unpopping Delirium from The Sandman

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The girl who appeared in the popcorn room is unusual, even by Hogwarts standards. It's hard to describe her, as her appearance shifts and changes - no two people are likely to see her the same way, although they might all agree afterwards on a few things. Her hair might float about her head, many-coloured, or be cropped short. Her clothes are mismatched and strangely fitting (and tend to involve fishnet stockings or gloves, for some reason). The only really consistent thing is her eyes, one green with silver flecks, one blue.

And, of course, right now she was drenched in butter.

Delirium looked about herself, wide eyed. "Ooooh. This is exactly not where I was planning to be. I think. But it's very interesting, don't you think, doggie? "

Nobody answered. She frowned, and looked down, to find herself alone apart from two or three tiny iridescent mice she'd created earlier and forgotten about. They ran up her skirt and disappeared again. "Doggie? Barnabas? "

Still calling, she wandered out into the corridor. "Hello? "

((Permission granted from Death-mun. If your character is or has been insane, on large amounts of drugs, or otherwise, well, delirious, feel free to recognise her ;). And let me know if you'd like her to recognise or know slightly too much about them - she can be very perceptive, but she's also forgetful and easily distracted, as you'd expect, really... ETA: Sandman is one of those 'all myths are true'-type canons, so any gods and goddesses or similar beings are also free to know her or know of her. Or not, if you prefer. Background info.))

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She nodded. "" She pulled back a little, tilting her head curiously. ""

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"Yep, it's one of those Between places, so there are people from all sorts of realms and worlds. It's been fun."

Death shook her head, "No, honey. It's just us." It took a moment to sort out why her sister had asked that and she blushed. "Oh. Well, she was here for just a little bit. Long enough for him to visit me and someone else.. officially."

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It took Delirium a moment to figure that out. Her older sister just didn't do that kind of thing. "" She twirled a strand of hair around her fingers, awkwardly, drawing it out to twice its length for the purpose. "" Dream and Desire had argued, millenia ago, and it hadn't ended well at all... ""

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Her laugh was light and happy sounding, "No, honey. It's nothing like that. We didn't get in a fight. And yes, I really, really like him. His name's Castiel and he's an angel. He's.. he's wonderful."

Death put an arm around her sister, starting to guide them back to Hufflepuff where she could get her cleaned up and settled back in. "Do you remember this place? I think we've both been here before. At least that's what the butter's supposed to mean."

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"" It was a relief to know that Desire wasn't holding a grudge over anything, though Delirium was still a little worried. Her family (okay, Dream, mostly, back when he was the first Dream) didn't have a good track record with romance.

She put a finger to her lips, pondering. "" At which point she was distracted by the taste of the butter, and started licking it off her hand. ""

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"Oh he is," she said, giving her a squeeze. "I'll have to introduce you to him sometime. He's sweet and thoughtful and handsome and I am so babbling, aren't I?" Death shook her head, laughing at herself.

Puppies? Puppies.. Death cast about in her memory. Sometimes Delirium remembered things that really happened, sometimes.. not so much.

"Right! The cute little ones with the spots. I remember, honey."

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"" She turned her head to look at the pictures as they passed. ""

[endlessgoth.livejournal.com]

"We're gonna go get you cleaned up. I know, we could do it the easy way, but they have hot showers here. I forgot how wonderful those are. Then we can try and find your room and take a walk around the grounds, see if you remember any of this."

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"" It might be best not to speculate on what she had been in a shower of. ""

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"Oh I know, there are lots of interesting people here. I've seen quite a few of them before when I took them over to the Sunless Lands. A man who saw bad things?" Death frowned, "What kind of bad things, honey?"

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She fidgeted, looking away. ""

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Death squeezed her sister, "I know sweetie. It's okay. People aren't always happy to see either one of us, y'know? And Barnabas is a pretty smart dog, he might find his way here someday."

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((mod note))

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(( Sorry to have to point this out, but: what's been stated about Desire here is a violation of the no-backstorying-for-other-playable-characters rule. If you want Desire to have been involved in your ongoing plot, someone will need to have apped hir, because Desire is a named and playable character, like the other Endless. ))