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@bthump One thing that really struck me about the sex scene between Guts and Casca was the way that he became triggered. She turns her back to him if I remember correctly and he at that moment sees himself as a child in her place and reacts violently. Her being a woman in that moment really only reminds him of both his pervious vulnerability and also dare I say the fear of the “feminine” he has in himself. I don’t know really what else to say about this and I want to to know what you think.

Hmm, from an in-universe perspective idk if it’s really because Casca’s a woman, if he happened to be fucking a man in that position I imagine his reaction would be the same.

When it comes to what Miura intended to convey, man, idk lol. Honestly I’m gonna bypass this bc I tried to write smthn about it but Miura + deliberate criticisms of misogyny + gender and gender roles + his own misogyny + homophobia, is such a hot mess, I can’t come up with anything useful to say. Like equating being raped with being forced into the role of a woman does seem in line with his deliberate portrayals of misogyny, but tbh I just don’t have the energy to add my own critique to that, it’s a v heavy topic that requires a lot of nuance. Suffice to say I have v mixed feelings.

But! On the subject of Guts’ flashback one thing I was thinking of after I wrote that last post about how gay Guts is that I should’ve added, is that after having sex with her she’s like, “that’s why you used to hate being touched by anyone, isn’t it?”
“It never mattered with you. When you first saved my life. For some reason… at that time… it was fine. But only with you.”

And Miura is probably trying to re-write that scene to seem kind of romantic, but let’s be real here Guts was about to have a flashback when he woke up next to a naked person before realizing she was a woman and calming down. We know the reason he was okay with Casca then, and it’s because she’s not a man. And then ever since she’s been the only woman he like… knows. At all. With this being brought up right after sex, the overall takeaway I get from this exchange between Guts and Casca is that Guts registers Casca as extra non-threatening because she’s the only woman he knows, and therefore she’s the only person he would’ve been okay having sex with at this point in time, regardless of his actual sexuality.

(I mean granted if Guts was deliberately written as canonically gay I’d be pretty unhappy about Miura having him have sex with women because of trauma, but since I’m reaching here and I don’t think it’s deliberate and the het sex scene is there whether I like it or not, I’m still gonna grasp at this straw to support my Guts is Gay thesis statement.)