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Endless Existence: As members of the Endless Desire and Despair are mystical entities, not living beings. Their physical bodies are merely shells and are inconsequential to their existence. If they could sustain enough physical damage to kill them, then their physical forms would simply disperse and reform as new bodies if they wanted the next round. They must be destroyed with mystical or mental damage.
Powers: Cosmic Awareness CL. 1000
Dimension Travel CL. 1000
Immortality
Desire and Despair can be killed only if they choose to accept an end to his current state.
Omnipotence
Desire and Despair can use any power in the Ultimate Powers Book at CL. 5000 rank when they are fulfilling desires or baring witness to Despair, respectively. Other powers commonly used by the Endless at UN rank include:
Linguistics: Desire and Despair can communicate with anything.
Teleportation: Desire and Despair can appear more or less wherever they want, within the Earthly plane at least.
True Sight: It's almost impossible to fool Desire and Despair. They can always spot slumming Gods and hidden wizards.
Talents: All Manners and Means of Seduction; Psychology; Occult.
Contacts: The Endless (Desire and Despair are two of the seven beings known as the Endless. The others are Destiny, Dream, Desire, Despair, Destruction and Delirium. They are living embodiments of their names and incomprehensibly powerful.).
HISTORY: Desire, the twin of Despair, embodies what anyone could possibly want. Representing the longings of both sexes, Desire is either man or woman, as the situation demands. It is said that no one can resist his/her charms.
Desire loves playing with the lives and emotions of humans, following the tendency of her younger siblings, but s/he has proven more ambitious than her fellows by plotting against his/her elder brother, Dream. His/her boredom drove him/her to attempt to trick Dream into spilling the blood of another of the family, because the results of such a forbidden act are very explicit and dire. In order to accomplish this, Desire (in his/her male form) impregnated the comatose Unity Kinkaid, a mortal who was destined to become a "dream vortex" (a living oneiric whirlpool who would break down the walls separating the dreams of humanity, thereby creating mass confusion and madness), and so was condemned to die so that humanity may avoid destruction. The involvement of Desire, however, somehow transferred this "honor" to Rose Walker, the young grand-daughter of Unity and Desire. When Dream sought out the vortex, he would kill her to save humanity, oblivious to the fact that Rose was of his own blood. Fortunately, the elderly Unity explained the situation before Dream slew his grand-niece, and, by accepting the role of vortex back from Rose, died in her place.
Although Desire's plot failed, Morpheus later killed his own son, Orpheus, under circumstances not of Desire's creation. Desire lives in an enormous replica of his/her own body called the Threshold, and passes his/her time lounging in the heart, walking through empty veins, and lying about in giant eyes, as well as toying with the emotions of not only humanity, but also those of his/her family.
