research for reaper

There are different versions in every religions about the afterlife destinations, including...

• Transcendent places: Heaven, hell, limbo, purgatory, underworld, Yomi
• Reincarnation: after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant. (wikipedia)
• Spirit/ghost: Manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person, without "meat-suit" body. In some religions, they would stay in the human world.
• Zombie: Contrast with spirit/ghost, They are typically depicted as mindless, reanimated corpses without souls.

Reapers don't belong to any of them above. They are the medium between human world and transcendent places. They kept the natural order in balance and their jobs are to collect every soul under order of God of death. It is also given the name of the Angel of Death or Devil of Death or the angel of dark and light stemming from the Bible. In Chinese mythology, Reaper is called Ox-head and horse-face "They are the first people a dead soul meets upon arriving in the Underworld; in many stories they directly escort the newly dead to the Underworld" They worked for Yama.

Ox-head and horse-face in Chinese mythology

According to these research, reapers always work under orders of superior, which means in a way they are no differences to human beings who work under their bosses. Therefore, I was thinking if everyone has to work under orders, why not try the opposite.  Try disobeying, try rebellious, try messing up the natural order, try making up a total different mind rather than following boring rules! If we can't do something like this in actual life, at least we can write a story about it.