They appear to all wear metal masks to conceal their faces, as well as hoods and are armed with a variety of weapons. The group was heavily armed with military-grade weaponry and utilized stealth and ambush tactics in attacking and hunting their victims. The group gradually began attacking survivor settlements and slaughtering innocent survivors on Pope's orders, despite these groups having done nothing to the Reapers. Believing them to be blessed by God, Pope formed the Reapers. Holing up in a church outside of town, Pope realized that none of his men nor himself were hurt. Many decided to become mercenaries.Īt some point following the outbreak, Pope and his men took shelter from a napalm bombing run, presumably from Operation Cobalt. Upon returning from war, many struggled to find jobs or deal with trauma, but the relationship between them remained strong. Most of the men and women in the Reapers were soldiers fighting in Afghanistan prior to the outbreak. In combat, the Reapers often make use of throwing knives to deadly effect. Only once they isolate their targets will they confront them directly. Nonetheless, the Reapers are fully aware their smaller group size puts them at a disadvantage, so will often organize ambushes and utilize hit-and-run tactics instead of fighting larger groups head on. Additionally, members of the Reapers are shown to be extremely tough, able to shrug off stab wounds and even falls from great heights.
Each individual member of the Reapers has military training, allowing them to easily eliminate most targets they encounter in hand-to-hand combat. What the Reapers lack in numbers, they more than make up for in skill, which allows them to target groups much larger than themselves. Likewise, any member that betrays the group is punished by being burned alive.
Because of their history, the Reapers have an obsession with fire, and will utilize it to initiate any new members they might recruit. They see their group as a surrogate family of sort, and refer to each other as "brother" and "sister". Being a small group whose members mostly knew each other even before the apocalypse, the Reapers are shown to have quite strong attachments to one another, and display great sadness if they witness one of their own slain. The Reapers demonstrate a cult-like devotion to their leader Pope, who himself is a very spiritual individual that follows his own, twisted interpretation of Christianity. Led by Pope, they attack their targets with frightening precision and ferocity, striking terror into the hearts of any survivors they might leave behind. The Reapers are a relatively small, but cohesive group of survivors that prey upon other groups and settlements.
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