Gutterman - Blog Posts
If you think about it, since the Final War is an alternate World War I, and because Russia never pulled out of conflict in ULTRAKILL's timeline, this could mean that the Russian Civil War likely lasted about a month, assuming the Guttermen were created around the time of the Russian Revolution.
I have no doubt that the surrendering Bolsheviks would eventually find themselves being used as fuel sources for their machines.
Yes, this includes Vladamir Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), the founder and leader of the Bolsheviks, who later became the first head of the Soviet Union in our own universe.
Here's neat detail: The Gutterman that appears during the ambush in the ruined exit section does not have its coffin, which means it is the very same Gutterman that coffin we found in the ceiling alcove in the tram station initially belonged to.
(Screenshot not mine)
I have so many thoughts after the 7-2 poem...
They’re fucking sentient. This one specifically writes prose about the love it has for its battery, and the hatred it has for itself. This went from being strapped into a death machine to being strapped inside a death machine that can think and hates itself and its purpose as much as you hate it.
And what the fuck does this mean about the other machines? Do sentries cherish the ability to see the world for what it is while everyone else sees it as pixels? Do guttertanks hate guttermen or do they feel pity for the beings they were made to destroy? Do earthmovers care for the cities living atop them? What the fuck does this mean for V1?!?!?! I always thought it was purely nonsentient, since I remember reading that somewhere. But...
We see other machines showing some form of emotions like V2’s sportsmanship and spite as well as the Mindflayers' protectiveness of their bodies that they themselves made at the cost of materials, and the Swordsmachines finding themselves beautiful and hoarding old scrap, seemingly for the sentimentality of it. But this is like the first confirmation of sentience other then the terminals. Do these machines feel pity for the sinners? Do they sympathize with the demons, created to fill out a single purpose and unable to deviate from it? Is V1 sentient or an exception? What does it think of Hell’s monologues? Does it enjoy being Hell’s favorite gladiator or does it hate that role? I’m going crazy over this! Were there machines that willingly died because they couldn’t stomach the idea of fighting their brethren for blood? Are the people in the Guttermen dead because the life support failed over time... Or was it because the Guttermen disconnected it themselves as a form of mercy?
-Bobby
Can we, The Machine, Feel Love?
The brisk air chills the bones of a dusted, old machine. Lost to time and brought down to its knees before the heavens that sealed the sky in layers of dazzling blue hues. Rust flakes away at the surface of the machine's armor, once used for protection against raging warfare. Created to trudge the trenches and slaughter all within, like forcing a family of rats from its nest with gunpowder. In its arm lay the corpse of a soldier, sleeping in the tide of shell-shock.
In Dr. Hans' third note of his research studies, The Mechanical Soul, "It's impossible for a machine to know its own heart. It's even less that a machine, especially one such as this, could feel compassion for mankind. Machines built for slaughter. So then how is it that this photo tells a story so drastically different? It cradles the corpse of its own fuel like a mother with her young. My associates and coworkers speculate that it was the machine's last desperate plea for life as it came to go silent within the desolate battlefield. They believe we captured it attempting to squeeze the remaining drops of blood out of its host. But then if that were the truth, why is it that others of this same model, scattered across the shredded terrain, had no similar situations? To argue further, this machine is not crushing the body as one would with a dampened towel to remove its water. It is delicately cradling it. This photo if anything is proof of the mechanical soul. Proof that a machine can love and hate the same as a human does. It makes no sense as to why, there is no code within this machine that could have given it personality. This is something more. A machine can love the same as a human's heart, a human's mind, body and soul."
