Negativity Negator

The Negativity Negator is an invention of the Grimm Control Program. It takes the form of a small box connected to a cylindrical receptacle of glass and metal with wires.

History
The Negativity Negator was originally proposed to the Council as the "Positive Emotion Emission Field". In its original form, it called for experiments into Aura control and its possible relation to emotions. The original project was greenlit, but tests yielded no usable results. The project was shuttered and all prospects of Grimm jammers were slim. It took months before a new idea emerged: harnessing the soul itself. Aura was only the physical manifestation of the soul, and therefore, met physical limitations. Though, it was theorized, the metaphysical soul would have no such restrictions. The new problem became harnessing the soul of someone without destroying it.

The solution to this problem came from an unlikely source, in the Grimm Control Program's eyes: Doctor Arthur Watts, believed dead since the Paladin Incident. He came to the Program, claiming to have learned of it through undisclosed means. In exchange for keeping them secret, he asked to join them, which they immediately accepted. Upon hearing of their dilemma, he produced files of high classification levels. Inside them were blueprints for an invention by Pietro Polendina for the P.E.N.N.Y. Project. Detailed in the blueprints were the schematics for a machine from another project that could capture the soul of its occupant and transfer it into another person. While the files explained that the Project did not require this machine, the machine proved to be axactly what the Program needed.

Creation
A Negativity Negator is only one part of the whole Negativity Negator system, or NN system. The other half of the system is the Negator Source, a cylindrical receptacle of glass and metal connected to the Negator by wires. The Source is designed to hold a human soul and transfer its raw, positive emotions into the Negator. The Negator itself is relatively simple in construction to the Source. A metal box with an amplification dish on the inside and a port and wire on the outside complete its construction. The dish can be rotated inside the box in order to change the direction the positive emotions are directed, with larger boxes capable of holding more dishes and being able to cover more directions.

The Source, however, is far more complex. The casing is easiest, with it being a cylindrical metal cage with glass inlaid between the bars. A port at the top allows it to connect with the Negator and transfer the positive emotions. The inside of the Source is a complex and carefully constructed brass apparatus that traps a soul first shoved inside the receptacle through a larger apparatus that attaches itself to a port on the bottom of the Source.

This larger apparatus is a human-sized pod that, once powered on, captures and transfers the soul of its occupant into the Source. It is based on a stolen Atlesian design drawn up by Pietro Polendina.

Application
In order to set up an NN system, one must first secure the Negator Source. If any part of it is punctured, then the seal is broken and the soul escapes and renders the system inert. Once the Source is secure, the Negativity Negator must then be placed in a location where its effects are desired. Then, all that is left is for the Negator and the Source to be connected through specially-made wires.

Function
Negativity Negator systems confuse a Grimm's ability to detect negative emotions. Emotions, to most Grimm, are completely undetectable by anything inside the system's area of effect. Conversely, attempting to detect emotions outside of the field while still within it dilutes them.