Guilty Gear: What is the Backyard?
Guilty Gear's setting and story have a tendency to utilize some... mildly abstract concepts, let's say. Out of all of these concepts, one of the most abstract is the Backyard, a metaphysical realm that was first hinted at in Guilty Gear 2 Overture and became a major story component in Xrd onwards. It is from the Backyard that the threat of the Universal Will and the Valentines first emerged, setting the stage for more than a couple of potentially world-ending cataclysms.
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But what exactly is the Backyard? Where did it come from, what dwells within it, and how did it affect the lives of Sol Badguy and company? Let's take a brief trip into the history and mechanics of this abstract realm. Do note that we'll be getting into some minor spoilers for the overall Guilty Gear story, though given the aforementioned abstractness, it probably won't mean anything unless you already know some aspects of the Guilty Gear world.
The Backyard is kind of a metaphysical command prompt. It's a realm of pure information, and all of that information makes up our collective reality. The easiest way to explain it would be to liken our reality to a typical web page. If our world is a web page, the Backyard is the HTML code that determines what goes where and what it's made up of. For example, let's say you're a 5'6 person with brown hair. Somewhere in the Backyard is a line of code that dictates "this person is 5'6 and has brown hair," among numerous other factors.
While our plane of reality has no bearing on the Backyard, changes to the Backyard's code can influence us. One tangible example of this is Slayer's wife, Sharon who is, for all intents and purposes, a completely normal adult woman, but
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