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OUT OF CHARACTER:
Name/Handle: Muffin
Contact: PM and tinymuffin84
Reference: N/A
Other characters: None

IN-CHARACTER:
Character name: Undertaker
Character journal: somakemelaugh
Series name: Black Butler
Canon notes: Post chapter 129 in the manga. He will be coming in with Riverview CRAU.

Species: Human

History: Canon history!

Post 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.

Personality: 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. 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, but like his brand of humor, not everyone cares for his methods on 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.

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.

Abilities:
- Undertaker can teleport himself to any location as shown when he vanished from off the broken decks of the Campania to safety from somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic ocean between the UK and New York. Given that this part of ocean is about 3,400 miles across, it's safe to say his range of motion for teleportation is perhaps half that, 1,700 miles to get him at least to the nearest shore. This may need to be nerfed for the game.

- He is a very skilled fighter, seen when he easily manages to fight off two other grim reapers and a demon at the same time in that same arc in the manga, and he doesn't have to rely on his vision to be so. As with all grim reapers, his sight was diminished and he is very nearsighted, but he does not wear glasses anymore and has learned to work around this disability quite well.

- Undertaker cannot be killed by conventional means. He is a grim reaper, and to earn that title, one must have committed suicide while still alive, so he is already technically dead. In the manga, it is commented that a reaper cannot be beaten to death, but may be able to be killed by their own death scythe, a tool unique to the grim reapers alone. If he needs to fight, Undertaker will, and he will prove to be a very difficult opponent.

- Speaking of a death scythe, he carries a set of sotoba with him under his coat that seem decorative in nature. All of them can be used as weapons, but one in particular he can shape shift into his own death scythe. This one cannot be broken, and he can call it forth or send it into hiding at will. He is highly skilled at using all of these in self defense, though he will not if he can help it.

- With this death scythe, he can also pull up what is known as the Cinematic Record of anyone he wants. What this does is to allow him to see their life's history, from birth to present, in all of its horror and happiness, tragedy and joy, ups and downs and everything in between. This is sometimes described as having their life flash before their eyes when someone is close to death.

Drift Fleet note: For the purposes of the game, he will not be able to shift his sotoba into the death scythe, as it resembles just what it seems and would be taken for a weapon in that form.

Augment Skillset: Lab Support

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