It is just like an old man and a child who behave the same. Really, we fill our heads with things and attach ourselves to them, while the old man and the child couldn't care less and have less of an ego
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.
Chaos gets often mashed up with Destruction in media. I believe that absolute Destruction is not in human nature and that Happy Chaos is a bit of proof for that.
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
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
@@SaHaRaBernanke Asuka is also (somewhat inadvertently) the Blue Oni for Sol. So many things, Asuka has done to try and make Aria and Frederick's lives better. But his attempts have only served to make him The Devil, and turned the simple, kinda awkward, romantic Frederick into Sol Badguy, the anti-hero who has saved humanity time and again. Of course, this isn't something Sol /wanted/ or is particularly happy with.
@@Raybro16 Oh yeah, thats really just japanese fairytale, which got adapted into Inazuma's story... While not 1-to-1 in Guilty Gear, the subtle references in Happy Chaos's actions, motivation and design are cool AF...
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
Not only that! But a revolver no less! The time required to reload one is far longer than that of a mag-fed pistol. Making his almost sluggish reloading give him time to enjoy the bedlam he makes!
And it reveals a flaw in his disillusionment with his nigh-omnipotence and omniscience. He doesn't really know how to use a gun properly, he fumbles it constantly, has to cheat with his magic to be accurate, and generally doesn't handle it properly. Intellectually, he probably knows how to make, use, and maintain every firearm humanity has ever made. But he doesn't have every single skill in the world. He could sit down and spend the time learning how to use a gun, and that would probably give him those new, interesting experiences he craves. But he's too stuck on the big picture to actually do so.
@@tanwenwalters7689i agree. That's also visible in der He Rest of his moves. Despite him knowing pretty much everything. He throws punch es like he's never been in a fight before and literally just shoves people
@@tanwenwalters7689 I think it's just that he doesn't care enough about fighting to learn how to use his guns. He even says "I don't care about winning, I'm just here for the pleasure." in one of his giant taunt rambles since he vastly prefers people and how they live over his guns and other possessions (even if said guns are unbelievably rare and powerful).
@@tdwl2802 oh absolutely, but the whole thing about wanting some interesting new experiences could be dealt with if he cared to try to learn to use it. Or learn any other skills, really. It's just that he doesn't want to
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"
@P4R53C5 Like its said in the video HC sets up a story and plays both the director and an understudy for any part that is lacking in his "story" but while the story plays out he inserts/allows certain variables that incentives improvisation because to him an unforseen outcome is more interesting than one that was planned out but both outcomes are acceptable because at the end of the day something new was created and he was entertained.
@@pooperdooper3576 if someones gonna mess with your creative vision, you do what you gotta do Especially if it means stealing the white house, use that baby as a set and youre making literal history
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.
Well I appreciate your two cents. Gives me a lot to think about with the character of happy chaos, his archetype as a character, the themes in Guilty gear, and the perspectives of the characters. Primarily the villian's but also the other characters as well. Thank you.
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.
The best part is that I'm pretty sure he just stole that name from a gear. The ACTUAL Happy Chaos was a gear designed to do what Jack-O tries to do at the end of the story. Fuse with I-No as a failsafe option. It was a gear that was designed for I-No specifically. So The Original probably saw he was helping I-No and thought "Wouldn't it be funny if I used that name, and gave myself a halo like the Jack-O units have? That'll totally confuse someone"
@@icetide9411 Technically the original Happy Chaos (the original Happy Chaos => not the Happy Chaos who is The Original...) is a Valentine and not a gear. They are different for REASONS. And interestingly, I-No is neither a Valentine OR a gear, and is just her own thing. This is all because Daisuke writes very straightforward and not at all confusing plots.
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.
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."
Well considering happy chaos is responsible for a bunch of stuff happening in the lore, creating situations and all, you could say he is the scenarist of his own world
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.
He would absolutely play D&D but he would forget every single rule the moment the session started and just make them up on the fly. By the end all the players would stop using their dice and instead be actually punching each other. Regardless, all of them would agree that he is a great DM and they'll be back for the next session.
He would fit more perfectly in the Classic World of Darkness setting. (Vampire the Masquerade, Mage the Ascension, and Werewolf the Apocalypse in particular) The cosmology of it is really cool, highly recommend it. HC’s views are the type of paradigm that a Mage chronicle’s antagonist would have. There’s a faction of mages in that setting called Marauders, and they are right up his alley.
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.
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.
(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 is probably a bit shallow, but I really dislike the SF6 artstyle. The characters look ok at best and horrible at worst, crashes right into the uncanny valley. Feels like they leaned a bit too heavily into realism.
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
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.
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.
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
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!!
Happy Chaos’ voice sounded REEEEAAALLLY familiar. At first I thought it was Nagito because well…you know. But turns out it’s the same guy who voices Goro Akechi. And for a reason I can’t explain that just makes perfect sense.
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.
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.
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.
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 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)
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. :)
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.
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.
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 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.
Part of what makes us human is that in theory we can do anything but we cant. Not without great struggle, loss, overcoming adversity and depending on what your trying to do, maybe even losing a part of yourself. Something that made you, you. Humanity has infinite potential but it can never achieve or gain anything without sacrificing something in return. If its the law of equivalent exhange, idk. It doesn't always seem like what we give up is equivalent to what were gaining. Sometimes it feels like we're losing more than were gaining or that we gained alot more than we lost. But granted, its hard to calculate or put a direct worth on something, especially concepts or feelings or even people sometimes. A life to us is worth something, different to everyone. But what is a life worth in the grand scheme of the universe. To us it can mean everything or nothing but to the universe you can argue its worth alot just as much as you can argue its worth practically nothing. As with many thing in life, worth is an opinion. Its relative. So to us, it will never be clear if what we gave up is worth what we got. Sometimes it can seem like we know how much it was worth or if what we got was equivalent, like nothing when we sacrifice something and only lost more and gained nothing. Because of our own biasest perspective we can't always see/tell when something was gained when it seems like things were only lost, or if maybe, even tho we felt like we deserved something for what we sacrificed, us losing what we sacrificed and losing more is what we deserve even if we dont realize it ourselves. Either because you didnt see yourself as a bad person or you were never aware of the bad things you did or grave sins you've commited.
Couple points to add, there is a quote by lovecraft that says: 'We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.' So when he says he will be a black sea he says the oposite, he will continue to voyage and be lost in the maddnes. I think he is a good representation to what happens when you satisfy the need for thruth of an obsesive person. The only thing that remains when logic is satieted are pure desires. He kinda is the ultimate expresion of an Absurdist. The world doesnt have meaning so i will defy it by enyoying the ride. That also in his theme:"The truth is not always real" "I don't want any conclusions". He doesnt care and just WANTS thats why he is insane to us. Insane enough to fight with pistols when he is a mage, and more insane when the ones he uses is the china rippoff and even more to not care about his death but the fact that he wants to see more. At the end thats his theme, there is no thruth, no morals. Just conflict and the pleasure of overcoming it. DRAMA
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
Okay I know I already commented and I try not to double dip BUT...I think I realized an answer to the question you posed earlier in the video; 'Why are you Blue' And while this answer doesn't cover the in-universe reason, I think I know why from a design stand point. Happy Chaos's colour scheme references two sets of morality. Black and White, the morality scale humanity normally operates on and Blue and Orange. Blue and Orange morality is an idea that say...aliens or other non-human like characters tend to opperate on in fiction. It's not outright amoral, as the beings that opperate under it DO have a sense of morality. It's just so abstract to us we barely even begin to fully unpack it. Happy Chaos' philosophy is him doing anything for what he believes will make humanity better, whether they want it or not. It's his Blue and Orange morality with hints of Black and White. Hence why he is a mostly blue and white coloured character with black and orange accents (his glasses and jacket)
well, i do understand the meaning at the end of the song thing, about the blue sky after a violent storm, as after like a major depressive stoop and huge point of turmoil in my life, i had a moment of repreive in the springtime and everything seemed more beautiful than anything i had ever experienced and i couldnt help but smile, stuff and things yup BAsed music
