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V is for Voder
V1 may have been the first with no piolet and ran on blood, but they where not the first one made by the company.
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V1: what?
Of course I'm the first V-model!
Why would I be called V1 if not?
(Voder stands ominously behind them)
Land of the lustrous/ houseki no kuni and ultrakill have so much in common it's not even funny. But I fucking love it, now here me out.
Humanity is dead and the things that have come after are threatened by the remains of what came before. Nihilism is present in both series aswell as religious themes and a character being corrupted by realizing how things truly work.
The lunarians from hnk being the souls of humans simply wanting to pass on while the husks from Ultrakill being the remains of said humans bodies in hell.
Kongo sensei in hnk being like ultrakill heaven by desperately trying to make the lustrous live like how humans did long before them even carving them into a more humanoid shape. While heaven in ultrakill tries desperately to keep the things the same as they always have been even long after humanity's death and the disappearance of god.
The lustrous in hnk being like the machines in ultrakill. Both being what comes after humanity desperately trying to pick up the pieces and caught in between the battle of the lunarians/ heaven and Congo sensei/ hell.
Phos and Gabriel would also be similar in how they both started with a strong almost positive outlook before haveing said outlook being shake To its core by a loss of something apart of their body. Gabriel haveing lost his light and his faith shaken by V1 and the council takeing his said light leaving him to die within 24 hours and phos haveing lost their legs, arms, And head as well as most of their memories granted I'll say phos has changed far more then Gabriel has (so far) in ultrakill.
Both series also have a sense of nilalism though both with a different take on it. Ultrakill take being (in large part due to mirage) that the pointlessness of it all is what makes life worth living while hnk has a much more somber and sobering take of "to live is to suffer,"
And another thing!! Both series have largely non binary casts! Hnk because they are all rocks and the few Charaters that are gendered are lunarians, while ultrakill has robots and husks who you couldn't tell what gender they are anyway with the only cannonical gendered characters being either angels or prime souls!
And don't even get me started about the religious themes in both series! Hnk of course being Buddhist (I might've gotten that wrong please don't butcher me) and ultrakill being Christian.
I could go on but I haven't read hnk in like a year. And I don't wanna get this to too wrong.
I made v1 and John ward sing take me to church,
https://youtu.be/HDdytYMMvOA
Heres the link if y'all interested,
Also the art I made for it
Sam is a funny guy,
The fact v1's quality drops in the second panel makes it so much funnier.
Based off of my experience in fighting Mr. Minos
V1: where did he go?
Minos: CRUSH.
V1: •[
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If v1 and Gabriel ever get together or whatever I feel like gabriel would realize that "hey, maybe robots ain't so bad" and then fucking obsess over the security drones, he'd be a cat person for the security drones.
Mf would just like grab one out of the air and come home with it. Like a majestic eagle swooping down and catching another bird as its prey except he's just gonna love and cherish it and not eat it.
Bitch fuckin hates cats yet he loves the fuckin robo pigeon version.
Og of the shirt under cut
I drew it
Gabriel would be fucking terrified of Fireworks and you can not change my mind, yea he can deal with gunshots but fire works are out of the fucking question,
"MACHINE! PLEASE HELP ME THE HEAVENS ARE FALLING AND I AM HIDING UNDER THE COUCH, I FEAR THE END IS NIGH, THE STARS ARE IMPLODING MACHINE! MACHINNNEEEE!!"
me when the killing is ultra
idk, I was bored and I did this homescreen inspired in ultrakill :)