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This article is about Despair from the Netflix adaptation. You may be looking for Despair from the comic series.
Despair is Desire's twin, and Dream's sister. She is the moment when all hope is gone, the bleakest of the Endless.
History[]
TBA
Physical Appearance[]
Despair is a frumpy overweight woman with long unkempt blond hair.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Despair Personification: As one of The Endless, Despair is the metaphysical manifestation of Despair itself and is afforded immense power due to her role and status in maintaining the universe. As the personification of the state of despair, melancholy and hopelessness, Despair has divine, omnipotent authority and absolute control over despair and is linked to everything related to it. With these powers, she is almost completely omnipotent.
- Magic: Despair can use magic like the rest of her siblings, all of her spells and enchantments are likely based on the feelings or state of despair.
- Omnipotence: As shown when she invited Edwin Payne into her realm, Despair is able to observe and see all the sentient beings in the universe that is currently in a state of despair. As shown where Despair was able to observe Edwin and his old schoolmate Simon, the one responsible for dragging him into Hell in the first place, in Hell from one of the numerous mirrors in her realm as they wallowed in their despair and hopelessness from their eternal punishments.
- Dimensional Manipulation: Due to her status as an Endless and her function, Despair is able to seemingly by-pass some of the rules of the after lives. This is seen where she could observe any being from her realm provided they are in despair and even invite them into her realm. This is seen where she briefly pulled Edwin into her realm despite him being a condemned soul in Hell. And later, she banished him back to Hell with a wave of her hand.
Appearances[]
The Sandman[]
Season 1[]
Dead Boy Detectives[]
Season 1[]
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