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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:

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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

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he’s so damn fond and in love omg

wingsfreedom
replied to your post

“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.

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)

mastermistressofdesire:

gyodragon:

mastermistressofdesire:

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.

jillresia:

jillresia:

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

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

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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

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