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I mean, if you want my two cents on the regression, I don’t buy it? Like she would have been 100% entitled to lose her shit but I don’t think she would have I guess? I was talking to @berserkerlover221​ and I was just thinking that if that was the response women had every time a man they trusted raped them there would be a hell of a lot more completely regressed people.

like i’m no psychiatrist but i’m pretty damn sure casca’s reaction is 100% unrealistic fictional bullshit miura threw in to remove her from the narrative. you could argue that no one irl has ever been gangraped by monsters and an immortal demon god with powers of evil so maybe it’s fantasy magic at work, but then again miura also did the exact same thing when guts’ mother had a miscarriage so…

idk how one dude can write some traumatized characters so well and others so badly lol. like there is such a world of difference between guts griffith casca farnese and serpico’s reactions to their childhood traumas, and current casca’s generically ~wacky and childish insanity that it floors me that one guy wrote it all. i mean casca is a funny cartoonish background event throughout most of the last couple arcs. it’s just incredible.

All of that being
said, that seems to be something that he’s returning to thematically so
it might not be 100% sexisim and not knowing what to do with her. Maybe
just 90% 

yeah i’m hoping he plans to do something with her after she gets magical elfhelm therapy, and hopefully that something is awesome and epic and relevant enough to justify even a fraction of how she’s been reduced for 20 years. idk, cross my fingers I guess.

Idk I feel like Casca’s response to the trauma was realistic in my opinion.

I’ve spoken to my sister who has a degree in psychology as well as my cousin about it and they both agreed that a situation where a person experiences severe trauma would have very damaging results.

Ignoring the fantasy element of the manga, let’s focus on the part of her witnessing the brutal massacre of the people she loved along with being raped while it was happening, something like that would mess up someone’s mind. She would have developed extreme anxiety, paranoia, night terrors, or repression or regression amongst other psychological responses.

Her mind regressed as to protect her from the memory of the trauma. And her developing a mental scar to something that horrific is a very realistic response.

But that’s just my personal viewpoint.

I definitely don’t mean to suggest that Casca wouldn’t’ve been severely traumatized by the events of the Eclipse, just that as far as I’m aware trauma doesn’t manifest this way in real life.

To be fair calling it 100% unrealistic bullshit was fairly harsh of me because the closest real life equivalent would probably be a dissociative fugue state. Based on only casual research those don’t seem to go along with regression to an infantile state – people who’ve experienced fugue states seem to retain things like language skills and generalized knowledge of how the world works despite the amnesia – and regression as a reaction to trauma is more along the lines of returning to comforting childish habits, and things like wetting the bed and more child-like speech patterns in more extreme cases, rather than literally regressing to the mentality of a child.

But you could maybe argue that Casca’s reaction is extra extreme because of the extra extreme fantastical nature of her trauma.

So yeah, you have a fair point, and that’s just based on my half assed google research lol so I’m more than happy to defer to the greater knowledge of your sister and cousin if it seems possible to them.