Guilty Gear Strive OST Reaction | Happy Chaos | Sin Kiske | Bedman

Fun fact we don't know what the exact lyrics to drift are because The singer forgot it in 2 seconds

Sin legitimately thinks that babies come from eyeballs. Like that is a real thing

Chaos' whole ideology is that "things exist to be used for a purpose". He uses the example of the chicken and egg question: ""What came first; the chicken, or the egg?" You know the question. But do you know the answer? The omelette. The omelette came first. The chicken and the egg exist to make the omelette." He also mentions that swords exist for the purpose of making shields, and vice versa. To mirror this, Chaos believes that he exists to create drama — he's actually an Irishman known as The Original, one of, if not the strongest magic user in existence. However, when I-No was being created in the Backyard (I-No isn't human, but instead a Magical Foci, a beast from the Backyard made wholly from visualised emotions) she was way too strong, to the point she would destroy reality with all the emotions bottled within her. To prevent this, The Original stole all of I-No's emotion (which was half of her being, hence why I-No has no actual emotion, and uses innuendos to feign them), and it sent him insane, turning him into Happy Chaos (Happy Chaos is actually the name of a robot made by Asuka R. Kreutz, which was a prototype of Jack-O' Valentine, and Chaos simply stole the name because he liked it). Chaos was soon eaten by his own creation, the machine god The Universal Will, but was removed from her in -STRIVE-, when I-No tore him out and demanded her other half back — which would make her the God of humanity, since the emotions have taken time to calm and are now in a perfected state within Chaos. Chaos essentially believes that he exists for drama, and so he performs completely unprecedented things such as random murders, spares, and threats just to spice up the story and keep people on their toes. He uses the analogy of Milpico, a milk concentrate which is disgusting normally, but delicious when you mix it with water. He, in this sense, is the Milpico, and everybody else is the water. By themselves, they're mediocre, but mixing them together makes a beautiful story that creates drama. He even calls himself the 'antagonist' on purpose, knowing damn well he does what he does for no reason, because all he wants is for the good guys to have an even better victory than they initially would have. So, TL;DR - Chaos is the most powerful magic user in existence, completely insane, has a severe "ends justify the means" outlook on life, lives for drama, does completely erratic things for the sake of said drama, and completely rocks a pair of cross-shades (which, combined with his grin, make the Nirvana band logo).

The Circle is amazing but also requires you to know niche theories about the afterlife and a whole character from the previous game who's story left them in state of vagueness we don't even know if they are technically in this one. To keep it simple as I can, the girl with the bed is Delilah, her brother Romeo used to Pilot the bed but was killed by Robo-Ky in the last game. It is IMPLIED that Romeo's last act was to give the Bed the order to just protect Delilah at all costs. He can't be there to make her smile but he'll make sure she never cries.

Happy chaos: he's pretty much a God with near limitless power that chooses to create conflict just because he enjoys the drama. Sin Kiske: He aged very very rapidly, he's actually 5 years old. His go with the flow attitude probably comes from Sol Badguy since he's been watching after Sin. He's Ky Kiske's son. Bedman: in the last game there was actually a man in the bed, he died at the end of the story mode. It's believed he's either possessing the bed or the song is about what went through his head as he was dying, "the circle" is probably the circle of life or some kind of limbo and "copy that" is the bed taking its last commands from him to protect his sister.

Quick backstory for each character: Happy chaos was previously known as The Original, literally the original human. Who discovered magic, created a kind of A.I. called the universal will, and eventually gained knowledge about EVERYTHING. Then subsequently went insane. He doesn’t particularly care about anything so he loves everything, and when I-no comes to him with her big evil plan in Strive he’s immediately on board because “Hey yeah that sounds like fun!” Sin’s a pretty simple dude. He’s the son of Ky and Dizzy ( being the son of Dizzy he is also part Gear, aging and maturing quickly and is actually 5 years old in human years) trained by Sol, total optimist and always wants to move forward. Bedman has a pretty interpretive song in this one. So he and his sister were born with incredible magic power. So much so that it’s the reason they, specifically he, always had to be asleep because being awake for too long would mean his brain would spontaneously combust from his thoughts. He dies from this at the end of Guilty Gear Xrd. Therefore I’m personally one of those people that believes that he’s either controlling the bed from limbo or it’s a Kingdom hearts lingering will situation. This is why he’s unable to ascend to the afterlife, and hear the beautiful chant and feel the radiant light because he’s still attached to keeping the girl you see in the video, Delilah, his sister safe. As a result he’s stuck in limbo, where he experiences 10 million years in an instant, where’s there’s no beginning and no end, where pitch black and pure white are all the same, walking in an endless, inescapable circle and making no progress in moving anywhere. My man needs a hug

Bedman? is one of my favorite characters in media, just, ever. A sentient bed monster, left behind by a dead boy to protect his living sister. And it protects her with such violence and vigor that one might think that the bed just happens to be taking orders from the boy from the afterlife. He can't see the radiant light. He can't hear the beautiful chant. He can't feel the tender warmth. He may not make her smile, but he'll never make her cry, even once, never.

"Which came first, the chicken or the egg? You know the question, but do you know the answer? The Omelette. The Omelette came first. It's the sole reason the chicken and egg exist." That's Happy Chaos' mantra. He isn't really good or bad, he's really more of a scene director. His motives are to push the story along to see what comes after the conflict. The end result, no matter if it is good or bad, is his purpose. The sides don't really matter. It's what comes out in the end. The outcome is the reason he puts all the pieces into motion. AKA: The only reason the chicken and egg exist in the first place is because someone thought up the idea of the omelette.

"I couldn't pin it down, so I Wanted it to keep going so I could figure it out." Honestly? That's a very Happy Chaos way of thinking as well. It makes sense why you'd connect with him.

I love how the three choices for this episode were two of the happiest most uplifting songs in the soundtrack and then the emo angst sad times that is Bedman?'s theme.

Regarding Bedman: There's a thing in guilty gear where people can come back from the dead, but it's absolutely not pretty. The returned are emotionally dead, and can only hold on to one core obsession, These themes were present in Zato-1's theme, "Let Me Carve Your Way," if you recall. We don't know if Bedman's soul came back into the bed (thus the name "Bedman?" with the "?"), but if he did, it's a rough experience that he's enduring purely for the sake of his sister.

In regards to the circle it’s normal that it feels unsettling since it’s about someone stuck in limbo or a machine that think it’s stuck in limbo (we actually don’t know wich it is). But also it talks about that almost undying need to protect your younger sibling wich even in its state while it can’t make her smile it’ll do anything to not have her cry.

The Hourglass is actually so nice to listen to right between those 2 crazy songs lol Still, they all sound great and it's nice to get to see you react to them!

Happy chaos: born in Scotland during the medieval period, he was the first human to discover the dimension known as the Backyard and is the progenitor of the science of magic in guilty gear. After living for centuries after making himself immortal, he became bored and now traipses around the world causing problems because he dislikes life being static Sin kiske: 5 year old son of ky kiske and 8 year old dizzy. Highly resentful of ky earlier in his life for being a shit dad and bad husband. Eventually came to respect ky's commitment to making the world a better place for sin and dizzy despite his stumbling on that path Bedman?: animated bed frame belonging to a powerful (and no longer living) psychic person that houses the lingering will of his desire to protect his sister

Happy Chaos is the villain of Strive, and terrifyingly enough, he's not evil. He's bored. He basically gives I-No god powers just to see what will happen. ...He's also the man that discovered the magic that the entire Guilty Gear universe currently runs off of. Yeah. A quote from memory: "I know you won't believe this, but I really hope you guys win. Because, I'd like to see you again."

10:44, ah yes bedman’s theme gonna be very up indeed

🗣 we about to DRIFT with this one

0:36 literally one of the BEST theme songs of all time!!!

"The Circle" is my favorite song from Strive so far and I think the best way to describe it is a man's shredded soul screaming on the borders of perceptible reality, beyond both life and death, exiled from the afterlife, comforted only by fleeting moments of lucidity. Like, Bedman in the previous game didn't die a normal death. Whatever afterlife or cycle of life and death you imagine, there's basically no way he became part of it. I think that's why the song is so chaotic and discordant, only occasionally emerging from the crushing depths for a few moments of harmony before descending again into the deep.

So for Bedmen's song named "The Circle", you won't be able to comprehend the deeper meanings behind the lyrics if you don't know the context behind the characters Bedman and "Bedman?". The fact is, this is centered on the whole aspect of protecting the girl in the video, Delilah. As for who is the one trying to protect her? Well, that would be her brother essentially. Originally, there used to be someone known as Bedman, not "Bedman?" He was fairly powerful, yet died in the previous game. It's left unknown as for what really happened to him, but what matters is the Bed in which he laid in was still able move. And now currently protecting his sister. As to how this is, it's speculated that the brother could actually BE the Bed. And this song reflects this in that regard. For example, regarding the name of the song called "The Circle." I'm sure you're familiar of the term the Circle of Life? Think of it being related to Nirvana, only backwards. This means that the being named Bedman ended up in state of purgatory, hence the "Welcome to the infinite world". "What's my endgame, there came a zero." His endgame likely being his goals from the previous game and the zero being the end of his life. "Sent here, there's silence everywhere. No peace either." when sent to this purgatory, he's unable to truly die nor go through the cycle of rebirth. Not only that he is constantly in a state of suffering with barely much of any sense of self, hence the "Where there is no beginning and no end." The random "Copy that" you hear many times is likely from "Bedman?" the bed itself following directions from the actual Bedman through his desire to protect his sister. This desire which is the reason why you see the bed go so far to protect the girl. "I'll come to you without a second thought." And lastly, "I'm here, I'm here" is referring to the fact that the brother, Bedman may still be there. Somewhere in the very bed that protects his sister. Somewhere within, at the border of purgatory. At the "border of the Circle." And in a way telling her sister that he is still there with her. You would really need to know the backstory to understand the nuances of the lyrics as they have a deeper meaning than you might realize.