griffithsgaymom:

um griffguts berserk au ish idea where guts changes his mind and comes back to the hawks like a few weeks later and rescues griffith who isnt physically destroyed but pretty fucked up and his tongue is gone and then they just gotta deal with that. bonus if behelit casca somehow? also has griffith been castrated post year of torture or?

it would make so much sense for guts to hear a rumour or smthn that the hawks were declared traitors etc before a whole year passed tbh and come running back. i want to read this.

also like, ignoring the behelit, the idea of griffith totally losing his chance to be king after being declared a traitor but not being able to come to terms with it/being in denial for a while has so much good angst potential.

canon verse headcanon for griff being horny in the morning and guts being like okaaayyyyy i gotta get up and train/do shit tho bc i cant stop thinking about it and i love your takes on my stupid ideas?

lmao ngl idk if i have any more thoughts on this beyond my “omg this is perf” *like* reaction to your posts on this subject.

though… actually I guess since you specified canonverse I’m suddenly rly taken by the idea of king Griffith spending the night with Guts and not wanting to leave in the morning, trying to draw it out and get laid again once or twice, and Guts being like “…don’t you have important shit to do?”

like anything w/ griffith getting his kingdom and then lowkey preferring spending time w/ guts to actually running it is like the epitome of griffguts to me lol

and I guess Guts is practical but given the choice between… idk training drills or whatever a raider captain does in peacetime and fucking griffith idt he’d protest too hard about doing the latter. his protests would be very token and he’d secretly melt at the thought that griffith is putting his Very Important Life on hold just to spend another 15 minutes blowing him or w/e.

lol this is basically just repeating what you’ve said with an added ‘but like if griffith was a king,’ sry

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yk what this is what Berserk is about. Like if I had to pick one image to encapsulate Berserk, this is what I’d go with.

The Black Swordsman arc builds up to a reveal that Guts’ revenge-y feelings are a giant mishmash that confuses tf out of Puck because this is how he used to feel about Griffith, and his original feelings for Griffith are still tangled up in his current feelings.

Like, kind of the point of the Black Swordsman arc is to start with this one dimensional portrayal of rage and then unravel and unravel that until all of Guts’ various issues are laid out.

These mixed feelings are the big reveal of the first arc. Our look into Guts’ childhood right after deepens our understanding of these mixed feelings, but it’s his feelings towards Griffith that wholly drive the plot, not his feelings towards Gambino. Then the entire Golden Age continues to deepen our understanding of Guts’ mixed feelings. Like pretty much the whole point of the story up until we pick back up with Guts in the Lost Children Arc is to illuminate the complexity of Guts’ feelings towards Griffith (and vice versa) now that they’re enemies. It’s to build that foundation.

And anyway I guess my point is that with all this attention and time devoted to these painfully mixed feelings, if the ultimate resolution of the story is Guts straight up dropping/moving on from those feelings rather than finally untangling and examining them, that will essentially be a deeply unsatisfying betrayal of the first hundred or so chapters.

But hey the ominous foreshadowing’s got my back at least.

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Hi Asia! How ’bout some old traditional love triangle? But gayyyyy. You see, today I saw a page from guidebook with some info ’bout Locus but I couldn’t stop laughing ’cause the panel from manga they choosed to descript him was that emotional balcony wreck. Also a friend of mine showed me how similar were situations in which Guts and Locus act like a totally overprotective defender and are showing bright emotions. Could it be that NGriffith choosed Locus ti be his Guts but not Zodd?

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lol yeah I def see the comparisons too. Like both getting super offended on Griffith’s behalf after someone slaps him is pretty specific lol. And in general his devoted attitude, like I’ve seen Locus compared to Casca (I’ve probably made the comparison b4 actually) as long as we’re comparing the old band to the new, but I can also see comparing him to Guts.

Actually speaking of, rather than comparing the new apostle band to the old band I could see comparing all of them to different aspects of Guts. Like Zodd is the blood lusty raider captain, Locus is the devoted soldier, Irvine is the loner who got drawn into a group, Raksas is… the kind of shitty assassin who causes a big scene lmao? Okay maybe it doesn’t work perfectly, but there are a lot of purposeful parallels between Guts and various apostles, it’s a pretty consistent thing, and it’s fun to think about.

ANYway all that aside you know there would definitely be weird mutual jealousy between Guts and Locus, I’m 100% on board for this potential love triangle.

berserk is the story of two dudes who keep trying and failing to not be obsessed with each other, taking more and more drastic and destructive measures each time, and still fucking failing to get over their mutual obsession

griffith: focuses on his dream, still risks everything to save guts’ life multiple times

guts: separates himself from the hawks, tries not to focus on the fact that it’s all to be griffith’s friend

griffith: has sex as a distraction from guts leaving him; cries and ends up in a dungeon where he thinks about nothing but guts for a year

guts: has sex as a distraction from breaking griffith’s heart; eventually has to face the fact that he screwed up and decides to abandon his dream and stay with griffith. leads to obsessively pursuing him in a rage for 2-3 years.

griffith: becomes a demon to try to get over guts; next time he sees him with a corporeal form he starts getting heart palpitations

guts: focuses on restoring casca’s sanity and making new friends, doing his damndest to ignore griffith’s existence

ominous foreshadowing:

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hey challenge headcanon question what do you think guts thoughts on griffiths hair are? [ LMAOOOO i was at work and did the thing where i cant proofread for shit]

he fuckin loves griffith’s hair omg

i have like, actual things to say but first i want to get my obligatory picspam out of the way lol

like there’s a reason his very first sight of griffith is a slow sexy letting his hair down moment

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that comes first in his memory even when his association with griffith should be ‘the jerk who stabbed me’ not ‘the pretty guy with gorgeous hair that i’m imagining extra fanned out and sensuous’

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and then there’s this

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and don’t even get me started on how mesmerised he is by neogriffith’s hair

like sure it works as a visual contrast to femto to emphasize his lack of demonic appearance, but man

i mean there’s a panel of just his hair as like an abstract design as a lead in to the full pages of naked griffith, framed by guts’ awestruck expression

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and guts’ memories of the big moment of course which exaggerate his hair even more

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oh and like all of guts’ memories of human griffith that aren’t his back after the swordfight include his hair flowing in the wind

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ANYWAY in addition to bombarding you with visuals bc I enjoy spamming panels from berserk, my take is that Guts totally eroticizes Griffith’s hair, whether consciously or unconsciously, and wouldn’t actually touch it, say, to casually brush something away, until their relationship turns sexual, because it feels off-limits to him bc of that erotic association.

but then he wouldn’t be able to get enough of gently brushing it behind his ear before going in for a kiss, or looking at it all splayed out and messy while he’s asleep, or mb eventually grabbing handfuls and using it to physically guide him during sex a bit, or even brushing it for him sometimes, though he’d probably be a little intimidated at first cause lbr he wouldn’t know the first thing to do with hair longer than an inch and a half. (also ik you don’t brush curly hair but griffith’s seems less curly and more wavy to me and therefore brushable? either way tho, guts helping w/ hair care is good. washing it for him too.)

also griffith and guts cuddling w/ guts just like gently scratching/massaging his head and playing with his hair.

I was also considering the idea of guts coming in his hair like, by accident, and getting awkwardly turned on even as he apologizes lol, but actually idk… it def wouldn’t work as a humiliation thing, and i feel like come marking as a d/s thing automatically has associations of humiliation, but then there’s also just the way bodily fluids are intimate. i could see guts being into it as like a physical sign of how close they are and more physically associating griffith’s hair with sex lol.

i like the idea of it as an accident during a blowjob that griffith laughs off and guts is awkward and a little turned on about, but mb not as a deliberate sexual activity, i think.