Bridget (Guilty Gear)

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Bridget
Official Guilty Gear XX Accent Core artwork for Bridget and Roger.
Game series	Guilty Gear series
First game	Guilty Gear XX
Creator(s)	Daisuke Ishiwatari
Voice actor(s)	Hiroko Konishi Akihiro Ishihara (Roger)
In-Universe Information
Birthplace	England
Blood type	O
Theme song	"A Simple Life" (GGXX) "Crash And Burn" (Korean XX #Reload)

Bridget (ブリジット, Burijitto^?) is a fictional character in the Guilty Gear fighting game series, first appearing in Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival.

1 Character design
- 1.1 Roger
2 Story
3 Music references

[edit] Character design

Despite the character's name, appearance, and female voice actor, Bridget is actually male. The reason for his feminine and, at times, androgynous appearance, is that he is the second of two twin boys born in a village where twins of the same gender are said to bring bad luck. To hide this fact, he was raised as a girl.

Bridget's primary weapon is a yo-yo, which he can launch to hit his opponents or perform other unpredictable abilities. His secondary weapon is a mechanical teddy bear named Roger.

Bridget's official profile lists his eye color as emerald green, although his eyes are blatantly blue in his profile picture and his in-game sprites and most other artwork all feature emerald green eyes.

[edit] Roger

Roger is a teddy-bear-like entity who appears sentient, springs out of Bridget's yo-yo, and adds extra attacks that form combinations or set-ups. For example, #Reload enhanced by "Roger Hug" becomes an especially useful move, as Roger gets launched to the exact spot of the enemy.

In terms of Roger's personal background, the teddy-bear appears to have an unknown origin, although it seems very important to Bridget considering that he carries it around at all times. Like his yo-yo, however, it is safe to assume that Bridget received it as a gift from his family.

[edit] Story

In the Guilty Gear XX, Bridget becomes a bounty hunter, not because he needs the money -- his father is referred to as a "multimillionaire" in his profile -- but because he wishes to prove he is not bad luck to his village and to his hopeful, loving family. During his search for bounties he is given a list of potential targets by a mysterious I-No, but it is later discovered, to Bridget's sorrow, to be entirely fallacious. One of the most notable upon the list, however, is the inclusion of Dizzy, whose bounty had apparently already been paid for by a victorious Jam Kuradoberi, who also needed the money for her recently destroyed restaurant due to a fire.

In Story Mode, Bridget has two paths, both of which consist of him cheerfully and mistakenly rounding up his targets. One ends with a battle against the bizarre and rather humorous Robo-Ky, followed by a fight against Ky Kiske, whom Bridget mistakes for another robot. After the fight, Ky explains the situation of the fallacious bounties placed on the innocent victims, which Bridget, filled with sadness and disappointment, tells the police officer of his high-hopes of finally proving his village and his family that he is not bad luck. Out of sympathy, however, Ky literally gives Bridget a huge sack of money which Bridget carries joyfully back to his village.

The other path can end two different ways, involving an encounter with May and then either Dizzy or Johnny depending upon the player's actions. In Dizzy's ending, Bridget, with Dizzy, joins the Jellyfish Pirates, though this is most likely non-canonical. In Johnny's ending, however, Johnny quickly judges Bridget as a girl and begins to hit on him. Bridget retorts and a fight ensues, and somewhere in the fight, Johnny collapses and realizes (though it is never mentioned how) that Bridget is a boy. In horrified embarrassment upon his stereotypical masculinity, he tells Bridget to never tell anyone about what he did to him. In confusion, Bridget simply assesses Johnny as "weird" and leaves.

In all three of his different endings, however, he discovers the fallacy of his bounties.

[edit] Music references

His special move "Kickstart My Heart" is named after the Mötley Crüe song of the same title, his "Shoot the Moon" attack is named after a Mr. Big song (as well as performing the same motion of the yo-yo trick with the same name), and his "Starship" attack is named after the band of the same name. Roger is named after Queen member Roger Taylor.