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[The Sandman] What if Roderick Burgess had captured Death, rather than Dream, like he originally intended? Or one of the other Endless?
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If he captured Death? The dying would live on in agony, no matter how terrible their injuries. Heaven and Hell would be starved of new souls, and would soon send their agents to investigate. The rules of the cosmos would probably prevent them from directly freeing Death, but Burgess would find himself plagued by angels and demons offering bargains and threatening torments (in roughly equal proportion from both sides). Since his ultimate goal seems to have been power, he would probably have found one of their offers tempting, and take it in exchange for freeing Death.

The bargain would have a loophole in it, of course. These things always do, and whatever immortality and power he thought he had attained would end in due time. His enemies would be waking.

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If he captured Destiny, Destiny would have known it was going to happen. Destiny's book would continue; Destiny would wait patiently for the freedom he knows is coming - or rather, not freedom; Destiny would remain in his chains. Burgess's prison would be a mere waystation to him. Holding him would be even more frustrating than holding Dream.

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If he captured Despair, or Desire, the world might actually become a slightly better place, at first. Then the knock-on effects would begin to accumulate. People would sleepwalk through their lives, stripped of the desires that might drive them onwards; or they would stumble on in misery, lacking even the comfort of absolute despair.

The twins care for each other, in their way. Burgess would find himself suffering in ways that are hard to imagine.

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Delirium wouldn't even notice. There's a good chance that she would just walk out of his cage whenever she got bored, then wander back when she remembered that she was meant to be a prisoner.