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I may be a weapon... but I don't want to hurt anybody!
― Dizzy[src]

Dizzy is one of the main characters of the Guilty Gear series. A modest and peaceable command-type half-Gear, Dizzy is the daughter of Justice, who once waged war on all of humanity, but grew up unaware of her origins. The names of Dizzy's shapeshifting wings, who serve as her guardians in battle, are Necro and Undine.

Design[]

Most notable in Dizzy are her differently-colored wings and her black, salamander-like tail. Her right wing is dark green, whereas her left is often depicted as white; these are her guardians and can take a humanoid form to varying degrees, which at their most definite shape resemble a grim reaper (Necro) and a water spirit (Undine), respectively. Dizzy's eyes are red, and her dark blue hair is very long, reaching down to her knees. She is fond of yellow ribbons, as she has two on her ponytails and one on her tail. Also seen with a single ponytail in Vastedge, she changes it into a single, large braid in Strive with yellow and white flowers weaved into it.

Her usual outfit—the one she wears in combat—is a tight, provocative black suit, with two belts crossed over to cover her chest area and leave her midriff exposed, and with white puffy sleeves. She also wears black chocker and long socks with crossed straps at the thighs. In Revelator, a buttoned shirt-like panel is added for a more conservative look, and feather-like plates replace the puffy sleeves.

Out of battle, in Guilty Gear X, she wears a black ankle-length dress with a low laced off-shoulder white neckline and fitter sleeves. In Guilty Gear XX, this is changed for a Jellyfish uniform that consists of a short sailor top, denim shorts, black glovelettes, and an orange bandanna tied around her hair. She wears the same white and blue boots in all three outfits. In Xrd and Strive cutscenes, Dizzy is also seen in dresses with wide skirts, both in black and in white.

In Strive, as Queen Dizzy (クイーン・ディズィー, Kuīn Dizī?), she receives a drastic redesign. Besides the aforementioned hairstyle change, her outfit now of consists of a long, black dress with a high slit. It is covered by a high-collared white top with kimono sleeves and a black ribbon in the collarbone area, and is belted at the waist with a white sash adorned with two black flowers. The dress slit reveals white pants underneath along with black ballet flats. Her arms are fully covered by black fingerless gloves.

Personality[]

As a half-Gear, despite her chronological age, Dizzy has matured at a rapid rate. Given her kind's superior ability to absorb and process information, by the age of three, she is essentially equivalent to an adult human,[7] her mental age exceeding that of a 20-year-old.[8]

Gentle[5] and kind towards those she encounters, Dizzy has a motherly demeanor[14] coupled with an honest heart and a pure mind.[7] She loves nature and strongly opposes all conflict.[7] Her immense power and her lack of control over her guardians—Necro being a personification of her violent instinct,[15] while Undine seemingly represents her sense of self-preservation[16]—only causes her grief, as she sees it as a curse, fearing to hurt others.[17][18] Yet, while she resists violence when she can, Dizzy isn't necessarily a pacifist, as she understands that destruction is simply a part of the cycle of life.[7]

Due to her persecution by humans, Dizzy initially distrusts them[7] and isolates herself, but this only causes her more sadness, as she longs for human contact. Before she met Testament, Dizzy's solitude was such that her only wish (if she had one) would be to have a friend, someone who would accept her even as she was.[17] However, her meeting several "nice" humans has led to change her mind.[7]

Story[]

Background[]

Details regarding Dizzy's birth are unclear, only that her mother is Justice[10][note 1] and that she was born in 2177[note 2] while Justice was sealed within her dimensional prison.[20] As an infant, Dizzy looked like any other child[21] and was found by an elderly, childless couple, who decided to raise her.[17] She spent six months with them, but the other villagers became afraid due to Dizzy's accelerated growth, and even more so after she grew wings and a tail.[19] As it became clear she was at least part Gear,[7] the village believed her to be a "monster" and tried to dispose of her.[17]

To protect her, the couple hid Dizzy away in the Forest of Demons.[7] At first they would visit her, but they gradually grew distant and never came back, and Dizzy got used to living alone. One day, she befriended Josephine, a blind girl who thought Dizzy to be an angel. Dizzy let her visit all she wanted, but told her not to bring strangers.[22]

Sometime in 2181,[23] Josephine led "Kliff" into the woods as they ran away from Venom, who wanted to kidnap Josephine so as to lure Faust out. After Josephine got hurt,[14] Dizzy and Kliff took her to Faust's clinic, and Kliff revealed to Dizzy their real name, Testament, and that they, too, were a Gear. Faust successfully treated Josephine and finally cured her blindness, but she noticed Dizzy's tail and the color of her wings. Aware of Dizzy's return, the villagers burned Faust's clinic in an attempt to kill her, and Necro and Undine retaliated despite Dizzy's pleas. Testament thus vowed to protect Dizzy and subdued her. No one was seriously hurt, but Josephine slapped Dizzy, calling her a demon, and then told her to return to the forest. Saddened, Dizzy left accompanied by Testament before she could see Josephine's change of heart thanks to Faust's words.[17]

Guilty Gear X[]

Around October,[note 3] the world learns of her existence,[24] and the government[25] makes several unsuccessful attempts to eliminate her.[23] Ky Kiske is dispatched to investigate those responsible for the announcement.[24] Questioning his notion of justice after the last tournament,[23] Ky enters the forest and finds Dizzy;[24] Dizzy asks him if being prepared to protect someone means being prepared to hurt another. Ky answers that pain is intrinsic to a human world, and so he questions the value of power. Dizzy laments not having a strong heart like his, and Ky decides to fight her, showing her that there are humans who can handle her power.[18][note 4]

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Illustration in Jellyfish uniform.

Dizzy defeats him with her overwhelming strength,[24] but a mob approaches and Ky lets her go.[18] As a result of his defeat[24] and due to anti-Gear sentiment at an all-time high, a W$ 500,000 bounty is issued for Dizzy's death.[23] Testament fights off most of the bounty hunters, and if any managed to overcome them, hunters are beaten back by Dizzy herself. Constantly harassed, she wishes to leave the grove.[19]

Before Potemkin makes contact, Dizzy is finally defeated by Sol Badguy, but for some reason he leaves the forest without finishing her off.[25] Immediately after, Dizzy is found by Johnny, who takes her under his wing[7] and welcomes her into his crew, the Jellyfish Pirates, which Zepp tacitly acknowledges.[25] While Testament remains at the forest, Dizzy finds a home aboard the May Ship,[7] where her main role is to run errands and cook meals.[25] Unbeknownst to Dizzy, Jam Kuradoberi claims credit for "destroying" her;[26] the bounty thus passes,[3] but the news spread slowly, leading some bounty hunters to still pursue Dizzy in the following weeks.[9]

Guilty Gear XX[]

Weeks later,[9] Dizzy is aboard the May Ship when she is suddenly knocked off the deck by I-No. She falls and the impact leaves her unconscious, with Necro possessing her and going on a rampage until she is "cured" by Faust.[6] In one path, Eddie tries to steal her body due to I-No, but That Man punishes I-No and lets Dizzy rejoin her crew.[2] In another path, Dizzy defeats I-No only to lose consciousness as her guardians take over, but Sol intervenes and calms them down. When Dizzy wakes up, she sheds tears over a "nostalgic" dream, which April suggests may be about her parents before they reunite with the rest of the crew.[27] In her third path, she fights Bridget, clears the misunderstanding regarding her bounty, and then asks her for directions.[3]

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Illustration with Ky.

Sometime later, Johnny takes Dizzy (plagued by two questions: "who was she? why was she was born?") to see Testament. Resonating with a replica of her mother created by Crow of the P.W.A.B., Dizzy loses control over Necro and Undine.[28] In one path, she regains control over them with Ky's intervention. Due to his kindness, Dizzy asks Ky to help her learn more about herself and to fit in. Seeing her determination, Testament lets Dizzy go, but tells her not to come back as they don't trust Ky and cannot forgive humanity, but Dizzy believes that one day they will be able to.[29] In her other path, Dizzy regains control thanks to Sol, but she is later captured by Crow with A.B.A's help, and Crow creates clones of her.[30]

Material Collection[]

Parting amicably with the Jellyfish crew, Dizzy went to live with Ky. While Ky worked as a director of the International Police Force, Dizzy protected their home and did the house chores. Spending their days as such, they fell in love. Because of her concealed identity and a lack of official records, they were unable to marry officially, but nevertheless Ky proposed to Dizzy and they pledged their love for each other. After a year or so living together, Dizzy fell pregnant; the couple consulted with a doctor—implied to be Faust—and rejoiced, although due to her Gear blood, her pregnancy lasted much less than a human's and resulted in an egg.[31]

On May 31,[32] 2182, their son Sin was born.[31] While Ky loved Dizzy and Sin, Sin resented him; Dizzy explained that he was busy protecting the people's families, and that Ky was irreplaceable family, but it did little to improve relations.[33] When Sin was six months old (physiologically four), Ky's inner turmoil—being unable to provide Dizzy and Sin a world where they could live openly—came to a breaking point when he was suddenly told by the Conclave to participate in the upcoming elections under threats to Dizzy's life.[31] Close to New Year's Eve, Dizzy called Sol and asked him to help Ky. After a bout between the two, in order to protect their son, Dizzy and Ky entrusted Sin to Sol's care.[34]

Guilty Gear 2[]

Kokage no Kimi

Frozen in time.

After Ky is elected as First King of Illyria, Gears mysteriously undergo sublimation[35] throughout 2185,[36] and so does Dizzy sometime in 2186.[24] To keep her from completely vanishing, Ky converts the Thunderseal to settle her in a frozen state. In his desperation, he "rushes" her sealing and is unable to release her afterwards.[13]

After an attack to the capital by the Vizuel, Ky shows Dizzy's state to Sol, Dr. Paradigm, and Izuna. Paradigm says she can be unsealed but that Valentine must be defeated first, only to realize that Dizzy's cells (as Justice's daughter) are the "key" to enter That Man's Cube. Paradigm says that Dizzy should be destroyed, but Ky vehemently refuses, declaring his love for her and shocking Paradigm. Valentine's forces stop coming after Dizzy due to Sin having the "key" as well.[13] After they put an end to the incident, Dr. Paradigm studies Dizzy's seal to make sure she is not danger of sublimation should she be released.[37]

Guilty Gear Xrd[]

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Ray overload.

In 2187, with Dizzy's safety confirmed, Paradigm releases her from the Thunderseal's hold just in time for a new battle in Illyria on November 4: they must stop the Conclave from resurrecting Justice. Dizzy is finally reunited with Ky and, after two years, with Sin once they return from Zepp. She is happy to hear Sin call Ky "Dad" for the first time.[38] The reunion is cut short, as Dizzy must use her powers to overload Justice's system as St. Elmo's Fire strikes and Sol removes Chronus from the inside.[39] After the battle, Ky carries Dizzy after she passes out; unfortunately, both Elphelt Valentine and Justice are abducted by Elphelt's "Mother".[40]

The next day, on November 5, Dizzy visits a distraught Ky, who is busy inspecting the self-repairing Thunderseal. They reminisce about the day they first met, when they discussed how feasible was the idea to protect someone without hurting another. The two then spar with each other, and Dizzy wins. When Ky notes an improvement in her skills, Dizzy states that is simply because she now has a 'chair' in her heart, so that Ky can come home anytime he wants.[18]

On November 20, Dizzy participates in the battle to repel the invasion to Illyria, taking down antimatter Gears with her Gamma Ray alongisde many allies, helping Potemkin out.[41] Meanwhile, Ky, Sin and Sol must fight Ariels and rescue Elphelt while Jack-O' Valentine takes her place and merges with Justice,[42] restoring Aria Hale.

In the aftermath, Dizzy and Ky welcome Sin, Elphelt and Ramlethal into their state. They discuss how long they can stay as Ky wants to make their marriage public; Elphelt then reads a newspaper article that shows that people are praising Dizzy's involvement in the battle, even stating that she would be a perfect queen for Ky. Dizzy is moved to tears that people wrote such supportive things, despite knowledge of her Gear blood. When they settle of the matter of their complicated family tree, Dizzy decides on calling Sol "Father" from then on, much to Ky's dismay. At that moment, Sol shows up at the estate, but Ky asks Dizzy to let him talk with Sol privately first.[11]

Guilty Gear -Strive-[]

Three weeks later,[43] after the G4 Summit crisis is resolved, Dizzy and her family enjoy a moment of peace. She and Ky also introduce Testament to their son, Sin, as well as Ramlethal and Elphelt.[44]

Abilities[]

As the daughter of Justice,[10] Dizzy is well-known to have great powers[13] that have given her many advantages in battle, replacing experience with overwhelming strength.[24] Her strength may be equal or even greater than her mother's (as Dizzy was able to replace her as Gear commander in an alternate timeline[10]), but her benevolent personality prevents her from reaching her full potential. While she initially lacked control over her powers,[17] Dizzy has gradually grown in combat experience and now exerts improved mastery over them.[18]

In addition to the usual abilities of a Gear (superhuman strength, prolonged lifespan, fast healing, etc.), Dizzy has inherited from her mother the ability to command all other Gears[6][10] and Yokai.[45] Her Gear cells resemble her mother's,[13] having a high level of "purity"[46] as part of the "blood of Juno" lineage.[44] Dizzy is also able to use Gamma Ray, a powerful attack in which she fires a massive beam of gamma radiation, but her version is no match for Justice's, perhaps because of her personality.[47] She is highly durable, once surviving a fall of 20,000 feet from the May Ship without lasting injury.[48]

Dizzy possesses shapeshifting abilities, and it is said that her form can change into anything:[5] from swapping outfits at will, to transforming her sleeves or her tail into monstruous mouths, extending her nails into claws, and transforming into a winged demon. Additionally, and most uniquely as a half-Gear, her Gear instincts have manifested in her wings and act as a sort of autonomous defense mechanism.[21] Necro and Undine are able to act separately from Dizzy herself;[5] however, they generally only attack if Dizzy is in danger.[15] Should Dizzy be knocked unconscious, they may take over her body to fight in her stead.[6] They seem to specialize in one attribute of magic each: Fire for Necro's attacks, and Water (in the form of ice) for Undine's.

Gameplay-wise, Dizzy favors ranged fighting. Having a fairly good defense, she can put pressure on opponents from afar, but also at close range. Her moveset revolves around her projectiles; she can juggle an opponent breaking their defenses with her ranged attacks, then rushing down with her normal moves which deal a large amount of damage. However, her Overdrive Attacks are hard to pull off, and her Gamma Ray consumes the entire Tension bar.

In the console ports of the Guilty Gear XX series, Dizzy can become a boss character in Story Mode, Survival, and Millionaire of Medals, which boosts her speed, gives her regeneration, and increases her difficulty curve when fought against. Like I-No, Dizzy gains the attack Wings of Light, a boss-only attack like Megalomania that is entirely based upon defense and behaves upon the player's actions, and always unleashes unavoidable attacks with extremely high damage. It is suggested that her boss mode is Dizzy fighting when she consciously needs to, and in the face of extremely powerful and persistent threats or is highly motivated.

Music[]

Quotes[]

Allusions[]

  • The name Dizzy most likely comes from Guns N' Roses keyboardist, Darren "Dizzy" Reed. Another possible, but improbable, source may be the Danish band Dizzy Mizz Lizzy.
  • Her Gamma Ray attack shares its name with a German power metal band.
  • Her backstory of being found as an infant and raised by an elderly couple might be inspired by The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, which tells of Kaguya, a princess from the moon who is discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant by an elderly childless couple.
  • The English manual of Guilty Gear XX gives proper name to her attacks. Two of them seem to be related to bands: Skull Crusher may be a reference to Overkill's song "Skullkrusher", while Hunger Strike is a song by Temple of the Dog.
  • Her boss-only "Instant Kill" or "Megalomania" Overdrive, Wings of Light, and its imagery may draw upon the song "One Thousand Points of Light" from the February 2002 Holy War album of the Swedish symphonic power metal band, Dragonland.
  • Her origins as the innocent daughter of the infamous Justice, being secluded in the Devil's Grove and exiled from human society, her friendship with Testament, joining the Jellyfish Pirates, and even her accompaniment of Necro and Undine, is evocative of actress Winona Ryder, who got her start to fame with the Tim Burton movies Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands, and the Cher movie Mermaids, and in her private life, was bullied often in school, only furthering her experiences with relating with "social outcast" characters, becoming something of a goth, rock, and underdog icon around the 1990s, along with ex-boyfriend Johnny Depp. Of some note, Winona also was known to have dyed her hair blue and purple when she was younger.
  • Becoming married to Ky Kiske and becoming queen is not so farfetched; American women are known to be chosen and married into European royalty into the modern day.
  • Her and Ky's romantic relationship is evocative of the French fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, and to the 1991 Disney animated movie iteration. In this case, Dizzy is "the beast", being a feared Gear, though her love of reading and learning and gentle nature is evocative of Belle, "the beauty".

Trivia[]

  • When designing Dizzy, as he deemed that simple wings were not impactful enough, Ishiwatari added a grim reaper and goddess to her sides. He also wanted her to have an intimidating presence no matter what she did, and to follow the silhouette of the last boss from the previous game (Justice) to some extent.[49]
  • Dizzy shares her birthday with Axl Low and Elphelt Valentine, who also have allusions to Guns N' Roses.
  • Dizzy is the only characters not to name her attacks. Most simply denote their purpose back when she lived in the Grove, like "This is used for fishing", or normal phrases like "So painful!". The only named moves in her arsenal are her Overdrives Attacks, most them variants of Justice's moves (which hinted at their connection before the reveal in Guilty Gear XX Drama CD Black).
  • The story of Guilty Gear X, subtitled By Your Side and centered around Dizzy's plea, is evocative of Aerosmith's 2001 single "Fly Away From Here".
  • In Overture, Dizzy is called the "Maiden of the Grove". In-universe, it is a codename Ky and Sol used to hide her name while deep in Illyria.[50] In real life, it was used to avoid copyright issues due to Sega owning the rights to all characters from Guilty Gear X and XX.[51]
  • From Guilty Gear X to Λ Core, Dizzy is the only character without an Instant Kill, though her Gamma Ray was equivalent to one.
  • On the cover and manual of Guilty Gear Dust Strikers, Dizzy's outfit is slightly altered so that her chest is completely covered by the belt straps. The two silver buttons on the belt straps have also been removed. In-game, her sprite, portrait, and outfit retain their original look.
  • Dizzy's shirt panel in Revelator is destroyed until the end of the match if she performs Gamma Ray while low on health as a nod to her original costume.
  • Costumes based on Dizzy's Xrd look appear in Dead or Alive 5 Last Round, Soccer Spirits, and Soulworker.
  • Dizzy has made guest appearances in the following games: Queen's Gate: Spiral of Chaos, Brave Frontier, Chain Chronicle 3, Mabinogi Duel, #COMPASS, Last Period, Crusaders Quest, Star Ocean: Anamnesis, Epic Seven, Elemental Story, Code Shifter, The King of Fighters '98 Ultimate Match Online, and The King of Fighters All Star.

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References[]

Notes[]

  1. Having inherited the genes of Sol and Aria,[12] Dizzy is strongly implied to have been conceived sometime before Aria underwent cryogenic suspension in 2016, and Gear conversion in 2073.
  2. Her Guilty Gear X profile states that she is three years old.[19] As the game takes place around October 2181, her birth year can be deduced.
  3. Endings in X Plus and May's X profile involve Johnny's birthday, which falls on October 24.
  4. The Burst Encyclopedia says that Ky "challenged Dizzy before Sol and was defeated by her".[25] It is unclear if it refers to this fight or yet another during the events of Guilty Gear X.

Citations[]

  1. Guilty Gear X Plus script § "Anji"
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Guilty Gear XX script § "Dizzy Path 1"
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Guilty Gear XX script § "Dizzy Path 3"
  4. Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- script § "For Whom Do I Wield the Sword"
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Guilty Gear X Drafting Artworks, pg.212
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Guilty Gear XX script § "Dizzy"
  7. 7.00 7.01 7.02 7.03 7.04 7.05 7.06 7.07 7.08 7.09 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 7.15 7.16 [GGWorld - "Dizzy"]
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 ギルティギア イグゼクス アクセントコア【キャラクター】|ディズィー
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 Guilty Gear 10th Memorial Book, pg.8,10,103-106,113
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Guilty Gear XX Drama CD Black script § "Game Over"
  11. 11.0 11.1 Guilty Gear Xrd Rev 2 script § "After Story A"
  12. 12.0 12.1 [GGWorld2 - Correlation]
  13. 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 13.5 Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- script § "Glaring Self-Interest"
  14. 14.0 14.1 Guilty Gear X Drama CD Vol.2 script § "Dense Forest, Deep Wounds"
  15. 15.0 15.1 [GGWorld - "Necro"]
  16. [GGWorld - "Undine"]
  17. 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 Guilty Gear X Drama CD Vol.2 script § "Deep Wounds, Both Eyes"
  18. 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator- script § "Dizzy"
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 GuiltyGearX.com
  20. Guilty Gear manual, pg.2
  21. 21.0 21.1 Guilty Gear Codex, pg.22,58,62
  22. Guilty Gear X Drama CD Vol.2 script § "The Grave, the Girl, the Flowers"
  23. 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 Guilty Gear X manual, pg.4,25
  24. 24.0 24.1 24.2 24.3 24.4 24.5 24.6 Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- manual, pg.4
  25. 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 Guilty Gear XX -The Midnight Carnival- Burst Encyclopedia, pg.17,18,27,37,46-47
  26. [GGWorld - "Jam Kuradoberi"]
  27. Guilty Gear XX script § "Dizzy Path 2"
  28. Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus script § "Dizzy"
  29. Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus script § "Future path"
  30. Guilty Gear XX Λ Core Plus script § "Clone path"
  31. 31.0 31.1 31.2 Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- Material Collection, pg.93 story
  32. Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- manual, pg.50-51
  33. Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- script § "Light on a Peaceful Night"
  34. Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- Material Collection, pg.11 story
  35. Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- script § "The Unyielding Silhouette"
  36. [GGWorld - Timeline]
  37. Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- script § "Curtain Call"
  38. Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- script § "Hope B"
  39. Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- script § "Resolution A"
  40. Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign- script § "Resolution B"
  41. Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator- script § "Wall A"
  42. Guilty Gear Xrd -Revelator- script § "Fireworks"
  43. Guilty Gear -Strive- script § "Prologue"
  44. 44.0 44.1 Guilty Gear -Strive- script § "Strive"
  45. Guilty Gear 2 -Overture- script § "Yesterday's Sun Is Yesterday's Sky"
  46. [GGWorld - "Gear Cells"]
  47. [GGWorld - "Gamma Ray"]
  48. Guilty Gear XX script § "Johnny Path 1"
  49. Character Designer 1 (Sep. 2003), pg.42 - "石渡 太輔「ギルティギア」"
  50. [GGWorld - "Maiden of the Grove"]
  51. Dodging, Striking, Winning: The Arc System Works Interview


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