(Thank you km&Smr for the mask)

Born in Los Angeles, Gabriel Reyes joined the United States Military, prior to the Omnic Crisis, where he achieved veteran status, and was highly respected. Reyes earned a position in the governments controversial and classified “soldier enhancement program”. Military scientist granted him superhuman speed, strength, and agility, and was referred to as Soldier: 24.

Then came the Omnic Crisis, were robots waged war against humanity. As governments tried and failed to neutralize the Omnics, the United Nations were forming an international task force called Overwatch. Overwatch’s short list of agents included two members of the soldier enhancement program, Reyes and Jack Morrison. They became fast friends, and decided to join Overwatch together, were Reyes was given leadership of the group.

In unity, they defeated the robots and ended the Omnic crisis. Morrison was given the position of strike commander by the UN, the first, official commanding officer of Overwatch.

Reyes was then put place as the commander of Overwatch’s blackwatch unit, where he would lead missions against talon, a terrorist organization, with Jesse Mcree, Moria O’Deorain, and Genji Shimada.
A rift would then form between Reyes and Morrison, leading to Overwatch’s end through a combination of accusations that tainted the organization’s reputation, and Reyes himself. Officially, Reyes and Morrison were killed in the blast that destroyed Overwatch’s Swiss headquarters, an event the UN ruled out as an accident. In reality, Reyes lead a rebellion against Morrison’s leadership. As a battle was waged within the base, a explosion was triggered that took Reyes and Morrison into the inferno with it.

But they had both survived, Morrison coming back as Soldier 76, and Reyes coming back as the psychopath we know today as, Reaper, now alongside Talon. Due to experiments carried out by Moria, also now alongside Talon, Reapers cells simultaneously decay and regenerate at a hyper-accelerated rate. Even after the complete destruction of his body, Reaper has been observed to retain some kind of form of black mist, apparently able to regain physical form at a later point.

Now Reaper seeks out to annihilate all remaining ex Overwatch agents, to make sure, nobody stands in his way.