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'''Ghosts''' were a type of visible, and sometimes tangible, disembodied spirit. | '''Ghosts''' were a type of visible, and sometimes tangible, disembodied spirit. | ||
== Nature == | |||
Ghosts were usually thought of as spirits 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]]. 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]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') | Ghosts were usually thought of as spirits 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]]. 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]]: ''[[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]]'') | 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 == | ||
