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Despair is the twin sister of Desire (true_desire), and one of the Endless.

Despair, Desire's sister and twin, is queen of her own bleak bourne. It is said that scattered through Despair's domain are a multitude of tiny windows, hanging in the void. Each window looks out on a different scene, being, in our world, a mirror. Sometimes you will look into a mirror and feel the eyes of Despair upon you, feel her hook catch and snag upon your heart.

Her skin is cold, and clammy; her eyes are the colour of sky, on the grey, wet days that leach the world of colour and meaning; her voice is little more than a whisper, and while she has no odour, her shadow smells musky and pungent, lik the skin of a snake.

She is squat, flabby and pale-skinned, with black hair. She does not wear clothes. On a finger of her left hand she wears a ring with a hook attached to it, with which she habitually carves her flesh. The hook is her sigil in the galleries of the other characters.

Despair says little, and is patient.

Despair sometimes acts together with Desire when it is plotting against the elder Endless, most notably when Despair takes on a challenge with Morpheus (lord_of_dreams) over the life of Joshua Abraham Norton, seemingly at Desire's bidding. She is less distanced from the family than Desire, though, and seems to have some feeling at least for Delirium. She also seems to miss Destruction.

The original Despair was destroyed, the first instance of the death of an Endless. One of the aspects of Desire then took the position of Despair. This is part of the reason for the closeness between the two. The current Despair often despairs (hardy har har) of living up to the standards set by the original Despair.

Despair is from the Sandman series, and is the property of Neil Gaiman. She appears here solely for the purpose of role-playing in milliways_bar, from which no profit whatsoever is being made.

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