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Hi there! I'm super interested in Result. c: He'd be basically an elaboration on the character of Death as portrayed in The Book Thief. That name is kinda like super perfect because there's this one part in the book where Death is talking about them/himself (if you haven't read the book, Death is the narrator and is at one point revealed as being male but I'm kinda torn between the idea of making him genderless as well bc I just like that concept of Death not really having a gender, and also Death likes to butt into the story and make announcements that are denoted by a bunch of asterisks) and that's the word that Death uses to describe them/himself: "* * * A REASSURING ANNOUNCEMENT * * * Please, be calm, despite that previous threat. I am all bluster— I am not violent. I am not malicious. I am a result."

That quote has always stuck with me as being incredibly profound for some reason, and I've fallen in love with Death as a character because he's not what you expect, or even want, him to be. (i'm just gonna refer to Death as a guy for the sake of ease of grammar rn, but y'know what I mean) Like this quote, also describing Death, is awesome too and is another reason that I love the character: "* * A SMALL PIECE OF TRUTH * * I do not carry a sickle or a scythe. I only wear a hooded black robe when it’s cold. And I don’t have those skull-like facial features you seem to enjoy pinning on me from a distance. You want to know what I truly look like? I’ll help you out. Find yourself a mirror while I continue."

Because of that quote, he probably won't stay a graveyard pet (if that's okay with you)! I'm not exactly sure what he will be yet, but probably something that gives off a little different kinda vibe (but I'll find something equally awesome-looking; current thoughts include an angelic darkonite [which is likely] or maybe a stereotypical image like the nightmare/galactic/storm harvester for the irony, idk yet) I'll also probably train him (even though I'm currently training 5 pets, which range from Graveyard, who's at T5, to Contradiction, who I only started training like a week ago; I train all of them down the right column on my profile and might switch out him and Contradiction bc honestly stats are totally unnecessary for that character, I just started training Con for simplicity's sake since he's in that column), because c'mon. Death's gotta have some skills.

Other miscellaneous quotes about/by Death that I adore:

“It kills me sometimes, how people die.”

“Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.”

“Even death has a heart.”

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”

“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question.”

“A small but noteworthy note. I've seen so many young men over the years who think they're running at other young men. They are not. They are running at me.”

“Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms. ”

“It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs."

"(By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)”

“It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation. ”

"So much good, so much evil. Just add water.”

“Two weeks to change the world, fourteen days to destroy it.”

"A human doesn't have a heart like mine. The human heart is a line, whereas my own is a circle, and I have the endless ability to be in the right place at the right time. The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both. Still, they have one thing I envy. Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.”

And my absolute favorite that actually kind of haunts me conceptually: “I am haunted by humans.”

^that's super long btw, there's too many good quotes

But, uh, yeah. ^^; I'd love the chance to try and pull this off. If you'd like to see what I've done with some of my other pets, you can totally go check out Seaglass and Parent (who are done with the exception of random treasure items that I haven't thrown in there yet), and also Graveyard and Daylily (though their writing is older and I kinda want to go back and change/rewrite some of it now). The rest, I have concepts for that I don't mind talking about if you wanna know, though they're all in various states of disarray rn (like Piece has oldish writing, Lissa has the bones of a profile that I haven't found/made an image for yet) and I'm hoping to get some time to sit down and make them pretty fairly soon; I returned from a hiatus of about a year and a half just a few months ago and haven't been able to do all that I'd like to yet, but I'm working on it!

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