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Delirium Part 1
Name: Jordan
Livejournal/Dreamwidth Username: I don’t have a dreamwidth, I use the journal
E-mail: endlessthyme@gmail.com
AIM/MSN: endlesslythyme
Current Characters at Luceti: N/A
Character
Name: Delirium
Fandom: Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Gender: Female
Age: Delirium looks like a young girl, running the gambit between 12 and 18, but in reality she’s as old as the first race of sentient beings, whatever form they may have taken.
Time Period: After The Wake, which is the 10th Sandman novel, in which Dream is buried and Daniel takes his place, with influence from Endless Nights, which has various side stories in it.
Wing Color: Delirium is in a constant state of flux, shifting her age, height, hair length not at will, but thoughtlessly and constantly. I would want her wings to change color much the way her hair does, as the feathers would be kind of like an extension of her hair’s penchant for brightness. I think they would look like an oil spill in a puddle, the way rainbows reflect, the color of her feathers shifting along with the color of her hair.
History: To be found here.
Delirium Part 2
The Endless don’t see morality in the human sense, and Delirium sees it even more skewed than the rest of her family. That is always the most important part to remember. Immortality brings a certain bend to morality in the first place, extend that life into infinity and then add insanity – it’s a melting pot for a twisted sense of right and wrong. Delirium wants to do right, usually, but she doesn’t understand what right is. She is affiliated to all people in her realm, the benign and criminal alike, and she has bits of all of them inside her. Very simply, classified in D&D terms, she is chaotic neutral. For example, in book VII, Brief Lives, Delirium and Dream are being driven around by a nice chauffeur. Their driver ends up being killed by a trap set by Destruction to hinder anyone finding him. Delirium’s first thought on hearing the news is that now she gets to drive the car like she wanted to that morning. It’s very selfish, and not malicious.
Delirium is the youngest of the Endless, an anthropomorphic personification of insanity, created into a family of seven containing (in order); Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium herself. She has a complex about being the youngest. She doesn’t feel that being the youngest makes her less, and gets upset at being teased by Desire. It’s a little bit her curse, being the youngest of the oldest beings she knows, because she feels like the rest of the family looks down on her. In some ways, they do, of course. Her insanity makes her difficult to deal with, and condescension is easy for them to fall into – particularly with Desire, who Delirium tends to bicker with the most.
Delirium was not always as she is, once – long ago, before many can remember – she was Delight. In those times, worshipers would come to lay gifts of flowers and jewels at her feet. It is not so, anymore, and has not been so for a very long time. Something happened, something she does not speak of. There are debates on what, exactly, happened to caused Delight to turn into Delirium, and I ascribe to a combination of possibilities. The first possibility says that she experienced an extremely traumatic event which led her to take refuge in her own mind. The second family of belief thinks that Delirium had to change as society changed. As pure delight became lost to the world, she had to reflect her realm in whatever way she could, and becoming insane was the closest reflection of the world that allowed her to maintain her basic character. I believe that Delirium is strong enough to have withstood one of these things – she would have been able to reflect the delight of children even if society changed, after all, and she would have been able to work through the trauma with her family and those who fell under the purview of her realm. The two influences in conjunction are what drove her to breaking, both the abuse of her innocence and then the loss of it in the world for her to fall back on shattering her mind. As she was shifting from Delight to Delirium her beloved brother, Destruction, held her on a hill in her realm as she laughed and cried and feared why her hills and flowers melted into chaos around her.
She has her own realm, like all of the Endless - built of herself and the thoughts and minds of her people - but she isn’t there often. She prefers the wander, or be lost, wherever the current mood strikes her. She is insanity personified; chaotic, vague, drifting. A waif lost on the breeze of her next thought and never considering what will happen when she makes an action. Delirium has never stayed in the same place for particularly long. She likes to be moving from one place to the next, a wanderlust without a purpose. Meandering between realities and worlds with little understanding of time and place, Delirium tends to spend her days visiting those who exist in her realm. She’ll sit with them on street corners, in doorways, on stoops – they don’t have to be talking, but she takes and gives comfort just by her presence, even if it is only in passing. The people in her realm are crazy but they are not alone, and Delirium needs to receive that comfort as much as they do. She seeks out her family in emergencies or for a purpose (though sometimes she forgets why she’s finding him while she’s looking), and owns a dog, Barnabas, who keeps her company and cares for her wellbeing. Barnabas was given to her as a result of a plan gone awry when she convinced Dream to help her find their prodigal brother Destruction.
The world spins around her, and she spins around the world, and at the same time she never moves. Almost everything in Delirium’s life relates back to herself, as she stands in the middle of the crazy storms she creates. It’s not that she doesn’t care about other people, or is really that completely self-centered, though. Delirium loves fiercely, and then forgets that her love existed. That is not to say she ever stopped loving, but that out of sight does not need to happen before out of mind occurs. The broken fragments of her mind flow back and forth, in and out of conversations and interactions. She is always out of her mind, and just as well, since her flashes of lucidity and insight are frightening enough. In emergencies, Delirium has been known to pull herself together if it is needed - after all, only one person can truly be broken at a time (especially if there are only two of you) – and when she does, her eyes blend into a teal color. But forcing the pieces of herself back together hurts, like glass and fire, and just can’t last. Afterwards, she usually needs to be soothed with a break from even the loosest connection, taking a nice vacation as a cloud of fish or sparkles.
Delirium is volatile, with a mood as mercurial as the ocean and as changeable as a breath of wind. The smallest things can set her off into a storm of tears, laughter, or both. Sometimes she knows everything, though she is usually even less lucid then than she is when she can’t remember her own name. Death once mentioned that no one should know everything, and the only thing that makes being alive okay is not knowing everything. Delirium is like living proof of that, but she doesn’t know how to balance knowing and not knowing.
Delirium is a girl whose looks can range between 12 and 18, depending on how she feels. She is the most changeable of her family, always shifting appearances. This acts in reference to her emotions, her surroundings, her current preferences – but all of it is instinctual. Her hair is often bright, and changes lengths, colors, and styles with a seeming will of its own. Her eyes are mismatched, one blue with sliver flecks, and the other a bright green. Delirium’s shadow is tangible and never matches her own shape, moving of its own accord - much like her hair - and feeling like velvet to the touch. All of these show her disconnect with reality while exhibiting her affiliation to her own realm. Each of the Endless does it in their own ways. The Endless are as much reflections of people as the realms are reflections of the Endless. Often dressed punk, Delirium wears fishnets and too-long clothing or just scraps of cloth. But thrown-together carelessness of her appearance is usually just that – carelessness. She smells of old leather, sour sweat, and late nights.
Delirium Part 3
Physical: Most of Delirium’s physical powers are based entirely on that fact that she doesn’t realize she shouldn’t be able to do something. Sometimes she floats, sometimes she makes things that aren’t there or don’t exist. More often than not, she’ll create things to entertain herself because she’s bored. Plants and moss growing in a corner, a collection of brightly colored frogs while she waits for Dream to be done talking with someone, impossible bubbles, giving chocolate people life.
Mental: Delirium canonically gives punishments and rewards to people mentally. She gave someone a song that would never go away as a gift, and made another man feel like bugs crawled under his skin forever because of a perceived slight (he pulled her over when she was driving). This is an aspect of her realm, and can easily be considered an emotional weakness as well.
Emotional: Del bounces back from emotional hardship fairly easily. This actually falls in with her forgetfulness, however, because when she does remember she usually holds a grudge over whatever hurt her. She can also be very persistent, when she manages to keep on target.
Weaknesses:
Physical: Delirium is weak. Weak like a human, of course, but also for a human. She’s childish, with a child’s strength. She also doesn’t sit right in the world. It’s part of why she passes off as homeless so easily and often, she almost stands out and apart from it because she’s unable to completely connect in the right way. This might fit more into Emotional as well.
Mental: Delirium is insane, and not the kind of insane that leads to a specific purpose. She has very distinct troubles focusing on things, and when required to do so beyond her capacity it is physically painful and very emotionally draining. She is capable of being purposefully lucid, and showed it in Brief Lives when Dream was cracking under pressure, but it is her choice not to be.
Emotional: Delirium is volatile, and quick to flick from one emotion to the next. It’s very easy to hurt her, as her feelings are delicate, and she doesn’t understand the proper kind of reaction something would warrant. When Destiny gathered the family together for a meeting, Desire called her Delight in passing and hurt Delirium very badly.
Delirium Part 4
First Person: I’d like to request the Q&A please! Delirium does not completely lend herself to comprehensible introductions.
Third Person: She sat alone, waiting.
Del wasn’t always alone, of course, but often it managed to see like that until she wasn’t again. Sometimes people came to visit her - they would play and talk and think and usually all at the same time. Sometimes the people weren’t so nice and the things they did weren’t as pretty as flowers and fish and waterfalls, but that wasn’t their fault and if they wandered too close to her siblings… well, an Endless couldn’t keep everything just to herself (no matter how much she wanted to). Sometimes it was darker than that, and was tinged so that Delirium didn’t like it quite as much - but she was a part of it just as much as anything else. After those times she usually wanted to be alone, until being alone wasn’t what she wanted anymore.
This time, though, this time she hadn’t wandered off to be alone. Del had simply wandered in general. She had seen a wheel and a stone and a field and and and… It went on forever, but everything was just so tiny. Like her wings.
Del didn’t usually have wings.
Breezing it off, she rested her head back against the tree she waited with for a moment, sitting on the ground outside where she couldn’t remember being, had distinctly forgotten arriving.
Wind ruffled her hair, pulling long purple strands out longer, until they twined and braided with green red orange brown. Goosebumps prickled against her skin, the little hair rising in response to the coolness and feathers puffing out for warmth. Delirium wrapped her thin arms around her legs, using herself to cover more of her muslin-clad body (white? Why was there white?) and pressed into the rough bark of the tree as she waited.
Now… If only she could remember what she was supposed to be waiting for.
Q&A
Delirium Q&A Response
2. Describe your most beloved memory. It’s not cookies and floating but it’s a little bit chasing a tail. Round abouts, you know, getting to be dizzy. It wasn’t his fault and it was almost as good as dancing. That’s why you’re supposed to have amusement parks, until they tried to chase us out but Barnabas doesn’t actually need a leash, you know, and it was their fault for not asking him first. Don’t you think? They deserved it, right? Right. Right…
3. Describe what the word 'honor' means to you. Like when you keep a promise because it’s a promise and not because it’s something you want to do? Sometimes I forget my promises, that’s what Barnabas remembered except sometimes I lost him and then I’d have to remember them myself but I didn’t do that well but I did find my brother which was a promise. Kind of the opposite of the promise because of the dancing girl that had to die but she was lovely and she got lots of money. Daniel might not be so bad.
4. What is the most successful thing you’ve ever done? …Uhm… It was… there were… The carpet! If you look close, it said what had happened. And she got to see, mm… pink jewel brains. You know? Pictures tell the truth. Sometimes. Maybe. Less like mirrors. Mirrors aren’t mine anyway. But she doesn’t get to keep all the rats.
5. If you had a choice between feeling emotions or feeling nothing, what would you choose? Why? …Sometimes you cry because it’s all you can do not to laugh.
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