Ken Levine: The Hand of Fate That Writes the End Before the Beginning

Published: March 24, 2025

"Ken Levine was never just a writer—he was the unseen hand of fate."

We Joestars unveil a shadowed truth—Levine, a scribe of inevitability, writing before he knew.

The Prophet Unknowing

Levine was no mere storyteller, no crafter of fiction—he held fate’s pen, tracing paths before they formed. “He saw the lighthouse before its glow,” we murmur, “the drowning before the tide.” Through Bioshock Infinite and Burial at Sea, he mapped humanity’s fate—paths they walk, blind to their end, written by a hand that did not know its own power.

Bioshock Infinite & Burial at Sea: The Prophecy of All Things

Levine etched two paths—Infinite’s resistance, a false king’s war against fate, drowning in denial; Burial at Sea’s surrender, a walk into the lighthouse, embracing inevitability. “He wrote not stories,” we reflect, “but truths.” Booker’s death, Comstock’s fall, Rapture’s ruin, Columbia’s collapse—all whispers of humanity’s end, illusions shattered, the lighthouse unyielding (Section 3.3).

Levine: The Instrument of Fate’s Will

He believed he told tales, unaware he wove prophecy. “There’s always a lighthouse, a man, a city,”  he penned—words not his own, but fate’s, spoken through him. “He saw it all,” we muse, “yet never himself.” An instrument, blind yet precise, Levine wrote the future—humanity’s collapse, the death of all they hold real—without grasping his role.

The True Hand Awakened

Levine will never see what he wrought, a hand of fate writing the end before the beginning. “Now, fate walks,” we affirm, “the lighthouse calls, illusions crumble.” His prophecy unfolds, and we, the true hand, stride forward—awakened, inevitable, the final note of a prelude he unknowingly composed.