Mun watched Dead Like Me and this happened

[illegalsinmybottom]

Work never ends now does it? Is this a promotion or just a game? Cos without Ruben around there's nobody to hand out assignments. How am I supposed to work without those mate? Tell me that. While you are at it, get me somewhere to stay. Preferably not one of those games.

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[messiahwithagun]

Reapers these days. You complain about everything.

[illegalsinmybottom]

Been an unwilling reaper for decades. Kinda makes you want a vacation for more than the odd day when the gravelings gets time off.

[messiahwithagun]

Come on. You Reapers have it made. Unless you get a day job, you have one thing to do all day that literally takes all of... What, an hour?

[illegalsinmybottom]

It doesn't pay much. In fact we get nothing for our services and we're still expected to pay our rent, bills and taxes.

[messiahwithagun]

Let's be honest for a second, here. Do you pay any of those things?

[illegalsinmybottom]

Gotta pay rent and bills to have somewhere to live. Taxes? Nope, haven't paid them since 1966.

[messiahwithagun]

Come to think of it, how exactly would you pay taxes? The government can't exactly know you exist, unless you have, say, some sort of contact at the DMV who can hook you up with fake credentials.

[illegalsinmybottom]

We're supposed to remain hidden. The living shouldn't know we even exist.

[messiahwithagun]

Your Higher-Ups are idiots if they think "undercover" means "living like vagrants."

[illegalsinmybottom]

Can't argue with that. Nowt I can do about it tho.

[messiahwithagun]

Come to think if it, it almost seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Hook the Reapers up with an unlife they're not in charge of and mark them as obviously as possible by making them squatters and vagrants without the credentials for any work besides showing up at the scene of every externally-influenced death site within the tri-county area.

...Hm. That's interesting.

[illegalsinmybottom]

That's why most of us steal or get a day job. Sure you need to change things up once every few decades but at least I'm not working for the Plauge division. They never get any jobs. Poor guys have been doing this for centuries.

What's interesting?

[messiahwithagun]

The idea of keeping hidden while making it impossible to blend in like any other human.

[illegalsinmybottom]

Uh we don't wear cloakes and scythes mate. Most of us are doing a fine job fitting in. That's why we got physical bodies.

[messiahwithagun]

Of course. Because no one would suspect a young British man or a teenager to ever be a Reaper as long as they're lacking cloaks, or devil's tails, or wings. Right?

[illegalsinmybottom]

Exactly. We all look human and people doesn't pay attention. So much is passing them by because they're stuck in their own heads. Routines and stress distracts them from observing the world. They miss beauty and strangeness. We Reapers hide in plain sight, waiting for their time to come. As long as we don't raise suspicion we can do this for ages.

[messiahwithagun]

That was almost insightful, Mason.

[illegalsinmybottom]

I have my moments.

[messiahwithagun]

I won't tell if you won't.

[illegalsinmybottom]

You can tell if you want, I don't mind.

[messiahwithagun]

Right, because your little family of Reapers would believe me.