Scythe
Age – 3000 years old. Immortal
Weight - Depends
Height – 4’9
Hair – Black
Eyes – Green
Race – Actually forgot his own race but appears to be Caucasian with a light tan
Skills/Abilities – (Strap in because this is going to be a lot) Aside from turning into a moderate size scythe, Scythe has the ability to change his weight dependent on his partner/master’s, Kilik, vocal commands or rarely off his own will. The commands are split between the words, light, normal, heavy and human. Also to take note is the main difference between human and scythe form is that in scythe form Scythe cannot be picked up by anyone except his partner Kilik.
[In Human Form]
Light- Makes him light as a feather, able to move pretty fast and able to be picked up easier by anyone.
Heavy- Makes him slow as a turtle yet powerful like a train.
Normal – Resets any command to make him the weight of a ten year old boy.
[In Scythe Form]
Same principles except:
Light – Has the speed and power of a dagger. Used to disarm enemies, deflect fast projectiles or slightly wound them.
Heavy – Just makes him a bit harder to swing for Kilik [Like an axe] so he takes up a two handed sword style to support his weight; also able to cut through almost anything with a stationary swing.
Normal – Has the weight of a normal Scythe. Kilik wields Scythe in an unusual manner with him switching between styles on a snap. One minute he’s using a staff orientated fighting style then suddenly switches to a one handed short sword style.
With abilities out of the way, Scythe has an infinite abundance of skills that he has picked up in his long life span. A superb artist (even helped some of the most influential artists on the planet in the past) can draw anything and is optimal in almost every single art form on the planet, a talented musician and a part time philosopher
Weapon – Not a weapon at all but has a sketchbook he carries around for communication and linked with his memories. Has an insane writing speed and even predicts the answer a person is about to say making a pseudo-conversation with him actually enjoyable. Whenever mad he tends to write extremely long passages that take about 1 or two minutes to compose.
Battle attire – A black and silver short sleeve button up shirt with gray cargo pants along with black and green tennis shoes.
Biography- Mikael’s origin dates all the way back to 1430 B.C. in the Middle Eastern part of the world in the country of Israel. After Moses had freed the slaves in Egypt, they had taken to thriving in their new homeland with many of the former slaves becoming farmers. Mikael’s father, sister and mother lived in a fertile part of the country where they were all to farm and herd animals of the sort in peace. On Mikael’s tenth birthday (to which he was looking forward to), Mikael was finally able to go out into the field with his father to harvest wheat instead of peeling apples and sorting vegetables. The young boy was finally able to wield a scythe and conduct field work making him the happiest Israelite on the planet.
However, the next day, everything changed.
While Mikael was out with his new scythe tending to the field with his sister inside sorting the fruit, a wild dog had darted past his peripheral vison straight for the family’s small herd of sheep. The wild animal had already gotten a hold of one of the sheep viciously attacking it leaving the boy stunned on what to do next. Mikael had never fought before much less fighting an animal. He only knew two things at that time: he had a scythe in his hand and that he’s been swinging all day. The wild dog finally noticed Mikael after he was finished with the sheep and began circling the boy. Mikael did the same having some sort of unprecedented instinct on what to do in this situation. Finally, the two went at each other in a battle for life and death. The dog had done significant damage to the inexperience boy, yet Mikael proved the victor in a precise moment when the dog leapt into the air to attack and was struck in the heart with Mikael falling backwards. The boy had won and protected his home and family from potential danger.
Mikael headed toward his home in order to mend his wounds and tell his sister of his heroics. He had proved himself a man, surely his family would praise his actions. Walking into his home, however, he was met with the sight of his sister being attacked by an outlaw of the sort pushing the young girl down in attempts to choke her. Mikael hesitated for a moment’s notice and immediately recognized the same situation as the fight with the wild dog from earlier. Mikael rushed the bandit with full force and defended his sister by stabbing the several times in the back before the man fell over face down in his own blood. His sister was shocked at her younger brother pulling off such a violent act. Mikael on the other hand was conflicted with his actions overall. The wild dog was one thing, yet the man was completely different. It had gone against his parent’s teaches of taking a life, but was completely necessary to defend his home from two separate attacks.
Mikael regarded his sister’s reactions and saw that although she was in shock, she still locked at him with worry instead of fear. She hadn’t shunned him, meaning that he had ultimately done right. Mikael finally dropped his tension and began to walk to his sister to console her and to put this entire mess behind them. However, the bandit from earlier was very much alive as he reached out to cover Mikael’s mouth before he sliced his throat open with a pocket blade. Unfortunately, Mikael’s previous assault had hit no vital organs whatsoever allowing the outlaw to play dead and strike at a later time when Mikael had dropped his guard.
Mikael had failed. He dropped to the ground face first gasping for air as he instinctively reached for his scythe to protect his sister despite his injury. However, the bandit kicked the weapon from his grasp and raised his own blade ready to end the young boy’s life had it not been for his own sister to use a full forced charge to push the bandit a few feet back before getting in the way of Mikael’s injured body. The bandit quickly recovered and was prepared to strike down both siblings, yet was fortunately stopped with their father bursting into the house punching the outlaw hard across the face. While their father continued to beat the life out of the criminal, their mother rushed to Mikael’s side with his sister holding him begging her brother not to die. Mikael’s life was fading along with his vision. The last thing he saw was his sister’s face filled with joy that he was able to protect his family. Glad that his actions were ultimately good. For a ten year old boy in his position, it was enough.
How Mikael got to the dark voided space was beyond him. What he did know was that two figures were currently talking with him being in the middle. The figure to his left was a formless being with red glowing pupils and a deep voice while the figure to his right was a man glowed an intense white light donning a soothing voice in contrast to the other figure. It did not take long before the conclusion of the conversation end with him being given an option. Either ascend to heaven with the gatekeeper or remain on Earth and become an instrument for life’s natural order. All things were to die and live, the formless figure said. However, it was up to the instruments and their wielders to maintain who lived and who died in an orderly manner said the gatekeeper.
Both options were difficult, yet Mikael choose the option of life. He had died too early and wanted to see more of the world. He wanted to continue farming and eventually get better at it just like his father. Ultimately, Mikael wanted to see his sister. The glowing man nodded and left the formless figure with the boy to discuss his new contract. Despite having committing a sin against the testaments of man, the formless figure still considered the boy a child of God as all instruments, or weapons, were called. After God had claimed the lives of the first born children of Egypt, both heaven and hell made an agreement to keep the children as weapons for the personification of death himself to maintain the balance between life and death. There would be countless wielders that would take on the form of death meaning it was the children’s job to choose a suitable form as a weapon. Mikael went with the form of his most reliable and trust instrument: a scythe.
The contract was almost complete and Mikael was to be immortal to serve his sentence among the living. The figure revealed himself to be Lucifer and that the boy was now to report to him when he was called upon whenever a new Death was appointed. With the contract sealed with a drop of Mikael’s blood and a large tattoo on his back, he then returned to the living in the same place he had died: right into his sister’s arms. The family believed it to be a miracle and shout their praises along with Mikael; however, Mikael could not shout due to his throat still being cut open. He had come back to life, but he had arrived without his wound healing meaning he was forever without a voice. Overall, the price was small for the boy considered that his reward was still his family.
