Desire (DC Comics)
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Desire is one of the Endless, a fictional character from Neil Gaiman's comic book series, The Sandman.
Desire is the third youngest of the Endless. Desire is a beautiful, perfectly androgynous figure who is not so much genderless as multiple-gendered. Desire blends in effortlessly with whatever environment it finds itself in. It lives in the heart of a massive statue of itself, known as the Threshold. Indeed, further strengthening the connection to hearts, Desire's sigil in the galleries of the other Endless is a heart of cut glass.
Desire is easily the cruelest of the Endless. Desire seems obsessed with interfering with the affairs of its elder siblings, particularly Morpheus. The motivation behind this is not clear, but seems to be simply a variation on childish teasing. Desire is not exactly unaware of the consequences of its actions, but considers those consequences ultimately unimportant, a position which angers Morpheus and Death in particular. Desire is the twin sibling of Despair, and the two sometimes act in concert; the relationship is not clear, however, and Desire is much more distant from its siblings than Despair.
A more forgiving interpretation is that Desire reflects, simply, desire, and is as fickle as the emotion. As desire is easily the most inflaming of emotions, Desire takes special delight in egging those who think they are beyond emotions altogether.
A story in Endless Nights, set long before any other Sandman story, explains the origins of the Desire/Dream enmity, and reveals that before this Desire was Dream's favourite sibling. Desire is also responsible for the rape, and subsequent pregnancy of Unity Kinkaid, which further enhances the enmity between Dream and Desire towards the end of The Doll's House.
Being androgynous, Desire makes the Endless line-up come out perfectly. They total seven members, the perfect number, but by virtue of Desire's gender, they contain four males and four females.