Character

NOTE: This app contains major spoilers for the series, particularly the latter half.

Name: Grim Reaper/Kim Woo Bin/Wang Yeo
* All names are written in Eastern order in this app
Age: ??? Technically 300-some odd years but looks mid-to-late 20s
Memory Option: 3 - Blank slate
Established Status: 2 years
Canon: Goblin: the Lonely and Great God
Canon Point: End of Episode 13

Citizenship: Westerley
Job: Apothecary assistant


Abilities: Grim repears are too OP, pls nerf. But okay, let's try to break all of these down.

MINOR

• INVISIBILITY -- Less part of his biological set of fancy grim reaper abilities and more to do with the hat he wears in canon, he is able to become invisible to the human eye. This is in appearance only, and people would still be able to bump into him/hear him if he made any loud noises. This would make most sense as an item regain equipped with some sort of cloaking device/refractive shield rather than an ability. I'll be sure to buy this from the AC bank!

MAJOR

• ABILITY TO CHILL/FREEZE OBJECTS -- What it says on the tin. He can lower the temperature of inanimate objects, as well as of the atmosphere around him, to the point where they are completely frozen. I'm translating this as chemicals contained in nanites that are released and subsequently consume a lot of heat as part of the reaction
  
• TELEPORTATION -- He has the ability to move from location to location, almost instantaneously. For the sake of not having to deal with this headache, I'm just going to translate this as part of the whole invisibility schtick: if someone can't see him move from place to place, it looks like teleportation.
  
• TELEKINESIS -- He has the ability to move objects with his mind, including other people! Pretty standard stuff. Instead of actually giving him telekinesis in OJ, I'm thinking of twisting this into a more hallucinatory effect caused by drugs/poisons contained within nanites -- the object wouldn't actually move but the other person would believe 100% that they're seeing a fork dance across the sky, or whatever.
  
• MEMORY MANIPULATION -- Part of a grim reaper's arsenal of abilities, he is able to wipe parts of a person's memories, ranging from as brief as the previous few minutes to as broad and general as "everything bad that's ever happened to you." He can also implant suggestions and alternate explanations for events that have happened. The easiest way of translating this would probably be via neural biotics of some sort that interface with another person's memory and rewrite/alter existing memories.
  
• COERCION -- Sort of relating to memory manipulation, he can "compel" others to act in a certain way or believe certain things, ranging from "you just saw a boar" to "you will never want to be friends with this person again." It'd be done via the same neural biotics listed in the memory manipulation part but I'm listing it separately since it's slightly different.

MAJOR**
**NOTE:I'm listing these separately since the way I'm hoping to implement them walks a fine line with regards to game mechanics. In Goblin, there's the concept of past lives - former lives someone has that they no longer remember anything of when they are reborn/reincarnated. I was wondering if it would be possible to equate 'past life' in Overjoyed to a character's 'canon life', just to be able to tie a little more into game premise and setting. I've detailed the specific abilities and their technological translations below in case they'd be permissible, if not I'm happy to nix these entirely since they won't come into play otherwise. Let me know! I really should have posted to the brainstorming meme but I literally decided to do this yesterday.

• PAST LIFE MEMORY ABSORPTION** -- In canon, he has the ability to see a person's past life through skin-to-skin touch. The number of memories seen is determined by length of touch; the longer he touches someone, the more memories he sees. I'm translating this way more loosely in OJ and specifically targeting manifesting this as microscopic devices/nanites embedded in his fingertips that prod a random section of the cortex, scan resulting brain activity, translate that activity into loose images, and send it back to him. I'll be sure to check with other players before using this ability.
  
• PAST LIFE MEMORY TRANSFER** -- Along with his ability to see snippets of a person's past (and past life), he can also transfer those memories back to a person if they've forgotten them--but with a caveat: it has to be done via kiss. As far as doing this in-game goes, it would be nerfed so that he'd return one memory per kiss (rather than someone's entire canon life) and the mechanic would be based on nanites in his saliva that provide some sort of disruption to the tech that implanted the false memories in the first place. I'd also be more than happy to check in with the mods before using this ability.

Personality:

Wang Yeo, king of Goryeo, is a man who is feared by his servants and his people, and who craves love and affection but cannot see it when it is presented to him. He is a man who demands to be the most important in the eyes of all those around him and expects all those around him to bend to his every wish and whim. But despite wanting to be adored, what he really wants is to be loved and no longer so alone, and it's those fears and anxieties regarding being alone that make him easily manipulated, to the point that he becomes nothing more than a puppet for another man.

The grim reaper, nameless envoy for deceased souls, is a different man, despite being the reincarnation of Wang Yeo. He is a stoic man who works long hours for little pay, treats all those around him with respect, and is content being one out of many in a sea of other grim reapers. Which is not to say they're all made out of the same mold--the reincarnation of Wang Yeo (let's call him Grim Reaper with both words capitalized) has his own individual quirks and annoyances. He doesn't enjoy being teased or made fun of by those he doesn't know, and has a childish petty streak that runs surprisingly deep when it comes to getting even for any supposed slight. He can hold his own quite well, refusing to be swayed by anyone who challenges his decisions. When it comes to the souls he's sending on to their next life, he is surprisingly compassionate and just, allowing lovers separated by years and distance to reunite once again while delivering punishment to any who believe they are exempt from the universal rules of life and death. But for the most part, Grim Reaper has no particular desire to remember who he used to be or even become anyone

Until he meets a woman named Sunny on the street one day and cries at the sight of her.

It's then that he finds himself drawn towards human culture and human individuality and it's then that we see for all that he is a supernatural being, Grim Reaper is surprisingly human at heart, subject to the same woes and emotions any other person might go through. He fixates on Sunny and how best to woo her, and spends an inordinate amount of time quizzing a fellow housemate on how best to appeal to women. He panics when Sunny takes an interest in his unofficial landlord Deok Hwa and assumes it's because Deok Hwa has a business card and he doesn't, whereupon he subsequently hounds multiple people on whether they have business cards and where he might be able to obtain a business card. He gets jealous and protective when a strange man approaches Sunny one day and promptly abuses his reaper powers without a second thought to get him to go away. He spends an inordinate amount of time stressing over coming up with a perfect name - he later settles on 'Kim Woo Bin' - whether or not he has a religion, what he supposedly likes as Kim Woo Bin. It's a bit awkward and definitely raises more than a few eyebrows, but for a while Sunny's charmed by it and Grim Reaper is, for probably the first time in his life, happy, giving in to his own selfish desires rather than operating as a unit part of a larger whole. He loosens up, smiles more, and even offers advice to his reaper coworkers despite his previous penchant to remain strictly professional. Everything is fine, more than fine.

Until it isn't.

His quest to become a man with whom Sunny can be happy with eventually stutters to halt, roadblocked by uncomfortable revelations that he might have been someone who caused Sunny - and his reluctant friend-slash-landlord-slash-housemate Kim Shin the goblin - a lot of pain in a previous life. For the first time, he's plagued by worry and self-doubt and fear that things might not work out between him and Sunny, and that his uneasy friendship with the goblin might slowly be crumbling apart. He spends too much time wondering how he can make their lives happier and better, even though they play no role in the work duties he's supposed to carry out. Speaking of work, he starts disregarding the rules carefully put in place: requesting name cards of impending deaths for personal reasons rather than professional and abusing his memory wipe powers in order to help a friend out. Slowly, he begins to value the friendships he's made rather than the important duty he's been given.

Because though he is a different man shaped by different experiences, the one thing he does share with his former self is a deep desire to form relationships with others and be accepted by those he likes. With the gobin, once his enemy and then his friend and now back to being his enemy again. With Ji Eun-tak, the missing soul he was supposed to report 19 years ago but to whom he now regularly goes to for advice. With Sunny, the woman destined to be his love interest no matter which life he's in. And it's those relationships that have the most impact on him, changing him from a cog in the neat and punctual cycle of life and death to an individual, a man able to recognize his own desires and connect with others on a personal level.