The Undertaker comes from Kuroshitsuji (aka Black Butler) by Yana Tosono.
The Undertaker, as his title implies, is a very enthusiastic undertaker from the (Japanese conception of the) Victorian Era. He also makes his own custom coffins, performs autopsies on his βguestsβ when the need arises, and serves as an underworld informant for Ciel Phantomhive (the earl/secret agent/angry 12 year old protagonist of the series). He is eccentric, lurking in coffins, eating bone shaped cookies out of urns, and creeping out small children by poking them with his long nails and telling them what a great celebration funerals are. He also loves laughter, often demanding jokes for his services instead of money. His purpose in the manga has yet to be revealed, but he knows more than he lets on, and it is implied that he knew Ciel's parents (who are part of the super secret spy ring for the monarchy or some such nonsense as that)
In the anime, the Undertaker is a retired but high ranking Shinigami with the power to alter the Shinigami's books. In the manga (at least so far) he is human. He wears a floppy top-hat, an oversized coat, and his hair usually obscures his eyes. He has three visible scars: one under his eye, one across his neck, and one around his pinky finger, and he has some ear piercings normally hidden beneath his hair. The coins on his belt have inscriptions on them, but their significance is, at the present, unknown. He speaks in a drawn-out manner, often depicted in the manga with ~ marks, and although he is always smiling, a more sinister nature sometimes emerges with his preoccupation with death. Most of the time, however, he acts carefree and childish. His past, including his name and age, are a mystery.
The Undertaker is played by Lisa (demonrubberducky)
Official canon
In the manga, the Undertaker provides information about his guests (the corpses he examines) in exchange for jokes. He also oversees the funerals of Madam Red and the prostitutes from the Jack the Ripper case. He also comments that he studies the corpses' organs in his spare time, and he also offers to make custom coffins for the people he likes.
In the anime, he provides these services, and in addition, also appears as a retired Shinigami who alters the books in the Shinigami library to help out the main characters.
In both media, he is creepy as hell and gleefully expresses his love of his job.
Head canon (stuff I made up)
Since the big Atem/Frau fight, I'm taking the anime Undertaker road (aka he uses his ex-shinigami powers). That hasn't happened in the manga, but (spoilers) the anime, while horribly inaccurate in some respects, actually got three of the characters suspiciously right before their pasts were revealed in the manga, ergo, Undertaker might happen the same way. Who knows. He looks sexy in a suit, though. (/spoilers)
For now, I'm taking more of the manga route than the anime, but either way, the Undertaker is mysterious and not very forthcoming about his past (so I doubt it will make too much of a difference). He is usually in the know about shady business, so he will likely attempt to establish contacts with people, and he also seems to take a special delight in creeping out small children.
I'm going to assume that he sleeps in his coffin (instead of just lurking their for hours on end waiting for people to venture into his shop), and that he generally shuns the sunlight. His scars, I am going to say come from cutting himself open to examine himself (a la Stein from Soul Eater). Live subjects were frowned upon in the Victorian Era, but Undertaker is just devoted enough to take one for the team.
Game canon (stuff that has happened in the game)
The Undertaker arrives. He is very suspicious of the island's low mortality rate and high rate of disappearances, and plans on going out and searching for hidden bodies across campus when he gets the time.
He meets with Riku in the tunnels beneath the school while searching for spiders. He creeps her out, but she ends up letting him ride her skateboard.
During the random object disappearance virus, the Undertaker loses the coffin he had just built in the Art Building. To distract himself from his loss, he starts making cookies. He meets Tsuzuki, who ends up helping with/tainting his baked goods.
All the while, Undertaker has been decorating his room to make it feel more like home. So far, he has the coffin he built leaning against the wall. He sleeps there and uses his bed as a storage shelf. He has adopted some spiders, which have been working to cover the room with cobwebs. There are also a few crickets and other bugs crawling around, as the Undertaker uses them to feed his spiders (of there are three so far: The Earl, The Butler, and The Inspector). After discovering the copier machine in the library, he went a little printer happy and printed off color pictures of anatomical studies, mummies, sarcophagi, etc, and pasted them to the wall. A dirt-covered shovel usually leans against his closet door, and when he is left alone, he never switches the light on, preferring to lurk in the darkness.
Roommate Arrival! Heiji Hattori moves in to the Undertaker's room. The Undertaker is out searching for bugs to feed his spiders at the time, so he doesn't meet his roommate immediately (although Heiji is already freaked out by him. Undertaker's creepiness is super-effective!). When they finally do meet, the Undertaker tries to befriend him, but the creepiness factor just comes between him. He resolves to make a sincere effort to keep his spiders on his side of the room.
Swordfighting lessons! The Undertaker attends as a spectator (just in case someone gets killed...). He gets introduced to Atem, Linali, Yuugi, and sees Hakkai, Kazuki, Gray, and Fuji. He scares Tsuzuki, and through the clever use of sweets, learns that Tsuzuki is actually dead. Before he can examine him, though, Tsuzuki gets called away. When swordfighting degenerates into an all-out magical brawl, Gray gets knocked unconcious and Undertaker takes the opportunity to measure him for a coffin before he is shooed away. Wanting to be helpful, he offers some limited Victorian-era medical advice (aka not to move him around too much...).
Triple Birthday Party! The Undertaker shows up for the birthday party for Conan, Riku, and Risa. He brings along a coffin for Conan and carved wooden gravemarkers for the twins. Although he has never attended a birthday party before, he attempts to socialize.
Taste Change Virus! The Undertaker is suprised to find out his embalming salts taste like rock candy, his coffin like ginger, his bed like spaghetti (Heiji's, on the other hand, has a distinct Black Plague flavor), and his skin like coconut. Seeing the comments that the other inhabitants of the island make about him as they discuss the virus, the Undertaker starts feeling a little depressed. Hunger, the lack of corpses, and homesickness add to the problem, leaving him feeling rather lost and useless. He writes an angsty note that no one is supposed to read (which, of course, means people find it and read it).
Carpentry Log: After feeling a little depressed, a conversation with Riku spurs the Undertaker to try making something other than coffins. He ends up meeting Gray again while working in the Arts and Crafts room, and they end up discussing "Atem's crazy-ass blue magician", which Undertaker imagines as a 'magical blue ass' (aka donkey). Sakura, Conan, Riku, and Mana all show up, and Undertaker, concerned with their lack of pracitical skills, offers to teach them about carpentry and lets them finish the jewelry box he was making.
Visit to Yuuko: Undertaker goes to speak with Yuuko to find out where the island's corpses go. Yuuko tells him that although most of the people simply go home, there is one corpse on the island that is in need of a funeral. She offers the Undertaker the job of arranging Axel's funeral (in exchange for the needed materials and a few top-rate jokes), which he begins planning. To find out more about his guest, he asks around via computer, stirring up some bad memories for those still in mourning. He has planned a cremation on the beach (probably at sunset, to be all symbolic and dramatic), although he is waiting to here from Yuuko when she wants it performed.
Strip Poker! The Undertaker is a little disappointed that the game involves removing clothes and not skin, but he decided it could be amusing and joins in anyways. He has little experience with cards, no qualms about his body, and very few (often ignored) concepts of personal space. Chaos should ensue very shortly...
Dorm Destruction! Atem and Frau end up blowing up part of the boy's dorm while fighting. The Undertaker falls through the floor, but he is in his coffin at the time and is mostly protected. There are an unknown number of spider casualties and his coffin ends up breaking, so the Undertaker is quite thoroughly pissed. He drags Tsuzuki (who is in the room beneath and ends up getting hit by falling shovels) along and goes to find out who is responsible and make them pay. Upon seeing Frau's scythe, he assumes that Frau is a shinigami, and when he gets between Zehel-turned-Frau and Atem's summoned Osiris, he ends up evoking some shinigami powers of his own. He and Frau manage to defeat Osiris, although Undertaker takes a hit that leaves him a little sore afterwards and Frau ends up passing out from exhaustion afterwards. As soon as the battle ends, the Undertaker goes back to normal and pretends he never interfered with the battle (if anyone asks, he will deny it ever happened). He helps put Frau in a coffin so he can recover, then gets himself moved into the tunnels beneath the school until his room is repaired. Yuugi, concerned, visits him to make sure he won't get lonely down there, but the Undertaker will not be moved.
More birthday extravaganza- Undertaker is still rather miffed at Atem, so he steers away from his and Yuugi's joint b-day party. He does swing by to bring Yuugi a present before re-lurking.
Rhyme and Reason- The Undertaker helps Rhyme think of a name for her bird (Ciel...he doesn't get any points for creativity...). He swings by her room to visit while she is still lonely because of recent disappearances. He hopes bird!Ciel will not try to eat his newly-hatched spider babies.
She's a witch- The Undertaker sees CC hanging out under a tree and thinks she would be a good candidate for a coffin. He senses something strange about her. A rather morbid conversation about death and the methods of achieving it ensues.
I've got class- Feeling disappointed by the choices of classes offered (not enough dissection), the Undertaker offers his skills to teach an anatomy/embalming/cutting up dead people for lolz class. Strangely, people have actually signed up, and Naomi Kimishima may be co-teaching with him. We'll see how it goes.
Senseless Virus: Mostly spend in Hiatus Closet, the Undertaker pops out at the last minute not able to hear. He is still trying to figure out what a synthetic is so he can make a coffin for Labrador. After the virus ends, he offers to amputate Hakkai's leg and gleefully learns about his scar.
Coffin payment: Castor, unlike the other, less responsible bishops, promptly pays up the lolz for the Undertaker's handywork. For his own coffin, he takes a poison-ivy covered Frau and forces him to dance while the others enjoy tea and scones in the tunnels. For his boyfriend Labrador's coffin, he calls out the Undertaker during the clothes swap virus. More hilarity ensues.
Clothes switch: Undertaker gets switched with Tsukuyomi. He seems oddly comfortable in frilly, lacy clothes (cough from the Victorian Era, oh my god Kuroshitsuji outfits are on crack), although the switch pisses off the swordswoman to no end. When they switch back, she gets revenge by sewing patches on to his clothes (which he doesn't mind) and destroying the hat (which he does). He baracades her door with coffins and runs off to repair his beloved hat.
Handcuffs: Undertaker is paired with Linali. They have tea in the tunnels, where a frightened Linali tries to ward off the spiders and the Undertaker tries to convince her that sawing off a limb is a valid solution to the problem at hand.
Game Relationships: (people he had actually met so far)
Riku: He thinks she would make a first-rate spider catcher (although she doesn't agree). She helps teach him a little about his new surroundings, including how to use a skateboard, and is nice to him despite his tendency to creep her out. He makes her a gravemarker for her birthday. He thinks she is very kind, although females in general confuse the Undertaker, so he doesn't really know how to interact with her. He attempts to repay her kindness by making her a box and by teaching her how to make one.
Tsuzuki: He finds Tsuzuki very entertaining. He can sense something inhuman about him, but considering the differences between worlds, he isn't sure what exactly he is. Because of his eyecolor, he thinks Tsuzuki might be an angel (in Kuroshitsuji-verse, purple eyes=angel, yellow=shinigami, and red=demon). He seems immune to Tsuzuki's cooking, probably due to the embalming chemicals he consumes on a regular basis.He learns about his (un)dead condition at the swordfighting lessons, and his job as a shinigami through a comment Tsuzuki makes on the computer. He sees Tsuzuki at strip poker and then again when he literally falls through the ceiling into Tsuzuki's room.
Conan: He reminds Undertaker a little of the Earl. His cheeks are very pokable, but his system of honorifics is inefficient. He makes Conan a birthday coffin, which he gives to him at the party.
Atem: The Undertaker still questions his authority as a swordfight instructor since he has not yet killed Frau. Undertaker thinks Atem is too serious and wonders what sort of jokes he would tell (the protective relationship with Yuugi reminds him a little of Sebastian and Ciel). Right now he thinks Atem is a demon; he is pretty pissed about the dorm destruction, and has already turned down an invite to his surprise birthday party. Atem's return of Madame Red (Undertaker's pet black widow spider) helps a little, but he was angry for a while. Things got back to normal after he found out Atem was Egyptian and had a discussion about mummification.
Linali:The Undertaker doesn't deal with women very much, but he watches her fight with Gray with morbid curiosity (and is waiting for someone to get hurt). She seems polite and nice to him, and she could prove to be interesting. She offers to show him her new camera, which he finds almost as fascinating as the copy machine. He gets handcuffed to her and alternately terrifies her and plays a good host to her.
Yuugi: Replacement Ciel? The Undertaker has noted his soft, poke-worthy cheeks, his determination, and seen a little bit of a temper from him, which reminded him an awful lot of the Earl. He would like to talk with him further, but so far Atem and Linali have been protecting him. Yuugi offers to explore the forest with him whenever the Undertaker goes on his corpse-hunt, although the Undertaker is a little reluctant to take him up on the offer. After the dorm destruction, he teases Yuugi about contracting/being a demon. Yuugi seems concerned that Undertaker lives in the tunnels.
Heiji:The Undertaker makes an honest effort to get along with his (now ex)roommate without creeping him out too much, but is met with limited success. For the most part, Heiji seems to avoid him, and the Undertaker is a little hurt when Heiji tells him he has 'issues'. They have not spoken much after Undertaker moved out
Lord Stanley Hihat Trinidad XIV: One of the few people on the island that the Undertaker understands. He gets along well with Stan. He calls Stan 'Your Majesty' and Stan compliments his decorating and doesn't mind his love of death and darkness. Undertaker has taken his measurements and will eventually make him a classy coffin.
Gray: Undertaker meets him in Art Building and learns about Atem's 'magical blue ass' from him. He finds Gray's power interesting, but not entirely practical. He offers to teach him to make a real box after Gray makes one out of ice.
Mana: Unsure as of now. The Undertaker offers to teach her some basic carpentry along with Gray and Riku.
Frau: After speaking to him online numerous times and finding out he is dead, the Undertaker finally meets Frau in person during Atem and Frau's big fight. He assumes that Frau is a shinigami after seeing the scythe, and threatens to kill him; however, they are able to work together (somewhat...) to defeat Osiris, and afterwards, Undertaker stashes Frau's unconscious body in a coffin and covers him with flowers. Likes him better now that he has contracted a coffin and often takes amusement in Frau's pranks.
Rhyme: Finds her amusing. He helps her name her sparrow and tones down the creepy just a little around her.
Hakkai: offers to amputate his foot out of pure kindness. Ends up talking with him about scars. He finds Hakkai amusing to talk to, especially because he takes Undertaker's creepiness in stride.
C.C.: has a pleasant talk about death with her. He thinks she is good to talk to, although he can tell she isn't going to need his services for a while.
Castor: So much approval. Pays for coffins quickly and torments others for his own amusement. If he liked dissecting, he and Undertaker could be BFFs.
Tsukuyomi: Enemies. No one messes with the hat.
Classes: Undertaker will be taking chemistry (to aid in the mixing of preservatives), biology, home economics and world histories, and teaching Anatomy.
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