The Brilliance of Happy Chaos 

sin being the counter to happy chaos is perfect as happy chaos is too smart while sin has no braincells

Happy Chaos is basically a DnD Dungeon Master who’s watched the players fuck up one too many storylines he spent HOURS making

Interestingly, that's the reason he looks like a Blue Oni... the Blue ogre desires a good future for the Red ogre, so he stages an attack to a nearby human town, so Red Ogre drives him away and becomes a hero for the humans he saved... AKA Sol is the Red Ogre

I like that HC isn't just "Haha I'm so wacky and I'm evil lol", he's "I have a deep and intense philosophy that allows me to view all equally and for that reason I can simply do whatever I want at the exact moment because there is no true reason I shouldn't" That's such a GG thing to do.

"killed baiken's entire family, enslaved a black man" probably the best line ngl

10:42 when you said "There is nothing for him to strive for" I realized how similar HC is to Raven, the difference is that Raven decided to lay back, later becoming a raging fetishist, and HC stole the White House

love how his current fighting style fits his narrative as well. canonically hes the most powerful being alive with all the knowledge of backyard at his disposal but he ultimately found purpose in creating drama and the most dramatic weapon humanity made is the gun he likes the theatrics of it all

I would say happy chaos is a director while the characters around him are the actors, he isnt a overbearing director but instead encourages improvisation. like when hes talking with the security guard the guard even says "Why even allow us to have these thoughts instead of mindless drones?" hell he says "you would make a terrible script writer, but a hell of an actor"

Happy Chaos seems like he mains Waluigi in Mario Kart Wii.

I'm a simple person I see Happy Chaos I click

Happy chaos. The literal meme lord.

There's two major reasons I like Happy Chaos's characterization in Strive. First, he inverts a fairly common "insanity" progression. A lot of characters who go crazy retain maybe a few character quirks that keep them identifiable and refresh everything else. "I used to be a doctor who wanted to help everyone, now I'm crazy doctor bent on revenge / mass murder!" The Original and HC share the same core motivations: they want to better the world. Their goal hasn't changed. It's everything else that has. From grand mage to demon gunslinger; from major participant to shoe-in; from drama-halter to drama-lover. They want the same thing they used to want, but have a much more skewed outlook that twists the path from point A to point B. Second, he embodies a pretty common trend among GG antagonists. The antagonists want to save the world. The protagonists want to save the people. I-No wants to give humanity god-like power to improve the world, even if that's billions of deaths later. The Universal Will's entire goal is to protect humanity, even if it's just a little broken in understanding "humanity." Even part of Justice's motivation is the treatment of Gears, and she'll improve the world for them, even if it means some of them die. HC is that "save the world over a couple of lives" idea distilled into a pure form. He'll steal the White House and kill by the dozens if it means the world gets to enjoy a brighter sun tomorrow. (Which is a good contrast to Sol, who's willing to get the planet metaphysically nuked if it means saving Aria 2.0.) This might also be why Asuka can come across so morally gray. His philosophy isn't that different from HC and other antagonists: save the world, even if it means a few lives are lost. He destroyed Japan for exactly this reason. The difference is that, unlike HC and other antagonists, he understands that choice doesn't need to be made right now. Asuka wants to save the world when it needs saving. Happy Chaos wants to save the world right now. IDK, just my two pennies.

damn.. so he is the literal embodiment of "chaos being happy"

I think his speech on history books really emphasizes his philosophy. He wants drama, but he knows drama is meaningless to people unless they themselves experience it. You can read about the amazing ways things concluded in the past, but you'll never actually be in that moment. He knows everything, but that's just knowledge. He wants to experience it, and he wants everyone else to as well, and he doesn't care how it happens, including if he has to do it himself.

It's also worth pointing out that the song "Six Black Heaven's Guns", released in 2013 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Arc System Works, seems to be about Happy Chaos as well - between the title being an exact description of his weapons of choice, to the reoccurring line "World of Fiction" representing his philosophy. With this in mind, I'm sure the song can give us a look at another side of the blue goober... But I'm not going to be the one to figure it out.

Rad Chad has switched stances. Now instead of being some people's dad all the time, he's everyone's dad but only every so often.

Happy Chaos is Daisuke's self insert, putting creatures in situations to make fun stories

“She lacks toes, and is intolerant.” is my new favorite line.

8:37 Since I always associate this scene with the flashback in Xrd Sign where Frederick (Sol) says that he'd use his last moments alive to save the world then Aria (Jack-O) brings up the idea of spending your last moments with someone you love, I think the way Sol opposes Happy Chaos is more strongly seen when he tells I-No he built the Junkyard Dog to be so powerful because it never bored him. Happy Chaos spent so much time in the story discussing purpose. Vernon talked how football would save the world. Jack-O struggled with how something imperfect could be better. I-No would not stop until she had saved everyone in the world, even if she had to delete the universe infinitely many times to do it. But Sol? He didn't need a higher purpose or reason, he just did what he liked. To use Happy Chaos's metaphor, there is no omelete for Sol, the egg and the chicken just exist and people are less bored because of it. You could say that avoiding boredom then becomes the reason, but Sol immediately adds on his excellent line about the sentence that changes your life and gives you purpose being stuck in some random book you'll probably never get to reading, even if you try reading through the whole library. Happy Chaos posits it is purpose that causes existence, and thus is the end all be all. "I don't have anything that's really important to me. That's why everything is beautiful." Sol argues back that purpose is overrated and all that matters is living a good life you enjoy. "Listen to your heart, not the voice in your head."

I wonder. Would happy chaos play dnd? The whole concept is that the big ominous force behind the screen is completely omniscient, and while they keep throwing curve balls at the band of protagonists as antagonists, disasters and mishaps, it wants them to succeed and save the day.

Happy chaos is a definitive trickster, far from being benevolent, often violent, selfish and destructive, but having the ability to equalize the forces in a story, and create turmoil for the other players. He reminds me a lot of gods from myth like anansi or loki, who, with or without motive, would stir things up between others setting events in motion or even resulting in some pretty violent results. Hes even depicyed with a rabbit motif with the masks he builds, the rabbit being a classic trickster.

I cant believe you didnt mention that the only reason he uses a gun is to handicap himself because hes so good at using magic that he got bored of it

Goldlewis actually kinda agrees with Happy Chaos's perspective at the end of the story when he mentions how he feels looking up at that blue sky

You know, the Sin and Happy Chaos comparison makes me actually hope that the next game will have Happy Chaos just vibing with Sin, taking delight in him going with the flow and perhaps even helping him help others every now and again. Also fulfilling his prophecy that maybe next time, he'll be on the good side too.

In a world where seemingly every Strive RU-vidr switched to making SF6 content, I deeply appreciate you still making Guilty Gear videos!

(regurgitating what i read on-line) HC is also a reference to an old japanese myth about the red and blue oni. to summarize it stupidly - red wants to act as the protector of a village, but the people are afraid of him bc scary demon. red gets sad and talks about it with blue, who offers to help by attacking and terrorizing the village, giving red the chance to play hero as a way to demonstrate his genuine love for humanity and be accepted as a protector

This actually explains many lyrics in his them, “carried by the waves” he just goes with the flow another example being “I don’t have anything that’s really important to me that’s why everything is so beautiful” is a reference to his ideology of not caring for individuals but looking at things as a whole

hi i havent waatched the video yet but the reason happy chaos is brilliant is because he doesnt wear shoes hope this helps

Happy Chaos is goated because he's all-powerful and all-knowing but isn't a mopey nihilist

happy chaos is my most favorite character of all time, he even inspired me to start writing a story with a main character similar to him.

He definitely knows he's in a video game

My favorite part about, Chaos is that due to the very nature of the kind of character he is anything you headcanon about him is technically true. He could be an completely different character in the next game and it'd be entirely in character for him. And if you ask me that's just extremely fascinating.

Fun fact: Drift's lyrics incapsulate all these ideals and confusions so well, and some parts really resonate with me, so last week I asked a local tattoo artist to translate it's chorus into one, together with the "I don't have anything that's really important to me, that's why everything is beautiful". It was my first tattoo and I REALLY liked the result.

I get their logic. Mainly the part where he says that chaos and difficulties bring change and innovation. Giving the Status Quo a good shake, and see how it rearranges itself. It is very exciting to see how the next version of something turns out.

"Only through conflict do we evolve" head ass

"Was all this just to show off your powers?!" _"yah"_

The original and happy chaos are the definition of smart fella vs fart smella

Happy chaos the type of dude to steal one shoe from someone’s house

When you've finished a book, sometimes you think theres a better ending you could be writing.

“Hes going to destroy the earth!… for the funny!“

bro that summary at the end! you are so good at tying things together. I knew he was more nuanced than just: joker but less sociopathic. im still thinking on the cinclusion rn. u are so amazingness. please break down other nuanced characters!!

Negative Happy Chaos be like: Sad Order

Man you just perfectly summarized why I love Happy Chaos so much man, his whole views, ideology, perspective on everything like he is truly unlike any other fighting game character and I love every bit of it. By doing random Happy Chaos shit on my channel he actually helped me be comfortable with using my voice not just in videos but using it in general. Ever since I looked at Happy Chaos I was like "Damn he just like me fr fr!" and now when someone asks me why I love him so much I can just direct them to this video

I love HC so much, his design and philosophy is just cool as hell

I now understand why hackers do what they do. Put things in dark souls pvp that corrupt your save file; make a 2-headed skeleton in red dead redemption online... They are insane. :)

"What would you do if you became all powerful" ...I'd probably fuck around till I got bored

The connection between HC and sin is deeper than ideology, in XrdRev2 sin drinks tea and dislikes it due to it being bitter and likes sugar water better, and happy chaos drinks coffee in strive’s story and say he dislikes it due to it being bitter and say he likes milpico better aka literally sugar water.

I think its worth noting that other characters voiced some apprehension towards the ease of living in current setting of Guilty Gear. That life being easy and peaceful as it is might breed complacency amongst though born after the crusades. And that that complacency might give to a repeat of the crusades or worse. Stirring up shit just might just be Happy Chaos' answer to those apprehensions

The best way to summarise Happy Chaos's ideology is that most of the events that make Guilty Gear an interesting setting that we enjoy... come from him. He's the authour, which is why one of his supers is literally a Deus Ex Machina.

“Most hanoius acts” i remind you that bed man killed rams dog

10:00 thanks for finally breaking down his philosophy. I could tell that he was the best and the highlight of the show also where can I find the full image

As a man who has never played a guilt gear game, never heard of them once in my life and has not been a big playing fighting game. Until recently (and thanks to Pootis engaged) I have never been more interested in a game franchise as batsh@t crazy as this one. And thanks to the soundtracks that I have found in this game, I will wait for the day I play the game to call myself a true fan. Thank you for enlightening me into this wacky universe.

Midway through that last speech i started waiting for the nagito comparison

So why’s he blue?

Anyone else notice how bony his fingers are?

Thank you for consistently putting out bangers, I'm obsessed with guilty gear right now and and really lapping up everything you're putting out

Bruh I love how in "best buds" Eddie's just chilling there no nickname. Just Eddie

Always a good day when Rad Chad the mad lad and to some of us our dad uploads

I love how chaos uses his godlike powers to fuck around I respect and relate to chaos so much

YOU'RE MAKING A PLUSHIE OF THAT BOI HAND IT OVERRRRR

Great. Now I'm wondering howe insane it would be to listen to a conversation between Happy Chaos and the Master of Masters, from Kingdom Hearts. I'd probably black out 2 minutes in, reacting a higher plain on consciousness, only to wake up 3 days later, in my birthday suit, and eating colored chalk.

happy chaos when sad order walks in

Thank you for the epic video every other weekend father. You’ve taught me alot about the blue boi and that’s pretty cool

I mean, if I had knowledge of everything in existence I too would try to make some new knowledge. I'm sure these clashes of human desire that he creates is like scrolling through shows and finding the right one.

I know nothing about this character or game but safe to say im now obsessed with happy chaos

I can't belive that in the last 15 seconds of this video you showed me the **real** reason why he is one of my favorite characters of all time

That is one of the coolest thumbnails I have ever seen

Bruh it's midnight for me I'll watch this masterpiece when I wake up

Happy Chaos is an internet troll that throws in a polarizing opinion, not because he think it's right or because he wants to bring up the question for the sake or finding out the truth or even because he wants to see anyone to suffer from this discussion, but just because he finds reading the burning thread of comments it created really entertaining.

Happy Chaos vs. Sad Order

Happy Chaos is if God was the living embodiment of chaotic neutral, and his only thought was “fuck it we ball” Oh and he has a gun

Happy Chaos: The Protagonist and The Antagonist

the brilliance of happy chaos "he goober"

I enjoyed the video and I agree with your statements about him. That is what made him likeable too, that he is whacky troll character that simply wants real fiction and will cause it to happen but not necessarily end it in a bad way.

shoutout to that one steam review that was simping hard for HC, that guy knows what theyre doin

Happy Chaos is basically "light hearted" or more cheery version of Outsider from Dishonored- he does things just to keep the life he observes from the sidelineintresting, Motto bein "I gonna make the life interesting with my ADHD and that GUN I stole" And on the perspective story- it's basically if a character in a book asked you why you wrote it, and every explanation you can give will be interpreted as "FUCK YOU" because explaining that you are medling with their life on such a fundamental level just to make things "fulfilling" in the end won't exactly go well (the whole "Do I even have a free will because of you?" debacle) (honestly, this is also what happens if you have imaginary world or work on an artwork and put in a self insert in a background- in phylosophical way the characters of that world would see your self insert like Happy Chaos is seen)

If I could describe HC in two words, then I think I would use "Absurd Beauty"

I love how you use Omniman as an example for good and Ainz as an example for Evil in the opening monolog.

Happy chaos is like lorgar not too corrupt but rather too pure like odin after gazing and drinking from Mimir's well

So tl;dr, he's a fucking theatre kid.

I-no: "Hey wanna help me become god" HC: "Sure lmao"

So … another way you can put it is that happy chaos ironically has the mindset of your stereotypical gamer. He acts like an detached-from-reality god that does whatever to please himself hedonistically. Since he’s already technically seen everything.

He Forgor 💀

7:21 just plain old driving would be too bland, and drinking is too much, but when you mix them together...

I didn't knew happy chaos until some minutes ago but I love it

12:19 the best boi appears!

The chicken and the egg are a nod to Aristotle's philosophy. He has 4 "things" that makeup everything in existence. The material cause - what the object is made from, The Formal cause - The shape and the idea of a shape of an object, The efficient or moving cause - What put the particular object into motion/existence, The final cause or the purpose - The point of the object. All 4 of these are needed for something to exist and all are in a way present in any particular object - they can't go without each other. Happy chaos over here is proclaiming that the purpose is what comes before everything else and is what forms the object. This is also seen in his behavior - He starts drama and gives characters purpose. Ino started the plot aka The moving cause; and since they are 2 halves they example 2 sides of the unmoved mover - God. One starts the existence of the story and the other gives it purpose. I have a hunch that he also goes meta here since he knows everything. He knows he's in a game or at least in some form of fiction, he provides the interesting antagonist part and by doing so enables the game to come into existence. If he wasn't there there would be no plot and no game; from his perspective, he wouldn't exist, and neither would all the other characters; and since Ino is only the driving part, he's the only one that can do it.

“Enslaved a black man” Happy Chaos

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Glad to see you back Rad Chad the mad lad and on the weekends my dad

Can we like...give the hugest props to robbie daymonds vocal performance? I wouldnt like happy chaos nearly as much without that smug silly aura he brings

God that thumbnail goes *hard*

Why didnt he just become a writer??

I feel like what made him insane in the backyard is that he found out he is a video game character, at least thats just a theory of mine

isn't he also literally a husk puppetted by an outer will and his body is just an avatar, therefore that's why he can clone himself or hop into another person's body

I also loved him before he was even playable, one of Strive's two best designs. One of the few cool gameplay characters too. Definitely a cool vibe

Damn, he wasn't lying. The video really did end at the next Danganronpa reference.

This is a great video, it made me understand a character I liked, had great editing, and I learned that Radchad is a Danganronpa Enjoyer!

Happy Chaos fans when Sad Order fans enter the room:

I don’t know how it never clicked, but Nagito Komaeda from Danganronpa 2 is scarily similar to Happy Chaos.