Except for the feeling that this piece of the storm, Which turned into nothing before your eyes, would come back, That someone years hence, sitting as you are now, might say: “It’s time. The air is ready. The sky has an opening.” (x)
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i just like to think of him as being really into analyzing literature and philosophy is all but also i might be projecting 😦
i mean to be fair one of the few things we know about griffith that doesn’t seem intrinsically connected to his dream is that he likes to read
so I don’t think it’s a stretch
ETA:
@madchen said: and yeaaaa i think he’s potentially a
perfectionist with goals but otherwise interprets his love for guts as
want/need bc that’s the lens he viewed the other big thing in his life
for so long
also yeah def, and I really love that moment actually where griff is like “i must obtain the things i desire” bc griffith spends 10 minutes with guts and guts is already up there with his dream on griffith’s list of important life goals.
i have more thoughts but yea i think griffiths possessiveness is a childish interpretation of love on his part… i think he could also be possessive and obsessive to a extent bc he has that kind of personality but only over serious situations like u said. i also totally hc griffith as borderline so yea.
i actually think
griffith would enjoy english and sociology and literature.. like i read
him as a humanities person over a stem person as far as modern liberal
education (in the us tbh) goes! he’s still smart so he could def go into
a science but i don’t think it would be his true passion or interest!
yeah that’s a good way of putting it. that ‘i must obtain the things i desire’ where he like, sees guts and decides he needs him in his life the same way he saw a castle and decided he wanted it when he was a kid. He doesn’t like jump from obsession to obsession or anything, he has a grand total of two things he’s ever wanted in 20 or w/e years of life, but man does he want them lol.
also yeah I kind of like the idea of Griffith being into science bc it’s not something I usually think of and it’s cute to think of him geeking out over biology or something lol, but yeah I think of him as more into humanities by default. or politics/law if we’re going for more of a still-obsessed-with-an-ambition angle.
Yeah it’s been glitching a lot more recently. And it used to be easily fixable by just refreshing the page and starting over, but now that doesn’t help, I need to close my whole browser before it’ll let me upload images again lol, it’s awful. Maybe that’s a firefox thing rather than a tumblr thing to be fair though.
If it hasn’t been working at all for you, have you tried restarting your browser? (I know I leave mine open for weeks at a time lol so you never know)
also if you’re writing a post with lots of images, i’ve found that it’s a good precaution to save as a draft every time you upload a new image, just in case it glitches. that way at least you don’t lose everything if it refuses to save lol.
anyway I hope the problem gets solved so you can make your post 🙂
This parallel/contrast is a great little illustration of the significance of the Zodd encounter.
Cuddling with his sword the way he did as a child when faced with mistrust and derision vs dedicating his sword to Griffith – in the first his sword is a comfort object, an escape, a distraction. In the second his sword is a tool – he’s not wielding it as a distraction from his own pain, he’s wielding it for someone else, as a symbol of a meaningful connection with another person.
It’s also worth noting that right before the conversation with Griffith, Guts was angrily swinging his sword as a distraction while remembering Casca making him feel like an outsider (”you’re just a mad dog!” “it’s your fault!”), essentially underlining this contrast between the way Guts regards his sword before and after Griffith says he saved his life for his sake.
And check out these matching visuals of Guts looking at his blistered hands, just to drive the point home:
Second part of college AU I don’t think they’d actually get deeply
romantically and sexually interested (at least Guts) until their junior
or senior year. Griffith is shameless often showing Guts off to family
and friends and just everybody in 5 mike radius. I still think they’re
relationship would be complicated and maybe even toxic. I feel like
Griffith would still be really fearful of Guts leaving him and always
needs confirmation. While also being jealous and obsessive a lot of the
time.
lol I’d have to imagine this set this in a country with free higher education bc I can’t see Guts either going on scholarships or digging himself into debt just for the hell of it. But yk what they’re in medieval Europe in canon, so why not put them in modern day idk, denmark or whatever?
That aside, they’d both totally be into each other at first sight. w/ modern aus I feel like there’s a lot more freedom to have them actually recognize and act on their attraction a lot quicker than in canon, but they could both still have trauma complicating things.
Though without an all-consuming dream I think Griffith would be a lot more forthcoming about his own feelings. The dream is the source of like 90% of his canon stupidity lol, his inability to understand his feelings because he refuses to acknowledge he has any because he has to be the perfect leader because of the dream, eg. Though I think he’d still have elements of self-loathing without the dream, esp if he still has csa trauma in his past, so there’s a basis for a fear of rejection.
Also I could see Griffith being obsessive/possessive – that just seems like a part of Griffith’s childishness and something inherently him – but I don’t think he’d demonstrate it day-to-day. In canon he’s very chill 99% of the time, so in a modern au I think you’d only be able to tell how intense his feelings actually are in really significant moments. Otherwise it would manifest in just like, wanting to drag Guts out on pseudo coffee dates all the time or something lol. Little things that Guts would respond really well to because he rly wants that feeling of being wanted.
And they both have serious issues with perceived rejection which could fuck things up for them in a modern AU too. But again, I don’t think it’s constant, I think it’s something that comes out in bigger moments. Guts, say, telling Griffith he’s too busy to hang out today wouldn’t bother Griffith, but eg Guts deciding to get his own apartment would freak Griffith tf out. And likewise, Griffith having a social life that doesn’t involve Guts wouldn’t bother Guts, but Griffith eg ditching Guts bc he has to network would make him extremely broody and insecure.
Also I think either of them dating someone else before they’re officially together would send the other into a tailspin of seething jealousy. imo moreso in a modern AU than in canon because the two of them getting together is a more easily recognized possibility than in canon. Also if Griffith knows he’s gay in a modern AU and dates another dude before Guts, that might be a good catalyst for Guts realizing he’s super jealous bc he’s in love with Griffith.
Idk I just wanted to like muse aloud based on your asks lol, ty for sharing your ideas!
Our meetings were quite dolorous: his smile, his glance mysterious, His venom-filled and caustic sermons poured frozen poison in my soul. With endless slandering remarks he tempted Providence
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tbh any sort of converse au where social norms regarding being gay are more a la… idk captive prince? is good for berserk like ill take it man
tbh yeah this would simplify so much lol, and they need all the help they can get
@ your tags same there’s just so much
physical chemistry on top of the issues they got to make it real good 😦
griffith withdrawing
after getting freaked out by how comfortable he is being vulnerable +
intimate w guts and guts eventually trying to reconnect after giving
griff space he thinks he needs
au where they can say “i love you” during sex 😦
yeah exactly it’s like the perfect combination of being an emotional and psychological minefield while there’s still just such a strong pull between them that you know they’d be able to persist and work through it regardless because they just would not be able to go their separate ways (guts leaving in canon doesn’t count bc he specifically did it to get closer to griffith in a roundabout way).
also physically, lbr they need to fuck. it’s the physical chemistry like you said, once they open that door there’s no closing it.
and agh i can see the 2nd point so easily lol. and guts giving griffith space would just freak griffith out more 😦
My brain saw this and became twisted in knots…like…some sort of alternate universe where Griffith is trying to gain a kingdom, but to do so it would be best to marry into a powerful noble family (closely related to the royal bloodline + with a vested interest to overthrow the current royals) and gain their support? And the best candidate happens to be…Guts? (Guts as a noble is hard for me to imagine but regardless…wait, now I’m picturing peasant (mercenary?) Charlotte to complete the…
sort-of roleswap.) That’s the best I can do for now…
omgggg i kind of love this take on it. charlotte vs guts roleswap is a galaxy level concept.
like, griffith starts trying to seduce guts thinking he’ll be typical snooty asshole nobility/royalty and then gets to know him, realizes he just comes across as haughty bc he’s anti-social but is actually down to earth and extremely skilled with a sword and informal and idk mb he’s so chill because he’s like the 3rd born and never thought he’d actually end up w/ real power but then half his family died of the plague or something, etc, and the point is griffith just totally falls for him
or maybe he’s a lost scion who grew up the way guts grew up b4 being identified and returned to his family. but lmfao that’s prob too much ridiculousness on top of this already ridic premise, that’s just a fish out of water comedy at that point.
or heeeeey judeau mentioned second sons of nobility joining the hawks, maybe guts spent some time mercenarying anyway just for the hell of it, before his brother(s) died and he had to give it up
(also this opens interesting doors for charlotte/casca… js js)
I feel this, tho I think the biggest story progression is happening on Guts’ side of the narrative rn so switching to Griffith’s side feels like a way to slow it down I’ll be thrilled if something actually important happens w/ him tho. i mean he got falconia, it’s time to introduce an actual conflict to bring us into endgame *cough feelings cough*
And like, on the one hand I just want to find out what’s going down w/ Casca, like, rip the band-aid off already Miura the nervous anticipation is killing me.
On the other hand there’s a decent chance that I’m gonna hate whatever happens so maybe it’s better to have some extra time to live in hope lol.
this was a good thing to come home from work and see lol ty
(established relationship canon au where griffith and charlotte have arranged themselves a lavender marriage and the whole focus of an epic length story is guts and griffith slowly but surely working all the kinks out of and into their sex life. like i s2g every time i think about these 2 having sex there are fifty potential land mines and hazards and ways everything could go very wrong but also ways everything could go very right. there’s so much material there!
like just reading this ask made me think about how badly griffith could crash afterwards like the first few times. just from like, getting too into it to think and existing blissfully in the moment for an hour or two and therefore second guessing everything all at once when his brain comes back online after.
but then eventually he would just be able to enjoy losing himself during sex with no misgivings and that would be a genuinely significant bit of character development for him lol.)
I gotta admit, I got nothin lol. This is like so different from canon my limited imagination can’t even begin to conceive of it. Like, in a world w/out heteronormativity where guts and griffith both have families w/ some amount of power (or idk have peasants ever done arranged marriages? i always think of it as an upper class thing), I’m already totally lost at sea.
If you want to throw some more ideas for this at me plz do tho, I’m intrigued, just not really capable of coming up wtih anything myself lol.
Except for the feeling that this piece of the storm, Which turned into nothing before your eyes, would come back, That someone years hence, sitting as you are now, might say: “It’s time. The air is ready. The sky has an opening.” (x)
yk I don’t rly know, I don’t have any genres I’m particularly into, I just tend to hear a song and look for more by the same person, and find music that way. And I don’t listen to the radio or use apps like idk spotify or w/e that rec u stuff so my method is just stumbling across it for the most part. I used to get most of my music from fanmixes lol.
And speaking of I’ve never heard of Billie Eillish either but I like these, ty! Especially My Boy tbh. And yeah I’m getting the same vibes.
damn it i knew after I posted that response to that ask about the ovas that I’d got this bit wrong and it was in the manga after all
but then I was like, but surely if it was in the manga I would’ve remembered it and quoted it in a bunch of stuff since it’s such a strong encapsulation of one of the themes I’m always talking about? and then i didn’t double check til just now lol.
ty! never heard either of these before but I like them. tbh from 505 I kinda get a Guts leaving Griffith to become his friend vibe tho fairly abstract lol, and Muddy Waters is very right before the Eclipse.
I’ll be thrilled if something actually important happens w/ him tho. i mean he got falconia, it’s time to introduce an actual conflict to bring us into endgame *cough feelings cough*
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