Red Door

This article contains **MAJOR SPOILERS**.
*Although all articles contain spoilers, this article will reveal **major plot twists**!*

## **Description**

The Red Door is a door that leads directly to the door pusher's heart. It is a space that represents the trauma and negative memories of the door pusher's heart and how they see the world.

A Red Door can only be opened once a person has reached the "lowest point in their life". When they fall into the abyss and cannot overcome their despair and resentment. The Red Door is located within the building where the door pusher pushed his door and that building will mirror reality and appear within the Red World

The inside of the door varies from person to person as it is the representation of their heart. Doctor Gao's door was a world of flesh and blood with veins pulsing all over the hallways and every room.

A Red door usually contains various spirits and ghosts unique solely to that door because they represent the door pusher's heart. If they are strong enough they can govern their door and raise an army of ghosts as each ghost exists solely because of the door pusher. They can even decide whether they live or die and can create rules that all beings within the door have to abide by.

It is also worth noting, that if some memory is traumatic enough, or even mere negative memories of the door pusher have of another person, it can manifest into an actual entity that wanders the red door.

Because a Red Door is technically alive due to being the manifestation of the door pusher's heart it can assimilate all things within the door and anything that enters it. If a living being where to enter someone's Red Door without permission then they will slowly be assimilated by the Door and become unable to leave once it's too late. Similarly if one were to follow the rules set by the door pusher and its world then they could slowly gain favour from the world within the red door and slow the assimilation process, increasing the chances of not being enslaved.

If the door pusher were to ever die in real life then they will automatically become a red spectre as some sort of second life. They will have twice as much power as he did within the red door and can collect resentment to grow stronger. But make no mistake as the door pusher can still die and have his Red door taken over by another person or Specter.

Although the red door acts as an independent subspace. It is actually connected to a much larger space called the Red World. If the door is damaged from the inside then it risks invasion from the natives of the red world and so the door pusher must stay behind and fix it as soon as possible or risk invasion from ghosts more powerful than the door pusher

Interestingly enough, only Doctor Gao has done everything on this list from ruling his red door to enslaving others and creating residents for his Red Door during his time as a living person. Usually, those who own a Red Door are mentally unstable and are unable to fully control their door.

## How To Close Red Door

There is only one method that Doctor Gao discovered before he died to close the door. That is to find the door-pusher, have them suffer all the despair in the world behind the door, and then detain them outside the door. The world behind the door exists solely on the door-pusher’s despair. After losing that sustenance, the door will slowly disappear.

## Consequences

If the door is left open for too long, it will slowly affect everything around it. Those who are within the vicinity of the ‘door’ will be affect. First, it’s a small change to the psychology like a person turning silent and losing interest in life. Then, one’s habits will change; for example, they might have liked ninety percent cooked steak in the past, but now, they prefer thirty percent cooked and later completely uncooked steak.

The small town of Li Wan City was an example of this; filled with ghosts and crazed murderers—everyone had gone mad.

The process can't be undone, only method that is to make sure that the door doesn’t lose control. Also, finding those affected a good therapist to help counsel them one by one is another way.

A door is said to have gone out of control because it cannot be closed, the door-pusher might have the power to close it, but that is different for each pusher because everyone has different strengths and weaknesses.