Gabriel (Ultrakill)

Gabriel has a strategic mind, with a fierce devotion to his duty as a heavenly emissary. His thinking is calculating, military, and he always seeks victory in combat. Although he firmly believes in his divine superiority, he also faces inner doubts that come from his failures and the burden of maintaining the sacred order. 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 powerful charisma of Sisyphus and his army's reliance on his leadership, even though he himself did not realize why at the time, and 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. Within Act 1, we end up meeting Gabriel and learn his motives for hunting down V1. The machines started invading hell, he sought to drive them out. Just after his defeat to V1, he proclaims that he will return and promptly leaves. In the epilogue of Act 1, we learn that this one loss he faced to a machine was enough to have his loyalty questioned, and he is unable to properly explain himself to the heavenly Council. They declared him a heretic. They give him 24 hours to kill V1 and unmake his mistakes, telling him that, should he fail, the Father's light will be stripped from him, and with it his life will too. The reason for this is because angels find it impossible to think that a creation of god could ever be beaten by a human, much less a thing created by a human. Thus, they believed that Gabriel lost on purpose. Act 2 shows Gabriel's quest to regain the holy light, but as usual is defeated by V1. However, something in Gabriel changed after this loss and he came to the conclusion that the loss was meant to happen and had started to realize the faults in the holy council, and weakly commended V1 for the reality check. In the epilogue of act 2, Gabriel ends up going to the moon, which is presumably the first layer of heaven, in order to think more about his epiphany. He ends up deducing that the slaughtering he'd engaged in was meant to maintain control and was meaningless to god, that God is no longer present, and that the Council is still trying to act in its name. He decides that he couldn't possibly convince the masses of heaven about this with words, and chooses to do something much more attention-grabbing. He goes to Heaven and kills the Council, before showing one of their severed heads off to the angels in heaven, who are, by this point, gathered around the Council's auditorium. He acknowledges that he will also die because the light has been severed from his body, but he ends up deciding to spend his last few hours in Hell. This is where Act 2 ends.