Welcome to the homepage of the Negative Spirits! This is a fanpage for the fictional species known as the Negative Spirits from the show Doom Patrol on DC Universe (then, later, HBO Max).
WHY NOT THE COMICS?
I originally fell in love with the Negative Spirit and their species while watching the Doom Patrol show in 2019. While I respect the comics as the basis of the media I love, I don't really care about them as much as the show. However, much of the lore in the headcanons zone is based tangentially on Gerard Way's run of Doom Patrol.
WHAT ARE NEGATIVE SPIRITS?
Negative Spirits are a fictional alien race from the show Doom Patrol, based on the comic series by DC Comics. While the show they come from is based largely on a specific run from the comics (Morrison's), I consider TV Negative Spirits to be divergent from comic Negative Spirits. Negative Spirits are noncorporeal aliens formed of pure energy that have a variety of powers, such as immortality, psychic ability, interdimensional travel, electrocution and electricity manipulation, flight, and possession of human hosts (though it makes them radioactive, but this can be contained via emotional bonding with host).
WHY DO THEY FASCINATE ME SO MUCH?
The Negative Spirits have been shown to be extremely emotionally sensitive, at least according to Niles Caulder. Larry's Negative Spirit, specifically, is my favorite character in the whole universe, and I find its heroic nature to be very beautiful. Larry doesn't want to intervene, doesn't want to help, only wants to hide and shrivel away, but his Negative Spirit forces him to help. Larry doesn't want to heal from his trauma and his Negative Spirit helps him confront his demons. His Negative Spirit helps save the world and fight evil and wants to be in the center of it all, and it has no reason to do this as the world has only been unkind and cruel to it during 95% of its time on earth.
Now, the Negative Spirit is still an asshole, but that's also part of why I love it. It puts Larry on the ceiling when he tries to communicate with it. It repeatedly leaves Larry's body (which knocks him unconscious). It crashes Larry's bus after he calls it a parasite. But there are also so many tender moments between them--Larry saying they have an untraditional connection in Frances Patrol, Larry saying he believes in it, their general closeness during the 6 month time skip between 1x14 and 1x15, Larry falling asleep with his hand over his chest as it emitted its glow, Larry's attempted sacrifice and it choosing to stay, and of course the face touch. Negative Spirits are, well, aliens with complex emotional states! Larry's NS only seems to lash out when Larry is cruel to it, as Larry's self hatred is extremely torturous to live with---Negative spirits are merged with their host's mind and thoughts on top of being incredibly emotionally sensitive already.
And then there's Valentina Vostok, who is Larry's narrative parallel. A glimpse into what could be for him. Her Negative Spirit has bonded with her entirely, they "fell in love", and they have perfect communication. Larry thinks this has made her entirely alien, but her and her Spirit were alone in a ship with two corpses for Fifty Years, so that kind of isolation rusts the connection to humanity a bit. Valentina acts detached from Earth, more serene, and so does her Spirit; this indicates to me that merging with a Negative Spirit can be a beautiful thing under the right circumstances. Or maybe the most desperate circumstances.
I love the Negative Spirits so much.
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Contact
Agnes Alien
spirits@alien.hospital
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