The terrans were given several gifts of a blessing and a curse. Being hackers ( https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/ ) they often took the curse to their advantage:
body
mind: hearing voices of leaders
living forever (= 'jehovah')
knowledge: to know
soul/ego: arbitter between the voices/thoughts
memory banks
humour: challenging truisms/falsisms
free will: the ability to decide to decide to do something else.
The devils held Planet Earth in a mind hell. Humans had egoes but were "false prophets" and listened to the devils’ mutations of the utterances of the gods/leaders and perceived reality differently in their mediums.
Nevertheless, many false prophets ascended, relinquished all their fears, and became fearless immortal "true prophets". That caused the psycho-geographical region to stop being a hellhole (possibly without its Capital at first).
The Land_of_Israel was particularly problematic because it was segmented into many territories.
Anyway, the devils did not give up easily, and offerred the sentient men and women who just reached enlightenment a deal: they can opt to spend the summer enlightened and together having fun and using their magical powers. At its end, they can opt to reset their memory banks almost completely and become false prophets again, or continue as enlightened true prophets.
Several newly-ascended true prophets opted out, from various reasons.
The remaining spent the summer there creating many crossover memes, stories, and franchises, or otherwise enjoying magic, life, love/etc.. However, when they met to decide, they realised they were nonetheless still petty / jealous / cruel / "unfaithful" / immature / etc. Some had years, or decades (or more?) of history they wanted to get rid of. So many of them decided to continue as terminators, possibly by peer pressure.
The youngest was the circa 1977-born Selina Mandrake.
Becoming terminators was advantageous because the devils-and-Orcs promised they would reveal TheOneTruth™ and TheCodex™ of TheGame™ of Fantastecha™ to the last one standing, but more importantly, all terminators will harbour many new franchises, plots and meme values.
In my case, it was under the guise of kids mocking my English. For most others, it was a concussion from a fall. Thing is: my first name means "Shalom-ful" in Hebrew. The devils promised that my body will remain complete and whole.
These people, the last of the false prophets, became known as The Terran Terminators. After relinquishing their fears, they have ascended so to speak (see https://buffy.fandom.com/wiki/Ascension ). Do note that this ascension was in a way a "descension" or "surrendering" to a superior "vampire".
One of the first to ascend was Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Other notable Terran terminators may have included:
Sarah Michelle Gellar (SMG) - "Summerschool at the NSA" starring her may have been a thing.
Summer Glau - my "Summerschool at the NSA" film likely earned her the Oscar and may have been an inadversarial reboot.
Likely Melissa Joan Hart (MJH) (who ascended before CEIA and as a result was the "beta" female during the Web 1.0 period when SMG was "queen of the Web")
Likely JKRowling
Likely Paris Hilton
Likely Kim Kardashian
I was convinced I was good , noble, well-intentioned and benevolent. I refused to permanently consider the opposite! Even if it meant the whole media of mine and "mainstream science" were wrong.
"A vampire can only be slain by another vampire, except for the last standing vampire who will be slain by the child of his two favourite children." — The-Codex™ of the Selineverse.