#ultrakill lust

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ULTRAKILL SPOILERS

I don't know if its just me, but this wasnt even THAT hard for me.. (I beat it in 16 mins, 13 restarts, on standart cause im bad at fps games)

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ULTRAKILL: Layer-specific Husk appearances

I had this idea where the Husks you find around Hell would have different appearances based on the punishment/circumstances of their layer. I will probably draw this at some point... PRELUDE -Many have entrapped themselves in the workings and machinery of the facility. Some trapped between cogs, skin leathery from exposure to extreme heat and/or electricity, ect. Many of the Husks have been ground into gore mulch. LIMBO -Donning togas and/or simple clothing, as some of them seem to live within the halls. Also a reference to Dante's Inferno in which the Shades in Limbo are revered philosophers, writers, and so on. -Eyes sockets hollow and watery, a mixture of tears of shame and constant exposure to bright screens LUST -Donning togas, much more ornate and complicated than the ones in Limbo. They also wear jewelry, headdresses (such as a crown of laurels), and simple footwear. -Much older Husks have raw, worn skin from exposure to the harsh winds of the pre-renaissance Lust layer. GLUTTONY -Most of the Husks have been assimilated into the flesh walls of the layer. -Those who haven't shown signs of acid burns, have vile, swollen pustules and tumors dotting their bodies, and are coated in a stinking toxic mucus. -Gluttony Husks have much more voracious appetites, reflected in their grotesquely wide mouths. GREED -The older husks of this layer have leathery, mummified skin, and have fashioned a form of clothing and even jewelry from the abundant gold dust. (Like the Stalkers) -Newer husks are immobile and are melted onto the scorching dust, skin flecked with gold as the wind of the layer carries the dust through the air. WRATH -All the husks of this layer have bluish skin, look swollen in appearance and many are tangled with sea vegetation. -The Wrathful fighting at the surface have battered scars all across their body that fester from the constant fighting. -The Sullen at the bottom are even more swollen and have hardened in their poses due to the freezing depths. -The Husks on the Ferryman's boat again wear togas and simple clothing like in Limbo. HERESY -Those not stuffed into flaming coffins or harvested into gore mulch are usually afflicted with constant burn wound scars that never heal up no matter how long the Husk has been there. -Other Husks, mainly in the City of Dis, yet again wear simple clothing over their burn scars but wear unnerving animal skulls. Once a heretic always a heretic. VIOLENCE -All Husks that make it into the Garden of Forking Paths have been transfigured into Mannequins. -Husks in the battlefield not immersed in the river Phlegethon or compacted into the very ground have a myriad of War-Related injuries. Bullet holes, Missing limbs, awful respiratory issues (From a combination of smoke and bloody fumes from the Phlegethon.) -All Husks native to the Forest have been transfigured into trees. -Those in the final circle of Violence are stretched upon the sand and have melted skin similar to in Greed. This is a rare sight since the arrival of the Earthmovers. FRAUD -This layer has an abundance of schisms, as it is exceedingly easy for a soul to attempt to manifest in the same location as another soul in this Layer. -New husks in this layer aren't very active, as the trickery of this layer causes total sensory shutdown over a long period of exposure. -Some Husks have been stuck between dimensions in this layer, some visible only in mirrors with a horrified look on their empty faces. -The rest of the Husks in the layer make up the very walls, able to be spun around and contorted to lure more and more sinners in. TREACHERY Now, of course we haven't seen Treachery yet. But I believe it'll be a bit like 7-3, complete darkness (requiring V1 to turn on the flashlight) but surrounded by harsh winds and an frozen lake of blood. -The Husks of Treachery are pale, covered in blood frost and blood-sicles. Most are trapped neck-deep in the frozen blood. Some are completely trapped under the surface, unable to move.

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UMM UMM hi ultrakill community waves wavingly . erm MY random headcanons / worldbuilding thoughts on the Lust Layer & Greed Layer’s individual societies, not super based on anything + subject to change but uh hope this is something!! !

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The Layer of Lust —

- Lust is very civilized all over, with electricity being provided from the capital city, which turns the water from Wrath into energy. There was transport, restaurants, jobs… It all wasn’t too different from Earthly cities, actually.

- In the cities, particularly the capital, there was very little crime with a strong justice and protection system. However, outside cities in the open lands, more wild demons ran free.

- The winds of Lust are immense, strong enough to lacerate and lift the body, and even rip skin off. Bodies would crash, collide and weld together in the tangle. Many cities were walled-in and built towering high to combat this, making cities more bearable.

- Buildings were large and complicated, having non-Euclidean geometry that allowed them to be much bigger on the inside than the outside. Some buildings had other buildings attached to them, including entire neighborhoods.

- Due to the culmination of so many people from all over the world and Hell, Lust’s culture was a melting pot of many different cultures and ideologies. However, Ancient Greek culture always remained at its heart due to their beloved ruler. District-wide and even city-wide celebrations were abundant and expected for just about any reason.

- The people of Lust were very well known for extreme hospitality and compassion, their predominant cultural values respecting peace, egalitarianism, acceptance, individuality, equity and kindness, having a strong social cohesion and sense of community.

- There was very little divide between demons and sinners, both being equal to one another, leading to the break of the torturer-sinner dynamic. Demons and sinners lived equally with one another, celebrating their diversity but coming together as one community.

- Greatly valuing history and a sense of belonging, the art and aesthetics of Lust is a certified staple. Every kind of creative expression was greatly upheld, artisans and creators of all backgrounds creating a unified cultural identity that aimed to make everyone feel comfortable and welcome.

- Regality was a major theme of Lust, particularly within the capital. Strong effort was put into architecture and sculptures to have residents live lavishly, the Heaven that was promised but never given. Buildings were created with a blend of ancient and modern aesthetics, districts providing as many different living situations as possible for all different tastes and desires. Colors such as rich purples, silvers, golds, teals and pinks were frequently used to contribute to this aesthetic.

- Technology was highly utilized in Lust, becoming apart of daily living. However, unlike on Earth in that modern time, technology was much more like how it is in our current real-world day-and-age: You might have a phone in your pocket and use tech daily, but everything isn’t constantly automated and filled with machines like I imagine Earth was like when humans were .. alive, idk

- In fact, science was also a forefront in the capital. Reaping the rewards of having direct communication with the modern mortal coil, innovation was constant and fruitful. Lust was not selfish and included scientific advancement in all of their trades, reaching out to as many civilizations as possible to share new findings.

- King Minos had access to many lower layers, but no further beyond Heresy, and couldn’t pierce Limbo. This was strictly gifted to him for diplomatic purposes by Heaven during times of peace, but Minos broke the rules a few times.

- Lust kept extensive archives of Hell’s history, including records of all its inhabitants and ongoings. The largest archive to date was kept underground far below Akolasía, hidden away within a network of ancient catacombs. Broken up in to sectors, some of its parts survived the mass angelic burnings that occurred after King Minos’s death.

The Layer of Greed —

- Greed was semi-civilized, although not officially recognized to be. Greed in particular was always under Heaven’s watchful gaze, the eternal punishment enforced by powerful demons and angel Virtues and Powers. Only when the war called the Angels from their posts did the sinners opportunistically begin to revolt, led by proclaimed king Sisyphus.

- There was major divide between sinners and demons, where demons were the torturers and sinners the sufferers. All attempts to form civilization had to be done in secrecy.

- Greed always held a brutish reputation, but especially once the Insurrection began, most known for their terrifying sinner army rising up against demons and angels alike and crushing any enemies in their paths. The Insurrection was also extremely controversial for its “unlawful” executions and war tactics, considered brutal even for the time.

- Greed was in close relations with Lust, who began trading with them during the Insurrection, and may have been trading in secret even longer. There were rumors their individual leaders may have had something going on between them, but it’s implausible the kindhearted Minos could ever get along with the tyrannical Sisyphus.

- Similar to Lust, while a melting pot of different cultures, Greed never lost its Egyptian, Greek and Roman roots.

- While often judged harshly by outsiders for perceived brutishness or low status, the people of Greed held great comradery, deeply valuing bravery, meritocracy, authenticity, respect, and honesty.

- In Greed, dignity was much less respected for what you had to do but how you did it. Everyone in Greed were forced to do things one wasn’t proud of, and so, a larger sense of respect was formed around how it was done. If you hurt someone, you did it with diligence and mutual understanding. If you were abused, you took it with fire in your heart. Those that pushed through were considered respectable.

- For a long time, a sense of social status formed around heritage and authority. The older, more experienced sinners from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome had much higher status than younger sinners with ‘weaker’ bloodlines.

- That being said, status was very difficult to maintain under such a strict regime, and was often abused by the demons and angels in control. Rather, it would shine through in how you were treated by your comrades and the priority of receiving the few rations and treatments rarely available. This sense of superiority-from-suffering was later torn apart during the Greed Insurrection under King Sisyphus, where respect was earned through ability and willingness to try rather than one’s worth in past-life.

- While keeping a terrifying front, life in the ranks of the Insurrection were for once tolerable. While always low on supplies and time, camaraderie and high morals under Sisyphus’s radiant leadership kept the fight worth fighting. Sisyphus ensured any who fought with him reaped the rewards and any who fought against him were crushed. Terror was the ultimate war-tactic to keep Heaven and power-hungry demons at bay.

- The Greed Insurrection heavily utilized demonic and angelic weaponry against their adversaries. Historically, in past wars of Hell, it was often common practice to leave the divine dead where they lie in an effort to stave off divine retribution. This was not the case here. Corpses of demons and angels alike were completely looted and stripped, utilizing their bodies apart of their weaponry. Halos were one of the most desired and destructive weapon utilized, insurrectionists creating devices to turn halos to detonatable bombs through controlled shattering.

- While mostly untrusting towards outsiders, the Insurrection was shockingly merciful towards lower-ranking angels and demons, albeit in secret. There were even a very few machines amongst their rankings, their identities lost to time.

- During the Greed Insurrection, a major theme of reclamation arose in the artistry and aesthetics formed. Temples created on the backs of slaves in the name of God were upended, repurposed into living spaces, archives and communal sanctuaries.

- While still in its beginnings and fairly neglected due to the demands of wartime, a quiet but celebrated cultural expansion movement steadily came about. Art, culinary dishes, music, dances, writings, and symbolism once repressed were now allowed to flourish unregulated. Experimentation with medicines, food, and music as means of expression unlocked key aspects of Greeds newly developing identity.

- After eons of being abused and mocked with the riches they desired in past-life, luxury was swapped out for more simplistic living. Trophies were not kept, robes and rags were preferred over silks, and anything considerably “rich” was typically recycled for war efforts. It was not a rule and living in squalor was still avoided, but generally, people were just sick and tired of it all.

- Through trade, modern technology was also reintroduced to Greed. However, technology was rejected as a means of recreation, instead being utilized primarily in weaponry, medicine, communication and advancement.

- Being starved of a means to document their histories for so long, poets, linguists and sculptors worked together to preserve the past and present. Etched and carved into the very walls and pillars of their past prisons, visual stories and poems were told through elaborate carvings, murals, petroglyphs and runes. While written records did exist, wordless and interpretive stories were often chosen as a way to immortalize the essence of struggle, opting to capture the emotions more than direct events. This was also influenced by the secretive manner the people of Greed had to communicate in the past in order to hide from their divine and demonic wardens.

- Greed is extremely HOOOOT. Like, hard-to-breathe humid hot. When under angelic authority, nights were “rewarded” extremely rarely, and those nights were frigid and equally miserable. Water was also a rarity occasionally provided, if only to taunt the sinners of what they desire.

- The “sand” of Greed is actually gold, extremely burning hot and sticky to the touch, tending to coat anyone unfortunate enough to touch it. Sandstorms often threw about this sand, leading sinners to become burnt, warped and calloused.

- Bugs. So many swarms of locusts and scarabs.

- The Temples and Pyramids of Greed once served as places of private torture and inhabitance of demons and angels, but were raided and taken control of by Insurrectionists. Each collection of Pyramids is codenamed after real cities of Ancient Greece, the main set being known as Empyra.

- The food in Greed has got to be spicy as fuck

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