This wasnt done by me. Its from The
Unofficial Death Biography
Alter
Egos: Didi, Teleute
Occupation:
Bringer of death; Anthropomorphic personification
Known
Relatives: Dream/Morpheus (brother; deceased), Dream II
(brother), Destiny (brother), Despair (sister), Desire (brother/sister),
Delerium (sister), Destruction (brother)
Group
Affiliation: The Endless.
Base
of Operations: The Sunless lands; Everywhere.
Height:
Inapplicable
Weight:
Inapplicable
Eyes:
Black
Hair:
Black
First
Appearance: Sandman Vol. 2 #8 (August 1989)
Death is one of the eldest of the The Endless, a family of
seven conceptual entities. In the beginning, when the first living being came
to existence, she was there. And since then it has been her job to separate the
living from all that has gone before, and all that must come after.
Back when the universe was new, people didn't
mind dying. Back then, living and dying were new things, and people did them
with enthusiasm. They were pleased to see Death, and tell her all about it. And
then, after a bit, it got harder. People just wished Death would just go away,
and that made her very sad, so one day she just gave up, she stopped taking
lives. Nothing died, not people, not animals, not bacteria, not ideas. The
chaos and the pain got bad, so the people send a man to talk and plead to her.
Death looked at what she had done and decided to start doing her job again. She
hated it, but it was better than the alternative. Death became cold, hard, and
brittle inside, she didn't like how people were always upset when they saw her.
One day she took the life of a little girl, she
did it all icy, distant and vain. The girl looked at Death and said "How
would you like it?" Death didn't know, so from then on she decided to take
a day to live every hundred years, to see how she would like it. She lived her
first day and died, and then she met herself, and she noticed she was a
coldhearted bitch, and she noticed that was the last thing people wanted to see
after they died. People needed a friendly face and kind words, so she decided
to give them just that. From that day on, Death became a much friendlier and
happier person. She even started to like her job, she liked to meet new people,
talk to them and help them on their way to the Sunless Lands, and she is happy
because she gets to meet everybody. [Vertigo: Winter Edge #2 and Death: The
High Cost of Living]
Her happier nature is probably also what
ignited her curious hobbies. She likes to sing (but only when she is alone) and
she likes to collect floppy hats, a hobby that probably started when she met
Norton Emperor of America and Protector of Mexico, who had one of these hats.
She also loves Disney films, and loves to talk about them. Mary Poppins is one
of her favorites.
Death usually meets any being two times. The
first time when they are born, and she talks to them, but nobody ever remembers
that. And of course, she meets them when they die. When Death comes to claim
someone at the end of their life she instantly knows of everything that
happened after she first visited them at the beginning. She knows everybody and
she loves everybody, mostly because it's hard to hate someone you know deeply.
According to her, nobody is really really bad if you look at them from the
inside. Death's unconditional love for all beings is also the reason why people
fall in love with her very easily.
Death is also very capricious, and she is the
only member of the Endless who can bend or break the rules. Something she has
done quite a few times already. She turned Hob Gadling, a normal human from the
14th century, into an immortal on a whim. She let two young boys stay on Earth
as ghosts because they complained and didn't want to go with her. And she has
been known to make deals with people; despite this, she claims Death doesn't
make deals. With this kind of Death, it's no wonder so many people return from
the dead.
It has been said that unlike the other Endless,
who live in their own astral realms - Death dwells in a house on Earth. However,
while Death's home looks like a normal apartment, she can change it and make it
look like what people would expect to see although it generally looks the same
no matter in what era she's in, which would suggest that her house is indeed in
an astral realm of its own existing outside of time and space.
Some of the other Endless have theorized that
Death will be the only of them to survive the current version of the universe
and possibly continue her work in the new version. After all, it is her job to
put everything in order before locking down the old universe before she leaves.
Leave and go where? Nobody knows.
She always wears black, except to funerals of
members of her family.
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POWERS AND WEAPONS |
She is Death, and she can choose when and where
to take lives. Her power is not limited to humans and she can simultaneously
manifest herself to innumerable dying and newly born beings throughout the
universe. She is also in charge of taking the lives of any other living being,
as well as ideas, concepts, worlds and universes. Anything that can end ...
which is, after all, everything.
Death's sigil is the ankh she wears. The ankh
allows her to communicate with the other Endless.
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BREAKING THE FOURTH WALL... |
The looks of the character were based on a friend of Mike
Drigenberg called Cinammon who he met in Salt Lake City. She was an ex-ballet
dancer and always walked around with a black umbrella.