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Where I come from, most cultures have their own takes on the otherwordly, the supernatural. As shown in this entry, many of you are familiar with the lore of your world and even have had your own encounters with them.

Let me ask you this, to supplement the previous question: What creatures or supernatural beings of your world are generally portrayed in a negative light? Of those, do any have a particular fascination with blood?

Discuss as you will.


[Video Filtered to the Forensics Unit a short while later:]
Ladies, gents, I hope you're in the mood for work. We have another body.

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ow, charles. just... ow.

[ryuuzaki]

[There's a hesitation, even after the feed starts; the question has made L wince, in spite of himself.]

No. No, I'm still alive.

But you're precisely right that "reaper" would be the English term. The Japanese concept of a shinigami... it existed prior to much western influence in the country, but it owes its current popularity in folklore to that influence. Even so, the one I've seen didn't completely fit the expected image.

I really don't know whether or not you would see it if it killed you... it's necessarily hard to get a report. I can say that the one in question didn't seem to be a psychopomp. Ending lives seemed to be the whole of its purpose, and those lives didn't always end by natural causes.

[Something he had wondered, in those last few weeks in Tokyo, rises into his thoughts again: would it be possible to resuscitate a shinigami's intended victim?]