#also ky asuka and jack-o

[demilypyro]

Ok

If your first pick was Sol honestly I get that. He's cool. You might just have terminal main character syndrome tho

If you pick Ky you're just boring. You definitely have main character syndrome but also you're the least interesting person at the function

If your first pick is May you're either a literal demon who heard about the totsugeki memes and wanted in, or you're a cutesy femme and Bridget and Elphelt weren't in the game yet

If your first pick was Axl you think you're the funniest motherfucker in the room at all times and I'm gonna kick your ass. Whether you stick with him will depend on whether you can stand his accent.

If your first pick was Chipp you not only have main character syndrome but you're also a weeb

If your first pick was Potemkin you're going to hell. You picked him specifically because you hate me.

If your first pick was Faust you DEFINITELY think you're the funniest motherfucker in the room, even moreso than Axl

If your first pick was Millia you're either a straight dude who wanted to pick I-no but is ashamed of being horny on main, or you're a chick who describes herself as a "dommy mommy"

If you picked Zato you have main character syndrome but also you liked Shadow more than Sonic

If your first pick is Ramlethal you were either looking for the girl with the biggest sword in the cast, or you have a foot fetish. I'm not kinkshaming, just acknowledging.

Leo seems like he's very popular among gay dudes but that's second hand info. Idk he leaves zero impressions on me

If you picked Nagoriyuki because he's cool you're the only mfer here I respect. If you picked him because he's OP I retract the last statement.

If you picked Giovanna you either wanted to play a cool girl but thought Millia looked too difficult, or you're a furry. Maybe both

If you picked Anji you are bisexual

If you picked I-no youre either a horny straight dude or you're a chick who describes herself as a "dommy mommy" but doesn't actually have sex

If you picked Goldlewis you're based

If you picked Jack-O you either saw the memes but didn't realize how hard she is to actually play, or you played Xrd

If you picked Happy Chaos you either saw the memes or heard he's OP and wanted in, not realizing he's been nerfed since. Idiot

If you picked Baiken you're horny AND a weeb. But honestly I get it

If you picked Testament you're probably a goth, nonbinary, or both, and you're just happy to be represented. Good for you

If you picked Bridget then she's probably the only reason you even bought this game

If you picked Sin you're kind of boring but not quite as boring as people who pick Ky. You might still be pretty cool

If you picked Bedman you were just looking for the weirdest character in the cast and automatically picked that one. If Bedman hadn't been out yet, you would probably have picked Faust

If you picked Asuka you're a nerd and I'm shoving you in a locker

If you picked Johnny you either think you're funny as fuck, or you have ADVANCED main character syndrome. It's inoperable. We have to amputate

If you picked Elphelt you're a lesbian

[rats-hyperfixation-corner]

gg ship tier list bc fuck it (explanations under cut)

F

Asuka x HC: i don't like mentor and mentee dynamics, also i headcannon HC as aro/ace and really not wanting a relationship unless it's for the memes

A.B.A x Ramleathal: i don't want ram to get hurt

all the bedman ones: isn't he like at most in his teens?

I-no x HC: i don't think i-no likes HC at all

Millia x zato: i think their dynamic is more father/daughter. i just think that makes Zato's redemption far more interesting

D

Sol x Ky: let them be rivals

May x Chipp: why? i think they'd kill eachother

Chipp x Nago: why? (pt.2)

Bridget x Sin: would be great friends, but i can't see them as a couple

Gio x Goldlewis: see above

C

crushing apathy for all of them

B

Pot x Gabriel: i like it

Johnny x leo: a fun himbo x himbo bRomance

I-no x Jack-o: the silly

Goldlewis x Vernon: i get he hates his job, but old man yaoi

Bridget x jam: i wish i could tell you. i just think it's fun

April x May: they give comedy duo vibes, and comedy are always homoerotic

Anji x Chipp:

Anji x Asuka: Anji flirting with the dude who blew up his home will always be funny

Asuka x I-no x Raven x Jack-o: i would not want to be next to their booth at dennys. so i like it

Asuka x Raven: (see april x may)

A

Asuka x Sol: weird enemies to lovers that i like

Sol x Axl: i like the idea of the comic relief x the MC

Ky x Dizzy: not the best but im a sucker for cannon, and their marryed

Chipp x Answer: nerd x dumbass. i like it

Leo x Ram: i think it's super cute

I-no x Axl: LORE

Millia x Elphelt: wasn't expecting to like it as much i as do, but i find it sweet

S

Robo-ky x Venom: my sillies

Slayer x Sharon: dandy

Johnny x Testament: my other sillies. also fanartists do better with this one

A.B.A x Paracelsus: i love these two

Baiken x Anji:

Aria x Sol: most of the plot comes from this so yeah it's a given

Sol x Jack-o: super wholesome ,and also I tend to like cannon ships a lot

[atragicallycrispydude]

Watched the battle balance trailer - WHAT THE FUCK. ABSOLUTELY AND UTTERLY HORRIFYING.

Faust, Bedman, Axl, Happy Chaos, Ky, Giovanna, I-no, Millia, Jack-o, Aba, and Asuka look mostly the same I really don't know what was going on in there - I wonder if those are going to be frame data improvements? If you know better please tell me

Slayer's 6K feint is now, like, an actual move instead of just a joke due to being very fast. Fuck you.

Ramlethal has midscreen sword stick - it also looks like her flip is an overhead now maybe? (Genuinely I saw midscreen sword stick and fucking dropped my phone lmao I was shaken to my core) Also, she can cancel into sword slam (214H) now, which I think is a change that makes sense. I don't think it'll really affect anything combo routing wise as I don't think it recovers quickly enough to combo into itself or calvados on wall stick, but I might be wrong. Also it's -24 so who cares lol it'll be a yolo frametrap. It seems like they're trying to buff her midscreen presence though. Being able to end any combo with 214H gives pretty good Oki anywhere (look I might be wrong it's been ages since I played any ram)

Johnny has his mist finer projectile clash back like he did in XRD (did he have that before?)

Testament stain pop on throw is very very scary, and it also looks like crow now has basically no blockstun and can be used for interesting PRC strike/throw setups for full combos

Baiken now gets better reward off S Kabari and has a... Weird looking parry? I almost wonder if they're giving her another version of it that just inflicts the guard crush and doesn't do the full throw but is safer but idk that seems insane

Sin gets raw gazelle step, and also seems to be able to combo naturally off of his follow-up specials? Could he do that before? All I've ever seen was corner tyrant barrel kara cancels

Pot can now flick Asuka cubes (thank fucking god that matchup is hellish) and gets ARMORED POTEMKIN BUSTER FUCKING HOLY SHIT

Anji can now cancel Fujin into Fujin into maybe another Fujin? It's hard to tell. Looks like you can throw between fujins maybe, to make it not completely obnoxious?

Goldlewis almost made me start crying, as he can now cancel Behemoth Typhoons into each other (so he can just fucking explode you with very little effort, natural BT-BT-BT combos will do fucking crazy damage even just from the affect it has on combo decay alone) and it also looks like maybe the gravity scaling is affected? HOWEVER: it costs one half of the security gauge to cancel a BT into a BT. I like that actually, it'll make for more mindful security gauge usage and not relegate it to "I win neutral now." Also, 426H seems to have some kind of vacuum hitbox now? Either it's going to have some sweet spot stuff for wallbounce combos or the cancelled version will have different properties

Sol can combo into HMC. I wouldn't be surprised if they nerf the damage, or maybe it'll just be like HPB? ALSO: HE CAN CANCEL INTO FAFNIR. EITHER THAT OR 6S HAS REDUCED RECOVERY. That's fucking insane. Just completely insane. I'm hoping they give it a different version that can be cancelled into that does less damage or something but that seems REALLY strong. And Fafnir wallbounces now (if I'm wrong and he could already do these things let me know but I'm not all-to familiar with Sol)

Chipp... Tightrope combos and mix... Looks cool? It looks like he just gets good corner carry (I do not play this character or really know how he works at all)

Zato command grab refills eddy very good very nice

Nagoriyuki also looked fucking insane, he can now naturally combo off of blood rage. It looks like the point of it is going to be for after a wallstick, but mark my words there will be routes that go into it before that to get big damage. Overall it doesn't look like it'll do anything other than making Shizu loops better but importantly - his blood rage super now seems to INSTANTLY APPLY the 50% health decrease. I feel like there's more behind the scenes that will be unveiled once the patch drops. The only effect I see currently is that Nago will rob the fuck out of you more often (for example, he has a CH Shizu loop that kills Ky at 57% with 0 RISC, I imagine this change will just push that somewhere into 60% but guts is weird so I'm not sure)

May is different somehow idk sorry I barely see her and could never play her

Elphelt can now combo into her grab super (this patch is just make all the grab supers unblockable hitgrabs huh) which will mean that: people actually use it and it isn't just a waste of meter lol

The new song is VERY good

Overall it looks fun and I'm excited to test stuff when the patch comes out. The thing I like about it is that they seem to be leaning into the XRD feel of "everyone gets fucked up bullshit, so it works out to some sort of balance à la when everyone's super no-one will be." Very cool.

[guiltygearconfessions]

In honor of this blog, here are a few confessions of mine (never submitted before so I have a few)

First I did get into Guilty gear cause I saw a Strive character once and had to know more. Sorry guys. Surprisingly it wasn't Bridget (although I am trans). It was Faust

Secondly I'm hitting Ky with the transgenderification beam. It would not fix her but it would help in the long run (transgenderification does not carry over to Robo-ky imo)

Third I need to know whatever Raven, I-no, and Jack-o were doing in their free time. Asuka's shit squad of fuck. What kind of terrible was the vibe. Would this be the worst blunt rotation?

Fourth I am in love with Baiken and I am tired of having to specify that it's not just because of her tits. Her voice is what does a LOT for me, but it's really annoying to have to specify every time

Lastly I don't have many predictions for the next dlc besides obvious ones, but there are characters that I would literally die to have in a game again (Zappa, Answer, Zappa again, Jam, Kum. I need Zappa). However I do think the best option is Robo-ky. Why I hear the despairing crowds ask. Because he suck so terribly I need to see more of him. Idgaf if his gameplay is bad and janky. That actually is better imo

(also I did not know that you're broken-clover! I love your fics so much!!)

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[manybackflips]

Guilty Gear Strive Eating Conest Ratings

Sol Badguy: 10/10. Any plate would be demolished. Whether it’s eaten or destroyed physically is best left unsaid.

Ky Kiske: 7/10. A single slice of white bread.

May: 1/10. Would demolish the eating contest, but would be horrifying to witness.

Axl Low: 6/10. Would finish, but only realizes after he finished that he could’ve cheated by pausing time to catch his breath.

Chipp: 3/10. Pauses every ten seconds to say something Japanese and eventually gets beaten up by the other contestants.

Potemkin: 8/10. Politely eats every last bit of the food. Really cleans the plate.

Faust: 4/10. Finishes by sucking up all the food like a vacuum cleaner. The food is later appears in some random desert somewhere in prime condition.

Millia: 0/10. Causes the competition to close down.

Zato: 6/10: Zato himself doesn’t eat, but Eddie demolishes. +6 points for enthusiasm.

Ramlethal: 10/10. Finishes first, didn’t even realize there was a competition.

Leo: 2/10. Finishes second and tries to pass a new law to automatically make him come first in any eating contest he attends. Sore loser.

Nagoriyuki: 7/10. Only attends if onigiri is the food being prepared. If so, he cleans house.

Giovanna: 9/10. Tag-teams with Rei to finish faster. -1 point for unsportsmanlike behavior.

Anji: 2/10. Tried to sell the host a mirror mid-contest.

I-No: Makes lewd remarks about the food and then ascended to godhood in order to get out of paying the loser fee.

Goldlewis: 8/10. Tries his best, but gets a call mid-eating and the EMA steals the rest of his food while he’s distracted.

Jack-O’: 10/10. Slurps up the food like a looney tunes character. Vaguely horrifying, but also pretty funny.

Happy Chaos: 0/10. Ranted about cardboard manufacturing for 5 hours while holding all the attendees hostage. Ate only a single avocado.

Baiken: 8/10. Eats the food. Finishes. Nothing more to say really.

Testament: 7/10. Same issue as Giovanna and Rei, tag-teamed the food, this time with even more people.

Bridget: 10/10. The town is already inside her, she demolishes the competition.

Sin: 5/10. Eats fast, quickly, and… energetically. Left a mess though, so points off for that.

Bedman?: ?/10. Is a bed. Has that weird mouth thing to eat. Scared off the hosts and judges.

Delilah: 2/10. Ate two plates of the food before being carried off in a food coma.

Asuka R#: 5/10. Ate a single plate of food before going on about the way the food was prepared, by the time he was finished, the contest was over.

Johnny: 0/10. Didn’t even eat anything, just flirted with the other contestants.

Elphelt: 7/10. Made an effort to eat all of the food to finish first in order to impress someone, but gets distracted by a couple sitting together in the audience.

A.B.A: 8/10. Feeds it all to Paracelsus due to worrying about him being too thin. Paracelsus tries to do the same to A.B.A.

Slayer: 10/10. Finishes all of his food in a blink in order to spend more time talking to his wife. Disappears in a cloud of bats after recording a haiku.

[solradguy]

Guilty Gear hugs tier list. These listings can be debated if you want, but I'm going to post this, sign out, and go for a walk before it rains.

Reasoning:

BEST ==

Dizzy: Come on, look at her. Hugs like a best friend you haven't seen in years.

Elphelt: Might be kinda awkward if there's a snowball's chance in hell she thinks she could marry you but otherwise it's a damn good hug.

Jack-O': I'm biased. Hugs like it's the last time she'll ever see you.

Goldlewis: Like being hugged by a grizzly bear. Pats your back. 10/10

Sin: Kid puts his whole heart into everything he does. No way he hugs bad.

Axl: Good at hugging because it really just might be the last time he ever sees you.

Sol: He won't hug you. However, consider: warm, big arms, big chest. If Sol hugs you then the Earth is about to explode and he doesn't want to go out feeling alone.

GREAT ==

May: She's kinda bubbly (pun) and bubbly girls hug good.

Ky: Has rehearsed hugging. Knows the precise amount of time to hug for and how hard to hug but it still feels genuine.

Bridget: Don't have an explanation for this, just think she'd be good at hugs.

Izuna: Hugs like the cool uncle that let you take a sip of his bourbon when you were a teen. Pats your back.

Kliff: Dad hugs. Almost crushes your ribs but there's love in it.

Potemkin: Man's heart's full of love. He's careful not to kill you.

Chipp: Don't think Chipp hugs very frequently because he's a president and he's got an image to maintain, but I think he'd hug like everyone was his friend even if he just met them.

GOOD ==

Jam: Maybe a little too friendly for a hug with a stranger, like she hugs for just a bit too long and it starts getting kinda weird. She didn't mean anything weird by it though.

Zappa: It all depends on how involved S'Ko gets. There might be insects. Decent despite all that.

Slayer: I just don't think he'd hug anyone better than he hugs Sharon. A formal hug.

Leo: Tries too hard to hug well and doesn't quite make it.

Nagoriyuki: Could be killer at hugging if he had more opportunities to. A little out of practice from how long he was sealed in that thing.

Answer: Extremely formal and quick. He's got things to do.

Testament: Out of practice like with Nago. They're getting better though and at least whatever they put in their hair smells nice.

OKAY ==

Anji: If he hugs you, he's probably hitting on you. Depends entirely on how you'd feel about that. If he hugs you and he doesn't like you, I think it'd be a just barely acceptable hug.

Johnny: Saves his best hugs for hot women and his adopted daughters. It's a little awkward, like he doesn't really want to be hugging someone.

Faust: The image here is Strive Faust and I think Strive Faust would hug not great because he's really going through it in Strive and he just needs a moment. Xrd Faust would be up in GOOD or GREAT tier though.

Paradigm: Either you gotta squat down awkwardly to hug him or he's gotta climb up onto a table. Hugs in a professional manner, but the logistics of it make it difficult.

Bedman: Is asleep. Is strapped to a giant bed.

Ram: She's still learning. It's a cold hug because she's not sure how you're supposed to do it yet.

Giovanna: Doesn't want to hug and would rather be doing anything else.

Asuka: He was alright at hugging in 2015 but now it's 2187 and he's forgotten. The experience is uncomfortable for both parties.

Venom: Unless you're Zato, it's a quick and distant hug.

Raven: Would probably hug decently if he was in a serious mood, but odds are he's gonna make it bad weird.

BAD!! ==

Millia: She's had a rough life and also does not want to hug. A hug that makes you fear for your life and be grateful when the hug's over.

Justice: She's dead. Before that she wanted to destroy humanity. You can hug Justice but only once, and you better be fast.

Baiken: You might get stabbed. I can't imagine a scenario where she'd willingly hug anyone that wasn't Delilah.

I-No: Will just straight up kill you. Has never had a reason to hug someone before and might make it horny-weird if she's in a good mood and doesn't kill you first.

Robo-Ky: Assuming Crow programmed him to hug like Flesh Ky, it would still be like hugging a pile of sharp metal. If you're a woman he's going to say something uncomfortable.

Baldhead: Man's really going through it!! Going through it like no man's gone before!! Odds are looking like you'll get murdered.

ABA: Doesn't know what a hug is. Smells like rotting blood and flesh.

Order Sol: Sol at possibly his lowest point. Reeks like hair grease, body odor, and rotting blood. 48% chance you'll get Savage Fang'd, 48% chance you'll get Tyrant Rave'd, 4% chance he rips your heart out with his bare hand.

Valentine: She just stands there and doesn't hug back. Asks questions about hugs, hugging techniques, the meaning of hugs, the history of hugs, and what purpose they serve for as long as you're willing to bullshit answers.

Haehyun: The little human inside the robot is alright at hugging, but the robot itself will probably crush your bones.

Happy Chaos: He's going to do something really friggin weird for shits n giggles and you're going to regret it.

Zato: He's just shit at hugging. Dude died and came back wrong.

[nottoxicfr]

This is an “original Happy Chaos Unit” design. I can’t come up with a name (since Happy Chaos is taken). The only name I have is Winona, so I’ll use that here. Winona Valentine!

Physically, although she’s a clone of Aria like all Valentines, she’s kind of half baked so her age is around 15. Connected to that, she has an artificial personality composited of several people Asuka met during the Holy War. Alongside an unmatured logic core, this means she tends towards erratic or eccentric ideas.

Also, as a result of being unfinished, there would be a visual gag that she needs really needs glasses. Combined with her eccentricities, she makes weird assumptions about what is in front of her. For example, when presented with Sol Badguy, she wouldn’t think, “This is Sol Badguy, the person Asuka inoculated my mind with knowledge about!” She would think, “This is a very blurry bear! I’m in danger!”

Winona summons and wields a giant sword and has a similar fighting style to Kliff Undersn. She was designed to be able to combat Justice, or beings connected to infinity like I-No, so that she can place limits on their power. The idea is that her sister, Jack-O, is meant to act as a sort of ‘patch.’ Winona is meant to ‘reboot’ the data by cutting into it and forcing a default. Basically, she cuts into a data overflow and causes a bug, returning it to the minimum. Not an immortal killer, but an immortal soft rebooter.

Her arcade story focuses on her abrupt awakening in a world where her intended purpose has been averted, and then the following journey to locate her “sister unit” Jack-O Valentine. I think she’s motivated by a memory of her sister saying “I can’t wait to meet you!”

This begins with an encounter with Testament (her story partner) as they lead her through Ramlethal, Elphelt, Ky, Sol, and either Asuka or Jack-O’ depending on the route. The route is basically her asking different people if they’ve seen her sister and then fighting due to a misunderstanding or a test. It’s not helped that she can’t see very well.

It’s a funny visual image in my head, but also kind of sad. She doesn’t recognize Jack-O because she thinks she’d look like herself (white hair), but Jack-O’ has red hair now.

[bigupsdog]

I'm creating intro dialog for every character in Guilty Gear because im bored.

I'm writing these all where the character of the post talks second and I'm doing it in reverse character order because I wanted to start with ABA becausei like her. I'm also redoing dialog for characters that already have unique dialog with each other because I know I'll forget who had unique dialog with who.

Sol: You cause any mayhem and you'll get a high bounty on your head.

ABA: I am no fool in a china shop.

Ky: All my life I've killed those I thought to be monsters, then I realized I was the monster, so I won't judge you.

ABA: I've heard about your actions during the Crusades, you were the king of the kill.

May: You're married huh, you know I've always wanted to get married too.

ABA: Was that a coy attempt to flirt with Paracelsus?

Axl: I know what it's like to be ripped away from the person you love, I wouldn't do that to you mate.

ABA: I love Paracelsus more than anything in this world, no one will take him from me.

Chipp: Nothings faster than me.

ABA: You are the tortoise and I'm the snare.

Potemkin: If you're still looking for a way to give Paracelsus a body Zepp is always open to you.

ABA: No, I still don't trust you, your arms are too big.

Faust: Your… Injuries… need… Doctor...

ABA: An apple a day a doctor i'll slay.

Millia: Speaking from experience, no one likes a possessive partner.

ABA: I am not possessive of my Paracelsus, you just want him for yourself!

Zato: Love? I think I once knew that?

ABA: You seem to be haunted by shadows from your broadcast.

Ram: I also find the world confusing but that's what makes it beautiful.

ABA: Perhaps we can carve a place in this world for people like us.

Leo: You're about to hear me roar!

ABA: He's more meow than bite.

Nago: I sense an inner bloodlust coming from that ax.

ABA: His name is Paracelsus and you should fear me more.

Gio: My report says you can see invisible spirits.

ABA: Not all spirits are like that dog, some just want to be on their own.

Anji: If you love something you should set it free.

ABA: No, the saying is, if you love something don't let it flee.

I-No: Here's some dating advice, no man likes the jealous type.

ABA: My Paracelsus loves me just as I am and I won't let some harlet tell me otherwise!

Goldlewis: Two cryptids for the price of one.

ABA: You simply label anything different a cryptid.

Jack-O: That's a great Frankenstein costume, just needs the green paint.

ABA: Keep away from me I like how I look, as is.

HC: Never seen a romantic comedy like this before.

ABA: There is nothing comedic about our romance.

Baiken: You'll fall by my blade.

ABA: Fall down seven times, get up with hate!

Testament: You both seem to be doing better.

ABA: I suppose that was somewhat your doing, thanks.

Bridget: Hay, Roger and that key could have a playdate together.

ABA: Paracelsus is a living being, your not going to force him to do something he doesn't want to do like some toy!

Sin: Jezz, why do you use such big words, do you even know what they mean?

ABA: This fastidious fool has the gall to insult my vernacular!

Delilah: Is she using a giant living key as a weapon? That's weird.

ABA: Is she using a giant living bed as a weapon? She's copying us!

Asuka R#: Well, if it isn't the inspiration for my creation.

ABA: Another artificial lifeform? Perhaps I'm not so alone?

Asuka R Kreutz: You know I've created some life forms as well.

ABA: From what I've heard about you, you've only created death.

Johnny: I think you hold the keys to my heart.

ABA: Save it, my heart only belongs to one man!

Elphelt: Sooooo, what are you going to name the kids?

ABA: This is my love life. You don't need to chaperone every part of it.

[maritime-carnival]

guilty gear character headcanons, but i put them through a random headcanon generator

-sol is in your house

-if the source media where a musical, ky would be the one asking why everyone is singing

-jack-o believes in ghosts and insists on trying to summon one at every sleepover

-asuka is not allowed to drink energy drinks

-dizzy desperately needs a hug but doesn't know it and refuses to ask for one

-sin always has a deck of yugioh cards on him

-ramlethal has a diary that she writes in with a glittery gel pen

-elphelt will remind people in the midst of chaos how good *she's* being

-testament instinctively cleans messes in their own house, as well as everyone else’s

-nagoriyuki makes your mom jokes

-i-no wears hello kitty socks

-happy chaos has an intense fear of spiders

-leo knocks people over by hugging them

-daryl enjoys doing taxes

-vernon uses the word ‘like’ like a comma

-erica has a pet cat

-goldlewis can beat you up and will

-giovanna knows every lyric to ‘let it go’ by heart

-bridget would buy clothes from the soup store

-axl is an oldest child

-may sings in the shower

-johnny can’t sit in a chair properly

-april uses the word ‘fuck’ like a comma

-gabriel is a great artist

-potemkin was dropped out of a window as a child

-ariels bites her nails

-faust has an old, embarrassing deviant art account

-raven has not showered in two and a half weeks

-zappa watched the sonic movie

-aba’s least favorite subject in school was english

-if paracelsus was presented with an intergalactic portal, he would enter it without question

-chipp wakes up on november first and starts decorating for christmas

-answer has a mary sue oc

-anji is a cat person

-baiken is smart but also very stupid

-delilah has chronic nightmares

-bedman likes being alone

-haehyun tells dad jokes

-dr. paradigm will go feral. watch out

-izuna is great with kids

-slayer is constantly singing for no reason

-sharon is a horrible liar

-zato can beat you up if you deserve it

-eddie steals other people’s clothes

-millia gets road rage

-venom cringes at his middle school year book

-robo-ky likes to sing at 4am. his neighbors hate him

-fanny sleeps in until noon

-jam does not know how to read

-kliff has punched a hole through his wall

[gear-project]

How do you feel that the game finally confirmed that sol bad guy is the biological father of dizzy, the biological grandfather of Sin and father in law of Ky

The story "says" they are family, but tends to step OVER the fact that none of this has EVER been explained in the story (not even a little bit).

I discussed this at length when discussing Ky's situation a while ago.

First of all, let's remember that Aria never had intimate relations (enough to get pregnant) with Frederick prior to being frozen in cryostasis in 2016. She never even says anything (nor does Jack-O') about having children.

Frederick had only just barely had time to "pop the question" of Marriage to her (through a cryptic computer coding prank no less), never mind the idea that Aria was used as the "Template" not just for Justice, but for future Command Type Gears and Valentines who aren't Dizzy (much less any other Command Type Gear, Solaria, I'm looking at YOU, Gig, I'm also looking AT YOU.)

Secondly, Sol (obviously) fought Justice TWICE during the Crusades after the year 2172. A grand total of two times, and the THIRD time Sol fought her was in 2180, which resulted in her death.

If Justice WAS pregnant sometime prior to being unsealed in 2180, there's absolutely no strong record of it, short of anything GG2 Overture has suggested as a possibility. And it most certainly was NOT from Sol's hands, since he's the one who KILLED her.

Sol himself is somewhat rattled whenever Dizzy mentioned the idea of being her biological father, since not only does that connect him to Ky and Sin (which he previously had zero knowledge of), but also the very idea that he had intimate relations with his FORMER mortal enemy: a Gear.

Sol was a Gear, make no mistake, but he swore he would kill and dismantle ALL Gears (not long after being betrayed by Asuka a while ago). Bedman even cracks jokes about this paradox in Xrd Sign.

Sol's excuse for sparing Dizzy from her fate of "Death as a Gear" was because he "made a mistake, not all Gears want to fight and/or die" (to paraphrase what he says in Guilty Gear X upon his first encounter with Dizzy).

It's because Dizzy didn't want to fight that Sol spared her, that's the initial reason... there wasn't anything MORE to that (and Sol doesn't even mention the idea that Dizzy even remotely reminded him of Aria... in fact the similarity was much closer with the first Valentine than with Dizzy herself).

He doesn't even make much comparison to Justice, other than the Michael Sword, Imperial Ray, and Gamma Ray (and let's not talk about Necro Install, shall we?)

It's worth noting that when Dizzy encounters Kliff Undersn (in a possible what-if scenario) she says he reminds her of her "Father", but is nonspecific as to whether she means her biological father or her adopted parents (whom raised her and also took in Testament some time later).

Speaking of Kliff, there's also a point when Crow Kuruwaba (of the former Postwar Administration Bureau) has Dizzy face a "simulated Battle" of both Kliff's and Sol's "Crusades Era Combat Data", and Dizzy claims the experience is "Nostalgic".

How can someone who is NOT accustomed to fighting claim that a battle record of two fighters that occurred several years before she was even BORN claim something is "nostalgic"?

Oh but there's more... see, Dizzy "remembers" the Forbidden Beasts (Kinjuu) like Eddie (Zato's Life-Stealing Shadow Organism), and remembers their purpose as naturally-programmed "enemies" of the Gears.

Exactly HOW does someone who was raised in a CAVE for much of her childhood know these things???

Unless she herself somehow "tumbled out of a hidden Gear-Plant Research Facility" and winded up in a civilian village as a kid?

As a child, Dizzy didn't even HAVE Wings OR a Tail, she was just a normal kid at first... and nobody in the village knew where she'd even COME from.

And let's not forget Crow Kuruwaba's "obsession" with trying to clone Dizzy in to an Army of Mass Production Angelic Command Type Gears... and this was LONG BEFORE Valentines were created by the Universal Will (Merciless Apocalypse's Children).

Dr. Paradigm was also somewhat cryptic when he said Dizzy was a "Reproduction of Justice"... so what DOES reproduction even MEAN in this Context, Dr. P? Biological Reproduction? Cloning? Artificial Insemination?

And let's not forget about the CUBE that Asuka R. Kreutz was working on in GG2 Overture... just what WAS that thing, Asuka???

Supposedly it had Sol's Genetic Gear Template Data embedded in it as a "genetic key" (Prime Field) that Valentine later stole from Sin Kiske.

But what was Sin doing with the Prime Field? How did HE get something that Asuka was trying to lock up and seal away?

Asuka didn't even KNOW that Dizzy was connected with Justice genetically in any way, shape, OR form... if he KNEW that Dizzy was connected with Justice, he probably would have created more countermeasures, not just for Dizzy, but for Sol as well!

But the cat's out of the bag: Sin has the Prime Field Gear Genes, the so-called "Blood of Juno" (suggesting the Scales of Juno was embedded in Dizzy's Gene Pool, despite the fact the Scales were NOT installed in Justice initially and only LATER ON installed in Jack-O'!!!).

So what does the Prime Field Gear Genes, the Scales of Juno... and so on and so forth, have anything to DO with Dizzy? Especially when Asuka R. Kreutz had NO AWARENESS OF HER EXISTENCE????

The only POSSIBLE person who could have orchestrated this (Crow Kuruwaba?) hasn't been seen in years, and if they are around, they're probably connected SOMEHOW with Happy Chaos.

And knowing "Chaos" he probably is the ONE who inadvertently created Dizzy just by being in the wrong place at the right time during the Crusades. (To say nothing of how many other things he did posing as "That Man" in place of Asuka.)

Okay... let's brush aside the idea that Dizzy has "artificial memory implants", let's also brush aside the idea that Dizzy's "Blue hair" looks absolutely nothing like Sol's or Justice' hair.... let's brush aside the whole "Blood of Juno" thing for a moment...

Even if Dizzy was "artificially created", as Eddie once stated "Weapons don't form families, they form arsenals"... that's what Dizzy's original PURPOSE was: a Biological Weapon.

It's a harsh truth... but since when does a Biological Weapon have a Heart? Have Dreams? Have HOPE for the Future?

Well, Dizzy had all those and more.

No matter what Dizzy's original "purpose" was, she defied it and insisted on becoming a "human being" (even if by the smallest definition of one).

If "becoming human" means "Loving other people" or "Having a family", it's not a bad idea... certainly beats marching in an army for hundreds of years only to get scrapped by humans (or fellow Gears) who would casually scorn your existence.

Of course, that PURPOSE is still deeply tied to Dizzy's existence, much like the Flame of Corruption is also just as tied to Sol's history.

Will that change anything? Will her position have more meaning to it for humanity now that she has chosen to become a Queen?

Well, according to Vialattea's Property Values, numbers don't lie, apparently. She must be doing SOMETHING right.

As for being Sol's daughter... well, even if the truth is obscured in darkness for thousands of years only to get dredged up by some info-broker like Bedman or something... I'm sure Dizzy already accepted her OWN truth about Sol in her heart (regardless of what the actual truth may be).

As for how Sol feels... it's probably a nice change of pace from living alone for hundreds of years: having a family, that is.

Even if Adopted, even if Symbolic, family is still family.

Weapons may form Arsenals, but those people with Hearts in them can share those hearts with those they love. Even if those Hearts are "a little rusty".

(P.S. Edit: AND DON'T GET ME STARTED on Dizzy's "Mysterious Connection" with Sol's OutRage...)

[amorphousgreydragon]

Would Justice in Strive be pointless?

12.11 edit

Justice is a very unique design, visually, narratively and from a gameplay perspective, yet over time, not only has Arcsys moved away and seemingly abandoned the character but has also split what things that made the character special and turned these things into other designs, two primarily:

Jack-O, who inherited half her personality, her bombs, her very soul, and Dizzy, who inherited her zoning, her screen control alongside her strong mobility from before +r.

That being said, is there no direction to take the character that would make her a worthy member of the strive roster and could set her apart in a fulfilling and compelling?

Jack-O inherited Justice's soul, what was left of Aria. Dizzy has inherited Justice's identity as a gear- a monster humanity would seek to destroy at best and use for their own benefit at worst. What story could be told? How could Justice belong?

The answer lies in what you take for granted when you look at those two characters: how they were created and why. How timeless they are, while Justice- or Aria isn't. Aria is a just a human in a robot body. Jack-O was created by that man for a purpose, and after that purpose was fulfilled, she had to find herself again, both a clean slate and not, the question on how much of her timeless existence as a Valentine she should sacrifice to make everyone else happy on her mind. How much she should sacrifice of herself to Aria keep everyone else safe. This isn't a dynamic Aria would have to deal of on her own. Dizzy, while her origins are kept vague, was supposed to be Justice's second coming, but thanks to Ky and all the others who helped her, found a way to resist that external design and find her own path in life among the humans she was meant to destroy. Aria on her own wouldn't deal with that struggle the same way, now that the universal will is gone. Both of them have their own stories to tell, with their own struggles- but neither of them is human, or has lost themselves to the degree that Justice has. They were born Supernatural, immortal, perfect, timeless.

While Justice wasn't. Justice was born a regular person. Was a person one day, and gear made for destruction the next. Justice would have just been Aria without the Universal Will interfering. Justice would have been saved in time, with Asuka transferring her to a new body, a Jack-O unit, after everything surrounding the research around the gear cells would have settled down. Aria, in perfect control of all the world's most dangerous weapons, would have been impossible to manipulate or use for destructive purposes, and Asuka, presumably, trusted her with that. With the power to destroy the world. If the universal will hadn't interfered, it would have been the perfect plan.

But now she is stuck. Due to the faulty duplication process the PWAB used, taking Aria out of this mechanical body is impossible, but at least she gets to keep her mind, unlike the first time, which would have been reason enough for the PWAB to seal her away during the events of +r, knowing how dangerous a Justice could be if she isn't 100% under their control. Where they would seal her away? Into the backyard. Where Asuka would find her after the events of Guilty Gear Strive and welcome her to world once more.

And with that mind she could evolve in ways that neither Jack-O nor Dizzy could come close to. Her visual design could change in ways to make the mechanical dragon just as cool and badass as she is now, but less of a monster and more just like the woman she is underneath, staying strong inspite of the struggle. She is the mother of all Gears and all Valentines. They are her legacy unbidden. They could be her family, or they could not be. She could accept them in time after working through her grief, of she could not. She could learn from them, be inspired by them, or she could also not.

The original Justice was a product of Ariel's meddling, this one isn't. This one, inspite of everything she's lost oh so suddenly, is a human adapting to not being one anymore.

From a gameplay perspective:

She could be the big body, mobile powerhouse that keeps her opponent's at bay while being as viscous and terrifying as Justice's stature has the potential to be. Without cold cruelty and spite controlling her every thought, without arrogance oozing from every movement, who could she be?

She could change modes and forms by controlling how much armor and many machine parts she has at any given time- changing her from a heavy, metallic android with shoulderpads big enough to hide an entire arsenal like in +r to a nimble and organic white dragon we see in Xrd story mode. Not only would this impact health, speed and defenses but it would also change her special moves as well, maybe allowing you to switch from one tool kit to the other during a combo in creative and innovative ways. You could even make the change impact her framedata, like the hatched mode (the one focusing on all the speed and airdashes without the mechanical parts in the way) having a less advantageous c.s by pushing the opponent further away while decreasing her advantage on block, or for the metal mode deal chip damage on Tail attacks with them hitting multiple times like a chainsaw.

You could also just make her more like Dragon Install Jack-O, a concept that would be so amazing and badass to play. So instead of only being able to invent new moves or incorporate elements from her +r entry you can also use DI Sol as base from which to reinvent and integrate inspirations from Dizzy, Jack-O and previous versions of the character.

This character has so much potential still left in her.

[isaactheowl]

“Send Me a Fandom and I'll Give You” ask game, you already know who it is, The Griddy Gear,

Hell yeah

Favorite pairing (romantic)

So I don't know if this just for Canon romantic pairings but my faves are

Venom and robo ky

Jam and jack o

Favorite pairing (platonic)

Aba and s ko

Least favorite pairing (romantic)

Millia and zato

Venom and zato

May and Johnny

You know why

Least favorite pairing (platonic)

Sol badguy and asuka

It just isn't for me

Favorite character

Venom

Least favorite character

Happy chaos

Zato one

Something that should happen/should have happened

I think when venom it would be interesting to see what will happen when he finds out about the bed with no man but I know that the dialogue with him and Delilah will be super sad though

I also kinda want to see him talk to chipp again

Something that shouldn't have happened

The white venom and white potemkin skins

The pedophilia in the xx games

A rare opinion/headcanon

I headCannon that chipps missing Link outfit is a ninja costume that he bought on clearance at the spirit of Halloween that he later modded

[chipp-zanuff-fanboy]

Even though it was like, more than half a year since I played GGST, I am still super excited about a possible sequel.

Like, imagine. After the new direction gameplay-wise and the story basically being the end of Sol's arc, the next game is probably going to be sort of a new generation, jumping-on-point-for-new-fans type of deal. Which is so much my fucking jam that I want to write a whole post of just predictions/wishes for the different characters.

-Sin gets rid of his eating gimmick and becomes a combination of his two dads, taking on the role of new protagonist and combining their gameplay. So he has a projectile that goes across the ground like Gun Flame, but can also be charged like Stun Edge. Also? Purple color scheme, as well as his own message on his belt buckle. I'm thinking Future, in reference to him being the new protagonist as well as "Goals and Future" from his theme in Strive.

-I am not sure what to do with Ram, but I feel like if they made her projectiles more powerful and versatile, taking back their properties from Xrd, would kind of help with her becoming a member of the Illyria Military. I'll go into what I want for story later, but I would love for her and Sin to kind of be a friendlier, more sibling-like take on Sol and Ky's whole Shonen rival thing. Her belt buckle bears the word "Meaning".

-Neither Sol, Ky or Asuka would appear as playable fighters, at least not as base roster. Ky is focusing on politics, and perhaps raising a new child, Sol is working on his rocket with Jack-O and Asuka is doing a podcast on the moon. Him narrating the events of the story is the framing device for story mode.

-Happy Chaos would reappear, taking on a new name and identity, probably as a weird magic hobo. He would take on a new role in the story as a weird anti-hero ally.

-Nago travels the word, having lost an eye to a mysterious new opponent. He searches tirelessly for it.

-Giovanna has risen up the ranks and is, somewhat unwillingly, taking on the role of a secret agent. Her role in the military is continuously prioritized below getting a date with Leo.

-Faust is becoming more and more monstrous. His Dr. Baldhead-identity is returning, and he searches for a cure to his condition before it's too late.

-Having acceptet her new identity, Bridget gets a re-design with some cowgirl-elements, in honor of Goldlewis influence. She reconnects with her brother, who has spent years searching for her. She has also become close friends with Dizzy, and has gotten work as her bodyguard.

As is essentially obligatory for this kind of sequel, several characters have gained protegés and the like:

-Chipp's story involves him training a citizen of the Eastern Chipp Kingdom to be a ninja. This citizen appears in his victory animation, participates in his supers and would perhaps be added with DLC.

-Leo gets a second-in-command, and through training him, comes to term with his trauma.

-Zato-ONE and Millia discovers a third host to a Forbidden Beast, and becomes the hosts weird adoptive parents, Slayer acting as the child's really weird grandpa; Robo-Ky and Venom as it's cool new uncles.

-Delilah reappears, wielding broken parts of her bed. She fights with a sword and uses the bed's arm to parry her enemies, like Baiken, and she also keeps her traps. These traps are a mix of her brother's and some inspired from Baiken, such as swords spinning in the air and Tatami mats appearing from the ground.

-Through the years, Johnny and May's relationship becomes more and more strained. In the end, Johnny disappears, and May becomes the new captain of the Jellyfish Pirates. On her journey to find Johnny and make amends, she ends up falling in love with someone new. In her Arcade ending, Johnny holds a tearful speech on her wedding.

-Having risen up the military ranks, Potemkin works tirelessly to improve Zepp's political standing. On his journey, he meets and saves an abused child worker from an weapon manufacturer, and helps her overcome her trauma.

That's about it for the characters. I think that if there was a Story Mode, it would be mostly character-focused, but would be focused on Sin and Ram pursuing a mysterious group of terrorists. Consisting of a small group of Gears that survived the hunting of Gears after Justice's defeat, as well as other outsiders, that blindly wanders the world commiting acts of violence.

I've been meaning to overcome my current art block, so for every like this posts get I'll draw a possible redesign/new character from this concept.

[guiltygearconfessions]

motherfuckers still are going off about asuka ships and arguing, but what about asuka friendships. like someday i just wanna see him, sol and jack o being able to be happy again after he gives them a well deserved apology. also him and ky have potential as a cool duo tbh

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[manybackflips]

Now that the Strive storyline ended, what now?

All the plots were tied up with a bow, the main conflict is resolved, and the main cast of characters are content.

Gears are becoming more accepted in society, Sol retired with his wife, and Ky stepped down from being the First King of Illyria to focus on his family more.

Now what? How could the story even continue?

Enter Happy Chaos. The living breathing plot device. A man(?) who lives for action! For a story! To make sure that “no one falls asleep in history class again.”

Happy Chaos is a character that could kickstart a new plot out of boredom alone. And he probably will. We know who he is, and how often his motives can change, with him having stated that he had the options of being the antagonist or an ally, depending on what’s more interesting.

Hell, his entire moveset could change in the next game! We don’t even know if he’ll be a “he” in the next game! And why did he say that he was “finally here” in the post-credit scene on the beach!

All the more questions! What a wacky guy, that Happy Chaos.

Also it’s pretty funny that he stole that name from the unfinished Jack-O unit made by Asuka because Chaos thought the name was neat.

[solradguy]

so I've been looking at Happy Chaos and noticed his belt has the symbol for Gemini the twins, while also having Dioscori inscribed on the belt in cursive (Διόσκορη), is, is there another one of him running around you think?

Maybe he's being cheeky because he swiped an empty Jack-O' vessel so he's "twins" with Jack-O' Valentine herself? Asuka called the empty vessel "Happy Chaos," which I guess The Original took as his name once he inhabited it.

From Strive, "Omen" chapter (Illyria Castle -- Interrogation Room bit further down):

Jack-O': There were originally supposed to be two Jack-O' units. One of them was me. My role was to make your girlfriend human again. And the other's role was to make I-No... Ky: To make her what? Jack-O': Asuka knew that I-No would pose a threat if she ever awakened. So he created a Jack-O' to prevent that. No, in order to save her. That other Jack-O'... ...was given a name to distinguish us: Happy Chaos. Ky: What are you saying? That the Gear Maker created Chaos? No, more importantly... Is I-No trying to become a normal human? Jack-O': That's what I don't get. The plan was kept secret. I-No shouldn't know about it. And weirder still, even though the Gear Maker was making Happy Chaos... He never finished. [Pause.]

Happy Chaos is kind of out of my realm of GG knowledge so I'm just speculating based on what makes the most sense. It's possible there's a bit of lore that goes into it more that I don't know about/remember