Undertaker

Undertaker is a character from the Kuroshitsuji anime and manga.

Undertaker is a seceded Grim Reaper. He is also a former Aristocrat of Evil and informant to the Phantomhive house, since Vincent Phantomhive's time. He used to work as a funeral director for normal society.

Appearance
Undertaker is a seemingly young, lean man, with long gray hair and a single braid on his right side. Like other Grim Reapers, he has chartreuse phosphorescent eyes.

Undertaker has extensive black fingernails and a noticeable scar across his face, neck, and left pinky finger. His robe is predominantly black; additionally, his attire includes an incredibly long top hat, and a gray scarf strapped across his chest and knotted by the hips. He wears an emerald ring on his left index finger; he wears a band of prayer beads around his neck, and he formerly wore a chain with six mourning lockets around his hip. The attire he wears was the typical attire for Victorian England funeral mutes.

When Undertaker was still active as Grim Reaper, he wore a pair of half-framed silver-square glasses, a black trench coat, a white dress shirt, a black tie and a pair of black gloves and shoes. He did not have any scars on his face and neck, but he did have his ear piercings.

Undertaker's silver Death Scythe is longer than himself, and it has a long curved blade, looking like it grew out of the skull at the top end of the handle. A miniature skeleton adorns the scythe, which consists of the skull and a rib cage wrapped in a thorny vine. The spine of the skeleton turns into the scythes long handle, which ends in a lower backbone.

Personality
Known only by his profession, Undertaker is a mysterious man whose scarred face is rarely fully visible beneath his long hair and crooked top hat. He tends to punctuate his words with sweeping gestures and creepy giggles, and he spends a considerable deal of time inside of coffins. He takes joy in frightening others, as he intentionally acts disconcertingly to provoke a reaction. Undertaker frequently refers to the deceased as his "guests," and it is his hobby to remove organs from his "guests" for research.

Undertaker has great and significant connections with the underworld societies because murder victims from the underworld are often delivered to his place of business. Thus, he has voluminous knowledge in these macabre cases that allows him to be an informant. However, he does not exchange his services for "the Queen's money," as he dislikes Queen Victoria. Instead, he expects those that want information from him to amuse him in some way.

Undertaker is intrigued by humans, to the degree that he defied the Grim Reaper conduct out of his own volition so that he can manipulate the fundamental notions of life. He is exceptionally disenchanted by the aspect of death (which is considered to be the "end"); one day he started asking the question: "What would happen if the end had a continuation?". For this question to be answered, he connects fake records to individuals' Cinematic Records. However, despite his many experiments, he could never successfully construct a soul, thus originating Bizarre Dolls, whom of which are nothing more than "flesh dolls without a self." Nonetheless, he is proud of his creations, and even when others remark on his deranged nature, he refuses to concede, and stresses the beauty of his Bizarre Dolls.

Undertaker regards a particular chain of lockets as his "treasure." (On one locket, there is a date and a name engraved: 13 July 1866, Cloudia P.) He eventually entrusts his treasure in Ciel Phantomhive's care.

Trivia

 * According to the official Kuroshitsuji character popularity poll, Undertaker is the third most popular character in the series, with 1284 votes. He is ranked among the "Devil Six", a group of the highest ranking characters of the manga.


 * In battles, Undertaker would wield sotoba, which are inscribed strips of wood found at tombs in Japanese cemeteries.
 * Undertaker was first seen with sotoba in the extras of Volume 2, four years before he was depicted with them in the manga.
 * He was also depicted with sotoba on the cover of the 4th DVD of season 1 of the anime.


 * Undertaker is the most handsome character in Kuroshitsuji.


 * During the Luxury Liner Arc, Undertaker was dressed as Charlie Chaplin. Ironically, Charlie Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889, the day before the Campania set sail, 17 April 1889.


 * Undertaker's design was based on the design of the protagonist of a pirate manga Yana Toboso planned before she started working on Kuroshitsuji.


 * In the first season, Undertaker was a renowned Grim Reaper, who was ranked management level, and he had judged souls as famous as Marie Antoinette and Robin Hood. William T. Spears said that even crying children would have willingly given up their souls to him. He was highly respected by William, but he did not return the feelings, calling William "annoying and noisy."
 * A statue from his time as a legendary Grim Reaper is situated in the Grim Reaper Library.


 * His Death Scythe was shown in the anime before it was revealed in the manga.


 * During the making of the first season, Yana Toboso told the staff to make Undertaker's hair look like as if it was not washed in long.