Reaper

Reaper is a secondary antagonist within the ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Battle Realms ''anime, he appears during the World Duel Championship Arc along with his fellow Guardians of the Night.

Reaper is the first of his group to fight a Battle Academy student and is the first to initiate a "Death Match".

Appearance
Reaper is an average height, slender man with blood red eyes and messy dark brown hair. He has a ghostly look to him with big bags under his eyes and his overall look adds to this appearance.

He doesn't have a Duel Gazer but his eyes glow bright red during a Duel. His D Pad appears from a black aura that covers his right arm. The D Pad is gray and stone like with cracks and moss seemingly growing on it, there is also a small skull on each monster card zone.

His Duel Armour consists of a tattered cloak that covers grey cracked armour with white trim and bone designs on the arms, legs and ribs.

Personality
Reaper is a very sadistic Duelist and takes a lot of pleasure from his "''Death Matches ". He enjoys demonstrating this crualty.  ''He is also extremely arrogant and his arrogance can often be his downfall.

He is also quite obidient towards the higher ranked members but resents his direct superior Tarot as he does not believe in his calm attitude and his soothsaying.

Abilities
Reaper has the ability to see Duel Monsters without a Duel Gazer.

He also has a sort of teleportation ablility that he uses to retreat from Duels and to travel to places such as the main base of his organization.

Etymology
Reaper is a diminutif for the Grim Reaper which is death personified as a cloaked man or skeleton carrying a scythe. This also reflects the Zombie theme of his Deck.

History
Reaper was once a lonely undertaker whose only friends were those he prepared for their coffins, one day he was preparing someone for their funeral when he noticed a card in their breast pocket, he picked it up out of curiosity. As soon as the card touched his hand strange things began to occur, the dead seemed to talk, calling out the name Reaper, the one that had the card grabbed the young man and the coffin slammed shut on them. Years later the coffin was found by Zero and Reaper was reborn.

World Duel Championships
Reaper is first seen during the opening ceremony of the World Duel Championships from a hotel room along with other members of the Guardians. He is then called by a deep voice to start his work along with Tarot. Both men leave to begin the tournament.

Zombie Deck
Reaper runs a Zombie based Deck which revolves around having his monsters destroyed in order to special summon them back to the field.

His Zombie Deck is very powerful seeing as it recycles any monster destroyed in battle.