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Canon: Kuroshitsuji
Character: Undertaker
Variation: Riverview CRAU
About: Undertaker is an odd sort. His humor is a brand that many won't appreciate, as he tends to poke and prod at buttons to get a reaction out of others for his own fun, but he has said laughter means as much as the world to him. It isn't too terribly unusual to find him peeking out of coffins or bowling with body parts to take up his time. He lives in a funeral parlor among the dead and spends his time readying bodies for their last big party at the church. If that wasn't enough, he even shapes his cookies into bones and keeps them in an urn, and his tea is kept in beakers that may or may not have once held bodily materials that would make your stomach turn. To sate his amusement, he holds information that he picks up through the grapevine in England's underworld and asks for a laugh as payment before he will tell anyone what it is they want to know. The upside to this is that he almost always wears a smile, although it's hard to tell whether or not there is something sinister or simply amused hiding behind it.

Despite his tendencies and peculiarities, he isn't outwardly malicious or malevolent. He has been a mortician for years and takes pride in his work, making the dead beautiful again before they're buried. He does have his own agenda behind it all, and though he won't outright kill someone to see to his own ends, he doesn't mind if people die as a result of his work. Life takes on a different meaning to those who are already dead, and Undertaker has been rather indifferent about matters of the living and the dead in his time as a grim reaper.

It's his curiosity about what happens after life that motivates him for the bizarre dolls, he has said, and he uses that and his position as a mortician to play with death and see what happens when he changes a person's cinematic records (the history of their life, in essence) to cause them to try and live longer. These people mean nothing to him; they are strangers, and it's easy not to care for what happens to them or their living loved ones. He just wants to see what happens in the end, or beyond the end as the case may be, but like his brand of humor, not everyone cares for his methods or his experiments and it gets him in trouble when he's found out. Even still, he takes it in stride and doesn't care much for the offenses he has caused, going so far as to say some of them just can't appreciate the beauty of his work. A ship full of the living have been terrorized and attacked to see how they fare against his dolls? Okay, sure. But the dolls themselves don't lie like the living do. Their honest, simple nature is something he can appreciate and even admire.

Still, there are certain people in the world that he won't let come to harm through it - namely those in the Phantomhive family, who he has been involved with for generations. He hasn't yet jumped in harm’s way to protect the only living member of the Phantomhives, but he hasn’t needed to. It isn't that he doesn't care - the chain around his waist stands as a testament to the depth of his feelings for the people who meant anything to him. Their names and death dates and little locks of their hair are kept with him on his mourning chain and he keeps it with him always. The only one who wasn't able to make it to that chain was Vincent Phantomhive, only because when his remains were discovered, there was nothing left of him. But Vincent's son remains, and even when Undertaker was attacked by Ciel’s butler, he never directly attempted to harm the boy, even going so far as to give them a quick way out of a sinking ship when all was said and done by cutting it in half with his death scythe.

What he does is his own business and he has his own purposes for making the bizarre dolls that he has, but he hides it all behind his grins and keeps his secrets close while he watches over the people who mean the most to him. This hasn't changed in his Riverview CRAU. Over the year he has spent in the game, circumstances brought Ciel Phantomhive to the world with him. With the initial distance between them, they lived separately and things went as they had while the two of them had been in England. But when an in game event caused Ciel to be reverted in memory to a younger version of himself, Undertaker became the one person Ciel could recall and rely on.

For a week, Undertaker cared for Ciel, and when the Earl's memories returned, they found a new dynamic in their friendship. While still just as oddball, Undertaker became Ciel's guardian officially, and after Ciel suffered an asthma attack, the two moved to a small cottage. A few months later, Ciel even hired Undertaker on as a manager of one of his business ventures, and they have been close ever since.