Character Essay? Maybe? - Tumblr Posts
Ky is literally my goat and pfp so i guess if i'm gonna procrastinate on my homework might as well spread propaganda
Ky Kiske grew up as a child soldier in a 100 year war against an ontologically evil fantasy race (gears), who one day met the commander of the gears, Justice, and had the world's worst religious/moral/existential crisis when she went "maybe we were only an ontologically evil fantasy race because of US imperialism, huh? betcha didn't think of that".
When the gears stopping being ontologically evil after her death, he proceeded to resolve the world's other worst religious/moral/existential crisis of the daughter of Justice, Dizzy, after philosophizing about humanity's innate tendency to hurt each other and our worth in spite of it.
He then spends the next few years as a police officer wondering why all his superiors were so corrupt. This culminates with the Shadow Government coercing him into becoming a puppet king by threatening to reveal he wed and had a kid with Dizzy, whom the world still thought of as an ontologically evil fantasy race.
He had to hide both Dizzy and his child, Sin (Ky is notably a devout Catholic), while doing as the Shadow Government commanded. He is forced to reconcile with the sin of giving a child such a horrendous name (and also of not having the immediate courage to stand up to the Shadow Government, leaving his gear loved ones behind in the process), as both Ky, Sin, and Sol Badguy, Sin's caretaker / adopted father / grandpa (it's really complicated) have to fight a clone of Sol's dead wife, who was the aforementioned commander gear (the dead wife, not the clone.). Then when more clones of Sol's dead wife show up, and the shadow government tries to resurrect and subsequently pilot Justice, he has to wake up Dizzy from being frozen (due to copyright reasons) so she can use a Skeleton Divine Death Blast on her mom. This works perfectly and ends up with the majority of the Shadow Government dead and the world starting to see gears as more than an ontologically evil fantasy race. Then the totally-not-pope, who created the clones of Sol's dead wife tries to destroy humanity (due to thematic reasons), Ky teams up with Sol, Sin, those clones, and a catboy scientist wizard, to beat her up and revive Justice but without the PTSD of being used for US imperialism. This only works partially, because once she is revived, she gains DID, however this plot thread gets resolved in a way not immediately connected to his character, so we'll skip it for now.
Then, less than a year later, a time traveling rock and roll witch with depression (who sexually harasses and kills people as a coping mechanism) tries to become God and give humanity all that they wish for, but in like a bad way. Ky turns into a gear, which he can do now (probably because he had premarital sex with Dizzy), and beats her up, while the subtext philosophizes about how humans find fulfillment not solely in having our desires granted, but in striving to reach our dreams, and how our flaws make our existence worthwhile.
Also he helps a trans woman realize she's trans immediately after comparing her struggles to being a not-ontologically evil fantasy race, because this trans woman befriended Dizzy after attempting to murder her. PEAK FICTION. In the games he is a relatively basic shoto.
Dear guilty gear fandom
I am new, give me a reason to play your favorite character. Or don’t. Or do. I already said that but yeah. Sell me on the characters lore not the gameplay, I’ve never played a fighting game before besides smash and I don’t own the game yet.
Based on what I know the tags fit perfectly