#i also love paracelsus

[seajugo]

OG Red Hair A.B.A or Blue Hair A.B.A?!? I LOVE THEM BOTH!!!!!!!!!!

[francishabilis]

I like them a lot they are sooo silly

they are the healthiest unhealthy couple ever

[pocket-void]

I finished that fanart I was working on! ^///^)/

Hi, so like, I know next to nothing about Guilty Gear I just really really liked whatever the hell these two got going on LMAO- Got suggested some videos and then proceeded to look up everything about her. I sure do love a girl who's weird, and she's so unwell. <3

But yeah!! :D Turned out surprisingly well imo, I'm happy with it. :3c

[ripplefields]

HAPPY PARACELSUS HAS CANONICALLY ACCEPTED BEING ABAS HUSBAND AKA ABAPARA WIN DAY

[doubleedgemode]

Happy summer, everybody!

This has been a big project to take and while there's stuff to improve I'm pretty happy with it. Be sure to zoom in the big picture for details and read the comic from left to right. (Needless to say, please don't try A.B.A's behaviour.. For your safety)

Bonus doodle:

[dayshorizon]

ABAcelsus keychain designs 🗝️🩸

I love this dedicated wife and her axe husband 🩵💛

[skeleslime-phantom]

People always give Paracelsus a human design, but nobody ever seems to consider giving ABA a goofy weaponsona.

Lotsa people are drawing human Paracelsus since he did get a design in a non-canonical ending. (if u already knew this then ignore it)

I've only seen 1 artwork of someone giving ABA a weapons form. It's really good!

[frascospecimen]

I saw a post the other day that made me think about this…. Just a rough design because I had to get the vision out of my head but here’s paracelsus as in the one who created aba design. AND she’s a girl becsuse im awesome

[leviathanfish]

I’ve been playing Guilty gear strive recently and it’s been fun,so I drew A.B.A because I like her design and she seems to be getting popular.

[francishabilis]

whenever I see art of human paracelsus I start giggling and kicking my feet

[elementroar]

Analysis of Paracelsus' initial bloodlust and its longlasting effects on A.B.A (Part 2)

Analysis behind the backstory and personal story arcs of A.B.A. and Paracelsus (part 1)

So this actually started out more of a 'funny' post, but I realized that it really is a very important insight into how A.B.A. and Paracelsus function and interact, especially for his earlier days in XX/Accent Core +R

And I wasn't joking about the vore. It's not in the erotic sense...but it certainly is in the 'literally eating parts of your partner ' sense...

Also apologies for the long word dumps, it got wordier and longer than I expected.

Paracelsus (used to) REALLY love blood

It goes without saying, Paracelsus really loves blood. Well he used to anyway.

By STRIVE, he says he felt he lost his sanity whenever he gets hyped on blood in the past. To the point, he has sworn off blood (and violence) as if it was an addiction. Basically, he has managed to go clean sometime between their last appearance and STRIVE.

To not go too far into his backstory again (which you can read here), Paracelsus is a magical axe that fed on blood and increased his own power with blood; and would use warriors as hosts to cause more bloodshed and thus gain more blood and power for himself. Paracelsus doesn't need to 'eat' blood to survive (he was left host-less for about 20 years, and now abstains in STRIVE and is just fine), making the addiction metaphor seem to be accurate.

Back in XX/ACCENT CORE, he needed to drink fresh blood to transform into his superpowered Moroha mode (this is mechanically replaced by Jealous Rage mode now). Similar to his current gameplay, he could get blood and transform by A.B.A. piercing someone with his bladed end; or if A.B.A. fed him one of three blood packs she'd have on her.

He reacts pretty much like a dog getting a treat, anticipating it when she reaches into her pockets for a pack too. And he truly didn't care where the blood comes from, even if it's from A.B.A. herself.

A.B.A. coughs up blood and all Paracelsus wants to do is have a taste. Note that he barely actually reacts to her or himself getting hit or fighting in the old games. It's kind of a stark contrast to his many reactions and concern for her wellbeing now.

Make no mistake, despite being "kinder and gentler" than how he treated his previous hosts - by not completely mind controlling her into a frenzy and caring enough that he doesn't want her to die - Paracelsus was truly obsessed with drinking blood still, and all the fighting skills and power he imparted on A.B.A. was to make her strong enough to defeat opponents and gather blood for him too. Hence the 'manipulation' he felt guilty of in STRIVE.

And he gets even more bloodthirsty in Moroha mode aka what Paracelsus is without his 'sanity'.

You're the worse you when on blood

Prior to STRIVE and Paracelsus' current sludgy form, his powered-up form gave him a goat's head and his persona changes into that of his old berserker self.

This increase in aggression and bloodlust also affected A.B.A. through their empathetic bond, making her also take joy in violence and also clearly hyperventilating and tweaking out in some animations, like she's high.

Not to mention that to fight in this mode, every time Paracelsus makes a successful attack, A.B.A. also gets damaged (hence 'Moroha' mode as it means 'double-edged'). In-universe, this could mean that Paracelsus is sapping both the blood of an opponent and A.B.A. at the same time, indiscriminately as he says.

And he seems somewhat crueler in this form, as he has an even more violent and vicious state above Moroha mode called Goku Moroha mode. He enters it by consuming another blood pack, but he also seems to bite down on A.B.A.'s hand without a care and holds onto it while he transforms.

The impact of all this on A.B.A

Picking up Paracelsus was truly a double-edged sword/axe for A.B.A. On one hand, he was older and savvier about the outside world (even though he spent like 20 years just rusting away on the ground somewhere) and having him as her emotional support key and literal weapon led her to actually daring to explore the outside world, and he provided and (attempted to) advised her on things she didn't know about.

On the other hand, Paracelsus' satiating his bloodthirst was still his main objective, and it was also hurting A.B.A. Although Paracelsus was making some effort to not outright get her killed, A.B.A's additional resilience as a homunculus probably also helped her survive take being Paracelsus' host as long as she did.

Paracelsus was the original toxic element in their relationship, and it's likely over the years he's come to realize and regrets the harm he was doing to A.B.A. constantly, and why he has completely sworn off blood and violence entirely by STRIVE.

However, his bloodlust fueled and amplified the worse tendencies of A.B.A. from early on, and this seems to have stuck with her till the present in STRIVE. Her current extremely violent reaction when feeling jealousy or anxiety is likely how she's been conditioned to do so by Paracelsus, even when he himself is no longer the source of that bloodlust.

The difference now is that A.B.A.'s new powered-up state of Jealous Rage is mainly fueled by her wrath and fear instead of Paracelsus' bloodlust. Paracelsus becomes sludge now, affected by the toxicity of her unstable emotions going haywire and her will becoming decidedly dominant over his. The one who is toxic has become inverted.

What's more, it seems that the skills Paracelsus imparted on her before also carried over and stuck with her, allowing her to fight independently since Paracelsus isn't trying to encourage her to violence this time. She's become so dominant that she now can even force a new form/transformation onto Paracelsus when she does her Overdrive The Law is Key, Key is King while in Jealous Rage.

In the game files, this red form is called the "Hyoui" form, meaning 'possession'. It being red is interesting because it seems to be a callback to Paracelsus' moniker of being the Sanguine Gale. The concept art also shows the pretty disturbing way he's being morphed into it by A.B.A. when she does the Overdrive.

When in her Jealous Rage mode, the bottom half Paracelsus' where his axe blade is, somehow becomes more axe-like than it ever has been in the games. In the earlier games, his blade half didn't change, only his head does into the goat-head. What's more disturbing is that eyes already started appearing on the axe half even while Paracelsus tries to maintain his original face as much as possible.

When executing the Overdrive, A.B.A. swings with the axe half as the sludge pulls from Paracelsus' face to form this new toothed red axe head. Is it a new persona? Is Paracelsus still conscious in his face half or in the axe half at all? Does 'possession' have double meaning where A.B.A. is possessed by her own wrath, but also Paracelsus is now the one being possessed by A.B.A.'s will into forming the red axe form?

The interesting thing too is that A.B.A. executes the Overdrive with precise strikes, liked a skilled warrior. IMO, at this moment A.B.A. ironically became the exact kind of warrior that berserker Paracelsus would have wanted and caused him to even revert back into that primal early form of his that was barely sentient. They gained perfect synergy for the attack, but both are literally out of their minds.

What started this post

Just a funny thing but the reason why I even thought of, and then looked into all this, was because of A.B.A.'s biting of Paracelsus at the top of the post. I was wondering why Paracelsus doesn't say a word of protest when she does this to him, then remembered that he used to kinda drink her blood (and turns out he too has bitten her before), and I think he's prolly thinking "I deserve this".

[rammliedmania]

your art is so cute! can you draw (human)paracelsus or testament? id love to see either of them in your style :)

THANK YOU ANON !!! here's both, because i felt like drawing both >:33 i hope you like it!!! drew paracelsus a ponytail cuz... why not.... also testament's older design cuz i feel that one slays hard 🖤

[nat-the-octo]

Season 3’s theme being Love is something I had seen before, but I recently realized that the characters are, in order of release, different stages of relationships.

Johnny: Affectionate, but can’t/won’t latch onto anything specific. He’s also unaware of any greater level of love than passing interest.

Elphelt: Aware of higher levels of love, but can’t find the person to commit to. She also only sees the idealistic parts of love without any deeper meaning.

A.B.A. (and Paracelsus): They both care deeply for each other, and are fully committed to each other’s vision of the relationship. There are underlying issues and fears, but they both communicate their feelings to each other and work through problems as a unit.

Slayer (and Sharon): A dedicated mutual relationship. Both sides benefit and support the other. No further development needed

[kipper-dips]

i love my little freaks so much, also thank you literally everyone for drawing human paracelsus with the damn hip gaps,,, it gives me life <3 <3 <3

[crazykeytime]

JUST wanted to say i absolutely love your og A.B.A x paracelsus doodles,,, like dont get me wrong i love their current relationship but whatever the fuck they had going on earlier was ... 😋

These are for you anon <3 and OMG YEAH YOU GET IT

These two had LOTS of problems back then, they didn't know how to treat each other, and ended up making toxic behaviours into normal habits for them

I need more of them, of their past, of how they ended up like they do in Strive, like yeah I've seen people do stuff with them talking out about their problems and stuff, but I want to see the problems! I want to be there and be like "Damn both of you toxic fr" or smt

I need to see more stuff about A.B.A having a lots of troubles trying to leave her old habits behind, not only the obsesion but also her physical habits, like, it's so interesting that she had the habit of bitting since she was "born"(as seen by official illustrations), my girl has been damaged since the beginning/hj