re: general reaperdom -Okay so I remember asking about that at some point. The whole payment thing. I always figured they were paid pretty well. I mean Ron here with his stupid Italian suit and his Cartier watch. (that's canon, mind. It's in Yana's notes.) There's got to be a way he can afford it. Plus the dates. All the dates.
-Senpai had some interesting lore that demons and reapers once worked together when it came to human souls. Reapers took care of the souls that were headed to heaven or purgatory and demons took the souls headed to hell. But then demons got greedy and decided they wanted ALL the souls. Then there was a war and shit.
-Also due to the reaper building looking like my building from college, this is my permanent mental image for the company cafeteria.
-I also can't decide between the "company dorms" vs "private housing" thing. Most fics I've seen prefer the dorm setup, IDK. I'm flexible with either.
re: Ronald -If you're curious about any backstory I might have for Ron, I condensed it all here because we needed it for a thing in Animus once upon a time. Also please don't mind the shippy implications. Faust is a man obsessed with one ship, blah blah blah, I like confused feelings even though they don't turn out to be romantic. I go into detail about several other things here and here but those things have shippy context.
-His scythe wasn't always a lawnmower but I have no idea what it used to be. It's clear from the Circus arc that the lawnmower (named Carrie) is new so it's either Ron's just out of training and had just grown out of his training scythe or he had something else beforehand. (Carrie was an Animus thing and it kinda stuck for nostalgia's sake)
-He'll do anything to get out of feeding Will's pigeons. He thinks they're crazy. (Only because he made the mistake of not being careful when he was sent to feed them the first time, spilled feed all over himself and got mauled by pigeons)
-He's a slob. Anyone coming over without warning will probably catch his boxers hanging over the side of the couch or something. And yes, boxers over briefs.
-As a shoutout to the original Ronald Knox, this one's a fan of mystery novels and rather likes Holmes. He disappears once a month to get Doyle's latest and can't put it down until he's finished.
re: Rutger -yes I've latched on to this guy and will be considering adding him to the roster once we get more info about him.
-Despite what scanlations say, I'm going with Rutger. It's more German. Rudgar sounds more high fantasy than European.
-He has a certain pretentiousness about him regarding dark chocolate and Eiswein. Other than that, isn't fond of sweets.
-Until we've been Joss'd, he's a Spears. A distant relative, at least. A far related cousin maybe. He looks too much like a young Will not to be and Toboso isn't the kind of mangaka who suffers from sameface syndrome.
-Sascha is to him what Alan is to Eric. Maybe not to the same degree of familiarity but he's Rutger's go-to partner. But Sascha is a flighty thing and has a tendency to wander off which gives him a heart attack on occasion.
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If anything else comes up, I'll end up either replying to this with more or editing it.
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-Okay so I remember asking about that at some point. The whole payment thing. I always figured they were paid pretty well. I mean Ron here with his stupid Italian suit and his Cartier watch. (that's canon, mind. It's in Yana's notes.) There's got to be a way he can afford it. Plus the dates. All the dates.
-Senpai had some interesting lore that demons and reapers once worked together when it came to human souls. Reapers took care of the souls that were headed to heaven or purgatory and demons took the souls headed to hell. But then demons got greedy and decided they wanted ALL the souls. Then there was a war and shit.
-Also due to the reaper building looking like my building from college, this is my permanent mental image for the company cafeteria.
-I also can't decide between the "company dorms" vs "private housing" thing. Most fics I've seen prefer the dorm setup, IDK. I'm flexible with either.
re: Ronald
-If you're curious about any backstory I might have for Ron, I condensed it all here because we needed it for a thing in Animus once upon a time. Also please don't mind the shippy implications. Faust is a man obsessed with one ship, blah blah blah, I like confused feelings even though they don't turn out to be romantic. I go into detail about several other things here and here but those things have shippy context.
-His scythe wasn't always a lawnmower but I have no idea what it used to be. It's clear from the Circus arc that the lawnmower (named Carrie) is new so it's either Ron's just out of training and had just grown out of his training scythe or he had something else beforehand. (Carrie was an Animus thing and it kinda stuck for nostalgia's sake)
-He'll do anything to get out of feeding Will's pigeons. He thinks they're crazy. (Only because he made the mistake of not being careful when he was sent to feed them the first time, spilled feed all over himself and got mauled by pigeons)
-He's a slob. Anyone coming over without warning will probably catch his boxers hanging over the side of the couch or something. And yes, boxers over briefs.
-As a shoutout to the original Ronald Knox, this one's a fan of mystery novels and rather likes Holmes. He disappears once a month to get Doyle's latest and can't put it down until he's finished.
re: Rutger
-yes I've latched on to this guy and will be considering adding him to the roster once we get more info about him.
-Despite what scanlations say, I'm going with Rutger. It's more German. Rudgar sounds more high fantasy than European.
-He has a certain pretentiousness about him regarding dark chocolate and Eiswein. Other than that, isn't fond of sweets.
-Until we've been Joss'd, he's a Spears. A distant relative, at least. A far related cousin maybe. He looks too much like a young Will not to be and Toboso isn't the kind of mangaka who suffers from sameface syndrome.
-Sascha is to him what Alan is to Eric. Maybe not to the same degree of familiarity but he's Rutger's go-to partner. But Sascha is a flighty thing and has a tendency to wander off which gives him a heart attack on occasion.
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If anything else comes up, I'll end up either replying to this with more or editing it.