Gig
Gig is the final boss of Guilty Gear -Dust Strikers-, a massive insect-like Gear with an angelic humanoid figure for a tail.
Design
Gig's main body resembles a massive, misshapen insect, with six arms, six eyes, and a pronounced toothy grimace. Strips of some skinlike substance hang down from Gig's shoulder area, resembling a cape. Veins can be seen within these strips. From Gig's tail protrudes a feminine humanoid figure that resembles an angel, with pale blue skin, short, bright orange hair, and two small feathery wings. This being appears to be fused to the main, insectoid body at the hips, and hangs below while Gig flies.
Personality
Gig displays a generally simplistic and animalistic personality, aggressively attacking anything in sight. According to the Guilty Gear 10th Memorial Book, Gig's mental reasoning has collapsed.[4] Despite that, the Gear shows signs of still possessing both memory and reasoning, particularly in Chipp and Faust's routes.[5][6] S-Ko claims to be able to sense bitter emotions from the creature.[7]
Gig speaks through unintelligible, animalistic growling, but is also implied to be capable of some other form of understandable communication, requesting euthanasia from Faust after being defeated by him.[6]
Story
Gig is a failed Gear, apparently created by That Man, using a human woman as a base. Gig was once an autonomous Gear a la Testament, but lost the ability to reason and is now on a rampage.[4] This process may have happened quite recently, as several characters express dismay at being too late upon finding Gig[3][8] and Johnny claims things would've been different if he'd arrived a little earlier.[9]
At the end of Dizzy's Story Mode, she says that Gig was someone "like her",[8] while in Sol's story, he claims the creature was his target, implying that a bounty may have been put on Gig at some point.[10] Bridget, however, says in her ending that there is no bounty for her to claim.[11]
Abilities
Unlike the other characters in Dust Strikers, Gig does not fight traditionally, but rather floats up and down between the three stage levels while firing blockable projectiles, occasionally teleporting from one side to another. Gig's weak point is the figure emerging from the exposed tail. When attacked, Gig's form changes into an egg-like object that must be attacked to deplete the boss's remaining health.
Gallery
Idle stance.
Guilty Gear 10th Memorial Book profile.
Pre-battle character portrait.
Notes
- ↑ In the English -Dust Strikers- script Gig is referred to using he/him pronouns by most characters, but is called female by Eddie[1] and "mademoiselle" by Slayer.[2] Given that "him" is also used for Dizzy in one route,[3] the use of masculine pronouns for Gig may be translation error rather than deliberate choice.
References
- ↑ Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Eddie"
- ↑ Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Slayer"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Potemkin"
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Guilty Gear 10th Memorial Profile Guide
- ↑ Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Chipp"
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Faust"
- ↑ Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Zappa"
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Dizzy"
- ↑ Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Johnny"
- ↑ Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Sol"
- ↑ Guilty Gear Dust Strikers script § "Bridget"