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 The Death beaten by [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventurous art student|one incarnation]] of Jenny at [[chess]] in [[Universe (Mitigating Circumstances)|one universe]] spoke Swedish. He claimed to be a chess player “of some skill”, although Jenny managed to beat him; ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[Mitigating Circumstances (video story)|Mitigating Circumstances]]'') a [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping Death of the Endless|different version]] of Jenny suggested that she had, over the years, beaten various versions of Death at chess on many occasions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'')
 ==Biography==
-===Chess game with Jenny===
+=== Chess game with Jenny ===
 [[File:Seventh Seal pastiche in Mitigating Circumstances.jpg|thumb|left|220px|Death and Jenny play chess. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[Mitigating Circumstances (video story)|Mitigating Circumstances]]'')]]In [[Universe (Mitigating Circumstances)|one universe]], Death spent some time shadowing [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventurous art student|the local incarnation]] of [[Jenny Everywhere]] before making himself known to her. She admitted that her body was dying, but, telling him that she was not ready to pass on, she challenged him to a game of [[chess]]. Death accepted the challenge, with Jenny's life as the prize for the winner. Ultimately, Jenny succeeded, living on for more adventures. ([[VIDEO]]: ''[[Mitigating Circumstances (video story)|Mitigating Circumstances]]'')
-===Denied by Jenny===
+=== Denied by Jenny ===
 In unknown circumstances, [[Jenny Everywhere#Denying Death|one incarnation of Jenny]] faced Death. When Death tried to convince her that “it [was] too late”, Jenny simply answered “No”. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Memento Mori (short story)|Memento Mori]]'')
-===In the Collapsed Cosmos===
+=== In the Collapsed Cosmos ===
 After the [[Multiverse]] collapsed, the resulting [[Collapsed Cosmos]]'s version of Death was a non-binary individual who had a gloomy appearance and a sepulchral voice, and wore a black suit, black lipstick and black nail polish. They took up residence at [[the Redoubt]], the stronghold of the [[Archon]]s at the [[End of Time]].
 Through unknown circumstances, this Death then began a relationship with [[Julie Jacobs#In the Collapsed Cosmos|a version]] of [[Jenny Everywhere#In the Collapsed Cosmos|Jenny Everywhere]]'s sister [[Julie Jacobs]] who had also been pulled into the Redoubt. It so happened that Jenny dropped by at Julie's just as Death was due to pick their new girlfriend for a date; after a fairly tense greeting between Jenny and Death, the two lovers departed, leaving Jenny to house-sit. As she watched them go, Jenny wondered how long the relationship would last. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere (novel)|The Hermetic Garbage of Jenny Everywhere]]'')
-===Death of the Endless===
+=== Death of the Endless ===
 [[Universe (Psychopomp)|One universe]]'s version of Death, known as “Death of [[the Endless]]”, was deemed a more pleasant person by [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping Death of the Endless|Jenny Everywhere]] than other incarnations of Death she'd previously run into. Embodying Life as well as Death, much as her fellow Endless also defined their opposites, she actually liked people and life in general. Every native of her universe who died would meet her, which included, at some point, [[Jenny Everywhere#Native to the Endless's cosmos|the local Jenny]].
 After untold aeons, as the universe began to die, she reaped the last stars and her six siblings, ending with [[Destiny#Destiny of the Endless|Destiny]]. Although she had previously thought that she might cease to exist alongside Destiny, she instead found that she remained as the last “living” thing in the now completely empty cosmos. She existed in this silent darkness for a literal eternity (as linear time had died with Destiny) until [[Jenny Everywhere#Helping Death of the Endless|Jenny Everywhere]] shifted into this world by chance. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'')
+=== Death of the Discworld ===
+[[File:Death in Pratfall.png|thumb|right|235px|Death in [[the Desert]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pratfall (short story)|Pratfall]]'')]]The Death of the [[Discworld]] appeared as a tall skeletal figure with a “stygian blue” glow emanating from his eye sockets, wearing “a hooded cloak the color of a black hole’s event horizon”. He spoke in “exactly the voice of someone who would see every living thing from the creation of the universe until its final end”.
+This Death was calm and polite, performing his duty with quiet dignity, neither reluctant nor gleeful. He was famous for being extremely punctual. He usually greeted mortals who had just died in [[the Desert]], an otherworldly, seemingly infinite desert that served as the antechamber of the Discworld's afterlife. He had dominion over the [[Life-timer]]s, supernatural hourglasses that represented all living things' allotted lifespans.
+On many occasions, Death greeted the [[Jenny Everywhere#On the Discworld|Jenny Everywhere]] of the Discworld, presenting her with her Life-timer, only for Jenny to use her [[shift]]ing powers to shift some more life-sand into the upper bulb of the hourglass. Although there was nothing he could do about this, Death found this somewhat unfair, but, as Jenny once reminded him, he himself was fond of saying that “in the end, nothing is fair — in the end there is only me”. After they met so many times that Jenny felt she was beginning to get to know him, she told him he could, if he wanted, drop in on her for purely social visits even when she was not scheduled to “die”, an offer which left Death somewhat confused. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Pratfall (short story)|Pratfall]]'')
 === Impersonations ===
-[[File:Strach as Death.png|thumb|right|[[Strach]] poses as the Grim Reaper. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror]]'')]][[Strach]], the [[Abstract]] of Terror, briefly posed as Death when trying to throw [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]] off the scent as to his true nature. In his Death disguise, he appeared as a skeleton in a purple, hoodless robe, with glowing red eyes, holding a book and a scythe. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror]]'')
+[[File:Strach as Death.png|thumb|left|[[Strach]] poses as the Grim Reaper. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror]]'')]][[Strach]], the [[Abstract]] of Terror, briefly posed as Death when trying to throw [[Jenny Everywhere#Adventures with the Cupids|Jenny Everywhere]] off the scent as to his true nature. In his Death disguise, he appeared as a skeleton in a purple, hoodless robe, with glowing red eyes, holding a book and a scythe. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror (comic story)|Jenny Everywhere in the House of Terror]]'')
 ==Behind the scenes ==
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 The version of [[wikipedia:Death|Death]] seen in [[VIDEO]]: ''[[Mitigating Circumstances (video story)|Mitigating Circumstances]]'' was inspired by the version in the notorious 1957 film ''[[wikipedia:The Seventh Seal|The Seventh Seal]]'', portrayed by Swedish actor [[wikipedia:Bengt Ekerot|Bengt Ekerot]] (hence [[Daniel Lynn]]'s Death speaking Swedish).
-{{w|Death (DC Comics)|Death of the Endless}}, as she appears in the fanfiction ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'', is the (copyrighted) version of Death created by Neil Gaiman in the late 1980s for ''[[The Sandman (series)|The Sandman]]'', a DC comic series.
+{{w|Death (DC Comics)|Death of the Endless}}, as she appears in the fanfiction ''[[Psychopomp (short story)|Psychopomp]]'', is the (copyrighted) version of Death created by Neil Gaiman in the late 1980s for ''[[The Sandman (series)|The Sandman]]'', a DC comic series. Likewise, the one who appears in ''[[Pratfall (short story)|Pratfall]]'' is Terry Pratchett's {{w|Death (Discworld)|Death of the Discworld}}, who debuted in 1983 in ''{{w|The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic}}'', the first book in the ''[[Discworld (series)|Discworld]]'' series.
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 * '''{{w|Death (DC Comics)|''Death (DC Comics)'' on Wikipedia}}'''
 * '''[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Death_(New_Earth) ''Death (New Earth)'' on the DC Database Wiki]'''
+* '''[https://wiki.lspace.org/Death ''Death'' on L-Space, the ''Discworld'' & Terry Pratchett Wiki]'''
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 [[Category:Antagonists]]