sever the soul from both the record and the body. That's how humans die, where I'm from.
Considering I am a ghost, I'd say it very much is, but very well.
How does one become a Grim Reaper, then? Is it something you were just tasked with being when you were born? Are you even alive in the conventional sense yourself?
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Exactly. So you see, now, why my plans are so imperative.
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[moving on from that]
What are you, anyway?
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...or any animal's death, really.
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Vlad will get a flash of memory, not much, just the idea of film reels. Nothing detailed, just blurred images flickering in the curling strips of film. The film itself is more the focus of the memory, and you reach out a gloved hand, catch the strip of film at the end of it, see The End and cut there with your curved training scythe.]
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He does process it a few moments later, though. ]
That was...those film reels, those were people's lives ending, weren't they? Is that how death works where you come from?
[ He sounds equal parts curious and incredulous. ]
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Grim Reapers, like my~self~ review a human's cinematic record of memories to check for any irregularities, then sever the soul from both the record and the body. That's how humans die, where I'm from.
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But really, we've got nothing like your sort of ghosts back home. You're lucky I'm not one of the research department guys.
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How does one become a Grim Reaper, then? Is it something you were just tasked with being when you were born? Are you even alive in the conventional sense yourself?
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Not that it matters much here anyway, seeing as we've all been stripped of our powers and are dead now anyway.
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[ IS THERE A BASTARD DEMON AROUND HE SOMEHOW MISSED? ]
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How are you so certain of their identity?
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