GABRIEL (ULTRAKILL)

Gabriel is the main gameplay antagonist and main narrative protagonist of ULTRAKILL. He carries out the will of the Council with a ruthless efficiency that brings him both fear and respect. He is known as the Will of God and is among the most powerful of all the angels. When he was defeated by V1 for the first time in Gluttony, the Council believed him to be squandering his power and cut him off from the light of The Father. They told him that he would be dead within 24 hours if he did not prove his devotion by finding and killing V1. After he was defeated by the machine a second time in Heresy, he returned to Heaven and killed every member of the Council, realizing the atrocities he had committed on their behalf in the name of an absentee God. Appearance Gabriel's armor is primarily white and gold. His armor includes golden pauldrons, gauntlets that extend to his shoulders, and greaves that reach up to his thighs. His breastplate is gold and white, likewise are his tassets and helmet. The sides of his breastplate have dangling tassels. His helmet visor is primarily white and contains a golden cross and breathing holes on the face of it. A golden ornate band is present on the back and sides of his helmet. Two sheathes are present on his right hip, which is where he keeps his two swords, Justice and Splendor. These sheaths have golden text written on them, one of them saying "Justice is Splendor", and the other saying "Splendor is Justice."

Gabriel has black skin with gold designs on his abdomen and lower backside. His grey loin cloth and black skirt are attached to his belt. He has translucent blue wings and a floating halo that has the ability to vanish floating just behind his head. Said halo resembles an arrowhead in shape with unreadable markings along its base.

History Long before the game takes place, he killed Minos, claiming it was justice, as the king reformed the Lust layer of Hell into a figurative utopia, which stopped sinners' punishments. Minos had refused to fight, believing in civil discussion but was promptly smote by Gabriel. The Heavenly Council then rewarded him with the title "Judge of Hell".

Also before the events of the game, during the Sisyphean Insurrection, he was able to recognize the weakness of Sisyphus and his army's reliance on his leadership skill, he commanded the armies of heaven to focus their energies at Sisyphus. He was then able to behead Sisyphus himself, breaking the morale of the Sisyphean army completely and making mopping up the insurrection a mere formality. Due to his accomplishments and his charisma, he was revered and treated as an idol by the people of Heaven. It is also implied that unlike the Council, he cares for some of the lower castes of heavenly workers, such as the Ferrymen.

Within Act 1, V1 encounters Gabriel when it trespasses into Gluttony, where Gabriel reveals he intends to stop the mechanical invasion of Hell. However, V1 defeats Gabriel, leaving the angel to promise that they will fight again as he retreats. However, for his failure and defeat at the hands of an object, the Heavenly Council, after stripping him of his connection to Heaven's light, demands that he rectifies his mistake within the next 24 hours, or die.

When V1 arrives in Heresy, Gabriel detects its presence, and demands that it comes face him. After lamenting the loss of life on the upper levels caused by the machine intrusion, Gabriel engages V1 once more, but is once again defeated. With this defeat, Gabriel suddenly has an epiphany and retreats to the moon (presumably Heaven's first layer) in order to deliberate in the epilogue. He eventually comes to the conclusion that God is missing or dead, and he has been manipulated by the Heavenly Council to commit atrocity in an attempt to control the system God has left behind. He returns to the Heavenly Council and promptly executes the council members, and brandishes one of their decapitated heads before a crowd of heavenly denizens. Having accepted his imminent death, he prepares to spend his last hours in Hell. Gabriel can be met in-game on two occasions (so far). Once guarding the entrance to Greed in [ 3-2: IN THE FLESH ] and later again attempting to enact his vengeance on the player in [ 6-2: AESTHETICS OF HATE ]. Outside of that, Gabriel's image can also be spotted all over hell through various paintings and murals, and he was first mentioned in level [ 1-4: CLAIR DE LUNE ] by the resident of the manor, who claimed to be a friend of Gabriel's, awaiting to enter heaven by his penance, as well as a headless skeleton praying to a painting of him. In [ 4-3: A SHOT IN THE DARK ], there is a picture of Gabriel with the word "TRAITOR" written in blood as well as his face crossed out. In the level [ 5-2: WAVES OF THE STARLESS SEA ], you can find a passage written by a Ferryman describing how Gabriel saved him from falling into the River Styx, and the rhetoric he told the Ferryman afterwards to console him.

In [ 3-2: IN THE FLESH ], he tells V1 to turn back and not go any deeper into hell, in an attempt to protect the lower layers from the machines. V1, of course, refuses, and so he fights V1 to keep him out instead. He initially speaks very eloquently to V1, although in a holier-than-thou tone that shows he is arrogant and disgusted with the Machine. Once they enter battle, he starts speaking much more angrily to V1, though still in that holier-than-thou tone, most likely because, as an angel, he is literally holier than V1. However, this changes when his light is stripped from him following his defeat.

In [ 6-2: AESTHETICS OF HATE ], he gives V1 a VERY angry monologue about how machines (namely and mainly V1) has completely destroyed the upper layers of hell, and how he is going to kill V1. In this level, he starts out enraged (though its primarily visual) and most of his "taunts" are furious in nature, mostly ranting about how he will defeat V1 and right his wrong. However, after reaching his second phase, he "calms down" and begins to take joy in the fight, inviting V1 to continue fighting him in a rather unhinged manner, even laughing a bit. After being defeated, again, he unexpectedly finds relief in his defeat. Promptly confused by the emotions, he teleports from Heresy and up to the Moon, where the ACT II epilogue begins.

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