Grim Susie

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• Susie (Teapot)

• Grim (Susie)

• Susie Pastel (reincarnation)

> *"I may be very different to you but you are still my reincarnation. In other words, I am your true inner self. I'll keep protecting you till the end of time."*
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> - Grim Susie

Susannah Dominus, or also known as Grim Susie or just Grim, is Susie Pastel's past life who goes on to assist her as a ghost. She is Pyro's artificial creation using her DNA, making her Grim's mother. She is also the past life of Susie Pastel after she predicted her reincarnation mere months ago before Susie Pastel's birth. Upon Susie's birth, Grim became her inner guardian who protects her from harm; allowing Susie to borrow her abilities and can be summoned to fight alongside her. She was given the name "Grim Susie" thanks to her mutant ability to see the afterlife. She specialises in close-ranged combat using her Arcane Gloves; with the occasional long-ranged attacks using her magic.

## **Appearance**

Unlike her reincarnation, Grim isn't as short but is relatively short. Her build is very slender-like while also having a very short chest size compared to Susie. Obviously, she has the typical aranea draco aesthetics. Pure white skin, four eyes, long fangs, dragon scales on her stomach and retractable wings. With the latter being something she barely uses when dead due to being a flying ghost.

Besides that, she has a lot of similarities to Susie; notably her hair style, hair colour and green eyes. However, her hair looks more flat and less spikey. Her side strands on each side point upwards even more than Susie's.

Like Susie, she has makeup on but it's not as much as her. Somewhat similar to her reincarnation, she aims to have a gothic aesthetic. That being black gothic eyeshadow and pink blush. The makeup is barely visible when she is a ghost. For attire, she wears a long black cloak resembling a grim reaper's cloak; having a hood that has a cross on the hood itself. This is to coincide with Teapot's rings on her on the back of her dress. Which is a reference to their time playing Noughts and Crosses together. Besides all that, she wears a lip ring, hot pink gloves, violet leggings and non-roller blade boots similar to Susie's but having hot pink accents on the top and bottom.

As a ghost, she is obviously transparent and her colour palette has been changed to purple colouring; with added gradient shading being lighter on the top and dark at the bottom. She is also missing her legs.

She also doesn't have a casual attire or was never seen with any. Especially as a ghost.

## **Personality**

Whereas her reincarnation is very formal and polite, Grim Susie is rather shy, angsty and can sometimes be very aggressive. However, Susie does show her aggressive nature when provoked. Which leads to things she has in common with her. Notably her pickiness. Despite being a mage, Grim prefers to fight physically and, on occasion, only uses her spells for finishing blows. She also shares her generosity with Susie with the biggest example being that she lets Teapot suck her blood once per-day if she ever gets hungry.

Her hobby is mainly painting. As there is a entire room with paintings and a easel located in her mother's home. She sees it as a way to relieve stress, as she mainly paints based on her current mood. So when angry for example, she'll likely paint fire or a tragic disaster. She can thankfully still paint when dead, but to those who aren't Susie or a mampire, it just looks like a sentient paint brush is painting a work of art.

Being the daughter of Pyro, she has deep knowledge on Aranea Draco technology. That's why she was able to identify Susie's roller skates, as they are made with aranea draco technology. Which also explains why her gloves are made to absorb energy projectiles to later use for future uses. This makes her a big nerd for technology in general.

Before reuniting with Teapot, Grim felt really lonely when it came to being a ghost; as no-one besides Susie and mampires can see her. Meaning the only real person she could interact with at the time is Susie. But once Teapot reunites with Grim, she started to feel more positive with herself more.

Her most notable flaw tends to be how she always aims to be like her mother. Which leads to her going overboard. Due to being a unique Aranea Draco, her goal in aiming this achievement tends to be a rough one for her. As this results in her trait of being arrogant.

## **Abilities**

NOTE: Most abilities shown here are meant to coincide with Susie. Due to her and Grim being spiritually connected and fighting alongside each other. Her abilities can be found here.

**Style: Brawler/Mage**

### **Mana Control**

Like Teapot, Grim can use magic. However she uses it less for throwing projectiles to keep distance but rather stores it in her gloves made of aranea draco technology; making her more of a direct physical fighter. Her strongest spells tend to be arcane magic due to being a aranea draco but she lacks powerful projectiles compared to Teapot.

* **Arcane Gloves Drain:** Her gloves absorbs primarily energy based projectiles. However this has a limit and they can break; leading to a cooldown. Once absorbed, Grim can either throw the projectile back, use it to restore her mana or use the energy to enhance her punches.
* **Arcane Sphere:** A spell she shares with Teapot. Due to being a aranea draco, hers is much stronger. She can fire slow but huge arcane spheres but that requires a lot of mana. She can also ignite the sphere into a barrage of pillars instead of just making it explode.
* **Mana Beam:** Another spell she shares with Teapot. Her version is faster but much weaker. However, it has electric properties.
* **Arctic Bruiser:** Grim does a uppercut while her hands are enchanted with a ice spell. Direct contact freezes the opponent directly.

### **Violet Dash**

A teleport attack where Grim turns into a violet silhouette and moves forwards a short distance. During the silhouette portion, Grim is completely invulnerable to getting hit by anything but sadly this only lasts for a couple of seconds. Despite this, she abuses this move a lot and even her Reincarnation makes good use for it.

### **Aranea Draco Traits**

> *Main Article: Aranea Dracos*
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Due to being a Aranea Draco, she has a lot of stuff to use but sadly, she barely makes use of them when she became a ghost. Her barely using her natural abilities are merely just a result of her being picky.

* **Web Generation:** Unlike Susie, she barely uses her webs, even when she was alive, she is completely capable of doing so. Susie does most of the web stuff herself.
* **Wing Manifestation:** She makes use of her wings back when she was alive but they are now useless when she is a ghost capable of flight.
* **Fire Breath:** Again, this is something she was known doing back when she was alive but Susie makes better use of it when Grim became a ghost. She only uses her arcane energy for her arcane magic.

### **Superhuman Strength**

Due to her mutation, Grim is very strong in terms of raw strength but not as strong as a demigod like Ace. She notably pulls parts of the ground with her actual arms. However, Susie makes better use of this ability given to her by using her webs to pull parts of the ground and to swing it around.

### **Mediumship**

Another mutant trait she has. Grim can see souls. She can also sense their alignments too. So she can tell if they are good or evil just by looking at them; even if they are dead or not. Which also means she can sense if they are about to attack her.

### **Inner Beast**

Due to being connected to her spiritually and quite literally, Susie can use Grim's abilities like having Superhuman Strength, using Arcane Spheres and having Mediumship. However, using the Arcane Spheres drain Grim's mana like normal. So yes, Susie can use Grim's powerful Arcane Spheres but at the cost of huge amounts of mana.

### **Materialized Guardian**

Besides using her own abilities for herself, Susie can literally summon the ghost of Grim to fight alongside her. The downside is that Susie herself cannot use Grim's abilities when she is summoned due to them being weakened. Which can make Susie weaker but in exchange for a helping hand. Grim does most of the punches for Susie, negating that one weakness and due to Grim having more experience with her abilities, she can do a lot of things better than Susie. Due to being a ghost, Susie seems to be the only one who can see Grim, however Mampires like Teapot can see her much better due to Susie's mediumship being weakened when Grim is summoned.

### **Ascension:** **Linked Form**

Susie's Ascension with Grim. She resonates her energy with Grim to transform. She notably gets bigger; being Grim's literal height. Once transformed, Susie uses her wings more and even uses her fists to fight. Negating her many weaknesses. However, she is much slower in this form.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

Grim was born at the Aranea Draco Kingdom. She was born rather weirdly. Merely being a artificial creation made by Pyro using her own DNA. So, she was pretty much born asexually. This was after the events of the Calamity War and was mainly due to Pyro's bad luck with men. Little did Grim know, Pyro gave her unnatural abilities like having mediumship. Making her a mutant of a Aranea Draco. Something that Pyro sort of regrets doing but she needed a offspring in some way to carry the torch for the future.

Grim grew up in a rather lonely childhood. She was picked on and she would spend most of her time on Turtlehide Beach, being lonely and mostly crying. That's until she met Teapot. Due to wanting to always make people smile, she tries to cheer up Grim by pulling funny faces. Sadly this didn't work so she decided to transform into a bat to entertain Grim. This worked surprisingly and the two became attached since then. They notably played noughts and crosses on the beach's sand a lot when Teapot taught Grim how to play.

When Grim grew up more, she had to deal with the death of her mother. Who died from a natural cause. During the funeral, Teapot's parents, Aludra and Violette Purge, offered to adopt Grim due to Violette being good friends with Pyro to begin with. Grim accepts and returns home with her new adopted family. One day, Blair would visit the Purge Mansion to check up on her family.

It's there where it's revealed that Grim is a artificial creation using Pyro's DNA when she wanted to make her to carry the new generation. Grim always wondered why she didn't have a father. At first she was upset that she isn't normal to which Teapot says to her "Even if you are different, you are still Susie. And we all think you are a great person!" Grim was happy when she said this. Blair also recommended that Grim and even Teapot should learn magic due to the potential return of Frewil. Without hesitation, Grim and Teapot would learn magic through and through.

More years pass and one day, both Teapot and Grim were trained under Teapot’s parents to learn witchcraft. However, Grim met her fate when stubbornly going after Frewil when it was released to the world due to a accident made by Blair. Grim got this information from Violette when Blair contacted her with her dying breath, so she only really went there to avenge Blair. Before Grim could die, she tells Frewil that she will come back reincarnated to take him down.

A few months pass and Susie Pastel was born on Grim's birthday. Who is the foretold and coincidental reincarnation of Grim. When she was born, Grim roamed inside Susie Pastel; since it was like she was reborn within her. She wouldn't interact with Susie until her teen years 16 years later. It's there where she reveals to Susie that she is factually Grim's reincarnation and that her abilities are shared with her. The both of them befriend each other and Susie gives Grim Susie the nickname "Grim"; due to both of them factually being referred to as "Susie" normally.

Grim now would fight by Susie's side as her spiritual guardian to take on Frewil and his newly established Grimdark Brotherhood after he returns for a third time.

## **Relationships**

### **Pyro Dominus**

Pyro was sceptical over her daughter being born scientifically but she merely had no choice. She would realise that Grim is a mutant until she grows much older. She had a loving relationship with her biological daughter. Teaching her about aranea draco technology and such. Grim is also unaware to this day that she was made due to Pyro's traumatic relationship with Red Nimbus. Leading Grim to never even know that she has a half-sister via Vivian Nimbus.

### **Teapot**

Teapot is Grim’s very close BFF growing up. They first met at the Turtlehide Beach at a very young age and they played Noughts and Crosses on the sand. Later on, she discovers that Grim is the daughter of Pyro Dominus; who is one of the guardians. All while Grim discovers Teapot is the granddaughter of Blair. Both her and Teapot train to learn magic via Teapot’s parents although Grim is more of a physical fighter than a long-ranged fighter. Teapot was scared when Grim went on her own to fight Frewil that resulted in her death. Teapot was absolutely upset over her death. Back then, if Teapot were to get hungry, she would ask for Grim for her blood. Grim would be weirded out by this at first but she would allow it. Since her blood regenerates really fast due to being a Aranea Draco. Grim allowing this shows that she cares for Teapot too and is actually the reason why Teapot is who she is today since she is the first friend she’s ever made.

### **Violette, Aludra and Sal Purge**

Grim had a decent relationship with Teapot's family as she was adopted by them. Though she has known them briefly due to her death not long after

### **Blair**

Grim was aware of Blair beforehand. She confirmed she is a artificial creation much later on as a teen. Like with all of Teapot's family, she barely got to know her due to her death.

### **Susie Pastel**

Being her reincarnation, Susie is a important figure to Grim. She doesn't really like how rude she can be and she questions why she is the reincarnation of her. But despite that, Grim acts like Susie's guardian in terms of defending her.

### **Frewil**

Frewil is the reason why Grim died. For that, she despises Frewil and wants to have her revenge on him. She was surprised when she found out she can be seen by him. Presumably due to Frewil copying Susie's ability to see dead people.

## **Trivia**

* Like her reincarnation, Grim is named after Creepy Susie from the books created by Angus Oblong. The name Grim Susie, is only really used to differentiate her to her reincarnation. Susie Pastel calls her Grim to compensate. Grim refers to the grim reaper; referencing her ability to see dead people. Her full first name, Susannah, is made to be another way to differentiate her and Susie Pastel. Which, like Susan (Susie's actual name), means "lily" according to Hebrew origins.
* Upon her creation, not much was different from what she is now but she was originally Susie Pastel. That’s until she became her own character. The whole thing with Susie Pastel being her reincarnation was there from the start.
	+ Meaning that, despite her being first in the timeline, her reincarnation was designed first.
* Her likes consist of:
	+ Strawberries
	+ Technology
	+ Braiding Hair
	+ Her mother
* Her dislikes consist of:
	+ Being called a mutant
	+ Being dead
* When she first introduces her mediumship, she quotes saying “I see dead people.” A reference to the 1999 film The Sixth Sense.
* Originally her name "Grim Susie" wasn't just because she had the ability to see dead people. It referred to her originally being the Grim Reaper or "Death" of Wowlife. Eventually, she didn't go with this role and the role of the Grim Reaper was given to a separate character. That being the god of flames, Fuego.
* A little detail overlooked with both her and Teapot is that their clothes reference their past. Teapot has a little black ring on the back of her dress above her corset & Susie has a pink X on the back of her hood. They, of course, reference their time together when they were young; playing noughts and crosses on the beach at the Western Land of Justice. Susie would always be Crosses & Teapot would always be Noughts. They reflect their friendship together as a whole since Teapot is always associated with circles and rings & Susie is the same with crosses.
* As mentioned in Susie's Trivia Page, Grim is inspired by the concept of accepting your true inner self from the game, Persona 4. She is also inspired by stands from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure due to being a ghost that fights alongside Susie and also the Jinchūriki from Naruto. Due to Susie using Grim's mutant powers when she isn't already out like the Jinchūriki using the powers of their tailed beasts.
* Originally, Grim would of been created by Blair using Pyro's DNA. This was changed when Blair became a character more focused on magic rather than science, making Pyro the one to focus on Science instead.

## **Gallery**

Grim's Default Ghost RenderGrim's Default Ghost Render (With Susie)Grim's Before Death RenderGrim featured in Susie's Chibi Example Render.Grim's Early SketchGrim's Early RenderGrim's Character Select RenderGrim's Reference SheetGrim's Before Death Reference Sheet