#Desire of the Endless|Epithumia

[kittynannygaming]

Desunity - Façon collage

Unity - Desire - Heart

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[tampire]

“Was I really that obvious?”

[harlekin6]

Ancient Epithumia

Oh damn.... i really tried. I saw a base of someone worshipping an ancient statue and thanks to @unhinged-desire-writer well it ended in this🙈💕 i really tried to capture Masons handsomeness....i tried ..... Desire aka Epithumia as ancient greek statue~✨️ Who wouldn't worship them~

[scarlet-ancunin]

✞ঔৣ۝Sandman/Quantum leap Master List۝ঔৣ✞

Request: Temp Closed

Unless stated or requested by Reader, Desire's pronouns will always be they/them, but for nsfw purposes, they will be male unless stated otherwise by request of the reader.

Also, If I reach a certain amount of requests I will temp close the request in order to fulfill the ones received. Also i clearly dont own Sandman lol this is just to satisfy the Unhinged hoes here.

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The Sandman - Desire

Hold On

Meeting Desire For The First Time

Meeting Your Parents

My Personal Hero

Sneaking Off

A Jealous Endless

Desire Edging The Reader

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better

Changing It Up

Wrong Realm

Desire Helping You Through Doubts

You Are Perfect

An Endless Soulmate

Desire Dating A Werewolf

I’m Always With You

Dancing With Desire

Its Me You Feel In Longing

Desire Dealing With A Nightmare

A Twins Experiment

Desire Of The Endless

Your Belong To Me

Beautiful Just The Way You Are

Not Again

First Kiss Butterflies

Shhh Your Sleeping

No More, I'm Sorry

Desire Reacting To You Passing Out From Pleasure

Don’t Test Me

Desire Dating A Vampire

Meow Meow

Not This Time

Never Fully Dressed Without A Smile

2 Times You Saw Them, 1 Time They Saw You

I'm Not Giving Up

Business Meeting

It Started With A Song

What Do You Desire?

Red Stained Kisses

Simple Distractions

Who Would Win

Desire Helping You Through Head Pain

Tolerable

Family Dinner

It's Just A Dream

Starting A Family

Desire Dating An Ace S/o

Come Back

Desire Dating A Tall S/o

Look At You

I'm Right Here

What Do You Desire

Desire Punishing The Reader

Epithumia & Their Immortal Lover

Hush Love, I'm Here

My Cat Is An Endless

That Won't Work

My Werewolf Lover

My Perfect Munchkin

I'll Fix Your Broke Heart

Nice Underwear~

Desire Dating Lucifer Morningstar Child

Rocky Horror Night

Please Don't Forget Me

Desire dating the god of mischief

Desire Dating A Neko Reader

Taming My Werewolf Lover

Will You Join Me

Quantum Leap - Ian Wright

Teaser Fic: To Help You

Teaser Fic: Wasn't A Suggestion

The Cutest Thing Every

Giving Ian Nicknames~

I Told You Not To Overdo It

Shut Up, Let Me Kiss You

I Can't Think Of Anything But You

Dating Ian Wright~

Hold My Hand Please (Spooky Fic)

I'm Trying To Seduce You!?

Never Letting Go

It's Time to Wake Up

Please Contact The Manufacturer

Come Back Please

A Kiss Solves Everything

Stay With Me

My Rock' n Roll Lover

A Touch From You Is All I Need

Spending A Rainy Day With Ian Wright

Losers Win To -

Maybe You Want All Three

How You Know When They Are Horny

[randomfandom20]

Endless not (just)English

So have been thinking about the Endless and how they appear, especially how they are named. So we mostly see them using their names in English right there all nice and matchy matchy in english.

But in the bits where they interact with people from other cultures, their names and appearance etc are different.

Desire is also Epithumia Destiny is called Potmos Dreams got more names and titles than you can shake a stick at. But with the non-earth characters like Killala both Dream and Desire are referred to by their names in English. Now a doyalist explanation is obvious it was written in English by an English guy so that's the default and they all match with D names for the effect/theme purposes.

But Watsonian gets interesting, especially if you go with the 'dream is my truest name' you see in fics. Were they named by Time and Night? Did they decide to use matching D names/concepts themselves? If so, when did they decide & who first suggested it did Destiny see they would, and the rest just went with it or did Dream and Desire go for it for dramatic purposes.

Names often have significance and power both in and out of fiction. Does having a default in one language affect their own understanding of themselves and each other. For that matter, what about cultures and languages that don't have equivalent words for some of them. I've been learning Kwakwala and I can't for the life of me find anything even close to destiny or despair. Admittedly it's possible the words exist and just aren't in any of the resources available to me. But the other option is that we just didn't give enough weight to them as a concept for the word to either exist in the first place or for that piece of language to survive to the present day.

Both Dream, Nightmare, sleep and Death have words that are easy to find. The closest to desire I found translates more as want. Words involving destruction seem to be way more specific and confined to a certain type of it. Excited and/or happy is closest to Delight some are close to delirium as well.

I just think the fact that these admittedly dysfunctional often at-odds siblings continue to keep a thread in common is interesting to contemplate even if it is only a few letters thick. And the subject has brought my cross-cultural tourism class back to the front of the brain.

[therealtruealiyah]

NOVA - dancing devils

"Alright, deal." an impatient Dream roared in response to his little sister's proposition. He snapped his fingers and Despair's soldiers released Raine shortly before she scurried to Nova's side. "Now, enough of this nonsense. Shall we?"

"How long do we have to prepare?" Nova asked, grabbing hold of and squeezing Raine's hand for comfort.

"We leave in ten and two Earth hours and not a second later." Dream said firmly.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a gods damned minute. Why is she going with you and not one of us?"

"Obviously because she's the most capable of us all, you twat." Desire rolled his eyes.

"One more word from you and I'll—"

"You'll what? Cry? You're weak, Despair. In fact, you're the weakest of the Endless. I fight with fuck and I'm still stronger than you."

"Desire, don't." Destiny chimed in.

"You know I'm telling the truth, Pot. You all know it."

"Don't bring me into this bullshit." Destruction's baritone voice rumbled through the air.

"Will no one defend me?" Despair scoffed, angry tears brimming her silver eyes.

"I've truly had enough! Go home. I got what we came for. You are all released." Dream flicked his hand in a dismissive manner.

"So, you used us?!" Despair roared, face red with anger.

"It's over, Aponoia. Pack it up and go home." Destruction suggested before turning and heading for the exit followed by Destiny and Desire.

"You all are just going to leave? What about what was promised to us?"

"You will get what was promised to you." Dream's voice boomed. Not in a yelling type of way, no. More like a firm, authoritative way. Nova had always admired how he could project his point without having to holler or strain. It was a page she had longed to take out of his book.

"Now, Dream. I want what was promised to me now. I traveled the realms, I delivered Death to you, I've played your little game. Now, I want my second land!" Despair demanded, soliciting a hearty laugh from Desire. Everyone turned to look at him in unison. "And just what the hell are you laughing about again?"

"A second land? Why, you can't even manage the first one without falling to pieces, let alone a second one. What will be the rules there? Wail all day? Wallow by night?" He mocked.

"I've had just about enough of you, Desire! You traitorous scum. You've been on Death's side the whole time, innit? What a waste of skin you are. I'm disgusted to think we were in the womb together. Mother should have tossed you into the Sea of Black when she had the opportunity."

"You leave my mother out of this." Desire's tone was firm. For the first time, Raine saw the cold side of Desire as his face fell to stone and his body tensed up.

"Aponoia, that's enough." Destiny grabbed her arm gently to which Despair responded with a sharp pulling away.

"No, you know what? I've had enough of all of you!"

"Here we go." Nova flashed an evil grin, pulling Raine by the waist closer to her side.

"Go the fuck home. Get some fucking rest. You're not thinking clearly." Destruction said, nonchalantly picking at his black painted fingernails.

"You know what, Olethros, for the first time in my very long, very miserable life, I think I am thinking clearly." Without any warning or hesitation at all, Despair summoned her roped dagger and flung it in Desire's direction. Epithumia did not blink or flinch as he turned his body to the side, dodging the dagger. Once he straightened his body back up, he looked up at his twin with cold, yellow eyes.

"You'll live to regret that." Desire growled, summoning his long, black leather whip with a solid golden handle.

"Finally! I've been longing for a good fight." Despair laughed manically as she pulled her weapon back toward herself and swung the blade around by the rope.

"Here we go." Dream sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.

"Are they really about to fight right here and now?" Raine whispered to Nova, who was watching adamantly with a wicked smile splayed across her beautiful face.

"Yes, my dear. I hope you enjoy this as much as I do." Lucifer did not take her eyes off her siblings as they circled each other, looking like snakes preparing to strike their prey.

"Ever since we were little, I've despised your little self-righteous act! You honestly thought that you were better than me for coming out of mother's vag fourty-five seconds earlier? How pathetic."

"While we're on the subject of being pathetic, let's take a look at you, shall we? Poor Despair who thinks everyone else's lives are far better than her own. Boo hoo that nobody else has issues to deal with. Grow the fuck up!" Desire cracked his whip on the concrete floors of the Black Court, causing a loud clap to echo through the walls.

"And poor Desire... all he knows how to do correctly is fuck!" Despair swang her blade around quicker on the end of the rope, causing a whooping noise to flow through the air.

"It's they now! You would know that had you not been wearing your ass as a hat all these years and you actually got to know me!" Desire roared, this time with a single tear running down their face.

"You— they?" Despair softened up a little, ceasing her blade-swinging activities abruptly.

"Yes, they. They/them/their. That's me. Nice to fucking meet you, twin sister." Desire spat.

"I—"

"You know, for so many years, you've been so full of hatred. Hate for me, hate for Death and for no good reason."

"You know why I hate Death." Despair shot cold dagger eyes in Nova's direction.

"Actually, I don't. None of us do! So, please, enlighten us." Desire took a seat in the nearest chair to them, crossing their legs and placing their laced fingers atop their knee.

"Are you kidding? It's her fault our mother killed herself!" Despair pointed her desperately-in-need-of-a-manicure(d) finger at the being who was Lucifer Nova Morningstar.

"Nonsense!" Destruction interjected.

"Come, Raine. I will not listen to this rubbish any longer." Nova grabbed Raine by the hand and whisked her quickly out of the courtroom.

"Why in the hell would she think your mother's suicide was on you?" Raine asked, voice wavering as she was being jolted down the long corridor by the hand of her lover.

"Drop it." Lucifer replied coldly.

"Nova, I'm just trying to understand—"

"Enough!" Nova cut her off, suddenly stopping to turn towards Raine, "I will hear no more of this! One more peep from you and you will be sleeping in the dungeon with Tsularis!"

"You're an asshole, you know that?!" Raine yelled out of anger before starting off toward the exit.

"Raine, please. Wait." Nova grabbed her hand before she made it too far. Raine spun to face her, yanking her hand away from Nova and crossing her arms across her chest.

"What?" Raine asked with a sigh.

"I'm sorry. I should not have said that to you, my love."

"How do you expect for us to be wed when you keep pushing me away?" She threw up her hands, letting them come down on her thighs with a gentle smack.

"I'm sorry, I just—"

"Why can't you talk about it?"

"Raine, I—"

"Why are you running away?"

"Because I'm afraid it may be true! Fucking hell!" Nova did a 360, one hand on her nearly red forehead, the other hand on her hip. Raine watched as Nova's demeanor changed from hard and rigid to soft and relaxed.

"But you don't know if it is true?" Raine asked.

"No, I do not."

"Well, let's find out." Raine held out her hand to Nova who hesitated for quite a bit before she realized what she must do. She grabbed Raine's hand tightly and replied...

"Yes... let's."

[melancholypancakes]

The Untold Myth of “Dream of the Endless and Aphrodite the Goddess of Love”

Author note: This is going to be told in 3rd person by a narrator of the “Myth” and I imagine “Overly sarcastic productions” as the narrator, to be honest. 

This is a link to their Aphrodite video https://youtu.be/JIUq0pfAskU 

 Also, you might be wondering “why Aphrodite?” 

Well, I choose her as a topic of the idea Morpheus had a friend in ancient times before Hob Gadling.

Aphrodite fits the Naive trope of getting into a friendship for the first time since she was considered a little girl in the mind of the Endless and Mortals mentally at the time. 

I'm also using Canon from the DC comics and some I made up.

This takes place when Aphrodite is born, father Zeus and Mother Hera

Imagine Wednesday and Enid (Gothic and Pastel friendship) while reading this. Yes, Morpheus is an asshole since he was cruel, insensitive, and lacked an understanding of humanity and friendships in the beginning.  

Also, “Origin” stories of them are discussed before the story just to let you guys know :) 

Greece names of the endless

Oneiros = Dream

Thanatos = Death

Olethros = Destruction

Epithumia = Desire

Dusthūmíā = Despair

Delirio = Delirium

{...}

{Narrative POV} 

Not many of you know this but have you ever heard of the story of Dream of the Endless and Aphrodite’s Friendship? 

Yeah, there is a reason for that. There is not a lot of storytelling books of the tale, It only exists in historical witch books and it is rare to find. 

First off, Let me explain the two people in this story first Aphrodite was the goddess of love in Ancient Greece’s Mythology. 

She was known to be petty, jealous, selfish, self-center and unfaithful but there are however many versions where she is kind, selfless, and loving towards mortals, her loved ones, and her friend Dream or in this case Oneiros as they called him in ancient times. 

Now, there is not much known about Dream of the endless. Only in witchcraft history books can you find him. 

you see, There were two cosmic beings Time and Night who were married and Night gave birth to six beings. 

Destiny, Death, Dream, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium once used to be Delight, but how she changed is very vague.  

So, Dream and Aphrodite kinda make sense sounds like a wonderful and peaceful thing mortals go through when thinking about love. 

Fun fact, Dream is actually the first “man” Aphrodite did not have sex with but gained a friendship with despite being polar opposites of one another in a way of appearance. 

Aphrodite is seen as a beautiful and stunning woman filled with love and helping people while Oneiros’s purpose is to watch over dreamers during dreams and nightmares. 

Unfortunately, he is not the best guy to be around due to his lack of kindness and empathy toward others and he appears as a skinny, pale man, wearing a black hooded robe with wild raven hair.

So yeah, people would automatically be scared of Oneiros based on how he appeared. 

So, much like Aphrodite’s Origin story, this takes place after she’s born from Hera and Zeus.

Aphrodite was raised in Mount Olympus until she was a grown woman, finding her own home in the Island of Kythera where she made her home before making her way to Mount Olympus. 

Just so everyone knows, Aphrodite is a child but mortals prefer seeing her as never seen as a full-grown adult woman representing Adult Love and sexuality. 

As for Dream his origin story is unknown to our knowledge. 

As said before, all we know is that Night and Time made him and his siblings but what timeline specifically...no one knows. 

The Endless are definitely older than the gods though, So when Aphrodite was a child Dream basically babysat her.

So, now you know the origins a bit of the Goddess of Love and Dream of the Endless. 

Let’s talk about the friendship of Aphrodite and Dream of the Endless, Our story begins when Aphrodite is a young goddess.

While she made her home in Kythera, she would always enjoy her time in Mount Olympus.

She loved visiting her family and the other gods.

Aphrodite was really naive, optimistic, and sweet. The Gods were enchanted by her beauty and how sweet she was. 

Unfortunately, she never got along with her sister Artemis for various reasons due to being polar opposites of each other. One being for virginity and the other for Love and sex. 

Anyway, It became known to Aphrodite the gods did not get involved with Endless and only mortals. 

Aphrodite was always confused by this, The Endless never really bothered anyone especially mortals.

Zeus had told the young princess many times in the past, they are beings older than the gods and titans; they are not ones to take lightly which is why they don’t engage with Endless. 

Aphrodite didn’t take this seriously, so Aphrodite was being praised by mortals and answering prayers happily of love. 

She answered a Mortal prayer and not long before she saw a very pale “man” just brooding. 

He looked very miserable and without thinking she engaged in a conversation with him. 

Dream wasn’t too keen on talking to anyone, based on what he could tell this woman was wearing pink all over and bubbly almost like a child. 

“Dear girl, mind telling me your name? If you intend to bother me so much,” he said rudely but Aphrodite just brush it off. 

“Aphrodite, The Goddess of love. Oneiros don't you recognize me?” She asked as he examine her. 

Then the being realized this was the wman he used to help her sleep with she was a little goddess.

“Ah...you've grown up young princess. So, You're the new goddess the mortals have been fawning over with..." he said sounding almost dismissive but meant a greeting.

Aphrodite giggles, "You haven't changed a bit, it's really good to see you too" She says understanding how he's still trying to understand humanity.

Gods don’t usually engage with Endless since they were terrified of them and really didn’t want to piss them off. 

But Aphrodite was naive and had a mind of a child in a body of a full-grown woman. 

Needless to say, Oneiros, Tolerated Aphrodite as the conversation continue on.

Aphrodite against the gods, wishes. She kept talking with Oneiros despite what they said about the Endless powers, and abilities, and how they were beyond their knowledge and darkness. 

Oneiros didn’t admit it, ever. But he was actually beginning to like Aphrodite maybe if he ever acknowledge it, he considered her a friend. 

Aphrodite also plays a big role in the Iliad as she is almost single-handedly responsible for kicking off the Trojan War. 

For those unfamiliar with the premise, Eris the Goddess of Discord gets pissed when she is not invited to Achilles’s parents’ wedding.

So, she hucks a golden apple at the Olympians and says it’s for the hottest goddess. 

Aphrodite, Hera, and Athena get hung up in the competition and recognize there is no safe answer to that particular question. 

Zeus fobs the responsibility to this random Trojan kid name Paris. 

The Three Goddesses appeared to Paris and tells him which one of them is the fairest. 

To sweeten the deal each Goddesses offers him a gift/bribe, and Hera offers to make him ruler of all of Europe and Asia. 

Athena offers him wisdom, and battle tactics, and Aphrodite said she’ll give him the most beautiful woman in the world.

Paris picks the hot woman, and Aphrodite collects her prize and gives Paris what he wanted. 

Helen of Troy, who happens to be married already, to the volatile Spartan King Menelaus, is additionally a subject of a giant treaty offering to order every Greek king under the sun to side with her husband if anything bad happens. 

So, this divine kidnapping unsurprisingly kicks off the Trojan War. 

This puts Hera and Athena firmly on the opposing side against Paris, which having the Goddesses of rulership and battle tactics against you in a war is not a good thing.

So, Aphrodite claimed the hottest trophy by throwing a cute couple together, with no regard for the potential repercussions, and kicked off a war as a direct result. 

Great. This shows her as flighty and impulsive for general with regard to consequences. 

Oneiros know this, even after saving her from the consequences and her life during the war. 

He was amused and disappointed by the whole war going on and warned her not to do this again. It was honestly like he was treating Aphrodite as a spoiled brat that needed to learn her actions have consequences. 

On Aphrodite’s side of her friendship with Oneiros, she always thought of Dream of the Endless as her friend, father figure and only friend, so when she was to be engaged by Hephaestus. 

By cost to set Hera free from a golden chair, he had trapped her by her throwing him off Mount Olympus as a baby because he was ugly. 

Aphrodite invited her best bud, Oneiros to her wedding, however, the Gods never allowed it which is why he never came. 

Aphrodite was disappointed but It couldn’t be helped. But hey, at least he gave her a wedding gift. 

Golden emeralds, shaped like a heart, symbolize her marriage. 

However, during her marriage, she began to be unhappy. 

At first, she thought she and Hephaestus would be happily married and together always. 

She truly did love him, even if he wasn’t handsome there was once upon a time, she loved him but that faded as he neglected her for his duties.  

Aphrodite needed love and attention from someone willingly which is why she had an affair with Ares the God of War. 

They were an unlikely pair due to Love and War differences but it was lust and emotional love and Ares had been wooing her with flowers, gifts, and chocolates. 

Ares and Aphrodite were kicking off a steamy romance but it was kept hidden and hush-hush low. 

when Hephaestus found out from Helios, the sun and Hephaestus are very displeased about this. 

So, he sets up a trap with invisible golden chains but also unbreakable which is in the shared bedroom between him and Aphrodite. 

Ares sneaks into the room with Aphrodite so they finish off their twister “game” but they find themselves scuttled by the golden net which tangled them up and leaves them completely trapped. 

He was enraged by Aphrodite for being unfaithful, and he summons all the Olympians to see what he caught, Poseidon, Hermes, and Apollo come in to see what’s going on. 

However, the other gods don’t want to see that. 

This even becomes known to Epithumia, Desire of the endless, and tells her brother Oneiros who was laughing her ass off. 

Oneiros was not pleased or amused, he didn’t even want to get involved with “Aphrodite’s Affairs” but he had to know if Aphrodite was in deep shit. 

So, upon going to Mount Olympus, the gods were terrified but some were too focused on how to deal with the Aphrodite Situation. 

Oneiros pops in and witness a naked Ares and naked Aphrodite tangled up Aphrodite is clearly embarrassed and nervously smiles seeing her friend unamused by what she has done. 

Hephaestus is pretty pissed off by this whole ordeal. Just because he isn’t handsome like his brother doesn’t mean this isn’t a violation of the marriage agreement. 

So, he plans to keep Ares and Aphrodite in the net until Zeus agrees to refund the dowry he paid when married Aphrodite. 

Yes, It implies he brought his wife is definitely 100% fucked up. Much like the situation, Apollo and Hermes, think this situation is Hilarious! 

Poseidon and Dream of the endless on the other hand are taking it more reasonable trying to get Hephaestus to let them go. 

one, to reason with Hephaestus from Poseidon, and two, for him, to let Aphrodite go on Dream’s part. 

So, Poseidon tells Hephaestus he’ll get Ares to pay instead of Zeus since it’s more Ares’s fault but Hephaestus is more reluctant “What if Ares doesn’t pay?”

Oneiros can’t even believe this is even a conversation as Poseidon is just frustrated and tells Hephaestus he’ll pay for it if Ares goes back on it. 

So, Hephaestus is satisfied he’ll get his refund either way and decides to release the lovers. 

Oneiros is just straight-up disappointed and frustrated by Aphrodite, hell I be too. Now he gotta return the wedding gift. 

However, Oneiros ain’t a saint either, while Aphrodite is embarrassed she still attends to continue the romance which would lead to her having children of various lovers besides Ares. 

 Eros, Phobos, Deimos, and Atlantiades.

Now, Back to Oneiros and Aphrodite, seems like their friendship meant “I Get you out of trouble” and “I help you find love!”. 

Though very opposite of one another, Gothic being and Pastel Goddess; they actually got along quite fine. 

Aphrodite just had a hard time understanding Oneiros but still became his emotional support. 

Aphrodite actually had the idea to get Onieros a lover, she thought he could be truly happy that way. 

So, she played matchmaker. 

 That was when he met Nada, She was a princess from Africa, the Queen of a tribe. 

Aphrodite thought they make a cute couple upon meeting her, She was a pretty young mortal. 

What she didn’t know unlike the other gods and nymphs, it was forbidden for an Endless to be involved with a mortal romantically. 

So, when the sun punished the Queen by melting her kingdom, the mortal killed herself, and in the afterlife, in Death’s realm, Oneiros went after her to ask her to be his Queen. 

Which, she declined and Oneiros did not handle that rejection well so he banished her to hell until he could forgive her and would she truly be set free.  

Aphrodite was needless to say, freak out she knew she was petty but her friend took the cake. He was way pettier than her. 

But she still wanted to help Oneiros so she emotionally supported him after this. 

After a while, Aphrodite found an orphaned baby, Adonis, and gives him to Persephone to raise in the underworld.

 It was very selfless and sweet of her until when Adonis grows up to be super hot.

Aphrodite and Persephone ended up getting into a fight about which one of them gets to keep him. 

On behalf of Zeus, Calliope came to be the judge of this and Zeus decided how this was going to go. 

“Adonis will spend four months with Persephone in the Underworld then four months with Aphrodite and the remaining four months will be however he wished.” 

Aphrodite and Persephone agreed with these terms and Adonis would spend four months with Aphrodite since he was taken aback by her charm and spent less with his “mama” Persephone. 

Then, Aphrodite’s romance with Adonis began. 

Aphrodite and Adonis would spend months together before Aphrodite was called in for business and asked her lover to be careful on his hunts and not fight a beast he could not chase off. 

Adonis held Aphrodite’s cheek and promised her he’ll be careful which caused her to smile and believe him... 

So, on one hunt Adonis was fighting beasts left and right chasing them down until he came across a boar. 

This boar didn’t run off though and Adonis with his hunt behavior didn’t want a hunt to waste so he fought the boar but ended up being gored by the boar. 

Adonis wasn’t thinking straight and was all about the hunt but he should’ve listened to his lover’s wishes. 

Adonis screamed in agony and screamed his lover’s name for help, Aphrodite heard his call and rushed out to the forest only to scream in terror. 

As she saw her lover all bloodied, bruised, and bleeding to death he nearly choked on his blood as he look for his lover. 

Aphrodite cried in horror as her lover was barely recognizable, she ran towards him and kneel before him. 

She placed his head on her lap, “Adonis...my love...please don’t talk” she pleas as she holds his head. 

Adonis looked into his goddess’s eyes as she cries and cries; wanting to end his pain. 

“Oh, Adonis...why...why didn’t you” she chokes up as she whimpers and cries at him as he takes his last breath. 

Aphrodite cried on his corpse as her tears fall down non-stop, the mix of his mingled blood and her tears turn him into the anemone flower. 

She lay beside that flower for weeks, Ares was the one disguised as a boar and out of jealousy killed Aphrodite’s lover. 

She whimpered at the mere thought of Ares killing Adonis and blame herself.

 Soon, she declared the Adonia festival commemorating his tragic death, but she didn’t have the time to grieve and held it in as she answer mortal’s prayers until she visited Oneiros in the dreaming realm. 

Aphrodite claimed she was fine when Oneiros asked her how she was, even after knowing what she’s been holding in. 

She eventually broke down into tears, she whimpered as she held onto Oneiros’s shoulders screaming Adonis’s name. 

Aphrodite was vulnerable and needed comfort which Oneiros badly sucked at. He didn’t know how to comfort people, unlike his sister Death. 

All he could do was hold her and pet her hair slowly, as she whimpered and tears falling.

Needless to say, Aphrodite was grieving for many years, and even though Oneiros didn’t know how to comfort didn’t mean he didn’t care for her. 

Oneiros even invited her to come over to his family get-together parties, think of a friend inviting his friend over for the first time to hang out with his family. 

Aphrodite actually went to dine with an Endless family; she met Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium. 

Aphrodite and Epithumia did not hit it off, it was obvious they didn’t like each other. 

But there was a lot of lesbian tension during that dinner and also the fact Epithumia kept bullying Oneiros and Aphrodite didn’t let that slide. 

Aphrodite actually stood up for Oneiros and this wasn’t the first she was on his side. She even went against her fellow gods about him. 

Oneiros was very pleased by Aphrodite’s loyalty to their friendship and how sweet of her to stand up for him since no one ever has besides Death.

Aphrodite’s attitude got noticed by Epithumia as she was blushing at Aphrodite’s fire attitude and was jealous that her own brother had someone like this.

For a while, Epithumia stopped picking on Oneiros and for the rest of the dinner, it went well Oneiros wanted to invite Aphrodite all the time as their friendship grew and grew. 

It was not long before, Aphrodite hooked up Oneiros with Calliope a goddess she knew of but did not have a one-on-one conversation with before. 

Aphrodite felt like they fit each other perfectly, she had hoped this relationship will last longer and maybe Oneiros would be happy. 

However, that was not the case as soon their love would drift apart when their son, Orpheus had been lost to the underworld when he denied his son any aid from him. 

Calliope was devastated, she left Oneiros and never wanted to see him again while Aphrodite was disappointed in her friend. 

Now, we are getting close to why Oneiros is a dick and an asshole of a friend Aphrodite ever had.

Aphrodite wanted to talk to her friend and try to get his perspective but all he did was snapped at her. 

out of his own rage and grief, unbeknownst to him Aphrodite was dealing with Ares who was abusing her physically. 

Her home life wasn’t well and many of her children tried to protect her against the war god but it was no use unless she left herself. 

However, at that moment all Aphrodite saw was Ares towering over her. It was in her head but Oneiros was scaring her.

Oneiros was telling her how insignificant she was, how she was beneath him. he didn’t need her, care for her, he tolerated her, she was annoying, she forget her place, he was better off without her, how he wanted her out of his realm, out of his affairs and business. 

The last straw was when he said, “You mean nothing to me. Your nonsense about being the goddess of love...yet all you do is lay with other men like a whore.” she gasped as she was tearing up. 

“No! no, no you don’t mean that! I know you’re angry and grieving and that’s okay! but Oneiros I’m your friend...aren’t I-” she tries to say but is cut off by Oneiros’s dark laugh. 

“ "Friend” is that what you think you are, little Goddess? Do you honestly think you mean even that much to me? how could I even consider someone as so selfish as you...” he said darkly as a threat or a fact. 

Yeah, this guy is an asshole but what he said was true about Aphorodte being selfish and laying with other men, but she was only trying to help her friend by falling in love for once and getting a life so to speak. 

So, uncalled for dude. 

After this, Aphrodite stares at him intently.

Shr breathes in hard and looks at him, “I've tried, really, REALLY hard to be your friend." She glares ar him.

"Always put myself out there for you, stood up for you and thought of your feelings" She continues.

"Told people "I know he seems like a serial killer but he's just shy.""

" I never asked you to do that." Oneiros says with anger.

"You didn't have to because that's what friends do!!!" She yells as her eyes glows pink.

"They don't have to be asked." She states looking at Oneiros angrily.

Oneiros looks at her silently as his eyes get glossy as he started to realize what Aphrodite meant.

"And the fact you don't know that says everything!" She says

"You want to be alone, Oneiros? Be alone!" She says purposely bumping into him as he pushed back.

Aphrodite walks away and before leaving the dreaming realm, "I won’t be here to bother you anymore and I pray you to get your heart broken over and over unable to love another.” she growls, cursing him as she storms out of the dreaming.

Oneiros kneels down and hugs his knees as he cries for Aphrodite regretting for what he has done.

So, Oneiros was cursed by the Godess of love and Aphrodite never wanted to see Oneiros again.

After the loving friendship between the dream of the endless, King of dreams and nightmares and Aphrodite the goddess of love ended.

Anger and darkness clouded her judgement and mind.

She was less focused on her duties as the goddess of love and letting couples break up. 

This worried her son, Eros, but Aphrodite wasn’t the same anymore she had become cruel, selfish, manipulative, petty, and rude. 

So, we finished Oneiros and Aphrodite’s story.

Yes in the story with Aphrodite and Oneiros, the goddess of love is meant to be a victim of toxic friendship do we can feell bad for.

While most of her actions don’t justify the storyline showing how she became, even more, pettier, manipulative, and cruel to others, especially mortals.

So, basically, after two toxic relationships Aphrodite never trusted anyone ever again. 

[girlsofcomics]

Desire of the Endless

-Real name: -

-A.k.a.: Epithumia, Sister-Brother

-Publisher: Vertigo

-Type: God/ Goddess

-Afilliations: The Endless

-Powers: Adaptive, agility, berserker strength, chameleon, divine powers, emotion control, enhance mutation, escape artist, genetic manipulation, healing, hypnosis, immortal, intellect, invisibility, light projection, longevity, mesmerize, omni-lingual, pheromone control, power mimicry, precognition, prehensile hair, radar sense, shape shifter, siphon abilities, stamina, stealth, sub-mariner, super strength, technopathy, time travel, tracking, wall clinger

[thenightling]

I found out that some new Sandman fans were curious to know what Calliope and Morpheus looked like while they were married.   

The Sandman Special “Song of Orpheus” shows Morpheus while he was married to Calliope.  And the images might not be quite what you expect.

Here they are attending Orpheus’ wedding.

Bonus, here’s Ancient Greek Death.

And here are the names they went by in Ancient Greece.

Greek names and relationships in Sandman: The Endless:

Epithumia (Desire)

Teleute (Death)

Mania (Delerium)

Aponoia (Despair)

Olethros (Destruction)

Potmos (Destiny)

Morpheus / Oneiros (Dream)

[kittynannygaming]

[The Sandman] Bound - Epilogue

Title: Bound

Word count: 418

Fandom: The Sandman

Pairing: Dreamling, Desunity, Despoe, Hob/Eleanor, Corinthiel, Dream/Past relationships

Rated: T

Warning: NOTHING GRAPHIC BUT Mention of child’s death and adults’ death, mention of suicide, Desire’s scheming

Summary: When you’re 10 (for a human) or the equivalent (for not-human), you’re given (during your sleep) a pet, representation of your soulmate. Thing is, both soulmates need to be born for them to appear. Dream of the Endless thought he didn’t have a soulmate, until a puppy appear near to him while meditating. On Earth, at the same moment, it is the year 1356 and Robert ‘Hob’ Gadling is just born. When he’s 10, he got the poshest, biggest black kitten with a very mean streak. Of course, neither Dream nor Hob see themselves in the other’s pet.

Epilogue: The (many) changes that one little surprise can make.

How having a soulmate and an animal companion changed things for the Endless and Hob.

Things weren’t perfect but they were good.

Let’s begin with Destiny. Everything began with Destiny. 200 years after Dream got out of the fishbowl, his soulmate was born. His companion was a snake-like creature with iridescent scales and 4 eyes the colour of amber named Rainbow. His soulmate (an historian, Mere-phre) was from a planet far from Earth were people could change their gender to adapt to the situation, their companion was a spider named Fatalis.

Death’s soulmate was born a long time ago but they couldn’t met until 2054. Indeed, Death’s soulmate was Hestia, Goddess of Hearth and Home. Death’s companion was her goldfish, Slim. Hestia’s companion was another goldfish named Wandsworth. The two fishes shared an aquarium and their companions, Death’s home. When Death got home, she felt the tension wash away just because of Hestia’s presence.

Dream, the Morpheus version of him, didn’t die. Daniel was always meant to be his successor but now, they could do things at a quieter pace. It was 10 years after the Corinthian was remade that a companion appeared for both him and Daniel. Corinthian had a ram named Cream Puff and Daniel had a wolf named Hunter.

Destruction’s soulmate was a French preschool teacher named Adelaïde Beaubois. When they met, Adelaïde thought his art was his son’s art. It was very awkward but she invited him to teach painting and colours to the 3 to 4 year’s old kids once a week. They absolutely loved him. It wasn’t long before he got an official contract.

Desire’s soulmate, Unity, lived in the Dreaming, after sacrificing herself instead of her dear Rose. She was close enough to Desire’s realm they can meet often. Sugar, the fox met Peacock, the Dove.

Despair’s soulmate was born the 19th January of the year 1809 and was one of Dream’s protegé. His name was Edgar Allan Poe. Despair was surprised when a baby raven appeared near her but she loved Melancholy. Edgar has a very smart rat named Gloom.

Delirium’s soulmate came from a planet not so different of Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland. She was absolutely smitten with Folly, her white rabbit and Liddell, her soulmate, a metamorph, had a wolpertinger named Hat.

Do you remember that Calliope had a raven has a companion (whose name is Luka)? Well, apparently, it was because she had a Raven (or ex-raven really) as a soulmate. Dear Lucienne, who had a hummingbird named Lyra.

They lived and had adventures and reunions and children. But this is another story.

Ram

Beta: In progress

For @the-centennial-husbands-bigbang

Masterlist

[kittynannygaming]

[The Sandman] Bound - Chapter 5

Title: Bound

Word count: 376

Fandom: The Sandman

Pairing: Dreamling, Desunity, Despoe, Hob/Eleanor, Corinthiel, Dream/Past relationships

Rated: T

Warning: NOTHING GRAPHIC BUT Mention of child’s death and adults’ death, mention of suicide, Desire’s scheming

Summary: When you’re 10 (for a human) or the equivalent (for not-human), you’re given (during your sleep) a pet, representation of your soulmate. Thing is, both soulmates need to be born for them to appear. Dream of the Endless thought he didn’t have a soulmate, until a puppy appear near to him while meditating. On Earth, at the same moment, it is the year 1356 and Robert ‘Hob’ Gadling is just born. When he’s 10, he got the poshest, biggest black kitten with a very mean streak. Of course, neither Dream nor Hob see themselves in the other’s pet.

Chapter 05: The (many) attempts of Desire of the Endless to riled his sweet Dream.

Desire really wants to help their brother. They’re eager to help him. Too eager perhaps?

Desire always knew of Dream’s want for a soulmate since they learnt about their existence. It wasn’t hard since, first, they are Desire of the Endless and second, his big brother always had longing eyes when they met a pair. They weren’t that dissimilar in that aspect. So, Desire decided to help their big brother a little bit. And if Desire was “the big boss” about feeling and fuelling and completing desires, it was a little bit harder about the “how to get there”.

Desire meant well. Really. Nothing gave them more elation that to have a desire fulfilled. But Desire could also be (as only a desire could be) eager, sometimes too eager. After the disaster that was Killala, Desire pondered. They really took time to reflect on the how and why and, as any little sibling everywhere in the Universe, with love in their heart, determination in their mind and a complete absence of common sense, they formulated a plan.

If finding a lover wasn’t good enough, well they were going to create it (and go back to his sibling good graces, hopefully). Didn’t work? They would push a little bit the Queen Bee toward choosing their brother (that backfired spectacularly, they should have listen to Despair).

Calliope wasn’t their scheme directly but they got help from Aphrodite and it seemed going great! She even had a Raven for companion so, she was good right? They got married, had a son (they loved their nephew to bits). But that was until Orpheus decided to marry Eurydice and everything that came after. For once, Death was the one blamed.

The 14th of February 1904, Desire wake up to a little fox named Sugar.

“Hi, sweety. Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes?”

“Hi my companion, you’re mine!” Desire cuddled the kit and decided to see if they could meet their soulmate. It didn’t took long to find baby Unity Kincaid.

“Oh my! You’re such a cute baby. Hmmm?” Desire tilted their head. “What is that?” A closer inspection made Desire’s blood turn cold, Unity would be a dream vortex.

“Oh no! No no no no no. I refuse to loose you, now that I have you. I’m quite possessive, you see.”

Desire started to plot.

Nursery - Desire

Beta: In progress

For @the-centennial-husbands-bigbang

Masterlist

[scarlet-ancunin]

Reader finds out Desires name is also Epithumia. Nicknames and shenanigans and all that comes to you. I just love the alt names of the endless.

soo I actually mixed your request with another so check out my story

Epithumia & Their Immortal Lover