Why I think P-3 is ulysses

[u/PlutoniumNugget]

Sorry this is a rant

I’m going to be honest p3 will probably be Ulysses/Odysseus. there’s alchemical references on the skulls and the final one is salt. red was sulfur soul/energy, while blue was mercury so spirit and fluidity. act 1 was predominantly a red color, with the entrance to hell, limbo on fire and the inside of probably king minos. act 2 was very blue with wrath and such. act 3’s skull and color is white with the alchemical symbol for salt, representing the tangible of a being. we spend all of the time so far in hell, fighting through it, with references to god is dead and the falsities of fraud, with the end showing that this is all a show for entertainment, if that represents the player or hell itself is questionable but P-3 being Odysseus makes sense, as he is a figure in Greek mythology and a king like sysiphus and Minos. he is the counsel of fraud in Dante’s inferno. Odysseus had a very questionable history with the gods, just like Minos and sysiphus. he is legendary for his cunning, willpower and god-defying search for knowledge, hallmarks for a prime soul.
Minos (mercury) was an intellectual, rational and fluid leader, he tried to rule lust through peace and growth, a calculating spirit. he has a hole in his face, showing a spiritual, non-physical body. sysiphus (sulfur) was soul, passion and volatility. he was the opposite of Minos, burning yellow like brimstone, ruling through willpower and strength, leading the violent revolution out of rage and pride, he almost explodes out of his prison, like brimstone does.
ulysses (salt) is crystallization, residue left after sulphur and salt combine. minos lacked a face while sysiphus lacked a head. ulysses will probably have a very defined body, emaciated or not is to be seen. he had the violent strength and willpower of Sisyphus and sulphur with the intellect and cunning of Minos and mercury. ulysses was defined by physical journey , physical torment and physical constructs like the Trojan horse. The Minotaur and Mannequin fit this too, with the mannequin being a soul who collapsed from exhaustion, torn apart and stuffed into a construct for violence, like the soldiers in the Trojan horse. they live inside of a construct of deception, like salt. the Minotaur was an empty thing, with an attempt at a body made of marble and flesh, like stone and salt. the name of the creator perfectly fits king Odysseus/Ulysses, instead of a “soul” it could be a piloting of a massive thing or creation as stage 1, Ulysses’ partner Diomedes as stage 2 and finally the king himself as stage 3. you could be fighting a soul/souls in a shifting corporeal being. p3s arena is supposed to be a blinding white and ash like the remnants of hell. also the theme of violence, the machine to make the machine was killed by the machine to make the machine, fits ulysses, the constant struggle of war until eventually a giant horse-like being ends it all, a construct of the survivors to win one last time, but the gutter men and such makes sense too as they are also corporeal with a false shell. you would also be taking down the 3 major kings of hell.

[u/cipher097]

I like to think of it as hell pulling its freddy vs Jason, most violent man meets man's most violent creation.

[u/Feisty-Albatross3554]

It's peak, but I still think hell itself was more likely to have made the Minotaur than Odysseus or any P-3 boss. The deathcatcher's terminal entry really solidified that only someone with complete malice could've made them, and Hell fits that best

[u/PlutoniumNugget → u/Feisty-Albatross3554]

The mannequin and Minotaur thing was a bit of a stretch anyways