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@yesgabsstuff​ said:
Ditto for a conversation with Casca except that it ends with her taking the implement of self harm out of his hands and saying;
“You’re totally full of shit but I guess it’s time to put you to bed.”

awww. this is all
so perfect tbh. i’d seriously read 200k words of berserk as just a low key, realistic group of
traumatized and mentally ill people trying to support each other and get by and often failing and fucking up but
sometimes succeeding.

(i mean that’s basically what it is already but yk, take away the monsters and you’re still left with so much good character stuff and making it quietly realistic + modern adds a certain tone that agrees with me more than i would’ve expected. though i wouldn’t necessarily want to follow the plot of berserk to a tee lol. keep the themes, maybe explore different directions)

It’s weird. I think my age at this point has turned almost into optimism. What I mean is that Casca kind of barreling in and trying to get him to feel better and not knowing how because she can’t handle him being sad and Griffith kind of pulling it together in response to that is more realistic I think than what I just made up. It’s like I imagined what they would be with another five years under their belts and some solid self awareness. To her credit, Casca is the closest to being that person out of the three of them, but still. She’s always the Mom Friend regardless.

TO BE FAIR we are talking about an AU where they have some psychological knowledge and therapy experience, so it makes sense that they’d make better decisions occasionally haha.

in fact this really is the perfect setting to do like, a Berserk re-do where they’re all dealing with the exact same shit except actually learning coping methods and therefore not ruining everything all the time.

They can still ruin some things. just like, not irreversibly maybe.

That’s true. This is the setting where things could be made right for them even if the world still sucks.

Casca performs the bulk of the emotional labor but I also just thought about Griffith’s allergy to making other people uncomfortable. It’s interesting how his emotional labor is actually pretty similar to what Casca does? I don’t really know where to go from here.

That’s actually a rly good point that I didn’t think of. I guess Casca is more like, figuring out everyone’s shit for them and being stuck with the fallout of Griffith and Guts’ issues, but Griffith is really about hiding his own emotions so he can be the ideal leader everyone has perfect faith in.

Griffith’s is more typically masculine I’d say but it stands out since it’s acknowledged as a thing he does that’s also bad for his psyche in-text. Hey it’s a solid point for your “Berserk is about toxic masculinity” thesis statement you mentioned the other day 😀