One is a story in-which a character finds a way to kidnap Death, possibly to hold them hostage only for the world to be thrown into misery and anarchy as a result. Several archetypal stories are affiliated with the Grim Reaper due to their Death-status. Due to this several culture's variants of the Grim Reaper are expressly female or at-the-least feminine leaning. French, Spanish) the concept of Death is expressly female. British-influenced cultures tend to portray the Reaper as being male or devoid of gender or sex but in languages with grammatical gender (E.G. The Grim Reaper is a near universal representation of demise and is found in a wide variety of different cultures with many different names. Due to this the Reaper is often portrayed as having a Pale Horse. Although the figure is generally devoid of religious ties the Reaper is often affiliated with the Horseman of Death from the Abrahamic faith, one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The Grim Reaper embodied the concept of the living being like wheat which the Reaper harvests when they grow too old, hence the reaper's scythe. The origin of the Grim Reaper figure comes from the Medieval Europe during the 14th century when more and more Europeans found themselves dying of the mysterious new plague known as "Black Death" (now known as Bubonic Plague). Ares freed Thanatos and Sysiphus was sent to Tartarus, the Greek Hell. Thanatos was chained and bound in the castle of Sysiphus resulting in no living being on Earth being able to die which lead to an uproar from the God of War, Ares. In Thanatos's most famous myth, he was captured and imprisoned by the Sysiphus, the mad king of Corinth.
Thanatos was one of two twin sons born to Nyx, the primordial goddess of Night with Thanatos's twin having been the sleep-god Hypnos. The oldest Death figure who resembles the Grim Reaper myth is Thanatos, the Primordial embodiment of demise from Greco-Roman myth.
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