Personification of Grief

My interpretation to grief is that it’s a kind of antivirus and a process which has to happen, if the subject does not have grief injected into them, the pain of their loss will be two overwhelming and eventually will lead to death. My character climbs onto the subject and injects Grief into the heart from the back. The Grief injection numbs the pain and suffering but as well as injecting, it also sucks out the pain from the subject; this is a slow process and depends of how bereaved the subject is. The creature slowly dies as the pain is transferred, at first the pigmentation in its skin disappears, then a layer of skin falls off from it leaving the raw cartilage body underneath, the cartilage body disintegrates and leaves a worm like parasite hanging from the back of the subject and remains attached until the subject reaches acceptance. The grief parasite eventually falls off having absorbed the pain and disintegrates.

My character is mainly constructed from cartilage; the top layer of skin is a jelly / soft rubber texture which is slightly transparent at first, once attached it comforts the subject by cradling there upper body and using its flaps of skin like a blanket, the red lumps are soft and heat up slightly. Once the top layer of skin falls off, what’s left is a slightly transparent cartridge body or shell which has the grief parasite inside it. The parasite is made of a jelly/ bile which is kept together by a very thin layer on hard skin, inside are cells which absorbs the pain transferred from the subject and replaces it with grief. The grief itself is the florescent blue substance stored on the back of the parasite which is carried and released by my character.