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" Don't be afraid, John. Where two or three are gathered in God's name, there will He be also. We can banish this demon together. You must protect me while I recite the 91st Psalm. Let us go. Yes, it's true what happened to Amy. You are no murderer, John. There is not much you could have done, but maybe now her soul is at rest. Let us go. "

This bit of dialog always intrigued me, but especially knowing what we know now about the sequence w/ Father Garcia in Chapter 2: That the fight with Miriam was a nightmare that John had, with the things that occurred in said nightmare impacting his reality (meaning the nightmares are most likely either based off of prior experiences, or manifestations of what's to come and the different paths taken later on).

Especially because it's heavily implied in Chapter 3 that John and Garcia had never met prior to that confrontation with Gary. They've only, to this point, communicated via letters. So, to me, it reads as John manifesting what he wants/needs to hear. That things weren't his fault and he tried to do the right thing.

But the word that always stuck with me is murderer.

John sees his failure to properly exorcise Amy as a murder. That he was the one who killed her, and not the Gary/the cult/the demon that possessed her. Especially because (depending on the choices made throughout Chapter 3) John sees Amy alive. He sees that there's some semblance of control over things (re: in the "true" ending, how she pushes the demon back to talk to John directly), or sees her at the very least still breathing (re: the bad ending, where it's revealed Amy is locked in his home behind the door w/ crosses).

But that does bring up the matter of what's real and what's perceived (especially re: Amy, as when you exorcise her in the "true" ending, she's the only entity to have a skeleton left behind), which is a whole other conversation.

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[Video description: A MV of the Faith The Unholy Trinity games set to the song ‘John My Beloved’ by Sufjan Stevens. It is made up of clips from the game. The title screen is the Faith logo with 'John my beloved' under it in the game font.

It cross-fades to the scene of a car driving with Father Allred in the front, and the date 'September 21, 1986'.

Lyrics: ''Are we to speak, first day of the week Stumbling words at the bar''

John Ward and Father Allred are in the car talking. Father Allred says, ''I don't need to tell you that this assignment is top secret.'' John replies, ''Yes, sir.'' Father Allred says, ''Based on what I saw during my previous visits...we could be in for a very long night.''

''Beauty blue eyes, my order of fries Long Island kindness and wine'' They enter the Martin family house. John looks unsure while Father Allred smiles at the Martins. He says, ''Good evening, Mr. and Mrs. Martin.'' At 'Wine' the screen cuts to a closeup of the family photograph where only Amy is colored in purple.

''Beloved of John, I get it all wrong I read you for some kind of poem'' John performs his first exorcism by reading from a holy book in Latin, ''Exorcizo te, creatura salis. Adjuro te, maledicte diabole.'' He then crosses himself. The scene cuts to Father Allred on the ground, with Amy appearing and holding his head in her hands, making his eyes go wide and bleed as he speaks. Then back to John reading, ''Adjuro te, serpens, discedas ab hoc virgo.''

''Beloved of John, I get it all wrong I read you for some kind of poem'' John performs his first exorcism by reading from a holy book in Spanish, ''Exorcizo te, creatura salis. Adjuro te, maledicte diabole.'' He then crosses himself. The scene cuts to Father Allred on the ground, with Amy appearing and holding his head in her hands, making his eyes go wide and bleed as he speaks. Then back to John reading, ''Adjuro te, serpens, discedas ab hoc virgo.''

''Covered in lines, the fossils I find Have they no life of their own?'' John exits the house and looks back at a high oval window. Lightning flashes in parts to reveal Amy standing there, hair down over her face, watching him.

''So can we pretend sweetly Before the mystery ends?'' John holds up a key before a purple mirror and smiles in a very pleased manner, unsettlingly. He puts it back down and the spirits in three sitting cultists leave their bodies, having been exorcised. John walks out the room. The screen cuts to text reading 'the morning breaks'

''I am a man with a heart that offends With its lonely and greedy demands'' John wakes up in his bed and walks to a note beside it. The note reads, ''John, I can't do this anymore. I'm sorry. I will always love you back. Karen''

''There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead'' John re-enters the room with the key and holds it up again, smiling, before stabbing himself in the eye with the key violently. He walks out the room, blood dripping. Then is a shot of him with a melted bloody, sharp-toothed face, momentarily possessed. His outline becomes more purplish. The Death\Mortis screen appears.

''Such a waste, your beautiful face'' John confronts Amy. There is a trail of blood leading to her and her face is covered with white cloth. John asks, ''My God...what happened to you?'' Amy replies, ''Do you think my face is pretty?''.

''Stumbling carpet arise'' John firmly states in reply to Amy, ''I have to finish what I started.''

''Go follow your gem, your white feathered friend'' Amy pulls off the cloth and faintly swerves her head around, revealing a red hole where her face is supposed to be. Then it cuts to the interrogation scene with Gary Miller. On asking him about the twins, he looks up with his face distorting into a sharp-lined open mouth, laughing. He answers, ''Oh John...deep down, you always knew that the twins were an illusion. But you could not resist chasing after lost souls.''

''Icarus, point to the sun'' A black screen appears with Amy speaking, ''Unforgivable.'' Then it cuts to John leaning down before an effigy of the fake twins, hanging his head in defeat. It slowly fades to black.

''If history speaks of two baby teeth I'm painting the hills blue and red'' Gary viciously smiles and delivers the injection preparing him for the Unspeakable to John, catching him by surprise. John writhes and catches his wrist before his whole form turns red and scribbly, screaming. The screen fades to white. Theres a brief shot of a butterfly struggling in a spider's web. Then John is shown again, his pupils white and with an unnaturally wide and bright smile, hands spread out in front of his face. Slowly purple hands come in from the top over his own. After that it cuts to a thoroughly blood-stained room in the cultist's hold with mangled corpses, one crawling away from John. Fade to black.

''They said beware, Lord hear my prayer'' John driving away from the Martin house after he came back to finish Amy's exorcism. He says, ''I can only have faith that I did the right thing.''

''I've wasted my throes on your head'' A confessional screen is shown. John confesses, ''A year later, the girl reached out to me again. But in the end I couldn't save her. I left her to die. I am sorry for these and my past sins.''

''So can we be friends, sweetly Before the mystery ends?'' John's car stops in front of a large group of cultists, the one nearest to his car is holding a pitchfork. Some fires by them are seen too. Fade to white. Then is shown John breathing slowly, bleeding slightly from his eyes and mouth. He turns to look at a figure beside him. It's Gary.

''I love you more than the world can contain In its lonely and ramshackle head'' John walks to the center of a pentagram in a forest filled with cultists. The Unspeakable demon slowly makes its way towards John to intiate him into the cult.

''There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead'' Gary reaches out towards Amy who floats above him. The demonic hand from her face grasps Gary's face and calls him, ''Failure.'' He is sucked into Amy's face hole.

(Instrumental) The hole in her face closes and she appears normal again. She has a slight smile. Blood rains down behind her. John apologizes, ''Amy, I'm so sorry. I couldn't save you.'' Amy reassures him,''John...it's okay. It's over now. They can't hurt me anymore. You've been so brave. But now...It's time to finish what you started.'' Crossfade.

''I'm holding my breath My tongue on your chest'' There is a sepia overlay to these parts, indicating that they happened previously. John prays to God to aid him in his fight against the demons, ''This abomination's power is too great.'' His call is answered as he opens his eyes and they shine bright, dripping yellow. He thanks God, ''Yes, Lord, I feel thou art with me.''

''What can be said of my heart? If history speaks, the kiss on my cheek Where there remains but a mark'' Only text appears as Gary greets him, ''Hello, John. It's nice to finally meet you.'' John pleads, ''Lord, help me. Somebody, please help me.''

''Beloved my John, so I'll carry on Counting my cards down to one And when I am dead, come visit my bed My fossil is bright in the sun

So can we contend, peacefully Before my history ends? Jesus I need you, be near me, come shield me From fossils that fall on my head'' God, a bright white figure, materializes in front of him. The screen flashes white as he says, ''I hear thee.'' He continues, ''John, son of man, what dost thou wish?'' ''This is too much for me. I'm so afraid. Please let me escape this place.'' ''And the girl?'' ''I just want to go home.'' ''If I leadest thou to safety...her fate shall be sealed upon thine head.'' ''I'll do whatever you want. Just take me away from here.'' ''Swear it.'' ''I swear it.'' Fade to black.

''There's only a shadow of me in a matter of speaking I'm dead'' Brief shot of John covered in the blood-rain, exhausted, breathing slowly and heavily. He holds his golden cross. The battle is over. Then the scene changes with a cinematic fade that has faint white floating dots. There is a choice shown, where John must go with either Lisa or Father Garcia. Both stand in front of him. Garcia is chosen. They clasp their hands in a manly handshake from the Predator films. John says, ''Let's go fight some demons.''

The song ends and a breath from the singer is heard. The music fades to Faith's main, upbeat theme. The ending scene appears of John sitting alongside Father Garcia as they both drive away. Credits of the game read, ''New Blood Interactive presents A game by Airdorf Faith: Chapter 3'' (the 3 is in roman numeral) A 'The End' screen appears with a bottom text of 'Ending 2- A New Journey'. The music fades.

Credits of the video appear in yellow game font, ''John My Beloved by Sufjan Stevens Faith The Unholy Trinity by Airdorf Games Music video by me; Ay-Machan''. end video description]

Talk under the cut!

Video description is in the pinned comments below too if you want to click through to the link. Couldn't fit it in the youtube description.

Closed captions available. - I made a document explaining the meaning and connecting the song with music video, I recommend reading it if you're having trouble. I did as the song was vague: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K...

I tried to make it more accessible to screenreaders...any suggestions for improvement are welcome. - Thank you for watching!! I really love the Faith series and John Ward has been a particular interest of mine especially with how human they've made him in a limited medium. The whole story of the games and their presentation really leaves me in awe. So here's a tribute and I wish luck and good things to Airdorf moving forward!

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