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* Eddie's storyline. The good news: Eddie now has full control of Zato's body! The bad news: Zato was killed by Millia in ''X'', and his body is starting to decay, meaning Eddie will need a new host at some point. Though he spends the majority of ''XX'' drunk on his own power and overconfidence, ''Accent Core'' reveals there's worse news: Forbidden Beasts are parasites with limited lifespans that feed off the life force of their hosts, and because Zato is dead that means Eddie will die too. What follows is Eddie undergoing the FiveStagesOfGrief before meeting his ultimate fate. ''XX'' was his period of denial, but in ''AC'' denial gives way to anger as all the confidence he had from being drunk with power immediately washes away as he starts growing more and more desperate to find a new host and starts acting more like a crazed animal. Eventually he enters bargaining, trying to find powerful bodies such as Gears to inhabit and then encountering Slayer who bluntly tells him that no one can escape death, at which point Eddie gives in to his own insanity and panic, convincing himself there just ''has'' to be a way he can keep living. Finally, at his absolute lowest point, he goes into a deep depression before fighting Millia one last time, angrily screaming and lashing out at the world that created him for being cursed to die without a host. It's only at the end that he finally accepts his death with grace, finally understanding what Slayer had tried to tell him: what matters isn't how long what lives, but the memory they leave behind. His last act before he dies is simply to ask Millia to remember that he existed, as much as she remembers Zato's love for her.
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* Eddie's storyline. The good news: Eddie now has full control of Zato's body! The bad news: Zato was killed by Millia in ''X'', and his body is starting to decay, meaning Eddie will need a new host at some point. Though he spends the majority of ''XX'' drunk on his own power and overconfidence, ''Accent Core'' reveals there's worse news: Forbidden Beasts are parasites with limited lifespans that feed off the life force of their hosts, and because Zato is dead that means Eddie will die too. What follows is Eddie undergoing the FiveStagesOfGrief before meeting his ultimate fate. ''XX'' was his period of denial, but in ''AC'' denial gives way to anger as all the confidence he had from being drunk with power immediately washes away as he starts growing more and more desperate to find a new host and starts acting more like a crazed animal. Eventually he enters bargaining, trying to find powerful bodies such as Gears to inhabit and then encountering Slayer who bluntly tells him that no one can escape death, at which point Eddie gives in to his own insanity and panic, convincing himself there just ''has'' to be a way he can keep living. Finally, at his absolute lowest point, he goes into a deep depression before fighting Millia one last time, angrily screaming and lashing out at the world that created him for being cursed to die without a host. It's only at the end that he finally accepts his death with grace, finally understanding what Slayer had tried to tell him: what matters isn't how long what lives, but the memory they leave behind. His last act before he dies is simply to ask Millia to remember that he existed, as much as she remembers Zato's love for her.
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* Robo-Ky's arc in ''Night of Knives'' is overall very light-hearted but it takes on a sadder tone when RK-000348 (another Robo-Ky model) sacrifices its life to protect Robo-Ky from Ky's Ride The Lightning attack. Having grown attached to his companion despite their initial disagreements, Robo-Ky tries desperately to revive RK-000348 with [[ItMakesSenseInContext tangerines]] and even begs Ky to help him, but to no avail.
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* Zato-1 had to work his way up from nothing in the harsh environment of the Assassins' Guild, eventually leading him to crave power. When he finally became its leader, he began to stray from the Guild's original intended purpose in order to sate his ambitions. His sole redeeming actions at the time were to take Millia and Venom under his wing, but they too were not significant enough within his mind to rein in his lust for power, and after Millia's betrayal Zato gained an unhealthy, insane obsession with killing her. His ever-growing insanity is played incredibly tragically, as the forbidden beast that lives within him, Eddie, is causing that madness to spiral out of control in an attempt to take over his body. By the time Zato is aware of what's happening, it's too late, and Eddie already has significant control over him. His last days in ''X'' are spent in a demented haze, half-lucid and half under Eddie's near-complete control, and his final moments are spent in furious rage trying to kill Millia before she finally puts him out of his misery.
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* Zato-1 had to work his way up from nothing in the harsh environment of the Assassins' Guild, eventually leading him to crave power. When he finally became its leader, he began to stray from the Guild's original intended purpose in order to sate his ambitions. His sole redeeming actions at the time were to take Millia and Venom under his wing, but they too were not significant enough within his mind to rein in his lust for power, and after Millia's betrayal Zato gained an unhealthy, insane obsession with killing her. His ever-growing insanity is played incredibly tragically, as the forbidden beast that lives within him, Eddie, is causing that madness to spiral out of control in an attempt to take over his body. By the time Zato is aware of what's happening, it's too late, and Eddie already has significant control over him. His last days in ''X'' are spent in a demented haze, half-lucid and half under Eddie's near-complete control, and his final moments are spent in furious rage a berserk fury trying to kill Millia before Millia, no longer aware of anything at all except for her, until the moment she finally puts him out of his misery.
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* Zato-1 had to work his way up from nothing in the harsh environment of the Assassins' Guild, eventually leading him to crave power. When he finally became its leader, he began to stray from the Guild's original intended purpose in order to sate his ambitions. His sole redeeming actions at the time were to take Millia and Venom under his wing, but they too were not significant enough within his mind to rein in his lust for power, and after Millia's betrayal Zato gained an unhealthy, insane obsession with killing her. His ever-growing insanity is played incredibly tragically, as the forbidden beast that lives within him, Eddie, is causing that madness to spiral out of control in an attempt to take over his body. By the time Zato is aware of what's happening, it's too late, and Eddie already has significant control over him. His last days in ''X'' are spent in a demented haze, half-lucid and half under Eddie's near-complete control, and his final moments are spent in furious rage trying to kill Millia before she finally puts him out of his misery.
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* Sol's was once known as Frederick Bulsara, a rough-around-the-edges scientist working alongside his two colleagues on what would eventually become the Gear Project. His life changed completely when out of left field one of his friends, who would eventually become known as the world's greatest war criminal known only as "That Man", seemingly betrayed him by injecting him with Gear cells and leaving him to mutate. On that day, Frederick effectively died, and Sol Badguy, the Guilty Gear, was born. Now a nigh-immortal being of unimaginable power, he spent the next 100 years killing the Gears to atone for his part in creating such weapons of mass destruction in the first place. He wearily wandered across battlefields as the world was turned into a living hellscape by the Gear Crusades, even ending up in the Sacred Order of Holy Knights for a time. After over a century conducting his private war against his own kind, he was finally able to seal away their commander, Justice. But despite this, his victory did nothing to sate an entire century of pain, and so he continued onward feeling it was the only thing left to him.
* Ky was born into a world ravaged by the Crusades, on the brink of destruction. He lost his entire family when he was very young and was forced to fend for himself. Eventually, he survived long enough to join the Sacred Order of Holy Knights, one of the last remaining defenses of humanity against the Gears, and he worked his way up to become one of their most prodigal soldiers. His experiences, however, had convinced him that the Gears couldn't be anything other than evil, and that destroying them was righteous justice. This dangerously-warped mindset, combined with his natural affinity for combat, made him a brutally efficient killing machine by his early teens despite his latent desire to do right by the world. His commitment to his ideals drove him and Sol to a rivalry that would shape both of their destinies.
* Ky was born into a world ravaged by the Crusades, on the brink of destruction. He lost his entire family when he was very young and was forced to fend for himself. Eventually, he survived long enough to join the Sacred Order of Holy Knights, one of the last remaining defenses of humanity against the Gears, and he worked his way up to become one of their most prodigal soldiers. His experiences, however, had convinced him that the Gears couldn't be anything other than evil, and that destroying them was righteous justice. This dangerously-warped mindset, combined with his natural affinity for combat, made him a brutally efficient killing machine by his early teens despite his latent desire to do right by the world. His commitment to his ideals drove him and Sol to a rivalry that would shape both of their destinies.
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* Sol's Sol Badguy was once known as Frederick Bulsara, a rough-around-the-edges scientist working alongside his two colleagues on what would eventually become the Gear Project. His life changed completely when out of left field one of his friends, who would eventually become known as the world's greatest war criminal known only as "That Man", seemingly betrayed him by injecting him with Gear cells and leaving him to mutate. On that day, Frederick effectively died, and Sol Badguy, the Guilty Gear, was born. Now a nigh-immortal being of unimaginable power, he spent the next 100 years killing the Gears to atone for his part in creating such weapons of mass destruction in the first place. He wearily wandered across battlefields as the world was turned into a living hellscape by the Gear Crusades, even ending up in the Sacred Order of Holy Knights for a time. After over a century conducting his private war against his own kind, he was finally able to seal away their commander, Justice. But despite this, his victory did nothing to sate an entire century of pain, and so he continued onward feeling it was the only thing left to him.
* Ky Kiske was born into a world ravaged by the Crusades, on the brink of destruction. He lost his entire family when he was very young and was forced to fend for himself. Eventually, he survived long enough to join the Sacred Order of Holy Knights, one of the last remaining defenses of humanity against the Gears, and he worked his way up to become one of their most prodigal soldiers. His experiences, however, had convinced him that the Gears couldn't be anything other than evil, and that destroying them was righteous justice. This dangerously-warped mindset, combined with his natural affinity for combat, made him a brutally efficient killing machine by his early teens despite his latent desire to do right by the world. His commitment to his ideals drove him and Sol to a rivalry that would shape both of theirdestinies.destinies.
* May, albeit unbeknownst to her or the audience at the time, is one of the last surviving members of the Japanese ethnicity, orphaned during the Crusades. Due to the latent ability of the Japanese to manipulate ki, this grants her untapped potential and near-superhuman capabilities, but it's also resulted in her feeling ostracized, especially when others point out her ethnic background to her, especially when those who point it out often don't have the nicest of intentions (I-No, Robo-Ky). It takes May several games and encounters with fellow Japanese Anji and Baiken, as well as Japanese culture enthusiasts like Chipp, to finally come to terms with and accept that her race doesn't define who she is as a person, and that it's ultimately her love for Johnny and her new family in the Jellyfish Pirates that matters most to her.
* Millia Rage was orphaned during the Crusades at a young age, and she eventually ended up in the hands of the Assassins' Guild, an organization of killers for hire. She caught the eye of the group's leader, Zato-1, and the two soon began a relationship. Then the events of the ''Night of Knives'' drama CD occur, in which her and Zato's mission is to murder the infant heir to a country's ruling body. Millia is both shocked and appalled by this, but ''not'' Zato, and no matter how much she tried to talk him out of it, Zato's twisted ambitions and commitment to the Guild's rules took precedence over his love for Millia. And so, Millia chose to run away from the Guild, and turned Zato in to the authorities, and she ended up on the run from both them and the Guild, for her betrayal had only caused Zato to slip further and further into insanity. Things finally came to a head when she had one final confrontation with Zato, whose mind had already been eroded to virtually nothing by his own power at that point, and killed him. Her lingering feelings about her relationship with Zato haunted her for several games afterward until ''Xrd'', when Zato was resurrected, and even after that she's still not quite at ease.
* Ky Kiske was born into a world ravaged by the Crusades, on the brink of destruction. He lost his entire family when he was very young and was forced to fend for himself. Eventually, he survived long enough to join the Sacred Order of Holy Knights, one of the last remaining defenses of humanity against the Gears, and he worked his way up to become one of their most prodigal soldiers. His experiences, however, had convinced him that the Gears couldn't be anything other than evil, and that destroying them was righteous justice. This dangerously-warped mindset, combined with his natural affinity for combat, made him a brutally efficient killing machine by his early teens despite his latent desire to do right by the world. His commitment to his ideals drove him and Sol to a rivalry that would shape both of their
* May, albeit unbeknownst to her or the audience at the time, is one of the last surviving members of the Japanese ethnicity, orphaned during the Crusades. Due to the latent ability of the Japanese to manipulate ki, this grants her untapped potential and near-superhuman capabilities, but it's also resulted in her feeling ostracized, especially when others point out her ethnic background to her, especially when those who point it out often don't have the nicest of intentions (I-No, Robo-Ky). It takes May several games and encounters with fellow Japanese Anji and Baiken, as well as Japanese culture enthusiasts like Chipp, to finally come to terms with and accept that her race doesn't define who she is as a person, and that it's ultimately her love for Johnny and her new family in the Jellyfish Pirates that matters most to her.
* Millia Rage was orphaned during the Crusades at a young age, and she eventually ended up in the hands of the Assassins' Guild, an organization of killers for hire. She caught the eye of the group's leader, Zato-1, and the two soon began a relationship. Then the events of the ''Night of Knives'' drama CD occur, in which her and Zato's mission is to murder the infant heir to a country's ruling body. Millia is both shocked and appalled by this, but ''not'' Zato, and no matter how much she tried to talk him out of it, Zato's twisted ambitions and commitment to the Guild's rules took precedence over his love for Millia. And so, Millia chose to run away from the Guild, and turned Zato in to the authorities, and she ended up on the run from both them and the Guild, for her betrayal had only caused Zato to slip further and further into insanity. Things finally came to a head when she had one final confrontation with Zato, whose mind had already been eroded to virtually nothing by his own power at that point, and killed him. Her lingering feelings about her relationship with Zato haunted her for several games afterward until ''Xrd'', when Zato was resurrected, and even after that she's still not quite at ease.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to their Gear conversion, they were actually a kind, charitable man who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and were forced to kill humans as their conscious mind tried to resist.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, they were freed from her control, and were reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, their programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of their former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke their idealistic spirit.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to their Gear conversion, they were actually a kind, charitable man who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and were forced to kill humans as their conscious mind tried to resist.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, they were freed from her control, and were reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, their programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of their former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke their idealistic spirit.
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-->'''Johnny''': "[[DisappearedDad Pops...]] [[PleaseWakeUp Wake up... it's still the afternoon...]]"
-->'''Elphelt''': "No, [[AbusiveParents Mother]], please! Stop! I-I can't...!"
-->'''Faust''': "[[ThisCannotBe T-that can't be happening!]] The patient was just stable!"
-->'''Faust''': "[[StartOfDarkness I'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSOSORRYYYYYYYYYY!!!]]"
-->'''Millia:''' "S-should I... [[DrivenTosuicide destroy myself]] instead?"
-->'''Leo:''' [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Don't you die on me]], [[ThatsAnOrder that's an order!]]
-->'''Raven:''' "[[GoMadFromTheIsolation No one... no one can recognize me!]]"
-->'''Raven:''' "[[WhoWantsToLiveForever Even death is a luxury I do not have!]]"
-->'''I-No:''' "[[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget Am I supposed to see something...?]]"
-->'''Sin''': "Wait, what're you...? No! Mom!"
-->'''Baiken:''' "I remember that face! [[DarkAndTroubledPast I REMEMBER!!]]"
-->'''Elphelt''': "No, [[AbusiveParents Mother]], please! Stop! I-I can't...!"
-->'''Faust''': "[[ThisCannotBe T-that can't be happening!]] The patient was just stable!"
-->'''Faust''': "[[StartOfDarkness I'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSOSORRYYYYYYYYYY!!!]]"
-->'''Millia:''' "S-should I... [[DrivenTosuicide destroy myself]] instead?"
-->'''Leo:''' [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Don't you die on me]], [[ThatsAnOrder that's an order!]]
-->'''Raven:''' "[[GoMadFromTheIsolation No one... no one can recognize me!]]"
-->'''Raven:''' "[[WhoWantsToLiveForever Even death is a luxury I do not have!]]"
-->'''I-No:''' "[[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget Am I supposed to see something...?]]"
-->'''Sin''': "Wait, what're you...? No! Mom!"
-->'''Baiken:''' "I remember that face! [[DarkAndTroubledPast I REMEMBER!!]]"
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-->'''Johnny''': "[[DisappearedDad Pops...]] [[PleaseWakeUp Wake up... it's still the afternoon...]]"
-->'''Elphelt''':]]"\\
'''Elphelt''': "No, [[AbusiveParents Mother]], please! Stop! I-I can't...!"
-->'''Faust''':!"\\
'''Faust''': "[[ThisCannotBe T-that can't be happening!]] The patient was juststable!"
-->'''Faust''':stable!"\\
'''Faust''': "[[StartOfDarknessI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSOSORRYYYYYYYYYY!!!]]"
-->'''Millia:'''I'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSORRYI'MSOSORRYYYYYYYYYY!!!]]"\\
'''Millia:''' "S-should I... [[DrivenTosuicide destroy myself]]instead?"
-->'''Leo:'''instead?"\\
'''Leo:''' [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Don't you die on me]], [[ThatsAnOrder that's anorder!]]
-->'''Raven:'''order!]]\\
'''Raven:''' "[[GoMadFromTheIsolation No one... no one can recognizeme!]]"
-->'''Raven:'''me!]]"\\
'''Raven:''' "[[WhoWantsToLiveForever Even death is a luxury I do nothave!]]"
-->'''I-No:'''have!]]"\\
'''I-No:''' "[[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget Am I supposed to see something...?]]"
-->'''Sin''':?]]"\\
'''Sin''': "Wait, what're you...? No!Mom!"
-->'''Baiken:'''Mom!"\\
'''Baiken:''' "I remember that face! [[DarkAndTroubledPast I REMEMBER!!]]"
-->'''Elphelt''':
'''Elphelt''': "No, [[AbusiveParents Mother]], please! Stop! I-I can't...
-->'''Faust''':
'''Faust''': "[[ThisCannotBe T-that can't be happening!]] The patient was just
-->'''Faust''':
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-->'''Millia:'''
'''Millia:''' "S-should I... [[DrivenTosuicide destroy myself]]
-->'''Leo:'''
'''Leo:''' [[DiedInYourArmsTonight Don't you die on me]], [[ThatsAnOrder that's an
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'''Raven:''' "[[GoMadFromTheIsolation No one... no one can recognize
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'''I-No:''' "[[TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget Am I supposed to see something...
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'''Sin''': "Wait, what're you...? No!
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'''Baiken:''' "I remember that face! [[DarkAndTroubledPast I REMEMBER!!]]"
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* Faust's redesign is not only terrifying, but also really sad and depressing when you think about it. That lovable, crazy bag-headed doctor who always seemed to be in high spirits you once knew? Gone. It's very clear that Faust has seen better days. He's traded in his doctor's uniform for that of a surgeon's, which evokes his [[DarkandTroubledPast very tragic backstory]] as Dr. Baldhead. His entire body looks like it's in awful shape, like at any moment he could just suddenly fall apart at the seams. Quite literally in fact, because upon closer inspection his body has a bunch of stitches in it. It's also horribly emaciated and skinny, looking like it's been stretched WAY out of proportion. His entire character model is framed in shadow regardless of the stage's lighting, giving off very gloomy vibes. He walks like a zombie, seemingly aimless and without purpose. Even his moveset has taken on a much darker turn. He no longer cheerfully pops in through doors made out of thin air or swims through solid ground. Instead, he morphs into scarecrows and ''eats the opponent alive'' before releasing them through a plain-Jane dimensional hole. Whatever happened to Faust in-between games, it's not pretty.
** His new voice and dialogue doesn't help either. Gone is the jovial, funny doctor we all came to know. In his place is a depressed, broken shell of a man that is very noticeably losing his humanity. And whatever turned him into...''that'' has left him unable to speak anything but sentence fragments of things he used to say. He has become the same type of being as that of a character from ''Guilty Gear's'' sister series ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': Arakune. And all his attempts to retain the person he used to be fail tragically, as shown in his Respect where he pulls out a flower and tries to give it to his opponent, but it withers, causing poor Faust to cry.
*** ''Another Story'' finally reveals what happened to the good doctor to turn him into what he is now, and not only is it not pretty, it's also very tragic. The Faust you've probably been playing as this entire time? '''That's his zombified corpse.''' That's right: Faust is '''dead'''. And how did he die? By redeeming his greatest failure and saving Bedman's sister Delilah from the same overexertion that did in her brother, expending so much of his power that he burned out his life force as his spirit ascends to the next world. What is alive now is merely an EmptyShell that carries Faust's will to save people, but no longer has any idea just who or what it is.
* The new character themes in ''Strive'' are all in ImageSong format, and there's quite a few sad moments in several of them.
** Faust's theme, ''Alone Infection'', at first is a standard heavy metal track, but during the chorus changes to a more melancholy melody with lyrics that are unusually somber. It mixes in a sense of dread fitting to his sudden insanity, but also hints at Faust struggling with himself. In addition, the lyrics are both deranged and very depressing, with copious amounts of distorted, dual-toned [[MetalScream Metal Screams]] that give the impression that Faust is struggling with his own identity. Lastly, after the 2nd verse, the song suddenly cuts to a quiet, sad-sounding ballad. ''Another Story'' makes the song even more somber by essentially revealing that each "verse" is a reflection of each persona that Faust has had over the years, right up until the soft piano section which is essentially him accepting both halves as a part of himself before sacrificing his life to redeem his past sins.
--->''"I tried to run away from here\\
Before the storm hit\\
We see eye to eye\\
We see eye to eye\\
I told me\\
'''WITHOUT YOU'''"''
** Zato's theme, ''Let Me Carve Your Way'', describes how deep down, Zato yearns for the lost memories of his previous life. Why? Because even though he doesn't know how evil and insane he was back then, he still loved Millia with all his heart. And now because of his resurrection, he's lost his emotions in addition to his memories, except his love for Millia. Yet, because he has no emotions, he no longer understands why she drives him forward. The end portion also states that no matter what happens, if he finds out about his past and is displeased with the person he used to be, if he never regains his emotions or memories at all, or even if Millia herself does not reciprocate his feelings, he will '''[[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy always]]''' love Millia and support her.
--->''"I once had some sweet memories\\
Its worth remains all the same\\
How can I remember those moments, sweetheart?\\
Tell me\\
'''TELL ME'''"''
** Leo's theme, ''Hellfire''. The lyrics reveal that underneath Leo's facade of a proud warrior and king is a man suffering from heavy PTSD and SurvivorsGuilt because his pride ended up getting his entire squad killed during the Crusades. They state that he compares himself to TheGrimReaper after having led his men to the afterlife, and wonders if he'll be remembered on the right side of history.
--->''"I woke up one morning, strangers say "hello" to me\\
[[TheDeadHaveNames Tomorrow their names will be carved onto stones]]\\
"We're going home alive"; I'm a terrible liar\\
Forgive me, that's not the Arc de Triomphe!"''
** I-No's theme, ''Requiem'', is a dramatic and bombastic tune normally, but the lyrics describe I-No's true motivations behind her actions. Beneath her two-faced personality is a deeply hurt woman who only wanted to use her powers to create a bright future for all of humanity, but the more she used her powers the more disaster and tragedy she caused. The numerous alternate futures she created eventually drove her to despair and insanity, to the point where she's all but given up on her ideals. The song becomes even sadder after you play the Story Mode, as the lyrics turn into a MusicalSpoiler that foreshadows her death.
--->''"The time that passes, tells me many lovely things\\
But I can't feel it..."''\\
'''"CUT IT OUT!"'''\\
''[...]"If I am to be swallowed by fate I must have fought well,\\
Praying that it will become a seed of... new life..."''
** Happy Chaos's theme, ''Drift'', is essentially what happens when I-No and Zato's themes have a baby. While the song itself is lively and bombastic, [[LyricalDissonance the lyrics]] describe just how utterly broken and insane the man formerly known as the Original has become due to having so much knowledge and power contained within himself while being isolated from everyone else. The words paint his story in a somewhat tragic light, with one possible explanation being that all the isolation combined with people's expectations of him due to being a god among men, much like with Raven, slowly eroded his mind to the point where he just stopped caring and now only wants to entertain himself, stating that it is because he is now free from worldly attachments and no longer cares about anything that he can find everything about the world and humanity beautiful. And he's more than happy to play whatever role will provide for another great chapter in history.
--->''"Can you hear it?\\
The pulses of the living\\
The ironic rhythm is a grand orchestra!\\
It's never the same tone\\
Who wants to stop this?\\
There can be...\\
When the violent storm is over\\
The blue sky is more beautiful than ever!\\
You see, I want that! I want that!\\
'''THAT'S ALL I WANT!'''''"
** Baiken's theme, ''Mirror of the World'', especially after the events of ''Another Story''. Baiken has lived her entire life for only one purpose: getting revenge on the one who destroyed her country and killed her family - Happy Chaos. As cool a character as she may be, it's easy to forget that she's a BrokenBird who's essentially been living just to kill someone and then resign herself to whatever fate may come afterward - including death. It's only after she meets Delilah, someone who's also lost her family to the same man she's after and is willing to do whatever it takes to avenge her brother and feels that Baiken is a kindred spirit, does she finally realize that there are people who care for her that she's pushed away and that throwing away one's humanity and life is never a price worth paying. In the end, Baiken finally finds the companionship which she has denied herself for so long, abandoning her quest for vengeance in order to truly live her own life, with Delilah by her side. Much like Sol, Baiken can now finally let go of the guilt she's been carrying for so long.
** Testament's theme, ''Like a Weed, Naturally, as a Matter of Course'', is both a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments happy]] and a [[TearJerker sad]] one when one takes into account Testament's backstory. They have spent their whole life fighting on both sides of the Crusades, as a human and as a Gear, and all those years of war left them in despair, a broken shell of the idealist they used to be. Then, at their absolute lowest point, they met Dizzy, who left such an impact on them that even after their eventual separation, they still never forgot about her and her dream of peaceful coexistence between humans and Gears. Now, after all these years, that beautiful dream has not only been made a reality for the world, but for Testament as well, as humans later came to accept and befriend them. The song is an expression of their gratitude towards Dizzy for redeeming them and finally giving them a reason to live on. Even though Ky ultimately was the one to be with Dizzy in the end, she will always be Testament's eternal friend and savior.
** Bridget's theme ''The Town Inside Me'' has peppy delivery of the lyrics, but the song's lyrics spin a story of Bridget's listlessness after achieving her goal of ending her home village's superstitions, her mounting dysphoria and fear of loneliness. Every time the song gets to the chorus, the peppier delivery of the song starts to falter and even sound ''downright upset'' at times as Bridget clashes with her feelings internally, changing the justification or realization between repetitions.
--->''"I've been patient, but it was bearable\\
I've had a gray haze for a long time though\\
I never found out, what it was I--\\
It's my stress, that's for sure/Tastes like vegetables I don't like/I hate the alarm clock I chose"''
* Sol's fridge-raiding NoodleIncident may have been played for laughs, but you get a sense that deep down the man still longs for the time before the Universal Will tore his life apart. He may be hailed as a hero with all the privileges it entails, but his heart has never truly known rest all this time.
* Asuka's backstory. He does admit he was the one who had Japan destroyed to contain Justice, but the Gear rampage afterwards wasn't his doing. His ''mentor'' of all people was the reason the entire world, possibly including his best friend Frederick, wanted him dead for over a century.
** The reveal of Asuka's key personality trait, namely that he has trouble understanding people and properly conveying his emotions and intentions, retroactively makes everything he's ever done and many plot details a lot sadder. Like Frederick, he didn't want to lose Aria to her disease. But rather than simply tell Frederick that she didn't want to live in a world without him and get his opinion on how to proceed, he went ahead and forcibly mutated him into a Gear against his will, causing Frederick to hate Asuka over a perceived betrayal for over 100 years. Because of the Prototype Gear project being labeled a "failure" due to Frederick's escape, the military seized control of the Gear Project and there was nothing Asuka could do to stop the Gears from being used for war, so he had no choice but to try and subvert those plans by implanting Aria's soul into the first Commander-type Gear: Justice. This resulted in Japan's destruction and Aria's effective death, leaving only a rampaging Justice to wage war on the world for over 100 years. The world was brought to the brink of destruction all because of one man's desire to see his friends happy together yet utter failure at interpreting his friends' will, on a level of PoorCommunicationKills to perhaps rival [[Franchise/MetalGear Major Zero and Big Boss]].
* The forcing of Asuka's hand for Sol to either [[DePower accept losing the Flame of Corruption]] or [[PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou popping Dragon Install right there and ending Asuka's life]]. As Asuka stated, his goal was to "erase Sol Badguy", but in the sense of freeing Frederick Bulsara from those chains. However, it's not a decision entirely of guilt. In case the audience forgot: Sol's PowerLimiter is ''starting to fail''. It may be sooner, it may be later, but his power is still growing and it can barely hold it back anymore. And, ''when'' it fails --when, not if-- Sol ''will'' become a rampaging, unstoppable monster. But Asuka's thoughts aren't towards the damage that would do, but ''what that would do to his friend.''
--> '''Vernon:''' Tell me, who is Sol going to hurt?!
--> ''Asuka thinks to a vision of a gigantic silhouette of Sol looming over a barren, lifeless desert city.''
--> '''Asuka:''' [[HisOwnWorstEnemy Himself]].
* A rather literal one from the story mode: when I-No effectively becomes "God", she uses her newfound power to give humanity all of their desires, effectively fulfilling Ariels' original directive. When she does this, the entire world starts to cry.
** What I-No says when she becomes a god. As she is the collective will of humanity's wishes for a brighter future, she asks one final question for humanity, to see if this is what they really want and if she finally did one good thing in all of her existence.
-->"''Free...dom. '''Freedom.''' All of you are now free. From old age, hunger, and disease. From power, standing, appearance, location, and even time. I've freed you from all of these shackles. Now, what is your answer?''"
* '''''The ending.''''' If you thought the ending of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'' was bittersweet, the ending to ''Strive'' will give you a similar feeling.
** '''[[TheHeroDies Sol Badguy dies]].''' To be more specific, the identity that Frederick Bulsara had built up over the last century as an [[InvincibleHero unstoppable bounty hunter]]. He is declared killed in action in order to stop the current world from being destroyed by I-No, but this allows him to finally settle down with Jack-O', who has become her own person following Aria's decision to not return.
** Asuka R. Kreutz has finally accomplished his personal goals, not only as a scientist but also his personal dream of giving his best friends in the whole world a happy life together. With his duty fulfilled, he retires and becomes a radio host, hoping to finally live his own life and grant the world peace in his own way.
** Aria's soul finally moves on, as Jack-o' acknowledges to Sol that she won't be coming back. Despite that, Jack-O' is able to realize that she loves Frederick just as much as the original Aria did. Sol returns her feelings, having already dealt with his guilt over killing the original Aria and accepting she might never return. Not once after their fusion did he ever refer to Jack-O' as Aria, showing how much he cares for her as her own person.
** I-No's [[KilledOffForReal death]]. She is finally able to come to terms with what she is in her final moments as I-No. As her current form dies at the hands of Frederick Bulsara, she uses the last of her power to effectively be reborn as Megumi once more via switching places with her, allowing Megumi to take I-No's place in the present and granting her fellow time traveler Axl's wish to meet her again, finally fulfilling her dream of giving at least one person a happy future. [[VillainsDyingGrace A heart-wrenching yet satisfying end]] to one of the most legendary and iconic villains in fighting game history.
* As the credits begin to roll, we get a good look at ''everyone'' who appeared in ''Xrd'', and some familiar faces that haven't appeared in a long time, too.
** The Kiske family are back together again, and now they're joined by Testament, who's finally found inner peace!
** Anji, Baiken, and Haehyun spending time together in the Japanese Colony.
** Millia and Zato decide to catch up with their former comrade Venom by paying a visit to his bakery.
** Axl and Megumi, formerly I-No, are reunited at long last.
** Sol and Jack-O', now Frederick and Aria again at long last, live peacefully near a scenic lakeside and run a machine parts shop.
* "'''The Name of Heaven'''". The final Arcade Mode ending theme of Sol's story arc, it's a tragic ballad whose lyrics describe someone who has suffered and is on the verge of death, pondering what the afterlife is like and if they can finally be free from all their pain. At first, you may think this song could apply to Sol and Aria just like all the other ending themes...until it plays in Story Mode and you realize that it's ''not'' just describing Sol and Jack-O' (Aria's reincarnation who, in the moment the song plays, is planning on sacrificing herself), but also '''I-No'''. She's been broken so much by the trauma of creating and erasing so many timelines yet never finding one that she herself could find happiness in, that the only two things that matter to her now are either sharing the experience of "heaven" with everyone else just to feel like she belongs, or for someone to MercyKill her. Combined with the references in the scene that follows her ascension to godhood, this song is basically Daisuke Ishiwatari's answer to "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Komm, susser tod]]".
* Delilah's situation in ''Another Story''. She's only just woken up from a long sleep thanks to the efforts of her brother Bedman, only to find out upon awakening that not only was he betrayed, but he sacrificed his own life so she could wake up. Now without any living family left, all she has left is revenge towards the one who manipulated and betrayed Bedman: Happy Chaos, who was controlling the Universal Will in an attempt to escape the Backyard. Keep in mind that all of this has happened to a 12-year-old girl with RealityWarper powers that are stronger than her own brother's which she [[PowerIncontinence cannot control while awake]] and could potentially result in her own death at any given moment due to her body being unable to keep up with the sheer brainpower it takes to use said powers. She ends up meeting with Anji, who puts her in the care of Baiken, another who seeks revenge against Happy Chaos. Baiken tries to dissuade her from the path of vengeance to no avail, resulting in Delilah teleporting away, only to end up in a snowy mountainside town near Illyria, unable to control her powers, and now unintentionally threatening the end of the world itself due to her turbulent emotional state caused by the conflict between not wanting to be alone anymore and her desire for revenge. It's only after she is finally accepted by Baiken as a friend and surrogate sister that she is able to calm down, and it comes at the cost of Faust effectively performing a HeroicSacrifice to weaken her dimensional barrier enough for Baiken and Ramlethal to enter it.
** On that note, '''Faust's death'''. No one saw it coming. Many had suspected that the reason for Faust's different demeanor in this game was the result of some sort of transformation. As it turns out, it's because the Faust we know, the wacky lovable doctor who teleports through doors and creates random items like helium baloons out of thin air, the reformed serial killer once known as Dr. Baldhead, is gone. He is forced to use the maximum extent of his dimensional magic in order to save Delilah, but in the process he ends up tapping too much into the power of the Backyard, which puts so much strain on his body that he dies as a result, his soul departing to the afterlife. All that's left now is his deformed, zombified corpse, animated solely by his undying will to save lives. A bittersweet but noble end to one of the most recognizable and beloved characters in the series. Rest well, Doctor. You've earned it.
* While Bridget's arcade mode story is a heartwarming ComingOutStory, it doesn't shy away from touching on the struggles caused by gender dysphoria. And Goldlewis, who has his own MysteriousPast, is able to recognize Bridget's pain as similar to his own, leading to him having an emotional heart-to-heart with her after stage 7.
-->'''Goldlewis:''' Lemme guess. You’re hidin’ your true self for the sake of other folks.\\
'''Bridget:''' (''gasps'') How... How did you know?\\
'''Goldlewis:''' I’m ridin’ that horse too, hoss. I keep tellin’ myself this is what’s best for my family. I’ve shied away from my true feelings for years and years. Look where it got me. Separate homes. What a joke.\\
'''Bridget:''' I always thought that, as long as I kept quiet, things would work out... But it hurts too much.
** Bridget's dialog at the end of stage 8, just before she comes out, makes it clear she's known who she is for a long time. But out of fear of admitting the truth and losing everything she had, she kept her feelings a secret from her family and lied to herself. The moment she affirms her identity is the first time she's ''ever'' had control over who she is.
--->'''Bridget:''' I... I don’t want to run scared anymore. If I keep on faking it like this, I know I’ll regret it... So from now on, no matter what... no more lying to myself.
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* Faust's redesign is not only terrifying, but also really sad and depressing when you think about it. That lovable, crazy bag-headed doctor who always seemed to be in high spirits you once knew? Gone. It's very clear that Faust has seen better days. He's traded in his doctor's uniform for that of a surgeon's, which evokes his [[DarkandTroubledPast very tragic backstory]] as Dr. Baldhead. His entire body looks like it's in awful shape, like at any moment he could just suddenly fall apart at the seams. Quite literally in fact, because upon closer inspection his body has a bunch of stitches in it. It's also horribly emaciated and skinny, looking like it's been stretched WAY out of proportion. His entire character model is framed in shadow regardless of the stage's lighting, giving off very gloomy vibes. He walks like a zombie, seemingly aimless and without purpose. Even his moveset has taken on a much darker turn. He no longer cheerfully pops in through doors made out of thin air or swims through solid ground. Instead, he morphs into scarecrows and ''eats the opponent alive'' before releasing them through a plain-Jane dimensional hole. Whatever happened to Faust in-between games, it's not pretty.
** His new voice and dialogue doesn't help either. Gone is the jovial, funny doctor we all came to know. In his place is a depressed, broken shell of a man that is very noticeably losing his humanity. And whatever turned him into...''that'' has left him unable to speak anything but sentence fragments of things he used to say. He has become the same type of being as that of a character from ''Guilty Gear's'' sister series ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': Arakune. And all his attempts to retain the person he used to be fail tragically, as shown in his Respect where he pulls out a flower and tries to give it to his opponent, but it withers, causing poor Faust to cry.
*** ''Another Story'' finally reveals what happened to the good doctor to turn him into what he is now, and not only is it not pretty, it's also very tragic. The Faust you've probably been playing as this entire time? '''That's his zombified corpse.''' That's right: Faust is '''dead'''. And how did he die? By redeeming his greatest failure and saving Bedman's sister Delilah from the same overexertion that did in her brother, expending so much of his power that he burned out his life force as his spirit ascends to the next world. What is alive now is merely an EmptyShell that carries Faust's will to save people, but no longer has any idea just who or what it is.
* The new character themes in ''Strive'' are all in ImageSong format, and there's quite a few sad moments in several of them.
** Faust's theme, ''Alone Infection'', at first is a standard heavy metal track, but during the chorus changes to a more melancholy melody with lyrics that are unusually somber. It mixes in a sense of dread fitting to his sudden insanity, but also hints at Faust struggling with himself. In addition, the lyrics are both deranged and very depressing, with copious amounts of distorted, dual-toned [[MetalScream Metal Screams]] that give the impression that Faust is struggling with his own identity. Lastly, after the 2nd verse, the song suddenly cuts to a quiet, sad-sounding ballad. ''Another Story'' makes the song even more somber by essentially revealing that each "verse" is a reflection of each persona that Faust has had over the years, right up until the soft piano section which is essentially him accepting both halves as a part of himself before sacrificing his life to redeem his past sins.
--->''"I tried to run away from here\\
Before the storm hit\\
We see eye to eye\\
We see eye to eye\\
I told me\\
'''WITHOUT YOU'''"''
** Zato's theme, ''Let Me Carve Your Way'', describes how deep down, Zato yearns for the lost memories of his previous life. Why? Because even though he doesn't know how evil and insane he was back then, he still loved Millia with all his heart. And now because of his resurrection, he's lost his emotions in addition to his memories, except his love for Millia. Yet, because he has no emotions, he no longer understands why she drives him forward. The end portion also states that no matter what happens, if he finds out about his past and is displeased with the person he used to be, if he never regains his emotions or memories at all, or even if Millia herself does not reciprocate his feelings, he will '''[[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy always]]''' love Millia and support her.
--->''"I once had some sweet memories\\
Its worth remains all the same\\
How can I remember those moments, sweetheart?\\
Tell me\\
'''TELL ME'''"''
** Leo's theme, ''Hellfire''. The lyrics reveal that underneath Leo's facade of a proud warrior and king is a man suffering from heavy PTSD and SurvivorsGuilt because his pride ended up getting his entire squad killed during the Crusades. They state that he compares himself to TheGrimReaper after having led his men to the afterlife, and wonders if he'll be remembered on the right side of history.
--->''"I woke up one morning, strangers say "hello" to me\\
[[TheDeadHaveNames Tomorrow their names will be carved onto stones]]\\
"We're going home alive"; I'm a terrible liar\\
Forgive me, that's not the Arc de Triomphe!"''
** I-No's theme, ''Requiem'', is a dramatic and bombastic tune normally, but the lyrics describe I-No's true motivations behind her actions. Beneath her two-faced personality is a deeply hurt woman who only wanted to use her powers to create a bright future for all of humanity, but the more she used her powers the more disaster and tragedy she caused. The numerous alternate futures she created eventually drove her to despair and insanity, to the point where she's all but given up on her ideals. The song becomes even sadder after you play the Story Mode, as the lyrics turn into a MusicalSpoiler that foreshadows her death.
--->''"The time that passes, tells me many lovely things\\
But I can't feel it..."''\\
'''"CUT IT OUT!"'''\\
''[...]"If I am to be swallowed by fate I must have fought well,\\
Praying that it will become a seed of... new life..."''
** Happy Chaos's theme, ''Drift'', is essentially what happens when I-No and Zato's themes have a baby. While the song itself is lively and bombastic, [[LyricalDissonance the lyrics]] describe just how utterly broken and insane the man formerly known as the Original has become due to having so much knowledge and power contained within himself while being isolated from everyone else. The words paint his story in a somewhat tragic light, with one possible explanation being that all the isolation combined with people's expectations of him due to being a god among men, much like with Raven, slowly eroded his mind to the point where he just stopped caring and now only wants to entertain himself, stating that it is because he is now free from worldly attachments and no longer cares about anything that he can find everything about the world and humanity beautiful. And he's more than happy to play whatever role will provide for another great chapter in history.
--->''"Can you hear it?\\
The pulses of the living\\
The ironic rhythm is a grand orchestra!\\
It's never the same tone\\
Who wants to stop this?\\
There can be...\\
When the violent storm is over\\
The blue sky is more beautiful than ever!\\
You see, I want that! I want that!\\
'''THAT'S ALL I WANT!'''''"
** Baiken's theme, ''Mirror of the World'', especially after the events of ''Another Story''. Baiken has lived her entire life for only one purpose: getting revenge on the one who destroyed her country and killed her family - Happy Chaos. As cool a character as she may be, it's easy to forget that she's a BrokenBird who's essentially been living just to kill someone and then resign herself to whatever fate may come afterward - including death. It's only after she meets Delilah, someone who's also lost her family to the same man she's after and is willing to do whatever it takes to avenge her brother and feels that Baiken is a kindred spirit, does she finally realize that there are people who care for her that she's pushed away and that throwing away one's humanity and life is never a price worth paying. In the end, Baiken finally finds the companionship which she has denied herself for so long, abandoning her quest for vengeance in order to truly live her own life, with Delilah by her side. Much like Sol, Baiken can now finally let go of the guilt she's been carrying for so long.
** Testament's theme, ''Like a Weed, Naturally, as a Matter of Course'', is both a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments happy]] and a [[TearJerker sad]] one when one takes into account Testament's backstory. They have spent their whole life fighting on both sides of the Crusades, as a human and as a Gear, and all those years of war left them in despair, a broken shell of the idealist they used to be. Then, at their absolute lowest point, they met Dizzy, who left such an impact on them that even after their eventual separation, they still never forgot about her and her dream of peaceful coexistence between humans and Gears. Now, after all these years, that beautiful dream has not only been made a reality for the world, but for Testament as well, as humans later came to accept and befriend them. The song is an expression of their gratitude towards Dizzy for redeeming them and finally giving them a reason to live on. Even though Ky ultimately was the one to be with Dizzy in the end, she will always be Testament's eternal friend and savior.
** Bridget's theme ''The Town Inside Me'' has peppy delivery of the lyrics, but the song's lyrics spin a story of Bridget's listlessness after achieving her goal of ending her home village's superstitions, her mounting dysphoria and fear of loneliness. Every time the song gets to the chorus, the peppier delivery of the song starts to falter and even sound ''downright upset'' at times as Bridget clashes with her feelings internally, changing the justification or realization between repetitions.
--->''"I've been patient, but it was bearable\\
I've had a gray haze for a long time though\\
I never found out, what it was I--\\
It's my stress, that's for sure/Tastes like vegetables I don't like/I hate the alarm clock I chose"''
* Sol's fridge-raiding NoodleIncident may have been played for laughs, but you get a sense that deep down the man still longs for the time before the Universal Will tore his life apart. He may be hailed as a hero with all the privileges it entails, but his heart has never truly known rest all this time.
* Asuka's backstory. He does admit he was the one who had Japan destroyed to contain Justice, but the Gear rampage afterwards wasn't his doing. His ''mentor'' of all people was the reason the entire world, possibly including his best friend Frederick, wanted him dead for over a century.
** The reveal of Asuka's key personality trait, namely that he has trouble understanding people and properly conveying his emotions and intentions, retroactively makes everything he's ever done and many plot details a lot sadder. Like Frederick, he didn't want to lose Aria to her disease. But rather than simply tell Frederick that she didn't want to live in a world without him and get his opinion on how to proceed, he went ahead and forcibly mutated him into a Gear against his will, causing Frederick to hate Asuka over a perceived betrayal for over 100 years. Because of the Prototype Gear project being labeled a "failure" due to Frederick's escape, the military seized control of the Gear Project and there was nothing Asuka could do to stop the Gears from being used for war, so he had no choice but to try and subvert those plans by implanting Aria's soul into the first Commander-type Gear: Justice. This resulted in Japan's destruction and Aria's effective death, leaving only a rampaging Justice to wage war on the world for over 100 years. The world was brought to the brink of destruction all because of one man's desire to see his friends happy together yet utter failure at interpreting his friends' will, on a level of PoorCommunicationKills to perhaps rival [[Franchise/MetalGear Major Zero and Big Boss]].
* The forcing of Asuka's hand for Sol to either [[DePower accept losing the Flame of Corruption]] or [[PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou popping Dragon Install right there and ending Asuka's life]]. As Asuka stated, his goal was to "erase Sol Badguy", but in the sense of freeing Frederick Bulsara from those chains. However, it's not a decision entirely of guilt. In case the audience forgot: Sol's PowerLimiter is ''starting to fail''. It may be sooner, it may be later, but his power is still growing and it can barely hold it back anymore. And, ''when'' it fails --when, not if-- Sol ''will'' become a rampaging, unstoppable monster. But Asuka's thoughts aren't towards the damage that would do, but ''what that would do to his friend.''
--> '''Vernon:''' Tell me, who is Sol going to hurt?!
--> ''Asuka thinks to a vision of a gigantic silhouette of Sol looming over a barren, lifeless desert city.''
--> '''Asuka:''' [[HisOwnWorstEnemy Himself]].
* A rather literal one from the story mode: when I-No effectively becomes "God", she uses her newfound power to give humanity all of their desires, effectively fulfilling Ariels' original directive. When she does this, the entire world starts to cry.
** What I-No says when she becomes a god. As she is the collective will of humanity's wishes for a brighter future, she asks one final question for humanity, to see if this is what they really want and if she finally did one good thing in all of her existence.
-->"''Free...dom. '''Freedom.''' All of you are now free. From old age, hunger, and disease. From power, standing, appearance, location, and even time. I've freed you from all of these shackles. Now, what is your answer?''"
* '''''The ending.''''' If you thought the ending of ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'' was bittersweet, the ending to ''Strive'' will give you a similar feeling.
** '''[[TheHeroDies Sol Badguy dies]].''' To be more specific, the identity that Frederick Bulsara had built up over the last century as an [[InvincibleHero unstoppable bounty hunter]]. He is declared killed in action in order to stop the current world from being destroyed by I-No, but this allows him to finally settle down with Jack-O', who has become her own person following Aria's decision to not return.
** Asuka R. Kreutz has finally accomplished his personal goals, not only as a scientist but also his personal dream of giving his best friends in the whole world a happy life together. With his duty fulfilled, he retires and becomes a radio host, hoping to finally live his own life and grant the world peace in his own way.
** Aria's soul finally moves on, as Jack-o' acknowledges to Sol that she won't be coming back. Despite that, Jack-O' is able to realize that she loves Frederick just as much as the original Aria did. Sol returns her feelings, having already dealt with his guilt over killing the original Aria and accepting she might never return. Not once after their fusion did he ever refer to Jack-O' as Aria, showing how much he cares for her as her own person.
** I-No's [[KilledOffForReal death]]. She is finally able to come to terms with what she is in her final moments as I-No. As her current form dies at the hands of Frederick Bulsara, she uses the last of her power to effectively be reborn as Megumi once more via switching places with her, allowing Megumi to take I-No's place in the present and granting her fellow time traveler Axl's wish to meet her again, finally fulfilling her dream of giving at least one person a happy future. [[VillainsDyingGrace A heart-wrenching yet satisfying end]] to one of the most legendary and iconic villains in fighting game history.
* As the credits begin to roll, we get a good look at ''everyone'' who appeared in ''Xrd'', and some familiar faces that haven't appeared in a long time, too.
** The Kiske family are back together again, and now they're joined by Testament, who's finally found inner peace!
** Anji, Baiken, and Haehyun spending time together in the Japanese Colony.
** Millia and Zato decide to catch up with their former comrade Venom by paying a visit to his bakery.
** Axl and Megumi, formerly I-No, are reunited at long last.
** Sol and Jack-O', now Frederick and Aria again at long last, live peacefully near a scenic lakeside and run a machine parts shop.
* "'''The Name of Heaven'''". The final Arcade Mode ending theme of Sol's story arc, it's a tragic ballad whose lyrics describe someone who has suffered and is on the verge of death, pondering what the afterlife is like and if they can finally be free from all their pain. At first, you may think this song could apply to Sol and Aria just like all the other ending themes...until it plays in Story Mode and you realize that it's ''not'' just describing Sol and Jack-O' (Aria's reincarnation who, in the moment the song plays, is planning on sacrificing herself), but also '''I-No'''. She's been broken so much by the trauma of creating and erasing so many timelines yet never finding one that she herself could find happiness in, that the only two things that matter to her now are either sharing the experience of "heaven" with everyone else just to feel like she belongs, or for someone to MercyKill her. Combined with the references in the scene that follows her ascension to godhood, this song is basically Daisuke Ishiwatari's answer to "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Komm, susser tod]]".
* Delilah's situation in ''Another Story''. She's only just woken up from a long sleep thanks to the efforts of her brother Bedman, only to find out upon awakening that not only was he betrayed, but he sacrificed his own life so she could wake up. Now without any living family left, all she has left is revenge towards the one who manipulated and betrayed Bedman: Happy Chaos, who was controlling the Universal Will in an attempt to escape the Backyard. Keep in mind that all of this has happened to a 12-year-old girl with RealityWarper powers that are stronger than her own brother's which she [[PowerIncontinence cannot control while awake]] and could potentially result in her own death at any given moment due to her body being unable to keep up with the sheer brainpower it takes to use said powers. She ends up meeting with Anji, who puts her in the care of Baiken, another who seeks revenge against Happy Chaos. Baiken tries to dissuade her from the path of vengeance to no avail, resulting in Delilah teleporting away, only to end up in a snowy mountainside town near Illyria, unable to control her powers, and now unintentionally threatening the end of the world itself due to her turbulent emotional state caused by the conflict between not wanting to be alone anymore and her desire for revenge. It's only after she is finally accepted by Baiken as a friend and surrogate sister that she is able to calm down, and it comes at the cost of Faust effectively performing a HeroicSacrifice to weaken her dimensional barrier enough for Baiken and Ramlethal to enter it.
** On that note, '''Faust's death'''. No one saw it coming. Many had suspected that the reason for Faust's different demeanor in this game was the result of some sort of transformation. As it turns out, it's because the Faust we know, the wacky lovable doctor who teleports through doors and creates random items like helium baloons out of thin air, the reformed serial killer once known as Dr. Baldhead, is gone. He is forced to use the maximum extent of his dimensional magic in order to save Delilah, but in the process he ends up tapping too much into the power of the Backyard, which puts so much strain on his body that he dies as a result, his soul departing to the afterlife. All that's left now is his deformed, zombified corpse, animated solely by his undying will to save lives. A bittersweet but noble end to one of the most recognizable and beloved characters in the series. Rest well, Doctor. You've earned it.
* While Bridget's arcade mode story is a heartwarming ComingOutStory, it doesn't shy away from touching on the struggles caused by gender dysphoria. And Goldlewis, who has his own MysteriousPast, is able to recognize Bridget's pain as similar to his own, leading to him having an emotional heart-to-heart with her after stage 7.
-->'''Goldlewis:''' Lemme guess. You’re hidin’ your true self for the sake of other folks.\\
'''Bridget:''' (''gasps'') How... How did you know?\\
'''Goldlewis:''' I’m ridin’ that horse too, hoss. I keep tellin’ myself this is what’s best for my family. I’ve shied away from my true feelings for years and years. Look where it got me. Separate homes. What a joke.\\
'''Bridget:''' I always thought that, as long as I kept quiet, things would work out... But it hurts too much.
** Bridget's dialog at the end of stage 8, just before she comes out, makes it clear she's known who she is for a long time. But out of fear of admitting the truth and losing everything she had, she kept her feelings a secret from her family and lied to herself. The moment she affirms her identity is the first time she's ''ever'' had control over who she is.
--->'''Bridget:''' I... I don’t want to run scared anymore. If I keep on faking it like this, I know I’ll regret it... So from now on, no matter what... no more lying to myself.
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* Ky's ending, which was later partially canonized as being part of the main storyline. In the game, Ky defeats Justice and starts preaching that he's in the right for stopping her, but the Commander Gear quickly puts him in his place by questioning what he's really fighting for. Ky replies that he truly believes that Gears are evil, and that slaying them is true justice. Justice throws his ideology right back in his face by saying she is only fighting against humanity because [[GoneHorriblyRight that's what she and her kind were made for]]. Ky is legitimately shocked to learn firsthand that HuamnsAreTheRealMonsters, and for the first time in his life is forced to confront the fact that his way of thinking might be wrong, that his ideals almost led him into being nothing more than a murderer. As Justice dies, she clues him in on the existence of That Man and can only wonder what Ky will think then when they finally meet. By this point, Ky seems almost desperate to be told the truth and be led in the right direction, screaming at Justice to stay alive so he can question her further to no avail. By the end of it all, Ky just looks ''completely lost''. All he can do is desperately ask God if he was doing the right thing.
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* Ky's ending, which was later partially canonized as being part of the main storyline. In the game, Ky defeats Justice and starts preaching that he's in the right for stopping her, but the Commander Gear quickly puts him in his place by questioning what he's really fighting for. Ky replies that he truly believes that Gears are evil, and that slaying them is true justice. Justice throws his ideology right back in his face by saying she is only fighting against humanity because [[GoneHorriblyRight that's what she and her kind were made for]]. Ky is legitimately shocked to learn firsthand that HuamnsAreTheRealMonsters, HumansAreTheRealMonsters, and for the first time in his life is forced to confront the fact that his way of thinking might be wrong, that his ideals almost led him into being nothing more than a murderer. As Justice dies, she clues him in on the existence of That Man and can only wonder what Ky will think then when they finally meet. By this point, Ky seems almost desperate to be told the truth and be led in the right direction, screaming at Justice to stay alive so he can question her further to no avail. By the end of it all, Ky just looks ''completely lost''. All he can do is desperately ask God if he was doing the right thing.
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* Sol's was once known as Frederick Bulsara, a rough-around-the-edges scientist working alongside his two colleagues on what would eventually become the Gear Project. His life changed completely when out of left field one of his friends, who would eventually become known as the world's greatest war criminal known only as "That Man", seemingly betrayed him by injecting him with Gear cells and leaving him to mutate. On that day, Frederick effectively died, and Sol Badguy, the Guilty Gear, was born. Now a nigh-immortal being of unimaginable power, he spent the next 100 years killing the Gears to atone for his part in creating such weapons of mass destruction in the first place. He wearily wandered across battlefields as the world was turned into a living hellscape by the Gear Crusades, even ending up in the Sacred Order of Holy Knights for a time. After over a century conducting his private war against his own kind, he was finally able to seal away their commander, Justice. But despite this, his victory did nothing to sate an entire century of pain, and so he continued onward feeling it was the only thing left to him.
* Ky was born into a world ravaged by the Crusades, on the brink of destruction. He lost his entire family when he was very young and was forced to fend for himself. Eventually, he survived long enough to join the Sacred Order of Holy Knights, one of the last remaining defenses of humanity against the Gears, and he worked his way up to become one of their most prodigal soldiers. His experiences, however, had convinced him that the Gears couldn't be anything other than evil, and that destroying them was righteous justice. This dangerously-warped mindset, combined with his natural affinity for combat, made him a brutally efficient killing machine by his early teens despite his latent desire to do right by the world. His commitment to his ideals drove him and Sol to a rivalry that would shape both of their destinies.
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* Ky was born into a world ravaged by the Crusades, on the brink of destruction. He lost his entire family when he was very young and was forced to fend for himself. Eventually, he survived long enough to join the Sacred Order of Holy Knights, one of the last remaining defenses of humanity against the Gears, and he worked his way up to become one of their most prodigal soldiers. His experiences, however, had convinced him that the Gears couldn't be anything other than evil, and that destroying them was righteous justice. This dangerously-warped mindset, combined with his natural affinity for combat, made him a brutally efficient killing machine by his early teens despite his latent desire to do right by the world. His commitment to his ideals drove him and Sol to a rivalry that would shape both of their destinies.
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* Ky's ending, which was later partially canonized as being part of the main storyline. In the game, Ky defeats Justice and starts preaching that he's in the right for stopping her, but the Commander Gear quickly puts him in his place by questioning what he's really fighting for. Ky replies that he truly believes that Gears are evil, and that slaying them is true justice. Justice throws his ideology right back in his face by saying she is only fighting against humanity because [[GoneHorriblyRight that's what she and her kind were made for]]. Ky is legitimately shocked to learn firsthand that HuamnsAreTheRealMonsters, and for the first time in his life is forced to confront the fact that his way of thinking might be wrong, that his ideals almost led him into being nothing more than a murderer. As Justice dies, she clues him in on the existence of That Man and can only wonder what Ky will think then when they finally meet. By this point, Ky seems almost desperate to be told the truth and be led in the right direction, screaming at Justice to stay alive so he can question her further to no avail. By the end of it all, Ky just looks ''completely lost''. All he can do is desperately ask God if he was doing the right thing.
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** On that note, '''Faust's death'''. No one saw it coming. Many had suspected that the reason for Faust's different demeanor in this game was the result of some sort of transformation. As it turns out, it's because the Faust we know, the wacky lovable doctor who teleports through doors and creates random items like helium baloons out of thin air, the reformed serial killer once known as Dr. Baldhead, is gone. He is forced to use the maximum extent of his dimensional magic in order to save Delilah, but in the process he ends up tapping too much into the power of the Backyard, which puts so much strain on his body that he dies as a result, his soul departing to the afterlife. All that's left now is his deformed, zombified corpse, animated solely by his undying will to save lives. A bittersweet but noble end to one of the most recognizable and beloved characters in the series. Rest well, Doctor. You've earned it.
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** Bedman's story hurts even more after ''-Strive-'''s ending, since he's now one of the few playable characters to ''never get a happy ending''. Happy Chaos does imply that he [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence managed to become an inter-dimensional being]] through the Backyard, but given [[WhoWantsToLiveForever what tends to happen to godlike or immortal beings]] in ''Guilty Gear'', that probably hasn't made him feel any better.
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** Bedman's story hurts even more after ''-Strive-'''s ending, since he's now one of the few playable characters to ''never get a happy ending''. Sol becomes human again and settles down with Jack-O', Baiken stops pursuing revenge, and even ''Faust'' is able to die in peace and redeem himself in his eyes, but Bedman gets nothing. Happy Chaos does imply that he [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence managed to become an inter-dimensional being]] through the Backyard, but given [[WhoWantsToLiveForever what tends to happen to godlike or immortal beings]] in ''Guilty Gear'', that probably hasn't made him feel any better.
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* As of ''Revelator'', '''Bedman's entire existence'''. He and his sister Delilah were born with a condition that caused their minds to accelerate and grow at a rapid pace, but this rendered their bodies ill and frail because they couldn't keep up with the speed at which their minds processed information. To save their lives, their parents had no other option but to put them both into a permanent coma. Their minds, however, had accelerated to the point where they could potentially kill people from the dream world, because the dream world is, in fact, the Backyard. The Universal Will found him and lured him into becoming her pawn in exchange for letting him into the Absolute World once it came to be, and he was tricked into believing that the "Absolute World" meant that he could see his sister again, bring back everyone he had slain and be able to leave a lasting mark on reality without the need for killing. Ariels used him as her personal assassin, but he continued rolling with it because the ends justified his means, hiding his fears behind a mask of smug, aloof superiority. His entire motivations are then shattered by Robo-Ky, and he is utterly wiped out by Venom. He declares his intentions to use his remaining life to tend to the victims, but Ariels reveals her deception in a sickeningly cruel fashion, and tells him that the Absolute World is one in which all of humanity (likely including Bedman and Delilah) is destroyed and replaced with her "perfect humans". Bedman flies into a rage at his betrayal as the weight of his sins finally cracks him, and defiantly but futilely tries to defeat Ariels. He then dies by turning into stone and crumbling away, regretfully crying that he has to atone.
** A later scene shows a character only shown from the legs down standing over the remains of Bedman's body before teleporting away. The character's legs have the same markings as Bedman's. So either Bedman was able to resurrect himself, only his spirit remains...or the character was in fact ''Delilah'', coming across what was left of the brother who just wanted to see her again. The latter is currently the most likely possibility, as the English localization says in the text box for character names "A girl" when the mystery character appears. However it's also possible that it's a gender-ambiguous pronoun in the original Japanese, since it is quite easy to do that over there.
** A later scene shows a character only shown from the legs down standing over the remains of Bedman's body before teleporting away. The character's legs have the same markings as Bedman's. So either Bedman was able to resurrect himself, only his spirit remains...or the character was in fact ''Delilah'', coming across what was left of the brother who just wanted to see her again. The latter is currently the most likely possibility, as the English localization says in the text box for character names "A girl" when the mystery character appears. However it's also possible that it's a gender-ambiguous pronoun in the original Japanese, since it is quite easy to do that over there.
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* As of ''Revelator'', '''Bedman's entire existence'''. He and his sister Delilah were born with a condition that caused their minds to accelerate and grow at a rapid pace, but this rendered their bodies ill and frail because they couldn't keep up with the speed at which their minds processed information. To save their lives, their parents had no other option but to put them both into a permanent coma. Their minds, however, had accelerated to the point where they could potentially kill people from the dream world, because the dream world is, in fact, the Backyard. The Universal Will found him and lured him into becoming her pawn in exchange for letting him into the Absolute World once it came to be, and he was tricked into believing that the "Absolute World" meant that he could see his sister again, bring back everyone he had slain and be able to leave a lasting mark on reality without the need for killing. Ariels used him as her personal assassin, but he continued rolling with it because the ends justified his means, hiding his fears behind a mask of smug, aloof superiority. His entire motivations are then shattered by Robo-Ky, and he is utterly wiped out by Venom. He declares his intentions to use his remaining life to tend to the victims, but Ariels reveals her deception in a sickeningly cruel fashion, and tells him that the Absolute World is one in which all of humanity (likely including Bedman and Delilah) is destroyed and replaced with her "perfect humans". Bedman flies into a rage at his betrayal as the weight of his sins finally cracks him, and defiantly but futilely tries to defeat Ariels. He then dies by [[TakenForGranite turning into stone stone]] and crumbling away, regretfully crying that he has to atone.
** A later scene shows a character only shown from the legs down standing over the remains of Bedman's body before teleporting away. The character's legs have the same markings asBedman's. So either Bedman was able to resurrect himself, only Bedman's, heavily implying that they're his spirit remains...or the character was thought-dead sister Delilah, finally awake just in fact ''Delilah'', coming across what was left time to discover her brother's ''crumbled remains''.
** Bedman's story hurts even more after ''-Strive-'''s ending, since he's now one of thebrother who just wanted few playable characters to see her again. The latter is currently the most likely possibility, as the English localization says in the text box for character names "A girl" when the mystery character appears. However it's also possible ''never get a happy ending''. Happy Chaos does imply that it's a gender-ambiguous pronoun in he [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence managed to become an inter-dimensional being]] through the original Japanese, since it is quite easy Backyard, but given [[WhoWantsToLiveForever what tends to do happen to godlike or immortal beings]] in ''Guilty Gear'', that over there.probably hasn't made him feel any better.
** A later scene shows a character only shown from the legs down standing over the remains of Bedman's body before teleporting away. The character's legs have the same markings as
** Bedman's story hurts even more after ''-Strive-'''s ending, since he's now one of the
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* While Bridget's arcade mode story is a heartwarming ComingOutStory, it doesn't shy away from touching on the struggles caused by gender dysphoria. And Goldlewis, who has his own MysteriousPast, is able to recognize Bridget's pain as similar to his own, leading to him having an emotional heart-to-heart with her after stage 7.
-->'''Goldlewis:''' Lemme guess. You’re hidin’ your true self for the sake of other folks.\\
'''Bridget:''' (''gasps'') How... How did you know?\\
'''Goldlewis:''' I’m ridin’ that horse too, hoss. I keep tellin’ myself this is what’s best for my family. I’ve shied away from my true feelings for years and years. Look where it got me. Separate homes. What a joke.\\
'''Bridget:''' I always thought that, as long as I kept quiet, things would work out... But it hurts too much.
** Bridget's dialog at the end of stage 8, just before she comes out, makes it clear she's known who she is for a long time. But out of fear of admitting the truth and losing everything she had, she kept her feelings a secret from her family and lied to herself. The moment she affirms her identity is the first time she's ''ever'' had control over who she is.
--->'''Bridget:''' I... I don’t want to run scared anymore. If I keep on faking it like this, I know I’ll regret it... So from now on, no matter what... no more lying to myself.
-->'''Goldlewis:''' Lemme guess. You’re hidin’ your true self for the sake of other folks.\\
'''Bridget:''' (''gasps'') How... How did you know?\\
'''Goldlewis:''' I’m ridin’ that horse too, hoss. I keep tellin’ myself this is what’s best for my family. I’ve shied away from my true feelings for years and years. Look where it got me. Separate homes. What a joke.\\
'''Bridget:''' I always thought that, as long as I kept quiet, things would work out... But it hurts too much.
** Bridget's dialog at the end of stage 8, just before she comes out, makes it clear she's known who she is for a long time. But out of fear of admitting the truth and losing everything she had, she kept her feelings a secret from her family and lied to herself. The moment she affirms her identity is the first time she's ''ever'' had control over who she is.
--->'''Bridget:''' I... I don’t want to run scared anymore. If I keep on faking it like this, I know I’ll regret it... So from now on, no matter what... no more lying to myself.
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** Bridget's theme ''The Town Inside Me'' has peppy delivery of the lyrics, but the song's lyrics spin a story of Bridget's listlessness after achieving her goal of ending her home village's superstitions, her mounting dysphoria and fear of loneliness. Every time the song gets to the chorus, the peppier delivery of the song starts to falter and even sound ''downright upset'' at times as Bridget clashes with her feelings internally, changing the justification or realization between repetitions.
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I've had a gray haze for a long time though\\
I never found out, what it was I\\
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I've had a gray haze for a long time though\\
I never found out, what it was I\\
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* The drama CD that shows how Dizzy and Testament met is full of heartwarming moments. But more importantly, we see how Dizzy suffered prior to ''GGX''. One example of a TearJerker moment is when Dizzy meets a blind girl named Josephine who was lost in the forest (probably abandoned by her parents since nobody's looking for her.) When Dizzy comforts the girl, her wings are touched accidentally. After being called an angel, Dizzy sobs as she knows that she seen as demon by others and apologized to Josephine as she couldn't help her get her sight back.
-->'''Josephine:''' ''You must be an angel! After all you helped me! I go to church every day and pray... pray that I'll meet an angel, that one day I'll see again! Finally... God finally answered my prayers!''
-->'''Dizzy':''' ''I'm sorry... I... I can't do anything for your eyes...!''
** Later when Jose's life was endangered Dizzy used her power to save her. Jose, having her sight restored was so shocked to see Dizzy's real appearance and yelled at her, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter "Demon! Go back to the forest!"]] Later however, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Jose felt guilty and wanted to apologize.]]
** This even becomes more sad when you read the line that says he "is tortured the depth of his sins" in the past but found a new reason to live when he meets Dizzy. Yet eventually, the two separated their ways.
* ''Side Red'' has a very, very tragic end where a very young Ky dies horribly after [[LastStand fighting a horde of Gears alone]] [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl to save]] a woman named [[ManipulativeBitch I-No.]] Sol similarly hacks his way through but arrives too late. Ky struggles to breathe and talk and begged Sol to take his place as the next leader of the Holy Knights while Sol is beginning to cry. Ky drops dead and we hear Sol screaming his name. Later on, we see Sol honoring Ky's wishes when acts as the order's leader for the following years.
** This is even sadder when you consider that Sol and Ky are rivals and, even when there's peace, they're so different, they cannot get along. But this is maybe because Ky who's around 13-14 is seen as naive by a lazy, but more experienced Sol.
** And if you're wondering how this could get any sadder, Dizzy is also present in ''Side Red''. But this isn't the Dizzy you know. This is a Dizzy who's been totally broken by humanity's hostility towards Gears and has ended up just like her mother Justice, hating humans and wanting nothing more than to see them all dead just so that Gears can have a chance at existing. It's both chilling and heart-wrenching to hear that sweet girl acting the complete opposite of how she does in the main series. And with -REVELATOR- revealing that, yes, Sol is her father, it retroactively makes the Drama CD's ending even more tragic. Sol was forced to kill his lover Aria, and now ''he has to kill his own daughter''.
* As expected of drama [=CDs=] which are [[DarkerAndEdgier considerably darker]] than the already rather dark main games' storyline, we have another sad moment with Millia in the ''Night of Knives'' where she breaks down crying after learning that Zato agreed to [[MoralEventHorizon assassinate a 2-year old king]] to save her life. She is horrified to realize how much she misjudged Zato's true character.
--> '''''Millia''': Are you insane!? This is child abuse, no, INFANTICIDE! This isn't an assassination! This is infamy!''
** That's just the tip of the dysfunctional ice-burg, too. Zato, who obviously does love and care about Millia (albeit in an obsessive, creepy way), already sacrificed too many of the Guild's rules to get her back safely and therefore he won't take back the new mission in fear it'll make things even worse, even if it strains their relationship. Venom had already been told in so many words that Zato wouldn't have bothered saving anyone that wasn't Millia, making the fact that she started turning her back on Zato because of his plans to rescue her (something he never would have done for Venom) and wasn't thankful in the slightest infuriating and completely unreasonable. All three of them have legitimate reasons to be upset, and knowing this is essentially what puts the nail in the coffin of the trio's relationships to one another makes it even more depressing to sit and listen to.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to their Gear conversion, they were actually a kind, charitable man who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and were forced to kill humans as their conscious mind tried to resist.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, they were freed from her control, and were reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, their programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of their former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke their idealistic spirit.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to their Gear conversion, they were actually a kind, charitable man who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and were forced to kill humans as their conscious mind tried to resist.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, they were freed from her control, and were reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, their programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of their former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke their idealistic spirit.
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** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, they were freed from her control, and were reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, their programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of their former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke their idealistic spirit.
!!''Guilty Gear Xrd''
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* Delilah's situation in ''Another Story''. She's only just woken up from a long sleep thanks to the efforts of her brother Bedman, only to find out upon awakening that not only was he betrayed, but he sacrificed his own life so she could wake up. Now without any living family left, all she has left is revenge towards the one who manipulated and betrayed Bedman: Happy Chaos, who was controlling the Universal Will in an attempt to escape the Backyard. Keep in mind that all of this has happened to a 12-year-old girl with RealityWarper powers that are stronger than her own brother's which she [[PowerIncontinence cannot control while awake]] and could potentially result in her own death at any given moment due to her body being unable to keep up with the sheer brainpower it takes to use said powers. She ends up meeting with Anji, who puts her in the care of Baiken, another who seeks revenge against Happy Chaos. Baiken tries to dissuade her from the path of vengeance to no avail, resulting in Delilah teleporting away, only to end up in a snowy mountainside town near Illyria, unable to control her powers, and now unintentionally threatening the end of the world itself due to her turbulent emotional state caused by the conflict between not wanting to be alone anymore and her desire for revenge. It's only after she is finally accepted by Baiken as a friend and surrogate sister that she is able to calm down, and it comes at the cost of Faust effectively performing a HeroicSacrifice to weaken her dimensional barrier enough for Baiken and Ramlethal to enter it.
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* Delilah's situation in ''Another Story''. She's only just woken up from a long sleep thanks to the efforts of her brother Bedman, only to find out upon awakening that not only was he betrayed, but he sacrificed his own life so she could wake up. Now without any living family left, all she has left is revenge towards the one who manipulated and betrayed Bedman: Happy Chaos, who was controlling the Universal Will in an attempt to escape the Backyard. Keep in mind that all of this has happened to a 12-year-old girl with RealityWarper powers that are stronger than her own brother's which she [[PowerIncontinence cannot control while awake]] and could potentially result in her own death at any given moment due to her body being unable to keep up with the sheer brainpower it takes to use said powers. She ends up meeting with Anji, who puts her in the care of Baiken, another who seeks revenge against Happy Chaos. Baiken tries to dissuade her from the path of vengeance to no avail, resulting in Delilah teleporting away, only to end up in a snowy mountainside town near Illyria, unable to control her powers, and now unintentionally threatening the end of the world itself due to her turbulent emotional state caused by the conflict between not wanting to be alone anymore and her desire for revenge. It's only after she is finally accepted by Baiken as a friend and surrogate sister that she is able to calm down, and it comes at the cost of Faust effectively performing a HeroicSacrifice to weaken her dimensional barrier enough for Baiken and Ramlethal to enter it.it.
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* The drama CD that shows how Dizzy and Testament met is full of heartwarming moments. But more importantly, we see how Dizzy suffered prior to ''GGX''. One example of a TearJerker moment is when Dizzy meets a blind girl named Josephine who was lost in the forest (probably abandoned by her parents since nobody's looking for her.) When Dizzy comforts the girl, her wings are touched accidentally. After being called an angel, Dizzy sobs as she knows that she seen as demon by others and apologized to Josephine as she couldn't help her get her sight back.
-->'''Josephine:''' ''You must be an angel! After all you helped me! I go to church every day and pray... pray that I'll meet an angel, that one day I'll see again! Finally... God finally answered my prayers!''
-->'''Dizzy':''' ''I'm sorry... I... I can't do anything for your eyes...!''
** Later when Jose's life was endangered Dizzy used her power to save her. Jose, having her sight restored was so shocked to see Dizzy's real appearance and yelled at her, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter "Demon! Go back to the forest!"]] Later however, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Jose felt guilty and wanted to apologize.]]
** This even becomes more sad when you read the line that says he "is tortured the depth of his sins" in the past but found a new reason to live when he meets Dizzy. Yet eventually, the two separated their ways.
* ''Side Red'' has a very, very tragic end where a very young Ky dies horribly after [[LastStand fighting a horde of Gears alone]] [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl to save]] a woman named [[ManipulativeBitch I-No.]] Sol similarly hacks his way through but arrives too late. Ky struggles to breathe and talk and begged Sol to take his place as the next leader of the Holy Knights while Sol is beginning to cry. Ky drops dead and we hear Sol screaming his name. Later on, we see Sol honoring Ky's wishes when acts as the order's leader for the following years.
** This is even sadder when you consider that Sol and Ky are rivals and, even when there's peace, they're so different, they cannot get along. But this is maybe because Ky who's around 13-14 is seen as naive by a lazy, but more experienced Sol.
** And if you're wondering how this could get any sadder, Dizzy is also present in ''Side Red''. But this isn't the Dizzy you know. This is a Dizzy who's been totally broken by humanity's hostility towards Gears and has ended up just like her mother Justice, hating humans and wanting nothing more than to see them all dead just so that Gears can have a chance at existing. It's both chilling and heart-wrenching to hear that sweet girl acting the complete opposite of how she does in the main series. And with -REVELATOR- revealing that, yes, Sol is her father, it retroactively makes the Drama CD's ending even more tragic. Sol was forced to kill his lover Aria, and now ''he has to kill his own daughter''.
* As expected of drama [=CDs=] which are [[DarkerAndEdgier considerably darker]] than the already rather dark main games' storyline, we have another sad moment with Millia in the ''Night of Knives'' where she breaks down crying after learning that Zato agreed to [[MoralEventHorizon assassinate a 2-year old king]] to save her life. She is horrified to realize how much she misjudged Zato's true character.
--> '''''Millia''': Are you insane!? This is child abuse, no, INFANTICIDE! This isn't an assassination! This is infamy!''
** That's just the tip of the dysfunctional ice-burg, too. Zato, who obviously does love and care about Millia (albeit in an obsessive, creepy way), already sacrificed too many of the Guild's rules to get her back safely and therefore he won't take back the new mission in fear it'll make things even worse, even if it strains their relationship. Venom had already been told in so many words that Zato wouldn't have bothered saving anyone that wasn't Millia, making the fact that she started turning her back on Zato because of his plans to rescue her (something he never would have done for Venom) and wasn't thankful in the slightest infuriating and completely unreasonable. All three of them have legitimate reasons to be upset, and knowing this is essentially what puts the nail in the coffin of the trio's relationships to one another makes it even more depressing to sit and listen to.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to their Gear conversion, they were actually a kind, charitable man who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and were forced to kill humans as their conscious mind tried to resist.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, they were freed from her control, and were reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, their programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of their former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke their idealistic spirit.
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* The drama CD that shows how Dizzy and Testament met is full of heartwarming moments. But more importantly, we see how Dizzy suffered prior to ''GGX''. One example of a TearJerker moment is when Dizzy meets a blind girl named Josephine who was lost in the forest (probably abandoned by her parents since nobody's looking for her.) When Dizzy comforts the girl, her wings are touched accidentally. After being called an angel, Dizzy sobs as she knows that she seen as demon by others and apologized to Josephine as she couldn't help her get her sight back.
-->'''Josephine:''' ''You must be an angel! After all you helped me! I go to church every day and pray... pray that I'll meet an angel, that one day I'll see again! Finally... God finally answered my prayers!''
-->'''Dizzy':''' ''I'm sorry... I... I can't do anything for your eyes...!''
** Later when Jose's life was endangered Dizzy used her power to save her. Jose, having her sight restored was so shocked to see Dizzy's real appearance and yelled at her, [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter "Demon! Go back to the forest!"]] Later however, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Jose felt guilty and wanted to apologize.]]
** This even becomes more sad when you read the line that says he "is tortured the depth of his sins" in the past but found a new reason to live when he meets Dizzy. Yet eventually, the two separated their ways.
* ''Side Red'' has a very, very tragic end where a very young Ky dies horribly after [[LastStand fighting a horde of Gears alone]] [[AlwaysSaveTheGirl to save]] a woman named [[ManipulativeBitch I-No.]] Sol similarly hacks his way through but arrives too late. Ky struggles to breathe and talk and begged Sol to take his place as the next leader of the Holy Knights while Sol is beginning to cry. Ky drops dead and we hear Sol screaming his name. Later on, we see Sol honoring Ky's wishes when acts as the order's leader for the following years.
** This is even sadder when you consider that Sol and Ky are rivals and, even when there's peace, they're so different, they cannot get along. But this is maybe because Ky who's around 13-14 is seen as naive by a lazy, but more experienced Sol.
** And if you're wondering how this could get any sadder, Dizzy is also present in ''Side Red''. But this isn't the Dizzy you know. This is a Dizzy who's been totally broken by humanity's hostility towards Gears and has ended up just like her mother Justice, hating humans and wanting nothing more than to see them all dead just so that Gears can have a chance at existing. It's both chilling and heart-wrenching to hear that sweet girl acting the complete opposite of how she does in the main series. And with -REVELATOR- revealing that, yes, Sol is her father, it retroactively makes the Drama CD's ending even more tragic. Sol was forced to kill his lover Aria, and now ''he has to kill his own daughter''.
* As expected of drama [=CDs=] which are [[DarkerAndEdgier considerably darker]] than the already rather dark main games' storyline, we have another sad moment with Millia in the ''Night of Knives'' where she breaks down crying after learning that Zato agreed to [[MoralEventHorizon assassinate a 2-year old king]] to save her life. She is horrified to realize how much she misjudged Zato's true character.
--> '''''Millia''': Are you insane!? This is child abuse, no, INFANTICIDE! This isn't an assassination! This is infamy!''
** That's just the tip of the dysfunctional ice-burg, too. Zato, who obviously does love and care about Millia (albeit in an obsessive, creepy way), already sacrificed too many of the Guild's rules to get her back safely and therefore he won't take back the new mission in fear it'll make things even worse, even if it strains their relationship. Venom had already been told in so many words that Zato wouldn't have bothered saving anyone that wasn't Millia, making the fact that she started turning her back on Zato because of his plans to rescue her (something he never would have done for Venom) and wasn't thankful in the slightest infuriating and completely unreasonable. All three of them have legitimate reasons to be upset, and knowing this is essentially what puts the nail in the coffin of the trio's relationships to one another makes it even more depressing to sit and listen to.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to their Gear conversion, they were actually a kind, charitable man who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and were forced to kill humans as their conscious mind tried to resist.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, they were freed from her control, and were reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, their programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of their former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke their idealistic spirit.
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* As of ''Revelator'', '''Bedman's entire existence'''. He and his sister were born with a condition that caused their minds to accelerate and grow at a rapid pace, but this rendered their bodies ill and frail because they couldn't keep up with the speed at which their minds processed information. To save their lives, their parents had no other option but to put them into a permanent state of sleep. Their minds, however, had accelerated to the point where they could potentially kill people from the dream world, because the dream world is, in fact, the Backyard. The Universal Will found him and lured him into becoming her pawn in exchange for the Absolute World. He was tricked into believing that the "Absolute World" meant that he could see his sister again and be able to leave a lasting mark on reality without the need for killing. Ariels used him as her personal assassin, but he continued rolling with it because the ends justified his means. His entire motivations are then shattered by Robo-Ky, and he is defeated by Venom. He declares his intentions to use his remaining life to tend to the victims, but Ariels reveals her deception in a sickeningly cruel fashion, and reveals that the Absolute World is one in which all of humanity is destroyed and replaced with her "perfect humans". Bedman flies into a rage at his betrayal and the weight of his sins finally dawning on him, and defiantly but futilely tries to defeat Ariels. He then dies by turning into stone and crumbling away, regretfully crying that he has to atone.
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* As of ''Revelator'', '''Bedman's entire existence'''. He and his sister Delilah were born with a condition that caused their minds to accelerate and grow at a rapid pace, but this rendered their bodies ill and frail because they couldn't keep up with the speed at which their minds processed information. To save their lives, their parents had no other option but to put them both into a permanent state of sleep.coma. Their minds, however, had accelerated to the point where they could potentially kill people from the dream world, because the dream world is, in fact, the Backyard. The Universal Will found him and lured him into becoming her pawn in exchange for letting him into the Absolute World. He World once it came to be, and he was tricked into believing that the "Absolute World" meant that he could see his sister again again, bring back everyone he had slain and be able to leave a lasting mark on reality without the need for killing. Ariels used him as her personal assassin, but he continued rolling with it because the ends justified his means. means, hiding his fears behind a mask of smug, aloof superiority. His entire motivations are then shattered by Robo-Ky, and he is defeated utterly wiped out by Venom. He declares his intentions to use his remaining life to tend to the victims, but Ariels reveals her deception in a sickeningly cruel fashion, and reveals tells him that the Absolute World is one in which all of humanity (likely including Bedman and Delilah) is destroyed and replaced with her "perfect humans". Bedman flies into a rage at his betrayal and as the weight of his sins finally dawning on cracks him, and defiantly but futilely tries to defeat Ariels. He then dies by turning into stone and crumbling away, regretfully crying that he has to atone.
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*** ''Another Story'' finally reveals what happened to the good doctor to turn him into what he is now, and not only is it not pretty, it's also very tragic. The Faust you've probably been playing as this entire time? '''That's his zombified corpse.''' That's right: Faust is '''dead'''. And how did he die? Redeeming his greatest failure by saving another little girl named Delilah, expending so much of his power that he burned out his life force, his spirit ascending to the next world. What is alive now is merely an EmptyShell that carries Faust's will to save people, but no longer has any idea who or what it is.
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*** ''Another Story'' finally reveals what happened to the good doctor to turn him into what he is now, and not only is it not pretty, it's also very tragic. The Faust you've probably been playing as this entire time? '''That's his zombified corpse.''' That's right: Faust is '''dead'''. And how did he die? Redeeming By redeeming his greatest failure by and saving another little girl named Delilah, Bedman's sister Delilah from the same overexertion that did in her brother, expending so much of his power that he burned out his life force, force as his spirit ascending ascends to the next world. What is alive now is merely an EmptyShell that carries Faust's will to save people, but no longer has any idea just who or what it is.
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** '''[[TheHeroDies Sol Badguy dies]].''' To be more specific, the identity that Frederick Bulsara had built up over the last century as an InvincibleHero bounty hunter. He is declared killed in action in order to stop the current world from being destroyed by I-No, but this allows him to finally settle down with Jack-O', who has become her own person following Aria's decision to not return.
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** '''[[TheHeroDies Sol Badguy dies]].''' To be more specific, the identity that Frederick Bulsara had built up over the last century as an InvincibleHero [[InvincibleHero unstoppable bounty hunter.hunter]]. He is declared killed in action in order to stop the current world from being destroyed by I-No, but this allows him to finally settle down with Jack-O', who has become her own person following Aria's decision to not return.
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** I-No's [[KilledOffForReal death]]. She is finally able to come to terms with what she is in her final moments as I-No. As her current form dies at the hands of Frederick Bulsara, she uses the last of her power to effectively be reborn as Megumi once more via switching places with her, allowing Megumi to take I-No's place in the present and granting her fellow time traveler's wish, as well as fulfilling her dream of giving at least one person a happy future. [[VillainsDyingGrace A heart-wrenching yet satisfying end]] to one of the most legendary and iconic villains in fighting game history.
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** I-No's [[KilledOffForReal death]]. She is finally able to come to terms with what she is in her final moments as I-No. As her current form dies at the hands of Frederick Bulsara, she uses the last of her power to effectively be reborn as Megumi once more via switching places with her, allowing Megumi to take I-No's place in the present and granting her fellow time traveler's wish, as well as traveler Axl's wish to meet her again, finally fulfilling her dream of giving at least one person a happy future. [[VillainsDyingGrace A heart-wrenching yet satisfying end]] to one of the most legendary and iconic villains in fighting game history.
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** The Kiske family are back together again, and now they're joined by Testament!
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** The Kiske family are back together again, and now they're joined by Testament!Testament, who's finally found inner peace!
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** Sol and Jack-O', now once again Frederick and Aria, live peacefully near a scenic lakeside and run a machine parts shop.
* "'''The Name of Heaven'''". The final Arcade Mode ending theme of Sol's story arc, it's a tragic ballad whose lyrics describe someone who has suffered and is on the verge of death, pondering what the afterlife is like and if they can finally be free from all their pain. At first, you may think this song could apply to Sol and Aria just like all the other ending themes...until it plays in Story Mode and you realize that it's ''not'' just describing Sol and Jack-O' (Aria's reincarnation who in the moment the song plays is planning on sacrificing herself), but also '''I-No'''. She's been broken so much by the trauma of creating and erasing so many timelines yet never finding one that she herself could find happiness in, that the only two things that matter to her now are either sharing the experience of "heaven" with everyone else just to feel like she belongs, or for someone to MercyKill her. Combined with the references in the scene that follows her ascension to godhood, this song is basically Daisuke Ishiwatari's answer to "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Komm, susser tod]]".
* Delilah's situation in ''Another Story''. She's only just woken up from a long sleep thanks to the efforts of her brother Bedman, only to find out upon awakening that not only was he betrayed, but he sacrificed his own life to wake her up. Now without any living family left, all she has left is revenge towards the one who manipulated and betrayed Bedman: Happy Chaos, who was controlling the Universal Will in an attempt to escape the Backyard. Keep in mind that all of this has happened to a 12-year-old girl with RealityWarper powers that are stronger than her own brother's which she [[PowerIncontinence cannot control while awake]] and could potentially result in her own death at any given moment due to her body being unable to keep up with the sheer brainpower it takes to use said powers. She ends up meeting with Anji, who puts her in the care of Baiken, another who seeks revenge against Happy Chaos. Baiken tries to dissuade her from the path of vengeance to no avail, resulting in Delilah teleporting away, only to end up in a snowy mountainside town near Illyria, unable to control her powers, and now unintentionally threatening the end of the world itself due to her turbulent emotional state caused by the conflict between not wanting to be alone anymore and her desire for revenge. It's only after she is finally accepted by Baiken as a friend and surrogate sister that she is able to calm down, and it comes at the cost of Faust sacrificing his life to enable Ramlethal and Baiken to enter her dimensional barrier.
* "'''The Name of Heaven'''". The final Arcade Mode ending theme of Sol's story arc, it's a tragic ballad whose lyrics describe someone who has suffered and is on the verge of death, pondering what the afterlife is like and if they can finally be free from all their pain. At first, you may think this song could apply to Sol and Aria just like all the other ending themes...until it plays in Story Mode and you realize that it's ''not'' just describing Sol and Jack-O' (Aria's reincarnation who in the moment the song plays is planning on sacrificing herself), but also '''I-No'''. She's been broken so much by the trauma of creating and erasing so many timelines yet never finding one that she herself could find happiness in, that the only two things that matter to her now are either sharing the experience of "heaven" with everyone else just to feel like she belongs, or for someone to MercyKill her. Combined with the references in the scene that follows her ascension to godhood, this song is basically Daisuke Ishiwatari's answer to "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Komm, susser tod]]".
* Delilah's situation in ''Another Story''. She's only just woken up from a long sleep thanks to the efforts of her brother Bedman, only to find out upon awakening that not only was he betrayed, but he sacrificed his own life to wake her up. Now without any living family left, all she has left is revenge towards the one who manipulated and betrayed Bedman: Happy Chaos, who was controlling the Universal Will in an attempt to escape the Backyard. Keep in mind that all of this has happened to a 12-year-old girl with RealityWarper powers that are stronger than her own brother's which she [[PowerIncontinence cannot control while awake]] and could potentially result in her own death at any given moment due to her body being unable to keep up with the sheer brainpower it takes to use said powers. She ends up meeting with Anji, who puts her in the care of Baiken, another who seeks revenge against Happy Chaos. Baiken tries to dissuade her from the path of vengeance to no avail, resulting in Delilah teleporting away, only to end up in a snowy mountainside town near Illyria, unable to control her powers, and now unintentionally threatening the end of the world itself due to her turbulent emotional state caused by the conflict between not wanting to be alone anymore and her desire for revenge. It's only after she is finally accepted by Baiken as a friend and surrogate sister that she is able to calm down, and it comes at the cost of Faust sacrificing his life to enable Ramlethal and Baiken to enter her dimensional barrier.
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** Sol and Jack-O', now once again Frederick and Aria, Aria again at long last, live peacefully near a scenic lakeside and run a machine parts shop.
* "'''The Name of Heaven'''". The final Arcade Mode ending theme of Sol's story arc, it's a tragic ballad whose lyrics describe someone who has suffered and is on the verge of death, pondering what the afterlife is like and if they can finally be free from all their pain. At first, you may think this song could apply to Sol and Aria just like all the other ending themes...until it plays in Story Mode and you realize that it's ''not'' just describing Sol and Jack-O' (Aria's reincarnationwho who, in the moment the song plays plays, is planning on sacrificing herself), but also '''I-No'''. She's been broken so much by the trauma of creating and erasing so many timelines yet never finding one that she herself could find happiness in, that the only two things that matter to her now are either sharing the experience of "heaven" with everyone else just to feel like she belongs, or for someone to MercyKill her. Combined with the references in the scene that follows her ascension to godhood, this song is basically Daisuke Ishiwatari's answer to "[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Komm, susser tod]]".
* Delilah's situation in ''Another Story''. She's only just woken up from a long sleep thanks to the efforts of her brother Bedman, only to find out upon awakening that not only was he betrayed, but he sacrificed his own lifeto so she could wake her up. Now without any living family left, all she has left is revenge towards the one who manipulated and betrayed Bedman: Happy Chaos, who was controlling the Universal Will in an attempt to escape the Backyard. Keep in mind that all of this has happened to a 12-year-old girl with RealityWarper powers that are stronger than her own brother's which she [[PowerIncontinence cannot control while awake]] and could potentially result in her own death at any given moment due to her body being unable to keep up with the sheer brainpower it takes to use said powers. She ends up meeting with Anji, who puts her in the care of Baiken, another who seeks revenge against Happy Chaos. Baiken tries to dissuade her from the path of vengeance to no avail, resulting in Delilah teleporting away, only to end up in a snowy mountainside town near Illyria, unable to control her powers, and now unintentionally threatening the end of the world itself due to her turbulent emotional state caused by the conflict between not wanting to be alone anymore and her desire for revenge. It's only after she is finally accepted by Baiken as a friend and surrogate sister that she is able to calm down, and it comes at the cost of Faust sacrificing his life effectively performing a HeroicSacrifice to enable Ramlethal and Baiken to enter weaken her dimensional barrier.barrier enough for Baiken and Ramlethal to enter it.
* "'''The Name of Heaven'''". The final Arcade Mode ending theme of Sol's story arc, it's a tragic ballad whose lyrics describe someone who has suffered and is on the verge of death, pondering what the afterlife is like and if they can finally be free from all their pain. At first, you may think this song could apply to Sol and Aria just like all the other ending themes...until it plays in Story Mode and you realize that it's ''not'' just describing Sol and Jack-O' (Aria's reincarnation
* Delilah's situation in ''Another Story''. She's only just woken up from a long sleep thanks to the efforts of her brother Bedman, only to find out upon awakening that not only was he betrayed, but he sacrificed his own life
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** This is even sadder when you consider that Sol and Ky are rivals and, even when there's peace, they're so different cannot get along. But this is maybe because Ky who's around 13-14 is seen as naive by a lazy, but more experienced Sol.
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** This is even sadder when you consider that Sol and Ky are rivals and, even when there's peace, they're so different different, they cannot get along. But this is maybe because Ky who's around 13-14 is seen as naive by a lazy, but more experienced Sol.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to their Gear conversion, they were actually a kind, charitable person who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and were forced to kill humans as their conscious mind tried to resist.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to their Gear conversion, they were actually a kind, charitable person man who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and were forced to kill humans as their conscious mind tried to resist.
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''Guilty Gear'' has a very [[DarkandTroubledPast dark backstory]] filled with deep pain and tragedy. From horrible misunderstandings, to forces outside of its characters' control, to people just plain being evil and acting akin to the monsters they grew to hate so much. It's easy to see what the world of ''Franchise/BlazBlue'' was based on.
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* Faust's redesign is not only terrifying, but also really sad and depressing when you think about it. That lovable, crazy bag-headed doctor who always seemed to be in high spirits you once knew? Gone. It's very clear that Faust has seen better days. He's traded in his doctor's uniform for that of a surgeon's, which evokes his very tragic backstory as Dr. Baldhead. His entire body looks like it's in awful shape, like at any moment he could just suddenly fall apart at the seams. Quite literally in fact, because upon closer inspection his body has a bunch of stitches in it. It's also horribly emaciated and skinny, looking like it's been stretched WAY out of proportion. His entire character model is framed in shadow regardless of the stage's lighting, giving off very gloomy vibes. He walks like a zombie, seemingly aimless and without purpose. Even his moveset has taken on a much darker turn. He no longer cheerfully pops in through doors made out of thin air or swims through solid ground. Instead, he morphs into scarecrows and ''eats the opponent alive'' before releasing them through a plain-Jane dimensional hole. Whatever happened to Faust in-between games, it's not pretty.
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* Faust's redesign is not only terrifying, but also really sad and depressing when you think about it. That lovable, crazy bag-headed doctor who always seemed to be in high spirits you once knew? Gone. It's very clear that Faust has seen better days. He's traded in his doctor's uniform for that of a surgeon's, which evokes his [[DarkandTroubledPast very tragic backstory backstory]] as Dr. Baldhead. His entire body looks like it's in awful shape, like at any moment he could just suddenly fall apart at the seams. Quite literally in fact, because upon closer inspection his body has a bunch of stitches in it. It's also horribly emaciated and skinny, looking like it's been stretched WAY out of proportion. His entire character model is framed in shadow regardless of the stage's lighting, giving off very gloomy vibes. He walks like a zombie, seemingly aimless and without purpose. Even his moveset has taken on a much darker turn. He no longer cheerfully pops in through doors made out of thin air or swims through solid ground. Instead, he morphs into scarecrows and ''eats the opponent alive'' before releasing them through a plain-Jane dimensional hole. Whatever happened to Faust in-between games, it's not pretty.
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Testament's pronouns are they/them as of Guilty Gear Strive
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to his Gear conversion, he was actually a kind, charitable man who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. His hatred of violence even borders on phobia and he believes that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where he was converted into a Gear unwillingly and was forced to kill humans as his conscious mind tried to resist.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, he was freed from her control, and was reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, his programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of his former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke his idealistic spirit.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed, he was freed from her control, and was reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, his programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of his former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke his idealistic spirit.
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* Testament's profile is enough to help you shed a tear. It is stated that prior to his their Gear conversion, he was they were actually a kind, charitable man person who loves children and has taken in several orphans in the past. His Their hatred of violence even borders on phobia and he believes they believe that people should not be punished, but rather, be reformed. Then you suddenly remember the part where he was they were converted into a Gear unwillingly and was were forced to kill humans as his their conscious mind tried to resist.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed,he was they were freed from her control, and was were reawakened by Dizzy and tried to start a new life, his their programmed hate for humanity ''became genuine''. Testament is a shell of his their former self whose views became the complete opposite of what they once were, all because actually seeing the capability of human evil firsthand throughout the war and having to deal with the hunters after Dizzy's head legitimately broke his their idealistic spirit.
** And that's not even the saddest part about Testament's backstory. That is reserved for the aftereffects. After years of struggling against Justice's control, even after Justice was finally killed,
