Minor character time! Jill 16, Zodd 17, Theresia 14, Slan 16, Locus 20 (Relationship with NeoGriffith), Void 10, Anna 7, Corkus 4, Pippin 15, and not a minor character but she didn’t get any yet so Casca 6, 11, and 19

omg lol, ty let’s give this a shot

Anger headcanon – Jill

Jill, being inspired by Guts but deciding to stay in her shitty town for whatever reason, channels her anger at all the awful people she’s surrounded by into teaching herself the sword. Maybe finds someone less terrible to teach her the stuff she can’t learn herself. When Griffith breaks the world half her town gets eaten and she takes off to become an adventurer.

Soft spot headcanon – Zodd

He has a soft spot for anyone who manages to survive more than 5 minutes against him. Especially Guts who he practically has a crush on and won’t let anyone else kill unless he absolutely has to.

Dancing headcanon – Theresia

hmmm okay – Theresia is out now, seeing the world for the first time, fueled by rage and revenge, but not so consumed by it that she can’t feel the wonder of experiencing the world properly finally after only seeing it from her window. She’s wandering from place to place learning to fight from anyone who will teach her something. One day she finds herself in a small town during some spring festival. There’s dancing in the streets, and she gets pulled into it. She doesn’t know how to dance but she has a great time moving from partner to partner and just going with it and letting loose for an afternoon. Afterwards it’s one of her fondest memories.

Anger headcanon – Slan

Omg okay I just thought of this bc of you putting the words Slan and Anger together, but hey what if the thing that turned her into a member of the Godhand wasn’t sex-related like we all assume from the fact that her tits are out in Berserk?

I’m not gonna build a whole narrative here but hell maybe she was an epic, prideful queen or something who lost a war, and decided to sacrifice all her loyal beloved subjects and become a god rather than accept her loss. Also for added camp drama the kingdom she lost to’s queen is her ex girlfriend. She was the main sacrifice. Now there’s a headcanon you can hang your hat on.

Relationship with NeoGriffith headcanon – Locus

Locus takes the noble knight thing waaaay too seriously. Also while the rest of the apostles are all in love with Griffith by default, Locus would be in love with him anyway. He’s got this whole loyal devoted knight/sexy king thing built up in his head.

Physical appearance headcanon

– Void

Dude looks like… that… because of a) how he was tortured (the hooks and stuff) and b) bc he’s a sage (nerd) and really wants to emphasize his brain over his looks. Superlong scarecrow skeleton arms are so he can pull his cloak out to the sides and flap it like wings and fly away.

Kissing headcanon – Anna

NICE. Okay her first kiss with Charlotte is initiated by Charlotte after she sobs in Anna’s arms about how she’s pretty sure her husband is a soul-less void and also gay af. Charlotte reaches out tentatively, says, “you’ll always love me, right?” and kisses her.

Anna spends about 2 seconds going ‘holy shit holy shit holy shit’ and then loses all decorum, takes control of the kiss, carries her to the bed, and immediately undertakes the job of making Charlotte forget all about her demon husband, with rousing success.

Driving headcanon

– Corkus

lmao THE WORST. Never get into a car with his man. He will scream at everyone, he will honk obnoxiously during traffic jams, he will tailgate, he will pass on a solid yellow line, he considers going the speed limit a form of losing.

Singing headcanon – Pippin

He has the best bass voice. He doesn’t sing often but get a few drinks into him and everyone shuts up to listen to him.

Hugging headcanon

– Casca

This is how she wants to comfort and be comforted. Casca is a huggy person, she will hug you without thinking if it looks like you need it. To get Farnesca for a sec Farnese loves nothing more than being wrapped in Casca’s strong comforting arms in a vulnerable moment.

Wardrobe headcanon

– Casca

Vastly prefers men’s clothes. Even if she got over her awkwardness with feeling out of place in a dress, men’s clothes are just more practical, easier to move in, and a whole lot better for combat. (Farnese agrees and they make a rly striking pair – Casca more casual while Farnese gets dandy-ish)

Favorite photograph headcanon

– Casca

I’d have to say her favourite memory is something really simple. Just, one of many very similar nights, hanging out around the fire, the rest of the hawk commanders are there. Actually yk that official (i think? if it’s fanart someone tell me who to credit) artwork?

This.

Umm Griffith and his Apostles (Zodd, Locus…) 7,8,17 I’ll go back to my place in hell now bye.

lmaooo nice. And I’m doing all the apostles. We’re going straight into freaky god/army of devoted monsters action, and i’m taking it semi seriously. It’s like 1 am here it’s the perfect time for this.

putting this under a cut tho for the thin veneer of decency

Kissing headcanon

The apostles are divided between the ones who get lovey dovey, keep mostly to their humanish forms, and are rly body worshippy, and the ones who whip out the tentacles and weird prehensile monster dicks. The former are the ones who like to kiss. Anyway Locus is like the prime example of an apostle into making out all night and lots of foreplay and looking human and trying to please, mostly bc he’s totally in love with Griffith even without the magic apostle/god connection.

Sex headcanon

I’m not sure whether to go for monster orgies/gangbangs or just like an
everyone gets their night to look forward to thing. Actually let’s go with the
latter bc it’s easier logistically. Like there are a lot of apostles.
It’d be like a nightly ritual thing, the god attending to his servants and rewarding their loyalty. Thru freaky ritualistic sex. Yk something something empty vessel for humanity’s desires exemplified by the apostles who gave themselves over to base desire. Totally legit.

Anyway in addition to the ones who want to ~make love~ that I already mentioned you get types like Raksas who want to inflict pain bc it’s how they show their love, and it only kind of works bc Griffith is basically invulnerable – like he can still feel physical sensation, it just wouldn’t register as harmful or bad to his weird god brain. But the apostles are still into it.

Then you have the Miura-typical apostles who just want to take bc aggression and darkness or w/e and fucking their god is like the ultimate experience for them.

Tbh I wonder if Zodd would consider it one of those stupid apostle things like the Eclipse was to him and refrain, and look down on everyone who got into the whole god sex thing. otoh Zodd would be a great service top for rough sex so that would be a shame if so.

Griffith is indifferent to everything and contentedly passive, and it’s another v graphic way to showcase his alien-ness and the disturbing discrepancy between our Griffith and NeoGriffith. (Though with his heart beating that could slowly change buuut that’s veering into fucked up Berserk-appropriate territory rather than fun wacky sex headcanon territory so I’ll leave it at that.)

Soft spot headcanon 

This is related only by a thread but I have to say it: Zodd peaces out of the sex thing after Griffith calls him Guts by mistake and then pretends it never happened. Zodd just claims it’s because he’s above all the base desires of the other apostles while being secretly bitter. Next time he sees Guts his residual soft spot for him as a worthy opponent is totally gone and Guts wonders where their fun rival-y rapport went. Now there’s an award winning love triangle for you.

alright 6 8 and 9 for griff? or pick and choose >:]

mastermistressofdesire:

bthump:

Hugging headcanon 

He’s always the one hugging someone to comfort them, never the one needing comfort. So he’ll hug Casca after she thinks he’s dead to reassure her, but he’ll twist out of her arms when she’s trying to comfort him in the river.

But deep down, somewhere he won’t admit to himself, he really, really wants to be wrapped in Guts’ big arms. Like letting Guts hold him and letting himself feel comforted would be one of the highest relationship achievements to unlock.

Post-torture, when Guts did get to hug him and hold him a few times, Griffith would’ve pushed him away if he could and a tiny part of him was glad he couldn’t.

Sex headcanon

Because I think it fits him on a meta-level, I think if Griff has sex-related trauma it’s more about feeling objectified and used rather than say sexual position. So he’d switch but wants to be the one in control regardless. With Guts he’d definitely lean towards power bottoming, and he’d lavish praise on Guts, talk about how gorgeous he is, etc. Guts wants to be looked-at and Griffith wants to do the looking so I think they’d be rly compatible from the start. But I also think it’s kind of a burden to him to always feel the need to be in control so there’s another related high-level relationship achievement to unlock in some happily ever after au.

Also doing this one for NeoGriff because I feel like there’s a significant change:

NeoGriff otoh would have sex solely to please his partner. What with the whole “the desired” thing, he would just become whatever his partner wanted him to be, because the only reason he’d be having sex anyway is to further his goal. So Charlotte gets this ready-made fantasy object who doesn’t give a fuck but is really good at pretending to, and so does anyone else he might ever end up getting laid by, for whatever goal-related reason. He’s still in control no matter what he’s doing what with being a god and all, but it’s all dictated by the other’s desires.

Other than Guts who is still the eternal exception.

General physical contact headcanon

Guts’ rare casual touches make his heart skip several beats and get warm and fuzzy. like look at this look right after:

that hand on his shoulder is like a heating pad in a -40 blizzard.

I’m sorrry but I stopped midway and teared up a little in the hugging head cannon section. And yes. yes. I agree with everything here.

And I’ve actually thought about Griffith wanting to push Guts away in the post-torture arc before and to have it brought up again…

Because I distinctly remember that panel in which Guts is helping him put on his armor and Griffith looks like he’s actually quite distant and not enjoying this situation at all. i think there’s this implicit message that this level of proximity makes him uncomfortable because it’s not by his own choice, nor could he possibly stop it even if he really wanted to.

Guts has pretty much attached himself to Griffith at this point and there isn’t really anything he can do to change it and what use would that be anyway? He’s tense and distant the whole time. He knows Guts is trying to humor him and I think the assumed pity only makes it worse for him, makes him almost consistently avoid eye-contact except for that one moment when he asks for his armour.

(I actually have a lot of feels regarding this, but if I get into that now, I’ll never get to my point)

But so basically Griffith’s been sort of tensed right from the moment of rescue and it seems like he’d really rather be left alone but there’s this one panel when Guts lies down next to him and immediately falls asleep and Griffith just looks at him and relaxes, and there’s this slight smile on his face and you know he’s glad the Guts didn’t actually leave and it fucks me up. It really really does.

Oh maaaan ty for expanding on like my one sentence up there this is so good. I swear there’s so much to sob about during the post-torture pre-eclipse stuff but nothing hurts me more than Griffith’s actual smiles.

this is the most heartwrenching shit i’ve ever seen

SERPICO 1-20 B)

*cracks knuckles*

Holiday headcanon

Farnese would give Serpico a birthday gift on the anniversary of her finding him in the snow. She never asked when his actual birthday was.

Cooking headcanon

Serpico didn’t learn to cook until Farnese was sent to the monastery and he went with her. As punishment for some infraction (maybe something Farnese did and he took the blame for) he got assigned cooking duty, and found out he was good at it and enjoyed it.

Sleeping headcanon

Has a recurring nightmare about being burned alive, often by Farnese, sometimes by himself or his mother.

Driving headcanon

The best driver. He’s the guy you want to get in a car with – totally cool, chill, zen about traffic, lets people in, accelerates gently, always signals, doesn’t break the speed limit unless everyone else on the highway is, etc. Unless Farnese is in the passenger seat, because when she tells him to pass a slow driver on the shoulder of a four-lane highway or they’re totally going to be late for her appointment, he’ll do it.

Bathing/showering headcanon

The thing he likes least about traveling with Guts and co, other than the imminent danger aspect, is the lack of opportunities to bathe. I feel like personal hygiene is v important to him.

Hugging headcanon

Pretty much only hugs Farnese. Like if there was a crying child in front of him he’d only try to comfort him or her if no one else was available to do it instead. He’s a caretaker but not the most emotionally nuturing.

Kissing headcanon

answered

Sex headcanon

Okay I think he’s had plenty of unemotional hook ups with men in the past. Sure he was around a bunch of terrifying religious people, but we know the whole burning people alive thing was to keep the lower classes terrorized, so nobles weren’t really in danger. So he wasn’t too worried about being called a heretic for getting laid.

Also I think he’d want to be more submissive in bed than he’d actually allow himself. He’d feel like submitting to someone else was a kind of betrayal of Farnese, in a weird way. He’d still let the other dude have the upper hand during sex though.

General physical contact headcanon

Standoffish. Even with Farnese, she’s the one who generally has to initiate contact.

Physical appearance headcanon

A little vain. Knows he’s good looking and can be charming and uses it when necessary.

Wardrobe headcanon

Usually likes the finer things so he was surprised by how attached he got to his cloak, even if it is magic. He feels kind of like a fairytale hero when he wears it.

Jewelry headcanon

Not much of a jewelry wearer. I admit got nothin on this one.

Nickname headcanon

I’ll say he’s slightly embarrassed whenever Ivalera calls him a maid, if that counts as a nickname.

Dancing headcanon

Answered.

Singing headcanon

I’ve never heard his voice in the new anime, but I feel like he’d be a tenor. He’d also have a pretty good singing voice – I bet they had to learn hymns at the monastery. Maybe he was part of a choir for a couple years there.

Anger headcanon

Too repressed to get outwardly angry. Even when shit gets real and he brings the sword out and tries to kill Guts, he’s chill about it and only shows some intensity in his eyes. I can pretty much only see him losing it if Farnese ever got killed.

Soft spot headcanon

Other than Farnese? I think he actually has a soft spot for Guts, despite trying to kill him and considering him a danger. He respects him quite a bit, decides to put faith in his will power instead of trying to kill him again, and there’s that one moment during Ganeshka’s lightning storm where he leaps over to try to save Guts and Guts is like, ‘tf are you doing? you know there’s nothing you can do to help me so go do something useful.’ Little bit of irrational protectiveness coming out there. Then getting between him and Zodd. He probably has a bit of a crush.

Favorite possession headcanon

Probably the cloak and feather duster. I keep thinking of and then dismissing ways to say this. Like, it’s not that he wants to be special, or that they allow him to be useful, or that he wants to be part of something bigger than himself… it’s more like they symbolize he subtle ways he’s changing himself and becoming a better person – or at least a person he likes more?

Favorite photograph headcanon

Calling this favourite memory and tbh this is a tough one. Probably wouldn’t be anything pre-Guts. But anything post-Guts is also tinged with sadness because he’s on the outside looking in at Farnese, especially her more heartwarming and happy moments, a lot now. Man Serpico actually has a really sad life overall. Mmmmaybe I’ll go with waking up in bed being tended to by Farnese the very first time when she found him in the snow.

Relationship with/thoughts on _____ headcanon

I’m leaving this one blank because I have the worst time thinking of stuff to talk about if it’s not specified lol. But feel free to send another ask and fill in the blank! I was actually about to put relationship with Guts, but i figure I went over that pretty well in the soft spot question so… I’ll just leave it for now.

@madchen said:
let. casca. used. power tools.

also this an ideal
griffguts situation bc we all know guts is into griffith sitting in an
immaculate lawn chair, no visible sweat, umbrella shading him + mocktail
and aviators while watching him do hard physical labor 

two extremely good points

@madchen said:
griffith: kicks the
fuck back in a beach chair to scope out that prime Guts Sweaty Abs while
hes hauling shit and casca is very excited abt the electric drill 

this is the most legit thing i’ve ever seen

@yesgabsstuff said: I see her doing both.

@madchen said:
casca and griffith diy
together and try to get guts in on it but guts always tries to Not
Follow Directions bc who cares/doesnt see the point of hotgluing ribbons
to mason jars

lmao this is perfect.

also consider: the three of them spending a weekend building a porch together. though i can’t decide whether modern au griffith would actually contribute much

@tfan2013 said: omg guts doing workout vid would be
adorable. it would be kinda awkward but griffith encourages him to
continue 🙂

@yesgabsstuff said:
Oh my gosh, Guts would
be the cutest! I think he would eventually have a core of his own super
loyal followers because he’s competent.

Also, like, I love
Casca, but homegirl un-ironically has bought into the entire Pinterest
aesthetic. Mason Jars and burlap and all. 

honestly yeah people would love him lol. and lol casca. lmao my first thought when you said DIY was casca building a porch, which shows you how much i actually know about pinterest, but I could see the whole mason jar hipster aesthetic too ngl. and they’re not mutually exclusive so…

@yesgabsstuff said:
Lol I always thought
of Griffith as a serious Tumblr/Instagram person. His LinkedIn is also
meticulous. Casca also has a perfect LinkedIn and looks up DIY shit on
Pinterest.

And I could absolutely see Guts driving away from his panic attacks in the dead of night.

I also imagined that Guts maybe tried
Reddit workout boards but rage quit. He told everyone that he left
because it was petty and stupid, and the dudes were amatures but really
it was all of the weird homophobic language that got to him on his bad
days in a weird lizard brain way. 

ia with all of the above. especially casca as a DIYer, for some reason that seems weirdly perfect to me lol. and aw Guts I could def see that happening.

maybe he’d start his own series of workout videos. he’d be awkward and suck at looking into the camera and talk with a lot of ‘uhs’ and ‘so yeahs’ but he’d get plenty of views because a) he knows his shit and b) he’s hot and griffith is the one holding the camera and adjusting the lighting (and c) griffith links them to his however many thousand followers)

alright 6 8 and 9 for griff? or pick and choose >:]

Hugging headcanon 

He’s always the one hugging someone to comfort them, never the one needing comfort. So he’ll hug Casca after she thinks he’s dead to reassure her, but he’ll twist out of her arms when she’s trying to comfort him in the river.

But deep down, somewhere he won’t admit to himself, he really, really wants to be wrapped in Guts’ big arms. Like letting Guts hold him and letting himself feel comforted would be one of the highest relationship achievements to unlock.

Post-torture, when Guts did get to hug him and hold him a few times, Griffith would’ve pushed him away if he could and a tiny part of him was glad he couldn’t.

Sex headcanon

Because I think it fits him on a meta-level, I think if Griff has sex-related trauma it’s more about feeling objectified and used rather than say sexual position. So he’d switch but wants to be the one in control regardless. With Guts he’d definitely lean towards power bottoming, and he’d lavish praise on Guts, talk about how gorgeous he is, etc. Guts wants to be looked-at and Griffith wants to do the looking so I think they’d be rly compatible from the start. But I also think it’s kind of a burden to him to always feel the need to be in control so there’s another related high-level relationship achievement to unlock in some happily ever after au.

Also doing this one for NeoGriff because I feel like there’s a significant change:

NeoGriff otoh would have sex solely to please his partner. What with the whole “the desired” thing, he would just become whatever his partner wanted him to be, because the only reason he’d be having sex anyway is to further his goal. So Charlotte gets this ready-made fantasy object who doesn’t give a fuck but is really good at pretending to, and so does anyone else he might ever end up getting laid by, for whatever goal-related reason. He’s still in control no matter what he’s doing what with being a god and all, but it’s all dictated by the other’s desires.

Other than Guts who is still the eternal exception.

General physical contact headcanon

Guts’ rare casual touches make his heart skip several beats and get warm and fuzzy. like look at this look right after:

that hand on his shoulder is like a heating pad in a -40 blizzard.

Okay, one more: Guts, 4, 20, thoughts on social media.

Driving headcanon 

I think modern AU Guts would actually be a pretty chill driver. He might enjoy going for drives in a zen way, like he likes doing sword drills when he’s thinking too much. Traffic jams would rly piss him off though. He needs to feel like he’s doing something, not just sitting around and waiting. Also I think he’d go on night drives when he can’t sleep.

Relationship with/thoughts on _____ headcanon 

lmao he wouldn’t have a clue. Griffith would be a social media god, and Guts would just be like, why the fuck. He only cares about validation from a few specific people he knows irl so likes and comments would mean nothing to him. Maybe he’d be subscribed to a few youtube channels about gym workouts or something, if that counts.

Also he might have an instagram account solely because Griffith made him make one to follow him with.

oh also while I’m at it

yesgabsstuff said:
Griffith’s English VA
spoke to my soul. All of his show tune choices were theme-on-point. But I
had never actually thought about what Griffith the person would be
like. And the cooking thing makes sense. I feel like the Hawks made fun
of him gently for being fussy with cooking but always loved the results. 

same lol, the outtakes are worth watching for many reasons but especially his showtunes.
also maybe they take turns cooking for the rest, and everyone looks forward to Griffith’s night. And misses it when he moves up in the world and starts living away from the Band.

now im aware this isnt exactly how that meme works but maybe the meme Could inspire some (slides 5$ across the table) Farnesca Thoughts?

I’m always down to talk Farnesca!

Ok so assume Casca comes back, nothing awful happens, and they’re hanging out taking a well-deserved break in Elfhelm.

Farnese would start out extremely awkward around Casca because she was her babysitter and very familiar with her as the regressed traumatized shell. But she wouldn’t avoid her – at first she’d keep trying to take care of her in some ways. She’d bring her her meals while she’s first recovering from the mentally exhausting process of coming back and being whole again. Maybe she’d ask if Casca wants help brushing her hair, eg.

Casca… hmmm I can see her feeling vulnerable and, whether she remembers what happened in her regressed state or not, associating very positive feelings with Farnese. So while she might say she can do it herself, maybe even snap a little if Farnese is hovering, she’d follow up with something like, “but you can stay if you want.”

Anyway that would continue, Farnese would try to be her attendent and start being her friend. Casca would probably be the first one to open up to her, offering some fond yet sad reminiscing about the past. How she used to be a mercinary captain, what it felt like to wield a sword, dealing with Corkus – nothing about Griff and v little about Guts. Farnese would share parts of her own life, and they’d grow closer.

Casca would start doing sword drills and physical exercises to recover her physicality, and she’d start teaching Farnese some basics as she goes.

Idk I don’t want to do a play-by-play of their entire possible relationship span, but as far as early dynamics go as they tentatively grow closer, this seems like a good start.

Also I think Casca would make the first move. Probably after some serious emotional catharsis – magical therapy is one thing, actually talking to someone is another – and if it’s an attempt on her part to once again find another person to latch on to and shift her identity around, it could mean interesting things for their relationship as it progresses and they have to deal with some underlying unhealthy aspects. I always prefer complications to pure perfect relationships so I think it’d be interesting to explore, especially with Farnese as a caretaker type and Casca as a protective warrior type, kind of relying on each other for their sense of selves.

Especially since, well, they’ve both got histories of that – Casca with Griffith and then Guts, and Farnese with Serpico.

If that is the case though they could have a realization and work through it. Or they could just roll with it and still have a gr8 interesting relationship even if it’s not picture-perfect and they both see themselves as the protector of the other (Casca physically, becoming another sword, and Farnese emotionally, guarding Casca’s heart).

Or they could mitigate the potential unhealthiness by, you know, having other healthy relationships and friends and not solely relying on just one person for that feeling of validation. Casca and Guts could still be friends, and they’ve got the whole posse, and Farnese has Serpico and Schierke and everyone else too.

Lots of good + interesting possibilities, basically.

ty for asking!

14, Serpico

Dancing headcanon

Okay I’m gonna say that Serpico dreaded balls and dances, not because he hated dancing with Farnese but because they had a tendency to lead to awkward moments and lots of duels.

But as of now in the story he finds himself missing them and thinking of them fondly. They were awkward and weird and troublesome but he misses that us-against-the-world feeling when he was with Farnese among all the other nobles.

8 and 12 for farneze?

8. Sex headcanon

She’s mostly a top (and dom with the right parnter) but can switch. She can let loose and get rough but it’s very partner dependant – the thing she most wants to do is make her partner melt into a puddle of pleasure. She wouldn’t start having sex until after she learned a few lessons about being considerate and taking joy and pride in helping others (yk bc she’s still a virgin in canon afaik) and I’m js that would def help make her a gr8 top and/or dom. Her sadistic urges haven’t gone away entirely but I’d say they’re mitigated by care for the other person and rather than solely getting off on like burning someone or flogging someone she could definitely get off on making the other person feel overwhelming pleasure.

The masochism seemed like a manifestation of guilt and shame to me so now that she’s more comfortable with herself that’s probably neither here nor there.

12. Jewelry headcanon

She was indifferent to it when she lived among nobles and had like chests full of it, though I imagine she had a few pieces given to her by her mother and father that she treasured more than the rest.

When she ran away to pursue Guts she occasionally found herself missing the luxury and finery. But when she returned to the Vandimion estate for those two days or so when she was arranging for a ship, she realized how heavy it weighed on her and missed the lightness of the men’s clothes she’d been wearing.

Griffith; 15, 2.

15. Singing headcanon

as much as i’d like to say he’s basically his english va and breaks out into song at every possible opportunity, i’m actually going to say that he can’t carry a tune. at all. he’s happy to sit back and listen to other people sing folksongs around the campfire when judeau breaks out the lute or whatever, but he never joins in. people think it’s because he’s just that little bit aloof but it’s because he knows he’ll embarrass himself.

idk whether it’s better for neogriff to now magically have a gr8 singing voice that he still never uses, or to continue to be woefully out of tune.

2. Cooking headcanon

He can cook. Before he got a study full of books he was adequate at throwing together a stew over a campfire the way most mercinaries probably are. Now he’s an expert on which spices go together and knows all the theory about optimal cooking times and how to get your dough to rise and flavour combinations etc, but never has to cook anymore.

NeoGriff retained all the theory and now that other ppl do the cooking he’s become a food critic.

Serpico 7 :3

I think he’d be a passively receptive kisser for the most part. I hc him as gay and I think he’d go for that type of dude Miura likes to write as side characters – yk like Roderick and Luca’s soldier bf who i s2g he tried hitting on – the kind of good-hearted trustworthy action-oriented type who knows what they want, and Serpico would go with whatever flow and rhythm they set.

Do you think Griffith felt offend when Rickert rejected him? Maybe a little shocked too. I think his desire to know Rickert motives of that slap because he wanted to understand *why*. But Rickert answer end up hurt his ego even more, I think. What’s your thoughts on that?

mastermistressofdesire:

I mean if this was human Griffith, Hell Yeah.

Neo-Griffith is honestly really hard for me to understand. Like what’s going on in that mind of his, it’s so difficult to tell.

I’m not really sure about offended because he didn’t seem angry to me just dissapointed and slightly deflated but I do think he was shocked, much like most of us didn’t see that slap coming.

However I don’t think that Rickert’s refusal came as a complete surprise to Griffith, he’d already considered the possibility, he’d already said “It’s possible you may hate me after knowing the truth…”

But it’s interesting that he didn’t say probable. That’s most probably Griffith’s personal desires warping the truth of the facts around him. Griffith wants to go back to that stage in his life when he had it all figured out, and the Band of the Hawk was by his side. He wants to think that Rickert may chose to join him because he Wants Rickert to join him. All his actions with the Neo Band of the Hawk reflect his desire. He’s trying to rebuild what he’s lost. But They are empty replacements, and so to have Rickert back , a real part of the past he’s trying to recreate is important to him.

It reminds me of two lines from the Manga which have been recurrent themes

“Don’t abandon what you can’t replace”

“Even if you painstakingly put something back together piece by piece it will never be the same.”

They were said with respect to Guts but I feel are highly applicable to Griffith right now too. And is I feel one of the many parallels between them that we get.

So in conclusion, yes the slap was definitely a harsh reality check for Griffith. Which is precisely why he’s playing it cool and saying it doesn’t matter. But yes he’s shaken and contemplative now.

When he first saw Rickert in Falconia, You could see the enthusiasm in Griffith’s body language. It was self delusional yes. But he dropped everything and practically ran to him. He’d obviously been looking forward to seeing him.

Also I think he’d taken it for granted that the fact that Rickert came at all meant he had already decided to accept. I mean most people don’t come all that way, braving monsters and climbing a million stairs just to deliver a well deserved slap.

He opens the conversation grandiosely,  many words and poetry. Exposition and greeting. He’s already expecting things to go up from here, they have been for sometime after all. Nothing has changed he wants to believe that. Then the refusal comes and all that comes out for the rest of the interaction is a muted ‘so it is’ because I think he’s coming to come to terms with the fact that truly? Everything has changed.


@bthump Because you always have the best neo-griffith thoughts. 🙂

oh my gooood i got to the bolded bit and started practically rubbing my hands together in glee at your insight. this whole answer is amazing.

The exploration of identity with NeoGriffith has the potential to be so so good. The way it does seem like he wants Rickert to join him because having a former Hawk accept the NeoBand would be a kind of validation that he needs on some level.

The way Rickert phrases his refusal is one of my favourite moments because of the emphasis he places on how it’s not his Band, and Griffith isn’t his Griffith, and the small differences between insignias matter. And all Griffith can do is passively agree. Now that you’ve drawn the comparison between the NeoBand and those significant lines about forcing back what was and abandoning irreplacable things I am dying to see where that leads even more.

Also it occurs to me that this is the first scene we see where NeoGriff is taken aback and not in control – the way Rickert slaps him, the way he has no response to Rickert’s speech – since the very first scene where his heart started beating and he saved Casca and went ‘wtf’ to himself. Add the fact that he apparently didn’t see the slap coming despite his magic powers of being essentially untouchable, and I think it’s a fair guess that his beating heart and surviving emotions are throwing him off his game again here. (Which incidentally is another solid sign that it’s not the fetus screwing with him bc i doubt very much the fetus gives a fuck about Rickert.)

ty for tagging me! I don’t think there was really much to add to your answer so this is mostly me nodding vigorously and flailing a little lol.

gatsca said:
i mean it only makes sense

blackswords said:
we can only hope

seisans said:
a solid theory but this also explains why i kinda wanna see zodd and griff get it on 

yk for a manga that has a reputation for being shocking and gritty and dark and fucked up and disturbing there is a sad lack of weird (consensual) monster sex

also i low-key ship griffith/every apostle. well every dude apostle. like they’re canonically all in pseudo-spiritual lust/love with him so i just feel like there’s an empty niche in fandom that could be filled with weird, faux-deep, religion-y, god/monsterous-disciple action.

another reply cut for fandom bitterness lol

seisans said: yeah, people just fucking can’t read,
basically. or they only remember what they want to remember, and
interpret things however’s most convenient for them

yeah p much. which i mean, whatever, most people read stuff that way and emphasize the parts they like and ignore or skim whatever they don’t, so in general i couldn’t care less about people doing that. but considering how condescending and confrontational and awful so many berserk fans are despite being completely, factually wrong, i rly have no problem pointing and laughing at their lack of reading comprehension lol

seisans said:
she lit says i tried
to convince myself that griffith wanted you *just for your strength*
which implies that he actually wants him for something more than his
usefulness so it can’t even be using him to reach his dream 

RIGHT?

honestly while I was reading Berserk recently after having only read a pretty poor scanlation like, about eight years ago, I had all these expectations going in after browsing the tv tropes page (always a mistake, i know) and checking out a few other areas of fandom. Like I assumed that Griffith’s irrationality around Guts was only implied in his actions rather than directly talked about 50 times, I assumed that Guts’ complicated feelings mixed in with his rage like pain and sorrow and fear etc were only shown in facial expressions and stuff rather than described by Puck the empath, I assumed that whatever process turned people into monsters after a sacrifice was mysterious and vague rather than explained and shown in detail, etc etc

I swear a huge chunk of the issues that I see heavy debate over, or fans flat out denying, are explicitly stated in the text lmao. like i basically assumed there was way more ambiguity in Berserk than there actually is bc of the way the fandom is, but nah most of the time Berserk is actually surprisingly straightforward.

Like this is the perfect example. why do you still see so many fans argue that griffith just wanted guts’ strength to help him achieve his dream when casca literally states on the page that that is clearly not the case, complete with pointing out why that doesn’t make sense.

ok wait – zodd is the new guts since he’s captain of the hawk’s raiders and big and tough and neogriff won his loyalty when he fought him in a dream and broke off his horn

and locus is definitely the new casca what with him being ridiculously loyal to griff and the second in command (iirc) and totally in love with griffith and willing to fight anyone who even looks at him funny

so zodd and locus trying to get over griffith by hooking up is totally gonna be a thing right