"Do not ask the price
I paid, I must live
with my quiet rage
Tame the ghosts in
my head that run wild
and wish me Dead."
"I'm the kind of tired, that sleep won't fix."
~~~
{What is the Sandman?}
Ever heard of a Shadow man?
There are a collection of them, as ancient as the beginning of time. Before anything there were Shadow men. They existed in the darkness, ruling over the haunting nothingness until someone turned on the light. They were forced to retreat into the crevices of the world and they remain there to this day, lurking and alone. Bitter and cruel. Undoubtedly evil.
The Sandman is a Shadow man but is he alike his kin? He exists upon his own universal plain, an alternate universe of dreams forged and controlled by him where as his kin exist in a land of fire and ice. An ever shifting territory of terror. He has an infinite imagination and creates dream upon dream with his powers and they are naturally fed down to the dreamers below.
"I don't live in darkness, darkness lives within me."
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Appearance
It's difficult to say as he can take on many forms. For her though, he takes the form of a young man of similar age. He has ever changing hair, that usually drifts between the golden hue of a sunrise and the inky black of a ravens feather. His hair color can often reflect his mood. His eyes are beautiful and can be all the colors of the sky, it is myth that if one looks deep into the eyes of the Sandman one can see all the stars in the galaxy and dreams waiting to be born. His skin is usually pale like the moon.
His height is looming at 6'4 and his general physique is athletic. Handsome isn't the word you would use to describe him because a handsome man wouldn't hold a candle to him. Depending on the mood and the way you view him, the Sandman can be tragically gorgeous or frightfully strange and alien. He owns a wicked lovely smile that can make a girl's heart flutter and falter at the same time.
"Alone.
Yes that's the key word,
the most awful word in the English
tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle
to it and Hell is only a poor synonym."
The Sandman is lonely. He's been lonely since the beginning and evermore since she forgot about him. He has been searching for her, in every dream, every room of every night and finally she has been found. The only person who can fill his void. The only one who ever held his gaze and his heart.