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Romeo of human sacrifie

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triple b(ed) baka

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Something that I've always wanted to look more into is the way Bedman and the bed are in sync with each other, because it's inconsistent about it.

Sometimes, Bedman will do things that mirror the bed's movement, like right here:

One finger pointing out, one spike pointing out. Pretty cool little detail to include in there!

But there is also countless more times where he doesn't move whatsoever, and even one instance of him and the bed being completely out of sync with each other and even reacting differently!

So what I've wanted to look into is whether or not there is a pattern to when it does happen and when it doesn't, and what would then cause the two to go out of sync- but that will take me going through... a lot of footage, and I really wanted a chance to mention that this is even something they do at all, especially through that tiny detail up there.

So consider this instead my call to go back through any scenes in Xrd and start looking for these teeny tiny details, because they are scattered all over the place, and just so so cool when you notice them

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I keep things that are more leaning on complaining about other people/discourse-y without any actual long-term thought or fact put into it- and that also have no actual targets, please keep your arguments elsewhere- out of the tags because it is genuinely annoying for other people to see. If they care about my personal opinions on things they will follow me for it. I'd even call it poor etiquette, like purposefully making the experience worse for some people.

I just think you should, sometimes, not tag things in the tags people regularly search.

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Dumb discourse in the tags side, as the so called Bedman lore expert, I'm not reading the rest of this because the very very first claim you make is quite literally incorrect, which sets a bad enough precedent for the rest of it that I don't see the point.

This line in Japanese implies he has done this exact same thing before using the same excuse (specifically, of fixing his depressive mood, which is textbook sadism). If you are going to put a massive amount of dumb discourse into his tags PLEASE be correct on at bare minimum your opening argument.

"Don't make me pull out the lore" Let ME pull out the lore: going by Bedman's OWN DIALOGUE: Bedman is a self admitted sadist (talking about killing for entertainment), who is regularly seen smiling in scenes where he either is or is attempting to kill others, he was not being used as a weapon as he mentioned on many occasions that he could have done everything on his own and is implied to have already killed before being with Ariels, in fact without Ariels more people would have died in canon as she is the one who keeps pulling him back and telling him to stop, his desire to atone was made up by the English localisation, he has a very high chance of being the person who brainwashed Elphelt into being like that, he shows absolutely zero problems with taking Ramlethal's life until she starts reminding him of Delilah, even in that Axl conversation he is still threatening to take his life, he was literally a serial kidnapper and murderer who was objectively having fun doing it, which is not something Ariels turned him into. By pure actual literal definition, Bedman is not innocent, is not manipulated, and is a deeply evil person!

hi anon i gotta say seeing this when i woke up was certainly something but yeah lets pull out the lore and breakdown this ask as to why youre also wrong lol

"bedman talks about killing for entertainment" no he doesn't, but he does talk about how he likes going up against skilled opponents, which like half the cast in a fighting game would likely agree on. also not quite sure where youre pulling the 'he's been implied to kill before meeting ariels' from, since we know Nothing about him before he met her, other than the fact he's been drawing up a plan for his absolute world for a while but did not have the means to actually create it before meeting ariels since he couldn't interact with reality before getting the bed frame.

"without Ariels more people would have died in canon" also not true! ariels has only ever told bedman to retreat twice, the first being because plans had changed and zato was there and the second being because gabriel posed a real threat to him after damaging his frame. ariels couldn't care less about who bedman did and didn't kill

"his desire to atone was made up by the English localisation" whuh? buddy i can understand japanese and the decision to translate his last line ("残りの命でわ､ これがせめて罪") as "must atone" isn't something they just made up to make him look nicer, it's just straight up in tone of what he says lol c'mon now anon

"he has a very high chance of being the person who brainwashed Elphelt" what in gods name are you talking about? elphelt has talked about how ariels made her and how she can't love, the only thing bedman did was put her in a dream where she could live out that desire of hers before she got merged with justice (which he got frustrated of how she kept sabotaging herself and her happiness and got involved personally), anon what are you on?

"he shows absolutely zero problems with taking Ramlethal's life until she starts reminding him of Delilah" this is maybe the only point where i can sorta agree on, because yeah at first he does intend on getting rid of her but there's also the fact i don't think he ever could have considering he was already hesitating even before he realized ram was developing emotions. if she was actually an emotionless tool, i think he would've, but we see him yell at ariels after, questioning why she made the valentines the way she did

"in that Axl conversation he is still threatening to take his life" honestly mate, there are very few people in axl's circle that haven't threatened him before. you're also leaving out the context that bedman has no issues with him, he's just saying that he won't hold back if axl decides to get in the way. if you're talking about the physical threat he did, axl immediately called his bluff. bedman has been shown to only get involved with people that pose a threat to his plans, which at the time, axl did not.

so going through these points, i noticed you mentioned everyone i talked about in my tags, save for robo ky. is there a reason for that? could it be because robo ky calls him a nice guy, sympathizes with him and even tries to convince venom that maybe they don't have to kill each other? couldn't find a way to twist that scene against him?

how about your claim that he wasn't manipulated, when ariels literally spells out that she did use him and that she was lying to him the whole time?

i also just can't see bedman being a ruthless sadistic killer when this is his reaction to learning he was being used and that he bloodied his hands for nothing

but in the end tl;dr

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In case anyone forgot Bedman's list of crimes include mass murder attempted omnicide attempted genocide kidnapping unethical human experimentation obstruction of justice animal abuse assault arson various war crimes potentially brainwashing do I need to continue

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The more I spend around other fandoms, the more frustrated I get with Guilty Gear fans and the way they talk about Bedman.

My best example is Zephia from Fire Emblem Engage. She is also a similarly very terrible person, who does everything under the guise of a family- who she was treating badly. There are no people needing to prove that she is, in fact, a bad person. There are no people insisting that what she did was actually so sweet and she's just morally grey. There is a collective agreement that Zephia was bad, and that's all there is. Even if she had good intentions at some point, it's all wasted the moment she began taking innocent lives. She isn't "morally grey", her morals are very very clearly steering towards evil, just with a nice little ribbon packaging them.

Bedman is quite literally the exact same. He is a sadist who delights in taking the lives of innocents, using the idea of undoing it all to kill people for fun, and all in all the majority of the deaths he caused to happen had zero reason to happen. But because he claims his motives are "it's all for my sister" (it isn't), everyone must cry and debate about how no he's actually a wonderful person and a good older brother. He did everything he could for his poor sweet sister, who he clearly loves so much, so much so to give her so many insecurities that we can SEE her battling with. He was just forced into killing people, he totally didn't admit to seeing murder as a tool to fix his mood. He's morally grey! No, don't look at him smiling at the chance to kill people, he didn't WANT to do all that! He's just morally grey! He's not evil!

I'm so fucking tired y'all

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We are very starved for content.

I like looking through promotional material of Bedman. Trailers, magazine ads, even the way producers and such would talk about him if asked. Above all else, it shows off what they believe is the "appeal" of the character.

So for Bedman, it's the mysterious aspect of who he is that they believe is appealing. To the point of...

This. In this trailer, everyone's art and name were accompanied by gameplay. Whether that's showing moves or even taunts/respects. You got to see them, their stage, etc. Except for Bedman, who is given static.

Bedman is- in the eyes of the marketing- a "come and find out" sort of character. Where rather than tell you who he is, what he does, etc- they want you to go directly in and find out for yourself. For comparison, Ramlethal's status as a momentary villain that becomes good shortly after was known before they told people the date she'd be playable, whereas Bedman was so hidden that beyond a few screenshots, and one quote in a trailer, no one had any idea what he was about other than maybe being evil.

I'd say it worked, actually. Surface level knowledge of Bedman is nowhere near enough to understand him at all, and it feels like no one is really a fan of him without becoming full blown obsessive at least for a while. The easiest way to get the attention of lore/story-focused fans is to present them with a character they refuse to tell you anything about.

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[WIP] Latest hyperfixation gotta be Bedman (Romeo) for sure. He's such a yapper and I love him for it.

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Silly little comic in between work. I think Romeo should have lived after Xrd, not for important plot reasons, but because it would be funny.

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I feel like a lot of the "new" things that can be talked about regarding Bedman are just things plenty of people already knew, but need to be rephrased and simplified for more people to understand. It's largely just a battle against common misconceptions now, because we've exhausted all we've got. Both the English and original Japanese script has been torn to pieces, we've found everything there is to be found of official content- even art and location test footage that was buried for almost an entire decade- but we're still not any closer to answering a lot of questions.

This is really just a long waiting period. Other characters have their stories done and closed, and Bedman is still missing about 75% of his. We don't know where he came from, what he really is, why he's like that, nothing. So much basic information we find out about characters literally the second they're revealed is just not there for Bedman.

Although it's a little hope, the fact how they've purposefully left him in a state of so many unknowns make me hope that maybe he is planned to come back. Bedman seems like an odd character to use for Xrd only and then kill off for good, especially given Daisuke's own attachment to him. Ideally he'd end up as sort of the next big recurring villain now that Strive put an end to literally all of them in one fell swoop.

Of course, the other option is that they just reboot the franchise after Strive.

Which means that eventually we'll get back to Xrd and we'll get Bedman 2!

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trailer park trash girl bedman As inspired by something that went down in the bedhead server

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babe wake up! time to draw romeo being pretty while standing in the void for the 129348th time!

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Is it time? I think it’s time.

Romeo was an absolutely horrible brother to Delilah and I am tired of pretending he wasn’t!!

The game gives you so many signs and I think people either haven’t noticed them- blinded by Delilah and Ramlethal having favorable opinions of him- or are purposefully ignoring them in favor of some happy sweet dynamic that just… doesn’t exist, but also completely gets the very fundamentals of who Romeo is wrong.

This ended up longer than I thought it’d be, so it’s under the cut… I can’t ever shut up...........

Delilah calling Baiken big sister has been something that a lot of people don’t seem to understand, usually with people wanting her to call her “mom” instead, but also with what this means for Romeo flying over people’s heads. She’s calling her that because, in her head, Baiken’s behaviors are sibling behaviors. In other words, Baiken reminds her of Romeo. Her only reference point is Romeo, and anything he’s said. She’s never gotten to see any other siblings to see how they treat each other, and even the main character in the movie Romeo damn made is an only child. So in order for her to think that what Baiken is doing warrants calling her big sis, even after Baiken told her to stop, that would mean she’d have to find some similarity to Romeo.

And what do we see Baiken being like the entire time up until Delilah first calls her that? Dismissive and rude. She literally threatens her. They were just attempts to scare her off, but that doesn’t change Delilah’s perception of her at all. She’s still big sis even if she threatens to hurt her. When Baiken refuses to help her, she’s still big sis. No matter how mean she is to her, she’s still big sis. Nothing ever makes her go “a sibling shouldn’t be like this”, the way Baiken acts only seems to reinforce it.

The way she screams begging Baiken to tell her why has always stuck in my head. She assumes the problems are her age and that she’ll mess it up because she’s too young, not the fact that she wants to literally murder someone. Assuming that Chaos’s death is a “prize” to Baiken that she doesn’t want Delilah taking. Saying that she’s done asking for help and that she’ll “do this alone, too”. For a 12 year old that has been isolated for her entire life save for interactions with one person and then another that has barely ever seen her or knows her, the only way these problems would have appeared is as a direct result of said person; these aren’t things a little girl would start to think and repeat out of nowhere. These are all likely things that Romeo has said to her or results of the way he treated her. How many times has she asked for his help and he’s said no? How many times has he outright refused to answer a question and the two of them ended up in a screaming match until one of them left or gave up? Delilah thinks she’s too immature when she’s normal for her age on that front- why would she ever believe that it was a problem unless Romeo made it sound like one?

Do you remember that ramble Romeo goes on in his SIGN Arcade Mode about cats? That house cats live an easy life, but lack freedom, only knowing the world their owners allow them to? Delilah is the house cat. She is trapped in a little box with only occasional visits from Romeo, the person who raised her, who only gives her the information he wants her to know and hides so much from her to the point of not knowing the rest of her family or anything he did. She probably didn’t even know the name “Bedman” was referring to him. Delilah being desensitized to the topic of death at her age, immediately wanting revenge through murder rather than going into mourning- these are all things that she would have- could ONLY have- picked up through him. Watching him, and copying what he does. The same way she does with Baiken, her new big sibling.

All of this combined, I think this is why Romeo likely being an adult is so important- the two of them being in two different stages of life would lead to Delilah developing this way, wanting to grow older and mature as fast as possible, blaming her age for everything. I can almost perfectly picture Romeo going on a “I was so much more mature than you are when I was your age” spiel. Also worth noting that Baiken says Delilah is roughly half her age.

Yes, Romeo likes Delilah, but this doesn’t mean he was ever a good brother or father figure. Romeo’s quote to May is likely not him being a complete hypocrite. Maybe, this entire time, he actually just wanted to pass Delilah over to their mother. What I don’t think people realize is that Bedman has known for a while just how awful he is, and all he did was double down under the guise of undoing it all. He never considered the consequences of if he failed, and the state Delilah is in now is one of them. Even in The Circle, he knows that he can’t make Delilah happy. He just doesn’t want to make her upset. Everything he did, or at least it started this way, was for her sake- her future happiness, but never once considering how she felt in the moment. That is how it turned into the trainwreck it ended up as.

So, TL;DR, Romeo was an awful older brother. I don’t think he was abusive, but cold, mean and distant to the point that it has left lasting damage on Delilah’s development. I beg people to pay more attention to her and what she actually says, because those two were never a happy family. She is blinded by the fact that she has never known anything else.

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ROMEO BATTALION! GO

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