Burning Memory

> I need this pain to dissappear, and this is the only way I can do it
>
> Maverick explaining his plan

## Description

Burning Memory is a plan made by Maverick Ecxxier in an attempt to remove his curse. This was done through the process of making bodies, each getting weaker than the other. As of now, there are only eight bodies (including The Origin and excluding the previous versions of Maverick as they are fused together onto The Origin itself):

1. Maverick's First Body, **The Emergence of Inception Beyond and Above (The Origin)**
2. Maverick's Second Body**, Vagabond Wanderer**
3. Maverick's Third Body**, Ender of Debates**
4. Maverick's Fourth Body**, Channeled Lineage**
5. Maverick's Fifth Body**, Pentadic Iteration**
6. Maverick's Sixth Body**, Amalgamation**
7. Maverick's Seventh Body**, Caliginous Quintessence**
8. Maverick's Eight Body**, Void Itself**

**The Ninth Body** however is still incomplete and doesn't classify itself as a part of his other eight, considering the toll it caused on Maverick whenever he moves around with the curse extracted from him.

## Symbolism

Each one of the bodies, represents the nine stages of grief:

1. **Shock/Denial** - In this stage, the mind elicits a protective response to traumatic events. One might feel numb, presenting almost no tears and emotions.
2. **Disorganization** - The mind becomes fixated on the loss and abandon routines such as housekeeping, paying bills, and typical social activities; this too is confused for dementia.
3. **Anger** - This stage is expressed through a feeling of resentment or hopelessness. Anger associated with grief is not often expressed through outbursts of emotion
4. **Guilt and Bargaining** - Guilt and bargaining can often coincide with the “anger” stage of grief. This stage is often referred to as the period of “if only’s.” Those experiencing guilt and bargaining will often try to put the blame on themselves and others, arguing that “if only we had done this…. Then that would not have happened.” They might also make appeals to religion, asking an omnipotent being to bring a loved one back or attempting to bargain with said being.
5. **Physical or Emotional Distress** - This stage of grief can be particularly dangerous to the affected person’s physical and emotional health. Oftentimes, grieving individuals will begin to feel a sense of hopelessness. As they see others around them move on with daily life, they might begin to think that nobody cares. They might present symptoms such as shortness of breath and a tightness of the throat associated with anxiety. This stage is also characterized by poor appetite, lack of energy, bad sleeping habits, and digestive problems.
6. **Depression** - Depression resulting from grief is characterized by a sense of unbearable self pity. Despair will take hold and signs of depression may be evident.
7. **Loss and Loneliness** - The most painful stage of grief. A person may even lose their sanity if the loss is too high, as they comes to terms with their situation, they might see regular problems in their life in a new light.
8. **Withdrawal** - Withdrawal is characterized by the complete detachment from regular social ties. As a result, they avoid social interaction and regular community events that they would otherwise enjoy and rely on.
9. **Acceptance** - This is the final stage of grief. New hope has emerged, replacing hopelessness and prompting constructive behavior.

All of this represents Maverick's character development throughout the series. **At the beginning,** he started to slowly experience death whilst remaining sane and hides their emotions under an emotionless, cold and quiet mask. **After some time**, this "mask" begins to crack, leaking out his confused, lost, and distorted mind- indistinguishable from right or wrong, stretching his mind apart, a hazy, crazy, seeing happiness as horrifying, psychological, unsettling, and disturbed recollections that keeps playing like a broken recorder, making the "abnormal" becomes "normal"- where serenity gives way to confusions and horror, It's the beginning of an eventual process where all memories begin to become more fluid through entanglements, repetition and rupture, similar to that of a dementia patient. **At the end,** it is expected for a dementia patient to experience death, **but in Maverick's case** he doesn't die- making it much worse for him as he remembers everything, trying to forget them haunts him with such horror, giving into pure isolation- **void itself**. **But after his friends finally made a pseudo-vessel for him**, the curse was extracted as the one he is inhabiting in was his curse, essentially inhabiting himself.

This made him free, causing all the distortions, ruptures, and horror to be his greatest weapon and with it, his mind is finally clear as he had finally begun to become a better individual, as without the help of others convincing Golem, then he would've remained in that "place" or if it was even a thing to be called a place.