mastermistressofdesire:

bthump:

just based on guts’ first look at them, who would you guess is the love interest?

casca:

griffith:

Yes yes yes.
This
Exactly.
I’ma little slightly not well I am excited right now so this might not make sense.
But.
They do this visual chemistry thing, the angles Griffith gets, the way his eyes are drawn, how they stand together, the light breeze running through their hair. How they fit together in the frame, bodies turned in.
And you do this for 10 volumes almost with these characters and then suddenly do the same with Guts and Casca for one damn chapter and now we’re supposed to have that superimpose 50 chapters of the same thing with a different set of characters. Like chemistry.
Where was this.

It’s like buying a bag of m & ms and finding Cheetos inside
Like I don’t hate the Cheetos. But that’s not what I signed up or paid emotional investment for .

This makes perfect sense and ia, when it comes to visual language Griffith is pretty straightforwardly romanticized and eroticized from Guts’ perspective.

like look at Guts’ point of view shot right here

first thing he thinks of when he wakes up after sensing a naked woman in bed with him:

griffith looking vulnerable and in need of rescue with his hair splayed out

this which is even more eroticized than those first panels

actually don’t quote me on this bc i’d have to re-read to make a real judgement call here, but I think these kinds of shots (from Guts’ perspective specifically) actually peter out after the Promrose Hall speech?

which, if so, makes it even more likely to me that it’s purposeful bc that’s when his view of Griffith shifts from him being a guy he likes who likes him back to being a distant goal.

though Griffith remains beautiful, noble, larger than life, dazzling, pretty, etc just to throw a few words guts has used to describe him, in Guts’ mind:

and then all bets are off once guts starts thinking about neogriff.

(the waters get a little muddier once miura starts drawing griffith like a wet dream every time he’s in a panel but honestly this shot of guts thinking about him goes above and beyond to a ridiculous extent)

oh also i was gonna say that it blows that casca gets super diminished and girlier once she ends up slotted into the love interest role, like judeau even comments on it ffs.