Talk:Reapers/@comment-107.77.76.61-20141107193440/@comment-64.121.193.127-20150130233833

Whatever horrors they witnessed, whatever acts of barbarism, it may have been done by mountain men. They may even have once been mountain men, they may have once been grounders. But get this much clear: former mountain man? former grounder? It don't matter anymore.

Reapers ain't men. And to call them 'survivors?' They're not. They looked right into the face of darkness, were made to stare. A kind of darkness you can't even imagine. Blacker than the space it moves through.

So now when a man comes up against that kind of will, the only way to deal with it, I suspect... is to become it. They follow the only course left to them. First they try to make themself look like one... cut on themselves, desecrate their flesh... and then they start acting like one.