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I'd like to see more screenshots to make any conclusions, however. Suffice to say that the other info (aside from Tuner) seems to be legit.

We don't know for sure if that's Tuner yet (there should be Kanji that comes with his speech bubbles to confirm it or not, I do not see anything to prove it yet). Also my source wishes to remain anon. For all we know that could be Johnny's Master. For now unless more screens surface, that's all we got. Edit: So as not to rule out possibility, my 'source' says they got the info off Japanese posts and tweets, so what @The Badgerine says is probably highly possible if it was a mistake.

And after all this time we "still" don't know who voices English Dub Sol. :/ I suppose we'll never know, like we never knew who voiced Robo-Ky, did we?

I don't mind the wait (if GG is any indication I have the patience of a Saint).

At any rate, this is what the President of ARC System Works has in mind for the future of his company.

I hate to ask but is there a script for this game yet? I tried watching videos on Youtube but no luck (lots of stuff is missing). I just want to get the jist of the story.

Hmm, not sure but, since Kaihou Norimitsu's Novels and Drama CDs are in the GGXrd Library, then there's no reason for the Manga not to be since they were written by him with Daisuke's approval. Just might be an oversight. So far there isn't much "major" that was retconned from The Midnight Carnival... GG2 confirmed that "That Man" did meet with Sol in GGXX... thus anything in GG2 is canon. Raven's story with Axl was "pushed back" because of Anji in Accent Core Plus when he kept Axl from meeting with "That Man"... still, he eventually met with him in GGXrd, just for different reasons instead of trying to get back home (which by the way seems to be a problem I-No could possibly easily solve later on, once Axl's no longer needed). So far, what happened with Eddie dying and Millia tracking him down only for the Conclave to capture him just before he disappeared and Venom inheriting the Assassins Organization all came to pass in XX and stayed that way in later games and stories. Even Zappa seems to be doing well. Only missing thread so far is what Bridget's situation is like, since he went looking for his missing Twin Brother.

You want "confuzzling", read this tag. Read this to "try" and keep things straight in your head. Don't get me started on the other crap in my head.

^ Don't kid yourself, you know you want to be caught up in the Lore. I started with the first game, it was as "simple" and straightforward as you just said, but then I played the NEXT game and the NEXT game and so on and so on.... it adds up. DAT VETERAN STATUS

As far as Raven goes... if you've ever seen Caius Ballad in Final Fantasy XIII-2, he's kinda like HIM. Basically, immortal in all timelines at once... he's just "there".

I'll try and find more if it's coherent.

I should also add that when "That Man" says to Sol that they (both) "already killed Aria" he could be alluding to the fact that: 1. "That Man" didn't tell Frederick about Aria's PT condition and waited for her to confess about it on her own. 2. Frederick respected Aria's wishes to "live in the now" and "not become something else". In that way, it could be construed that they both allowed her to die.

Okay guys I have a theory about Jack-O's origins: Okay first of all, Justice was created from what was left of Aria's DNA before she died of PT... that much is certain. Years later, Justice runs a boot-up test while connected to the Backyard... The "Universal Will" (heretofore referred to as "Variable X") hacks in to Justice' DNA.... This Variable X enters Justice' DNA and basically replicates like a massive computer virus. The result "ejects" two giant biological entities from Justice DNA in the form of "Variable X1" and "Variable X2" in Japan... The world starts going crazy after this, and "That Man" decides these 2 giant life forms have to be destroyed, so he has Justice target them both and blow a hole in the water where Japan used to be. No sign of Variable X1 or X2 after that... But, I think Jack-O' might be what's left of "Variable X2". "That Man" probably found her when looking for survivors (this corroborates with Baiken's recollection of him visiting what was left of Japan later on).

My question concerning Dizzy isn't so much "How" she was born, but who made her...? I don't think "That Man" had much to do with Dizzy's origins... or if he did, he makes no mention of it. If Dizzy has any connection to Aria at all... it's going to be interesting how things play out. (By the way, most "copies" of Aria had Red or semi-red or pinkish hair... Dizzy's hair is BLUE.... that's a tell-tale sign right there.)

^Make no mistake Dizzy is still "Half Gear", so the question is how was she born? In a tube? Or an egg? Or what exactly? We don't know.

Interesting thing to note about Valentines though: Unlike Gears, whose blood type can't be analyzed... Valentines DO have a Blood Type, so they're closer to humans. And yeah, Crow pretty much confirms that Dizzy is a Copy of Justice.

Well not "Millions" but definitely many.... lol Collectively the army is referred to as the Vizuel.

Oh yeah and I should also mention that Justice' ability to control other Gears and beings from the Backyard (Gear Resonance Component, something Dizzy later inherited as Crow Kuruwaba noted when he operated the Justice Copy in Accent Core) wasn't something native to Justice at first. That's why "That Man" sought to get Solaria's Singing Data in Lightning the Argent, because it was something "That Man" didn't know Gears could evolve and do in the first place. So that Resonance thing will come in to play much later too.. (Sol hasn't "awoken yet" so he might be able to resonate with other Gears, despite him calling it "Noise" right now...) When Sol became a Gear, he left right after and anyone in the lab after that (even Vince Mcdonnell the head of the project) also disappeared.

Somehow I think it's the other way around... Mori stole Daisuke's idea. :P

When "That Man" says that they both already killed her, he also later says that he wants to "save" her... so her Death might not be relevant in either case. Something tells me that by "killing her" they banished her to the Backyard somehow... or something to that effect. Remember during Justice' activation test there was mention of DNA replication from Justice' DNA? All I can say is, is that Variable X has something to do with this, not to mention the "Gear Archetype" referred to in the original GG Bible, what it is and what it's for is anyone's guess but it might have something to do with the Cube and the Prime Field Gear Cells. As for this "Tuner" you mentioned, that's the first I've heard of it, so I'd like to hear more.

Actually: 1. It's already a retcon considering the fact that GGXrd implies that there were "other" Prototype Gears built "after" Sol was converted. 2. Justice never met Sol during the "restart" of the Gear Project in the 2060s, in fact Justice wasn't even activated until after the Mass Production Series was distributed. 3. Justice is confirmed to be a "copy" of Aria, and not the real deal, given what the GGXrd Library says. So most likely her memories were implants, much the same as the first Valentine's. Dizzy talking about her "artificial implants" also confirms this. 4. Jack-O' being "Half of Aria" has been with "That Man" since at least 2180 (Lightning the Argent) and if he'd met her long before that, it would explain how he was informed on the Valentines. Sol knows nothing, just as much as we know nothing... (The Reason he's sad in GG1's Ending is because he knew Justice' circumstances as a Gear and wanted to save her but couldn't because she'd just be used as a Weapon again.) Aria is implied to be (by "That Man") the Merciless Apocalypse which the Valentines refer to as "Mother", the Valentines themselves are referred to as "Illegitimate Children" so most likely they are incomplete copies of Aria. So, that having been said... Half of Aria is "somewhere" in the Backyard most likely, but how she got there is anyone's guess, much less how she split herself in Half to become "Jack-O'". Also, side note: How can "Aria" (Apocalypse) seek to revive "Aria" (Justice)? Again, it just confirms Justice was a Copy of Aria, just like the Library in Xrd says.

One thing's for sure, I have a bad habit of blocking low, which results in them spamming overheads on me, and then as soon as I block high to counter, they poke me with lows and sweeps. Empty jumps especially stump me.

If you had a psychotic Yandere Robot girl chasing after you with stabbity death, and the only way to go was take a dive in a cauldron with your innards punched through like a stick through a corndog, yeah I'm sure I'd be sad enough to take the plunge too. Question though: Is the Wadatsumi-Jo of Ikaruga the same location as the so-called "Wadatsumi Incident" of XBlaze?

Related question... how do I get my opponent "out" of my head? Yomi and Set players tend to set up ideal situations in which nothing you do is the right thing to do... so I'm wondering what's a good way to break out of all that mess?

Somehow I get the impression that if Ky became a Gear, Sol would know about it instantly... and there's no indication of that at the moment. Not to mention most Gears have a seal mark on their forehead or somewhere else... which we haven't seen on Ky or Sin yet (Dizzy's is very obscure, and we haven't seen Testament's yet or Paradigm's either for that matter). Justice had a special Seal in particular that supposedly Solaria and her sister Marina* inherited... but we don't have many details on that. *Marina inherited the seal but it wasn't found on Solaria, despite the fact Marina is full human and only tied to her Gear-converted sister as a fraternal Twin sibling.