[ WP ] You are one of the offspring of Death , you attend an academy with other offspring to become the new Death .

Want to be a Reaper? Do n't. It's much easier just to become a murderer. Let me tell you why... 
 
 The main reason is the school. Once the supernatural get involved all the rules go out of the window. And because Reapers are masters of death they're the ones who have to respond to any crisis, human or otherwise. War in some country somewhere? Here's your ticket, have a good time. Plague? Take a mask because remember, while you're a Reaper, you're still technically mortal. Your classmates might look the other way from time to time but sooner or later Death catches up to everyone. 
 
 Evil Wizard? Mighty Heroes? Best hope that whoever kills who the survivors go easy on you. 
 
 The hours suck. People are dying twenty-four-seven-three-six-five. Imagine being on call for that long while trying to study for your exams. Learning on the job sounds good but, trust me, it's exhausting. The Teachers, Grim especially, demand you know everything about human stank my and what would lead to someone dying. Woe betide you if you take a soul from a body that was going to recover. 
 
 Grim Reaper is particularly serious about this. Jolly treats it as a joke but there's a dangerous glimmer in that one's eye. The Haunted Reaper and The Wrathful Reaper do n't really mind, one has seen too much to care and the other deals only in absolute cases, but the rest of the staff are clean and clinical about it. 
 
 And here's the crux of it all. If you get accepted, and if you can pass the exams, and if there was a spot for you in the first place, remember that the Department can only be so big. That means that every year there are too many students for too few jobs. Competition for those is fierce. 
 
 Victims of murder are very common and, as the school has a pit that leads down to an unimaginably vast coffin there is always somewhere to hide the bodies. The term *dropout* has never been so accurate. 
 
 So if you want to become a Reaper to hold people's lives in your hands then become a murderer. The hours are better and that's all the academy would turn you into anyway.
