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golden-stag · 18 days ago

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(holds up microphone) thoughts on baiken?

"Everyone in this game is so anti-revenge plan, and for what?"

^ real thing that was said on call while me and my friend were playing through Baikens route ^

First impression:

COOLEST CHARACTER IN THE GAME... I saw her hidden fight in missing link when I was trying to learn how to beat Justice and I was immediately enamoured.

Impression now:

Coolest character in the game impression still hasn't worn off, but I really like Baikens writing and I'm so curious on how they'll handle her going forward. Characters who are fueled by revenge always keep me on the edge of my seat a little bit, like I wonder if Baiken will end up letting go or digging in her heels and getting destroyed by her own goal... Much to think about and I'm very excited to find the answer.

I'm gonna restrain myself from rambling about how I think Baikens story will go for another time, we'd be here for ages if I dissected everything- but just know I Have So Many Baiken Thoughts

Favourite moment:

I still haven't gotten over how cool her first appearance was I can't lie, just the fact there was a secret boss after Justice at all was so cool it's just a fun bonus that it was Baiken!

Also Baikens interactions with Anji in general... God I love seeing these two interact as people who went through the same thing processing it in different ways, its too hard to pin point any specific moment I really liked they just compliment each other's roles in the story so well.

(Special shout out to I-nos ending where Baiken gets the drop on her because God DAMN that was ice cold)

Idea for a story:

My ideas for stories have just been non-canon endings I'd love to expand on-

For Baiken I'd really like to write something around the ending where her, Chipp and Venom team up. I feel like you could get some really interesting dynamics out of these three, especially with how much I liked how Chipp interacts with Baiken and Venom in his routes.

Unpopular opinion:

I don't have one here I'm afraid :'D Again, I'm really not sure what the popular guilty gear opinions are-

Favourite relationship:

Well. I feel like I kinda answered this one already- but yes Baiken and Anji! I'm excited to get to strive, I've heard there's some good development for Baiken in strive that involves Anji. Very excited to see it :]

Favourite headcanon:

I got nothing... Nobody's shown me any headcanons I can steal... Drop your Baiken HCs that I can absorb if you have them

Thank you for the ask!! I definitely wanna dissect Baiken more in the future, there's Layers Here and I need to find out More

#Baiken also keeps me guessing because she didn't go through t o o big of a change in her strive design #most characters have their happy ending in strive or are working to get there #the way i've been reading strive (especially for DLC characters) is that strive is like... a victory lap #the exceptions being characters who are new or still main players in the story at this point #Baiken still looking like her previous appearances makes me very curious and very excited #because that might mean she's still a big player in the story!#... does that make any sense?#I'm a fool I know nothing I may sound like a silly clown disclaimer- thats all character design based theory talk #yappin'

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