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Death by Jeff Dekal

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"Endless Dream" and was created by loobeeinthesky

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Death of the Endless by Gerald Parel

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Why

A silent wanderer. A garden no one planted. One question with no answer.

I opened my eyes

in a barren land

and carried one question

Why

A man stood over a woman

and said you are beneath me

her blood flowed into the earth

the earth drank

and the land was nourished with hatred

so that all else could grow

and I watched

One dark as night

one pale as day

a blade at each throat

I am god’s gifted

and the dark man

was buried into the earth

and became a seed

and I watched

Same idol

same folded hands

same lips moving

yet fists came down

and some were pushed

so deep

they became the roots

no one speaks of

and I watched

From those roots

a trunk rose

and its name was god

branches grew

each certain

it alone deserved the sun

they reached for each other’s throats

they fell

and the fallen branches

became walls

and the walls were named

nationality

and I watched

And men walked through

this garden

with water in their hands

fertilizing every wound

tending every wall

nurturing every root of hate

not out of evil

but out of a madness

they had mistaken for meaning

and I watched

I understand the seed

I understand the hand

I understand the madness

that cannot see itself

and yet

Why

— Caelum Void

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Of the seven Endless, my least favorite one is definitively Destruction.

I do not quite like him because he is... less defined and clear than his siblings. "Destruction" as a concept and entity overlaps with the domains of the other Endless a LOT - Death, Destiny and Despair precisely. Mind you, that's the point, the Endlesses, as siblings, keep overlaping with each other (Dream is a prime example), but the domain-spilling can be made up if you have a strong identity and defined core to help choose between which Endless gets what... And unfortunately Destruction is a flat character. He just has, as "Destruction", a vague warrior-aesthetic and... that's it?

I get why it was - it is because Destruction was originally simply designed as "The Prodigal" and was meant to be a non-character, it is explicitely said so, that originally he was just there to be absent, the missing one, the reason the family is fractured, and he solely exists to explore and present what happens when an Endless "quits" their job on their own... But as a result the idea of what "Destruction" was meant to be is never quite explored, nor fleshed-out.

In fact, I could almost say there's no need in the universe for "Destruction" if it wasn't for one thing that does make his existence justified, cosmogonically. It is the "opposite game". It is well known and an established rule that each Endless exists to define their opposite - and while a lot of what Destruction does can overlap with Death for example, Death is here to define "life" whereas Destruction defines "creation", and these two concepts are different enough that I think Destruction can get a pass. There's someone to define artistic and technical creation, and that's something Death couldn't do as she is about existence and life.

In fact, "Creation" as a concept is much more interesting, in the Endless-verse, than "Destruction", and... That's why, when you think about it, Destruction having quit his job and trying to be his opposite is definitively a good option. Destruction as "destruction" wouldn't have been of much interest, too redundant, but Destruction as someone literaly highlighting the concept of "creation" by attempting (and failing) to be creative... It doesn't make the character "more interesting" but it does help stress out the one interesting and stand-out part in the reasoning for why such a character exists, as a cosmic concept.

In fact it is too bad we don't have a D word for "Creation" because honestly, an Endless about Creation would feel much more "cosmically fulfilling" in the eternal schemes, games and relationships of death, fate, imagination, despair, desire and madness, than just a concept of "destruction".

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