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Yurisa Ayrton | Black Butler OC

‘Death has always whispered in my ear and escorted me through my short life, but now I have become its voice. It's ironic.’

B-day: december 10, 1710

Height: 171

Race: Grim reaper

Close relations: James Erton - father | Dona Isabel de Tovar - mother.

Personality

Yurisa is difficult to describe. Uninterested in anything but work and a closed woman, by the looks of it. A workaholic with a penchant for pedantry. Has almost no socialising apart from work. Although maybe it seems that way because anything non-work is too personal to show? And in over 100 years of being a reaper all of this has become so commonplace in her eyes? Because delving deeper into her life reveals some things that interestingly complement her quiet character. Yurisa usually has a clear daily routine. The reaper wakes up at 8pm, as her work shift starts at 9pm and ends usually around 4-5am. And so early in the morning, while the chance to meet colleagues is minimal, the girl trains, jumping on the London rooftops for a while. Next, her day is spent in reports and other boring chores. The rest of her time is usually free Yurisa is very fond of strong black tea combined with a dusty old book from the Department's library, she's most interested in old scientific papers, even if she's not close to the field. At one time, when she was a nanny for little Samuel, she was interested in fairy tales, choosing mostly Welsh authors. Speaking of Wales, Yurisa is Welsh and has managed to carry her language and culture through the years. Her people have a rich poetry, an important role was played by bards, deep down Yurisa would like to sing and live like bards, but all the music she had was an old violin, which was given to her by Samuel's father, and she learnt the notes herself. So during the day the melancholy singing of the violin in the hands of the grey-haired reaper can be heard from the her room in the reaper's dormitory, or any other quiet secluded place in the department. Yurisa, although she has good combat training, is actually quite harmless, she does not even touch insects that accidentally flew into the room, she catches them and lets them go.

Biography

Yurisa was born in a quiet Welsh village to Isabel and James, and the family was an unusual one. James was a scientist, though atypical, always going on about how he was sure humans existed, other humans, called them reapers and tried to find such, claiming to have seen a reaper at work once, seen a reaper pierce a dead body and a film fly out of that body. Told that he thought about how he would be next, lying on the floor after a drunken scuffle, he felt himself dying, but he survived and has been trying to unravel what happened ever since. Her mother on the other hand, a spy from a religious Order who was sent to Wales from Spain, the Order was anti-science with religious beliefs. Isabel as a spy was doing great, no one guessed, not even James, and in fact in his activities she was hooked like a predator, learning more and more.

Yurisa was born, even as a child showing herself to be a quiet docile child, spending most of her time doing quiet activities. As a toddler, she helped her parents with work in the fields, learning to herd sheep and look after hens. She quickly learnt to read and write, becoming a real pride for her parents. But the family happiness did not last long, James learnt of Isabel's true origins when he caught her passing information to the Order. The people from there quickly learnt how their spy had been exposed, orders were given to eliminate the family

After hours in the fields with the sheep, 9-year-old Yurisa was returning to the house, where the front door was left open and a small group of worried neighbours were standing around. Upon seeing the girl, a familiar auntie ran towards her, but another unfamiliar man quickly took the girl away and put her in a wagon while she understood nothing. Yurisa cried and begged for an explanation of what was going on as her ancestral home grew farther and farther out of sight. The stern man, irritated by her crying, coldly informed her that the girl's parents were dead and that her new home was now an orphanage.

Just like that, Yurisa's life was turned upside down. Her simple quiet and kind character was hidden behind a shroud of mistrust and secrecy. In the orphanage no one offended her almost, but also not particularly friendly. But in general, the opinion of her was positive, especially among the older children, who sometimes helped the newcomer in return for interesting stories from her, and sometimes - for help in learning to read or write. The teachers at the orphanage also liked the girl, who was never a problem. The orphanage was decent, close to fields, and the children were often allowed to go for walks, which was good for Jurisa's adaptation.

After a year of living there, financial problems started and it was decided to close the orphanage and distribute the children to other orphanages. So, on placement, Yurisa was once again sitting in a cold wagon on her way to one of the London orphanages Life was already much, much harder there. There were more children, and their more urban character was rougher and harsher. No one greeted Yurisa warmly: on the contrary, the village girl faced a group of bullies, which the other victims of their attacks sympathised with. Food here was meagre due to lack of access to fresh produce. Teachers were angry and strict, ignoring the antics of the bullies, who were difficult to deal with. It was made worse by the fact that Jurisa spoke little English and her Welsh accent was mocked by others. There were a couple or three kids who seemed to get along with the girl, didn't judge and defended her, and she did the same, even standing up for the other kids sometimes, but she wasn't in a hurry to let anyone get too close to her. One thing that was always good was access to the library, where there was almost no choice, this led the girl in the direction of old occult literature.

At the time, some wealthy childless family took an interest in Yurisa, and the girl was quickly taken into their home. It's hard to say how happy she was about this, it seemed like she was, but it was as if Yurisa could sense something amiss coming from these people.

The beautiful new house had a dog, beautiful paintings, an heirloom knife, soft furniture and warm blankets. The girl only took a couple of books with her. Her new parents bought new clothes for her, a cute little dress, took care of her hair, her skin, making Yurisa look like a neat little doll. And she, like a good daughter, helped around the house, and in the evenings closed her ears and eyes as soon as she heard the beginning of drunken squabbles.

And her occult research did not stop, in a book she found an interesting ritual, and in clever language it was written that such a ritual was able to return to the conductor of the dead loved ones. Any person would immediately realise, having read the instructions, that it was just suicide, but it seems that Yurisa's despair clouded her vision, and she quickly gathered all the necessary things, waited for a certain day and time. 30 minutes before midnight, the girl lights nine candles, placed on the pentagram drawn on the floor, between the candles lay the fragments of that book, and in the middle, dressed in a beautiful snow-white dress, sat Yurisa with that very relic knife, pressed to the heart and reading a memorised text in Latin. Midnight, a sigh, and the point of the knife pierced the epigastrium, after which the bleeding body lay on the floor.

The reaper, who had been watching the scene through the window, restrained his emotions and made a note in his book, and, having bare his scythe, jumped through the window of the room. In this case, he didn't need to do the typical death procedures. He just gently took the girl's body in his arms and headed for the reaper department

Unclearly after how long, Yurisa opened her eyes, seeing only a white ceiling. She jumped up abruptly, looking around dazedly. The place where she had inserted the knife hurt terribly, but upon feeling there, she felt nothing to indicate a knife wound, but her dress was soaked with a huge bloody dried stain in the area. Some woman burst into the white room, exclaiming "She's awake!" What's going on?

Yurisa saw everything around her very cloudy and clearly didn't understand what was going on, but her eyes cleared as that woman leaned over to her and gently put on her glasses ‘Well, can you see better?’. The girl silently nodded, being in utter incomprehension. But in the next week, while she spent all her time in that room and regained her strength, everything was explained to her - she was now a reaper, and why it was so. The young reaper accepted this fact surprisingly calmly, though now her head was full of thoughts and reasoning on the subject. After her restoration, she was sent to a reaper school, given a basic death scythe and a separate room in the dormitory Of course, there were hardly any children in the department, so the girl was the centre of attention. The adult reapers cared for her as if she were their daughter, and the reaper who took her away, though he did not tell her this fact, took Yurisa out for walks after her shifts, gave her goodies and entertained her as best he could, taught her everything she needed to know as a reaper. Yurisa grew up and learnt, although her English was still not perfect, she learnt very well, her physical maturation slowed down when she reached about 18 physical years of age. By then she had graduated and entered the workforce as an ordinary reaper, she had changed her round student glasses to the ones she still wore. Around the 20 physical years, while strolling through a street market, Yurisa found a little boy crying against a wall, she learnt that he had lost his daddy in a crowd of people. It didn't take long to find the boy's father, as the frightened father tried to find him himself.

Bennet Cambell incredibly thanked the reaper for helping little Samuel, and a conversation ensued between the two, during which it was learnt that Bennet keeps an illegal clinic ‘for everyone, and even the undead’, oddly enough. Yurisa was plausibly lying about who she was and hiding her eyes behind sunglasses, then why did this man put emphasis on the undead? He also enticed her to visit his clinic house for tea, suspicious, but the girl agreed, knowing she could defend herself.

Already in the clinic, Bennet scared Yurisa with a confession that he knew she was a reaper and she might not lie to him, the girl denied it. The man began to tell her, showed her photos of his reaper clients and convinced Jurisu that he knew who the reapers were and that she should not be afraid, because he wanted to help them, it worked, the girl calmed down. Bennet also shared that he needed help too, but it wasn't necessarily to get treatment, he asked to babysit his son Samuel sometimes, as it wasn't realistic to serve clients and watch the child. Jurisa hesitated, which the man expected, saying: ‘Well… I understand, but if you suddenly decide to do it, I'll really need help tomorrow afternoon’ Bennet did not hope much, but at twelve o'clock in the afternoon the door of the clinic opened, letting the grey-haired woman into the building, where she was met by Bennet and little Samuel, who was wiping the floor. From that time on, Yurisa visited them several times a week, she quickly found a common language with the child, she tried to bring sweets and books for him. The father deeply thanked the reaper for her help, as much as he could, made a delicious dinner, could fit some things. The most valuable gift was two Nepalese black kukri, God knows who gave them to Bennet, but they soon became a new death scythe for Yurisa

(let's assume it was around 1850s, since the events of BB take place in the Victorian era) After a long time, when Jurisah stopped growing physically, around 27, Samuel grew to the same human age, who was still a boy to Yurisa, but a friend like his father. They were the ones to whom the girl was able to open up a bit, sometimes talking about herself and her desires. So, for one of her birthdays, they gave her that antique violin that she carefully played every day.

One thing that hurt a lot in her mind was the realisation that while Yurisa was living her second hundred and not aging, Samuel and Bennet were growing up like normal people, that they would die like normal people, and that maybe sooner or later she would have to take their souls and only memories would be left of these people. Jurisa made the decision to stop using the kukri as a scythe, but to keep it, in her briefcase, as a reminder. The girl's new scythe was a custom made rapier.

#ouuu she’s gorgeous #i remember her…#she grew up so fast #(so did OP)#kuro ocs unite!!!!#grim reaper oc #black butler oc #kuroshitsuji oc #yurisa ayrton

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