It is just like an old man and a child who behave the same. Really, we fill our heads with things and attach ourselves to them, while the old man and the child couldn't care less and have less of an ego
I like that HC isn't just "Haha I'm so wacky and I'm evil lol", he's "I have a deep and intense philosophy that allows me to view all equally and for that reason I can simply do whatever I want at the exact moment because there is no true reason I shouldn't" That's such a GG thing to do.
Chaos gets often mashed up with Destruction in media. I believe that absolute Destruction is not in human nature and that Happy Chaos is a bit of proof for that.
Interestingly, that's the reason he looks like a Blue Oni... the Blue ogre desires a good future for the Red ogre, so he stages an attack to a nearby human town, so Red Ogre drives him away and becomes a hero for the humans he saved... AKA Sol is the Red Ogre
@@SaHaRaBernanke Asuka is also (somewhat inadvertently) the Blue Oni for Sol. So many things, Asuka has done to try and make Aria and Frederick's lives better. But his attempts have only served to make him The Devil, and turned the simple, kinda awkward, romantic Frederick into Sol Badguy, the anti-hero who has saved humanity time and again. Of course, this isn't something Sol /wanted/ or is particularly happy with.
@@Raybro16 Oh yeah, thats really just japanese fairytale, which got adapted into Inazuma's story... While not 1-to-1 in Guilty Gear, the subtle references in Happy Chaos's actions, motivation and design are cool AF...
love how his current fighting style fits his narrative as well. canonically hes the most powerful being alive with all the knowledge of backyard at his disposal but he ultimately found purpose in creating drama and the most dramatic weapon humanity made is the gun he likes the theatrics of it all
Not only that! But a revolver no less! The time required to reload one is far longer than that of a mag-fed pistol. Making his almost sluggish reloading give him time to enjoy the bedlam he makes!
And it reveals a flaw in his disillusionment with his nigh-omnipotence and omniscience. He doesn't really know how to use a gun properly, he fumbles it constantly, has to cheat with his magic to be accurate, and generally doesn't handle it properly. Intellectually, he probably knows how to make, use, and maintain every firearm humanity has ever made. But he doesn't have every single skill in the world. He could sit down and spend the time learning how to use a gun, and that would probably give him those new, interesting experiences he craves. But he's too stuck on the big picture to actually do so.
@@tanwenwalters7689i agree. That's also visible in der He Rest of his moves. Despite him knowing pretty much everything. He throws punch es like he's never been in a fight before and literally just shoves people
@@tanwenwalters7689 I think it's just that he doesn't care enough about fighting to learn how to use his guns. He even says "I don't care about winning, I'm just here for the pleasure." in one of his giant taunt rambles since he vastly prefers people and how they live over his guns and other possessions (even if said guns are unbelievably rare and powerful).
@@tdwl2802 oh absolutely, but the whole thing about wanting some interesting new experiences could be dealt with if he cared to try to learn to use it. Or learn any other skills, really. It's just that he doesn't want to
10:42 when you said "There is nothing for him to strive for" I realized how similar HC is to Raven, the difference is that Raven decided to lay back, later becoming a raging fetishist, and HC stole the White House
I would say happy chaos is a director while the characters around him are the actors, he isnt a overbearing director but instead encourages improvisation. like when hes talking with the security guard the guard even says "Why even allow us to have these thoughts instead of mindless drones?" hell he says "you would make a terrible script writer, but a hell of an actor"
@P4R53C5 Like its said in the video HC sets up a story and plays both the director and an understudy for any part that is lacking in his "story" but while the story plays out he inserts/allows certain variables that incentives improvisation because to him an unforseen outcome is more interesting than one that was planned out but both outcomes are acceptable because at the end of the day something new was created and he was entertained.
@@pooperdooper3576 if someones gonna mess with your creative vision, you do what you gotta do Especially if it means stealing the white house, use that baby as a set and youre making literal history
There's two major reasons I like Happy Chaos's characterization in Strive. First, he inverts a fairly common "insanity" progression. A lot of characters who go crazy retain maybe a few character quirks that keep them identifiable and refresh everything else. "I used to be a doctor who wanted to help everyone, now I'm crazy doctor bent on revenge / mass murder!" The Original and HC share the same core motivations: they want to better the world. Their goal hasn't changed. It's everything else that has. From grand mage to demon gunslinger; from major participant to shoe-in; from drama-halter to drama-lover. They want the same thing they used to want, but have a much more skewed outlook that twists the path from point A to point B. Second, he embodies a pretty common trend among GG antagonists. The antagonists want to save the world. The protagonists want to save the people. I-No wants to give humanity god-like power to improve the world, even if that's billions of deaths later. The Universal Will's entire goal is to protect humanity, even if it's just a little broken in understanding "humanity." Even part of Justice's motivation is the treatment of Gears, and she'll improve the world for them, even if it means some of them die. HC is that "save the world over a couple of lives" idea distilled into a pure form. He'll steal the White House and kill by the dozens if it means the world gets to enjoy a brighter sun tomorrow. (Which is a good contrast to Sol, who's willing to get the planet metaphysically nuked if it means saving Aria 2.0.) This might also be why Asuka can come across so morally gray. His philosophy isn't that different from HC and other antagonists: save the world, even if it means a few lives are lost. He destroyed Japan for exactly this reason. The difference is that, unlike HC and other antagonists, he understands that choice doesn't need to be made right now. Asuka wants to save the world when it needs saving. Happy Chaos wants to save the world right now. IDK, just my two pennies.
Well I appreciate your two cents. Gives me a lot to think about with the character of happy chaos, his archetype as a character, the themes in Guilty gear, and the perspectives of the characters. Primarily the villian's but also the other characters as well. Thank you.
The best part is that I'm pretty sure he just stole that name from a gear. The ACTUAL Happy Chaos was a gear designed to do what Jack-O tries to do at the end of the story. Fuse with I-No as a failsafe option. It was a gear that was designed for I-No specifically. So The Original probably saw he was helping I-No and thought "Wouldn't it be funny if I used that name, and gave myself a halo like the Jack-O units have? That'll totally confuse someone"
@@icetide9411 Technically the original Happy Chaos (the original Happy Chaos => not the Happy Chaos who is The Original...) is a Valentine and not a gear. They are different for REASONS. And interestingly, I-No is neither a Valentine OR a gear, and is just her own thing. This is all because Daisuke writes very straightforward and not at all confusing plots.
8:37 Since I always associate this scene with the flashback in Xrd Sign where Frederick (Sol) says that he'd use his last moments alive to save the world then Aria (Jack-O) brings up the idea of spending your last moments with someone you love, I think the way Sol opposes Happy Chaos is more strongly seen when he tells I-No he built the Junkyard Dog to be so powerful because it never bored him. Happy Chaos spent so much time in the story discussing purpose. Vernon talked how football would save the world. Jack-O struggled with how something imperfect could be better. I-No would not stop until she had saved everyone in the world, even if she had to delete the universe infinitely many times to do it. But Sol? He didn't need a higher purpose or reason, he just did what he liked. To use Happy Chaos's metaphor, there is no omelete for Sol, the egg and the chicken just exist and people are less bored because of it. You could say that avoiding boredom then becomes the reason, but Sol immediately adds on his excellent line about the sentence that changes your life and gives you purpose being stuck in some random book you'll probably never get to reading, even if you try reading through the whole library. Happy Chaos posits it is purpose that causes existence, and thus is the end all be all. "I don't have anything that's really important to me. That's why everything is beautiful." Sol argues back that purpose is overrated and all that matters is living a good life you enjoy. "Listen to your heart, not the voice in your head."
I think his speech on history books really emphasizes his philosophy. He wants drama, but he knows drama is meaningless to people unless they themselves experience it. You can read about the amazing ways things concluded in the past, but you'll never actually be in that moment. He knows everything, but that's just knowledge. He wants to experience it, and he wants everyone else to as well, and he doesn't care how it happens, including if he has to do it himself.
Well considering happy chaos is responsible for a bunch of stuff happening in the lore, creating situations and all, you could say he is the scenarist of his own world
It's also worth pointing out that the song "Six Black Heaven's Guns", released in 2013 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Arc System Works, seems to be about Happy Chaos as well - between the title being an exact description of his weapons of choice, to the reoccurring line "World of Fiction" representing his philosophy. With this in mind, I'm sure the song can give us a look at another side of the blue goober... But I'm not going to be the one to figure it out.
I wonder. Would happy chaos play dnd? The whole concept is that the big ominous force behind the screen is completely omniscient, and while they keep throwing curve balls at the band of protagonists as antagonists, disasters and mishaps, it wants them to succeed and save the day.
He would absolutely play D&D but he would forget every single rule the moment the session started and just make them up on the fly. By the end all the players would stop using their dice and instead be actually punching each other. Regardless, all of them would agree that he is a great DM and they'll be back for the next session.
He would fit more perfectly in the Classic World of Darkness setting. (Vampire the Masquerade, Mage the Ascension, and Werewolf the Apocalypse in particular) The cosmology of it is really cool, highly recommend it. HC’s views are the type of paradigm that a Mage chronicle’s antagonist would have. There’s a faction of mages in that setting called Marauders, and they are right up his alley.
Happy chaos is a definitive trickster, far from being benevolent, often violent, selfish and destructive, but having the ability to equalize the forces in a story, and create turmoil for the other players. He reminds me a lot of gods from myth like anansi or loki, who, with or without motive, would stir things up between others setting events in motion or even resulting in some pretty violent results. Hes even depicyed with a rabbit motif with the masks he builds, the rabbit being a classic trickster.
You know, the Sin and Happy Chaos comparison makes me actually hope that the next game will have Happy Chaos just vibing with Sin, taking delight in him going with the flow and perhaps even helping him help others every now and again. Also fulfilling his prophecy that maybe next time, he'll be on the good side too.
This is probably a bit shallow, but I really dislike the SF6 artstyle. The characters look ok at best and horrible at worst, crashes right into the uncanny valley. Feels like they leaned a bit too heavily into realism.
This actually explains many lyrics in his them, “carried by the waves” he just goes with the flow another example being “I don’t have anything that’s really important to me that’s why everything is so beautiful” is a reference to his ideology of not caring for individuals but looking at things as a whole
My favorite part about, Chaos is that due to the very nature of the kind of character he is anything you headcanon about him is technically true. He could be an completely different character in the next game and it'd be entirely in character for him. And if you ask me that's just extremely fascinating.
I get their logic. Mainly the part where he says that chaos and difficulties bring change and innovation. Giving the Status Quo a good shake, and see how it rearranges itself. It is very exciting to see how the next version of something turns out.
Fun fact: Drift's lyrics incapsulate all these ideals and confusions so well, and some parts really resonate with me, so last week I asked a local tattoo artist to translate it's chorus into one, together with the "I don't have anything that's really important to me, that's why everything is beautiful". It was my first tattoo and I REALLY liked the result.
bro that summary at the end! you are so good at tying things together. I knew he was more nuanced than just: joker but less sociopathic. im still thinking on the cinclusion rn. u are so amazingness. please break down other nuanced characters!!
Man you just perfectly summarized why I love Happy Chaos so much man, his whole views, ideology, perspective on everything like he is truly unlike any other fighting game character and I love every bit of it. By doing random Happy Chaos shit on my channel he actually helped me be comfortable with using my voice not just in videos but using it in general. Ever since I looked at Happy Chaos I was like "Damn he just like me fr fr!" and now when someone asks me why I love him so much I can just direct them to this video
Happy Chaos’ voice sounded REEEEAAALLLY familiar. At first I thought it was Nagito because well…you know. But turns out it’s the same guy who voices Goro Akechi. And for a reason I can’t explain that just makes perfect sense.
The best way to summarise Happy Chaos's ideology is that most of the events that make Guilty Gear an interesting setting that we enjoy... come from him. He's the authour, which is why one of his supers is literally a Deus Ex Machina.
Happy Chaos is basically "light hearted" or more cheery version of Outsider from Dishonored- he does things just to keep the life he observes from the sidelineintresting, Motto bein "I gonna make the life interesting with my ADHD and that GUN I stole" And on the perspective story- it's basically if a character in a book asked you why you wrote it, and every explanation you can give will be interpreted as "FUCK YOU" because explaining that you are medling with their life on such a fundamental level just to make things "fulfilling" in the end won't exactly go well (the whole "Do I even have a free will because of you?" debacle) (honestly, this is also what happens if you have imaginary world or work on an artwork and put in a self insert in a background- in phylosophical way the characters of that world would see your self insert like Happy Chaos is seen)
I think its worth noting that other characters voiced some apprehension towards the ease of living in current setting of Guilty Gear. That life being easy and peaceful as it is might breed complacency amongst though born after the crusades. And that that complacency might give to a repeat of the crusades or worse. Stirring up shit just might just be Happy Chaos' answer to those apprehensions
10:00 thanks for finally breaking down his philosophy. I could tell that he was the best and the highlight of the show also where can I find the full image
Great. Now I'm wondering howe insane it would be to listen to a conversation between Happy Chaos and the Master of Masters, from Kingdom Hearts. I'd probably black out 2 minutes in, reacting a higher plain on consciousness, only to wake up 3 days later, in my birthday suit, and eating colored chalk.
The chicken and the egg are a nod to Aristotle's philosophy. He has 4 "things" that makeup everything in existence. The material cause - what the object is made from, The Formal cause - The shape and the idea of a shape of an object, The efficient or moving cause - What put the particular object into motion/existence, The final cause or the purpose - The point of the object. All 4 of these are needed for something to exist and all are in a way present in any particular object - they can't go without each other. Happy chaos over here is proclaiming that the purpose is what comes before everything else and is what forms the object. This is also seen in his behavior - He starts drama and gives characters purpose. Ino started the plot aka The moving cause; and since they are 2 halves they example 2 sides of the unmoved mover - God. One starts the existence of the story and the other gives it purpose. I have a hunch that he also goes meta here since he knows everything. He knows he's in a game or at least in some form of fiction, he provides the interesting antagonist part and by doing so enables the game to come into existence. If he wasn't there there would be no plot and no game; from his perspective, he wouldn't exist, and neither would all the other characters; and since Ino is only the driving part, he's the only one that can do it.
As a man who has never played a guilt gear game, never heard of them once in my life and has not been a big playing fighting game. Until recently (and thanks to Pootis engaged) I have never been more interested in a game franchise as batsh@t crazy as this one. And thanks to the soundtracks that I have found in this game, I will wait for the day I play the game to call myself a true fan. Thank you for enlightening me into this wacky universe.
The connection between HC and sin is deeper than ideology, in XrdRev2 sin drinks tea and dislikes it due to it being bitter and likes sugar water better, and happy chaos drinks coffee in strive’s story and say he dislikes it due to it being bitter and say he likes milpico better aka literally sugar water.
I now understand why hackers do what they do. Put things in dark souls pvp that corrupt your save file; make a 2-headed skeleton in red dead redemption online... They are insane. :)
I mean, if I had knowledge of everything in existence I too would try to make some new knowledge. I'm sure these clashes of human desire that he creates is like scrolling through shows and finding the right one.
Happy Chaos is an internet troll that throws in a polarizing opinion, not because he think it's right or because he wants to bring up the question for the sake or finding out the truth or even because he wants to see anyone to suffer from this discussion, but just because he finds reading the burning thread of comments it created really entertaining.
Couple points to add, there is a quote by lovecraft that says: 'We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.' So when he says he will be a black sea he says the oposite, he will continue to voyage and be lost in the maddnes. I think he is a good representation to what happens when you satisfy the need for thruth of an obsesive person. The only thing that remains when logic is satieted are pure desires. He kinda is the ultimate expresion of an Absurdist. The world doesnt have meaning so i will defy it by enyoying the ride. That also in his theme:"The truth is not always real" "I don't want any conclusions". He doesnt care and just WANTS thats why he is insane to us. Insane enough to fight with pistols when he is a mage, and more insane when the ones he uses is the china rippoff and even more to not care about his death but the fact that he wants to see more. At the end thats his theme, there is no thruth, no morals. Just conflict and the pleasure of overcoming it. DRAMA
I enjoyed the video and I agree with your statements about him. That is what made him likeable too, that he is whacky troll character that simply wants real fiction and will cause it to happen but not necessarily end it in a bad way.
Can we like...give the hugest props to robbie daymonds vocal performance? I wouldnt like happy chaos nearly as much without that smug silly aura he brings
sin being the counter to happy chaos is perfect as happy chaos is too smart while sin has no braincells
Bro he can count and do basic math, he is a smart boi.
@@mantraki he already knows where babies come from!
The man's like 3 give him a break
It is just like an old man and a child who behave the same. Really, we fill our heads with things and attach ourselves to them, while the old man and the child couldn't care less and have less of an ego
his skull? completely hollow, nothing but sugarwater
Happy Chaos is basically a DnD Dungeon Master who’s watched the players fuck up one too many storylines he spent HOURS making
I can believe that. 🤣
As a the forever DM, yup that describes me.
That's the best perspective so far
@@Crimson64same
"Fuck it, rocks fall fade to black, see you next week."
I like that HC isn't just "Haha I'm so wacky and I'm evil lol", he's "I have a deep and intense philosophy that allows me to view all equally and for that reason I can simply do whatever I want at the exact moment because there is no true reason I shouldn't"
That's such a GG thing to do.
Chaos gets often mashed up with Destruction in media. I believe that absolute Destruction is not in human nature and that Happy Chaos is a bit of proof for that.
just like me frfr
He’s literally just the first one lmfao
@@WhiteKnuckleRide512 someone didn't pay attention.
@@kylekiske_ somebody can recognize reading too far into a whacky character when he sees it.
Interestingly, that's the reason he looks like a Blue Oni... the Blue ogre desires a good future for the Red ogre, so he stages an attack to a nearby human town, so Red Ogre drives him away and becomes a hero for the humans he saved... AKA Sol is the Red Ogre
Exactly the same opinion! And Asuka could be red Oni too
@@SaHaRaBernanke Asuka is also (somewhat inadvertently) the Blue Oni for Sol. So many things, Asuka has done to try and make Aria and Frederick's lives better. But his attempts have only served to make him The Devil, and turned the simple, kinda awkward, romantic Frederick into Sol Badguy, the anti-hero who has saved humanity time and again. Of course, this isn't something Sol /wanted/ or is particularly happy with.
Gio is the green ogre or whatever..idk shrek?? Im unfunny idk
Wait, I thought that was just something made up for Genshin Impact "XD
@@Raybro16 Oh yeah, thats really just japanese fairytale, which got adapted into Inazuma's story...
While not 1-to-1 in Guilty Gear, the subtle references in Happy Chaos's actions, motivation and design are cool AF...
love how his current fighting style fits his narrative as well. canonically hes the most powerful being alive with all the knowledge of backyard at his disposal but he ultimately found purpose in creating drama and the most dramatic weapon humanity made is the gun he likes the theatrics of it all
Not only that! But a revolver no less! The time required to reload one is far longer than that of a mag-fed pistol. Making his almost sluggish reloading give him time to enjoy the bedlam he makes!
And it reveals a flaw in his disillusionment with his nigh-omnipotence and omniscience. He doesn't really know how to use a gun properly, he fumbles it constantly, has to cheat with his magic to be accurate, and generally doesn't handle it properly. Intellectually, he probably knows how to make, use, and maintain every firearm humanity has ever made. But he doesn't have every single skill in the world. He could sit down and spend the time learning how to use a gun, and that would probably give him those new, interesting experiences he craves. But he's too stuck on the big picture to actually do so.
@@tanwenwalters7689i agree. That's also visible in der He Rest of his moves. Despite him knowing pretty much everything. He throws punch es like he's never been in a fight before and literally just shoves people
@@tanwenwalters7689 I think it's just that he doesn't care enough about fighting to learn how to use his guns. He even says "I don't care about winning, I'm just here for the pleasure." in one of his giant taunt rambles since he vastly prefers people and how they live over his guns and other possessions (even if said guns are unbelievably rare and powerful).
@@tdwl2802 oh absolutely, but the whole thing about wanting some interesting new experiences could be dealt with if he cared to try to learn to use it. Or learn any other skills, really. It's just that he doesn't want to
10:42 when you said "There is nothing for him to strive for" I realized how similar HC is to Raven, the difference is that Raven decided to lay back, later becoming a raging fetishist, and HC stole the White House
Since HC is pretty much all knowing, he probably already knows about any fetish stuff. So he's gotta get kicks somehow!
That's why I love them both
When you're such a nerd that you transcend sex
@@dmfyre HC hands raven a blender and records what happens
HUH?! WHAT?
"killed baiken's entire family, enslaved a black man" probably the best line ngl
dude discovered the knowledge of EVERYTHING, and still decided to be a white man.
Literally me
@drunklevi uh bro lmao
@@alexcat6685based and chaospilled
Chaos is the kind of guy who would say that slavery was actually good for black people.
I would say happy chaos is a director while the characters around him are the actors, he isnt a overbearing director but instead encourages improvisation. like when hes talking with the security guard the guard even says "Why even allow us to have these thoughts instead of mindless drones?"
hell he says "you would make a terrible script writer, but a hell of an actor"
He's the "Fuck it, i'll allow this" GM.
Happy Chaos wants things to go according to plan right up until things dont go according to plan
@P4R53C5 Like its said in the video HC sets up a story and plays both the director and an understudy for any part that is lacking in his "story" but while the story plays out he inserts/allows certain variables that incentives improvisation because to him an unforseen outcome is more interesting than one that was planned out but both outcomes are acceptable because at the end of the day something new was created and he was entertained.
Didnt he steal the white house? And in one of the clips shown he straight up shoots someone!
@@pooperdooper3576 if someones gonna mess with your creative vision, you do what you gotta do
Especially if it means stealing the white house, use that baby as a set and youre making literal history
There's two major reasons I like Happy Chaos's characterization in Strive.
First, he inverts a fairly common "insanity" progression. A lot of characters who go crazy retain maybe a few character quirks that keep them identifiable and refresh everything else. "I used to be a doctor who wanted to help everyone, now I'm crazy doctor bent on revenge / mass murder!" The Original and HC share the same core motivations: they want to better the world. Their goal hasn't changed. It's everything else that has. From grand mage to demon gunslinger; from major participant to shoe-in; from drama-halter to drama-lover. They want the same thing they used to want, but have a much more skewed outlook that twists the path from point A to point B.
Second, he embodies a pretty common trend among GG antagonists. The antagonists want to save the world. The protagonists want to save the people. I-No wants to give humanity god-like power to improve the world, even if that's billions of deaths later. The Universal Will's entire goal is to protect humanity, even if it's just a little broken in understanding "humanity." Even part of Justice's motivation is the treatment of Gears, and she'll improve the world for them, even if it means some of them die. HC is that "save the world over a couple of lives" idea distilled into a pure form. He'll steal the White House and kill by the dozens if it means the world gets to enjoy a brighter sun tomorrow. (Which is a good contrast to Sol, who's willing to get the planet metaphysically nuked if it means saving Aria 2.0.)
This might also be why Asuka can come across so morally gray. His philosophy isn't that different from HC and other antagonists: save the world, even if it means a few lives are lost. He destroyed Japan for exactly this reason. The difference is that, unlike HC and other antagonists, he understands that choice doesn't need to be made right now. Asuka wants to save the world when it needs saving. Happy Chaos wants to save the world right now.
IDK, just my two pennies.
Well I appreciate your two cents. Gives me a lot to think about with the character of happy chaos, his archetype as a character, the themes in Guilty gear, and the perspectives of the characters. Primarily the villian's but also the other characters as well. Thank you.
Happy Chaos seems like he mains Waluigi in Mario Kart Wii.
Wa!
Nah, he definitely uses the Funky Kong Flame Runner combo.
He does, I-No mains Peach, and Asuka R. ✝️ uses Funky Kong
Nuh-uh, Toad.
i do....i also main chaos...youre onto something
Happy chaos. The literal meme lord.
Gras grows, birds fly, the chicken and egg become the omelette
monsoon
@@dadeusz3083 Exquisite
So saying that he reminds me of Nagito ain't that wrong huh?
Literally the physical embodiment of ADHD
damn.. so he is the literal embodiment of "chaos being happy"
I guess you could say...
A Happy Chaos
The best part is that I'm pretty sure he just stole that name from a gear. The ACTUAL Happy Chaos was a gear designed to do what Jack-O tries to do at the end of the story. Fuse with I-No as a failsafe option. It was a gear that was designed for I-No specifically.
So The Original probably saw he was helping I-No and thought "Wouldn't it be funny if I used that name, and gave myself a halo like the Jack-O units have? That'll totally confuse someone"
@@icetide9411
That sounds like something he would do.😂
@@icetide9411 Technically the original Happy Chaos (the original Happy Chaos => not the Happy Chaos who is The Original...) is a Valentine and not a gear. They are different for REASONS. And interestingly, I-No is neither a Valentine OR a gear, and is just her own thing. This is all because Daisuke writes very straightforward and not at all confusing plots.
🤯
I'm a simple person
I see Happy Chaos
I click
Yes
im a simple person
i see rad chad
i click
😊Yes!
8:37 Since I always associate this scene with the flashback in Xrd Sign where Frederick (Sol) says that he'd use his last moments alive to save the world then Aria (Jack-O) brings up the idea of spending your last moments with someone you love, I think the way Sol opposes Happy Chaos is more strongly seen when he tells I-No he built the Junkyard Dog to be so powerful because it never bored him.
Happy Chaos spent so much time in the story discussing purpose.
Vernon talked how football would save the world.
Jack-O struggled with how something imperfect could be better.
I-No would not stop until she had saved everyone in the world, even if she had to delete the universe infinitely many times to do it.
But Sol? He didn't need a higher purpose or reason, he just did what he liked. To use Happy Chaos's metaphor, there is no omelete for Sol, the egg and the chicken just exist and people are less bored because of it. You could say that avoiding boredom then becomes the reason, but Sol immediately adds on his excellent line about the sentence that changes your life and gives you purpose being stuck in some random book you'll probably never get to reading, even if you try reading through the whole library.
Happy Chaos posits it is purpose that causes existence, and thus is the end all be all. "I don't have anything that's really important to me. That's why everything is beautiful." Sol argues back that purpose is overrated and all that matters is living a good life you enjoy. "Listen to your heart, not the voice in your head."
bump
“She lacks toes, and is intolerant.” is my new favorite line.
Rad Chad has switched stances. Now instead of being some people's dad all the time, he's everyone's dad but only every so often.
That's about it...
No, but you see this time it isn’t “some of you”.
Its all of us
@@ChalkMuncherthat's what I said, "everyone's dad". But to quote the video, he is now only our dad on every other weekend.
I think his speech on history books really emphasizes his philosophy. He wants drama, but he knows drama is meaningless to people unless they themselves experience it. You can read about the amazing ways things concluded in the past, but you'll never actually be in that moment. He knows everything, but that's just knowledge. He wants to experience it, and he wants everyone else to as well, and he doesn't care how it happens, including if he has to do it himself.
Happy Chaos is Daisuke's self insert, putting creatures in situations to make fun stories
Well considering happy chaos is responsible for a bunch of stuff happening in the lore, creating situations and all, you could say he is the scenarist of his own world
It's also worth pointing out that the song "Six Black Heaven's Guns", released in 2013 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Arc System Works, seems to be about Happy Chaos as well - between the title being an exact description of his weapons of choice, to the reoccurring line "World of Fiction" representing his philosophy. With this in mind, I'm sure the song can give us a look at another side of the blue goober... But I'm not going to be the one to figure it out.
Goldlewis actually kinda agrees with Happy Chaos's perspective at the end of the story when he mentions how he feels looking up at that blue sky
I wonder. Would happy chaos play dnd? The whole concept is that the big ominous force behind the screen is completely omniscient, and while they keep throwing curve balls at the band of protagonists as antagonists, disasters and mishaps, it wants them to succeed and save the day.
He would absolutely play D&D but he would forget every single rule the moment the session started and just make them up on the fly. By the end all the players would stop using their dice and instead be actually punching each other. Regardless, all of them would agree that he is a great DM and they'll be back for the next session.
He would fit more perfectly in the Classic World of Darkness setting. (Vampire the Masquerade, Mage the Ascension, and Werewolf the Apocalypse in particular)
The cosmology of it is really cool, highly recommend it. HC’s views are the type of paradigm that a Mage chronicle’s antagonist would have. There’s a faction of mages in that setting called Marauders, and they are right up his alley.
If he was not all-powerful, yes. But d&d is nothing compared to doing it for real, so, no.
I cant believe you didnt mention that the only reason he uses a gun is to handicap himself because hes so good at using magic that he got bored of it
Happy chaos is a definitive trickster, far from being benevolent, often violent, selfish and destructive, but having the ability to equalize the forces in a story, and create turmoil for the other players. He reminds me a lot of gods from myth like anansi or loki, who, with or without motive, would stir things up between others setting events in motion or even resulting in some pretty violent results.
Hes even depicyed with a rabbit motif with the masks he builds, the rabbit being a classic trickster.
You know, the Sin and Happy Chaos comparison makes me actually hope that the next game will have Happy Chaos just vibing with Sin, taking delight in him going with the flow and perhaps even helping him help others every now and again. Also fulfilling his prophecy that maybe next time, he'll be on the good side too.
In a world where seemingly every Strive UA-camr switched to making SF6 content, I deeply appreciate you still making Guilty Gear videos!
This is probably a bit shallow, but I really dislike the SF6 artstyle. The characters look ok at best and horrible at worst, crashes right into the uncanny valley. Feels like they leaned a bit too heavily into realism.
happy chaos is my most favorite character of all time, he even inspired me to start writing a story with a main character similar to him.
...Is the MC Irish.
@@Berd-Wasted. worse, italian
Same
@@ilovebugs1027Let me guess he's a type of a guy who would break a pack of spaghetti noodles just to fit in the pot?
@@sisanity3614 hes the type of fella to say hes gonna do something silly and then get into a fight
This actually explains many lyrics in his them, “carried by the waves” he just goes with the flow another example being “I don’t have anything that’s really important to me that’s why everything is so beautiful” is a reference to his ideology of not caring for individuals but looking at things as a whole
"Was all this just to show off your powers?!"
_"yah"_
The original and happy chaos are the definition of smart fella vs fart smella
Happy Chaos is goated because he's all-powerful and all-knowing but isn't a mopey nihilist
He's a nihilist but not mopey
@@Equinox_5 I'd say more of an absurdist
Optimistic nihilism
My favorite part about, Chaos is that due to the very nature of the kind of character he is anything you headcanon about him is technically true. He could be an completely different character in the next game and it'd be entirely in character for him. And if you ask me that's just extremely fascinating.
Happy chaos the type of dude to steal one shoe from someone’s house
“Hes going to destroy the earth!… for the funny!“
hi i havent waatched the video yet but the reason happy chaos is brilliant is because he doesnt wear shoes hope this helps
It helps, but I think there were no doubts regarding the issue
He definitely knows he's in a video game
I get their logic. Mainly the part where he says that chaos and difficulties bring change and innovation. Giving the Status Quo a good shake, and see how it rearranges itself.
It is very exciting to see how the next version of something turns out.
Yup some of humanity’s greatest inventions came from war
Fun fact: Drift's lyrics incapsulate all these ideals and confusions so well, and some parts really resonate with me, so last week I asked a local tattoo artist to translate it's chorus into one, together with the "I don't have anything that's really important to me, that's why everything is beautiful". It was my first tattoo and I REALLY liked the result.
When you've finished a book, sometimes you think theres a better ending you could be writing.
"Only through conflict do we evolve" head ass
"Chivalry is dead"
-Them
bro that summary at the end! you are so good at tying things together. I knew he was more nuanced than just: joker but less sociopathic. im still thinking on the cinclusion rn. u are so amazingness. please break down other nuanced characters!!
Man you just perfectly summarized why I love Happy Chaos so much man, his whole views, ideology, perspective on everything like he is truly unlike any other fighting game character and I love every bit of it. By doing random Happy Chaos shit on my channel he actually helped me be comfortable with using my voice not just in videos but using it in general. Ever since I looked at Happy Chaos I was like "Damn he just like me fr fr!" and now when someone asks me why I love him so much I can just direct them to this video
3:58
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as a major guilty gear lore nerd, how am i only now just realizing that asuka was one of the disciples
i might be stupid
Happy Chaos’ voice sounded REEEEAAALLLY familiar. At first I thought it was Nagito because well…you know. But turns out it’s the same guy who voices Goro Akechi.
And for a reason I can’t explain that just makes perfect sense.
The best way to summarise Happy Chaos's ideology is that most of the events that make Guilty Gear an interesting setting that we enjoy... come from him. He's the authour, which is why one of his supers is literally a Deus Ex Machina.
I just adore how Robbie Daymond voices HC.
Bruh I love how in "best buds" Eddie's just chilling there no nickname. Just Eddie
"What would you do if you became all powerful"
...I'd probably fuck around till I got bored
Thank you for consistently putting out bangers, I'm obsessed with guilty gear right now and and really lapping up everything you're putting out
Negative Happy Chaos be like: Sad Order
7:21 just plain old driving would be too bland, and drinking is too much, but when you mix them together...
Happy Chaos is basically "light hearted" or more cheery version of Outsider from Dishonored- he does things just to keep the life he observes from the sidelineintresting,
Motto bein "I gonna make the life interesting with my ADHD and that GUN I stole"
And on the perspective story- it's basically if a character in a book asked you why you wrote it, and every explanation you can give will be interpreted as "FUCK YOU" because explaining that you are medling with their life on such a fundamental level just to make things "fulfilling" in the end won't exactly go well (the whole "Do I even have a free will because of you?" debacle)
(honestly, this is also what happens if you have imaginary world or work on an artwork and put in a self insert in a background- in phylosophical way the characters of that world would see your self insert like Happy Chaos is seen)
I love how chaos uses his godlike powers to fuck around
I respect and relate to chaos so much
Thank you for the epic video every other weekend father. You’ve taught me alot about the blue boi and that’s pretty cool
I think its worth noting that other characters voiced some apprehension towards the ease of living in current setting of Guilty Gear. That life being easy and peaceful as it is might breed complacency amongst though born after the crusades. And that that complacency might give to a repeat of the crusades or worse. Stirring up shit just might just be Happy Chaos' answer to those apprehensions
10:00 thanks for finally breaking down his philosophy. I could tell that he was the best and the highlight of the show also where can I find the full image
I love HC so much, his design and philosophy is just cool as hell
11:59 happy chaos jumpscare
Great. Now I'm wondering howe insane it would be to listen to a conversation between Happy Chaos and the Master of Masters, from Kingdom Hearts.
I'd probably black out 2 minutes in, reacting a higher plain on consciousness, only to wake up 3 days later, in my birthday suit, and eating colored chalk.
happy chaos when sad order walks in
Midway through that last speech i started waiting for the nagito comparison
“Most hanoius acts” i remind you that bed man killed rams dog
The chicken and the egg are a nod to Aristotle's philosophy.
He has 4 "things" that makeup everything in existence. The material cause - what the object is made from, The Formal cause - The shape and the idea of a shape of an object, The efficient or moving cause - What put the particular object into motion/existence, The final cause or the purpose - The point of the object.
All 4 of these are needed for something to exist and all are in a way present in any particular object - they can't go without each other.
Happy chaos over here is proclaiming that the purpose is what comes before everything else and is what forms the object. This is also seen in his behavior - He starts drama and gives characters purpose. Ino started the plot aka The moving cause; and since they are 2 halves they example 2 sides of the unmoved mover - God. One starts the existence of the story and the other gives it purpose.
I have a hunch that he also goes meta here since he knows everything. He knows he's in a game or at least in some form of fiction, he provides the interesting antagonist part and by doing so enables the game to come into existence. If he wasn't there there would be no plot and no game; from his perspective, he wouldn't exist, and neither would all the other characters; and since Ino is only the driving part, he's the only one that can do it.
I can't belive that in the last 15 seconds of this video you showed me the **real** reason why he is one of my favorite characters of all time
As a man who has never played a guilt gear game, never heard of them once in my life and has not been a big playing fighting game. Until recently (and thanks to Pootis engaged) I have never been more interested in a game franchise as batsh@t crazy as this one. And thanks to the soundtracks that I have found in this game, I will wait for the day I play the game to call myself a true fan. Thank you for enlightening me into this wacky universe.
The connection between HC and sin is deeper than ideology, in XrdRev2 sin drinks tea and dislikes it due to it being bitter and likes sugar water better, and happy chaos drinks coffee in strive’s story and say he dislikes it due to it being bitter and say he likes milpico better aka literally sugar water.
He made his omelet, humanity overcame adversity and got stronger for it.
Always a good day when Rad Chad the mad lad and to some of us our dad uploads
I now understand why hackers do what they do. Put things in dark souls pvp that corrupt your save file; make a 2-headed skeleton in red dead redemption online... They are insane. :)
Insane, or simply want you to enjoy the full extent of the Dark Souls entertainment? Just go with the flow... *sips coffee*
I know nothing about this character or game but safe to say im now obsessed with happy chaos
I mean, if I had knowledge of everything in existence I too would try to make some new knowledge. I'm sure these clashes of human desire that he creates is like scrolling through shows and finding the right one.
Bruh it's midnight for me
I'll watch this masterpiece when I wake up
6:05
Souledge spotted and Soulcalibur mentioned, am happy
YOU'RE MAKING A PLUSHIE OF THAT BOI HAND IT OVERRRRR
Happy Chaos is if God was the living embodiment of chaotic neutral, and his only thought was “fuck it we ball”
Oh and he has a gun
That is one of the coolest thumbnails I have ever seen
“Then he stole the White House, and flew it away”
Ah yes, most normal Happy Chaos thing.
I-no: "Hey wanna help me become god" HC: "Sure lmao"
I feel like what made him insane in the backyard is that he found out he is a video game character, at least thats just a theory of mine
Happy Chaos is an internet troll that throws in a polarizing opinion, not because he think it's right or because he wants to bring up the question for the sake or finding out the truth or even because he wants to see anyone to suffer from this discussion, but just because he finds reading the burning thread of comments it created really entertaining.
If I could describe HC in two words, then I think I would use "Absurd Beauty"
Happy Chaos: The Protagonist and The Antagonist
I love how you use Omniman as an example for good and Ainz as an example for Evil in the opening monolog.
ive never played guilty gear but a friend showed me a pic of him and sent me his theme and here i am. absolute favourite.
Your friend sounds like a really based dude 😎
@@miskarletFGC i was literally talking to him about this video right now are you a prophet or something,,, woa. but yeah hes very based!
@@kirkkek Yes, I see that you shall pull Sunday early in the future
@@miskarletFGC now im just really confused. who lied to me. who was it.
@@kirkkek I forgot
some days I'm Sin, some days I'm Happy Chaos. Either way I'm stupid
This whole video lives rent free in my head before you even started recording it.
the brilliance of happy chaos "he goober"
Happy chaos
"What came first, the chicken or the egg?"
... "omelette"
shoutout to that one steam review that was simping hard for HC, that guy knows what theyre doin
if they didn't want people simping for hc maybe they shouldn't have made him a baddie
Couple points to add, there is a quote by lovecraft that says: 'We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.' So when he says he will be a black sea he says the oposite, he will continue to voyage and be lost in the maddnes. I think he is a good representation to what happens when you satisfy the need for thruth of an obsesive person. The only thing that remains when logic is satieted are pure desires. He kinda is the ultimate expresion of an Absurdist. The world doesnt have meaning so i will defy it by enyoying the ride. That also in his theme:"The truth is not always real" "I don't want any conclusions". He doesnt care and just WANTS thats why he is insane to us. Insane enough to fight with pistols when he is a mage, and more insane when the ones he uses is the china rippoff and even more to not care about his death but the fact that he wants to see more. At the end thats his theme, there is no thruth, no morals. Just conflict and the pleasure of overcoming it. DRAMA
7:33 that single soundbite automatically made me like the video. well done
2:30 kept ya waiting, huh? 🐍
This is a great video, it made me understand a character I liked, had great editing, and I learned that Radchad is a Danganronpa Enjoyer!
"I forgot about it in 2 seconds"
Yep, thats a relatable character
I enjoyed the video and I agree with your statements about him.
That is what made him likeable too, that he is whacky troll character that simply wants real fiction and will cause it to happen but not necessarily end it in a bad way.
happy chaos does a quantum amount of trolling
6:05
Sure , Suddenly happy chaos pull out a mimicry
Can we like...give the hugest props to robbie daymonds vocal performance? I wouldnt like happy chaos nearly as much without that smug silly aura he brings
We absolutely need more Danganronpa references/music
Happy chaos is like lorgar not too corrupt but rather too pure like odin after gazing and drinking from Mimir's well
Glad to see you back Rad Chad the mad lad and on the weekends my dad