|
Sometime in the 20th century, Sol was born as Frederick Bulsara and was a scientist who specialized in Magic Physics. In his college years, he met Aria Hale, with whom he got romantically involved, and That Man. Upon graduation, the three friends found work in the core team of the Gear Project founded by their professor, Vince MacDonell, in the hopes of improving humanity itself. At some point, he proposed to Aria; aware of her own fate, she offered to leave him something to remember her by, and Frederick picked her hat.
In 2015, the team managed to stabilize Gear cells infused with magic, and That Man handed over their research to the state. In September 2016, after ten years at each other's side, Frederick learned about Aria's condition, and begged her to cryosleep until a cure was found; Aria refused as she'd rather spend her last moments with him. At the same time, the military infiltrated the project. Convincing Aria to cryosleep, That Man restructured Frederick into a Gear by planting the Flame of Corruption within him, faking his death. Frederick woke up some time later in the midst of an incident, and confronted That Man, who denied ever being his friend and fled with Aria's capsule, seemingly working for the military.
Vowing to get his revenge, Frederick escaped the facility and created his headband to hold his Gear cells at bay. Around 2030 he became a bounty hunter, and crushed many underground organizations in order to That Man's whereabouts to take his revenge; before long, the underworld began referring to him as the "Badguy". Post-2065, after the government restarted the Gear Project, Frederick made it his personal mission to destroy all Gears. As he was reported dead in 2016 but somehow had survived, Slayer tracked him down to satiate his thirst for knowledge. Frederick's passion that "shone like the sun" illuminated Slayer's path; he thus bestowed upon Frederick the name "Sol". Since then, Frederick adopted both names as his own.
In 2073, Sol caught news of Justice's completion and created the Outrage in response. As its power was far too cumbersome to control, he separated it into eight components, the "Sacred Treasures"; for unknown reasons, they all ended up in possession of the United Nations and the Sacred Order of Holy Knights. After Justice's declaration of war in 2074 started the Crusades, Sol continued his private war against the Gears. In 2103, Sol saved a young Kliff Undersn from a Gear attack.
In 2172, Kliff Undersn heard rumors of Sol and spared no means in finding and recruiting him. Sol was then assigned to a battalion under Ky Kiske's command; however, Sol's unruly personality and Ky's refusal to go all-out in their first duel led to a growing tension between the two. This came to a head in 2173 when Ky caught Sol while he was stealing the Fireseal, but Sol defeated him once again and deserted the Order. Although Kliff entrusted Sol with the Sacred Treasure, Ky was left with a score to settle.
In 2175, Sol faced Justice in battle for the second time after Kliff and Ky pushed her to retreat. Justice tried to control Sol after learning that he was a Gear, but he was unaffected and unleashed his flames, defeating her. Ky, who was on her trail, found Justice in a weakened state and ordered his men to seal her, ending the war. Sol then slipped away and went back to his ways as a bounty hunter.
In 2180, during a particularly lucrative bounty run, one of his marks begs to be spared, telling Sol about the Second Holy Order Selection Tournament before Sol ends his life. Sensing an ulterior motive behind the tournament, Sol takes it upon himself to unravel the true intentions behind it and competes. Sol becomes its champion, only to learn that Testament has used the blood shed during the matches to free Justice. During the battle, Sol manages to fatally wound Justice. When he reveals himself to be immune to her control due to being a prototype Gear, Justice finally remembers Sol as Frederick. In her dying words, she wishes that "the three of us" could talk one last time, and Sol—unaware of her identity—swears to kill That Man.
Around October, less than a year after the tournament, Sol hears news of a still-functioning Gear with a high bounty and sets out to investigate. Sol finds Dizzy and overcomes Testament, her guardian. Sol then defeats her, but for some reason chooses to let her live.
In one path, Sol defeats Dizzy but, instead of killing her, says he has made a mistake in thinking she had no will to live, and leaves. In another path, she loses against her, being soundly defeated but impressed at her will to still live on. In his third path, Raven is ordered to keep an eye on Dizzy by That Man, who realizes that she is yet another reason to be killed by Sol.
Weeks later, I-No starts wreaking havoc to get Sol's attention, laying a trap to kill him before he gets in That Man's way. Alerted by Axl Low, Sol tracks her down. In one ending, defeating I-No leads to a direct confrontation with That Man; he casually deflects all of Sol's attacks, and warns of a conflict that will make the Crusades seem like a dim memory. In another ending, Slayer informs him that the Post-War Administration Bureau has started to move. In his third ending, Sol knocks Dizzy out of Necro's possession, brought about by I-No's actions. Sol leaves just before Dizzy wakes up; unaware that Sol helped her, Dizzy nevertheless feels "warm" (April thinks her nostalgic dream may be about her father), and Sol silently bids Dizzy farewell from afar as she rejoins the Jellyfish Pirates.
Having stopped I-No's rampage, Sol decides to investigate and get rid of the P.W.A.B. and crosses paths with Ky, who wants to take care of them without Sol's help. Sol either refuses and fights Ky ("Don't tell me what to do, boy."), telling Ky he's tired of his tantrums, or acquiesces to search for I-No instead ("Do whatever you want..."). After an encounter with Crow and his Justice copy, I-No forces Sol to battle his past self, and then slyly kills his Order-Sol. In one ending, Sol is destroyed by I-No's trickery even as That Man implores him to live on. In the other, he is returned to the present, and Ky finds him to settle their score once and for all. Sol wins again, and Ky decides he will no longer pursue Sol but makes Sol promise they will meet again before going their separate ways.
Years later, close to New Year's Eve, Dizzy—accompanied by her son, Sin—asked Sol to help Ky out, who had reached a breaking point due to his appointment as puppet king of the newly-formed United Kingdoms of Illyria. Sol found a deteriorated Ky praying at the church and provoked him. The fight dragged on and Ky was losing as usual, but light returned to his eyes. They fought until a frightened Sin grabbed Sol's leg and demanded him to stop. Ky then asked Sol to take care of Sin, and Sol accepted.
To restrain Sin's restless curiosity as they traveled the world, Sol kept him on a leash and told him not to use his considerable power without a reason. When Sin was one year old, on a visit to Zepp, Sol left Sin alone for a bit to go collect a bounty. He returned to find that Sin had lost control and wounded some bullies, so Sol disciplined him and the bullies.
In 2186, at the Village of Witches, Sol and Sin find a bounty poster of Sol, which is Ky's call for help, but they are soon attacked by the Vizuel, whom they are able to repel thanks to Izuna's guidance. He informs them that the Vizuel are destroying Gears, with their focus on the Illyrian capitol. At the capital they meet Valentine, and Sol is shocked by her resemblance to Aria, but she soon leaves to find a "key" after measuring their abilities.
Within the castle, the trio find the guards defeated and Ky caught in a seal, and Raven briefly appears to let Sol know that his master is involved. After another encounter with Valentine, Sin remains behind to protect Ky, while Sol and Izuna go retrieve Dr. Paradigm from Ganymede. Upon learning that Sol was once Frederick, Paradigm agrees to unseal Ky. After retrieving his scores from Underworld Hill, he dispels Ky's seal. Sol immediately asks about Dizzy, but Ky's lack of response makes Sin angry. After he storms out, Ky shows them Dizzy's sealed state to them. Paradigm thus realizes that the "key" Valentine is searching for is Justice's Gear cells, which Sin also carries.
Leaving Dizzy's protection to Ky and Paradigm, Sol and Izuna fight a brainwashed Sin at Bel Canto Valley while Valentine leaves for the gate. After Sin comes to his senses, they follow after Valentine, but the Vizuel stand in their way. Ky leads his men into battle against them so that Sol's group can reach her, and Sol punches Sin to stay with Ky. Sol, Izuna and Paradigm find the gate to the Backyard closed, but it is opened by That Man, whom Sol almost immediately attacks with his Dragon Install. That Man—unharmed—enchants the three so that they can temporarily withstand the Backyard's pressure.
The three enter the Backyard and catch up with Valentine. The Cube's key is already in motion, so Sol stops the process while Izuna, Paradigm and the late-arriving Sin hold back Valentine. Once he breaks the key, Sol stays behind to fight Valentine's final form while the others escape and the gate closes. Sol manages to kill her, with the last thing she says being "Frederick". As Sol resigns himself to remain trapped, That Man reappears. He warns Sol this isn't the end of the "merciless apocalypse" and urges him to live on. Sol inquires if Valentine was really Aria, but That Man says they already killed that girl. Weakened, Sol vows to kill That Man, who will wait for him, before he is reunited with the others.
To prepare for the second coming of Valentine's forces, Sol decides to build the Junkyard Dog, which requires the Flashing Fang. Sol discovers that the Fang is held under tight security inside Harden Fort. Around July 2187, Sol and Sin fight their way into the facility, where they run into Baldias and learn that the governments of the world are actually under the control of the Conclave. After a tremendous battle, Sol is able to defeat Baldias and regain possession of the Fang.
In October 22, 2187, Sol and Sin are still in the process of chasing down the other Sacred Treasures when they receive a message from Ky. He tells Sol that Ramlethal Valentine has declared war on the world, and Sol agrees to hunt her down for a W$ 1 million bounty in return. They meet up four days later in Neo New York and fly over to her location. On October 28, they defeat Ramlethal but she is only a distraction: the Cradle activates over Babylon, and she moves in to kill Sol by self-destructing.
Sol survives thanks to Ky releasing Elphelt Valentine, who renders her sister powerless. Sol is about to kill Ramlethal, but Ky suggests that they take her into custody instead. Sol is distrustful of Elphelt, telling her to drop the human act, and admonishes Sin for his attempts at befriending the Valentines but Sin rejects Sol's lonely worldview, and Sol second-guesses himself. On November 1, en route to Zepp per Leo Whitefang's suggestion, Ky privately asks Sol if he doesn't care about the world and what will happen once he has taken his revenge. Sol doesn't know, but Ky insists that Sol face the truth—tomorrow always comes—, adding that he, Dizzy and Sin will wait for Sol to "come home". The duo meets with Gabriel and Zato-ONE, who reveals the Conclave wants to resurrect Justice.
As per Paradigm's plan, they attempt an ambush on the Cradle, but That Man is imprisoned by Bedman and Sol has to be saved by Elphelt. They learn then from Ramlethal that the Conclave intends to harness St. Elmo's Fire to activate Justice on November 4. During the operation, Sol removes Chronus from inside of Justice. In the aftermath of the Conclave's defeat, an apparently-emotionless Elphelt reveals that she accomplished her true mission—Justice's awakening—and attacks. However, Sol forces Elphelt's true emotions to surface, and she and Justice are abducted. Tired of losing people, Sol swears to save Elphelt.
On November 9, after finding no leads on Elphelt's whereabouts, Raven asks Sol's help—accompanied by Sin and Ramlethal—in catching Jack-O' Valentine. On November 17, they catch her, and Sol finally learns that Aria was Justice all along, but Raven and Jack-O' leave. As a last hunch, Sol asks Axl to find clues of Elphelt's location in the past, but Axl refuses, fearing the effect his power could have on their timeline. On the way back to the capitol, Sol is almost killed by a massive Gear. Upon his return, Sol and Ky reflect upon their past rivalry, as Sol when thinking about sharing his past is rather bewildered at Ky not even being interested in instigating a fight with him like how he often used to. Ky however, states that while he he is indeed interested in the past of "Fredrick", he claims the future of "Sol Badguy" has higher priority as he pours him a drink, acknowledging Sol as a friend who should be put at ease like everyone else under Ky's rule should be. Later, and somewhat drunk, Sol lectures Ramlethal about "what true happiness should be to oneself" and needing to sometimes seize it through overcoming various "walls" by force, then takes her and Sin to Danny Missile.
After a group meeting regarding the Information Flares, Leo orders Sol—treating him as a human, not a god, out of concern—to save the world. Sol again claims he doesn't care about the world, but vows to save Elphelt, and Leo is satisfied at taking his own resolve into account. After Ramlethal is seemingly killed at Scandiva, Sol, Ky, Paradigm and Leo meet with That Man and Jack-O', who explain about Universal Will being Ariels, the Absolute World, and his reasons for converting Sol and Aria. Sol lays bare his guilt over mankind's state and killing Aria, only to be shocked by the revelation that Jack-O' merging with Justice will reconstitute Aria. Ky removes the frustrated Sol from the meeting so the latter can calm himself, and Sol sets aside his grudge to aid in stopping Ariels. Once they locate her thanks to Zappa and Randy, Sol's group leaves Illyria's defense to Dizzy and their allies.
During the journey, Sin brings up if Dizzy may somehow be related to Sol, who tries to avoid the subject but Ky pieces it together to both their mutual horror. Upon arrival, Sol, Ky, and Sin hold Ariels at bay while Jack-O' is to receive the Saint Oratorio to fuse with Justice and free Elphelt. Thanks to Raven and Ramlethal's arrival, Sol defeats Ariels after a bit of dialogue exchange on Sol's overall opinion of the world, the people around him and his own place within it having changed throughout, and Jack-O' receives the energy. However, Justice resists the fusion. Daryl then arrives to destroy Justice (and Sol and Jack-O' with her, after transporting everyone else to safety), and Jack-O' remarks that Sol kept his promise as they face death. Fortunately, Axl compresses time to delay Daryl's onslaught, giving Sol and Jack-O' time to complete the merge, and protected by Ariels, who asks Sol look after her daughters before passing out.
In the aftermath, That Man entrusts Aria to Sol while issuing a challenge to settle things between them. Seeing his resolve, Sol accepts while calling him by his real name, Asuka. Sometime later, Sol shows up at Ky and Dizzy's estate to pick a "serious" fight with the former on the notion that Ky always held back in their past battles due to seeing Ky slay multiple Gears with relative ease back then. Yet when it came time for their first duel, Sol was at first truly scared that he was to be destroyed by Ky the same way, yet all they did was cross swords continuously which left Sol aggravated for years to come. Ky insisted that back then, he never saw Sol as a monster to slay and merely as an opponent to overcome in a fair duel as he refuses to follow through with Sol's words. Sol however then provokes him by reminding him of his past as a Gear slayer and calling Dizzy a "monster". Ky, angered enough to use his "dirty" battlefield tactics, utterly defeats Sol. After the match, Sol admits that he wanted to learn how humans can face monsters in preparation for his final showdown with Asuka, with Ky accepting to help him with his cause.
Three weeks later, Sol and Jack-O'—from inside whom Aria's consciousness has yet to manifest—are working together as bounty hunters, when Ky summons Sol back to the castle. Upon obtaining from Ky the permit he requested, Ky tells Sol about the U.S. request that he be at the G4 Summit and tries to hire him to catch I-No, but Sol decides to go on vacation with Jack-O' to Iseo first, despite Ariels' warnings. Their journey is cut short when they get a warning from Axl about an incident in L'oro Di Illyria and later, when I-No lets herself be captured by Illyrian soldiers. Suspecting I-No to be working with someone else, they have a highway encounter with Happy Chaos involving Nagoriyuki, Chipp Zanuff and Anji Mito. Sol (rattled by Chaos' ability to harm him) and Jack-O' immediately return to the castle, and Sol and Ky interrogate I-No.
Though the interrogation proves fruitless, Jack-O' privately tells Sol and Ky about I-No's origins and being incomplete. Thinking I-No may be after Asuka's Tome of Origin, Sol decides to take up the G4 offer and travels to the White House. After a short exchange with Asuka via screen, the summit starts, but before Chaos brainwashes the entire security staff and takes everyone hostage. Sol rescues Vernon—the only one with access to Asuka's room—, however, and they contact Gabriel, who connects them to the Pentagon and Illyria War Room. Sol and Vernon then try to escape, but Chaos activates the White House's Tír na nÓg aircraft mode. Alerted by Asuka that Chaos is The Original, Sol and Vernon avoid the guards and Nagoriyuki, who is onboard as well.
Before the White House is shot down for crossing international borders, thanks to Giovanna, Potemkin, Asuka, Leo, Daryl and even Nagoriyuki, Sol and Vernon reach Asuka's room—which serves as an escape pod—to evacuate, and Asuka tricks Chaos into being ejected inside it. The crisis seemingly averted, Asuka says he will use Tír na nÓg to travel to the moon to keep the Tome safe, but will settle his score with Sol beforehand. He then gives Sol a choice: to let him correct his mistake (planting the Flame of Corruption in him), or kill him. Sol chooses to let Asuka remove the seed, restoring his 'humanity'. Yet, unbeknownst to them, a disguised Chaos is still onboard. He gets a hold of the Tome, fused to Asuka, and restores I-No to godhood at his own expense.
Despite Asuka's warnings, Sol attacks her with the Outrage anyway, but is knocked unconscious, and she proceeds to grant humanity the powers she has, likely destroying the current world. Ky leaves to stop her, followed by Jack-O', who takes one last look at Sol. After waking up, Sol asks Vernon to bring his zeal stash, and then stops Jack-O' from sacrificing herself to save the world; Sol tells Jack-O' it doesn't matter if Aria doesn't return, but that he won't let Jack-O' go, even if it means the end of the world, for Jack-O' is Aria's "hat". Instead, while Ky and Axl distract I-No, Sol hits her weak point—thanks to Nagoriyuki—with his zeal pod-powered Outrage, seemingly killing her. Although the Outrage takes its toll on his body, Sol survives.
After a state funeral is arranged for "Sol Badguy" the hero, he goes back to being Frederick, and moves in with Jack-O' to Iseo. Having opened a junk garage, he starts working on a rocket to travel to visit Asuka, as a means to surprise him. He is living a life in which he enjoys his free time and hobbies, making devices while listening to Jack-O' and the radio at nighttime, and leads a sedentary life doing housework.
Credit to the Guilty Gear Wiki
|
