Malice

Malice (Real name Miles) is a young Reaper living in the Rem Forest, though he was actually born in Chervil. He's usually seen roaming the forest and its Limbo in search of lost souls of the deceased to send to the Afterlife.
He also enjoys hunting down dark creatures in the forest who come in through the Limbo's veil, just so he can send them back and prevent them from attacking others. When he's not doing this, he's actively looking for any strangers lost in the forest to scare and mess with, or just looking for anyone he can chat with.
Due to his more mischievous behaviour and trouble-making tendencies, he's not allowed into larger Rem Forest villages such as Utopia, so he's mostly a loner who prefers to talk with animals. He's considered a rogue among other Reapers, but he's tame enough that they don't really bother too much with him.
== Appearance ==
Malice is 170cm tall, he has pale ivory coloured skin, puffy orange hair and sideburns. He has bright yellow snake-like eyes with a black slit pupil, and two fangs poking our, his mouth is W-shaped and he has smooth black horns.
He wears a sleeveless orange tuxedo-inspired tailcoat, a black tie and belt, black gloves, suit pants and shoes. He also seems to always be carrying his scythe no matter where he goes.
== Personality ==
When meeting him, Malice is quick to show himself to be an extremely impish and mischievous spirit, often unable to just stay still for a single moment, hovering constantly, sitting on air or on top of his scythe.
He's extremely chatty, moving a lot whenever he talks and he enjoys coming up with jokes and riddles, often alienating anyone he's talking with. He doesn't usually care much for this, often finding himself in endless monologues that make no sense to anyone but himself.
Although he's talkative and is almost always smiling or grinning in some way, Malice has no intention to make any friends as he finds it hard to care for anyone other than himself due to everyone just assuming he's a monster from his appearance, as well as his Reaper status.
At first sight, Malice acts really quirky with introductions, often doing things to purposely creep out the one he's talking to, such as using his Reaper powers to reveal random personal info about them like their names and history. 
When it comes to communicating with the souls of the dead, Malice can seem cold, sarcastic and occasionally sadistic, taking pleasure in mocking them and the story behind their death, before then taking them to the Afterlife.
He enjoys riddles and whenever meeting with a soul, he often asks a question about them, often related to their death. No matter what the soul replies, they are wrong and he will just laugh at them before sending them away.
Malice is terribly good at hiding his real feelings and often forgets he actually has them under all his layers of jokes and irony, so insults hardly ever get to him.
The only feeling he finds hard to repress is loneliness and the craving for friendship. He hides this side of himself with his jokes and quirkiness, but deep down, he's literally just a normal kid who suddenly had to deal with a life of immortality and dealing with the dead.
He finds it really hard to connect with anyone, a trait he carried from his past life and can defensive when asked too many questions about himself. He can bring himself down when thinking too hard about it, but quickly gets himself up like nothing ever happened.
Despite being a social butterfly, Malice barely has any friends due to his overbearing personality and reputation causing him to be very disliked by those who live in the forest.
== Abilities ==
As a Reaper, Malice has the ability to read the lives of others, he can know their names and moments of their life and similar information just by focusing on them for a while.
And as a Reaper, he's supposed to use this information to know how to comfort the souls of the deceased, but he just uses this to make them feel guilty about their life.
He finds this easier to do on Ghosts rather than on living Drimare, but cannot do it on other Reapers and especially Zombies, nor can he feel their presence, which is why they scare him.
Malice can feel the energy of other living beings in his surroundings, the energy from a recently deceased being especially strong to him as he's quick to sense lost souls to chase after them.
He has the ability to fly, as well as to shapeshift, being able to take the form of another being, no matter what they look like. But the catch is that they will always have Malice's yellow snake eyes and sometimes his fangs, so this ability is rather impractical when it comes to going unnoticed.
== Relationships ==
===Root===
Root was the first being that Malice ever saw when he died and became a Reaper. Malice was always afraid of him and never got to truly trust him despite Root's attempts to ease him into his new body and life.
However, Malice only got more uncomfortable and anxious when Root took him away from his hometown and into the forest where it would be easier for him to find the lost souls in it's Limbo.
Root taught him the basics and everything about being a Reaper but it was hard due to how anxious Malice felt as wanted nothing but to get back home.
To prevent him from hurting himself any further, Root took away Malice's memories of the time from when he was alive in order to keep teaching him. 
This, however, had a different effect that only made Malice feel lost and think that he had no reason to be there and listen to him, so one day he just left to get away from him.
Root kept a cold and serious, yet still willing to help attitude towards him, but Malice always found him to be a nagging nuisance. 
However, whenever upset, he would still seek Root's presence just to have some company, but as Root would often find ways to bring up serious conversations topics that Malice was actively trying to avoid, he would always be eager to leave not soon after.
It was only years after having his memories taken away that Malice asked Root what happened and Root finally agreed to give him his memories back.
It was then that Malice realized that Root had been keeping his entire past life away from him and he felt so betrayed and as he was overwhelmed by his own emotions, he swore to never speak to him ever again.
He is over this now, but he doesn't trust the Tree Drimare one bit and regards him with what appears to be a respectful disdain.
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=== Delma ===
Malice and his mother were very close before he passed away, although they often fought and argued, they still loved each other unconditionally. 
However, Malice had lost all contact and memories he had with his mother when he became a Reaper.
It was only twenty years later that he got his memories back and returned to his hometown to see her.
She had a hard time believing he was real and not just a shapeshifter pretending to be her dead son, but she accepts him regardless. Because of her reluctance, Malice wishes he could look like his alive self rather than looking like a serpent hybrid not to scare her.
She has gotten much more used to his current appearance, fortunately. 
They don't speak as much but he enjoys keeping her company at times even though it's hard for them to have the same close relationship they used to have.
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=== Lewis ===
Malice holds a grudge against his father, not for never being present in his life, but for having abandoned his mother when she needed him the most. He barely got to know him, only meeting him at the age of 5 when he had returned home as an attempt to redeem himself.
Malice could feel his father's lack of interest in him and simply considered him a stranger, as he was too young to understand the role that this strange man was supposed to have in his life. Lewis' stay barely lasted a month and having seen his parents argue constantly and his mother getting more and more stressed, only made young Malice more glad to have him gone.
As he matured and got a better understanding of the situation, Malice's grudge grew, and even though he never saw his father again, he still has a hard time forgiving and forgetting what happened.
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===Lahyt===
Malice met her when he was trying to find the one responsible for filling the forest with lamps and lights, he would have sent her to the Afterlife but he took pity in how scared she was of him and tried to comfort her.
This resulted in him letting her stay in the world, but she ended up seeking his company more and more often and a friendship started to grow.
Malice ended up getting quite attached to the moth child, sometimes seeking to protect her from trouble or keeping her company when no one else will.
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=== Zelly ===
Neutral terms, he finds her entertaining
Implies they used to be friends at some point but just kind of fell
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=== Blade ===
likes to make fun of him, he's so wimpy and easily spooked lol very responsive to pranks, which is fun
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=== Iron ===
doesn't understand why Iron doesn't like him since they haven't interacted much, but they're aware of each other's existence
There's like this mutual avoidance
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=== Kurt ===
Malice and Kurt barely knew each other in life, and never really had much of a close relationship, if any at all. They just went to the same school and were part of the same class.
Malice (formerly Miles) was curious about Kurt, sitting next to him at times, he wondered what was up with his weird hair colours, why he always wore black and spikes everywhere, why he was so reclusive and just hung out with that pink-haired girl.
A bunch of whys and nosey questions that Kurt promptly ignored, not even dignifying with an answer. Malice was quite upset over this, but took the hint and minded his own business.
He didn't see Kurt all too often if at all so he eventually just forgot about his existence anyway.
Years passed, Malice was now a Reaper and had moved away long ago. During one of his visits to his hometown, he sensed a ghostly presence nearby, and following it, he found the ghost of someone that Malice soon recognized to be Kurt and immediately decided to strike a conversation with the lonely ghost.
Although enjoying teasing him relentlessly, overall Malice feels quite neutral regarding Kurt, hoping they could get along better
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=== Raven ===
Kurt's best friend... Coooool
Malice is intimidated by how cool she is
And she can sew her arms back on with her teeth??? Epic??
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=== Brew ===
Brew once tried to capture Malice's wisp form when he was waiting for his body to heal, in a cheap attempt to sell him. He was almost successful, but as soon as Malice's body reformed, he immediately went after Brew to attack him.
Edit - Is this canon???
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=== Bathilda ===
cute bat waitress refuses to give him any free cake, no matter how much of a fuss he makes
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=== Imiya ===
The owlet library is only one of the many places that Malice is banned from
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=== Teia ===
They're not friends but I can imagine them getting along tbh
== Backstory ==
Warning - Outdated and in urgent need of getting cleaned up
Before dying and becoming a Reaper, Malice was a regular kid named Miles, living with his single mother Delma in a small town named Chervil. He lived a seemingly normal childhood and died at the age of 18 when he was bitten by a serpent in the woods and was poisoned.
After death, his soul had barely reached it's ghost state when he was found by Root, who offered him the life of a Reaper, where he could be reborn in a new body, in exchange for his service for the Afterlife, sending away the souls of the deceased so they wouldn't populate the living world. Thrilled by the thought of being able to be alive in order to help his mother who struggled with depression and drinking problems, Miles quickly accepted.
Being killed by snake poison influenced how his new Reaper body came to be, with serpent eyes and fangs. Horrified by his new self, Miles absolutely refused to let his mother see him in that state, and Root intended to teach him how to harvest the souls and took him far away from his hometown and into the Rem Forest.
Naturally, being away from his hometown and only family member really stressed him out, but as Root refused to allow him to see his mother, and Miles still being too uncomfortable with his new body, he got progressively more and more depressed, crying out for Root to let him go back home, and stop the teachings just for a while.
Regretful and upset by the boy's pain, Root took away Miles' memories against his own will, just so that he wouldn't have to live desperate with the pain.
Now unaware of his past and anything revolving his family, Malice had no choice but to listen to Root's teachings, but now that the only reason for why he accepted to become a Reaper (Seeing his family) was gone from his memory, he ended up seeing no point in even listening to Root and eventually ran away.
Must rewrite :[
== Trivia ==
* The very first concept for Malice's character came from the song "I Can't Decide" from Scissor Sisters, particularly the main verse "I can't decide whether you should live or die" which brought images of this indecisive teen Grim Reaper character who enjoyed playing with the souls of the deceased rather than sending them to the Afterlife.
**The song was also inspiration for his voice and became an immediate singing voiceclaim.
*Malice's design was inspired on fanmade human designs of Bill Cipher from Gravity Falls, while his personality was inspired on Judgement Boy from Gregory's Horror Show. His personality and backstory were also heavily inspired on Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians.
** His earliest concept designs were actually inspired on Jeff the Killer's outfit, while his mask was directly taken from the Summerween Trickster from Gravity Falls
* Malice's real name, Miles, is intended to be an anagram for the word "Smile"
**"Malice" on the other hand was just a name that was in my name ideas list for years and I was desperate to have an OC with that name for a long time.
***Vaguely related, but the characters Cross Stitch and Calliope both had the name "Malice" considered for them back during conceptualizing. Cross Stitch was formerly called Haze Malice before they were scrapped.
* The design of his scythe is based on the Caduceus
* Malice is a self-taught ukulele player
* Being a Reaper, Malice doesn't need to eat and would very likely break a tooth if he were to eat anything hard due to how thin his fangs are.
** Despite this fact, he still eats sweets like a little child
* Occasionally he lets out a slight lisp
** Malice cannot whistle and this upsets him deeply
* Malice actually spends so much time flying that sometimes he has a bit of a hard time actually walking and may use his scythe as a cane to pretend he actually knows what he's doing.
* He seems to know a lot of snake fun facts for no apparent reason
* He's allergic to feathers
*He may have ADHD?
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