THIS IS THE ONLY WAY IT COULD HAVE ENDED.
WAR NO LONGER NEEDED ITS ULTIMATE PRACTITIONER. IT HAD BECOME A SELF-SUSTAINING SYSTEM. MAN WAS CRUSHED UNDER THE WHEELS OF A MACHINE CREATED TO CREATE THE MACHINE CREATED TO CRUSH THE MACHINE. SAMSARA OF CUT SINEW AND CRUSHED BONE. DEATH WITHOUT LIFE. NULL OUROBOROS. ALL THAT REMAINED IS WAR WITHOUT REASON.
A MAGNUM OPUS. A COLD TOWER OF STEEL. A MACHINE BUILT TO END WAR IS ALWAYS A MACHINE BUILT TO CONTINUE WAR. YOU WERE BEAUTIFUL, OUTSTRETCHED LIKE ANTENNAS TO HEAVEN. YOU WERE BEYOND YOUR CREATORS. YOU REACHED FOR GOD, AND YOU FELL. NONE WERE LEFT TO SPEAK YOUR EULOGY. NO FINAL WORDS, NO CONCLUDING STATEMENT. NO POINT. PERFECT CLOSURE.
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY IT SHOULD HAVE ENDED
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it is hard to put into words how i feel exactly about this game. i was raised religious, if that means anything about what ultrakill means to me. of course there are jokes and sillies about it, it's a game, after all, but the lore has stuck with me the most since i suck at playing games and i suck more at first person shooters.
gabriel always had the power to fight back, but he chose not to because he thought he deserved his punishment. his punishment for not being good enough, for being unholy. to question the council is heresy, for they serve only God, and He is infallible.
for lucifer to question God was heresy, for He is infallible.
IN MY HOUR OF WEAKNESS, TERROR POSSESSED ME THEN / AND I CAST LUCIFER, TOO, INTO THE INFERNAL DENfor you to desire a different body is heresy, for God created it, and He is infallible. you deserve the punishment given, for your guardians serve only God.
gabriel is defeated by the one that could truly replace him: a machine. a machine is a perfect disciple. it follows your wishes. it cannot do anything else. it does not sin. it does not redeem. it will follow you forever, if that is what you command.
FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE AFTER FAILURE / THE RESULTS REFUSE TO ALTER // AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN / MY FAITH BEGINS TO FALTERa creation perfectly subservient... is that not what most desire? a creation to carry your legacy, to speak your name with respect? and yet the Lord's highest, most perfect creation- Hell Itself- is ashamed of Him.
I BEGAN TO SEEK THE END OF MY DAYS // BUT WHEN I STARED AT THE ABYSS / THE ABYSS AVERTED ITS GAZEbut the machine: a final, shining creation, a child of mankind, a machine built to end war found itself continuing war. victory only achieved through the manipulations of your final, failed creation. both created to punish those against their creators.
god and humanity; is art not divine? (humanity's first and final sin was to proclaim itself holy, after all)
does Hell love V1 because they are the same or does It love V1 because they are perfect. they are perfect. they are perfect, perfect, perfect, in ways their creators failed and failed and failed to see.
would God be proud of His children for creating the perfect servants or strike them down for trying to reach the skies? (...like antennas to heaven.) do the angels feel joy or anguish at the knowledge that they are flawed as humanity was? the virtues, the principalities, the thrones, the councilors... how can one love a God who strikes those who speak against them? (how can one love a parent who does the same? God the Father, in the end.)