Reap

When it comes to Lolly, let’s discuss the elephant in the room immediately. Yes, she does wear a ower in her hair at all times. She wouldn’t be caught dead without one.

Although, to be honest, she also wouldn’t be caught alive with one either. You see, she is a zombie. Fortunately for you, she still has her brain and doesn’t have the craving for anyone else’s. Unfortunately for you, in order to combine her soul and body again, she had to become employed by Death and become a reaper.

Now, it might seem strange to see a reaper without a scythe, this because reapers don’t need speci cally a scythe for the collection of souls. Lolly’s personal choice for her auxiliary scythe is a rearm (or more accurately, a sniper rif e). She takes great pride and joy in her work, to the point that someone might be a little worried. But hey, who are you to judge? To each their own.

Prior to being an undead reaper, she was a human who was born, raised, and lived in London, England for sixteen years. During those sixteen years, she was friends with Isham. This friendship ended abruptly when Isham got Lolly’s father arrested. Lolly, her brother and mother then moved to The Isle of Kwailalilii shortly there after. Lolly’s time as a human came to an unexpected halt as, not a week after the move, she was murdered in a scene so horrible, that not even Stephen King would be able to stomach through.

Following her death, Lolly lived in Hell for ve years wondering around aimlessly, before being evicted. At that

point due to a combination of her employment with Death as a reaper and the efforts of her brother, she was brought back, and is where she is now. 

The rst well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, which is odd, considering that a Djur-människa spaceship crashed into the countryside of The Isle of Kwailalilii in 1899. The aliens that actually survived the crash were Personica’s great-grandpar- ents, which explains why her ears appear to be cat-like. (You know, you can’t

excape basic genetics.) However, she is self-conscious of her ears, and is reluc- tant to go into public without covering them with a hat or concealing them with a bow.

She is an upbeat, glass-half-full-and-there’s-a-pitcher-of-lemonade-by-it type of girl, which is why is the only one who understands why she became friends with Lolly.

Interesting thing about Personica, she actually goes by her family name instead of her given name of Emerald, as the naming-structure is in the reverse order of what the majority of humans do on Earth.

Personica currently lives in the countryside about fourty-two miles north of Amser Ein Bywyd Yn Am Byth Gryf, and works at the nearby aerodrome as both a mechanic and stunt pilot for a quasi-famous stunt show.

She has a mind that likes to keep busy, so in her spare time she does typical stuff that people do to do so. You know, stuff like baking, jogging, building giant robots, garden- ing.

Personica met Isham by chance right after one of her stunt shows. While the initial interaction was... awkward to say the least, their relationship grew into something much more tender and romantic. 

Isham is older than she looks (she looks nineteen, but in actuality is twenty-two). Her youthful demeanor comes from the fact that she is a vampire. (That is a Dracula/Marceline vampire, NOT an Edward kind.)

Personality wise, she could be described as the type who is rather callous, hates the over-serious and super-silly. However she is not excessively distanced to show her softer side form time-to-time. She, like other individuals with similar personality characteristics, changes her hairstyle and hair color about once a month to. Why? Is it because she is looking for a change or is she wanting attention? I don’t know. You’d have to ask her.

Isham doesn’t have the Most reliable of jobs, but pickpocketing the people you drink the blood of can surely pay the bills. Yeah, did I forget to mention that she isn’t much of a sticker for the rules? That is, as of recent years.

Her disregard for a good portion of social conventions came about shortly after she discovered that Lolly’s father was the head of a notorious and dangerous criminal organization, and turned him into the police, of which he was sentenced with three death penalties.

Despite being on unfriendly terms with Lolly, they see each other a lot because Isham enjoys spending time with and dating Pesonica, and, well, Lolly and Personica are friends after all. 

Another reaper, and a rival in her job to Lolly, but rather than a zombie with rearms, Essensally is an angel with a sword.

Hold on a second, doesn't the pineapple-shaped guard on her sword look familiar? That’s right, it is the McBean family emblem, as in Vatru McBean, the god of Heaven, making her the heir to the throne of Heaven.

In situations that Lolly would express a healthy whopping of schadenfreude, Essensally would express nothing. Her demeanor is atlined. Honestly, she would rather be reading a book. Not necessarily a good book, but a book nevertheless.

Essensally is essentially a very boring person, despite having the same job as Lolly. That is, the type of person she lets on as, she is a mystery wrapped inside a riddle trapped inside an enigma. I mean, just look at the scar on her eye, she most certainly has an interesting past.

Nonetheless, little more is known about this reaper with a rapier. 

There is no way around it, Edgar is a terrorist. Thankfully, he has yet to kill anybody, for he has only blown-up buildings that were empty at the time.

Don’t get me wrong, he is not just a sociopath without a purpose, he wishes to end the life of the man who is responsible for his current state of being, Barron Boyd.

Because of some sort of corrupt government secret project, Edgar was abducted from his home of a Scottish farm, taken to a remote island in the Northern Atlantic, and was induced to horrible testing on him and his genetic information, turning him into a mutant.

That would have been bad enough, but when the populous started to catch on to this international crime that the Arweinydd Lywydd had committed, Barron commissioned the complete obliteration of that remote Island, and the termination of all experiments and

associates related to it, including Edgar.

Edgar had only just escaped with his life intact, and swore vengeance on Barron, despite the fact that Barron is the most protected man in the dimension of the living.

Despite their shared hatred for each other, he and Barron actually send their death threats in rather civil, embellished, and long-winded letters that are delivered through the news. 

In a past life, the Personica-La Hyperspace Lander (or PHyL for short) was a spaceship. Now, he is a delight ... a delight that just might kill you if you pose a threat.

PHyL went from ship to giant robot because Personica simply wanted some- thing to work on in her spare time, and at the time, she had just watched the most frightening Spielberg movie that a space alien (or a descendent of one) could watch. And she just wanted some sort protection from that paranoia.

Despite his massive size and the blaster-cannon on his shoulder (for security), PHyL is probably the happiest, gentlest, and lovably naive creature in the known universe. (Honestly, would you sleep well at night if you knew that something three times your height, made of metal, and has a weapon that is only

just slightly less terrifying than a T-rex with arm extensions in its control in your backyard ... and it wasn’t friendly? I didn’t think so.)

Just think it, all it took was a few modi cations for Personica to trans- form the overly-cheerful guidance-system of her great-grandparents' ship. 

For sixty-eight long years, Baron has been the leader of The Isle of Kwailalilii, or as it is referred to there, the Arweinydd Lywydd.

Although he is seen by several to be a strong an valiant leader, he is more corrupted than a computer that had a connection to the internet for a shady dealer in the nineties. Although he has done some good and progressive acts while in power, he has done more than tripled those with the number heinous deeds. Some of his lesser international crimes include ordering the creation of an army of genetically altered, subservient, mutant, superhuman soldiers and the total annihilation of a remote, volcanic island. What’s worse is that only he and a select few know about them.

Thankfully, his time has come, and his soul is due to be reaped by Lolly. However, that time came a few months ago, and she is experiencing dif culty ful lling her task, forcing her to seek assistance.

But how did Baron get into a position where he can defy the power of a reaper? Did he make a deal for immorality with Nermal, Kwailaliliian god of Hell? Well, no. Nermal does not make deals that have no bene ts for his side of the bargain, and if some one as vile as

Baron were unable to be put into Hell due to lack of death, that would be bad for busi- ness. Also, mortality is impossible, even for dos like Nermal and Vatru.

However, The Quiet did have bene ts for granting Baron protection from death. 

The shape of the universe is not unlike a whif e ball in a vat of pudding. We (as in humans, aliens, penguins, the mighty avocado, etc.) exist in the dimension that is the whif e ball.

On the other hand, the dimension where the gods and goddesses reside is the pudding that surrounds and cascades into the whif e ball. In the center of the pudding, if the multi layered planet of Hell. In the very center of Hell, where there is the most security, is one prisoner. This prisoner is seen as so dangerous by the eight gods and goddesses of order agree that its execution could be worse or the universe than if it is simply just imprisoned. (For if it were executed, something else would take its place). This prisoner is The Quiet, the deity of chaos.

Apparently, not even the order know about The Quiet until 1914 of the Earth Gregorian calendar, when The Quiet, under the guise of a creature known as Beschuzt, made its rst attempt to plunge the universe into anarchy via the split personality of Sen, the goddess of light.

Despite its capture and highly restrictive con nement, little more is known about it other than that, and that it hails from the previously unnoticed sellotape dimension that the whif e ball has been coated in, The In-Between. However, the order doesn’t care. After all, so long as it’s constrained, it cannot do any harm, right? Right?