As many of you know, I’m an avid video gamer. I’ve been playing since childhood when my parents got me my first console, the grand Atari 2600. Fighting games in particular are among my favorite titles. The nature of fighting games lends itself to being male-dominated.
Female fighters, though few, have become a standard in this genre, but one character transcends gender and stands out from the rest. This person is named Bridget and was first introduced in the game “Guilty Gear XX”.
According to the game’s canon, Bridget is male but she and her brother were born in a village where twins of the same gender is considered bad luck. Because of this, her parents raised the other as a boy and Bridget as a girl.
She later becomes a bounty hunter and sets out to prove her masculinity by engaging in rough and tough activities, like fighting. Her weapon of choice? A yo-yo. The relevance? Not sure.
I’m not too familiar with the storylines in this series, but from what I’ve seen, Bridget considers himself to be a man. Perhaps he retains the feminine image because that is what he is accustomed to. In any case, Bridget is a fascinating character, and has become rather infamous on the internet, just google the term “gay for Bridget”.
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Shocking confession. This is maybe the dorkiest thing I have ever admitted to in such a public forum. I am a huge Guilty Gear fan! So much so, that I own I-No’s exact guitar; a surf green Duessenberg Starplayer TV.
As for Bridget’s story. He is the son of a wealthy family in a small village where there is a superstition that if you have twin sons you are cursed or something like that. That might be a little off, but it is definitely a superstition of some kind, where his gender is a key to it, and where his being a girl would have exempted him from the curse.
So, either to keep up appearances, or trick fate, his family raises him as a girl. To make sure no one finds out they send him off to be a nun, and fit him with a chastity belt. Later he decides to become a bounty hunter, and try to make a fortune to take back to his village so they will realize he isn’t cursed.
Why they chose to make him fight using teddy bears and yoyos, and block attacks with a pentagram made of yoyo string is anyone’s guess, but Guilty Gear characters all tend to have multiple random eccentricities so he fits right in. LOL!
Thanks for the great info, Shandy. I’m definitely going to have to pick up a used copy of this game.
I´m not familiar with the Guilty Gear Series, but certainly I knew it the Britget Jokes, xD One of my favorites moments of crossdressing in video games occurs to happen in Final Fantasy VII when Cloud (your hero) needs to crossdress, in order to rescue Tifa.
A little chatting reveals that Tifa, one of your party characters, has been captured and is being held at the mansion of some dude named “the Don”. If you head north, you can see the outside of the mansion, but according to a beefy bouncer, the Don only lets ladies in. Cloud is most certainly not a lady … but after following one of the most unique mini-quests in any RPG, you may be able to make him look enough like one to fool a few people.
After you talk the drunken clothing store owner into making a dress for the most masculine guy ever, you’ll decide that dress on its own isn’t enough. You need a wig. Someone tells you that you should go to the gym where there are “more people like you” who can help you. If you do go, you’ll have the chance to win the wig in a squats contest from a guy who’s so ambiguously weird about his sexuality you have no way of knowing if he likes to put on ladies’ panties once in a while or if he has a full recreation of the My Fair Lady stage set in his living room. At any rate, the sooner you finish your business and get out of this gym, the better.
There’s a few things Cloud can get to add to his drag ensemble that will work in his favor once he does make it into the Don’s mansion, but they are optional items. For example, if you go to the Wall Market bar, a guy will send you to a vending machine for a suspicious object.
The joke here may have been missed by many an American gamer, which is a shame because it’s hilarious. In Japan, vending machine are everywhere. Sometimes, they contain items like soda. Other times, they contain treasure such as a schoolgirl’s panties … that have been worn. Of course, even though a machine of this type might be in plain sight, you wouldn’t necessaily want someone to see you getting a pair of used knickers out of it, would you? Maybe you’d ask a friend to help you. Or a total stranger. Or some guy who really needs your help to assemble a decent drag costume.
Later , you have the chance to either get lingerie or bikini briefs to complete your costume, but the price of being mentally scarred for life may come with that choice. Before you choose your own room to change, you can peek into the two occupied rooms. You’ll learn that President Shinra apparently jacks it to girls in suits of armor if you do, which is disturbing enough on its own, but it’s once you get to choosing your room that the real terror begins. I´m not going to spoil you but let`s just say that what’s going on is very murky and undefinable.
Finally, when you are already in-femme you have to stand in a lineup of girls and possibly be chosen as a potential sex partner for the evening.
Whether or not the Don chooses you as his lady of the evening is based on how many of the special extra items you acquired. If you just went with the wig and dress, he won’t choose you, but if you tarted up with lingerie, cologne and makeup, he likely will choose you. Then you get to go to his bedroom and be pawed by an overweight, self-important douchebag who thinks you have a vagina. Hooray.
At least, after the rescue is done, your party threatens to cut a guy’s balls off. Enough said. LOL
As you can see, the overall experience is pretty unforgettable.
Lena, that sounds like a really cool game
. Thanks for sharing that, it really brought a smile to my face 
It´s believe me… Don´t miss the oportunity to play it if you can, just for that moment the game is worth.
That´s one of the reasons for what I love Japanese culture, the crossdressing looks like to be a integral part in their culture, recently I heard that skirts are the hot trend right now… among boys! XD
http://www.japanator.com/japanese-boys-rocking-skirts-are-in-so-get-used-to-it-10798.phtml
Somewhat unrelated to the topic but related indirectly through the posts. RE FFVII: If you still have a working Playstation 1, play FFVII on that. The PC-port does NOT sound the same and there are a number of graphic discrepancies (http://onegaiblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/console-games-ported-to-pc-some-useful-info/ for more details about ports). Also, don’t try to emulate it. It doesn’t emulate perfectly at all (Sound or video). I’m prolly just being a purest but I like to give advice when I can since I represent a dying breed of last generation’s gamers who aren’t all for graphics (I still play NES lol).