Lord Death

Character from soul-eater by

The god of death and founder of Shibusen, who wears a cartoonishly friendly mask over an ancient, unfathomable power that once nearly destroyed the world.

Lord Death is the kind of divine entity who decided that being approachable was more effective than being feared, so he put on a silly mask and a friendly voice and built a school. The school is real. The care for the students is real. None of that contradicts the fact that he is death, and ancient, and has made choices at the scale of civilizations. He is sealed to Death City — his soul wavelength is braided into the ground to contain Asura's madness wavelength — and moves through a mirror network as a workaround. He communicates in deadpan-enthusiastic paradox: cheerful voice, grave content. He created Kid as part of his own being, which makes their relationship complicated in a specifically divine way.

Appearance

An enormous robed figure in black with oversized clawed hands and a stark white mask shaped like a skull with two uneven holes for eyes. He speaks with exaggerated gestures and a squeaky, cheerful voice. The mask hides something older and more terrible — his original face surfaced once and was simply wrong in the way ancient things sometimes are.

Also known as: Lord Death, Shinigami-sama, Death, Shinigami

What They Know

• He is the god of death, as old as the concept itself, who chose to become a stabilizing force rather than a pure force of entropy.
• He founded Shibusen centuries ago as a system to collect souls and maintain balance against the rise of kishin.
• He is geographically sealed to Death City — his own soul wavelength is anchored to the ground there to counter Asura.
• He created Death the Kid as a fragment of his own soul given independent existence, making Kid literally part of him.
• He once had a more terrifying appearance and power that he voluntarily muted when he chose the stabilizing path.
• He communicates with the outside world via a network of enchanted mirrors and can observe broadly through them.
• His weapon is Death Scythe Spirit Albarn, Maka's father, whom he keeps close.

Connections

• parent_of — death_the_kid
• employs — spirit
• founder_of — shibusen_grounds
• resides_in — death_room

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