Doom Mood

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**Mood Doom Doom Mood** (**Nurse Doom**) is a nurse at the Sparklecare hospital that is assigned doctor duties - meaning that alongside his work as a caring staff, he is also responsible for universal treatments. Doom's first appearance in Volume 1 is in a hospital pamphlet where he is listed with the dummy name, "Nurse Hope."

## Appearance

Nurse Doom has a very similar physical appearance to that of his sister. He is a tall, lanky white rat with two sets of arms and legs. He has a long rat's tail and two red markings on either cheek. Doom has a long snout with a large, round nose. The insides of his ears are a pattern of red, yellow, green, and blue stripes, radiating inwards.

His hospital uniform consists of a long white coat with no sleeve holes and a large collar bearing two white buttons. The cloak completely drenched in blood on the front side. The coat bears his hospital badge, as well as a total of four pockets, with two on either side. Hidden underneath is a blue shirt with white-and-red striped short sleeves, paired with cyan pants and surgical gloves.

## Personality

The brooding and grumpy twin of Nurse Mood. Doom hates pretty much everything and everyone, and is very unhappy with himself and his life. He especially hates his job and his boss, and would much rather be spending his time doing other things... but life doesn't really go his way. Essentially nobody in the hospital actually likes him (except Mood and Uni) and the feeling is often mutual. He spends most of his free time away from this horrible job by himself, trying to cope with his misery from the situation he's in.

### Grumpy

Doom is a very brooding, grumpy person. He doesn’t smile or laugh often and tends to be very serious, cranky, and grouchy most of the time. He’s irritable and snaps at others, and expresses contempt for those with a rosy outlook on life when his own life is so miserable and bad. He doesn’t like seeing happy people be happy because he envies it. He expresses hostility and anger towards people who are happy and lashes out at them, and this makes him very unpleasant to be around. Doom is also very reclusive and spends most of his time away from work by himself, as the only other people he really has to interact with are from work (and Mood). He locks himself in his room at home and tends to not come out for hours. Mood worries a lot about him for this behavior.

### Pessimist

Doom is very pessimistic and always focuses on the worse aspects of life. The experience of being at Sparklecare combined with childhood bullying trauma has corrupted and twisted him into a cesspool of negativity, and he never sees good in ANYTHING anywhere. He always believes the worst of people, sees the worst in situations, and expects the worst possible outcome every time. He anticipates failure and hates taking chances just because he doubts that anything will EVER go right for him. He has no hope for life or his future and believes things will never change or get better. The only will to live that he has anymore is just because he doesn’t want to leave Mood alone in this place, no matter how much he wishes he could stop existing. Though he has a few things that make him happy, even the things he likes aren’t enough to motivate him or remind him that life is worth living.

### Frustrated

Doom has immense longing for love and intimacy because he’s extremely lonely and touch-starved. He doesn’t really even have friends, so he feels like there’s no hope of finding love anywhere. Similarly to how they feel about happy people, Doom gets upset and grossed out and envious when they see people in romantic relationships. One other reason the patients don’t like him is because he’s particularly pushy about keeping the patients apart and following the hospital rules about relationships. He says it’s just because it’s his job, but really there’s some deeper reasons behind it. He strongly craves an deep emotional connection like that with someone else, but deep down he feels like it’s not even something he’s deserving of because of the kinds of things he’s done in his life. He feels unworthy of it. He does have feelings for *someone specific,* but he would never tell them how he feels because he’s afraid that being rejected by this person would literally break him. He has enough to hurt over as is, he doesn’t think he could take the heartbreak.

### Protective

It’s no secret that Doom has done things that the nurses usually don’t do– this can easily be judged by the blood-drenched cloak he wears. Doom is an “honorary doctor” in the sense that he is a nurse with the duties of a doctor– and the doctors at Sparklecare are forced to kill people. The nurses are usually the nice ones, so Doom being like this makes him a little more than unpopular amongst his peers and the patients. He doesn’t like what he has to do– but he only does it for one reason. Not for his own life, but Mood’s. Dr. Cuddles is threatening to kill Mood if he doesn’t follow orders and give “treatments” like the doctors do. Doom is terrified at the thought of losing her when she’s all he has and feels like she deserves to live for the kindness she’s shown him, and others. He’s willing to do literally anything to keep Mood safe, and this means he’s willing to torture, maim, and slaughter innocent people at the command of Cuddles– utterly psychologically scarring himself– and he does all of it for her. There is nothing he wouldn’t do to protect her. Nothing.

### Self-Conscious

Doom is extremely self-conscious and insecure of himself. He doesn’t like it when other people are perceiving him or have their eyes on him. One reason being his physical appearance. He wears that big cloak to hide his extra limbs because he and Mood got bullied for their mutations growing up. It made them really insecure about their body and don’t like it when other people look at them. Doom feels like he has no gifts, skills, or talents, and he compares himself to others often while feeling inferior to them. He has unrealistic personal expectations, such as feeling like he should be good at everything and has no excuse to not be. He also puts a lot of blame onto himself when bad things happen. He blames himself for the situation he and Mood are in.

### Artistic

Doom is an aspiring artist. He doesn’t feel like he’s very good at it though, tying back into his feelings of insecurity. He uses drawing as an escape from reality, and often draws expressions of his emotions or feelings to vent out the hurt he feels all the time. He also draws original characters that comfort him. Doom also likes to draw characters from shows or anime he likes because that’s one of the few things that makes him happy. They don’t feel confident enough to share their art with most people, but to be fair, they don’t really have anyone to share it with anyways.

### Likes

My Synthetic Affection and other emo bands, dark clothes, drawing, 90s anime, animation in general, retro video games, cheese crackers, spending time alone, silence, Mood

### Dislikes

Hurting others, screaming, horror movies, sleeping with the lights off, being alone in the house, himself.

## Relationships

### Uni

Doom has a crush on Uni. He tries very hard to not let it show by sometimes being mean to him (such as bullying him for having a teddy bear, which is the equivalent of having a baby doll since it's a bear and not a ferry) but in actuality he is just trying to keep his crush a secret in fear of Cuddles finding out. Doom looks forward to going to work just to see "one person" according to him  and this person happens to be Uni. Mood appears to be aware of his crush and probably teases him about it. Doom had liked Uni since they day they met, starting as just feelings of finding him attractive but they quickly turned romantic. The first direct in-comic suggestion of Doom's crush is when Uni is trying to stop him from chasing the other patients in volume 3, where Uni held his hand. Doom became very flustered, saying nobody had ever held his hand before. In volume 4, Doom is shown to be flustered again upon learning one of Uni's sexual interests  but seemed to feign annoyance, despite his blushing expression.

### Mood

Mood and Doom are twin siblings, and they're very close. They share an office  and are almost always together whenever one of them appears, and they seem to also be assigned to tasks together by Cuddles such as giving the Appropriate Behavior Presentation (ABP) to the patients. Doom's work assignments are only something he's willing to endure because Mood's life would be in danger otherwise, as Cuddles has threatened to kill her if he ever steps out of line. To match their ear stripes and palindrome names, they are quite literally opposites to one another, Mood showing a cheerful and optimistic exterior whilst Doom is very brooding, pessimistic, and irritable. Outside of work, they like to spend time with each other. When Cuddles offered them a job there Doom was the more suspicious one, but since Mood was so gullible she got them into the mess by believing Cuddles. Even if it was more or less Mood's fault, Doom still blames themself.

### Caroline

Carrie is very vocal about how much she absolutely despises Doom. While she's like this about most staff, he gets especially cruel treatment like bullying, kicking him, calling him a virgin, and dunking a trashcan full of puke on his head. Even Doom himself refers to Carrie's behavior as "terrorizing him". Carrie most likely has an especially strong distaste for Doom because of him being responsible for her being separated from Uni. Despite her consistently horrible treatment, Doom is implied to be attracted to Carrie due to things like blushing whenever she's fake-flirting with him or blushing when Carrie touches him by pushing him on the ground. He also blushes when Carrie accuses him of becoming "fond of her"  (though he denies it, obviously). With walking in on their intimacy, Doom is confused about what's going on between Carrie and Uni since he doesn't know about Uni's gender identity, but apparently he finds whatever it is to be hot  also implying attraction to Carrie. Some of his reasoning for tattling on them, despite *mostly* being fear of Cuddles, was actually pettiness and envy.

## Trivia

* Doom and Mood are collectively known as the "Palindrome Twins," in reference to how their names, "Doom" and "Mood", are palindromes of each other. They're more commonly referred to by others (in-universe and out) as "the rats".
* He is 6'10.
* Doom is scared of Cuddles, and speaks quieter when around him. This is evidenced by Doom's font, which is usually all caps, becoming lowercase when talking to Cuddles.
* Doom's spider half is an Eastern Bodiuv Orb Weaver.
* His favorite instrument is the electric guitar.
* Doom refers to all of the patients by their fur color, such as "purple one" for Uni. This is something Miley also does. On that note, Doom and Miley also have similar speech bubble styles and their text is in the same all-caps font.

## References

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