yk the climax of the Millenium Falcon arc, like from Ganeshka’s ascention to the return to Guts’ stupid boat story and the start of the Fantasia arc, might be my favourite post Golden Age sequence aside from the hill of swords reunion

you know you’re getting desperate when you start hoping shit like this is foreshadowing:

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hey she’s only worn a dress twice while in her right mind! the first time guts called her a demon, the second time maybe she’ll fulfill this obscure prophecy i just made up

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You’re absolutely right about Griffith sending those demons after Rickert instead of LOcus since we see Griffith see Rickert leave. Is femto the real Griffith the ruthless, calculated, charismatic Machiavellian repressed feels he had in store deep within him. Griffith is basically the most human character as Femto not so much he’s stoic, but he always met everyone’s expectations of him and he’s obsession with being seen as a hero from fairy tale. If Griffith inner core his child like boy state

Well I mean it still could be either, the point is that it’s ambiguous – we see Locus’ extremely negative reaction to Rickert slapping Griffith to hint towards him – I just think there’s positive aspects in either Griffith or Locus sending Raksas after Rickert.

And I’m sorry I can’t really parse the rest of your message tbh, I’m not sure if you’re asking me if Femto is the real Griffith or if you’re just explaining your take on him? So feel free to rephrase if it is a question but otherwise I can’t really respond.

What’s Griffith next move of course he’s doing propaganda like making death relatives soul visit their love ones etc. I have a theory maybe Charlotte leaves Griffith in the alter ROFL. It’s wishful thinking but wherever Griffith goes, there’s fucking drama. I mean cmon. Charlotte is bad luck he slept with her and boom, that was he’s doom then her father ruined him seeing her can bring remorse against Charlotte idk some shit will happens between those two Charlotte ain’t stupid as we think.

I wouldn’t call the whole souls of the dead thing propaganda, that’s just like, something he’s legitimately doing from what we can tell.

And yeah sure it’d be nice to see something happen with Charlotte. Probably won’t be leaving him at the altar all of a sudden with no build up but yk maybe someday she’ll run off with anna.

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guts, looking up at the full moon and longing for a place to call home after killing gambino and fleeing:

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guts, looking up at the full moon and realizing he’s found that home with the hawks:

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guts, looking up into the sky a third time but there’s no moon and his home has just been completely obliterated:

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replied to your post “Other stories, which have similar relationships to Griffith and Guts,…”

By mentioning Tokyo Babylon and X(/1999) in the same sentence, I can’t help but think that anon is referring at least partially to Subaru/Seishirou, which…how to explain it…in TB, it’s an age gap “romance” (16/25): young boy develops feelings for older man, older man is, shall we say, not the greatest person who ever lived…by the start of X, they’re both adults (not in a relationship) who stand on opposing sides of an issue (w/ complicated feelings unaddressed)
So I guess they’ve got the
friends/lovers/enemies flip-flopping that might bring up the comparison,
but I personally place them in a different kind of problematic bracket
than Guts and Griffith (though I don’t ship SeiSub so I could be
biased). They could also be thinking of Kamui/Fuuma from X/1999 who are
roughly the same age and whose relationship hits some similar beats…I do
like both TB and X though, although X is unfinished

ty for the additional info! idk if I’d ever get into this myself, but it’s good to know if I ever do. Seisub def doesn’t sound like my thing but the other ship you mentioned might be kind of intriguing.

a dilemma:

i’ve finished the ‘why guts leaving the hawks was a mistake post’ unless i want to add in a whole nother layer about how guts’ “dream” of fighting stronger and stronger enemies is also portrayed as terrible

on the one hand i don’t think it’s necessary to understand the point, on the other hand it’s still very relevant and probably the first thing ppl would think of as a counterpoint (what about guts’ dream though!) so it feels like I should nip that in the bud

on the third hand fully explaining that would make an already overly long post even longer

maybe i should write it separately and link to it?

ngl i feel like i’m creating this whole like, web of “My Berserk” lol where to fully understand my perspective you have to read fucking everything i’ve ever written, because i have premises resting on premises resting on premises and they’re all opposing takes to what general berserk fandom tends to think. like i feel like a lot of this should be self-explanatory but it’s not for some reason so I have to go through it all.

it’s like eg i’m over here going on and on about how griffith’s driving motivation is guilt and his narrative is about being torn between that and his affirming relationship with guts,  while elsewhere in berserk fandom the default position is that griffith’s driving motivation is “evil lust for power.”

and it’s rly weird because like, i genuinely think i’m right about my take on berserk, but sometimes it feels like i’m inventing my own berserk because even the absolute most basic resting premises of my reading are at odds with the majority of fandom. It’s like, unnervingly insular lol. same is true for this, like i’m writing out ‘why guts leaving was a mistake’ so i have something to link to bc i feel like it’s an absolutely necessary thing to recognize to understand my reading of berserk, but it’s a niche opinion, and that feels so strange to me.

ok this kind of just devolved into me musing outloud lol. idk.

yk i’m usually in the locus sent raksas after rickert camp, but i just realized that the idea of griffith sending raksas after him actually has potential to be more interesting bc it strongly suggests that he was shaken by the encounter

jyuanka
replied to your post “soft breeze, check. leaves, check. casca gets a starry/campfire-y…”

tbh, as i was reading the manga, i thought that guts developed complex and complicated feelings for both of them (which involve romantic love, certainly). i don’t think that casca was somehow a “replacement” for an unavailable griffith. moreover, i think casca herself was guilty of trying to understand and get to griffith through guts, not really the other way around.

That’s fair but honestly I actually do rly think that, while it’s probably an accident of Miura shoving a ton of repressed feelings into the love triangle in just about every direction, and/or maybe just a side effect of the fact that Guts and Griffith are still the central relationship in the story and most other relationships in Berserk serve as support for it in some way, Guts’ feelings towards Casca do come across as redirected feelings for Griffith to me. Not so much Guts using Casca to try to get to Griffith or understand him, but more a sublimation of his subconscious feelings for someone he perceives as unavailable (for reasons that include both the stupid speech and the fact that he’s a dude) to someone who is available.

Like ik that sounds like a giant stretch so I can argue for my otp lol, and I mean yeah I’m ngl I’m biased, but eg here’s my favourite observation I’ve made about it, specifically about their sexual encounter, and it feels like a genuinely solid reading to me.

I also have a much longer thing on the same topic here that covers a lot more ground but like, that’s five thousand words lol so I’m just adding it for posterity’s sake, not actually telling you to read it (or the other post for that matter, I just linked them for curiosity’s sake, and bc I’ve already said p much everything I can think of to say about Guts and Casca and their feelings for Griffith in those posts so I’m being lazy lol)

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soft breeze, check. leaves, check. casca gets a starry/campfire-y background while griffith gets the intense bedroom eyes and general beautification, which i feel is a fair trade.

casca gets this romanticized shot right before treating guts’ wounds; griffith gets this romanticized shot right after not having an excuse for risking his life for guts.

anyway lol this is a prime example of casca getting some of the romance cues griffith used to get once a) guts decides griffith is unreachable at the moment and b) miura decided the eclipse needed more ~drama~