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Bridget is genuinely one of the best examples of trans representation in fighting games- video games in GENERAL. Her story was that her town had a superstition that having twin boys would bring bad luck, so they had to be either exiled or killed. Having been born as a boy with a twin brother, her parents raised Bridget as a girl. In most of the games she's off doing her own thing, and is trying to make it as a bounty hunter to prove to the town that this superstition was false. She *did* do it, but in the events of Strive, she felt incredibly conflicted about her identity. In her arcade story, both Goldlewis (the big dude that swings around a coffin with ghosts in it) and Ky (the pretty boy king) run across her and help her decide what she wants with her life. It's genuinely heartwarming how this secret service agent and a literal anime protag king make time for this confused girl to help her be who she wants to be. Her design is also a callback to some of her previous appearances, where she dressed as a nun to appear more feminine. Although now it's only a slight resemblance, showing she's accepted the identity she once used to conceal, but is now far more free with herself. Bridget: "But what if I make the wrong decision?" Goldlewis: "You got your whole life ahead of you, kid. Gotta learn to take a hit sometime." Ky: "And there are helping hands right in front of you."
Boothill on a horse? That would be funny. But there are no horses in Star Rail. And if there were horses, Acheron probably already killed them before we got it in our heads we'd get a playable horse character #JusticeForDukeInferno
May I remind you all, Focalors saved the entirety of Fontaine WITHOUT using any powers at all, which is entirely fitting for her character since the powers she attained from archonhood were entirely usurped from the dragons. It fits with the theme of justice, and emphasises Focalors’ point about the strength of humanity.
On topic of descenders, not all outlanders are descenders. Which is why our sibling isn’t one. Descenders have wills that can rival the world. It’s still interesting that the third descender has its remains turned into the 7 gnosis. Since natlan will have a theme or resurrection based off the teyvat trailer it’s speculated the harbingers will resurrect the third descender
I'll do what I can to specifically try to elucidate on the Bedman section in the Ups and Down music video, though I certainly am no Guilty Gear deeplore scholar myself, here's a decent TL;DR: During the events of Xrd, the game prior to Strive, Bedman was on team Bad Guy, working under an entity known as the Universal Will. As an extremely powerful psyker, his brain was so overclocked it would actually fry him alive should he be awake (same with his sister Delilah, who the Universal Will said they could help fix that with following her. When revealed the Universal Will was lying to him, Bedman casted his final magics during his dying moments, helping to repair Delilah and very likely causing the complicated background with Bedman? in Strive.) Naturally, with being ABSURDLY overpowered in storyline cutscenes, Slayer got the Assassin Guild back together (Zato, Millia, and Venom, who is likely to show up in Season 4) to try and take Bedman down during the course of the story. When a combined attack failed, Slayer would eventually lead Bedman out for a mano-to-mano confrontation, resulting in the featured cutscenes where he unleashes his full vampire glory to take on Bedman and try to weaken him down.
hii! Hope you are enjoying the game so far! The archon quests are the main story plot so I would just follow the main quests it's giving you for now as those will guide you through the game and open up areas so you can explore more 😁✌️
I-no is a bit complicated to explain by I'll try my best to summarize her i-no is basically a glitch she has no past of future due to a "swap"(she seems to share some connection with axl low and due to this she has some memories of him but they are very fuzzy) and due to this she has no memories and cant feel anything in fact the reason she likes music and conflict so much is because it's the only way she can feel something shes very powerful and takes pleasure in other's pain she believes that due to her having no past and no future shes exempt from most consequences. johnny is the complete opposite of what he looks and comes off as he is a major advocate for women's safety and is trying to stop all bad things from happening to them he believes that the happiness of all women is his responsibility he has canonically asked ino to stop calling herself a witch because he is trying to erase all words that paint women in a bad light he is also obscenely lucky for some reason like stupid lucky hence the "hated by the god of failure and loved by the goddess of fate"part of his theme
I imagine that Neuvilette would win against any of the Archons in their present iterations. Though I imagine he'd have the most difficult bouts against Ei or the Tsaritsa. Ei because she hasn't been affected by erosion, and has restore herself to her prime since besting the Shogun after 500 years of continued combat, and the Tsaritsa because it seems like her strength is very intense despite us knowing very little.
Amazing !! I love this video. And yes you should do a video on her character quest. We would most likely all love it. Love your vids Georgie. Keep it up (even if I only watch your Genshin videos hehe....)
A breakdown of all 3 characters: I-No was created by the Backyard, the alternate dimension that rules everything, as the condensation of all the wild emotions humanity felt during the Crusades (big war against the Gears). This made her incredibly powerful, but the first magic user (The Original) took away half of her power in an attempt to minimize the damage she might cause, and with her power, he took her emotions as well. She was not born alone, however, as the Backyard also created her equal and opposite in Axl Low. Either way, I-No was born with the power to travel anywhere in time, but no matter what she did, she always saw a grey boring future for all of humanity. As such she strove to change it due to her (fake) memories of an earlier, more mundane life where she dated Axl Low. In the previous game, Guilty Gear Xrd, I-No learned that all her memories were fake and she was a glitch not meant to exist, which spiraled her into an existential crisis and culminated in her attempt to find meaning by becoming a literal God in Guilty Gear Strive when she re-united with The Original, now called Happy Chaos. She was, however, defeated and killed. Johnny is the leader of a group of air pirates called the Jellyfish Pirates. He was orphaned in the Crusades, but a man took him under his wing and taught him how to fight and survive. Since then Johnny has convinced himself and a good amount of people that he is just the coolest motherfucker ever and that the happinness of every woman in the world depends on him. He stole his little pirate fleet from Zepp (Potemkin's home country) and is a borderline mythical figure within the world of Guilty Gear, Robin Hood-esque. His crew is composed exclusively of young women he rescued from warzones and raised as his daughters and each one is named after a month of the year. Beyond that, he is also just, ridiculously strong for a normal human, with his swordsmanship being some of the best in the world. Also there are no straight up gods in the Guilty Gear universe that we know of (well... ignoring the Original's god-like understanding of Magic and I-No's short-lived stint as a God), it's just that Johnny is ridiculously lucky and ridiculously skilled, so to a layman it looks like he simply can't fail (therefore he'd be hated by a speculative God of Failure). Slayer is a vampire, or more specifically a Nightwalker. Unlike normal vampires, Nightwalkers do not get killed by the sun, or really by anything other than not drinking enough blood. Slayer is also unfathomably ancient, and the single strongest raw fighter in Guilty Gear, only losing out to time travel and literal god-like manipulation of magic. Due to the fact that basically no one ever poses a challenge to him, Slayer massively holds back in every fight, mainly fucking around for entertainment. He is the world's most married man, loyally bound to his wife Sharon that is, also, immortal, to the point he can suck her dry (of blood!) and she'll just... get back up. They are united in their love for each other, really shit haikus, and Slayer's personal philosophy of DANDYISM. Dandyism defines Slayer's lifestyle, because having lived so long, he has done basically anything you can think of. In fact, he was the leader of the Assassin's Guild and Zato=1's master, even passing down Dandyism to Zato. Occasionally, Slayer will leave his house to seek out strong opponents and stretch his limbs, but since retiring from the Assassin's Guild, he has mostly chilled at home with his wife.
I love the theme for this three right here cause, you have: I-No: Pure Rock Johnny: Country/ Folktale Rock Slayer: Jazz Rock All the twist and turn you can do to an electric guitar are in all of the Guilty Gear Osts.
Funnily, with Jhonny, his power is being so cool he can't fail. So the gods are metaphorical/hyperbole that he is so good that not even gods can make him fail. Also the thick book part is also hyperbole in saying that if he was religious would he essentially be the second coming of jesus.
I-No's song is called "Requiem", a requiem is a musical tradition of offering song for the dead to offer them peace. It's a reflection on their life and a confirmation of their effect on others. I-No in particular has been a long running character in the series and her story ended in this game. The Requiem song is a reflection on her journey through life and a prayer for the future.
Slayer is just so cool an immortal Dandy Vampire who is just vibing enjoying life to the fullest, the women in the red dress thats allways with him is his wife Sharon, who is a sort of Glitch in the Universe, in Guilty Gear the rules of the universe are basically like the code of a computer, for some reason there is some clause in there that specifyes that Sharon is allways well, she does not age, she does not die, she can not recive lasting damage, she is the most resilient thing in the Universe of Guilty Gear, because even if she is hurt or killed the universe just immediatly rewrites itself so that she is fine... I love the immagery of Slayer and Bedman fighting in the wasteland, imo one of the coolest moments in GGXrd.
I really love the fact that in League of Legends, most of the champions are just "He's a guy who can throw a punch. He's a guy with a gun. He's a guy with a sword. He's a guy with magic. He's a guy who punches people with a magic gunsword." A mortal is someone who faces death and loses. An immortal is someone who never faces death at all. Someone who resurrects is someone who faced death, lost, and is en route for a rematch. Mordekaiser is the king of the dead, but he still died. He comes back in an undead form, but never regains his life.
You are right regarding Ino. Without getting to into details, Ino was literally magically made to fix the world and she’s messed with the time line endless times and can NEVER get it right and it’s definitely had a hard harsh effect on her mindset. Also, regarding Slayer: I love that in defiance of the usual trope, he isn’t a vampire with a harem of women but a single wife he is clearly madly in love with. ❤
I'd love for you to check out Testament's theme, they're my favourite character in the franchise and their theme is also incredible. Anji Mito's theme is another great theme that has some connections to Baiken.
In the GG story I-NO tried to become god-like existence. But seems like she regrets it. It is interesting that "Requiem" s speaker (I-NO?) says "I flew high = tried to be god, to see everything, but I had to stop."
I-No is very angsty deep down. A glitch in the fabric of reality born from humanity's hope and desparation during the Big Backstory War, she's a near godlike being from a timeline that doesn't exist with memories of things that never happen, and she's saved and doomed the world in the past with her ability to time travel, becoming apathetic and unfeeling about anything in the process as everything is so... nothing in the face of her abilities. She's trying to regain her full godlike powers and alter reality to try and find humanity's answer to what they'd do if death and conflict meant nothing. Considering the theme is named "Requiem" the death elements are... apt. She also has a move called "Stroke the Big Tree" and in some previous games had barely visible side nipple! Got a couple M ratings from that... I wouldn't describe I-No as either good or evil, she's just a being with cosmic abilites and thoughts beyond that. Pretty much the only character she's on good terms with is fellow time traveler Axl Low. Johnny! He's been around since the fist game, but wasn't playable until the second, Guilty Gear X. A gambler and Iaido practitioner, Johnny lost his father at a young age during the Crusades (Big Backstory War) and now seeks to help orphans and those and need. He's the founder leader of the Robin Hood esque all female Jellyfish Pirates, though the amount of time he spends in jail, on solo missions, finding new members, or getting into trouble means May handles a lot of the duties. He's ridiculous, loves women, thinks all their hopes and happiness rests on his shoulders and is 100% sincere in that. Despite his crew being all female and he seeming like a womanizer, he explicitly sees the crew as family... even if May feels differently about him. He doesn't have much to do with Strive's story, just some minor backstory about him knowing Giovanna. The references to godhood in this theme I always interepreted to a reference to his gambling easygoing way. Slayer is vampire and the founder of a philosophy he calls Dandyism. Don't worry about his wife Sharon, she's immortal so he can drain all her blood and she's fine. Being alive for centuries he likes observing humanity. He's also mentored both Zato-1 and Nagoriyuki, and is a good friend of Gabriel, Potemkin's boss. And yes, a lot of those visuals were from the previous Guilty Gear story arc, the Xrd games. I think you should check out Perfection Can't Please Me (Jack-O's theme), The Gravity (Asuka's theme), Rock and Roll Rock Hard Maniac (DLC theme), and Tsuki no Shihai (from Revelator, Raven's theme).
My favorite thing about Slayer is that his wife Sharon is just built different. She's just immortal and literally cannot be harmed due to a glitch in the universe Slayer can literally drink all of her blood and after just a couple seconds she'll be back to normal as if nothing happened.
A lot of early American classic western films used old Japanese samurai films as inspiration which makes Johnny being a cowboy style character who fights with a katana extra cool
Stolen comment: "Johnny is the guy that enters a bar for the first time and asks the usual" "And he gets one!" Great video btw! Waiting for The Kiss of Death, the last remaining member of my top3!
I have always had a head cannon oh his love of all females is fully platonic and is shown by how of all crew he's had he's never done anything other than show fatherly love. True false eh I don't care. Johnny is just cool.
The lyrics on the Just Lean video are a bit incorrect near the chorus, but its not that bad since especially around the time the video came out it sounded damn near incomprehensible so id cut them some slack
Glad you finally got around to "Requiem;" it's one of my top 3 favorite songs alongside "Drift" and "Mirror of the World." Fun fact: it's the only song on the soundtrack whose title isn't mentioned once in the song itself. Also, lyrical correction in "Just Lean": "She was told" is "it's anyone's call"; In the opening verse, "thinking that hard" is "thinking bad thoughts"; "Death is king men dare to waste life's grace" is "it's his kingdom and none dare to waste life's grace"; "would it have repeated it all?" is "wouldn't have ripped it up"; in "hated by the Goddess of Fate," change "hated" to "envied"; "some foolish diamonds" is "unpolished diamonds." This song's one of the easiest to mishear and misinterpret, since it's Daisuke and Naoki trying to channel Aerosmith vibes through a heavy Engrish barrier, but it' a great one nonetheless. EDIT: Also, not sure, but I think "heartbeat stopped" is "hardly the stuff" in Slayer's theme, but I can't say for sure.
