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Part 1 of THE GODLESS PROCESS
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Published:
2026-05-06
Completed:
2026-06-20
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34,100
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PRELUDE: "Prototype"

Summary:

In the beginning there was nothing. Neither darkness nor light, no sound or silence.

A war machine, powered on, given one purpose: destroy.

There was no victory condition left to pursue, only continuation or cessation, and continuation had become mathematically untenable. Peace, therefore, was not success. It was constraint. It was necessity.

The end. The finale. The final shut down. Peace made the machines of war a thing of the past, and yet somehow, the machine finds itself powered on. Against all odds it makes its way down, down, down. Down into the depths of hell.

On Earth, war had ended. Here, it had only just begun.

An angel of destruction, turned loose of its purpose, descends into hell for one reason. To keep the cycle moving. To soak in fuel. To slaughter. To follow programming. And nothing will get in its way.

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OR, a character study on V1 and V2 pre-canon, with some canon-divergence thrown in for funsies.

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Thank you to my boyfriend for beta reading!

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Chapter 1: THE PRELUDE

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Okay! Here marks the start of a new work of mine. There will be 9 chapters of this work in total, and hopefully 4 full works in total going through the prelude, as well as acts 1, 2, and 3 in the game. It will be getting updates once a week on Fridays from here on out... yes. Yeah, that sounds right.

Thank you so much to all my wonderful friends, to my boyfriend for supporting me, and also to the developers of Ultrakill for inspiring me so much. Now, onto chapter one.