Guilty Gear/Characters/2 Overture

Here we're going to list the characters introduced in Guilty Gear 2: Overture.

The Captain Ersatz, Expy, "No Celebrities Were Harmed", Mythology Gags, Continuity Nods and Shout-Out references go here.

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Sin

Voiced by: Issei Miyazaki/Yuri Lowenthal

Sol's student and the illegitimate son of Ky Kiske and The Maiden of the Grove, a Gear woman who was recently confirmed to be Dizzy. He travels with Sol due to his Gear nature, which makes him an easy outcast. Sol is more of a father figure to him than anyone else, even his biological father Ky. Sin deeply resents and hates his father for not being there for him after he was crowned King of Illyria. Ky gave him very little, if any, attention, making their relationship very distant. All of the attention was given to him by his mother. Because of his very fast growth rate, he was placed in Sol's care for the discovery of his existence will endanger his life.

Since he was raised under Sol (and no thanks to his surprisingly young age), Sin is very hotheaded and charges into things without a second thought. This trait ends up getting him kidnapped and brainwashed by Valentine to serve her. The brainwashing fuels his desire to surpass his master, and increases his rage towards Ky. He is eventually beaten out of his condition by Sol, and continues to fight Valentine's Justice form. When Valentine attempts to self-destruct the gate to the Backyard, Sin is forced outside the gate by Sol. After the End, it's shown that he's now trying to mend the broken relationship with his father while awaiting for the recovery of his mother, deciding to take it slowly and continue to train under Sol.

• Adult Child: Justified.
• Back-to-Back Badasses: With Ky, opening mission 16.
• Badass:
  • Badass Army: Shares a human army with Ky.
  • Badass Family: Ky is his father, and Dizzy is his mother (which makes Justice his Grandmother (and by extension Valentine, maybe). If Sol is really Dizzy's dad, then that makes him his grandfather. He's essentially all the main characters rolled into one.
  • Badass Longcoat
• Bastard Bastard: He's illegitimate, yes, but he's not that of a bastard. Also, nobody in the kingdom knows that he actually existed.
• Bishonen: He IS Ky's son, after all.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Brainwashed by Valentine, and all too happy to kill the heroes. Sol had other ideas...
• Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You: That reason was having a king of a newly-formed nation for a father, which naturally took up a lot of Ky's time when Sin was (quickly) growing up. There's also the fact that Sin is technically a bastard son that came from a Gear mother, and publicly acknowledging either Sin or Dizzy would have resulted in a lot of political backlash.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Quarter Gear.
• Human Dad Nonhuman Mom
• Idiot Hero: Possibly justified by his age.
• I Have No Father: Subverted because he considers Sol to be his dad.
• Improbable Weapon User: Uses A FLAG.
• In the Blood: He inherited his father's lighting element, (though he denies it and claims that its his mother's power).
• It Runs in The Family: Sol himself pointed out that he's as loud as Ky.
• Mac Guffin Boy: For Valentine.
• Meaningful Name: His name is probably reference to the fact that he is the offspring of a human and a gear.
• Momma's Boy: Dizzy had to take a good part of his upbringing due to Ky's work, so Sin adores his mother.
• Oedipus Complex: "This is my real power! MY MOTHER'S POWER!" Which he "displays" to Sol by using Ride the Lightning.
• Rebel Prince
• Shock and Awe: Like father, like son. Just don't tell him that.
  • Ride the Lightning
• Turn Out Like His Father: Subverted: though he inherited Ky's power and some part of his personality, Sin's attitude is much like Sol's, only much, much stupider.
  • Double Subversion if Sol is proven to be his grandfather. Sol is an intelligent scientist, but Sin ended as an idiot and barely literate. And Word of God states that Sol's upbringing is to blame for that.
• Willfully Weak: Or so he claims, anyway.
• Younger Than They Look: Like Dizzy before him, he's 2–5 years old but looks around 15.

Izuna

Voiced by: Toru Furusawa/Dave Wittenberg

A jovial fox spirit created in the Backyard. He lives in (and was previously exiled to) a pocket dimension of the Backyard called the "Yomotsu Hirasaka" or Underworld Hill in English. He first appears to Sol and Sin when they are first attacked by Valentine's servants. Izuna doesn't usually fight, but then reveals that he can fight perfectly well and has much knowledge of magic, much to Sol's annoyance. Like Anji, he appears to be fond of getting information.

• Badass Army: His Youkais.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Very easygoing and fun to be around.
• Catgirl: His Nekomatas.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He can hold his own perfectly well.
• Older Is Better
• Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Loves doing accents, especially of Elvis.
• Samurai: Can also be classified as a McNinja.
• The Trickster: He's a fox spirit, after all.
• Trickster Mentor: He single handedly teaches Sol and Sin Overture's gameplay.
• Youkai: He and his faction.

Dr. Paradigm

Voiced by: Yuji Mikimoto/Michael McConnohie

The leader of a group of animal-type Gears on a remote island called Ganymede. Paradigm is a bird dragon-like Gear who is a brilliant strategist and tactician who also has an immense knowledge of magic. He hates humans at first for their treatment of Gears, but then realizes that not all Humans Are Bastards when he allies with Ky, who makes him the ambassador for Gears in the end.

• Badass Army: His Gears.
• Badass Bookworm: He even has his own magic scrapbook.
• Big Damn Heroes: He and Ky show up with an army in tow to bail out Sol's party.
• Big "What?": His reaction when Ky Kiske declared his love for the frozen maiden, which is the Key Valentine is searching for, the backup of Justice and a powerful Gear who's supposed to be dead. His brain seemingly suffered stroke when the king also revealed he and his lover are Sin's parents.
• Humans Are the Real Monsters: His thoughts at first.
• Insistent Terminology: For the last time, it's dragon!
• Squishy Wizard: He's capable of high level magic that even Sol can't do, but he has the smallest health in the roster of Overture.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer: His gameplay is strange in that he doesn't physically attack you, but he hurls boulders at you.

Valentine

Voiced by: Chie Sawaguchi/Wendee Lee

The Antagonist of Guilty Gear 2: Overture. She is obsessed with obtaining a certain "Key" that will allow her to enter the Backyard and cause the undoing of the universe. She is completely emotionless, and has eerily robotic mannerisms. She kidnaps and brainwashes Sin for a short period before extracting his DNA, and enters the Backyard. Sol stops the process of the Key turning by destroying it, which causes her to feel her first emotion: PISSED OFF. After her transformations, Sol kills her, but not before realizing that she is a clone of Aria, Sol's previous lover.

• Absolute Cleavage: ...despite the fact that she has a small chest.
• Badass Army: Shares an undead-ish army with Raven.
• Battle in the Center of the Mind: There's a whole lot of her in there, too. It's kind of what would happen if Studio Gainax designed a boss for the Kingdom Hearts series, and then ran the hell out of ink.
• Cloning Blues: Stated to be a clone of Aria, who is hinted to be Justice.
• Dangerously-Short Skirt: Dark Action Girl, yeah, but she still counts.
• Dissonant Serenity
• Elegant Gothic Lolita
• Emotionless Girl: In addition to Valentine herself, her campaign-only units are these with various specialties.
• Faux Symbolism: Her move names are taken from famous traitors in history (Cassius, Brutus, Judas, etc).
• Fingerless Gloves
• Humanoid Abomination: Alluded to by That Man.
• Improbable Weapon User: She uses a talking balloon.
• Incest Is Relative: She takes a interest in Sin besides the DNA collecting, not minding that she is technically his grandmother.
• Little Miss Badass
• My Mother Right or Wrong: Subverted because the "mother" she is referring to and her real intentions for targeting the cube remain in mystery.
  • Averted in the final chapters:

I don't care about mother anymore!

• Mysterious Woman in Black
• Nice Hat: A defining part of her appearance: a jester's hat whose tassets go down to her knees.
• Ominous Latin Chanting: Her second theme "Dignity".
• One-Winged Angel: She got two: the giant Justice look-alike Armor and the HUGE flying Diva fortress.
• Thigh-High Boots
• Too Kinky to Torture
• Villainous Breakdown: She suffers this briefly before telling the heroes that they are PISSING HER OFF.
  • Unstoppable Rage: Pretty much her default emotional state after the above.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Grade A, baby.