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The Spirit, and loving, and Larry, and loving Larry.
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- Part 1 of inactive & archived works
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The Spirit reaches down and places his hand against his cheek. He leans into it, his nature and instinct is to want and need and desire, and then he realizes - they’re mirroring his final act, their first and last embrace. It should be infuriating.
Four words mist into his thoughts, written in bright glowing messy letters: We cared too much. Three more in succession: You deserved better.
[After the events of 4x03, Larry is visited by the Negative Spirit in his dreams for one last time.]
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- Part 2 of inactive & archived works
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Time for a riddle: what exists in the future and the past but never in the present? The answer, of course: L---
(A poem about Larry, post Vacay Patrol, idk)
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- Part 3 of inactive & archived works
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There’s a door, in the distance.
Larry thinks, at first, that this is it — the door that will take him to his new life, the pathway to his new existence. His higher, purer existence, Larry and the Negative Spirit until the end of all. This is what he always wanted; an escape, a renewal.
But, it seems, the Negative Spirit has other ideas before their transition into light.
(Spoilers for 03x02)
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- Part 4 of inactive & archived works
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Back then space was cold and desolate, but he has been enlightened, has spit his essence out and formed from it something higher — space, he knows now, can fill you with warmth, can feel like rebirth, when you have the right company.
(Canon divergence; Larry and the Spirit DO go to the Negative dimension together. Spoilers for season 3).
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- Part 5 of inactive & archived works
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In the outskirts of N’Hal, the city surrounding the N’Hal hall — the first location in the Space that was created — there rests a calm, intimate commune of lovers. They rejected the concept of soulmates, and chose to love one another in an intricate system of relationships. They were not destined for each other; instead they fell in love on purpose, believing that, while soulmates may be important to others, getting to know someone and falling in love in a way that breaks destiny is a more elegant story.
It was Alto Zova who first introduced the idea of procreating to the others.
The result of this unrivaled amalgam was Keeg Bovo.
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A Negative Spirit worldbuilding/backstory fic told in snippets of Negative Spirit literature interspersed with lore explanation and introspection on behalf of Keeg. Literally no one asked for this but I wrote it anyway.
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- Part 6 of inactive & archived works
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If Larry ever was hurt because of them, genuinely and truly scathed through their action—
They could not bear it. They would perish. They would turn themselves inside-out, disappear into light and guilt and horror.
So: they will wait here, until the sun rises.
(NS, in Puppet Patrol, after the ground rules scene. Staying.)
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- Part 7 of inactive & archived works
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Their ultimate flaw lies here, underneath the ground and inside the heart walls. Hope. It’s funny; anyone who functions with logic would suppose that the Spirit's eternal downfall is their love for a man who will never consider them anything beyond a pest, if they even reach the status of sentience and independence in his eyes. This is horribly untrue.
The Spirit's weakness is simple, and more human than they’d like to admit: they still believe, rather foolishly, that they are capable of developing into something reciprocal and kind.
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- Part 8 of inactive & archived works
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another dreamless night (scratch on the moon like a familiar smile) by telescopefish
Fandoms: Doom Patrol (TV)
11 May 2021
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Larry wakes up in a bed that is not his own, in a home that is not his own, in a skin that is not his own.
(It's not Larry that Mr. Nobody targets, in Penultimate Patrol.)
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- Part 9 of inactive & archived works
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now it's not a cancer ward (we're sleeping in the morgue) by telescopefish
Fandoms: Doom Patrol (TV)
08 May 2021
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They are connected to every aspect of Larry Trainor, and this extends out, branches into everyone that he has ever loved. His children. John. His wife, in some manner. They watch every spirit from Larry’s past fade into the scenery, into ash and light. They watch the creation flicker out. They watch.
Sometimes the Spirit tries to comfort them.
(The Negative Spirit thinks about death, and about humanity.)
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- Part 10 of inactive & archived works
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“You could’ve talked to me all this time, right? Why now?”
“Before now, would you have listened?”
Larry shrugs, admits his defeat. “Probably not.”
“Then you understand why I had to wait.” They pause. It looks, for a moment, like they are about to approach him, to move closer, but they remain still in their position---frightened. “And I would have waited centuries for this opportunity. I knew that there was a possibility it would never be feasible, but it is now.”
“Okay,” Larry says, and then, “but what are we doing here? And why do I still look like… this?”
"Because," The Spirit says, mirroring his sincerity, their bright human eyes burning through his chest, "you are more beautiful this way."
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- Part 11 of inactive & archived works
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and the universe said i love you because you are love by telescopefish
Fandoms: Doom Patrol (TV)
09 Apr 2021
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You have to do this. You cannot refuse. He is lonely, and bored, and he doesn’t want his mind to fall back into old habits, his previous horrors. You have to do this. He needs you. You need him—
You emerge halfway from his body, wrap your arms around him. Comfort. Comfort. Comfort. Unbearable comfort. Paradoxical.
(A moment of intimacy.)
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- Part 12 of inactive & archived works
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Larry stares at himself in his bedroom mirror, studies every vein, every scar and every ridge. Imagines being touched, feeling fingers run over his scars in admiration. If he had what he used to have—
Don’t live in the past.
It’s time to end his curiosity.
“Release,” Larry breathes.
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- Part 13 of inactive & archived works
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Larry Trainor is the most beautiful thing that they — this trans-dimensional ancient being, who has witnessed births of celestial nature & viewed creation and beauty countless times — has ever seen. Larry Trainor is the only thing in this dimension worth saving. Larry Trainor is words in scripture, sacred to the belief systems of their sparks. Larry Trainor is the soul completion that the Spirit has coveted endlessly.
Larry Trainor hates the Negative Spirit.
It changes nothing.
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- Part 14 of inactive & archived works
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His night stand, now emptied and directly in front of him, with a record player resting on top of it.
He smiles to himself, bites his cheek when he realizes the expression. He places the needle on the record—
I wasn’t jealous before we met, now every woman I see is a potential threat…
There’s some irony in that.
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- Part 15 of inactive & archived works
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2.
Before your tarnish, Larry would’ve called the aurora borealis beautiful. The night
sky, lit up by a dancing color that seeped into his cells in the Right Way, the night sky
holding his stability in sage and ferns, vast drowning blues, always in the Right Way—
always a calming light, never a reminder. Before your presence, Larry craved light, but what
happens now? What happens when light is no longer something to walk into?Series
- Part 16 of inactive & archived works
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The Negative Spirit is the closest person to Larry in this surviving world. They have to be so close, bleeding into one another, to live. The Spirit is good. The Spirit is the purity that Larry once lacked.
He’s moved on.
LARRY
Now that I think of it... there is a relationship I want to tell you about.(The Keeg&Larry connection speech in script form. I know.)
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- Part 17 of inactive & archived works
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“You son of a bitch,” he says. “You didn’t bring me here to talk.”
“You have proven yourself to be much more tolerable after you’ve had a sexual experience,” the Spirit replies.
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- Part 18 of inactive & archived works
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Th Spirit curls up here, in Larry’s chest. Safety. Shelter.
(The Spirit and Larry and heartbeats.)
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- Part 19 of inactive & archived works
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Tyme simply passes him. He reaches into their refrigerator and retrieves a carton of eggs. He waves a singular egg in front of Larry’s face, taunts him, he shouldn’t feel so—
“I need those for pancakes,” Larry says, but it’s weak and drenched in a fluster. Damn him.
“Oh, don’t worry, we won’t use all of them,” Tyme tells him; it’s not reassuring in the slightest. “Now, where is this Chief’s bedroom, hm?”
(Tyme and Larry egg Niles' room.)
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- Part 20 of inactive & archived works