Happy Chaos (Guilty Gear)/Eldrazi Kido

## Summary

**Happy Chaos** is a playable character in Guilty Gear -Strive- and the main antagonist of the game's story mode. Originally known as **The Original**, he was a genius philosopher who discovered the Backyard and developed the Theory of Magical Science during the late 20th century. He is responsible for most of the events occurring in the story of Guilty Gear, directly or otherwise. After creating the Universal Will, a supercomputer-like entity designed to find the means to bring peace to humanity, he found a young woman created by the Backyard in response to mankind's desire to survive during the Crusades. In order to prevent her raw power from endangering the Backyard and physical universe, he took half of her power and human desire, with what remained becoming I-No. The Universal Will then went rogue and betrayed the Original by fusing I-no's power with him, destroying his sanity and leaving him "pure" and uninterested in concepts such as morality. Since then, Chaos has been wandering the world, causing trouble in order to entertain himself and make sure that humanity never becomes boring.

At some point during the Crusades, he discovered I-No in the Backyard and took half of her power in order to prevent her from becoming an entity transcending time, which could create a paradox threatening the very existence of the universe. The Universal Will, unable to directly attack the Original, then stole that power and fused it with him, transforming him into a devilish anomaly. Burdened with omnipotence and now carrying all of humanity's hope towards living, he lost interest in concepts like good and evil, instead creating conflict to amuse himself and remind humankind of their own humanity. During the Crusades he would depart the Backyard in spirit form to wreak havoc, manipulating the populace to sow chaos and destruction, resulting in countless deaths including the massacre of Baiken's friends and family. Among those he manipulated during this time was the vampire Nagoriyuki. Many of his actions during the Crusades were wrongly attributed to the mysterious individual known as That Man.

Guilty Gear Xrd
When Jack-O' Valentine awakened prematurely, she sought out I-No and revealed her true nature to her, as part of a potential contingency plan should Sol Badguy fail to defeat the Universal Will, mistakenly believing that Asuka had created a second Jack-O' unit named Happy Chaos, which could be used to save I-No by restoring her humanity, in the same way that she herself could restore Aria's. Unbeknownst to her, Asuka never actually completed the unit.
At some point he was absorbed by Ariels, in order to attain his knowledge of humanity and acquire power with which to battle Sol Badguy. During a celebratory banquet Ariels went mad and began slaughtering her guests, until Chipp Zanuff, sensing something demonic lurking within her, intervened. Soon after she fled, murdered her hired assassin, Bedman, and began to carry out her plan to create a new Absolute World, only to be stopped by Sol and others, eventually being taken into custody by Ky Kiske and imprisoned in Illyria, with Chaos trapped inside her.

Guilty Gear -Strive-
Happy Chaos was released from Ariels's body by I-No, with the pair departing the castle grounds before Ky Kiske arrived with more Illyrian soldiers. Outside, Chaos revealed to I-No his desire to make her a god, explaining that he exists for a reason and that despite most of the universe being undiscovered, the only thing that really interests him is drama. He then used his magic to materialize a red convertible and the pair set out. While driving along a forest road, Happy Chaos outlined his plan to infiltrate the G4 Summit, steal the Tome of Origin from Asuka, and use it restore I-No's power, noting that he would need additional manpower to prevent Sol from interfering. Upon arriving in the city, Axl Low's time froze and he sensed Chaos lurking nearby, with Chaos remarking that they had last encountered in the year 2192. Afterwards Chaos took I-No to the high-rise under which Nagoriyuki was slumbering, destroying the building and enslaving him, explaining to I-No that he required his strength and unique abilities. I-No chose to remain behind, briefly chatting with Axl, who had sensed Chaos's arrival and used his power to freeze time, saving the lives of all the people trapped in the collapsing building. Afterwards she allowed herself to be captured by soldiers in order to distract the Illyrian government from Chaos's plans.
Speeding down a coastal highway on the outskirts of Illyria, Chaos was spotted by Chipp and Anji Mito, who was now working for Chipp to help track down and identify Happy Chaos as the demonic entity that had possessed Ariels at the banquet, as well as the individual who had been falsely identified as That Man during the Crusades. Chaos soon also drew the attention of Sol and Jack-O', with Sol realizing that he must be the one behind I-No's attack and giving chase. Chipp and Anji joined the pursuit as well, with Chipp mentioning that Baiken and Delilah were seeking revenge on Chaos.
During the resulting high speed chase, Chaos summoned Nagoriyuki to help shake off all of his pursuers apart from Sol, then replicated the unique regeneration-halting properties of his blade to create special bullets and dismissed him. Sol fired a blast at Chaos, obliterating the left half of his body, only for him to regenerate nearly instantaneously. Chaos returned fire, striking Sol in the chest. When Sol realized the wound wasn't healing, he questioned what he was. Formally introducing himself as Happy Chaos, he stated that he can be anything or nothing at all, and compared his existence to that of the chicken or the egg, which he claims only came into existence for the sake of the omelette. At the same time he gave Sol a terrifying vision of a growing black miasma with two stark white eyes, then opened fire and forced him off the road. Afterwards, Chaos used his magic to hack into the Post-War Administration Bureau's intel on the White House, uncovering encrypted data on Project Tír na nÓg. A short while later he and Nagoriyuki arrived on the outskirts of Washington DC. There Chaos brainwashed a secret service agent to ensure that a gap would be left in security during G4, then explained to Nagoriyuki that he brought him along because he's the only one who knows his weakness, which could result in an interesting turn of events and provide some real drama. Noting that he actually likes Nagoriyuki for being a rare person who actually holds himself to his own standards, Chaos introduced him to the post-revival United States of America for the first time, claiming that it could soon be transformed into hell.
On the morning of the G4 summit, Giovanna picked up Chaos's scent. A short while later he began to brainwash soldiers and secret service members outside of the White House, taking an agent's jacket in the process. After sharing his hacked intel with Illyrian government, he casually walked into the West Wing of the White House, having already brainwashed all staff inside, and entered the Cabinet Room, interrupting peace talks between world leaders and Asuka, who was transmitting from the safety of the Presidential Emergency Operations Center. Excusing Asuka for not recognizing him in his current form, he introduced himself as Happy Chaos and cut off the video feed. Among the representatives in attendance were US President Colin Vernon and Third King of Illyria Daryl.
Chaos began to toy with the representatives, first ordering one to shoot Daryl lest he murder everyone in the room, only to save Daryl's life at the moment the gun was fired. Chaos next offered them world peace "ready in just five minutes," hacking into weapons systems around the globe and launching the attending nations' Albatross missiles, directed at one another, while offering them controls to trigger their self-destruct systems. When the representatives detonated their missiles in atmosphere, Chaos congratulated them for achieving disarmament. Admitting that he had only done this to demonstrate his power, he demanded that Colin help him access the PEOC so that he could take the Tome of Origin from Asuka.
When Colin agreed to the demands and began to lead Chaos to the exit, Sol kicked down the door, knocking Chaos into a wall and rescuing the President. For the next several hours Sol would attempt to flee the White House while pursued by Chaos's brainwashed minions. Chaos remained in the Cabinet Room bantering with Daryl about the nature of reality and human achievement, explaining that people are only interested in history when it becomes part of their personal narrative, and expresses to create history filled with real drama. He then activates Tír na nÓg, transforming the White House and the entire National Mall into a gigantic airship which rapidly ascended into the sky, preventing Sol and Vernon from escaping.
Realizing that Chaos is in fact his former mentor, The Original, Asuka contacted Sol to share the information with him. Chaos simultaneously revealed his true identity to Daryl and the others, explaining that his heart and mind were both broken during the years he spent in the Backyard. As Chaos reveals his real plan to return half of I-No's power, Daryl outsmarts Chaos into stealing his gun and point it at his head, telling the former Savior to let him and all leaders at the meeting room go, so Chaos can only deal against both Sol, Vernon and Asuka. As Chaos accepts Daryl's deal, he is still disappointed that he should kept the Third King at least. He is surprised that Daryl was able to completely outsmart him even more through secretly implementing a secret magic communication beneath the glass of cold bitter coffee which the former drank. Once Asuka made his move, they began a magical fight over controlling the White House airship. As Asuka is disappointed to see his former teacher's current state, due to his disappearance, Chaos is knocked-out by his former disciple.
In his coma, Chaos envisioned himself in a destroyed room floating in middle of the air alongside the Universal Will, who explains who she is and her reason on why she became human, among other deeper stuff related to the both of them as well as I-No's godlike powers, once explaining that he don't want to win or lose and he just want to be there, he wakes up and resumes his fight with Asuka, making him to realize he is I-No's other half before finally defeating his disciple and departing away from the office.
With the White House already in the air, Chaos notices Potemkin forcing against the direction the place is flying, much to his excitement. As Sol and Vernon reach their point of encounter with Asuka, it is revealed that it was Chaos transformed, but as he thought he would have a proper climax with Asuka, he is pushed away from inside the PEOC by Sol Badguy at Asuka's command.
Afterward, Asuka reverts Sol back to human, just as an injured Giovanna (who was beaten by Nagoriyuki) arrive and planning not to keep high-ranked member's cartoony badge, this makes the second Illyria King Leo Whitefang realize that Chaos only stole a jacket of a recently new agent Udos instead of Stryper. Even worse, Sol's reversion back to human was at a bad time, as Chaos is revealed to be still in the White House and steals the real Tome of Origin from within Asuka's body and immediately summons I-No to start their merging. In the final battle, I-No is destroyed, but Chaos survives, and finds himself at a beach, completely unharmed, sometime later. His current location is unknown, but in his words, "something needs him."

## Powers and Stats

**Power Scale: Low 4-A**, **Low 1-C** via **Hax**

**Name:** Happy Chaos, Chaos, The Original, The Savior, That Man, Father of Magic, Restorer of Humanity, Gunslinging Broken Messiah, the Undertaker

**Source:** Guilty Gear

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** Over 200 years old

**Classification:** Former human, carrier of half of I-No's power, "Jack-O unit"

**Alignment:** **Chaotic Neutral** (Despite doing some rather atrocious acts and crimes against humanity, Chaos does this out of pure boredom and seeks drama. The official site says that "The concepts of good and evil are of equal value to him. He may cause major incidents, but he could also end up on the side of justice." and Chipp Zanuff states that he isn't "bad", but he's "too pure", and good and evil cease to exist with him)

**Motivation:** (Happy Chaos has no real motives, attachments, or values. After merging with I-No, he lost any concept of good and evil and became disinterested in the world due to his exhausting knowledge. He is only driven by a desire for drama and to make things fun or exciting)

**Notable Abilities:** **Superhuman Physical Characteristics**, **Weapon Mastery**, **Martial Arts**, **Vehicular Mastery**, **Magic**, **Information Manipulation**, **Higher Dimension Manipulation**, **Truth Manipulation**, **Fate Manipulation**, **Reality Warping**, **Conceptual Manipulation**, **Statistics Amplification**, **Dream Manipulation**, **Law Manipulation**, and **Dimensional Travel** (Magic is a source of transcendental energy coming directly from the Backyard and The Backyard is made entirely of information and superior dimension, it even defines the fundamental truths of reality, that is connected to dreams, being able to alter the rules of reality in any way, manipulate fate, and increase power), **Immortality** (Types 1, 2, 3, 6 & 8: Was in a void for a hundred years. States that he's already dead and that erasure is required to kill him), **Regeneration** (**True-Godly**; Regenerated from a massive blast dealt by Sol Badguy, stating that he's just like him. Due to having Adam's seed, Sol would regenerate from the Absolute World erasing everything in the Backyard and the universe, and must surpass Raven, who regenerates from the destruction of her non-existent body), **Fear Manipulation** & **Aura** (2 Layers; managed to paralyze Anji Mito and even make Sol hesitate with his threatening aura alone), **Extrasensory Perception** (Ki users can detect the flow of Ki in others), **Mind Manipulation** (Type 2), **Morality Manipulation**, and limited **Transmutation** (Able to warp the minds, appearances, and actions of others. Those who are controlled by Chaos are said to have no morality), **Subjective Reality** (Described to be the "savior who opened humanity's minds and spearhead their revival", implying he was responsible for the creation of I-No, the embodiment of mankind's will), **Possession** and **Incorporeality** (Exists as a spirit that possessed others during the Crusades), **Power Mimicry**, **Immortality Negation** (Types 1, 2, 3, 6, and 10) and **Regeneration Negation** (**True-Godly**: Able to copy the Nagoriyuki's weapon, which can negate Sol Badguy's immortality and regeneration), **Teleportation** (Able to teleport), **Illusion Creation** (1 Layer: Created an illusion to trick the main characters into thinking that he fell into the middle of nowhere, this even affected Sol Badguy who has a resistance to illusions), **Sealing** (Sealed the powers of Adam and Eve's seeds), **Curse Manipulation** (Via Curse), **Reactive Adaptation** (Easily adapted to the Backyard), **Perception Manipulation** (Can warp Sol's perception), **Hacking** (Able to hack into the White House's information as well as the speaker from Asuka's room in the White House and shut down the system to communicate. Can also turn shut-down technology back on. Fired every anti-gear missile from the White House. Activated Tír na nÓg with a snap of his fingers), **Duplication** (Able to create clones of itself), **Power Nullification** and **Absorption** (Took half of I-No's power, preventing her from becoming a god), **Summoning** (Summoned a car from nothing), **Breaking the Fourth Wall** (Can shoot the timer), **Energy Projection** (Summoned a massive blast of energy that destroyed an entire building), **Body Control** (Able to control Nagoriyuki and prevented him from attacking I-No), **Portal Creation** (Has the ability to create portals), **Time Manipulation** (Able to intervene in Axl Low's time slipper), **Non-Physical Interaction** (Type 2 & 4: Should be able to hit Zappa's spirits and interact with Raven who declared herself non-existent)

**Energy Capacity:** **Nebula Scale** (Is essentially a copy of Jack-O' Valentine, putting him relative in power to Sol Badguy, who was able to defeat Justice, who has whose Information Density is equivalent to a galaxy cluster), **Hyperversal** via Hax (Sealed the power of Adam and Eve's seed, both can induce absolute world, which will merge and distort the Backyard and the universe. Took half of I-No's power, preventing her from becoming a god. Stated to be the strongest magic user, who introduced the world to magic and wrote the Tome of Origin, which includes spells that can warp the Backyard)

**Speed Level:** **Immeasurable** (Comparable to Sol, who able to move within Underworld Hill, a place that surpasses time itself and comparable to Demi-Humans who transcend physics and time itself)

**Strength Level: Unknown**

**Resilience Level:**

* **Resistances:** **Pain** **Tolerance** (Wasn't really affected by Sol dealing massive damage to him), **Mind Manipulation** (Type 3), **Soul Manipulation** (Type 3), and **Matter Manipulation** (Able to resist the effects of the Backyard, which simultaneously assaults your mind, soul, and disintegrates any lifeform according to Paradigm by the sheer amount of density), **Magic**, **Law Manipulation**, **Reality Warping**, **Death Manipulation**, **Fate Manipulation**, **Conceptual Manipulation**, **Dream Manipulation**, **Fusionism**, **Boundary Manipulation**, **Subjective Reality**, **Space-Time Manipulation**, **Existence Erasure** (**Type 5**), **Transmutation** and **Matter Manipulation** (Resists the effects of Absolute World due to being able to seal Adam and Eve's seeds), **Magic**, **Information Manipulation**, **Higher Dimension Manipulation**, **Truth Manipulation**, **Fate Manipulation**, **Reality Warping**, **Conceptual Manipulation**, **Statistics Amplification**, **Dream Manipulation** and **Law Manipulation** (Can tank Magic attacks)

**Arsenal:**Crescent Moon (A large, futuristic revolver and a "heavenly gun", of which five exist throughout all dimensions), functioning replicas of Crescent Moon, a red convertible XAM-X-MAX car, Tome of Origin & **Nagoriyuki**.

**Intelligence: Supergenius** (As a child, he underwent several intelligence tests and it was determined that his IQ was immeasurable. He created modern magic in the GG universe and used it to bring humanity back from the brink of extinction after the fall of technology. Discovered the Backyard, a realm made exclusively of information that dictates how the universe works.  Created the Tome of Origin and sealed the Backyard inside)

**Weaknesses:** Extraordinarily mentally unstable, and just as likely to do something actively self-sabotaging as he is to do something in his best interests, as he claims he does not understand the idea of "motive". He will frequently structure his plans with exploitable weaknesses just to amuse himself. His right hand is a weak point and cannot regenerate.

**Stamina: Unknown**

**Endurance: Godlike** (Able to survive a shot from the Sun and regenerate from it, despite the fact that it destroyed his thorax)

**Range: Extended Melee**, **Several Meters** with his gun, up to **Hyperversal** with Magic (Capable of affecting the Backyard)

Note: Credit to Codex Wiki.

## Trivia

* When The Original first appears on screen during the *Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign-* arcade opening, the word "CHAOS" is superimposed over the image.
* There is a reason for why Happy Chaos and Jack-O' have identical halo ring designs, but it is currently being kept as a secret
* Happy Chaos seems to be modeled after a young Iggy Pop, who would famously always perform shirtless.
* Chaos's X-shaped glasses and perpetual smile evoke the logo of the grunge band Nirvana.