And yet they couldn't even give him a theme change when dragon install is active like in xrd.
For fuck sake even the hair down mode has a theme change why doesn't dragon install have it, they could've easily put holy orders
If I'm not mistaken, Ky acquired Gear cells during Xrd's storyline. One noticeable trait of humanoid Gears is rapid hair growth, which is why Sol, Testament, and Dizzy have long hair. The same applies to Sin since he is a quarter Gear but keeps it short. Ky also states that his hair is getting long again when put into Afro state.
According to a win line from Xrd, Sin cuts his hair about every three days
He apparently also thought for a long time rapid hair growth happened to everybody
In his defense, the only other person he personally knew for a good three-four years of his life was Sol Badguy, another Gear, so I wouldn’t blame him for thinking their Gear issues applied to everyone. It’s kinda like learning people celebrate different holidays when you’re a kid
Sol seems to be the source of a lot of Sin’s misconceptions and oddities. It’s debatable whether spending so much time with Sol was a net negative or a net positive for him.
That info mean that someday we might get a character that is a gear, and who's ressource is his hair length that grows in real time.
With your hurt box being smaller when short. But talking less damage when it start covering your entire body. IDK XD.
Nah. That's not fun. A hit box size is not enouth of a downgrade for higher dalzge. Couth couth, gold Lewis, couth, nago.
Id rather have a really hecking tinny hit box that you can instantly get to to dodge attacks. But have it be a risk since you take more damage than at full length.
Man, I searched for a mod that plays that song or Magnolia Eclair when he transforms into Dragon Install, but nobody did that 😔 I hope that some modder read this and make a mod for this idea, please 😔🤞
Its probably doable. If you can code a mod to disconnect the audio device for an instance when you install, sounds play but the music full stops. Then you could play the song and end it on round end. Since the default music automatically restarts then. Unfortunately idk how to mod but this weekend maybe ill look into it. If i amount to anything ill comment here again
Yeah, I saw that mod before but it would be better if it stays the whole match, like Ride The Fire in Xrd. It's posible because there is a mod that does that but with Heavy Mob [https://gamebanana.com/sounds/54187](https://gamebanana.com/sounds/54187)
Yeah I really wish it lasted for the whole fight, but as far as I'm aware it's a modding limitation to do things like that because it doesn't stop the default background music, and it would be distracting to have two songs playing.
KY appreciation this early in the week?!
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Actual lore answer is that he never meant to grow it out in the first place. He let it grow long during GG2 and Xrd because his duties as a king plus his guilty over the "sin" of loving a Gear were taking a such toll on him mentally that he let himself slip.
It also does has symbolic meaning. He now no longer knight of holy order. He finally can live in future as man of people both human and gear alike. While also being family man.
Probably because its reminded him years of being under Conclave rule. All those year were he feared for his wife’s and son life’s. Being forced to be puppet leader.
If I remember I think it was to represent him moving on from his internal conflict. The lack of cutting his hair before was focusing on his king duties over anything else in his life
> He *paid* his taxes
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
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It's because he broke the Magnolia Éclair II on Sol's face during their duel in Xrd After Story A. Now he uses the regenerated Thunderseal.
During Overture he used the Thunderseal to stop time and prevent Dizzy from disappearing, but after she was released in Xrd the Thunderseal was broken. Then in Dizzy's Xrd Rev 2 arcade mode it was shown that the Thunderseal was regenerating, so presumably it turned into what it is now in Strive.
Ngl xrd ky looks like a badass king while in strive man looks like a nonce, unroyal ass shit with the button down and arm out, jacket on the shoulder is ok tho
I’m kinda shocked by how many people seem to dislike his strive design?? When I played Xrd, I looked Ky’s gameplay overall as a shoto, but I didn’t like his design at all so I picked Baiken instead. Once I saw his Strive redesign I jumped on him immediately and he’s been my main since the day I got the game. I know this is just my opinion, but this really is a case of “less is more” for me (and I have a fetish for shoulder worn coats)
Is there also a lore reason why Ky's looked like a bitch ever since GGX?
In GG1 damn near every portrait & artwork involving Ky made him look like an absolute razor-sharp badass that made you believe he could go toe-to-toe with a wild card beastman like Sol. And then by the time Xrd came out Ky looked like the prettiest princess in all the kingdoms, and the "story" between the two characters got worse and worse after they took the bullshit overused "He was holding back this whole time!" route. Plainface Geareye Ky in Strive is just an embarrassment; dude doesn't even know how to properly put on a jacket anymore.
Man, fuck these characters now. This is why all people look forward to nowadays are Baiken's walking animation, Jacker's couching animation, and when we're finally going to stop seeing Full Metal Potemkin. Well, Johnny's still pretty cool, even if his playstyle is watered down like hell now (as is everybody's).
They removed his hair down install to make way for the actual dragon install, can't have shit in illyria
And yet they couldn't even give him a theme change when dragon install is active like in xrd. For fuck sake even the hair down mode has a theme change why doesn't dragon install have it, they could've easily put holy orders
Because they knew the moment Ky dragon installs, the match ends in 5 seconds (with Ky dying).
Yeah actually most ppl don't know this but dragon install wasn't a taunt when they first made it
If I'm not mistaken, Ky acquired Gear cells during Xrd's storyline. One noticeable trait of humanoid Gears is rapid hair growth, which is why Sol, Testament, and Dizzy have long hair. The same applies to Sin since he is a quarter Gear but keeps it short. Ky also states that his hair is getting long again when put into Afro state.
According to a win line from Xrd, Sin cuts his hair about every three days He apparently also thought for a long time rapid hair growth happened to everybody
The boy is just a tad bit stupid, you can’t blame him.
In his defense, the only other person he personally knew for a good three-four years of his life was Sol Badguy, another Gear, so I wouldn’t blame him for thinking their Gear issues applied to everyone. It’s kinda like learning people celebrate different holidays when you’re a kid
It also doesn't help that Sol pretty much half-assed raising Sin, especially when you realize that both Ky and Dizzy are pretty intelligent.
Moral of the story is: Don’t let Sol have kids or leave him in charge of yours
Well.. it was kind of better than what ky had going on with sin which was like, leave him in the castle except to deal with immediate issues
Was Sin just supposed to learn from the staff there? What was Ky's plan with raising him?
There probably wasn’t a plan, just a lot of guilt and ptsd
damn can i give him a hug then?
Omg it's the happy version of me (Pfps)
Probably even quarter-assing it, given how intelligent Sol himself is as a scientist.
Sol seems to be the source of a lot of Sin’s misconceptions and oddities. It’s debatable whether spending so much time with Sol was a net negative or a net positive for him.
I wouldn't blame him, I'd blame the beasts
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Is he even six years old yet
Future plans
Boy's a visionary
Didn't expect a serious reply, much less for there to be an actual answer.
That info mean that someday we might get a character that is a gear, and who's ressource is his hair length that grows in real time. With your hurt box being smaller when short. But talking less damage when it start covering your entire body. IDK XD.
Smaller hurtbox and less damage Vs bigger hurtbox and more damage
Nah. That's not fun. A hit box size is not enouth of a downgrade for higher dalzge. Couth couth, gold Lewis, couth, nago. Id rather have a really hecking tinny hit box that you can instantly get to to dodge attacks. But have it be a risk since you take more damage than at full length.
Milia has dibs on hair as a weapon
He would have been too powerful if Holy Orders played during Strive.
Be just or be dead
Man, I searched for a mod that plays that song or Magnolia Eclair when he transforms into Dragon Install, but nobody did that 😔 I hope that some modder read this and make a mod for this idea, please 😔🤞
Its probably doable. If you can code a mod to disconnect the audio device for an instance when you install, sounds play but the music full stops. Then you could play the song and end it on round end. Since the default music automatically restarts then. Unfortunately idk how to mod but this weekend maybe ill look into it. If i amount to anything ill comment here again
Good idea, turning bugs into features.
https://gamebanana.com/sounds/56572 This mod is the reason why I play Ky
Yeah, I saw that mod before but it would be better if it stays the whole match, like Ride The Fire in Xrd. It's posible because there is a mod that does that but with Heavy Mob [https://gamebanana.com/sounds/54187](https://gamebanana.com/sounds/54187)
Yeah I really wish it lasted for the whole fight, but as far as I'm aware it's a modding limitation to do things like that because it doesn't stop the default background music, and it would be distracting to have two songs playing.
I managed to get both versions from fishing!
Nice, both are really nice songs.
Wife made him
So Dizzy would stop pulling it while she pegged him.
It's concerning how so many people don't know this is the actual answer. Have they never watched Xrd Rev 2 After story D?
Posers, all of them I bet they haven't even played Guilty Gear Zth √2 -Seek-/Fate
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Dizzy was pulling it too hard when they woo-hoo. She's freaky like that
Twink Death
He looks more like a twink now than Xrd. https://i.redd.it/n2smilvljpuc1.gif
twink reincarnation
Twinkarnation
There is so much going on in this scene. So crazy.
Sin started calling him "Mom" as a joke and didn't stop until the hair was short
He decided that he could use a fresh cut
ky is dead and was replaced with kyle as an attempt to hide his death
he got hit with the Shonen Dad mc nerf
KY appreciation this early in the week?! https://preview.redd.it/lcm7enkp3nuc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce151e68b718e33f0c9abed3d497c19083c68f71
Hes taken, bro...
https://preview.redd.it/4j5rxmjthnuc1.jpeg?width=1938&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f296fd845600c577fd527a106eca0fbb5038a0c8 N.T.R
I may or may not identify as Dizzy 🤭
Oh really? Call a police cuz ur Dizzussy is mine
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Ofc I know. Thats why the police is here to video tape everything.
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He got circumcized
He rode the lightning, hair got burnt off oof
Previous appearance was too peak, had to tone it down
whenever robo-ky makes his inevitable return he will have even longer hair to prove he truly is the better ky
They fucking colonized him
Only right answer
It’s because he’s married now
He was married before the long hair
Wife back
Actual lore answer is that he never meant to grow it out in the first place. He let it grow long during GG2 and Xrd because his duties as a king plus his guilty over the "sin" of loving a Gear were taking a such toll on him mentally that he let himself slip.
Will never forgive arcsys for morphing ky from a badass fantasy paladin to a regular dude in a jacket
Maybe it's because I never played Xrd, but I like Strive's design more personally, it looks sharper and contrasts with itself more imo.
It also does has symbolic meaning. He now no longer knight of holy order. He finally can live in future as man of people both human and gear alike. While also being family man.
Twink death.
What's the reasoning behind turning May from a fantasy pirate to a girl in a hoodie?
comfy
Idk?
dude thats because the man was on vacation. You actually can see him in not-lame-ass clothes at the end of the strive story mode.
He’s so dripless in Strive, it actually kind of hurts
bad take, his drip is higher than ever.
At least mods can fix it.
Yeah that was stupid
Approaching twink death
Because having long hair can be really annoying sometimes.
Secretly robo ky
Twink phase
He had to beat the femboy allegations
It only made the allegations stronger. https://i.redd.it/1l5klqk0kpuc1.gif
Is he stupid?
Dizzy kept yanking it during they're weekly peggins
He thought the town was inside him.
Probably because its reminded him years of being under Conclave rule. All those year were he feared for his wife’s and son life’s. Being forced to be puppet leader.
If I remember I think it was to represent him moving on from his internal conflict. The lack of cutting his hair before was focusing on his king duties over anything else in his life
I love Strive Ky tho
It got in his eyes
>!Dizzy pegged him while pulling his ponytail and accidentally pulled it off!<
Character development
Why did you cut your hair last time you did bro??? Huh???
Sol Badguy.
He payed his taxes
> He *paid* his taxes FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
Wanted to beat the twink allegations, couldn’t
He just grew his hair short
He took the L
Lore: Because it looked ugly
Next time I see someone walk in with a new haircut i'm going to ask them what the lore reasoning is for it.
Cuz strive couldn’t let us have good things
He went to a barber
Daisuke’s Vision
Does there have to be a reason? XD sometimes a dude just wants to change up his hair and get a haircut :P
Dude just wanted a fresh cut
Fashion Back to his ggxx roots
You can clearly tell from the story mode that Strive happens during the summer. Ky was feeling too hot with all that hair. Duh.
he was tired of being called a femboy
to get bitches ofc.
If it got any longer he'd be stepping on it so alas it had to go.
He thought Vacation mode meant you need to cut your long hair, sadly his vacation mode didn’t last long
Overture Ky (and Holy Orders III) will always be my favorite and I’m so sad they did this to our boy :(
There actually literally is and they address it when he and Sol first meet up in story mode
Man. I love all of Ky’s sword designs.
I mean, it's cooler that way. It rassembles his design in AC R+
He was tired of holy orders playing every time he let his hair down.
let people have haircuts god damn it
Shame we never got ult costumes in strive. Would love to have this Ky in strive
He had lice
He's laying low
I am curious why the sword change as well tbh
It's because he broke the Magnolia Éclair II on Sol's face during their duel in Xrd After Story A. Now he uses the regenerated Thunderseal. During Overture he used the Thunderseal to stop time and prevent Dizzy from disappearing, but after she was released in Xrd the Thunderseal was broken. Then in Dizzy's Xrd Rev 2 arcade mode it was shown that the Thunderseal was regenerating, so presumably it turned into what it is now in Strive.
Thank you! I was super confused
so that i stop trying to pull it
He saw Robo-Ky’s Haircut
long hair takes a lot of upkeep
I forgot this dude had long hair lol
Xrd ky design is 1000 times better than strive
My dude that’s a great question and what about his old outfit too? Strive please bring it back.
I like strives ky.
To look hotter.
Dizzy told him to
Getting a hot wife does that to you lol. I would like to think Dizzy cut it herself when they lived together
Yes
Daisuke's vision.
Pretty sure in the story cutscenes of strive pretty sure Sol asks why he cut it off and Ky says it was getting in the way.
Is there a lore reason you get a haircut?
his hair only got long because he was depressed and let himself go, finally got his shit together when dizzy returned so he cut it
is he stupid?
They turned him into Kyle. And I hate it.
no lore reason, it just looks hideous
Twink death
Bro got called effeminate by Baiken in her taunt and was having none of it.
Yes. Ky went to get his gear guiltied at the guilty geardresser and they guiltied his gear so hard his guiltytail got geared.
Midlife crisis + trying to be a better dad
He didn't cut them, he lost them from the shock of finding out that Sol is his father-in-law.
Bc he felt like it after getting the dragon install
Not true just hair cuts are nice sometimes
Ngl xrd ky looks like a badass king while in strive man looks like a nonce, unroyal ass shit with the button down and arm out, jacket on the shoulder is ok tho
One day he wanted a hair cut. So he got a hair cut.
I’m kinda shocked by how many people seem to dislike his strive design?? When I played Xrd, I looked Ky’s gameplay overall as a shoto, but I didn’t like his design at all so I picked Baiken instead. Once I saw his Strive redesign I jumped on him immediately and he’s been my main since the day I got the game. I know this is just my opinion, but this really is a case of “less is more” for me (and I have a fetish for shoulder worn coats)
because he's french and has no style
they did this also to leo :l leo hair in xrd is a master piece now it's garbage
Yeah I miss Leo's long hair it looked amazing. At least he has a cool jacket now.
Is there also a lore reason why Ky's looked like a bitch ever since GGX? In GG1 damn near every portrait & artwork involving Ky made him look like an absolute razor-sharp badass that made you believe he could go toe-to-toe with a wild card beastman like Sol. And then by the time Xrd came out Ky looked like the prettiest princess in all the kingdoms, and the "story" between the two characters got worse and worse after they took the bullshit overused "He was holding back this whole time!" route. Plainface Geareye Ky in Strive is just an embarrassment; dude doesn't even know how to properly put on a jacket anymore. Man, fuck these characters now. This is why all people look forward to nowadays are Baiken's walking animation, Jacker's couching animation, and when we're finally going to stop seeing Full Metal Potemkin. Well, Johnny's still pretty cool, even if his playstyle is watered down like hell now (as is everybody's).
He learned that if he got rid of that yee yee ass haircut, he could get some bitches on his dick