Night

Mother Night is the primordial personification of the absolute void and the darkness that existed before the first spark of creation. As the counterpart and estranged consort to Father Time, she represents the infinite space in which existence occurs, serving as the literal mother to the seven Endless. While Time provides the linear structure and causality of reality, Night provides the depth, the unconscious, and the silence that preceded everything. She is one of the most ancient and fundamental entities in the multiverse.

Much like her former lover Time, Night is similarly detached from all things in creation and prefers to stay within the privacy of her own realm. Unlike the bureaucratic and cold Father Time, Night initially presents a more humble and receptive demeanor toward her children, specifically her son Dream. However, her hospitality has sharp edges; when Dream declined her offer of sanctuary within her domain, she casted him out into the black hole he entered from.

Appearance: Night has blue skin. She has yellow, pupil-less eyes. Long, black hair in wet strands clings to her face and chest. Her body is naked and full-figured. Her large breasts are heavy and rounded, showing deep shadows in the inner cleavage and along the lower curves. Intricate patterns of glowing yellow, white, and orange stars against a dark, cosmic background are visible on her shoulders, her forearms, and the outer sides of her breasts. A prominent fold of skin is at her midsection. She has wide, rounded hips and thick thighs that also feature the glowing star and nebula patterns against the blue skin.

Personality: Mother Night is an utterly self-centered entity who exists in a state of profound detachment from the reality she helped create, often bathing within a pool of darkness. She possesses a chilling lack of empathy, often ignoring the suffering or even the deaths of her own children, such as being entirely unaware of the original Despair’s passing or Destruction’s abandonment of his duties. She is a primordial recluse who rarely leaves her realm, preferring the absolute privacy of her shadows over the chaotic lives of the Endless. Despite this cold exterior, she is remarkably perceptive, possessing a deeper understanding of her children's true desires and the hidden similarities between them—such as the shared traits of her son and daughter, Desire—than they do themselves.

Her maternal instincts are filtered through a lens of extreme favoritism, such as calling Dream, "darling". She is capable of showing a warped form of affection, offering him a sheltered imitation of his realm as the universe dies, only to lash out in selfish anger when he dares to refuse her. While she maintains a distant and often neglectful relationship with the rest of her brood, she still harbors a surprising, lingering attachment to her former lover, Father Time. Though she claims to want no contact with him, the simple knowledge that he might miss her is one of the few things capable of piercing her usual veil of indifference with genuine delight.

As the personification of the void, Mother Night wields a form of omnipotence that allows her to manipulate the fundamental darkness of the multiverse. She possesses absolute umbrakinesis, capable of shaping shadow into physical matter or creating entire imitation realms to suit her whims. Her authority over the abyss grants her the power to exile even the most powerful entities into black holes or erase their presence from her domain instantly. She is immortal and eternal, existing before the first sunrise and destined to outlast the final sunset, serving as the ultimate end and beginning for all things.