Name: Sora Grimoire
Age: Physically 17, 1 century in actuality
Species: Reaper
Weapon: The Standard issue BoSA Side-arm Pistol. But in addition, a Deathscythe, the Signature and standard weapon of a Reaper.
Skills:
Enhanced body- Being a Reaper with a physical form, it's natural to assume that he is physically stronger, faster, and more agile than a normal human.
Spirit Medium- Sora has a natural connection to the Spiritual world due to being a reaper. As such, he is able to commune with the dead, let them into him, and can even see their final moments before their passing, using what they say and see to his advantage, and the advantage of the Bureau.
Dark Magic/"The Reaper's Touch"- As a Reaper, Sora has a magical affinity for the Darkness and Death. Thus he possesses the power to utilize Dark Magic and the signature abilities of the Reapers, "The Reaper's Touch".
The Dark Magic is self-explanatory, Magic involving darkness, shadows, and night. While not his very best abilities, he can use it for most occasions of battles and has trained himself to be an expert in using it.
On the other hand, there is his signature magic, the "Reaper's Touch". Concealed inside his black gloves are hands entirely of bones and irradiating a dark and cold aura of magic around them. Aside from hunting the lost souls and undead, a reaper's task is to reap the souls of the recently departed from their soon-to-be corpses, ending what little life they have left to free them from their coil. The Reaper's touch is the key to this; a reaper's real hands are irradiated with the magic of Death. On its own, a touch from a Reaper's true hand can cause decay upon the surface, and can cause death to the near-dying. In addition, it is by these hands that death spells can be used.
It is however, inferior to the genuine article, the Touch of Death. The rate of decay much slower, life energy is drained at a slow rate as oppose to being instantaneous, and to top it off, the reapers are heavily restricted and rule-bound by their god's opposite, the God of Life. They, Sora included, must abide by these rules and avoid draining life from anyone who isn't ready or necessary for it to be used on, or face obliteration and their rule-breaking reversed.
(In other words, unless it's specifically required for the job, if Sora attempts to use this to kill someone who isn't already about to die, then he himself will die and the attempt will be reversed. My own personal consequence for the potential god-modding that this kind of power may imply.)
Weakness/Limits:
There's always someone stronger- The law of progressive strength applies even to the supernatural world. No matter how strong someone is, there can always be someone who is stronger. There can be multiple creatures and beings that are physically better than Soura.
The Downsides of being a Spirit Medium- Not all spirits are friendly or cooperative. His natural connection with the spirit world makes him able to sense and be spiritually attacked by hostile/vengeful spirits, phantoms, specters or wraiths. Prolonged exposure to the spirit world can be dangerous even for him due to these potential attacks on the mind and soul.
Light/Life Magic- Reapers are not like demons; while they are cruel and monstrous in their job to do what must be done, they are not necessarily malevolent in nature. However, they are still creatures of darkness and Death, physical manifestations of that inevitable truth. Ergo, the magic of light can weaken their dark powers, while the magic of life, such as the magic of blood, water, and plants, is negating factor of their existence and as such, is essentially kyptonite for them. The laws of recovery is reversed for these entities as a result.
(To be clear, this does not mean they can't be anywhere near these things, it'd make their work excruciatingly difficult if that was the case. It simply means magic involving these things is damaging for them.)
Appearance:
He has black gloves on his hands. Like Azeal's tattoo, this is not just an aesthetic choice. Behind those gloves are hands of black bones irradiating a dark magic, the "Reaper's Touch". The gloves are designed to not only hide the grotesque hands from sight, but to contain and seal the dark magic they give out.
Personality: A bit of a stoic, silent type of guy despite his age as the "youngest" of the Reapers. He's not the type to start a conversation, and prefers not to talk with others for any longer than is necessary. That's not to say he's a jerk though, he can be relatively kind, and has enough of a sense of humor to laugh at a decent Joke every once in a while. It's more that he just prefers putting more focus on his job as a agent and a reaper than on the social activities of others.
People, even in the Bureau, don't often see that passive, soft-natured side of him, for the persona he has around others is that of a cold and heartless monster. He follows the orders of his superiors to the letter, and let not a single shred of sympathy, compassion, or pity allow him to make an exception. This ESPECIALLY goes for the Undead and Ghosts, the things he was created to throw back into the arms of Death. As such, can also be seen as incredibly racist against the Undead. It would not matter to him if it was the spirit or zombie of a man, a woman, or even a child, he would cut them all down without relent.
...Or at least, that's what he wants people to believe. However, if one truly gets to know him, they may understand why he gives himself such a cruel reputation.
As a reaper, he sees the value of life as its lived by others, but at the same time, he knows all too well the inevitability of Death that looms across everyone in this realm that he meets. The human members of the BoSA being no exception to this. No matter how much he likes somebody, or any living thing for that matter, or how much he tries to protect someone, he knows that eventually, in the end, he will have to be the one to reap their souls when their time comes. It will have to be him who makes them draw their last breath and there is nothing he can do about it; if he doesn't, another Reaper will.
Because of this, he often prefers to be distant from others, preferring they live their lives how they want, instead of wasting it on a Reaper like himself. This train of thought has often led him to having something of an inferiority complex, thinking himself as unimportant or a waste of space compared to the rest of them. The Undead returning to Death is a priority hardwired into his very soul and so there's nothing he can do to change his opinion of them. However, in secret, he would often try to comfort the ghosts and undead, to ease their fears of death and try to make smooth their passing from the physical realm.
Moreover, as a Detective, he had a deep interest in solving the mysteries of the murders he investigated, and a deep hatred for the perpetrator of said murders. Every time he encounters a murder scene, he enacts a last rite to soothe the likely distorted and vengeful soul of the victim, promising them justice as he guides them into Death's hand.
Bio: Before the BoSA came into existence, it was a task of the Grim Reaper to extinguish all paranormal traces of life from the world. The ghosts and undead, souls that were said to have escaped his grip when a culling of souls was in session, were to be returned to his hand and taken to where they belong. However, as times passed, with more souls Death took from the world of the living, even more souls escaped his grip and the realm of the dead, creating more and more ghosts, ghouls, and zombies to a degree where they are well-known, albeit in ways of superstition or myth, in the living society.
So as to assist in returning the paranormal back into its hands where they belong, Death created from himself offsprings. Thee beings, the reapers, were tasked with the daily duties of the great grim one across the multiverse, and with taking back that which rightfully belongs to Death. While most reapers had their own ways of doing these things, Sora, one of the youngest known reapers took an adaptive method, making a place for himself in the living society as a Paranormal Investigator and overall Spirit Detective.
For a long while, Sora spent his life in fascination of the living people around him, yet all too aware of his mission as a Reaper. To fulfill both his desire and goal, he took a job as a Detective, studying the ways of Police and detectives throughout the years and using his abilities as a Reaper to his advantage. By day, he's using his knowledge and spiritual power to find and capture living murderers, of whom he casts a death penalty onto so as to satisfy his master. By Night, he is hunting down the nearest ghosts and undead he could find, and sending them back into his master's cold hand once more.
Eventually, his presence as a detective caught the attention of the BoSA, whom at first thought of him as a murderous demon of darkness due to his vigilante nature towards murderers. However, upon investigating his life further, they realized that he was not truly much different from them, and invited him to join their cause.
Sora, seeing the cooperation of the BSoA as a far easier method of performing his life's work, accepted the Invitation and joined them.
