I think this is a parallel of sorts, Griffith exhaling and acting freely and in the second inhaling and suppressing his feelings, probably. Somebody smart help me.



i’m not over how ridiculously hot griffith is in this love triangle dynamic establishing scene
like he’s so obviously the point the other two are competing for i can’t handle it
i mean the page right after just says in words what the art says in art:


like
the point of chapter 1 is to establish where the characters are at 3 years later and the important things we see are:
- hawks kicking ass and rising up during the 100 years war
- casca and guts both fixated on an extremely desirable griffith, griffith’s clear preference, casca’s resentment
also look at griffith’s expressions here


he’s so damn fond and in love omg


Clearfiles with Kentaro Miura art remakes from character designer/animation director Naoyuki Onda.
seisans
replied to your post “wingsfreedom
replied to your post “Do you think that human!Griffith/…”
it’s totally a red herring imo …..

wingsfreedom
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“Do you think that human!Griffith/ Charlotte and Guts/Casca are good…”
Yes all of this. And as much as I dislike this theory: I think when Casca gets her mind back Muira will continue use her as a plot device to add more drama + drive the plot, because I find Casca has a weird connection with the Moon Light Child (her son) and he share the same body with Neo-Griffith, so she may mistaken she still has feelings for Griffith? And that will throw Guts of the edge more somehow when he finds out? It’s just a theory tho…
this sounds like such a worst case scenario and i really really hope it’s incorrect, but yeah you never know. I do have to wonder how the moonlight kid figures into everything, and it doesn’t seem entirely impossible that miura would go there.
romantic:
“That’s also why you used to hate being touched by anyone, isn’t it?”

just guys bein dudes:


evidence of a hetero crush:

dudes bein bros:

Do you think that human!Griffith/ Charlotte and Guts/Casca are good couples?
Sorry if this is a disappointing answer, but not in the slightest.
Griffith/Charlotte is a complete sham from Griffith’s side, he’s just using her to become king. His seduction of her was completely calculated, except when he was distraught after Guts left, and the way his dream and Charlotte are conjoined and presented in opposition to his feelings for Guts makes his relationship with Charlotte read as a very strong symbol of unhealthy emotional repression imo.
Also Charlotte’s obsession is so intense it seems very unhealthy, like, embroidering Griffith’s face over and over for two years is a little much lol. We don’t get much of Charlotte’s side of it but what we do get is basically a naive girl totally taken in by Griffith’s fake seduction, and it’s kind of sad to me.
As for Guts and Casca, to me their relationship reads 100% as both of them redirecting their feelings for Griffith to each other. There are very strong parallels to both their relationships with him during the scene where they hook up, they both acknowledge that they’re not over Griffith afterwards, and after the Eclipse Casca basically functions as an outlet for Guts’ feelings about Griffith.
Casca’s issues with her lack of independent identity – becoming Griffith’s sword after Griffith saves her, then becoming Guts’ sword after she sleeps with him – are not a good start to any relationship, and the licking wounds description seems very apt. It was never a grand, epic romance, but it’s not even a particularly happy or healthy hook up. They fuck right after Guts lets Casca stab him while thinking about how abandoning Griffith was maybe a bad idea, and right after Casca tries to kill herself. Then Guts has a flashback and strangles her during, and Casca is just happy to finally have someone receptive to her attempts to comfort and support them.
Afterwards Guts invites her along in as non-committal a way as possible, like ‘idk maybe you coming with me will suck and you’ll throw off my groove and i’ll end up ditching you anyway, but i want more sex so let’s give it a shot.’ Which I honestly find hilarious in how unromantic it is.
And even as a low-key licking wounds hook-up it feels very narratively forced to me (which makes sense since Miura said he had them get together just to make the Eclipse more dramatic).
Like Judeau has to practically shove Guts at Casca for him to even consider it lol.
Then of course after the Eclipse you have Guts abandoning her in a cave for two years, assaulting her twice, and redirecting his feelings for Griffith to her again – not even just in the hound scenes but also when he decides to save her directly because he compares abandoning her in a cave to abandoning Griffith in the snow, and when he decides to stick with her only after Griffith abandoned him lol.
Plus Casca is terrified of him for good reason, and the idea of their relationship turning romantic again after Casca gets her mind back is something I find fairly horrifying after how he treated her.
She’s been reduced to nothing more than a symbol of Guts trying to keep his hold on humanity, she’s suffered for it, and if she gets her mind back and gets back together with Guts as a narrative “reward” to him for suffering through a shitty life, like I think a lot of Berserk fans want, I would be extremely disappointed.
(I have a very, very long post that goes into detail on Guts and Casca’s relationship and how it largely revolves around Griffith here, if you’re interested, but I’d only recommend reading it if you’re not a fan of their romance. it’s also about griffguts and gay subtext but so is most of my blog content lol)

I love this piece but please tell me WHOSE HAND IS THAT? like please whoever sees this. The question is killing me.
Like i first thought Gennon but like he wasn’t exactly bloody, grieviously wounded or this old in that time line. Plus it’s like a big hand? I can’t imagine Griffith touching back anyone who isn’t Guts tbh. And this touch doesn’t scream Guts to me?
OH!!! You know, I only just now saw this? I’m sorry, I would’ve responded earlier had I known! It is a big hand, yes. It is Guts’ hand, yes. Well, not literally Guts but more like Griffith’s imagining of Guts reaching for him in the dark. Which is why it’s extra tender and muzzy. I tend to think of it as a hallucinated image from the maze of Griffith’s life, real and imagined from the year he was a prisoner.
That fits so beautifully.
It just…wow.
Casca again lol. The flowers I’ve picked are gladiolus, meaning strength, and an elegantine rose, meaning “a wound to heal”. One day I’ll be good at drawing flowers.









My fave thing in the whole world is farnese making moves to do something for casca on instinct like wash her hair or smth intimate like that except casca, is healed, and so when casca turns around all spooked farny Dies and doubles over w appology and is flustered for the rest of her life
farnese having a crisis over her usefulness to the group bc she doesnt think shes good enough at magic for that to be her thing and she doesnt wanna be just some laundry girl… casca takes farneses hands in her own and says “but i still need you” and farnese dies

This is what Void’s body looks like under his cloak according to the maker of this Figma.

i think i started this at the time i was writing commentary on the boy… and then when i found it again i got sad *A*
Have some Modern AU Berserk kids: jock Isidro, nice girl Jill and rebel Rosine. They truly didn’t deserve all that shit that happened to them. Schierke, Erika and Rickert are next in line… If I manage to find some free time.
i’m still not over skull knight calling griffith half of guts





first and last glimpse
also speaking of comparing the torture chamber and griffith becoming femto:








idk seems like a fitting illustration of how by sacrificing guts, ie the light within him, a fissure opens up into which evil surges. even if it’s coincidental



[Insert Ganeshka’s backstory of isolation and fear here.]









eh? eh?
ok honestly I’m just throwing shit at the wall but Ganeshka’s lonely freakout really really intrigues me, that plus the talk of light and dark reminds me both of Griffith in the torture chamber and Griffith as he’s transforming into Femto, and while yeah NeoGriff’s “within darkness that true light is discovered” bit is much more metaphysical (yk more to do with the fact that Griffith had to become Femto to become the saviour of humanity, probably), the fact that it’s in response to Ganeshka’s total loss of himself and everyone around him, the fact that the light Ganeshka longs for has shifted from something he considers his enemy to the only connection he has in an unknowable lonely world just… resonates man. I love it.
“You can see. Because he who bears the light exists in the deepest shadow.” Ganeshka can see NeoGriffith’s true form because he’s the only one on the same plane of existence of him, and that plane is defined by despair – despair opens the behelit that makes him an apostle, despair in the face of an inevitable loss sends him into that reincarnation thing to become a god, and his brief existence as a god is defined by existential terror and isolation. In a way he and NeoGriff are both made out of the same stuff the Idea of Evil is made out of. that’s the “darkness” imo.
And despair is the darkness of the torture chamber (give or take the lightning blazing within him that is Guts) and it’s what Griffith succumbs to when he sinks into darkness and becomes Femto.
Also


while the “light” referred to might more literally be Griffith-as-godly-saviour, bringer of peace to humanity or whatever, I’m thinking it works as a symbol of that longing for connection.
like idk the way I take Berserk’s use of light and darkness as symbols is, essentially, darkness is the despair that opens the behelit and light is what you sacrifice. darkness – the swirling negative emotions that make up the idea of evil. light – connection, love, joy, family, peace, brotherhood yadda yadda yadda. or at least the potential for those things.
Griffith/Femto appears right after Ganeshka’s backstory of being unable to connect with anyone around him because of his paranoia – loneliness and fear. He gives Ganeshka that brief sense of connection before his death as the light envelops him.
I’m basically just thinking outloud in a disorganized way here bc tbqh I have such a hard time sussing out what “It’s within darkness that true light is discovered” means in the overall context of Berserk. Like, other than Griffith going ‘lol I’m evil but also saving the world.’ that’s too reductive. But I think longing (darkness) for connection (light) maybe works for me? thanks to Ganeshka’s whole thing being isolation.
meme thing
I was tagged by @griff-guts, ty!
Rules: Bold those statements that are true for you. Tag 9 people you’d like to know better.
APPEARANCE
I am 5′7″ or taller
I wear glasses
I have at least one tattoo
I have blond hair
I have brown eyes
I have short hair
My abs are at least somewhat defined
I have or have had braces.
PERSONALITY
I love meeting people
People tell me that I’m funny
Helping others with their problems is a big priority for me
I enjoy physical challenges
I enjoy mental challenges
I’m playfully rude with people I know well
I started saying something ironically and now I can’t stop saying it
There’s something I’d change about my personality
ABILITY
I can sing well
I can play an instrument
I can do over 30 push-ups without stopping
I’m a fast runner
I can draw well
I have a good memory
I’m good at doing math in my head
I can’t hold my breath underwater for over a minute
I have beaten at least 2 people on arm wrestling
I know how to cook at least 3 meals from scratch
I know how to throw a proper punch
HOBBIES
I enjoy playing sports
I’m on a sports team at my school or somewhere else
I’m in an orchestra or choir at my school or somewhere else
I’ve learned a new song in the past week
I work out at least once a week
I’ve gone for runs at least once a week in the warmer months
I have drawn something in the past month
I enjoy writing
I do or have done martial arts
EXPERIENCE
I have had my first kiss
I have had alcohol
I have scored the winning goal in sports game
I have watched an entire season of a TV show in one sitting
I have been at an overnight event
I have been in a taxi
I have been in the hospital or ER in the past years
I have beaten a video game in one day
I have visited another country
I have been to one of my favorite band’s concerts
RELATIONSHIPS
I’m in a relationship
I have a crush on a celebrity
I have a crush on someone I know
I have been in at least 3 relationships
I have never been in a relationship
I have asked someone out or admitted my feelings to them
I get crushes easily
I have had a crush on someone for over a year
I have had feelings for a friend
MY LIFE
I have at least one person I consider a best friend
I live close to my school
My parents are still together
I have at least one sibling
I lived in the United States
There’s snow right now where I live
I have hung out with a friend in the past month
I have a smartphone
I have at least 15CDs
I share my room with someone
RANDOM SHIT
I have breakdanced
I know a person named Jamie
I have had a teacher with a last name that’s hard to pronounce
I have dyed my hair
I’m listening to a song on repeat right now
I have punched someone in the last week
I know someone who has gone to jail
I have broken a bone
I know what I want to do with my life
I have eaten a waffle today
I speak at least 2 languages
I have made a new friend in the past year
not tagging anyone bc i’m lazy but if you want to do it plz do and @ me


















