I Listened to The Circle (Bedman? Theme) from Guilty Gear for the First time.... 

So, the story you were reading at the end was the story of Bedman in Guilty Gear Xrd, not Bedman? in Guilty Gear Strive. Bedman, as you know, is a boy plagued with a disease that forces him to be asleep permanently lest his mind collapses under the weight of his own thoughts. The same goes for his sister, Delilah, which you can see here. His goal was to create an absolute world where him and his sister could live freely and happily. At the end of Xrd, Bedman died but through a last ditch effort lifted the disease from his sister which allowed her to wake up. Instead of fully passing on however, a part of Bedman's soul ended up in his bedframe, which was his "weapon" in Xrd. A robot killing machine of sorts. This ties into the whole robotic feel of the song. The "copy that" being a reference to programming and (I don't know what you called it?) the same-pitch singing which gives it that monochrome feel. The Circle in this song describes the circle of life and dead and how instead of passing on into heaven (beautiful chants, tender warmth etc), he is now stuck in this rotting decaying bedframe, unable to speak, store memories and feel emotion in general. He is simply motivated by that primal instinct to protect Delilah. ("I'm here", "I'll never make you cry even once") Quite morbid when you think about it. Though I did love your musical analysis quite a bit. Especially the part where the instrumental nearing the end signalled anger in your eyes, which is quite fitting if you ask me. Great video as always! Well done!

IMO, the "circle" refers to the circle of reincarnation from Hinduism, hence the sitar in the song. The song is about how Bedman, who died in in the Xrd story, literally pulled himself out of the cycle of reincarnation by attaching his soul to the broken bed so he could go back to protecting his sister, despite all the suffering it causes him.

thank you so much for the explanations! I actually HEAR the music differently listening to it a second time now.

the way Naoki delivers the last "I'm here, I'm here" always makes me sad. to me it sounds like the final stage of grief, where he knows he'll never get the chance to be with his sister as himself, and accepts his role as a silent protector

The lore of bedman is genuinely incredible

So, in this case, Guilty Gear has a theme of all characters that are revived being reduced to their basest desires. In Bedman's case, he died at the end of the previous game and shoved some of his will into the bed before he passed on with the sole goal of protecting his sister (the girl you see on the bed). The faith and the references to nothingness then refer to how he has forsaken the perfect world (the afterlife) which he had strived to create on Earth all his life to be with his sister (thus the final chorus) which goes to retroactively reveal just how much of a driving force Delilah was to him.

Bedman went from reddit atheist to a genuinely sympathetic man trapped between life and death in a hell of his own choice, chosen so that he can still protect his sister Delilah.

"i cant believe the guilty gear has a story like this" is exactly why i love it so much

PLEASE do Bedman’s previous theme called: “Does the Sheep Count The Sheep?”. An instrumental piece that holds SO much emotion.

This song's lyrics are very lore dependent, so here's the very rough TL;DR Bedman was this powerful guy stuck in a coma, so he used that robot bed to fight while he slept in it. In the last game, he was manipulated by the villain, then at the very end when he was able to wake up, he realized villain was evil and she immediately killed him. As he lay dying, he used his powers to lock himself out of an afterlife to "atone". Later in GG Strive, his younger sister Delilah learns about his death and goes on a revenge mission. Being just a kid with unstable powers, it goes awry, so Bedman's spirit shows up possessing the bed like a husk, vowing to fight in her stead. SOooo the lyrics are about him saying he's stuck in purgatory (the "circle" of death and rebirth). He lived a life of wrongs and at this point, all he wants to do is protect his Delilah from beyond the grave.

The words that come to mind for this song are "i must scream but i have no mouth and no words"

the circle in the song could be the "Samsara" the infinite cycle of death and rebirth, given that its possible the original bedman's mind may reside within the machine latching onto the emotion of protecting his sister to recall any piece left of his consciousness from the infinite void he finds himself in.

The Circle can be interpreted in two ways - at least, from my view. The main idea that most people agree on is that this is the farewell message of the "original" Bedman, a boy named Romeo (I'm not kidding), who wanted to create a world in which both he and his sister, Delilah, can live freely. They both suffer from incredibly powerful psychic abilities that would fry their brains from the flood of information if they remain conscious for too long, so they're both kept in a coma. When Romeo died, he used his powers one waking moment to seal away those of his sister, which resulted in her finally waking up. Under those circumstances, The Circle is basically the afterlife as Bedman leaves. He sent a part of himself into the bedframe to watch over his sister, which fulfills that task with zero emotion attached to it. This phenomenon has also been observed by the first man brought back from the dead, Zato, who was revived without his soul, but all his memories, and continues to pursue the goals of his former self, but without the emotional obsession that ultimately twisted him and got him killed in the past. Personally, I see a bit more behind the lyrics. Bedman went into The Circle after his death, and begins processing the information around him rapidly ("Consuming ten million years in an instant"). And instead of surrendering himself to the cycle of death and rebirth, he resists. He mocks "god's creation" as something detached and unfeeling, something devoid of humanity. And so, he slowly breaks through to send commands to his bedframe and control it from afar (hence the monotonous "Copy That"), making sure Delilah won't be in danger. Soon, he realizes that while he is happy for his sister, he wants to be with her as well, and attempts to speak to her, but because her psychic abilities were sealed away by him, she cannot hear him. But he refuses to give up, resulting in the more emotional refusal of his situation ("No home, no Peace, no Hope"), with the resulting "Copy That" affirming that he managed to return ("I struggled to move outside The Circle"). This is then reaffirmed by him no longer referring to himself as being "on the border of The Circle", but rather being HERE, right by Delilah's side. That strongly implies to me that he fully transferred himself into the bedframe and is trying to speak with her.

Ok a bit of backstory since you basically read only Xrd's bit: the original Bedman dies during Xrd's story but achieves his goal of saving his sister Delilah. The bed-robot is now tasked to protect her in his stead but it seems to be somewhat erratic and acting out it's programming. The common theory is that Romeo (we find out that it was Bedman's real name during Bedman?'s arcade mode in Strive) is stuck in Samsara (hence the Sitar you hear in the song), unwilling to go through with the cycle of rebirth while controlling the bedframe from the afterlife, he literally can't go outside "the circle" that is limbo. Also during arcade mode and the secondary story mode the bed is seemingly trying to fight strong opponents, searching for someone to take it's place in protecting Delilah and/or destroying it in the process, so that Romeo can finally be free.

One thing that I noticed no one pointed out - After the first two times Naoki sings "Copy that," you hear two mechanical whirs (one in each ear if you have headphones), and, to me, it reinforces the idea of Bedman's soul reaching the bedframe and getting it to power up to protect Delilah

I love how raw Naoki's vocals are with this

I have a little sister who I would actually die for and that's not exaggerating. So when this song came out we listened to it on repeat for like 2 hours and I almost cried. It resonates with us so much that if we're ever feeling down we listen to it and almost instantly feel better because it reinspires us to be strong for each other. It also completely turned my opinion of Bedman around and he's probably my second favorite character now behind Ky.

Basically he's died and he's trying to find a way out through his intelligence, the song seems to be a stream of consciousness of this process, as his minds fades, as he desperately tries to cling to life

Arc System Works' founder is also the studio's original composer. The music is never a secondary concern in their game or character designs, and it's awesome.

That slow breakdown is so POWERFUL. Mournfully asking God piercing questions, only to become resolute and spiteful. There is so much power and emotion put into that "NO." So much anger put into each "you can't" Knowing Bedman's Lore and how he essentially turned against the capital G God of the series universe and cheated the very rules of death just to protect his sister. Bedman is one of the best written cases of a Revenant (character given undeath to fulfill a specific purpose) EVER. This track is the best one since Mirror of the World.

fun fact about "the tender warmth": he says his sister, delilah, never got to feel the tender warmth of her mother implying she died at childbirth. delilah is his only family and likely the only person hes felt that kind of warmth from

The song is likely about Bedman being dead But from the dead in some way either by his creations still working without him (his bed) or him possessing it as a ghost, his will to make a better world for his sister still lives on "I may not be able to make you smile, But I’ll never make you cry even once"

The song screams of anxiety, uncertainty, insecurity, and a lack of identity… but there is that singular voice in the back trying to stabilize it all. “I’m here, I’m here.” “Copy that” with servos and rev ups and robotic tones… To me it really feels like the remnants of Bedman(within the bed) simple and singularly focused on protecting, all the while his sister Delilah dealing with and contemplating everything happening around her in equal amounts gratitude and fear. “Distressing” is a great word.

This is something I don't think anyone's pointed out but a lot of people feel so I'm gonna try to describe it: I love the way the line "I'm here, I'm here" changes throughout the song. The first two times are a call, a cry out of existence, "I'm here on the border of the circle" (the border of life and death). However, after Bedman resolves to protect Delilah, the tone and context of the line changes. It turns from a call for help into words of reassurance, the way a parent would comfort a child or in this case, an older brother would comfort a younger sister. "It's okay. I'm here, I'm here." Absolutely genius

Little note, the lyrics written for this video are misheard and are instead “consuming ten billion years in an instant”

The reprise of the "Do you see the radiant light" part is so good because it feels like the realization "Whatever higher powers exist, they will not lead me to what I love... so I'll just have to do it myself", followed by a successful attempt at reaching past "the circle", of reaching the person they wanted to protect

This is my favorite song so far! This song is deeply rooted in Buddhism and the “Circle” refers to the cycle of life and death that we all endure. That’s why that sitar that you caught make sense to me as it’s the instrument of Indo-China associated with the religion. I see this song as a Bedman who gave up his life to save his sister’s but he realizes that he can’t protect her if he’s reborn again. He gives up his religion and his chance at reincarnation to become the bed with no mind, just a desire to protect his sister. He has put himself in limbo with no light, pitch black, all for the sake of his sister. As someone with siblings this song legitimately made me cry because I know I would do the same and “come to them without a second thought.” There is a lot to this song to break down especially through the lens of Buddhism. One that I would love to do but not through a RU-vid comment lol. Keep up the amazing content!

CloudDrop noted recently that Naoki confirmed that the lyric is "Consuming ten billion years", not "Comes to me ten billion years"

You know a thing, I noticed re-watching this is just how savagely Bedman fights in the clips. Like there is a level of desperation, aggression, and 'outrage' you just don't see from most of the other fighters, and I think that's because unlike them, he's got someone, someone he loves _desperately_, that he's dedicated his life to protecting, right there on the battlefield, in danger once again. With that in mind, I can't help but wonder if any of that same desperation, outrage, and urge to protect is represented in the song. I mean the 'I'm here' part yeah, but even the comments on the things he endured can be viewed as a sort of vibe of 'You think you can get through me? I've endured all this shit! You're nothing to me!'

Marco for more context, you need to know that Bedman is dead by the time Strive came out. And the bed machine is without a master, with the programing task to protect the little girl you see in the video, Delilah. However we see in the story that the machine is not acting totally like a machine. I hope with this bit of context you can understand better the lyrics

Ow sheesh man, coming right up with a banger theme! I love Circle, not only for how it sounds, but also the lore behind it. This one i literally the best one in that department. There is actually a short story of bedman written somhere, I'll edit it into that comment once I find it. Ok, there it is: The original Bedman was an extremely powerful psychic that had to be kept in a coma, or else he would be overwhelmed by the power and die. Despite this, he acted as an assassin by being strapped into a robotic bedframe that he could control and use his powers through even when asleep. He acted as an assassin to find a way to cure his sister who suffered from the same condition of power overload killing her if she ever woke up. He thought he had found a way, but his client betrayed him and he was forced to wake up to defend himself in battle. Awake and able to use his full power but actively dying, he was able to in his last moments limit his sisters powers so that she could wake up safely. This sister, Delilah, is who we have here, along with the battered but still functional bedframe. But this isn't the end. Bedman, being as powerful as he is, was able to escape the circle of rebirth and trap himself in limbo. He did this so that he would be able to keep protecting his sister even after death, by giving commands to the bedframe he is still connected to. The song is about this, how he has abandoned the possibility of a warm afterlife or a gentle rebirth in favour of a continued existence in endless nothingness, just to keep protecting his sister.

Everyone else already commented on the lore of Bedman and Delilah, so all I will say is I am happy to see you listen to another GG track, and hope to see more fighting game music in the near future.

Yeah! You just made my evening! That is one of my the most favorite themes from GGS and I was waiting for your reaction since I heard it first time! Thank you!

It's crazy, I project so hard into these lyrics that I can't listen to this song without crying. To me it's the ultimate anthem of standing against your own despair, and finding a reason to exist through that. Bedman is stuck in essentially hell, completely isolated from anyone else, but still finds meaning in protecting his sister. It also serves as a metaphor for depression for me. Finding a reason to live on because of the bonds you share with other people.

I was waiting so much for this video

I find guilty gear strive to have godly themes when it comes to lore. If ya want a few suggestions. I'd recommend Hellfire (Leo Whitefangs theme) and Alone Infection (Fausts theme). They are real good.

I love the Strive OST cause is such a fresh take on rock/metal. Would love to hear your thoughts on Zato 1 and Happy Chaos' themes cause those are my favorites

YES YES YOU CAUGHT THE SITAR LOVELY was looking forward to this, great stuff as always! As many comments points out the story here is very much the part of bedman was left that valiantly defending his sister post mortem and questioning the afterlife itself.

I have never clicked a video faster Looking forward to more Guilty Gear stuff

AAH YAY new guilty gear video! been excited for this video >:) i hope you’ll be able to find some more clarity of the lore through some of the other comments here, the lyrics in this song are one of my favs in the guilty gear ost with context of the backstory. gg lore is definitely pretty wild to make sense of on ur own LMAO to put it vaguely the themes of this song r bedman being in a sort of limbo but still carrying on his will to protect his sister thru the bed, very sweet n its one of my fav tracks despite how bittersweet the meaning is c,:

I was left so confused by this song after I listened it for the first time. It's strange as if clumsy, but also shining. So I wanted to listen this song again. And again till I can understand it and enjoy. And ohh boi how much I love this song now. Thank you for reviewing!

From the lyrics I feel, and knowing a little bit about Bedmans story, and the new name of the new character being "Bedman?". I think the music embodies what Bedman IS. Bedman is in Limbo, between life and death (Edge of the circle). The circle is god. He questions feeling heaven, but no he really does not. Bedmans Bed, in this case, "Bedman?" is in a self-destructive mode. Going out to be destroyed, but also fighting back at the same time. While being protective of his sister, and the sister trying to stop Bedman"?" from going completely out.

Wooo!!!! Nice!! More Guilty Gear!!!! We want MOAR!!! Can't wait for the "Like A Weed, Naturally, As A Matter Of Course" reaction. That's Testament's theme.

Yooooo lets go always happy to see more guilty gear. Would love to see you listen to Let Me Carve Your Way and Alone Infection.

Just gonna say, Thank You for the Insights

I've been looking forward to this moment

Hey Marco! I love your vids, been a long time follower of yours! I am very grateful that you cover a wide variety of music on this channel, thanks to you I now know a lot more about music and the feelings behind them. I am wondering if you could do some vids about the music in Studio Ghibli movies. I know those aren't video games, but they are my all time favourites when it comes to music. Thank you if you ever reply!:)

GG series music always slap your ear with surprising beats

Always love some Guilty Gear! Hoping we'll see a "Necessary Discrepancy" or "Mirror of the World" reaction sometime.

I feel like the circle could refer to the absolute world he wanted or expectations placed on him he was a villain but he was motivated by love and the desire to help his sister (pitch black, pure white) when he says that he struggled to go outside the circle I hear it less as I struggled to leave heaven, hell, or limbo but more he struggled to be real to himself and his sister because his drive to achieve this thing were so potent. Classic character is really smart but can't admit / acknowledge something core about themselves.

On paper Bedman is a character I shouldn't have ever cared about, and even when playing Xrd in its first couple years as a fighting game I thought he was so boring and weird. But after watching the story his motives and actions genuinely moved me to tears. It really reminded me to listen to what an artist wants to say with something instead of judging it by my own preconceived notions of what a story or character should be or is. He was such an interesting antagonist and counterpart to Ramlethal. I was honestly completely unsure how they would handle his theme when the announced Bedman? as a character but it's honestly perfect.

0:52 the moment he realize he's in for some wild shit

Oh yeah, I waited for this

Ah yes my favorite music youtuber reacting to my favorite fighting game, thx for the good content

This might be one of the most emotional guilty gear strive songs. Bedmans soul is in an internal tourment of being stuck on the material plain but also since he is dead he isnt entierly here either. He is stuck inbetwen life and death for the soul purpose of protecting his sisted deliah who he loves. The song feels lost in this limbo until he talks about deliah then it starts to feel like there is a more direct goal and purpose for bedman. Nothing else matters besides keeping her safe. I love guilty gears lore so much hopefully whatever the next guilty gear game is deliah's character is explored more cause she was also really sweet.

Les goo bed man one of my mains

8:46 “Oh lord this lord’s got hands” - Someone who did a breakdown of a small portion of guilty gear lore

Marco is going to have a Huge ride when listening to Baiken's "Mirror of the World" or Happy Chaos' "Drift" I have a good feeling in this "series" of GG music, since he already listened some gg music before

just binged some of your Strive reactions & had to comment here as The Circle just might be my favorite song in the ENTIRE FRANCHISE! Now as I'm sure some comments have already explained, this song is basically Bedman's state of mind during Strive specifically. That synopsis you read was his story in the previous game but what you missed that would have made a lot of the lyrics make sense is what happens AFTER that part. First some quick backstory, him & his sister Delilah were both sick & the only way to prevent death was for both to be asleep. Romeo (Bedman's real name) was able to give himself a bedframe he could manipulate while asleep so he could still walk around with him main motive being to want to cure his & his sister. At the end of Xrd's story, Bedman gets killed by one of the other villains in a "you've outlived your usefulness" fashion hence why there's no sleeping guy on the bed in Strive. No the reason he's still around in Strive is because his consciousness effectively got programmed into the bed post-death as a side effect. The ? in his name in Strive is due to the fun question of "is it really him or just like a backup remnant of him". Delilah at this point is awake so Bedman?'s main goal at this point is to protect her hence the girl who's running around the battlefield during the fights. The Circle's lyrics basically are a summary of some of his journey (the titular circle being the circle of life & death so "I see the circle" or "I stand outside the circle" basically are saying "yeah I've effectively escaped death") with the main crux of the chorus being "no matter where she is, I won't let ANYONE hurt my sister anymore" hence the lyrics "Consuming ten million years in an instant & I'll come to you without a second thought" or ESPECIALLY the lyrics in the final chorus of "I may not be able to make you smile long, but I'll never make you cry even once - never!". this then brings me to WHY this is basically my favorite song in the series. This man said "fuck dying, my sister still needs me" & this song just has both Daisuke's instrumentals & Naoki's vocals screaming out every ounce of emotion that would bring & as someone with 2 younger siblings, that shit just HITS.

what perfect timing because ASUKA TRAILER TOMORROW!

I'm just looking through these, waiting for him to finally react to happy chaos's theme

Genuinely so incredible.

Gives me chills

will always come back for guilty gear

i think the reason the lyrics are so weird is because daisuki doesnt really have a good feel for how to write good english lyrics since he is japanese and not a native speaker, all of his lyrics are constantly really odd and sometimes it works in favor of the song and sometimes it doesnt

I have to declare that Daisuke has an ingenious way of using music to communicate emotion. He's not afraid to build it brick by brick, seemingly disjointed, fragmented. It begs for repeated hearings, discovering details and connections. I think this peace is on the complicated side but it still slaps. Thanks for continuing twith the Guilty Gear series inspite of the confusion!

I love to see GG music get attention, any chance you could cover either hellfire or roar of the spark?

please you need to hear let me carve your way you're gonna love it

Ok so radiant light, beautiful chant, tender warmth, all of these sound like to classic description of heaven BUT you CANT see the radiant light you CANT hear the beautiful chant you CANT feel the tender warmth My interpretation is that this is bedman's final remnant of consciousness at the moment of his death beign sad, angry, dissapointed, betrayed after at the lack of an afterlife. "there came a zero" "theres silence everywhere" "no peace either" "no beginign and no end" "nothing here pitch black pure white all the same" He feels the numbness of passing into non-existence with no radiant light, no beautiful chant, no tender warmth. The border of the circle itself representing the threshold between life and death

This song is like a sloppy joe of music genres. It's practically all over the place but it's cohesive enough to understand how to consume it. After awhile you just go with it and enjoy it for what it is and worry about the heartburn later.

Let's gooo!!!

This is a banger

I love guilty gears themes but the lyrics can be all over the place in some songs. I dont know if its because the songs are written by a japanese guy but from most of lyrics it seems that he can write fluent english and most verses make sense. Anyways really cool analysis as always hope you roar of the spark best theme

broseph, you gotta listen to Necessary Discrepancy, Hellfire, Drift, and the rest of the ost, though those three are my personal picks for some of the best character pieces that's not to say any of them are bad, though, they all have phenomenal lyrics to express each character and their story, and that's why I love this game

"I'm here." Just repeating at the end like a plea RUINS me. This soundtrack is full of songs that make me cry like a bitch.

Hi, Marco! Just a quick note on the lore behind the song and the character, since you didn't seem to get to it, at least in the video (also spoilers obvious): Bedman dies at the end of Xrd, but his sister miraculously wakes up. This is the girl you can see in the gameplay bits. As for Bedman himself, while he died, his mechanical bed reactivated and started moving on its own, doing everything it can to protect Delilah. It's left very open to interpretation whether the Bed was simply programmed this way or became possessed by the spirit of Bedman. Most fans think its a mix of both. Hence why the characters is actually called "Badman?" in the game. So with the idea that Bedman possesses, or even better say, haunts the mechanical bed, the song makes much more sense. It's basically about Bedman being stuck in Limbo, endless finite, not alive, nor fully dead either. Even after his death, he didn't see the radiant light, no beautiful chants, no tender warmth - no heaven, no afterlife. Black and white - all the same. Stuck in the middle of the circle. "Welcome to the infinite world What's my endgame, there came a zero? Sent here there's silence everywhere No peace either Where there is no beginning and no end" The song also seemingly directly references him crawling back to the world of the living through his bedframe "Where I’m left and can’t reach White black Through the mold Where I can find with access To the back of my eye lens" And the last part of the song pretty much talks about how, while he isn't fully alive to make Delilah smile, his will to protect her perceveres: "I may not be able to make you smile (But) But I’ll never make you cry even once Never" I also adore how the song actually doesn't finish itself, we don't get the final "on the border of the circle" at the end, it just leaves us hanging, giving it this haunting quality of "unfinished business. This ended up being far longer than I planned, hahah 😅

this one has 2 interpretations to the lyrics so in the end of the last gulty gear game, bedman died and now his robo-bed is protecting his sister at all costs the first interpretation is that bedman died but before going to either hell or the void or wathever he programed his bed to protect his sister the second interpretatio(that i consider the better one) is that he died but refused to go to heaven or hell and now he is inside the robo-bed in some way

Hell yeah, was wondering when the Guilty Gear reactions were coming back, not a biggest fan of this song in particular but still enjoyed the video.

I don’t blame you for not being able to figure this one out without context - it’s probably the only song in the game that doesn’t work without it.

The song makes me think about someone trapped in a coma trying to wake up for someone. It gives me vibes of One by Metallica if it were a love song.

Crawling out through the fallout once again to recommend some video gam musik. Hunt: ShowDown- Light the shadow Or Death is a Bird Flying. Hero loop - Cosmic Temperance, this song encapsulates that feeling of being nervous and cautious in a video game for the first time, the sudden realization that you might be in danger and the boss fight is looking absolutely daunting. You hurry your way past all the horrors of a world falling away to grasp at a single strand of fate.

even when i don't like a song in this game, i love how the music is reflective of the character it belongs to.

I don't play Guilty Gear, but this music feel so chaotically good!!

I humbly request Let Me Carve Your Way

I loved reading all the comments here explaining their takes on the meaning of The Circle. My turn to share with the class: For me, (back when I only knew most of Bedman from Xrd from reading up on it), I took a more 'standard' or 'outside' view to it as a *very* inexperienced GG follower, and simply interpreted The Circle as, plain and simple, Hell. It carried to me the idea that Bedman's willpower and drive, plus his cockiness and willingness to do bad things towards his end goals, only to be betrayed and *realize* he was in the wrong, but be unable to 'atone' before dying, condemned him to Hell, and I saw The Circle as representing his experience and existence. (Mishearing some really awesome lyrics as even more awesome lyrics before looking 'em up doesn't hurt, lol. I heard the line "But I can't find you without access to the back of my eyelids" as "But I can't find you with the axes to the back of my eyelids", which I stand by sounds way cooler, especially because it fits with my 'first impression' of the song, as a fantastical and gross conception of 'hellish torture'- to imagine miniature axes swinging back and forth inside his skull to strike his eyes like pendulums- and the whole song being a beautiful and tragic look into the idea of hell, especially hell as punishment for someone you feel doesn't deserve it, because you know they can change and improve.) Because of lines explicitly showing he couldn't *escape* the circle. For all his power and knowledge, the best he could do was reach the border- to go further than most any normal person, but still ultimately be confined there. To plead to God, to ask if God can see the radiant light, hear the beautiful chant, and feel the gentle warmth, *to ask if HE could TOO*, to join him, and be told "No. You can't." And for Bedman(?) to ultimately submit and devote himself back to his strongest and truest goal / desire: to protect and watch over his sister Delilah, even if it's from the afterlife, even from Hades below, to use all the power he has at his disposal towards that end, rather than looking to improve his own situation- And I liked to think that that's ultimately what embodies his redemption- that tireless taking care of her at cost to himself *would* redeem him so he can be welcomed into that light, that chant, and that warmth. Or be rewarded with resurrection in some form, to actually spend time with her again rather than suffering. Pick you happy ending poison, thats what I'd hoped his future developments would be

The shprechining or whatever he said it was called is how og bedman talks o.o

Man this is probably one of the themes that takes the most context lol

You are going to completely flabbergasted when we get to Asuka theme hehehe

This alternate reality is his possession of the bed. He is not dead and not a human anymore. The only thing Romeo wants is to protect his little sister Delilah and destroy the Bed releasing his soul. Actually where he is looks like a vast grey nothing with a stone statue of himself in a single ray of the sun.

Bro you gotta listen to the happy chaos theme it’s amazing.

song that basically conveys death, but rejecting afterlife to hold onto the one you care about with all of ones strength, as long as you can. so you can help them for just this little longer.

I may not be able to make you smile but I’ll never make you cry

I'm now realizing the sections of asking God questions could be the frame asking Romeo, it's God/creator of he feels where he is.

Not related but will you do the music from Jing Yuan's (Honaki Star Rail) trailer??? It was fire ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Whoever has played guilty gear xrd rev 2 will know what happened to bedman, the bed is the same one that the boy who was tied to it used, only it was damaged after bedman faces venom and robo-ky, after the latter self-destruct (this can be seen in story mode ), From what I read on the wiki fandom website , after Bedman's death, his soul remained in his bed, the mysterious girl who appears before bedman's remains is called delilah who turns out to be bedman's younger sister.

Yes! More guilty gear!

Allow me to explain my perspective of bedman?'s story (yes actually) so thing is you looked at bedman and didn't read all the way through so allow me to share what you missed *ahem* (To minimize spoilers I will be skipping to the end of xrd's story) Bedman got betrayed by an evil underground organization when he realized what he was doing didn't come close to matching his vision. To elaborate on what the bed is, it's meant to be charged by one kind of battery, wasn't built or programmed to charge (see true ending of bedman?'s story mode for reference), so that means that somehow the bed was somehow charged by bedman (his name is Romeo lol) himself. Considering how souls work, one character who is omniscient notes how he was able to delete his "R code" from existence (see happy chaos' arcade dialogue with I-No on the pure extreme route) My theory is that his soul is kinda just an eternal battery for the bed until it gets destroyed then he fully dies (fighting heedless of its own destruction) thus the question of whether or not his soul is there or if it was erased and left a bug in the bed (hence the modern part of thr mystery, his song helps) To conclude, if you read this far, thank you fellow comment reader, I hope you have an excellent day/night.

I’d love for you to react to Drift (Happy Chaos’ theme). It’s a weird mix of styles with a really cool bridge.

Did he at least look at images of Bedman from Xrd? Seeing some gameplay would also shed a LOT of light on the lyrics too.

Its the brother telling his sister no matter where you will be even in a billion miles away i'll come to you in an instant, since the soul has possessed the bed