You bought a new bag of pot | So let's make a new start | And that's the way to my heart
Canon: Dead Like Me
Name: Mason
Race: Human (undead)
Age: Appears twenty-seven (b. 1939, d. 1966)
Education: Through secondary school
Occupation: Ante mortem, none. Post mortem, grim reaper / psychopomp.
Special Abilities: Able to take the souls of the living and guide them to their afterlife. Extensive knowledge of drugs and their uses, as well as 60s psychedelic rock bands. Passable petty thief and very good lockpick. Fast-healer, thanks to the whole... reaper thing.
Personality: Mason is charming (or at least he tries to be) - and when that fails him, he's persistent. Working mainly as a small-time drug dealer (and not a very good one, as he tends to sample his wares far more than he sells them... and he's been known to let debts go outstanding), he can always be counted on to be flat broke. And even though he's often drunk or high (or both), he's generally cheerful and upbeat. As a reaper, he's he's genuinely kind to those souls he takes, often seeing them off with dignity and a smile on their face. Mason is a grade-A procrastinator and overall fuck-up, and he's a terrible liar (not someone who lies often, just someone who's really, really bad at it). He flirts (badly) with just about anything in a skirt, but is in love with a fellow reaper, Daisy (a feeling she insists she does not return).
History: Mason was born in 1939 to a solicitor father. He grew up in Hounslow (Brentford), and was college bound until he hit his teacher in primary school with something (possibly a fire extinguisher, though this chronicler doubts it).
In life, Mason was heavily involved in the 1960's London psychedelic rock counterculture (which is to say LSD). He claims to have been born at a rock and roll concert behind an amp, and though he has no appreciable musical talent, he insists he should have been a rock star. He died in 1966, pursuing the ultimate high by drilling a hole in his head - so that should speak volumes to the fact he's not exactly brilliant. Between the time he died and 1969, Mason reaped Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones (who, coincidentally, was also twenty-seven at the time of his death).
He and another reaper sold her motorbike and some jewelry they pilfered to pay for passage on the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2, bound for the US in 1971. Canon-wise, nothing is known about the intervening years, but in my personal fanon, Mason didn't go directly to Seattle, Washington where he'd later end up. Being something of a rock junkie (and a regular old drug addict), I think he spent most of the 70s immersed in the drug-fueled punk rock scene in New York City. The 80s - a notoriously bad decade for everyone - were spent in Los Angeles, and Mason was heavy into New Wave (and probably more coke). The 90s brought Mason to Seattle, as he pursued the burgeoning grunge scene. There, he joined Rube's crew.
After George joins the reapers, he takes her under his wing and shows her the ropes, going so far as to help her find a place to live. He treats George like a beloved little sister, eventually telling her he loves her when he thinks he's going to be sent away. When fellow reaper Daisy started seeing a smarmy television producer, Mason became jealous, going so far as to step between them when the man threatened Daisy. He killed him and the unsanctioned death created a graveling - a sort of devilish imp that brings about people's deaths. Thinking he was going to be fired, he gave away all of his possessions, but he really wasn't, so he was homeless for a bit until another of the reapers invited him to live with her.
:Logs:
Warm Welcome | with Anastacia Duval
Death and All His Friends | with Daisy Adair & Georgia Lass (continued here)
Borrowing a Jaguar | with Georgia Lass
Fire, Unicorns, and Taking Over the Wooooorld! | with Daisy Adair
@ the Dance part one part two part three | with Dug, Gene Hunt, & Loke
:Maintenance:
How's Mason's Driving?
Mun's Journal