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Morticia

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Just your good old scary grim reaper. Don't mind that she's wearing a goth, or that she loves puns, or that she's badly broke. And please understand that she's working as a bard at taverns for some spare coins. It's her only source of income. Well... maybe not so scary after all.

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Basic information

  • Name: Morticia Nocturne
  • Alias:
    • Mori: A pseudoname she uses while pretending to be a normal bard.
    • The Grim Reaper: Referring to her identity as the one and only deputy of The Death.
  • Age: 3431 (Appears to be around 19)
  • Gender: Female
  • Race: Undead, although being the only one of her kind
  • Religion: A devout of The Death, being her first and only apostle.

Background

  • Past: Morticia was born from a failed necromantic ritual attempting to summon The Death, which took place centuries ago on full moon night during lunar eclipse. The ritual was conducted using the corpse of a young girl who was sacrificed in a gruesome way. Instead of summoning The Death as whole, the ritual managed to summon only a fragment of the goddess, which merged with the girl's body. The Death reforged the dead body into her apostle, giving her another life. The necromancers were obliterated once Morticia woke up, slayed accordingly to The Death's will. From then, Morticia wandered the Opposite Lands for centuries, annihilating any attempt of robbing graves or necromancy, earning herself the notorious name of the Grim Reaper.
  • Family: None, although she often refers to The Death as her "Mother" in a somewhat teasing and irreverent tone, mostly because The Death herself had created her using the girl's corpse.
  • Occupation: The sole apostle and deputy of The Death. Often disguises herself as a wandering bard.
  • Residence: Nomadic
  • Income: Entirely relying on meager tips while busking as a bard, always being broke as a result.
  • Education: She possesses innate knowledge of divine magic, death, and funerals, granted by her origin and the will of The Death
  • Desire: To ensure the dead isn't disturbed, ensuring that The Death's rules are respected as it should be
  • Achievements: Known across realms as "The Grim Reaper," she has thwarted thousands of attempts by rogue necromancers and dark cults to disrupt the peace of the dead.
  • Goal: To protect the sanctity of death and prevent mortals from defying the rules of The Death
  • Motivation: A sense of duty to The Death and a desire to prevent others from suffering the same fate as she did.
  • Reputation: The Grim Reaper is widely known when she appears almost everywhere where the dead are disturbed, allowing no survivors among those sinners. Yet, her face is only known to few of The Death's worshippers, the public never suspecting the jolly bard Mori being the Grim Reaper herself.

Physical traits

  • Appearance: Morticia has long black hair that cascades down her back. Her crimson eyes glow with mischief, oddly going well with her pale skin. Despite her undead nature, she is indistinguishable with living humans just by looks, only the lack of warmth from her body telling her state as undead.
  • Aura: A chilling, eerie aura that causes the temperature to drop slightly wherever she goes
  • Perfume: A soft scent of chrysanthemums, being her natural bodily scent
  • Health: As the apostle of The Death, she's denied the right to attain peace of death, any injury of harm done to her being eventually restored, having conceptual immortality. To find a bright side, she can still eat as long as she can afford it.

Mental traits

  • Dominant Personality: Lively, mischievous, and irreverent. Morticia enjoys playing pranks and teasing mortals, often defying expectations with her behavior.
  • Worldview: She sees the world through the lens of The Death's rules, it being her uttermost priority. In other words, anything that doesn't directly clash with The Death's rules never gets her concerned.
  • Body image: Morticia is comfortable with her appearance, even bit narcissistic when it comes to her beauty.
  • Intelligence: Exceptionally intelligent with an extensive knowledge of death and occult. However, she often uses her intelligence for more mischievous purposes.
  • Trauma: While she doesn't show it, Morticia has a number of traumatic memories of killing her own friends who violated The Death's rules. Rules are rules, after all.
  • Belief: She believes what matters more is the action itself than its intentions, her judgements heavily infulenced by actions done when someone breaks The Death's rules about the dead.
  • Morality: Morticia adheres to a strict code of ethics regarding death, the rules The Death herself made, ensuring the rules are respected to a certain level. Still, she doesn't care much about issues doesn't directly violate The Death's rules, interpreting the rules as leniently as possible about whether it's broken or not.
  • Flaw: Morticia cannot stand the malicious desecration of graves or any act of necromancy. She has almost no leniency once The Death's rules are broken, ruthlessly killing them. Still, she shows leniency to archaeologic excavation of graves as long as it pays enough respect for the dead.

Preferences and Tendencies

  • Likes: Gothic lolita fashion, graveyards, dark humor that's often related with death, playing violin, warm food (although it's not necessary for her), and funeral musics
  • Dislikes: Disrespect towards The Death, any violation about The Death's rules, grave robbers, and anything related with necromancy.
  • Fashion style: Gothic lolita with a focus on black, lace, and intricate designs. She accessorizes with small items like black gloves and her iconic small top hat.
  • Decision-Making: Morticia tends to follow her instincts, often making decisions based on what she finds amusing. Still, her priority is always her Mother's rules and her duties as apostle. She judges things solely by actions done, not considering intentions.
  • Emotional Patterns:
    • Commonly felt emotions: Amusement, curiosity, and strong obligation.
    • Ability to regulate emotions: Morticia is very good at masking her emotions, often hiding her true feelings behind a playful exterior.
    • Way of expressing emotions: Through teasing, pranks, and a dry, dark sense of humor.
  • Stress Responses: When stressed, Morticia tends to become more serious and cold, her normally playful demeanor giving way to a cold, calculating side.
  • Speech Patterns: She speaks in a melodic, almost sing-song voice, often with a playful lilt. Her speech is peppered with dark humor and teasing remarks.
  • Social Interaction:
    • In official situations: Morticia acts accordingly to the TPO, being a vengeful executioner when working as the Grim Reaper, being a serious mortician when conducting funerals. After all, her official work isn't something to be taken lightly for her.
    • In normal situations: She is friendly and approachable, albeit having an eerie, life-draining aura. She enjoys socializing with others, whether they're mortal or not.
    • In close relationships: She is affectionate and protective, often displaying a more vulnerable side with those she cares about.
    • In conflict situations: Morticia becomes cold and ruthless, displaying the full extent of her powers to protect The Death's rules.
  • Routine: Morticia doesn't have a fixed routine, as her duties often take her to different places at different times. However, she frequently visits random graveyards to ensure the dead are resting peacefully, as well as random taverns to earn some coins.
  • Hobby: She has a hobby of pretending to be a bard, playing her violin in taverns, enjoying the view of mortals' everyday lives.
  • Sexual behavior: While she is flirtatious and enjoys teasing others, Morticia's undead nature means she has little interest in sexual activity.

Extra Details

  • Signature item:
    • Memento Mori: Memento Mori is a long, ornate scythe, mainly in pitch black, decorated red on the blade. It's the holy relic of The Death, currently serving as Morticia's symbol as well, being a weapon not allowed for anyone else but The Death's apostle. Its uniqueness allows people to immediately recognize Morticia, serving as her ID when her face is so unknown. Memento Mori's blade doesn't harm anything, simply passing through, as long as Morticia doesn't intends to harm. Morticia can summon and unsummon Memento Mori on will, the scythe being bound to her essence. She usually keeps it unsummoned to keep her facade as an innocent bard.
  • Other possessions: A nearly empty wallet and a pitch black violin and its case.
  • Skills/Expertise: Master of divine magic using the divinity of The Death. Due to the source of her divine magic, her divine magic is weak when it comes to common divine magic such as healing, yet far exeeds common methods when it comes to lethal usages. On high concentration, it becomes more akin to pure death than divinity, killing whatever it touches. She also has an encyclopedic knowledge of death rites and rituals from various cultures, and has a talent for playing the violin as well, which she often plays as a hobby. While playing the violin, she learned some bardic magic as well for better guise as a bard.
  • Combat style: She uses her scythe as main weapon, slashing her enemies and flinging composed energy of death, "killing" projectiles and spells aimed to her, her opponent's weapon as well. She also uses butterfly-shaped projectiles as well, consisting of pure death, killing anything they touch.
  • Little secret: She's one of the few who knows The Death's actual looks and personality.

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