sobadpink
replied to your post “griffith and guts were like 17/16 ish when they met right? modern au…”

Considering casca is supposed to be the same age as Guts, and she met Griffith when she was still young, and Griffith was old enough to not look off in armour, I would say Griffith is at least 3 years older than both of them

all the straightforward info we have on anyone’s age other than Guts, as far as I know, comes from the movie guides, which I think do say Casca is Guts’ age and Griffith is 3 years older. But I don’t think (and please correct me if I’m wrong or forgetting something) that’s stated in the manga anywhere.

Could be Miura signed off on it or suggested it himself, or it’s in the guidebook too or something, but I personally still wouldn’t consider it technically canon if it’s not in the manga. I mean I’m biased because I like the idea of G+G being about the same age. But also I have a rly hard time seeing Griffith as 18 before the 3 year time skip:

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Especially w/ Guts thinking of him as just a kid, and about his age, etc. Three years is a p noticable age gap when you’re teenagers.

and Casca could also be around the same age, rather than younger than either imo. she says she was 12 when Griffith saved her (to me she looks younger than that, but w/e, canon says 12), and I could easily buy Griffith as around 12-13 in that scene just going off looks. He acts older, bc at this point he’s got more life experience, but honestly they both look like babies to me

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I mean maybe it’s a stretch to think of a 12 yr old leading a group of bandits soon to be mercenaries, but enh child soldiers abound in Berserk, Rickert was a unit captain at about that age lol, and the other Hawks are also relatively young according to Guts so I can suspend my disbelief and accept it.

i need to remember this (2017) quote every time i start to fear the possibility of guts and casca getting together and moving on just so griffith can go on the offensive and keep the plot going:

“I kept Casca alive precisely for that reason. That’s because even if she
died, and if the series continued for a long time, Guts’ reason to
seek revenge would become a thing of the past and if Guts formed new
relationships with people, his motivation would weaken. It’s a cold,
calculating move and it might feel unpleasant, but it’s exactly because
Guts has Casca at his side that he can never forget about the Eclipse.” 

whatever happens w/ casca is gonna make guts go beast of darkness. miura is aware that guts needs to keep driving the plot forward and it can’t just stall out in elfhelm waiting for griffith to kickstart it again.

griffith and guts were like 17/16 ish when they met right? modern au they go to prom together. i’ve no idea what prompted this i just thought it’d be sweet.

griffithsgaymom:

bthump:

We know for a fact Guts was 15, Griffith was around the same age according to Guts’ guess.

Idk how high school grades/ages work lol but idc emphatic yes to guts and griffith going to prom as dates. i’ve got a real thing for the image of them awkwardly dancing together for some reason tbh so I immediately love this. Who do you think asks who? And are they friends first or do they start going out soon after they meet in this au?

the awkaward puppy love is just so good… modern au teenage griffith who is actually aware that he is Gay would be so infatuated from the moment he meets guts but imho he is still shy about it/half closeted. guts is sort of just as hostile as he is in canon but it’s mostly just very flustered that this pretty boy is paying so much attention to him… i think guts makes the first moves on almost everything in all aus and canon tbh him and griffith are sweet on each other for a while but have never expressed explicit feelings or are dating yet.. and then like one day when they’re sitting in the school parking lot on guts trucks good guts accidentally just sorta puts his hand on top of griffs.the conversation freezes for a few seconds and griffith blurts out ”im gay” in a very uncharacteristically blunt millennial way .guts sort of feels the whole reality of it all crash into him like a train and is like “oh” and then “/oh/“ and now purposefully just curls his hand tighter around griffiths…

i think also griffith wants to ask guts to prom but it /has to be perfect/ and elaborate and flawless because god forbid guts dumps him and when he realizes how much of a clingy loser griffith thinks he is but he can never work up the nerve to do it and tosses and turns in bed at night for like two weeks. then after school when he settles into guts trucks passenger seat guts pulls out a bundle of groccery store florist red roses from his backpack (that’s usually emaciatied-empty save for a half chewed pencil and cigarettes) and starts to ask griffith but griffith has already started tearing up and it turns into a whole thing…

griffith and guts were like 17/16 ish when they met right? modern au they go to prom together. i’ve no idea what prompted this i just thought it’d be sweet.

We know for a fact Guts was 15, Griffith was around the same age according to Guts’ guess.

Idk how high school grades/ages work lol but idc emphatic yes to guts and griffith going to prom as dates. i’ve got a real thing for the image of them awkwardly dancing together for some reason tbh so I immediately love this. Who do you think asks who? And are they friends first or do they start going out soon after they meet in this au?

a concept: guts in beast of darkness mode, seeing the world as nothing but like, malevolent shadows, except for neogriffith who is the only bright light in his world

similar to ascended ganeshka but with emotion rather than just themes behind it

conversely: neogriffith seeing the world as basically lines of fate and causality to be maneuvered within and around, except guts, the bright light who throws him off

You can steal Jolt any time:) My video-editing skills are none-existent (~ ~)

tyvm! idk if I could do anything good with it but it would at least be a really fun song to practice with, and listening to it I immediately had a potential structure in mind which is always a good sign.

But also don’t sell yourself short! If you have the software it just takes practice. A lot of programs have a steep learning curve but once you get the hang of all the finnicky technical details everything else kind of follows ime. And honestly being able to picture a good video is like 75% of the battle imho lol.

ljlyall
replied to your post “madchen
replied to your post “I don’t know if you went into this…”

I always saw the kid as an allusion to the whole “Casca was pregnant before the eclipse and moon-child is actually Guts’”. Like it was a strange meta-hallucination without fully relying on any character knowledge. Not that I was thinking that deeply about it to begin with, that’s just kinda how my brain filled in the gaps

Hm, yeah that’s another interesting potential reading of the scene.

I just kind of shared my thoughts on it being Guts’ kid here so I’ll just link it to avoid repeating myself lol.

Tho wrt the idea that it’s a sort of meta hallucination, like a glimpse of a potential future informed by information Griffith himself doesn’t even have, idk it seems like a fair interpretation since there’s a lot of sinister magical things going on pre-eclipse. But idk if I’d consider it the most likely concept, so I wouldn’t default to that interpretation myself.

I love that if I need to talk about how Griffith’s narrative can be read as gay repression all I need to say is:

his central driving conflict is between a dream represented by a het marriage and his overwhelming feelings for another man

like yeah you can flesh that out with a million additional details, you can really dig into it and examine it and obviously critique it as well, but like, that’s the core of his story – hell that’s the core of berserk – and it’s fundamentally gay.

nico-jero
replied to your post “I don’t know if you went into this before but if so let me know. When…”

I had similar thoughts about that Griffith/Casca scene in the wagon. However, I remember reading the kid in the nightmare scene as Gut’s kid that he left with Casca.
Kind of like a hint to Casca’s pregnancy.

This also seems possible imo. Even if it’s just Griffith’s imagination he does know Guts and Casca have hooked up so he could also be just assuming her pregnancy in this imaginary scenario. Plus assuming the kid is Guts’ potentially highlights Guts’ absence even more.

But idk to me that scene has such a sort of… cloyingly domestic and kind of sinisterly sexual undertone to it, which seems especially significant after the scene in the wagon, that I lean towards the kid as another aspect of Griffith being trapped in this heterosexual nightmare. And I feel like Guts and Casca’s kid would have way darker hair.

But ultimately I could go either way. Both interpretations are depressing in their own ways lol.

seisans
replied to your post “do you think that the night after guys left was the first time…”

for some reason i totally thought we were supposed to assume it’s his first time lol ….. idk he’s just so gaycoded that it’s the only option for me

I’ll also add that I want to take the parallels to the g*tsca sex scene as another reason it’s his first time

guts and griffith both having het sex to try to avoid confronting their feelings for each other, and it destroys everyone’s lives and the golden age is a cautionary tale about heterosexuality

seisans said:
im losing my MINDDDDDD that people think
this is proof he liked her. it’s called being gay and repressed holy
shit i’ve never seen a more accurate depiction of how heteronormativity
messes with a gay person (in manga anyway) and people think it’s
attraction looooord help me

honestly it’s so real, like fucking everything about griffith’s story fits the repressed gay narrative. idk how miura did it if it was an accident lol.

but like, yeah i get being confused by those scenes, particularly the wagon one, but the one conclusion you definitely cannot draw from them is that griffith loves casca because he literally tries to kill himself right after imagining a quiet “content” domestic life with her lol. I’m almost morbidly curious about the arguments the person who sent me those asks saw.

What does “b” stand for in your tags?

oh i tag all my meta-y posts ‘a’ and all my original posts including meta ‘b’

tbh it’s kind of a holdover from when i was liveblogging, so i could read all my own posts chronologically if i ever felt like it and see what i was thinking while reading thru berserk

tho i never actually have so i’m not sure why i still do it other than habit lol. i guess it’s also handy to have a quick way to filter out reblogs if i’m trying to find something too