#bridget when the strive is geared with guilt

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BRIDGET LINEART: ALMOST DONE!!!!! 😋😋

i finally drew the hands in a way that i liked and now all thats left for the lineart is the yoyo 🥳 (and then i end it all while coloring but thats for later)

[vampuppyy]

Here are the guilty gear facts as promised!!! (I had to retype this on my phone because my laptop crashed when i finished writing everything orz......)

Millia Rage:

She has an ex named Zato-1 and hates him a lot

When she was shot by a character's instant kill she said that "Have I chosen the yuri path?" Take that as you will!

She used to be an assassin and worked with her ex, actually, lol.

Her hair is cursed and makes way for some cool gameplay stuff, she can have wings and stuff :3

Her hobby is chasing cats, I have zero clue on why this is her hobby.

Jack-o

She has a husband and his name is Sol Badguy (the main guy of Guilty Gear)

She has a daughter (technically) named Dizzy!

She used to be a scientist and that was how she met her husband!

She has two voices that change from one another when you play her, a silly one and a serious one!

She had a thing going on with another girl named I-no, which is funny because people have compared I-no and Sol in the game a few times.

Faust

His whimsiness is a facade he puts up because he wants to make sure people don't find out about his past identity as a serial killer named Dr. Baldhead.

Connecting to the last point, but he's bald. He has no hair under there.

Also connected, but he failed a surgery on this young girl in the past which led to her death. Because of this failure of Faust, the guilt(y gear) follows him every day.

He summons little versions of himself to fight with!

He's the tallest guilty gear character ever, with a height of 9'4.

May

She fucking hates bald people to the point she can sniff them out. She knows Faust is a bald rat btw.

She has a cute heart tattoo on her thigh!

She's actually 20 years old and is usually mistaken to be younger because of the way she looks

She's a pirate (both sea and sky) and everyone in her pirate crew is her family!! (All of them are also girls except for the captain, Johnny. Also one of them is a cat.)

Testament

They have 35 hobbies, one notable hobby is watching b-rated shark movies.

They have succubi that are gay with each other. They both transform into their scythe and crow that they fight with. (I like playing them because of the bird!!)

They used to take care of Dizzy (Jack-o's daughter) when she was younger because there was no one else who could :( They're now seen as one of Dizzy's parental figures.

They were the first ever trans character to be confirmed in Guilty gear as Testament used to be a man before (literally) transitioning into a gear, becoming non-binary and transcending gender.

Bridget

Her family is actually a wealthy aristocratic family from England?? Lol.

Her teddy bear, Roger, can ride a motorcycle in one of her moves :3

She's shares a birthday with her first voice actress, which is really cute!

Her gameplay used to be super complex because of her yoyo stuff until Strive simplified everything (one of the reasons I picked her up to be one of my mains in strive, actually)

When she was first released and the controversy with her happened, people made up an email that stated the creator of guilty gear, Daisuke ishiwatari, said that Bridget wasn't a trans girl. This caused Mr. Ishiwatari himself and his staff to clarify that no matter what ending that bridget gets, she's a trans girl.

these are all of the facts I could remember and find that seemed interesting, hehe. I would explain some points more but I think this is okay. Also, extra fact because you waited a while:

There's a girl who is one of the US president's bodyguards named Giovanna and she kicks people with her spirit dog named Rei. She's Brazilian and her design looks similar to this other character i like from another fighting game franchise so when I first saw her she was love at first sight!! I cant put an image of her so you can search her up to see how pretty she is <3 I originally wanted to put facts for her but then my laptop crashed.... so I'll just share one:

She is downbad for this one guy in the franchise named Leo Whitefang. That's all. hehe.

bye byeeee hope you liked the guilty gear facts !!!

omg guilty gear facts guilty gear facts!!!! spins around with you

yeah i know about milias ex and the assassin ordeal!!! im also aware of the cursed hair because the animation for it in the game is sooo. <3 big fan of how they decided to animate her it looks so smooth and cool... BUT ALSO HELLO ? THE YURI THING ???? ykw sure. i support her in her choice and adventure through the yuri path... go millia you can do this. the chasing cats thing is so silly i hope one day some cat just randomly decides to adopt her back and keeps following her around. sniffles.

waow married girlie... the main guy being called badguy is funny as shit imsorry what a name. hoping i can be named badguy in the future too. dizzy :] she looks sooo cute uwah... honestly i really like the designs for all the valentines :sob:,,, science woman!!! the voice thing is so cool, i went to listen to her voicelines etc and the change is so nice... holding her in my hands. ALSO ALSO i do know i-no!!! them having a thing is interesting to me :eye:. might look more into it later... ik they worked under the same guy ? i think ? but thats about it... weheheh looking into them later >:3

DR BALDHEAD...what a name..... bald character fuckk. shakes him. the whimsiness as a facade thing yeah that tracks stares at him... ourghrhgh failed surgery on a girlie... also do we have any reasonings as to why he was a serial killer or :eye:........ summoning the little hims to fight is so sillycute wehg. shakes him. ALSO WDYM HES 9'4??????HELLO??????????

I KNEW MAY HATED BALD PEOPLE BUT THE FACT SHE CAN SNIFF THEM OUT ????? HELLO ????? what a girl..... ahhh the tattoo thing is so cute... girlie.. and ooo actual canon age.... i remember checking the wiki but most characters being unknown so thats nice to know!!! the pirate thing is so nice <3 her design is so cool... being both a sea and sky pirate is soo cool i love her. grasps her in my hands. one of them is a cat!!!!

TESTAMENT HOBBIES YEAH I READ THEM. shark movies... also a big fan of the liquor when they're a non drinker one. succubi!!! cant believe they made the succubis gay good for them..... also oughh they transform into the scythe... i heart you creatures transforming into weapons troupe. crow :] its you... hell yeah parental figure!!!! this also tracks since iirc one of their old hobies was playing with children nods... literally transitioning into a gear is so funny fuckk love them. gender transcending royalty godbless

bridget comes from a rich family nodsnods..... roger!!! so thats his name... why the fuck can he ride a motorcycle thats so funny. big fan. and ahh i love when characters share birthdays with the seiyuus this is so cute... ourgh characters with complex gameplays nodsnods... im glad they simplified her and you ended up picking her though :] yoyos... big fan of characters who use yoyos to fight nods. i like the little animation thingie where she goes walking the yoyo <3 and help??? the fact people went to bother the creator himself w their transphobic bs saying that she wasnt a girl to the point the staff and the guy himself coming out to say shes a trans girl is so funny??? no more escaping. brisket is eternal...

wehh heheh please send more if youd want to!!! big fan of learning things <33 and omg extra fact... giovanna and spirit dog!!! brazilian character :] i knew millia on the creation etc was meant to be brazilian which is why her move or smth is named after a brazilian band but omg i didnt knew we had an actual brazilian girlie.... shes sooo pretty though i agree nodsnods... love her hair... downbad character we love to see it!!!!

weheheheh thank you for sharing them crow!!!! please send more if youd like o7

[saeraas]

The man himself Daisuke Ishiwatari got too many people asking him about Bridget he had to confirm outright and tell people how the fuck did you not get it from her story and arcade mode

[davekat-sucks]

Simce this is the last day of Pride month (as I submit this) I want to confess: I never understood why people said Bridget from Guilt Gear was groomed.

You can take this with a pinch of salt, I haven’t played the Guilty Gear games, this is just what I learned from discourse:

Starting with Bridget in Guilty Gear XX. Bridget is a child of a pair of twins born in a town that thinks twins are a curse. Bridget’s family raises one son as a boy and Bridget as a girl so neither twin has to be the one kicked out of the family.

At age 14 Bridget leaves the town to find his brother, take him home, reveal to everyone they were both twins, and debunk the superstition.

Bridget still worse his girly clothes, why? He was independent and had no stigma anymore to look like a girl, so why still wear girl clothes? Was it grooming? I will explain why it isn’t.

First, by the assumption that grooming forces a person to act a specific way, Bridget was away from his parents and could act independently, and s chose t wear his clothes because he likes it.

If the grooming was “internalized” how was it? Was Bridget doing it out of obligation for his family? If so I could see that as grooming, Bridget wants to appease the groomers.

If it was all the clothes Bridget has ever known, then it isn’t grooming, otherwise all parents would have to be groomers for this to be logically consistent.

And if it’s just “oh Bridget likes dressing this way” then it’s not grooming, grooming is someone coercing somebody to do favors for the groomer’s wants by tricking the child into thinking they are a trustworthy authority figure.

If Bridget likes wearing girl clothes, then Bridget’s parents are supporting his lifestyle, rather than protect him out of obligation from the town. By the way the latter reason is not inherently evil, it’s an unorthodox way to protect your kids but Bridget’s family loves him.

Okay now to Strive. The superstition is gone, Bridget is still a femboy, now he’s 19. He goes bounty hunting again because he feels like something’s off. Blah blah blah the story ends with Bridget being a girl. I also know Bridget’s bio describes him as a feminine boy but yeah duh if the bio spoils the character’s arc then what’s the point of the story mode?

All in all I can NOT rationalize any reasoning where Bridget wasn’t groomed into being a femboy but groomed into being a woman. Strive Bridget was an adult, and the town superstition hadn’t existed for 5 years. So who groomed her then?

Her parents? Then you’d have to argue XX Bridget was groomed, because they raised her to look like a girl.

We already established Bridget independently liked being a feminine boy in XX, (and his parents are supportive, not grooming) so in strive Bridget wanted to be a girl, so who groomed Bridget to be a girl instead of a femboy?

I disagree with your argument. First off, in XX, Bridget felt guilty of being born the same sex. His story in that game was trying to DISPROVE that him being born as a set twin was not true. How? By becoming a bounty hunter and making money. If he can bring a lot of money to the villagers and tell them the truth, it would show that even the circumstances of his birth, it's not all bad luck. Why change it later on in Strive? Does that mean his town's superstitious belief is justified now? Some may claim in one of XC's endings for Bridget, his brother DOES go missing. So it is the bad luck that the villager's feared. Then why in the Japanese dub of it, Bridget uses BOKU instead of BUCHI when referring to himself at the end? If he wanted to continue playing up his disguise as a girl, he should have used the later. Instead, he went with the former, BOKU. In the Pachinko game, Vast XT, Bridget's lines say he wants to be seen as a man by the villagers and dislikes being cute. Yes, Pachinko is weird in itself for us Westerners, but it technically is canon since it is from Japan and made by the same company. Do we dismiss this just because us Westerners could never have access to it?

[wolfnanaki]

I think the post you might be talking about was this one?

And as far as to what happened to her between XX and Strive, we do get a little bit of that information from her online and in-game bios. She had succeeded in her goal; by becoming a renown bounty hunter, she had proved to her village that their superstition about same-sex twins was bunk. She had done all this not for her own happiness, but because she wanted to alleviate her parents’ guilt for having to raise her as a girl. And in Daisuke’s own words:

Nothing remained to restrict how both Bridget and her parents lived. After this, Bridget tries living as a man, but it doesn’t feel right.

Bridget threw herself into a dangerous world filled with all sorts of incredibly violent and bloodthirsty people and Gears, people whose power levels were supernatural and nearly godlike. And she was a 13 year old armed with a pair of yo-yos and a talking teddy bear. She overcame the odds and succeeded. And she was rewarded with gender dysphoria.

Her arcade mode dialog in Strive really nails the pain she’s going through. At the end of stage 7, Goldlewis points out she’s hiding her feelings about something, and opens up about his own experience of not being able to open up to his family about his feelings, leading to his family rift. Then Bridget says this, and it’s heartbreaking:

I always thought that, as long as I kept quiet, things would work out... But it hurts too much. I haven’t even told my parents.

How long had Bridget been living as man, hiding her dysphoria from her family, before she set back out to resume bounty hunting? The game doesn’t say, but remember, there’s a six year gap between the two games. And Bridget’s hair is shorter in Strive, meaning it had been cut between the two games and she’s now growing it back out.

And it’s not hard to see why Bridget might be hesitant to tell her parents how she’s feeling. Her parents had wanted her to live openly as a man from the start. Bridget loves and cherishes her family and wants them to be happy, and is worried that being true to her feelings would rob them of that. And she she lied to herself about what it was she was feeling so she wouldn’t have to deal with her dysphoria. Bridget had been living for other people’s sake for so long that she forgot how to live for her own.

Bridget threw herself back into the world of bounty hunting, because this dangerous and deadly profession was easier for her than coming out as a trans woman to her parents. And even after leaving home, she’s struggling to deal with her own feelings and the insecurities of coming out.

I... I don’t know what to do. I’m not strong like you, Mr. Ky. I’m too scared of losing what I have.

So, when you went public about Gears... Was it scary? Weren’t you afraid of what people would say...?

Bridget’s coming out moment is more than just her coming to terms with her gender identity; it’s her realizing her life has value outside of what anyone - her family and village included - thinks of her. She had cherished her family at her own expense, but now she can finally cherish herself. And whatever terrible things might happen as a consequence, none could be worse than continuing to live a lie.

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. Thank you! Both of you! Goldlewis: Don’t mention it. Happy trails, cowgirl. Or, uh, cowboy...? Bridget: Cowgirl is fine! Because... I’m a girl!

It’s beautiful and triumphant, and I love it.

(By the way: huge props to ArcSys for having the guts to tell this kind of story with such a beloved character in a time where transphobic beliefs and violence are skyrocketing across the globe. Daisuke was likely aware there’d be backlash from perpetually online bigots. And he did it anyway.)

i think the greatest tragedy about strive bridgets new design really is that 8-10 year timeskip since xx or whatever. I saw a really cool post last night about this artwork by daisuke, (though i'm not able to find it again which is tragic)

The context for this is to highlight the inherent discrepancy in her personality. She's a little girl, cast out from home by herself for the sake of making her family happy. Aside from Roger, there is literally nobody there for her. In his own words, "(she) spends her days occupied by the feeling of loneliness." Even more than that, the world of guilty gear is erratic, violent, and at times extremely cruel. Her job is literally to fight and catch the worst types of people. The weight of fear and loneliness can be so hefty, and it's captured so perfectly by the dreary, dull anxiety of the image, and I can't get over it.

But... Then you have strive Bridget. The next time we see her, really. She's made some friends here and there, but she never settles down, maybe only going on a few adventures with May, having a nice chat with the king of ilyria about how she totally captured innocent people. Working at shows or at jams restaurant. No, the majority of the time she is portrayed as someone who worked into being a top bounty hunter, and getting wealthy, but never returning home. It's became so normalized to her, it's became the default, something she opts for instead of going back home because of her depression from gender dysphoria. That's what I always hear from a town inside me; someone running from their problems until it's too much to handle, before finally the instruments blare and she's finally, finally free!

But there's a gap there, isn't there? How does she become so stoic that living by herself has became preferable? It feels like you could fit a series of television into those 7 years, just on that transformation. I love her so much, and it makes me want to write it or something! Especially with how little we get to see of Roger. Those two have so much untapped potential and thinking about it makes my autism activate lmao

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BRIDGET!!!!!!