Post by The Ark on Aug 9, 2015 17:36:30 GMT
Reapers
Reapers are savage, primal, cannibals who are brutal and show no mercy to their victims. Most reapers appear to be disfigured horns and bumps across their faces and heads. Reapers were once Grounders however when they are transformed to a Reaper, appear to show no loyalty to their former clan.
They reside in the tunnels of the mines and the only food they are given are the bodies of the Grounders that the Mountain Men have harvested for their blood. They are loyal to the Mountain Men, capturing Grounders for them in exchange for the Red drug that the Reapers are given in return that the Mountain Men have made them addicted to. The Mountain Men use the tone generators to control the Reapers when interacting with them; the high pitch sound repels Reapers as they were conditioned during the transformation process.
When Grounders are captured they are categorized for either Harvesting or Cerberus, meaning the stronger ones would become Reapers to make it easier to capture more Grounders in the future. They would then go through decontamination where they are blasted with boiling water and doused with something that burns their skin even more. They are then given shots and pills as well as inspected before being put in a cage for later use. There are 2 phases to the Cerberus process.
In Phase 1, the victim is strapped onto a gurney and injected with the Red Drug every two hours while sounding a tone generator accompanied by electric shocks to the wrist for several seconds.
In Phase 2, the victim has been fully conditioned to show fear towards the tone generator (it usually takes a couple days) and one newly made Reaper is pitted against another new one in a fight to the death for the Red Drug. When one of them is victorious, and the other dead, the new Reaper has passed phase 2 and is then sent out to collect Grounders in exchange for the Red Drug.
It is believed that the process from Grounder to Reaper is irreversible and the only known way was discovered by the Sky People, showing Lincoln as the sole survivor of this reversal process.Reapers currently on the site:
- Aedan
- @linkon
