Reapers are a form of skelleton

[Bookswiper]

now i know that theres a whole dabalacle about reapers not being skelletons and the fireplace tells you you arn't undead but, when you go to the dock there is a black dot in the back of your skull, similar to a bullet hole. on top of this id like to discus the presence of the chair in the well that has bullet holes at head height as if someone either shot themselves or more likely someone in the OTHER chair shot them. personaly i think reapers are either a unique life form or not completely dead, it could also be noted that the only difference between ibzan and the reaper is that ibzan has a jaw and horns, implying those grew (back) after becoming a full skelleton

[Square_Rabbit]

It's never stated that the Reaper isn't skeletal, just that he's not undead. So, he could have skeleton body, just without the bitter cold the undead skeletons feel.

The bullet hole in the back of his head is actually a remnant from a previous development idea, where reapers were formed from suicide instead of skeletons. Timur's portrait originally belonged to the first reaper boss, who led the zombies. He'd killed himself with a shotgun, hence the blown-open skull and the missing jaw. I'm not sure what our Reaper's missing jaw means though, since suicide in the release version means they become skeletons, not reapers.

My personal theory (or possibly just headcanon, since I don't have much in the way of evidence) is that reapers are people who died a normal death, but caught the flames' attention in some way, so instead of heading off to the afterlife they're offered a job. Ultimately though, the origins of reapers is left intentionally unanswered at the moment, so it's all just speculation.

[Bookswiper]

Originally posted by Square_Rabbit:

It's never stated that the Reaper isn't skeletal, just that he's not undead. So, he could have skeleton body, just without the bitter cold the undead skeletons feel.

The bullet hole in the back of his head is actually a remnant from a previous development idea, where reapers were formed from suicide instead of skeletons. Timur's portrait originally belonged to the first reaper boss, who led the zombies. He'd killed himself with a shotgun, hence the blown-open skull and the missing jaw. I'm not sure what our Reaper's missing jaw means though, since suicide in the release version means they become skeletons, not reapers.

My personal theory (or possibly just headcanon, since I don't have much in the way of evidence) is that reapers are people who died a normal death, but caught the flames' attention in some way, so instead of heading off to the afterlife they're offered a job. Ultimately though, the origins of reapers is left intentionally unanswered at the moment, so it's all just speculation.

and yet im left with the conundrum that ibzan in UNdead

[Themarinaraman]

comas, maybe? when you are in a coma you are not dead. maybe people with less severe comas are candles, with a bit of life left in them, that being the flame. and those in more severe comas become reapers. thus being neither dead or living.