Talk:King of Despair/@comment-27.33.45.208-20151012094331/@comment-72.213.44.20-20151016092435

The King of Despair cannot die, but they can lose control of the vessel he possesses. (as seen in the end of EP 12) Because of his status as a Blood Breed, he is merely an age-old entity and from what we've seen it looks like he's never existed physically as we saw in flashbacks and according to Femt he was merely a bystander of history.

Black and King of Despair are not the same person, but during the course of the show, Despair was simply possessing Black and promised him that he would not harm his sister (much akin to the promise he made to White that he would release her brother if she did what he told her to.) and that is why Black and Despair are considered to be "the same".

As for Whites status, most people can only assume she is deceased because Black used her to create the last part of the barrier and we see a ghostly butterfly fluttering across Leo's vision, maybe stating her spirit was finally free? We also see Black commenting to no one in particular on how Leo looked when he was crying, calling him Whites "knight" but quickly correcting himself and saying that Leo was their "savior", because without Leo's assistance White would have never been able to save her brother from the clutches of Despair. So her status is, while not confirmed, but can be assumed (and safely) that she is deceased.