Appearance
He has deathly pale skin and steely grey eyes, but when he is angry or trying to frighten souls they turn a bright red. He is around five feet and nine inches tall and is thinly built. His fingers are almost bone like in appearance and they have claws for fingernails. His teeth are sharp and his canines can extend into fangs. He looks like a thirteen year old in terms of facial appearance, but his face gives off a creepy feeling of being old and scary.
Name: Mortimer Winston
Alias: Grim Shadow
Age: he was 13 when he died but he has existed for 250 years
Gender: male
Equipment: he has both a
scythe and a
flaming sword, both of which are made of infernal materials which he can summon to him and back to the other-plane. These weapons can harm both living and spiritual beings, and Grim can channel spiritual energy into them to increase their power.
Skills/Abilities: he has a huge amount of knowledge thanks to his immortality and knows more than any human about the spiritual-plane. He is an excellent combatant
Powers:
Immortality: He is already dead so he can't die, but that does not make him invincible, he can still fade if he loses too much of his spiritual essence.
Spiritual Energy manipulation: as an apprentice to Death, Grim can manipulate the spiritual energy inside himself and the world around him which grant him several different abilities. Despite his connection with death, Grim's powers are neutral and he can draw from both negative and positive spiritual energy, but drawing from too much of either then they can have a negative effect on him. Too much positive spiritual energy can make his darker powers weaker, and absorbing too much negative spiritual energy can make him more darker and uncontrolled.
Spirit Blasts: This power gives Grim the ability to fire blasts of spiritual energy
Telekinesis: By manipulating spiritual energy he can move stuff through the power of telekinesis which is something that many powerful spirits share and the power of this ability is dependent on how much spiritual energy he puts behind it.
Necromancy: Grim is very skilled in the art of necromancy and is able to communicate and summon the dead, which include spirits as well as reanimating corpses under his control. However using this ability too much can drain him of his spiritual energy since it can cost a great amount to summon a large number of the undead. He also can use his necromancy for protection against black magic and infernal power.
Death empowerment: Because he is a spirit of death, being around death can increase his power.
Death Walking: this power allows Grim to disappear in a mass of shadows to and from places he can think of.
Flight: he can use spiritual energy to make himself fly.
Weaknesses: Grim may be very powerful but he does have several weaknesses. Iron weapons can hurt his spiritual essence more than most metal and can make him weaker at a very quick rate if he takes too many hits from iron. Silver is like kryptonite to him and it can drain away his power if he is in close vicinity with it. Because he is made up of pure ethereal energy his existence depends on having this energy and if he loses too much energy then he will be destroyed, this is why he has to be careful when using his powers in incredibly strong ways despite having a huge well of spiritual energy. Because of this anything that can severely weaken or destroy spiritual or ethereal energy can be extremely dangerous to him. Finally he has an intense fear of his dead body being resurrected and will be nearly paralyzed if his body was taken control of by supernatural forces.
Personality: Being a servant of death, Mortimer is very dark his personality and isn't fazed by the site of massacres and the worst acts of brutality. During his time as an apprentice to death, Mortimer has seen some of the worst horrors of the nineteenth and twentieth century, including slavery, the decimation of the native Americans, the civil war and both world wars. He is tasked with being a watcher of humanity and keeping balance in the world. Because of his transcendence through death, Mortimer's human personality has almost completely vanished and aside from his name and murder he barely remembers his life among the living. As a servant of death, Mortimer is neutral in his alignment and is seen as neither good or evil in the eyes of God.
Even though he is neutral, Mortimer's very faint human morals and the memory of his death make him dislike murderers especially killers of children. Many who have met him say he is very aloof and ominous in personality, and Mortimer doesn't disagree with these conclusions. As the years go by human behavior becomes more stranger to him and the ways of the dead more familiar. His rebirth as a spirit of death has given him a new sense of purpose and with the influx of costumed heroes in the modern world, Mortimer has found himself encountering them on almost a regular basis. He is one of the few beings who has noticed the amalgamation of the two universes by Dark Thanos.
History: Mortimer's existence as a spirit of death began with his tragic death. He was born in 1808 to a modest family in the thriving town that would one day become Gotham City, and in his early childhood years life was an average one. From the moment he could remember, Mortimer had nightmares about terrible deaths and many of them included his own. His parents told him that they were just bad dreams and he believed them, but deep down he felt that there was something wrong and that his dreams were trying to warn him of something terrible. His horrible dreams would turn out to be true when he was murdered by a child murderer who had been targeting children of varying ages. The evil man had asked for his help and when he got the chance he kidnapped Mortimer.
The child murderer brutally murdered him with savage cruelty and his killer was able to allude the authorities and when they found his body, his parents never got to see their son get justice. They would never see their son grow up into a man and they fell into a life of despair. Upon his death, Mortimer felt incredible cold as he was lost a terrible darkness and he wondered if God had allowed him to become a damned soul. It was then that he was approached by the Grim Reaper who was the personification of death, and the terrifying spirit told him that he had been chosen to become a servant of death and would be tasked with keeping the balance between the world. Mortimer didn't want to be a spirit of death, he wanted to live and see his family again, but Death told him that it was not his destiny.
The Grim Reaper gave him the powers of the grave and sent Mortimer back to the living world as a guardian spirit to watch over the earth. And so over two hundred years passed by which didn't seem too long for a spirit, but he had been watching over humanity through some of the worst times in human history and collecting the souls if the dead with his master. Eventually when Darkseid and the mad titan Thanos fused and combined the two universes together, Mortimer and his master felt the change in the cosmos and things become out of balance. His master met with Specter, Phantom Stranger and several other great supernatural being to discuss the great change. The Presence decreed that they would not interfere with the confusion that Dark Thanos had created, but he did allow Death to send Mortimer to the living world as a guardian against this unbalance that has been created.
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