https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/o:5816 Unveiled in Ashes: Hellblade and the Revelatory Collapse of the Self Mumelthei, Victoria Victoria Mumelthei 0000-0003-4483-4026 Freie Universität Berlin University of Krems Press text eng I play Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice and find myself thinking of apocalypse—not as ending but as unveiling. This paper doesn’t analyse Senua’s journey so much as travel alongside it, tracing paths where perception fractures into revelation. What emerges is less argument than exploration—following intuitions through territories where psychosis functions as methodology, where dissolution becomes a way of knowing rather than its failure. Through overlapping fragments examining body, voice, time, abjection, posthuman, memory, and revelation, I trace how Senua’s psychology materializes across multiple registers of apocalyptic experience. What if apocalyptic being—existence constituted through continuous encounter with its own unmaking—offers not breakdown but breakthrough? What becomes visible when familiar structures collapse? I have no answers, only this strange new hunger for questions that conventional coherence in (post-)apocalyptic games cannot contain. inner apocalypse hellblade psychosis revelation apocalyptic being http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/api/object/o:5816/download 10.48341/6224-0m80 https://door.donau-uni.ac.at/o:5827 application/pdf 305.31 kB 2025-11-14