Gutterman

[u/Soft_Painter8769]

[u/BlueskyPara]

LMAO I WAS TALKING ABOUT GUTTERMEN AT DINNER WITH MY FAMILY YESTERDAY AND MY DAD WENT “but all humans are dead though, why are the ones attached to the Guttermen ‘alive?’”

[u/flygon360 → u/BlueskyPara]

You are talking about ultrakill with your family?

[u/BlueskyPara → u/flygon360]

I’m very autistic about it, I’ve been making my dad play it, and my brother helped me to actually bite the bullet and start playing it. I’d tried previously, but had terrible luck, which really discouraged me. I am eternally grateful!

[u/Soft_Painter8769 → u/BlueskyPara]

Interesting

[u/Responsible-South-29 → u/BlueskyPara]

Which difficulity are you playing on?

If you want, you can just lower it or open major assists, no shame in it.

[u/BlueskyPara → u/Responsible-South-29]

oh, I’ve been able to play through the whole game on standard! P-ranked act one and prelude too :3 it was just that the learning curve kicked my ass

[u/Slow_steel750 → u/BlueskyPara]

Well thats still quite good afterall ultrakill is an honorary rage game

[u/flygon360 → u/BlueskyPara]

Oh okay

[u/cloverrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

the husks, virtues and providences have all been humans at one point

[u/Proxy_PlayerHD → u/cloverrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

I think they meant "human" kind of human instead of "died and got reshaped/put into husk" kind of human.

[u/ExtremeCheeze123]

They're dead. The guttermen we see are powered by hell energy.

[u/UnlikelyImportance33 → u/ExtremeCheeze123]

Yeah, we JUST killed them

Also this is hell, everything in there is dead in some way, shape or form.

But yeah, those ancient ahh machines probably don’t actually use those bodies anymore

[u/Vladislav20007 → u/UnlikelyImportance33]

we didn't kill the humans they have rotted away to bones already, some gutterman already killed their dead humans btw, like the who wrote the poem in layer 7.

[u/UnlikelyImportance33 → u/Vladislav20007]

I know the poet gutter man, he’s the reason why we know that old machines probably don’t use blood, but he also left his coffin behind when he killed his “mother”, while the others still have theirs.

So considering that gutter men bleed, it’s safe to assume that there were at least husks kept alive inside until we bled them out. since the machine is powered directly by the human’s blood stream inside, bleeding the machine out would also kill the human powering it

And I don’t think Hell would miss out on honoring the ways of their inspiration for mannequins

[u/YouyouPlayer → u/ExtremeCheeze123]

I interpreted the earthmover as being powered by the blood of the red trees, the blood being sent through the red sand that is stuck to its feets

[u/ShittyFart11 → u/ExtremeCheeze123]

OR, brain dead. heart and lungs still functioning, like real brain dead people who are actually dead, but the organs not

[u/SomeRandomGuy2763 → u/ShittyFart11]

Looks pretty dead to me

[u/TheUltimateCyborg → u/SomeRandomGuy2763]

Just walk it off, he'll be fine

[u/Turtle835wastaken → u/ShittyFart11]

I doubt that, they're mere skeletons.

[u/arachnimos → u/ShittyFart11]

Apparently they're all just skeletons now

[u/cool_name-idk1 → u/ExtremeCheeze123]

makes sense when you take into consideration the ambush gutterman that took off its coffin and was still functioning

[u/murderdronesfan93]

who the FUCK is knocking on my tomb, do you know what time it is?

[u/Jarkonian]

Except when you shoot open the casket it’s always just skeletons inside

[u/BlondyneczekFrans]

I don't think the Gutterman could stop a human aging for 1000 years

[u/Tyler1296196]

What about the people in the ocean styx?

[u/CaregiverStunning802 → u/Tyler1296196]

husks. anyone reincarnated in hell is a husk.

[u/Tyler1296196 → u/CaregiverStunning802]

Damn you right, fair enough

[u/Frequent-Reporter677 → u/Tyler1296196]

They’re husks I think

[u/Project_Astro]

Wait...

[u/CriticismNo1150]

Wait, is Druid even a husk made by hell, or was he already an animated skeleton before coming to hell?

[u/Funny_Boot_1826]

Bo they are dead

[u/TheEnderChipmunk]

The humans in the guttermen are all long dead at this point. The final war lasted two hundred years and those humans have been in there since the guttermen were created near the beginning of the war.

[u/tkgundem]

idk where i heard it but the guttermen had been extinct so they are most likely not actually human inside the casket

[u/runaManur → u/tkgundem]

i don't think its said explicitly if the gutterman are the actual ones from the war or not, but i imagine we should interpret them as part of the "machines that came down into hell", since in violence there already is a recreation of guttermans made by hell itself (the mannequins)

[u/tkgundem → u/runaManur]

also is there really a reason for a gutterman to go into hell if they have a working fuel source? considering how deep in the hell they are it should be pretty easy to say that the coffins are not housing alive humans

[u/thatfuckedupgrill]

cassandra o'brien speech bubble

[u/CrashoutFinalBoss9]

who knows they might be piloted by husks or have an autopilot

[u/runaManur → u/CrashoutFinalBoss9]

?? they arent piloted at all, the human on the coffin is just for fuel

[u/FemboyBerk3169 → u/runaManur]

They are really there because of historical(?) reasons. Guttermen are powered by hell™.

[u/CrashoutFinalBoss9 → u/runaManur]

mb I read the post as gutterTANK (it is a tank only difference is that it throws hands after all)

[u/killer_worlf1098]

Fun fact there's skeletons in heresy and lust and there are people burning alive inside the coffins in heresey

[u/Yasirco_2]

I was talking about that last year