mastermistressofdesire:

@bthump thoughts?

I find this panel really interesting because it kinda foreshadows Guts inability to look at an unideal situation and say it is unideal when changing it seems beyond his capacity.

lol yeah my first reaction to it was, really, Guts? tbh idk if it’s so much denial as a kind of ridiculous amount of optimism and looking on the bright side. I feel like it’s not so much Guts going ‘everything is great this is super nice’ after hearing about all the shit the Hawks have gone through in the last year, and more Guts focusing on the fact that the core group is still together and he’s happy to see all his bros again.

Bc yk despite everything, Guts is a serious optimist. And I kind of love that about him even though it’s the source of like, half his problems (I’ll just take off and become Griffith’s equal and surely this will be fine and cause no problems at all. Griffith is perfect he could never lose his composure. Everyone’s still alive and together therefore things are fine oh shit Casca’s 30 seconds away from killing herself fuck. Griffith will be ok he’s just like his old self everything will be fine. Griffith totally wouldn’t sacrifice everyone this is all a mistake. I can and will murder everything and nothing’s gonna stand in my way. Casca will be all right trapped in a dank cave for the rest of her life w/e. Maybe Griffith regrets what he did now that he’s more human-y. I can take Casca to get healed nbd I don’t need anyone’s help. etc etc)

So yeah ia with what you said, it’s part of how Guts’ optimism isn’t necessarily a good trait all the time. Because sometimes when he doesn’t know what to do (eg how to help post-torture Griffith), or when he doesn’t want to do something (eg deal with Casca after the Eclipse), he does pretend that everything is fine and will just work out somehow. It’s a very endearing flaw to me lol, but still a flaw.