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Art by @Rem_safe_space JUDAS PRIME TERMINAL ENTRY It was common for many sinners in the lower layers to often forget the content of their lives, particularly the sins they committed to earn their sentence. Judas shared this fate, being forced to wander the worst layer without a clear memory of what exactly he did to deserve this. He had faint guesses, but he could never formulate a narrative to deserve the sentence. Instead, Judas focused on survival. Unlike many husks in Treachery, Judas was defined by his unwavering hope. Whereas many would simply give up and join the frozen bodies, Judas believed there was still light at the end of the tunnel. And to that, he turned to Heaven. Soon people would rise, inspired by his charisma. He emboldened courage, and he reminded people that one can still and must persist wherever they are, for even the afterlife is worth just living. Pointing to Heaven, he rallied followers to pray and persist in their name, as a form of atonement. Secretly, Judas was not expecting much from simple prayers or Heaven, but he decided that it was worth trying out. A city rose from the efforts of the masses, one that - if not for the extreme conditions of Treachery - could have been as habitable as even Lust - . Taking notes from the other layers, Judas and his trusted leaders led the efforts of making the city both a sanctuary and a church. And when Gabriel himself came down from the Heavens, and was in awe at the tenacity displayed, he spoke to Judas - and the people - proclaiming that their efforts will be rewarded soon. So they worked, to the point where they forgot how long it has been since their promise. People were losing hope, and gaining impatience. As much as the leaders and Judas himself tried to rally hope, they could not deny deep down that their own hope is beginning to falter. When a heavenly light came down again, and when Gabriel came surrounded by an angelic squadron, Judas was overjoyed, believing the time had finally come. He would however, be proven wrong as soon as the angels drew their weapons, and began painting the snow red. A blind rage consumed Judas, strong enough to start swinging at the angels. Seeing Judas come at him in a beeline, Gabriel took out his swords, and aimed straight at the head. Judas ran right into the blades, marking the last death of Treachery. As the company was leaving for Heaven, Gabriel looked down at Judas’s corpse. Overcome with the feeling of guilt for the first time in his life, Gabriel stood silent for a bit, desperately seeking it in him to apologize. Failing to do so, Gabriel returned back without a word. Later, Judas would awaken as a Prime Soul, the most potent one in Heaven’s records to date. Still in blinding fury, Judas embarked on a warpath from Hell straight to Heaven, slaughtering anything that would be in his way. Even angels dropped to the floor in an effort to deal with him. Consumed by betrayal, Judas marched forward. After many massacres later, the angels were able to restrain and incapacitate Judas. Terrified at the damage a Prime Soul could do once released, they built the Tesseract as the ultimate shield for Hell and Heaven against Judas. Said “ultimate defense” proved meaningless once Judas awoke, carving a way out of the Tesseract with relatively little effort. Judas would wander the lands of the now fallen city of Treachery for what felt like eternity to him. The murderous fire inside him had calmed down, being overtaken. Guilt of a king who led his people to ruin, hatred for a God that ironically committed the sin of his home, and despair over the state of his life’s work gripped Judas. As Judas ventured to visit Fraud and Violence, his heart mulled over. The passage of time would soften the embers of Judas’s fire. Unwordable anguish was all that was left, and even that would soon fade with the bleak monotony of life in the lower layers. Soon his memory of how hope felt, or his life as a king, felt incomplete too. Unavoidable and bleak entropy diluted intensity in his mind. Retreating back to his home layer, he spent his time making a living space out of his prison, to spend his time. When two mysterious icy prisons arrived at the complex he lived in, Judas merely just worked them into the decor of the complex. He came to know the ins and outs of the prison in his remodeling efforts, as there was simply nothing better to do. And gradually, his demeanor softened, as he kept looking for things to do. there's one song left tho.
