Annon-Guy: I know it's for gameplay purposes, but when Slayer does Last Horizon on Bedman?...
What do you think of him BITTING and DRINKING the "blood" of a bed!?
People on YouTube have been pointing this out quite a bit.
"Too much Iron" is what he says, but it's actually a joke.
Slayer does in fact have a Winquote similar to this when speaking to Kum Haehyun in Xrd:
"How odd... Your blood has no taste. Its faint, but I sense something mellow yet full behind your veil."
If Slayer can tell that Zato's been eating Venom's bakery during a Duel, there's no doubt he could tell that Bedman's not just a "walking Bed" and that there's more to the Bedframe than meets the eye.
As for "biting" the Bedframe... I'm sure that's actually BAD for Slayer's teeth!
He probably has "other" ways of absorbing power from the Bedframe to revert to his Young Form, since the Bedframe itself runs on Oneroi: Dream Demon energy.
Slayer's also been known to tap in to his Youki (Dark Ki) reserves when he needs to.
Anyway, it's probably not possible to gain life force from an ordinary bed frame... but this is no ordinary bedframe, either:
It's an 8th Generation High Density Bedframe~... which apparently Romeo customized after he was forced in to the contraption... though the full story on Bedman remains to be told!
Just a reminder, however: the Bedframe itself is a "copy" of Romeo's Soul... it is not Romeo itself... much like how Eddie isn't Zato but still a "copy" of Zato's soul.
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Annon-Guy: What's your stance on Bedman and his successor, Bedman? as seperate characters in terms of story and gameplay?
On a more personal note, I've been something of a fan of Romeo and his Bedframe for some time.
Ironically, I found Romeo's personality to be snarky and unlikeable on first impression back in the Xrd Sign days.
That is, until I started playing AS Bedman himself.
I started to see how much of a genius and tactician he actually was, despite appearing to be "looking down on others" (which actually wasn't the case... making him a very deep character).
We later found out that Romeo was doing everything to save his Sister, and would have sacrificed himself to do so, which was very tragic.
The Question Mark in "Bedman?"'s designation name for Strive means that there is an air of mystery still within the frame itself, so there is much to learn about what happened exactly.
For clarification purposes though, I always refer to it as the Bedframe on this blog, to differentiate it from Bedman (Romeo) himself.
As for what I think about the differences:
In a lot of ways, this references a lot of concepts in Mecha Anime, particularly the "destroyed machine" trope.
When I think of Gundam Wing Zero, for example (Heero Yuy's Gundam which he piloted in Endless Waltz), there is a scene where Heero performs a sniping shot on the Brussel's Palace Bunker with a very powerful Twin Buster Rifle.
Hikaru Midorikawa (who voiced both Heero in Gundam Wing, as well as Bedman) plays the role of a self-destructive character here.
Heero fired the Buster Rifle "knowing" that his machine would self-destruct, but if that meant stopping a great WAR from starting... he would do so at the cost of his life in order to save others from the conflict.
This imagery mirrors the transition from Bedman to the Destroyed Bedman? Bedframe.
An Error-Prone Guardian Machine, dedicated to protecting the lives of the innocent.
So next time you play with Bedman?, I hope you'll enjoy the facets of it being a "broken" machine more significantly in the symbolism.
I feel like the stereotype is that straight bachelors are the ones to just have a box spring and/or mattress right on the floor but I'm a 28yr bi neurodivergent woman who prefers it to a real frame
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