WalterKovacs
First Post
a) V rarely sticks to saying only 4 words.
b) Having V be the "right being" is just enough of a twist to be part of a "misleading prophecy" without it being tortured (like the Prophet's attempts to avoid his own death at the hands of Belkar).
c) While on one hand, the 4 words are V commiting to getting the powers (all V needed to do was touch the orb, but the words were necessary to convince V's self to do so), it is also possible, that the words indicate V realizing that this is the moment the Prophet spoke of ... a sort of self fufilling prophecy. [This is made a bit more interesting in that, it's possible that, had he chosen the other path, he may have recieved another chance at ultimate arcane power, as it required a stutter to get "I must succeed" to work as 4 words, so this may not have been meant to be the moment, but was made so by V conciously, or perhaps subconciously, choosing to make this "the moment". That may be overthinking it.]
However, the name of the strip seems to indicate this is the moment, since likely all the rights, and the one wrong, need to be simultaneous. The words were essentially a verbal contract that was "made official" by the orb, as essentially any corruption based deals rely more on the person giving up their soul to do so for the "right" reasons, more so than being held legally responsible. The act of accepting the deal has to basically damn the sould anyway, so that the contract is essentially a formality. That is often the case in Faustian deals.
b) Having V be the "right being" is just enough of a twist to be part of a "misleading prophecy" without it being tortured (like the Prophet's attempts to avoid his own death at the hands of Belkar).
c) While on one hand, the 4 words are V commiting to getting the powers (all V needed to do was touch the orb, but the words were necessary to convince V's self to do so), it is also possible, that the words indicate V realizing that this is the moment the Prophet spoke of ... a sort of self fufilling prophecy. [This is made a bit more interesting in that, it's possible that, had he chosen the other path, he may have recieved another chance at ultimate arcane power, as it required a stutter to get "I must succeed" to work as 4 words, so this may not have been meant to be the moment, but was made so by V conciously, or perhaps subconciously, choosing to make this "the moment". That may be overthinking it.]
However, the name of the strip seems to indicate this is the moment, since likely all the rights, and the one wrong, need to be simultaneous. The words were essentially a verbal contract that was "made official" by the orb, as essentially any corruption based deals rely more on the person giving up their soul to do so for the "right" reasons, more so than being held legally responsible. The act of accepting the deal has to basically damn the sould anyway, so that the contract is essentially a formality. That is often the case in Faustian deals.