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replied to your post “i was browsing thru all the pages i have saved looking for smthn to…”

the thing that i find confusing is it’s not 4 scratch marks from 4 fingers, it’s one scar that’s thicker than his individual fingers. when i was first reading the manga and noticed the scar i was like “wait, he got wounded? i thought the whole point was that guts stopped just before the blade sunk in” and then i went back and re-read the duel and confirmed that there was no wound so i was like??? maybe griffith purposely did it in that spot because guts did not wound him
your theory is way better it just does not look like scratch marks it’s one giant scar, right where guts almost hit him

I’ve heard this a lot and tbh I used to think that it was one inexplicable big scar myself but if u look at the 2nd to last image i posted in that thing, where he’s tracing it, you can see how both “sides” line up exactly with his two fingers. So I still think it’s def 2 parallel scratch marks from 2 fingers. Just like, drawn slightly confusingly.

The movie actually turns it into 4 red scratches. Not sure what the anime does if it depicts it, I should check that lol, I’m kind of curious now.

Though the theory I’ve heard that goes with the “it’s one big scar” that I like is that it’s a symbolic depiction of Griffith wishing Guts’ sword had hit him. It makes most sense to me that it’s scratch marks but that’s also quite a nice concept imo.