Fan Fave Bridget Joins Guilty Gear Strive, Comes Out As Trans - Kotaku

But perhaps most exciting was news that classic fighter Bridget is the next DLC character coming to Guilty Gear Strive.

What’s more, in the day or so since, arcade mode footage revealed that Bridget has come out as a trans girl.

(Official reason: convoluted anime bullshit.) However, with Bridget’s official return as a playable character in Strive as part of the game’s $25 Season Pass 2, ArcSys has given them a “come out” moment where they announce they do, in fact, identify as a girl.

An adept yo-yo user, Bridget’s dialogue in Strive shows her becoming comfortable in expressing her trans identity, telling deuteragonist Ky Kisuke and U.S.

Ready to dismiss their identity wholesale, there are plenty of gross tweets decrying ArcSys giving us an actual trans character in Strive.

As a nonbinary individual who sees a bit of themselves in the elegant “grim reaper” Testament, Strive’s first enby character, I’m absolutely living for Bridget coming into her own