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== Nature == | == Nature == | ||
Ghosts were usually thought of as | Ghosts were usually thought of as [[spirit]]s of the dead, and depicted as chalk-white humanoid figures, or looser, floating spirits in shrouds. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Ghost Story (comic story)|Ghost Story]]'') Indeed, [[Arganthone-056]] once faced such a spirit, the [[Ghost of the First Premium Turkey]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') However, the term was sometimes used to refer to spirits which embodied concepts, rather than deceased mortal — including the Ghosts of [[Ghost of Christmas Past|Christmas Past]], [[Ghost of Christmas Present|Christmas Present]] and [[Ghost of Christmas Future|Christmas Future]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'', ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | ||
In the [[Prime Universe]] at least, ghosts were a type of non-corporeal [[spirit]]. Like many other spirits, if they had nowhere else to go, ghosts would naturally find themselves in the [[Spirit Realm]]. Indeed, if corporeal beings became trapped in the Spirit Realm while living, they could haunt the physical world, appearing as insubstantial “ghosts” indistinguishable from genuinely dead ones. In the course of the [[Great Ghost Disaster of 1978]], the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] came to believe that “ghosts and other related spirits can't persist in dimensions which they aren't anchored to – except on occasions when the Spirit Realm is directly connected to the dimension that they’ve entered”. However, all it took for a ghost to anchor themself to a given realm was to [[Possession|possess]] a physical being native to that universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') [[Philatel-426]]'s understanding was that one must “possess a [[soul]] to become a spirit after death”, and he'd never considered that robots like himself might become genuine, undead ghosts after death until being confronted with [[Mailbag-431]]'s shade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'') | In the [[Prime Universe]] at least, ghosts were a type of non-corporeal [[spirit]]. Like many other spirits, if they had nowhere else to go, ghosts would naturally find themselves in the [[Spirit Realm]]. Indeed, if corporeal beings became trapped in the Spirit Realm while living, they could haunt the physical world, appearing as insubstantial “ghosts” indistinguishable from genuinely dead ones. In the course of the [[Great Ghost Disaster of 1978]], the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]] came to believe that “ghosts and other related spirits can't persist in dimensions which they aren't anchored to – except on occasions when the Spirit Realm is directly connected to the dimension that they’ve entered”. However, all it took for a ghost to anchor themself to a given realm was to [[Possession|possess]] a physical being native to that universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') [[Philatel-426]]'s understanding was that one must “possess a [[soul]] to become a spirit after death”, and he'd never considered that robots like himself might become genuine, undead ghosts after death until being confronted with [[Mailbag-431]]'s shade. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'') | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
=== In the Strange and Wonderful House === | |||
Many ghosts resided in [[the Strange and Wonderful House]], but found “other places to haunt” prior to the [[Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 60: The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House|The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House]]'') | Many ghosts resided in [[the Strange and Wonderful House]], but found “other places to haunt” prior to the [[Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)|Our Strange and Wonderful House]]'': ''[[Our Strange and Wonderful House (novel)#Chapter 60: The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House|The Fall of the Strange and Wonderful House]]'') | ||
=== In the Prime Universe === | |||
By the 2010s, due to an unidentified threat, [[the Great Ghost]] believed his native [[Spirit Realm]], that of the [[Prime Universe]], to be “doomed” and was looking for a way for him [[the Great Ghost's legion|his legion]] of spirits to permanently escape. He intended to do so via ordinary [[spirit path]]s, but, when [[Frankenstein-818]]'s malfunctioning [[Spirit Realm Gateway]] opened a [[Rift]] between the Spirit Realm and the [[Cupid Homeworld]], took his chance and led his legion out of the Realm through that portal. While the spirits rampaged, looking for bodies to possess across [[the Multiverse]] thanks to a flotilla of [[Fog Ship]]s stolen from the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Cupids]], Frankenstein built a [[One-Way Forced Spirit Realm Gateway]] which, when activated, would send everything around it to the Spirit Realm. | By the 2010s, due to an unidentified threat, [[the Great Ghost]] believed his native [[Spirit Realm]], that of the [[Prime Universe]], to be “doomed” and was looking for a way for him [[the Great Ghost's legion|his legion]] of spirits to permanently escape. He intended to do so via ordinary [[spirit path]]s, but, when [[Frankenstein-818]]'s malfunctioning [[Spirit Realm Gateway]] opened a [[Rift]] between the Spirit Realm and the [[Cupid Homeworld]], took his chance and led his legion out of the Realm through that portal. While the spirits rampaged, looking for bodies to possess across [[the Multiverse]] thanks to a flotilla of [[Fog Ship]]s stolen from the [[Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids|Cupids]], Frankenstein built a [[One-Way Forced Spirit Realm Gateway]] which, when activated, would send everything around it to the Spirit Realm. | ||
However, before he could use it, Frankenstein was abducted by the spirits and forced to build a [[Reverse Spirit Realm Gateway]] to replace the Rift, which the [[Department of Rifts]] had sealed. After a short mishap with the One-Way Gateway where [[Foreman-964]], [[Pythagoras-858]], [[Technophile-963]], [[Igor-1612]] and [[Philatel-426]] were briefly transported to the Spirit Realm before being summoned back by [[Juliet-178]] using the reverse switch of the One-Way Gateway, the Cupids managed to send most of the ghosts back to the Spirit Realm. When they tried to return through the Reverse Gateway, they were transformed into clockwork toys of which [[Madame Tarsa]] took possession. The Great Ghost, meanwhile, was separated from [[Queen of the Black Market|his host body]] and sent to parts unknown. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | However, before he could use it, Frankenstein was abducted by the spirits and forced to build a [[Reverse Spirit Realm Gateway]] to replace the Rift, which the [[Department of Rifts]] had sealed. After a short mishap with the One-Way Gateway where [[Foreman-964]], [[Pythagoras-858]], [[Technophile-963]], [[Igor-1612]] and [[Philatel-426]] were briefly transported to the Spirit Realm before being summoned back by [[Juliet-178]] using the reverse switch of the One-Way Gateway, the Cupids managed to send most of the ghosts back to the Spirit Realm. When they tried to return through the Reverse Gateway, they were transformed into clockwork toys of which [[Madame Tarsa]] took possession. The Great Ghost, meanwhile, was separated from [[Queen of the Black Market|his host body]] and sent to parts unknown. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ghosts and the Machine (short story)|The Ghosts and the Machine]]'') | ||
During the 2019 [[Festival of Giving|Christmas season]] in the Cupid Homeworld, versions of [[the Three Spirits]] enacted a “[[A Christmas Carol|''Christmas Carol'' scenario” there. The ghosts of the few Cupids who'd ever died returned from the [[Spirit Realm]], trying to get through to Cupids they'd known in life; [[Mailbag-431]] finally managed to manifest in front of [[Philatel-426]], who turned out to be the focus of the exercise. After Mailbag delivered his message, he briefly glimpsed other ghosts, including [[Governor-105]]'s, who was fruitlessly attempting to warn [[Pythagoras-858]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'') that [[Mandragora-257]] was not really dead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Resurrection of the Wellsians (short story)|The Resurrection of the Wellsians]]'') Philatel was then taken on the traditional journey through time and space by the Ghosts of Christmas [[Ghost of Christmas Past (A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol)|Past]], [[Ghost of Christmas Present (A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol)|Present]] and [[Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come (A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol)|Yet-to-Come]]. After reaching the requisite epiphanies, Philatel had to engage in an unexpected epilogue to free the first two ghosts from shackles imposed upon them in the [[Spirit Realm]] by [[Ghost Lord|mysterious invaders]] who had taken it over, and had raised themselves up as judges and prison-wardens of the dead; however, so as not to muddle his emotional growth, the Ghosts erased his memories of the episode when returning him to [[Philatel-426's house|his house]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol (short story)|A Copper-Colored Christmas Carol]]'') | |||
=== Peter Griffin's universe === | |||
On [[Halloween]] night in [[Universe (Jenny Everywhere meets Peter Griffin)|one universe]], [[Peter Griffin (Jenny Everywhere meets Peter Griffin)|Peter Griffin]] guessed, among other things, that [[Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere meets Peter Griffin)|Jenny Everywhere]] was dressed as "a scary ghost holding a torch", prior to seeing [[Jenny Nowhere (Halloween Preparations)|her costume]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Curse of a Fairly Normal Halloween (comic story)|The Curse of a Fairly Normal Halloween]]'') | On [[Halloween]] night in [[Universe (Jenny Everywhere meets Peter Griffin)|one universe]], [[Peter Griffin (Jenny Everywhere meets Peter Griffin)|Peter Griffin]] guessed, among other things, that [[Jenny Everywhere (Jenny Everywhere meets Peter Griffin)|Jenny Everywhere]] was dressed as "a scary ghost holding a torch", prior to seeing [[Jenny Nowhere (Halloween Preparations)|her costume]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Curse of a Fairly Normal Halloween (comic story)|The Curse of a Fairly Normal Halloween]]'') | ||
[[Category:Species]] | [[Category:Species]] | ||