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A point regarding Ultrakill's Painting Discussion i've never really seen brought up

(Or maybe it has been brought up before idk i'm not active on other socials like twitter or reddit)

So everyone is talking about the painting of the archangels, and while i myself agree that "LUCIFER" looks like a word that could easily slide onto what remains of the letters on the nameplate, and i acknowledge the direct mention of Lucifer in the 8-3 secret book, there is something that just bothers me.

When i first saw this painting my very first thought was "Oh wow, Gabriel looks so... plain". Like sorry king you're slaying but everyone else's designs are just over the top compared to Gabe's. Initially i've found this jarring but shrugged it off, i like myself a cool design. But after reading the Power's terminal entry, it suddenly made sense:

It all clicked. Judging by this entry, the painting was made AFTER the luxury-vanity-craze overtook Heaven. And the change of Heaven's tastes seems to have happed AFTER the disappearance of God, at least i strongly believe so, cause it would be just kind of weird if angels started letting their vices get out of hand right in front of the Father and then continued the trend into His disappearance (as we know Gabriel became the judge of Hell long after God left). Plus the way Powers caved to their flaws the moment Gabriel stopped directly overseeing them seems almost like a direct parallel pointing towards Heaven in its entirety doing the very same as soon as God was gone.

So, my point is, the painting was made after God disappeared. Why is this important in my eyes? It raises a question: why would you even paint Lucifer in the first place?

If Lucifer was ripped off the painting for being a banished traitor, well, that fact about him was probably widely known for a long time since God himself threw Lucifer into the pit of hell, so it just doesn't make sense to me that he would be depicted at all. It all depends on the author of the painting of course, it could be someone neutral towards Lucifer, but painting him in the modern age of Heaven beside the other four archangels when he has been rotting down in Hell for a long time now? Why?

Am i making sense? Am i reading into this too hard? Am i missing something obvious (probably so)? Idk!

rizzybizzy

Adding my two cents imo this could be one two things:

1. It’s a mistake by the devs, the ULTRAKILL team has been careful so far to make sure everything made sense so this is unlikely (especially with the time and work the poured into layer 8), but they might not have thought to make an “old” design for the archangels before making the illustration and correlating that with the Powers’ description.

2. This is a hellmade painting and Lucifer is also depicted as he is at the time it was made (we know it’s not too recent due to Gabriel having god’s light still).

You can even see a bit of Gabriel’s wings peeking into the part where Lucifer should be, but Lucifer doesn’t have any wings or halo showing at all.

My theory is either he is rendered broken by hell’s tortures and Hell had him painted that way because it thought it beautiful, and someone (maybe Gabriel) tore it down out of grief.

OR the tear is Lucifer’s depiction, as in Hell has inflicted such incomprehensible torture (refer to that one book where Hell prattles on about torments that can exist and those that don’t) upon him that this is the only fitting way he can ever be depicted anymore.