Poor Delirium. Sometimes she doesn't know if she's coming or
going. In fact, she's been known to forget that on occasion. She could not be described as the most stable member of the family.
However, if you can get past the fact that her attention span is no more than five seconds, she is an adorable girl. Delirium
appears as a teenage girl, dressed in clashing colors, multicolored hair (which changes by the minute), and a lost look in
her mismatched eyes.
Deliruim was not always this way, however. Long ago, she was Delight.
But, all things change, and unfortunately for poor Delight, this change was not neccessarily for the better. It has been shown,
however, that when absolutely neccessary, she can pull herself together and can be a very decisive, domineering, "take-charge"
kind of girl. It doesn't happen often, so when it does, it generally surprises those who know her.
From The Sandman 21, by Neil Gaiman & Mike Dringenberg.
Delirium is the youngest of the endless. She
smells of sweat, sour wines, late nights, old leather. Her realm is close, and can be visited; however, human minds were not
made to comprehend her domain, and those few who have made the journey have been incapable of reporting back more than a few
fragments.
The poet Coleridge claimed to have
known her intimately, but the man was an inveterate liar, and in this, as in so much, we must doubt his word. Her appearance
is the most variable of all the Endless, who at best, are ideas cloaked in the semblance of flesh. Her shadow's shape and
outline has no relationship to that of any body she wears, and it is tangible, like old velvet.
Some say the tragedy of Delirium
is her knowledge that, despite being older than suns, older than gods, she is forever the youngest of the Endless, who do
not measure time as we measure time, or see the worlds through mortal eyes. Others deny this, and say that Delirium has no
tragedy, but here they speak without reflection. For Delirium was once Delight. And although that was long ago now, even today
her eyes are badly matched: one eye is a vivid emerald green, spattered with silver flecks that move; her other eye is vein
blue.
"Who knows what Delirium
sees, through her mismatched eyes?"
   
   
This is a few pictures of her as delight..
 
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