While fans accept that Grell is attracted to men, there is a minor dispute about whether she had feelings for Madame Red. Despite this, she is only depicted flirting with men. Grell also states that she fell in love with Madame Red, which could mean that she is bisexual. Grell is instantly shown to be attracted to men, including the titular butler of the series, Sebastian Michaelis, and her supervisor at the Grim Reaper Dispatch, William T. She refers to herself with the female first-person pronoun atashi.

Grell speaks Japanese in the highly feminine onee kotoba sociolect, typically associated with queer men and transgender women. Her portrayal in the anime is mostly as comic relief, while her presence in the manga is more varied. She is fond of referencing theater, especially the works of William Shakespeare. She is concerned with her appearance, and complains if she thinks her makeup is bad. Despite her lack of compassion, she can be a cheerful and doting companion. Grell is emotionally expressive and flirtatious, but can be violent, and expresses very little empathy for humans. She wears round glasses, a black overcoat, and black pants. While working with Madame Red, her hair is dark brown and tied in a low ponytail with a red bow holding it together. Grell reaps souls with her death scythe, which is a chainsaw. She has a chain of mangosteen hanging off her left hip. She has distinctive sharp teeth and long, crimson-red hair. Like all grim reapers, she has green-chartreuse eyes and a pale appearance. She stands at 175 centimeters tall (5’9”) without her heels. Grell usually wears a white button-up shirt with a brown vest, brown sleeve garters, black gloves, black dress pants, a ribbon bow tie, red 11-centimeter (4.3-inch) high heels, red glasses with skull ornaments, and a red coat she took from Madame Red after collecting her soul.

As an additional duty, she is responsible for tracking down and defeating Undertaker, another grim reaper who has deserted the Grim Reaper Dispatch. After Grell was arrested for breaking the laws of the grim reapers, she was punished and suspended from her duties for three months.Īfter the end of her suspension, Grell continues to collect souls. For the next three years, she posed as Madame Red's butler and aided in her murders, until they were caught red-handed and Grell killed her and collected her soul.

Grell empathized with her inability to bear children, and offered to help. While on duty collecting souls in 1885, Grell spotted Angelina Dalles, a doctor and socialite better known as Madame Red, murdering a woman. She has been a grim reaper for under 70 years. She is drawn to appear in her late 20s, but her exact age is never stated. Like all grim reapers, she used to be a human, but committed suicide. She also has a fully grown black haired male cat named Coal, who’s actually grown old and usually lays on Grell’s bed most of the day as he can’t move around a lot.Grell is a grim reaper and works in the soul collections division for the Grim Reaper Dispatch. She has two kittens one is a male grey medium haired kitten named Rocky and another one is a female ginger long haired kitten named Angelina. When Grell was alive, they had very dark humor. Grell enjoys having yellow-green eyes since they don’t remind her of her father, like how her blue eyes did. Grell got their red hair from their mother and when they were alive they had ice blue eyes, which they got from their father. When Grell was alive and they heard their dad come home hours after than he should have, they hide under their bed to try and protect themself from him. If someone touches one of her scars she gets nervous. It does have a few red decorations though. Grell’s house isn’t completely covered in red items, paint, ect. When Grell got his memory back about his life when still in training with William, he barely went to training or left his dorm as he had to decide a lot about himself. When she gets her sex-change surgery and men notice her more (in the Reaper realm) she gets really angered for the sudden attention.

Grell is super self conscious of her body. Grell enjoys the cold more then the warmth as it gives her an excuse to cover up more. Grell actually is a little scared of large animals

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