Anima-Defuncta House: The Psychologist’s Final Mind
The moment the heavy, bronze-plated door to Anima-Defuncta House was carefully pushed open, the air rushed out—cold, dense, and heavy with the pervasive, unsettling odor of dry materials, mineral dust, and the sharp scent of heavy metals. The name, combining soul/mind with lifeless/deceased, perfectly captured the manor’s function: a physical space dedicated to achieving the ultimate truth of the self, now embodying its own absolute termination of consciousness. This abandoned Victorian house was structured not for ordinary living, but for unwavering, controlled introspection, its internal layout a bewildering maze of small, isolated memory-testing cells, soundproofed thought bunkers, and meticulously designed sensory deprivation chambers intended to eliminate all external variables that might corrupt a pure cognitive constant.
The final inhabitant was Psychologist Master Mens Vacuum, a brilliant, but intensely reclusive master analyst and mental theorist of the late 19th century. Master Vacuum’s profession was the study of awareness, memory, and the fundamental nature of self, seeking to codify a single, unified, and perfectly consistent stream of consciousness that was free of all emotion, impulse, or subjective interpretation. His singular obsession, however, was the creation of the ‘Zero Mind’—a single, perfect, flawless cognitive state that would, through the absolute synthesis of all known psychological principles, reveal the ultimate, objective truth of the self, free of all awareness, feeling, or measurable thought. After realizing that the very act of being conscious required both a subject and an experience (a duality of the mind), proving that absolute, independent and secure simplicity was impossible, shattering his faith in fixed psychological law, he retreated to the manor. He dedicated his final years to resolving this single, terrifying goal, believing that the only way to achieve the Zero Mind was to understand the ultimate absence of all thought and self-awareness. His personality was intensely systematic, fearful of inconsistency, and utterly consumed by the pursuit of cognitive finality.
The Self Chamber
Master Vacuum’s mania culminated in the Self Chamber. This secure, sealed room was where he spent his final days, not analyzing, but deconstructing the act of consciousness itself, attempting to define the ultimate objectivity by isolating the point that offered no detectable mental content. His journals, written in a cramped, precise hand that eventually gave way to complex equations concerning non-conscious domains and the theoretical limits of absolute oblivion, were found sealed inside a hollow metal pen. He stopped trying to define the perfect mind and began trying to define the un-aware, concluding that the only way to achieve the Zero Mind was to eliminate the need for any form of thought or self whatsoever. “The feeling is a fantasy; the memory is a fracture,” one entry read. “The final mind requires the complete surrender of all thought and all self-awareness. The truth must be a single, self-evident, unstated conclusion, contained in a fundamental, perfect void.”
The house preserves his systematic rigor structurally. Many internal passages are fitted with small, precisely calibrated acoustic dampeners and total light deprivation barriers built into the walls, now all rusted and frozen, remnants of his attempts to create a universal, absolutely fixed and non-interfering environment for abstract cognitive contemplation.
The Final Self in the Abandoned Victorian House
Psychologist Master Mens Vacuum was last heard working in his facility, followed by a sudden, intense sound of heavy wood grinding and glass shattering (from the bust and the Rorschach apparatus) and then immediate, profound silence. He did not leave the manor. The next morning, the facility was cold, the Self Chamber sealed, and the man was gone. No body was found, and the only evidence was the singular, physical alteration to his final philosophical work.
The ultimate chilling clue is the small hole in the black rubber. It is the final self—the Zero Mind achieved, representing the cessation of all cognitive existence and the perfect, objective truth found in a single, un-dimensioned point of pure, absolute nothingness. The broken mirror and blank rubber ensure no further attempt could be made to chart the flawed, thinking world. This abandoned Victorian House, with its silent chambers and broken tools, stands as a cold, imposing testament to the master psychologist who pursued the ultimate, pure form of consciousness, and who, in the end, may have successfully defined the Perfect Non-Awareness, vanishing into the un-aware, objective finality that he engineered as his final, terrifying statement of pure existence.
