#arc system works

[dtee-draws]

And if you lived in the channels before, And you entered the light, somehow What would you say?

#digital art #art #artists on tumblr #guilty gear #arc system works #fighting games #gaming #artist #venom guilty gear #venom

[knightscanfeeltoo]

When Bridget wants to visit the Waddle Dee Town and Hug the Citizens but she can only Watch from Afar...

(I wanna go to that Town too but I smell...)

#waddle dee wednesday #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #waddle dee #bridget #hal laboratory #nintendo #hal #kirby and the forgotten land #kirby #trans #guilty gear xx #ggst #guilty gear bridget #bridget guilty gear #wanya wednesday #cafe staff waddle dee #arc system works #trans woman #wanya #artist wannabe #my drawings

[candycornstudios]

I drew Bridget enjoying an impossible burger, chicken nuggies, and she is also enjoying fries that are salted with TERF tears

This is a redraw of the “estrogen burger” meme, which itself is also a parody of that one pic that some conspiracy nut made

#anime #anime art #digital art #art #transgender #trans rights #trans #lgbt #trans pride #trans flag #bridget #guilty gear strive #guilty gear #arc system works #ArcSys #fighting game art #fighting games #fgc #video games #games #meme #memes #pride memes #parody #Roger #blahaj #shark

[isdiaz]

A.B.A, Keeper of the Key

#fan art #guilty gear #ggst #guilty gear strive #arc system works #a.b.a #aba #fighting game #aba guilty gear

[elementroar]

Paracelsus gets visibly angry if A.B.A gets a full hit instead of him. Even if it hurts to be used as her shield, obviously prefers it over his wife getting hurt instead 😤

#guilty gear strive #a.b.a guilty gear #paracelsus #arc system works #key husband when hit 😵‍💫 #key husband when wife hit 😠

[prokopetz]

It's good to see Arcsys finally throwing a bone to the "women who have something deeply wrong with them" fandom.

#gaming #video games #guilty gear strive #guilty gear #a.b.a. #aba #arc system works #arcsys

[let-them-fight]

MIKU vs BRIDGET

#let them fight #tumblr #tournament #tumblr tournament #tournament poll #bridget #guilty gear strive #bridget guilty gear #bridget ggst #ggst #ggstrive #guilty gear #arc system works #asw #hatsune miku #miku #vocaloid #miku hatsune #transgender #not to be biased or anything but. this may be miku’s website. but this is brisket’s town #btw. this is a silly goofy fun poll since miku has already won one

[smiskiboy]

She's BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh I missed her so MUCH!!!!!!!!

#guilty gear #arc system works #a.b.a guilty gear #guilty gear strive

[nightjarstrive]

Fucking love this guy

#ggst #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #arc system works #bedman #delilah #ggxrd

[maddestmao]

it's a 'draw your fav ship in this pose' thingy from twitter!

i love them a lot

you can grab a print of this piece here

#axl low #i-no #i no #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #ggst #arc system works #arcsys #fanart

[grapepixelart]

Girls just wanna have fun.

#bridget #bridget guilty gear #ggst #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #fighting games #arc system works #pixel art #fanart

[yagirevart]

#bridget #guilty gear #guilty gear strive #ggstrive #ggst #digital art #illustration #ggst fanart #fanart #arc system works #artists on tumblr

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Maybe Bridget, ABA and Testament should never be in Xrd...

(If you seen what Faust do to Characters like Johnny in Guilty Gear Xrd and know Naruto, you'll know what I mean...)

#guilty gear #guilty gear strive #guilty gear xrd #memes #bridget #johnny #aba #faust #testament #anime #guilty gear bridget #a b a #a.b.a. #bridget guilty gear #testament undersn #johnny guilty gear #guilty gear johnny #arc system works #guilty gear memes #naruto #ggst #ggstrive

[dtee-draws]

i don’t care if you really care

as long as you don’t go

so i cry, i pray and i beg

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[rojira913]

Mrs. Elphelt Valentine herself!

#guilty gear #artwork #drawing #ggst #fighting games #video games #art #elphelt valentine #arc system works #character design

[elementroar]

Analysis of Paracelsus' initial bloodlust and its longlasting effects on A.B.A (Part 2)

Analysis behind the backstory and personal story arcs of A.B.A. and Paracelsus (part 1)

So this actually started out more of a 'funny' post, but I realized that it really is a very important insight into how A.B.A. and Paracelsus function and interact, especially for his earlier days in XX/Accent Core +R

And I wasn't joking about the vore. It's not in the erotic sense...but it certainly is in the 'literally eating parts of your partner ' sense...

Also apologies for the long word dumps, it got wordier and longer than I expected.

Paracelsus (used to) REALLY love blood

It goes without saying, Paracelsus really loves blood. Well he used to anyway.

By STRIVE, he says he felt he lost his sanity whenever he gets hyped on blood in the past. To the point, he has sworn off blood (and violence) as if it was an addiction. Basically, he has managed to go clean sometime between their last appearance and STRIVE.

To not go too far into his backstory again (which you can read here), Paracelsus is a magical axe that fed on blood and increased his own power with blood; and would use warriors as hosts to cause more bloodshed and thus gain more blood and power for himself. Paracelsus doesn't need to 'eat' blood to survive (he was left host-less for about 20 years, and now abstains in STRIVE and is just fine), making the addiction metaphor seem to be accurate.

Back in XX/ACCENT CORE, he needed to drink fresh blood to transform into his superpowered Moroha mode (this is mechanically replaced by Jealous Rage mode now). Similar to his current gameplay, he could get blood and transform by A.B.A. piercing someone with his bladed end; or if A.B.A. fed him one of three blood packs she'd have on her.

He reacts pretty much like a dog getting a treat, anticipating it when she reaches into her pockets for a pack too. And he truly didn't care where the blood comes from, even if it's from A.B.A. herself.

A.B.A. coughs up blood and all Paracelsus wants to do is have a taste. Note that he barely actually reacts to her or himself getting hit or fighting in the old games. It's kind of a stark contrast to his many reactions and concern for her wellbeing now.

Make no mistake, despite being "kinder and gentler" than how he treated his previous hosts - by not completely mind controlling her into a frenzy and caring enough that he doesn't want her to die - Paracelsus was truly obsessed with drinking blood still, and all the fighting skills and power he imparted on A.B.A. was to make her strong enough to defeat opponents and gather blood for him too. Hence the 'manipulation' he felt guilty of in STRIVE.

And he gets even more bloodthirsty in Moroha mode aka what Paracelsus is without his 'sanity'.

You're the worse you when on blood

Prior to STRIVE and Paracelsus' current sludgy form, his powered-up form gave him a goat's head and his persona changes into that of his old berserker self.

This increase in aggression and bloodlust also affected A.B.A. through their empathetic bond, making her also take joy in violence and also clearly hyperventilating and tweaking out in some animations, like she's high.

Not to mention that to fight in this mode, every time Paracelsus makes a successful attack, A.B.A. also gets damaged (hence 'Moroha' mode as it means 'double-edged'). In-universe, this could mean that Paracelsus is sapping both the blood of an opponent and A.B.A. at the same time, indiscriminately as he says.

And he seems somewhat crueler in this form, as he has an even more violent and vicious state above Moroha mode called Goku Moroha mode. He enters it by consuming another blood pack, but he also seems to bite down on A.B.A.'s hand without a care and holds onto it while he transforms.

The impact of all this on A.B.A

Picking up Paracelsus was truly a double-edged sword/axe for A.B.A. On one hand, he was older and savvier about the outside world (even though he spent like 20 years just rusting away on the ground somewhere) and having him as her emotional support key and literal weapon led her to actually daring to explore the outside world, and he provided and (attempted to) advised her on things she didn't know about.

On the other hand, Paracelsus' satiating his bloodthirst was still his main objective, and it was also hurting A.B.A. Although Paracelsus was making some effort to not outright get her killed, A.B.A's additional resilience as a homunculus probably also helped her survive take being Paracelsus' host as long as she did.

Paracelsus was the original toxic element in their relationship, and it's likely over the years he's come to realize and regrets the harm he was doing to A.B.A. constantly, and why he has completely sworn off blood and violence entirely by STRIVE.

However, his bloodlust fueled and amplified the worse tendencies of A.B.A. from early on, and this seems to have stuck with her till the present in STRIVE. Her current extremely violent reaction when feeling jealousy or anxiety is likely how she's been conditioned to do so by Paracelsus, even when he himself is no longer the source of that bloodlust.

The difference now is that A.B.A.'s new powered-up state of Jealous Rage is mainly fueled by her wrath and fear instead of Paracelsus' bloodlust. Paracelsus becomes sludge now, affected by the toxicity of her unstable emotions going haywire and her will becoming decidedly dominant over his. The one who is toxic has become inverted.

What's more, it seems that the skills Paracelsus imparted on her before also carried over and stuck with her, allowing her to fight independently since Paracelsus isn't trying to encourage her to violence this time. She's become so dominant that she now can even force a new form/transformation onto Paracelsus when she does her Overdrive The Law is Key, Key is King while in Jealous Rage.

In the game files, this red form is called the "Hyoui" form, meaning 'possession'. It being red is interesting because it seems to be a callback to Paracelsus' moniker of being the Sanguine Gale. The concept art also shows the pretty disturbing way he's being morphed into it by A.B.A. when she does the Overdrive.

When in her Jealous Rage mode, the bottom half Paracelsus' where his axe blade is, somehow becomes more axe-like than it ever has been in the games. In the earlier games, his blade half didn't change, only his head does into the goat-head. What's more disturbing is that eyes already started appearing on the axe half even while Paracelsus tries to maintain his original face as much as possible.

When executing the Overdrive, A.B.A. swings with the axe half as the sludge pulls from Paracelsus' face to form this new toothed red axe head. Is it a new persona? Is Paracelsus still conscious in his face half or in the axe half at all? Does 'possession' have double meaning where A.B.A. is possessed by her own wrath, but also Paracelsus is now the one being possessed by A.B.A.'s will into forming the red axe form?

The interesting thing too is that A.B.A. executes the Overdrive with precise strikes, liked a skilled warrior. IMO, at this moment A.B.A. ironically became the exact kind of warrior that berserker Paracelsus would have wanted and caused him to even revert back into that primal early form of his that was barely sentient. They gained perfect synergy for the attack, but both are literally out of their minds.

What started this post

Just a funny thing but the reason why I even thought of, and then looked into all this, was because of A.B.A.'s biting of Paracelsus at the top of the post. I was wondering why Paracelsus doesn't say a word of protest when she does this to him, then remembered that he used to kinda drink her blood (and turns out he too has bitten her before), and I think he's prolly thinking "I deserve this".

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