Motif · Book 4, The Gate of the Feral Gods

'You're not going to break me'

Carl's mantra, first said to a safe-room ceiling after the You Monster! achievement and repeated whenever the game succeeds in making him feel like an asshole. The line the whole series will test.

Segment appearances

• Chapter 4 — The Royal Chariot; Ifechi
• Chapter 13 — Gerbils
• Chapter 18 — One
• Chapter 19 — Orren
• Chapter 29 — Where the Red God Glows

Progression

After Ifechi's death on the recap: 'You will not break me. Fuck you all. I will break you' (ch. 4); after 'Good boy' (ch. 13); in the Cookbook, after Loita: 'They will not fucking break me' (ch. 18); unspoken at the liaison's desk: 'I will break you all' (ch. 19); at the sight of a puppy used as bait (ch. 29); and at the stairwell, to the sky, with a ring held up: 'One by one, I will break you. I will break you all' (ch. 34). Six times, and the last is a pledge.