Muerte

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> Ugh...
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> Muerte whenever he's unimpressed.

> Bite me!
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> Muerte's scrapped catchphrase.

**Muerte** is a reaper character for TimeoutArtist's first upcoming original comic series, Crystal Kingdom, and a non-canon guest character for Future Night Funkin'.

Muerte is a reaper who lives in the land of reapers called the Afterland and was born there. He’s Nakidori’s younger cousin and Grim Reaper’s student, who’s also his uncle. As a reaper, he has to harvest souls and deliver them to the Death Councils in order for them to judge and watch the Councils whether they send the soul to Heaven or Hell.

Currently, he's not voiced by anyone as of now in Crystal Kingdom.

## Physical Appearance

Muerte is a young skeleton, wearing a black hood with a black scarf and underneath his hood, he has two small horns and is a decaying body; he lacks legs and a pelvis, only having vertebrae, ribs, scapula, sternum, hands and arms. His black shades are part of his body due to reapers being born because reapers are the connection of life.

## Personality

Muerte is an ill-tempered and overprotective reaper, who always acts so worried and sensitive due to his family’s danger and most especially, his adoptive older cousin’s safety. This makes him insecure that he would always hold his scythe everywhere he goes, including being an hostile individual. He even takes his insecurity during his soul-harvesting job and before he does his job, he always looks out for trouble to make sure no one hurts him or his cousin. His hostility and insecurity also makes him anti-social, unwilling to stay close with strangers and always be far away from theirs.

Muerte is sympathetic as he loves Linterna as his best friend and his adoptive cousin and uncle and will never let anything happen to them, especially dying from situations that they could die from. This would mean he hates being a reaper because he has to harvest his loved ones’ souls and deliver them to the Councils if they die for real. His sympathy and love for them make him often lash out at them because of his worries.

## History

Born in the Afterland, Muerte started out as a normal reaper with a normal life with his parents but for unknown reasons, his parents never came back and was taken care of by the Grim Reaper, who was his uncle, teacher to his adoptive older cousin, Nakidori Kindoru, himself and beginner reapers. At the time when he was being taught by his uncle, he was a low rank reaper.

One day, Muerte has been tasked to harvest a demon soul, deceased in the cornfield, farmed in the village, built in the Wrath Ring. When he arrived, he believed a young scarecrow demon killed the demons; he attempted to kill the scarecrow demon but it was no use. He gave up killing the scarecrow demon and returned to the Afterland with the souls he harvested from the dead.

Kept thinking about the scarecrow demon, he goes back to the cornfield and talks to the scarecrow demon. After a long discussion, Muerte drops his misunderstandings from the scarecrow demon and sets their differences aside. He introduces himself as the embodiment of death, born in the Afterland and the scarecrow introduces themselves as Linterna, a scarecrow demon who was imprisoned long ago but escaped out of boredom and has been wandering around the cornfield for a long time. Both Linterna and Muerte bond a friendship and whenever Muerte’s duty is finished, he’ll visit her.

## Powers and Abilities

Muerte is a reaper and capable of death-based powers, however, as a low-class reaper, he’s not that powerful like his cousin. While he doesn’t have much knowledge, he is intelligent.

* **Weapon Summoning:** Muerte has the ability to summon his scythe, either it’s far away or close, but the scythe isn’t the only thing he can summon. He can also summon knives as an emergency.

* + **Knife Manipulation:** Muerte has the ability to manipulate knives, which is not an ability fitting for a reaper, and he uses this ability as an emergency if there’s too many enemies or if he loses his scythe.

* **Intangibility:** Muerte has the ability to phase through walls and uses this ability to enter locked rooms easily. He uses this ability because he hates doors.

* **Shapeshifting:** Muerte has the ability to shapeshift, having the capability to turn into a human or an animal in a humanoid shape. However, he doesn’t use this ability and likes the look he is as usual, that being an skeletal body.

* **Intelligence:** Reapers have stages of intelligence, following their reaper level. At the first level/stage one (which it’s called Middle Level), reapers are intelligent at around the human’s level and having less knowledge of information about everything; at the second level/stage two (which it’s called Vast Level), reapers are intelligent above the human’s level and having medium knowledge of information about everything; at the final level/stage three (which it’s called Omni Level), reapers are intelligent above, at least, everything and having (almost) all knowledge of information about everything. Omni Level is the key to turn a normal reaper into a Grim Reaper but that’s not it. If an about-to-retire Grim Reaper picks one reaper who’s ready to reach at their final stage of the reaper, they properly become a Grim Reaper. Reaper’s stages can be increased by training, harvesting enough souls or killing them. For Muerte, despite his reaper stage being Middle Level, his intelligence level is at the second stage (Vast Level).

* **Scythemanship:** As reapers’ signature weapons are scythes, Muerte possesses scythemanship, able to accurately and precisely slice through the enemies without being hindered by the scythe's heavy weight, cleaving through them effortlessly.

* **Immortality:** As a reaper, Muerte is completely immortal and ageless.

## Trivia

### General

* Muerte’s design is inspired by Death from Arrow Funk.
	+ His angry expression was also inspired by Death. The angry expression from Death would give him an ill-tempered character.
		- Contrary to popular belief, Murete isn’t bad-tempered. While he’s a nice guy, he’s still ill-tempered.
			* Muerte means “death” in Spanish.
				+ This would make perfect sense for his appearance.
* Muerte was supposed to be demiace but was changed to aroace.
* Skid and Pump were the reason why Muerte was created. If the Spookeez weren’t created, Naki would’ve been a character to not have a cousin.
	+ Timeout always made imaginations of Naki playing with Muerte, hence another reason for why Muerte was born.

### Muerte

* Muerte doesn’t like shapeshifting into anything like wolf, human or anything because he likes taking the skeleton form.
* Reapers have types of classes and if they are born with a different type of skull, they’ll be tasked to harvest the soul that fits their skull look. If a reaper is born with a human skull, the reaper will be identified as a human-classed reaper and will harvest human souls. If a reaper is born with a demon skull, the reaper will be identified as a demon-classed reaper and will harvest demon souls. If a reaper is born with an animal skull, the reaper will be identified as an animal-classed reaper and will harvest animal souls. If a reaper is born with an insect skull, the reaper will be identified as an insect-classed reaper and will harvest insect souls. Muerte has horns under his cloak, identifying himself as a demon-classed reaper.
* Muerte’s reaper stage is at Middle Level but somehow, his intelligence is at Vast Level.
* His scythe is gifted from his uncle during his 7th birthday. The scythe was used by his uncle when he was 6 years old.
* Compared to his FutureNF counterpart, he’s born with actual parents, born as demon-classed reaper but his parents went missing for unknown reasons, taken care by living with his uncle and adoptive cousin. He’s also been taught by his uncle how to be a proper reaper. His relationship with Linterna started out as enemies rather than friends then would later become proper friends in the end while being left unaware of the scarecrow demon being turned out to be the cursed myth demon. It’s unknown if his uncle has said anything to Muerte about his best friend.
* Muerte pretends to act tough to make sure not to show any of his insecurities.
* Muerte’s scarf is inherited from his father before he disappeared. His father used that scarf after his friend gifted it to him when he was 16 years old.

## Gallery

### Images

A teaser image for Muerte's Crystal Kingdom design
### Videos

Original Series Speedpaint- Designing Muerte