#Doctor Baldhead

[artistmitchy]

I like Guilty Gear, and I love Osamu Tezuka. Why not draw my favorite characters in his style?

[tomato-fiction]

doc baldhead doodle dump

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

Faust draws a picture of Sol on his paper bag, calls himself Sol Baldguy

[chronicsheepdrawing]

Did you know Faust specializes in optometry?

[mr-viwick]

this can’t keep happening to me

[kaialone]

[wtpyrofreak]

I AM A SURGEON

DOCTOR FAUSTS!

[golden-stag]

The last post is part of the reason Faust Got In My Brain So Bad-

Something about someone who's self destructive behaviour has a positive impact on the people around him is so. Deeply tragic.

Faust is someone who can't slow down or let his mask of the friendly neighbourhood doctor slip for even a moment because that's seconds wasted where he could be helping his patients. And what's a bigger insult to everyone he's hurt than that?

[fellstardustart]

[friendlyfatbee]

It’s my adulthood and I get decide that I want to listen to the Club Penguin soundtrack whenever I want whilst hyperfixating on malicious blorbos

[mundanesalad]

Such a pretty house and such a pretty garden

(I was thinking too much about the part in “Alone Infection” that sounds like the intro to “No Surprises” by Radiohead.)

Due to the length, ID under the read more.

ID 1: A gif of a child's drawing of Faust when he was still a regular doctor. A little girl stands next to him. They are both holding flowers and smiling. There is a name crossed out in the corner. Text: "A heart that's full up like a landfill" ID 2: A gif of Faust with a scalpel. He is crying as he slashes the throat of a silhouette. Text: "A job that slowly kills you"

ID 3: Faust faces away from the viewer, putting on the paper bag. Text: "Bruises that wont heal"

ID 4: A gif of several Fausts as he embraces his "silly" persona, smiling through the bag and posing cutely. One of them holds a flower as its petals fall off. Text: "You look so tired, unhappy"

ID 5: A still image of a doctor's bag, including bandages, pills, and a stethoscope. Dr. Baldhead stands inside, holding a bloody scalpel. He is looking at the viewer, blankly. Text: "Bring down the government"

ID 6: A gif showing a close up of a hand administering an injection to one of Ariels' gears. Text: "They don't speak for us"

ID 7: A gif of another child's drawing showing post-Strive Faust in a crudely drawn house. Some simple flowers are in front of it. Text: "I'll take a quiet life"

ID 8: A gif of another child's drawing showing post-Strive Faust in a crudely drawn house. Some simple flowers are in front of it. Text: "I'll take a quiet life"

ID 9: Strive Faust clasps a number of flowers in his hands, he is pleased with himself. Text: "No alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises"

[artistmitchy]

Someone uploaded the Guilty Gear desktop buddy software to the Internet archive, and I decided to make gifs of all the Faust related desktop buddies.

You can find the software here.

[tomato-fiction]

baldhead page

[umbrllman0001]

This scene from -STRIVE-'s story's epilogue has always been so nice to me

It perfectly encapsulates both Faust and Chronus with just one sentence and feels unique to the other epilogue scenes. It feels like it was written JUST for these two.

Faust was forgiven for his sins as a serial killer (likely Doctor Baldhead. I mean, the rare fish with his bag on it is literally called "Dr. Octohead", it can't get much more obvious) and brought peace to the world with his healing. The best example of this I can think of is Leo going from calling him "the unlicensed doctor" in Faust's arcade mode, to discussing strategy in the same room as him.

As for Chronus, while he hasn't had time to do too much just yet, the seeds are already planted for his redemption. The first step was Faust choosing not to kill Chronus when they met at the end of Xrd SIGN's story. On it's own, this didn't mean much, since all Faust wanted from Chronus was answers about the Japanese colony, however, by the time we reach Faust's Revelator arcade mode, things have changed. They aren't exactly "friends", but it's clear that they're now working toward the same goal: figure out what's going on in the Japanese colony. By the end of it, however, not only si Faust actively protecting Chronus from Leo, Chronus even sits down and has tea while Faust calls Haehyun!

Also, side note, but, I find it really funny that Chronus just slides across the screen when they run away from Leo, I have no idea why they didn't just speed up his walking animation.

Back to the main topic, in my opinion, it's this tiny bit of forgiveness that pushes Chronus to do more than he has to. Sure, he could just sit in the Japanese colony all day, but he doesn't, he goes out on his own to save Asuka from Absolute Defense: Felion (btw, I am 100% certain that Chronus invented that technique and no one can convince me otherwise). This action, of course, helps bring peace to the world of GG, as Asuka was VITAL to stopping the revival of Justice in Revelator.

TL;DR: Chronus for -STRIVE-, Chronus cool, line from -STRIVE- epilogue cool

[chronicsheepdrawing]

Happy Birthday Baldhead/Faust! ( Who is definitely not the same person )

They're both so silly and I love their unique presentation and animations; I'm glad Faust is healing and feels better about himself as well.

They're good doctors!

[solradguy]

yo! hope you're doing fine! here's a question:

we all pretty much know faust is dr. baldhead, right? is there any evidence that he isn't, though?

Thanks! It's been one thing after another this entire year, but I've survived every bad day I've ever had so forward and onward I will go.

AFAIK anything that would prove they're different people has been pretty tongue in cheek, like "These guys are totally not the same dude 😉." That said, Faust and Baldhead are a little out of my realm of Guilty Gear knowledge. It's possible there's a line in like GGX or XX that's got more solid evidence as to whether or not they're the same.

The Character Designer (Fall 2003, issue 1) article I've been translating straight up says they're the same person though, which is rare for Daisuke and ASW these days. Here's an excerpt from my draft, please excuse the rough edges. This is Daisuke himself talking:

Baldhead was supposed to be a mad doctor, but he came to his senses in his ending in the PlayStation version [of Missing Link]. We were told that this character was a waste of resources and that we needed to include him in the sequel [laughs], but since the end of the game stated that he was no longer insane, we had to make him righteous—a hero—if we wanted to include him. So that’s why I came up with the idea of a mysterious back-alley doctor.

There's a caption next to Faust's full body GGX render included in the article that says this, too:

After Baldhead came to his senses, he became Faust.