#endless echo

Based around the earrings ‘Whisper in Dream’.

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💗 - what arcs does your s/i go through? what do they learn?

I’ll answer this one for my Sandman s/i!

The first time they brush against the Endless’s realms is in their Despair arc, learning about how bad things can get if they let them.

Then they reach their Delirium arc, in which they learn that things that feel good in the moment are not always good in the long term, and things that feel bad in the moment can sometimes be positive in the long term.

During this arc, they meet Death, and Death is a part of their life for the rest of their “plot line” so to speak.

The others are less well-defined: I haven’t written about them as much. But I’d like my s/i to go through a period defined by each of the Endless.

They end up on a quest in the Dreaming, which is the arc where they learn about their own power.

They make a mistake and lose a friend in their Desire arc, but come out of it without resentment and with a better self-understanding.

And Death is still there.

I kind of want to doom the world to an apocalypse for my Destruction arc (not my fault but just something that happens and I have to survive) but that seems a bit dramatic… still, it’s fitting. Death is so busy. Destruction is everywhere and nowhere, with his realm abandoned to the whims of human free will.

Destiny has been there from the very beginning. I visit his garden during a couple of these arcs: they’re all tied into his book, after all.