Necromancy Characterization

Love the characterization of a necromancer as someone who is kind and full of love, subverting the typical stereotype of the callous, cruel necromancer.

But any necromancer CANNOT be a dainty soff uwu person.

If necromancy is considered in-universe to be a dark and forbidden art, then that person had both the guts and desperation to grab the knife by the blade with their bare hands, and twist the fabrics of reality to their will. Maybe even going against the design of the gods and ripping apart the barrier between life and death to bring back their beloved.

And even if it was a normal, acceptable practice. Well. Morgues and funerary services are normal. Yet we still treat death and the people who handle it with a subtle, almost sacred repulsion. Despite whatever ascendancy from nature and superstition we deluded ourselves into having because of our technology and rationality, we still fear the dead and the concept of death. And it's not just because the after-death is an unknown we can never truly explore. No, we still treat death as this almost sentient, contaminating force. Graves are sanctified by the presence of the dead and polluted by it - every ghost and haunting is an echo, a reminder of death, that invites more death.

Necromancy, by virtue of its intimacy with that dreadful force, cannot be anything but visceral and terrifying. The necromancer must have the character to tolerate or even revel in both the dark unknown of death, and the messy physicality of what death leaves behind: mangled flesh, rot, and decay - the life that blooms when another wilts away.

There is no dainty way to handle the enormity of that shadow, no "pure" and "wholesome" portrayal of the mystery and terror that has haunted humanity's oldest and deepest awareness. Underneath even the gentlest, kindest necromancer, one whose heart soars with love and compassion and weeps at the injustices of the world, lies an otherworldly, monstrous power: the strength to destroy the most fundamental wall humanity has to protect the self from being consumed by the world.