"You should be cleaning said the spider to the fly!"

Mar 21, 2009 16:19


PLAYER
NAME: Caitlin
JOURNAL: “rockpet”
IM: > AIM: caitlin yes
E-MAIL: catilin.teh.artist @gmail.com

[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Delirium
FANDOM: Neil Gaiman’s Sandman (Vertigo/DC comics)
CHRONOLOGY: After Brief Lives

BACKGROUND:
There exists in the world beings known as the Endless. They have always been and while they aren’t immortal, they’re as close as anything is ever going to get. They aren’t gods or spirits. They’re functions, aspects given flesh when reality came to be. It’s said that they were created by the collective consciousness of the universe and that they’re the most powerful beings to ever exist. There are seven of these aspects: Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, the twins Desire and Despair and the youngest, Delirium. At one point in the long history of time, Delirium was known as Delight, however, one day, she began to change for reasons not even her eldest brother Destiny (who is blind and knows everything) knows. She, however, does, although she never explains how or why the change occurred.

Each of the Endless oversee their domain, Delirium’s is a brightly colored, fractured place, filled with strange objects and creatures. At the heart is a sundial with the inscription "Tempus Frangit" (time breaks). Only the insane and the Endless can enter Delirium’s realm and leave in a some-what sane manner. At the point in cannon where I’m taking Delirium from, she’s just gotten back from the hunt to find her brother Destruction, who had closed down his realm and given up the responsibilities as Destruction. From this she’s gained a keeper of sorts in Barnabas, a talking German Sheppard who formerly lived with Destruction. For a creature that is constantly changing, there’s not much change to Delirium. At one point in the cannon, one of her siblings notes that she’s getting worse. Throughout the series she becomes less collected, more likely to wander off and forget things. When they part ways again, Destruction tells her that he hopes her next change will be better. We know that like she changed from Delight to Delirium, she’s changing again in the same way, but we don’t know if she’s becoming more insane or something else entirely.

PERSONALITY:
She’s an imaginative, moody scatterbrain. She’s flighty and terribly forgetful, it’s not an uncommon occurrence for her to forget things midsentence or lose things, even getting lost herself. She asks whatever questions pops into her head without second thought. To her, her logic is straight forward and obvious. This means this that means that, except when they mean something completely different, which they could on any given day.

Delirium is eternally childlike. Her feelings are easily hurt, especially when she thinks someone’s mad at her, but they’re just as easily mended with a little reassurance. Delirium knows more than her behavior would suggest. There are occasions where she’s given to great insight on the workings of the universe and the Endless’ role in it. Delirium claims to know a lot of things that people don’t believe she knows. There are times when she’s able to collect herself completely and not react entirely on impulse, but the effort is extremely painful for her and she prefers to avoid them. There’s something a little sad about her, because it’s obvious she can’t control what goes on in her head and as the living aspect of delirium, she has her bad days when she gets hurt or hurts others (though she rarely talks about it).

CLASS: Hero…ish…

SUPERHERO NAME: Delirium

ALTER EGO: Sally MicMacMeginahan and she’s probably homeless.

POWER: Delirium can shift her appearance and physical form at will ( she has a bad habit of turning into a swarming of brightly colored fish). She has the ability to cause people to see or believe what she wants them to, the closest example would be Crane’s hypnotic suggestions, but unlike Crane, what Delirium tells someone becomes true for that person. This is less of a power and more of a part of who she is as one of the Endless. She has the power to travel between worlds and go anywhere she wants, but given the circumstances of the City and her arrival, this would be an extremely limited ability.

She also has the power to create things and change the shape of objects. In cannon she’s often seen conjuring up little frogs and fish and turning the bubbles she blows into odd shapes.

COMMUNITY POST SAMPLE:
Um…Hello.

The man in the big metal suit said I have to live here now… It feels kind of nice here, but it reminds me of a place my big brother would like more. I don’t like the metal man very much… I can’t go back home…

Has anyone seen my doggie?
THIRD PERSON:
A skinny, pale child in a large tattered coat and not much else sat in the alley across from the Porter’s location. She didn’t know where she was, which wasn’t really all that strange. There were lots of times she didn’t know where she was. This time was different. She couldn’t feel the right door or the right path to take to get back home.

It was scary.

Delirium pulled her skinny white knees to her chest and scrunched up her body until she couldn’t see any of this strange-familiar outside world. She wanted to go home. She wanted her sisters and brothers to come find her and take her back home where they could all have chocolate and raspberry pudding and sing songs and drink wine. Delirium didn’t even care if they fought, she just wanted to see them again.

In the wild tangle of her red hair, something started to wiggle and writhe. Slowly, a few brilliantly colored fish appeared, shivering out of Delirium’s hair and swimming up and around her. Each fish sang softly, every song different. Slowly the fish started to multiply until all that was left of Delirium were her brightly colored fish, each one singing a song that had never been sung before. En masse, the glittering horde rose to the roof tops, making their way down town. They would reform as Delirium later, several miles away on the roof of a flower shop, but for now they swam along the air currents and when a homeless man stopped and waved and danced from foot to foot like a delighted child at the fish as they flew over head, Delirium felt better.
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