Desire

* Comics
* TV Show

### Goals

Trick Dream into spilling family blood and breaking the ancient rules so he can invoke the wrath of the Kindly Ones  (indirectly succeeded).

### Crimes

Abuse of power
 Psychological abuse
 Fratricide  (Indirectly)
 Reckless endangerment
 Serial rape
 Conspiracy
 Corruption
 Sexual harassment

### Type of Villian

Envious Cosmic Entity

**Desire of the Endless**, also known as **Epithumia**, is the main antagonist of *The Sandman* franchise, serving as the main antagonist of *The Sandman* comic series and as the overarching antagonist of 2022 streaming series adaptation of the same name.

The fifth sibling of The Endless, a group of beings that are more powerful and older than gods, Desire is the anthropomorphic personification of desire and hatred. Being the most cruelest and sadistic member of the Endless, Desire is naturally selfish and manipulative, willing to do anything to get what they want. They are also the archenemy of their older brother, Dream.

In the audio books, they were voiced by Justin Vivian Bond. In the 2022 live-action series, they are portrayed by Mason Alexander Park.

## Appearance

Desire is described as being of medium height, and smelling faintly of summer peaches. They are a strikingly beautiful, androgynous figure of gender-fluidity; they can be male, female, both, or neither as the situation warrants. Desire's smiles are brief and sharp, their skin is "pale as smoke," their hair midnight black, and their eyes are "tawny and sharp as yellow wine." Desire casts two shadows, one black and sharp, the other translucent and wavering.

## Personality

Desire is easily the most casually cruel of the Endless. They are obsessed with interfering in the affairs of their elder sibling, Dream, in particular. How their vendetta against Dream evolved past the initial incident in Endless Nights isn't clear. Regardless, their interactions with others can range from generous to malicious. In Pre-Roman Britain, Desire gave a young woman the attraction she needed to win the attention of the man she loved. In the modern era, they doomed another to a passionate weekend followed by hating the presence of the woman she shared it with.

Destruction describes Desire as untrustworthy, acerbic, dangerous, and cruel, but not always wrong. Their behavior and spontaneity is in line with their function and their nature as a creature of the moment, resulting in their fickle attitude and short memory.

Desire sometimes acts in concert with Despair and Delirium, and is much more distant from Dream, Death, Destiny, and Destruction. Death attributes this to the youngest three Endless playing games that the others don't waste their time with.

Throughout the series, Desire had spend much of the series manipulating the events to bring down their brother Dream and to eventually use the kindly ones to destroy him. However, despite their cruelty, Desire is not without some compassion to some people, like how they treated their descendant, Rose. At the end of the original series, after Dream's death and Daniel Hall becoming the new Dream, Desire felt remorseful for causing the death of their brother.

## Biography

At the beginning of time, during a conference where the future of creation was being planned by various entities, Dream introduces his lover, Killala of the Glow, to Desire. He goes on to tell Killala that Desire (who he describes as his favorite sibling) is responsible for their attraction to one another. After a series of events, Killala ended up in the passionate embrace of the anthropomorphic personification of her system's star: Oa. Dream was extremely hurt and told Desire not to meddle in his affairs again. In conversation with Destruction, it became clear that Desire was responsible for the breakup, but Desire at least claimed it was a joke.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

* **Desire Personification**: As one of the seven Endless, inconceivably powerful beings, Desire is both lord and personification of all desire and hatred. Desire has god-like powers and absolute control over their realm The Threshold. Desire has absolute power over all desire, attraction and want, over the craving of the unattainable, the force of physical appetite or emotional need and over strong envious desire. Desire themselves has been shown to be powerful enough to affect their siblings, with them admitting to have been responsible for starting some of Dream's relationships with his previous lovers by creating their attraction to each other. In contrast they are also lord over satisfaction, extending to the attainment of ones desire.
	+ **Omnipresence:** Desire like the rest of their siblings is everywhere on Earth at any moment, but usually not in a form visible to humans.
	+ **Shapeshifting:** Desire can freely appear in any form they want, with them usually taking the form of a androgynous youth having both masculine and feminine physical characteristics.
	+ **Teleportation:** As one of the Endless, Desire can go and access any location or realm they wish to go to in general, provided that they maintain respect for them and follows proper procedure with the Realm’s masters.
	+ **Resurrection:** During Despair’s challenge to Dream to prevent Norton I from falling under Despair, Delirium and Desire’s realms using his power over Dreams, Desire was stated by Dream to have revived the King of Pain in order to act as their agent to tempt him into giving in to his desires.