↪ Arriving to the Eluvio had been a strange experience for Reaper--as a mercenary he first thought he had been captured by an enemy. He was held in quarantine due to his body being dead but walking--but once the medical staff deemed him not a danger of infecting others with his body’s strange rapid regen/decay, he was allowed free reign of the ship like all others who arrived.
↪ Space travel isn’t a hugely documented thing in his world apart from the Moon Base’s colony of Superintelligent Gorillas (seriously) but getting used to the idea that there’s life far from Earth took a bit of getting used to. Also getting used to the fact that being a dead man walking isn’t the weirdest thing to exist took some getting used to, too.
↪ Being away from home become, on one side of things, a bit of a point of uncertainty for Reaper. He has goals, ambitions, and things he feels he must finish before whatever’s keeping him alive gives up the goat and his life truly ends. However, given that he’s friends with Sombra, the super-hacker, he felt as if they would eventually find a way home. This was enough to make him not worry about being far from home--because he doesn’t exactly have any connections other than goals to take care of there.
↪ He has a distrust of governments and authoritative figures as a basis due to his history, but within the first few weeks of his arrival, he learnt that the people spirited away onto the ship were being used for missions of a questionable nature. His own ally from home, Sombra, being one of them. When learning she was rewarded for the possible genocide of an entire planet, he decided it was the first step to distrusting the government/people in charge here to. So much so that he even killed some of the aliens that had been brought aboard the ship during evacuation alongside another untrusting crew member he’d made an alliance with.
↪ Within the next few weeks when murders started happening on board the Eluvio, as well as technical failures and sabotaged systems including life support and artificial gravity, Reaper began to suspect the ‘rescued’ aliens alongside a great number of other members.
↪ During this, he was forced to interact with a great number of individuals, both combat trained and common civilian alike. Being a man who was once a soldier and a leader, he took it on himself to (reluctantly) teach a few of those on board basic self defense and how to handle small-scale weaponry to avoid being the next victim of the ‘random murders’ happening on board.
● abilities:
Wraith ”Looks like you’ve seen a ghost.”
It’s not entirely clear to what exactly Reaper is thanks to the limited information Blizzard has released about their character, but given what we know of the lore of Overwatch and the science that exists within it, it’s easy to put the pieces together. Reaper was brought back to life by scientific means, and whatever procedure that was conducted on his body simply went wrong, and has caused his body to become something twisted and out of human shape. While it’s unknown what his face looks like, it’s clear from the comic, the game, and even the animated shorts that he can turn his body into a gaseous cloud--speculated to be a cloud of nanomachines that keep his body regenerating from its constant degeneration--and into human form again. He can travel distances unnoticed by taking this form, as well as avoid taking damage from enemy attacks. His speed is also greatly increased in this form and he can slip between the cracks and get into places one normally wouldn’t be able to.
Reaping ”The few bodies recovered of his victims were pale, empty husks drained of life, their cells showing signs of intense degradation.”
While it’s not entirely clear what Reaper’s body is--science or supernatural--if there’s one thing that’s clear it’s that he can drain the life from those he defeats in battle. Leaving lifeless husks of those who die in battle against him, he takes on their energy for his own, referring to the energy as the ‘souls’ of the fallen. Though, whether or not the energy he takes is actually a person’s soul or just that he can steal the remaining vitality from fresh corpses is uncertain, it’s at least clear that he takes energy from the bodies of the dead.
Shadow Step ”From the shadows.”
Relating back to Reaper’s Wraith form, his Shadow Step ability allows him to move from one place to another with relative ease. However, this ability is limited to its short range and is restricted to Reaper’s line of sight. For example, he could use this ability to ‘teleport’ to the top of a building as this can be within his line of sight. However, if his destination is for example, behind a door or wall, he cannot simply teleport inside a building because his destination isn’t one he can see.
Active Regeneration ”That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.”
Hard to kill what’s already dead, isn’t it? Even harder when what you’re trying to kill doesn’t exactly have a body that’s always tangible enough to shoot down with bullets or even destroy with a Tesla Cannon. In the short ‘Recall’, Reaper is literally obliterated by a high-energy electric cannon and comes back later without a scratch. His body turning into a cloud when he sustains enough damage to literally explode, he survives and regenerates later, suggesting that it’s harder to kill him then one might think. He is a ghost, after all.
Firearms - Hell Shotguns ”Death Blossom is Ready.”
Probably one of the biggest jokes in Overwatch is that ‘Reaper doesn’t know how to reload’. Which is due to his personal reload animation that causes him to throw down his current guns and pull out an entirely new set from under his coat. How many he has on his person is anyone’s guess, and why he doesn’t reload like a normal human being is a mystery, too. But that aside, his weapon of choice ARE two huge, double-barrelled shotguns with intense kickback. They can tear though both people and even anti-omnic tanks like in the ‘Infiltration’ short, but are extremely short-ranged and require Reaper to get up into the face of his foe in order to do any significant damage. Not that he has a problem with that. When facing multiple foes, as well, he is capable of unleashing an ability which makes him shoot off a flurry of shrapnel in every direction, causing massive damage to anything and everyone within range. While using this ability, Reaper is nothing more than a vague blur of smoke and bullets until he’s wiped out everything around him.
● strengths:
Leadership: He used to be one of the co-founders of the heroic international group called Overwatch. He was a driven force and a competent leader, and was liked by many of the people who worked under him. Noted as being the main driving force behind the end of the Omnic Crisis, his leadership abilities are second to none. These skills as a competent leader to haven’t faded--capable of teaching others how to handle themselves in battle and protecting those he considers allies is second nature, as a good leader never leaves anyone behind.
Drive: Not too many people can continue on working towards their goals even after they’ve died, but this is the main strength Reaper has going for him. Back in his younger days as a military leader, he had a drive to do what was right, even if it was unsavory (Like killing a man instead of capturing him because it was more effective). That drive lived on after death just as he has, and he now uses it to push himself forward, even if it means being the bad guy. Throwing himself into situations where he could even lose his life AGAIN; so long as he can attain his goals and get where he wants.
Resilience: He’s been knocked down and thrown around, people have tried to bury him, kill him, and keep him down. Like a coil, no matter the situation Reaper is thrown in, he always manages to bounce back--even being blown up in a military base, he gets up and continues forward. Attacking the Overwatch Museum to steal tech only to be beaten? Fine, he’ll attack a base in Gibraltar to steal information. Get electrocuted to death again by a tesla cannon? Fine, he’ll get up and go attack Russia’s main weapon base to kill the most powerful woman in Russia. He’ll always get back up.
● weaknesses: Holds Grudges: He used to be a hero, and a well-known one. He was surrounded by many friends and allies, and yet at the end of it all, everything was taken away from him. Now as the terrorist reaper, he’s turned his back on all those who turned their back on him, and he’s not so quick to forgive those who wronged him. Killing ex-Overwatch agents systematically, having a list of names that were his old friends--he holds a grudge against all of them and probably will until the bitter end.
Fixated on Suffering: He wears a mask. His body is constantly deteriorating and rotting and healing in a mad cycle that never ends. It’s suggested that living is painful for him, his body a constant ache. Because of this, he uses his sufferings and pains as a fixation point. Telling those he holds grudges against that his suffering is their fault, that he was hurt so he will hurt those who caused it in return. He hides his disfigured body and laments being killed, so much so that he drives others away from him simply by being some ‘horrifying monster’.
Impatient/Irritable: He’s a military man with a very low sense of humor and even less patience for people who play around when there’s work to be done. Having to growl at his allies to ‘focus on the mission’ or to ‘stop fooling around’ are extremely common phrases for him to throw around, and barking out his annoyance for tomfoolery of those he’s working with is pretty much the norm for him. If there’s a job to do, do it fast, and don’t mess around.
● skills (optional): Fluent in both English and Spanish Skilled in heavy and light weaponry, close ranged combat, mid-ranged combat. Leadership skills in a militaristic setting Sewing/Crafting/making own clothing/accessories (I’m serious) Black Ops operations (Locating, Capturing, Interrogation, and all that nasty stuff that goes with it)
Reaper / Gabriel Reyes | Overwatch | Reserved
● name: Gaacha
● age: 29
● contact: vicninty @ plurk , thegaathing @ aol.com
● other characters: n/a
character information
● name: Reaper / Gabriel Reyes
● canon: Overwatch
● canon point: Infiltration (short)
● age: Est. 56
● (canon) background: Here.
● CRAU: Eluvio
↪ Arriving to the Eluvio had been a strange experience for Reaper--as a mercenary he first thought he had been captured by an enemy. He was held in quarantine due to his body being dead but walking--but once the medical staff deemed him not a danger of infecting others with his body’s strange rapid regen/decay, he was allowed free reign of the ship like all others who arrived.
↪ Space travel isn’t a hugely documented thing in his world apart from the Moon Base’s colony of Superintelligent Gorillas (seriously) but getting used to the idea that there’s life far from Earth took a bit of getting used to. Also getting used to the fact that being a dead man walking isn’t the weirdest thing to exist took some getting used to, too.
↪ Being away from home become, on one side of things, a bit of a point of uncertainty for Reaper. He has goals, ambitions, and things he feels he must finish before whatever’s keeping him alive gives up the goat and his life truly ends. However, given that he’s friends with Sombra, the super-hacker, he felt as if they would eventually find a way home. This was enough to make him not worry about being far from home--because he doesn’t exactly have any connections other than goals to take care of there.
↪ He has a distrust of governments and authoritative figures as a basis due to his history, but within the first few weeks of his arrival, he learnt that the people spirited away onto the ship were being used for missions of a questionable nature. His own ally from home, Sombra, being one of them. When learning she was rewarded for the possible genocide of an entire planet, he decided it was the first step to distrusting the government/people in charge here to. So much so that he even killed some of the aliens that had been brought aboard the ship during evacuation alongside another untrusting crew member he’d made an alliance with.
↪ Within the next few weeks when murders started happening on board the Eluvio, as well as technical failures and sabotaged systems including life support and artificial gravity, Reaper began to suspect the ‘rescued’ aliens alongside a great number of other members.
↪ During this, he was forced to interact with a great number of individuals, both combat trained and common civilian alike. Being a man who was once a soldier and a leader, he took it on himself to (reluctantly) teach a few of those on board basic self defense and how to handle small-scale weaponry to avoid being the next victim of the ‘random murders’ happening on board.
● abilities:
Wraith
”Looks like you’ve seen a ghost.”
It’s not entirely clear to what exactly Reaper is thanks to the limited information Blizzard has released about their character, but given what we know of the lore of Overwatch and the science that exists within it, it’s easy to put the pieces together. Reaper was brought back to life by scientific means, and whatever procedure that was conducted on his body simply went wrong, and has caused his body to become something twisted and out of human shape. While it’s unknown what his face looks like, it’s clear from the comic, the game, and even the animated shorts that he can turn his body into a gaseous cloud--speculated to be a cloud of nanomachines that keep his body regenerating from its constant degeneration--and into human form again. He can travel distances unnoticed by taking this form, as well as avoid taking damage from enemy attacks. His speed is also greatly increased in this form and he can slip between the cracks and get into places one normally wouldn’t be able to.
Reaping
”The few bodies recovered of his victims were pale, empty husks drained of life, their cells showing signs of intense degradation.”
While it’s not entirely clear what Reaper’s body is--science or supernatural--if there’s one thing that’s clear it’s that he can drain the life from those he defeats in battle. Leaving lifeless husks of those who die in battle against him, he takes on their energy for his own, referring to the energy as the ‘souls’ of the fallen. Though, whether or not the energy he takes is actually a person’s soul or just that he can steal the remaining vitality from fresh corpses is uncertain, it’s at least clear that he takes energy from the bodies of the dead.
Shadow Step
”From the shadows.”
Relating back to Reaper’s Wraith form, his Shadow Step ability allows him to move from one place to another with relative ease. However, this ability is limited to its short range and is restricted to Reaper’s line of sight. For example, he could use this ability to ‘teleport’ to the top of a building as this can be within his line of sight. However, if his destination is for example, behind a door or wall, he cannot simply teleport inside a building because his destination isn’t one he can see.
Active Regeneration
”That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.”
Hard to kill what’s already dead, isn’t it? Even harder when what you’re trying to kill doesn’t exactly have a body that’s always tangible enough to shoot down with bullets or even destroy with a Tesla Cannon. In the short ‘Recall’, Reaper is literally obliterated by a high-energy electric cannon and comes back later without a scratch. His body turning into a cloud when he sustains enough damage to literally explode, he survives and regenerates later, suggesting that it’s harder to kill him then one might think. He is a ghost, after all.
Firearms - Hell Shotguns
”Death Blossom is Ready.”
Probably one of the biggest jokes in Overwatch is that ‘Reaper doesn’t know how to reload’. Which is due to his personal reload animation that causes him to throw down his current guns and pull out an entirely new set from under his coat. How many he has on his person is anyone’s guess, and why he doesn’t reload like a normal human being is a mystery, too. But that aside, his weapon of choice ARE two huge, double-barrelled shotguns with intense kickback. They can tear though both people and even anti-omnic tanks like in the ‘Infiltration’ short, but are extremely short-ranged and require Reaper to get up into the face of his foe in order to do any significant damage. Not that he has a problem with that.
When facing multiple foes, as well, he is capable of unleashing an ability which makes him shoot off a flurry of shrapnel in every direction, causing massive damage to anything and everyone within range. While using this ability, Reaper is nothing more than a vague blur of smoke and bullets until he’s wiped out everything around him.
● strengths:
Leadership: He used to be one of the co-founders of the heroic international group called Overwatch. He was a driven force and a competent leader, and was liked by many of the people who worked under him. Noted as being the main driving force behind the end of the Omnic Crisis, his leadership abilities are second to none. These skills as a competent leader to haven’t faded--capable of teaching others how to handle themselves in battle and protecting those he considers allies is second nature, as a good leader never leaves anyone behind.
Drive: Not too many people can continue on working towards their goals even after they’ve died, but this is the main strength Reaper has going for him. Back in his younger days as a military leader, he had a drive to do what was right, even if it was unsavory (Like killing a man instead of capturing him because it was more effective). That drive lived on after death just as he has, and he now uses it to push himself forward, even if it means being the bad guy. Throwing himself into situations where he could even lose his life AGAIN; so long as he can attain his goals and get where he wants.
Resilience: He’s been knocked down and thrown around, people have tried to bury him, kill him, and keep him down. Like a coil, no matter the situation Reaper is thrown in, he always manages to bounce back--even being blown up in a military base, he gets up and continues forward. Attacking the Overwatch Museum to steal tech only to be beaten? Fine, he’ll attack a base in Gibraltar to steal information. Get electrocuted to death again by a tesla cannon? Fine, he’ll get up and go attack Russia’s main weapon base to kill the most powerful woman in Russia. He’ll always get back up.
● weaknesses:
Holds Grudges: He used to be a hero, and a well-known one. He was surrounded by many friends and allies, and yet at the end of it all, everything was taken away from him. Now as the terrorist reaper, he’s turned his back on all those who turned their back on him, and he’s not so quick to forgive those who wronged him. Killing ex-Overwatch agents systematically, having a list of names that were his old friends--he holds a grudge against all of them and probably will until the bitter end.
Fixated on Suffering: He wears a mask. His body is constantly deteriorating and rotting and healing in a mad cycle that never ends. It’s suggested that living is painful for him, his body a constant ache. Because of this, he uses his sufferings and pains as a fixation point. Telling those he holds grudges against that his suffering is their fault, that he was hurt so he will hurt those who caused it in return. He hides his disfigured body and laments being killed, so much so that he drives others away from him simply by being some ‘horrifying monster’.
Impatient/Irritable: He’s a military man with a very low sense of humor and even less patience for people who play around when there’s work to be done. Having to growl at his allies to ‘focus on the mission’ or to ‘stop fooling around’ are extremely common phrases for him to throw around, and barking out his annoyance for tomfoolery of those he’s working with is pretty much the norm for him. If there’s a job to do, do it fast, and don’t mess around.
● skills (optional):
Fluent in both English and Spanish
Skilled in heavy and light weaponry, close ranged combat, mid-ranged combat.
Leadership skills in a militaristic setting
Sewing/Crafting/making own clothing/accessories (I’m serious)
Black Ops operations (Locating, Capturing, Interrogation, and all that nasty stuff that goes with it)
● housing (optional): Anywhere is fine.
● network username: GraveMistake
● network sample: Inbox thread and Eluvio thread..
● prose/action sample: Eluvio thread aaaand another Another Eluvio thread