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@removing-the-part-that-continues said: I know
Miura has a bad history on the subject, but would even Miura have had Guts
sexually assault her if he meant for them to get back together?

I want to believe. I mean mostly I do believe – Skull Knight’s ominous warning plus Guts’ “even if you force back what was lost it still won’t be the way it was” are a pretty serious one-two punch of foreboding. But idk considering the antagonist’s first act was to rape a beloved character and Miura still writes him as morally ambiguous and not a true villain and has in fact directly said he thinks of him as such, I feel like if the romance doesn’t happen it’ll be because Miura is just not into happy romance lol, and goes a different direction, rather than it being a direct consequence of Guts’ actions.

On the other hand Casca is still scared of him so it’s not like Miura dropped it as a factor, so maybe I’m being too cynical. It’s hard to say when you’re dealing with an author who sometimes writes rape fairly sensitively and with a focus on the victim and how it affects them, and sometimes just goes all-out for nothing but pure shock factor :/

but if i was to do black swordsman casca, i would take out “that scene”(the one where she got bit on the tat) and just replace it with casca choking the living hell out of guts to the point where his eyes rolls to the back of head(damn i’m cruel) but she breaks out of it and sees the consequences of her actions. Guts runs away and casca has to detain him but it’s a bit difficult cus of his size. he tries biting kicking the works sometimes she has to knock him out sigh

Plus Blackswordsman! Casca can develop with the female cast (farnese and
schierke) since she really didn’t have any female friends (hell she
talked to princess Charlotte once during the golden age arc) and i would
like to see her interact with females tbh. Farnese seeing casca as a
guide of sorts and scheirke as a mother figure.

i kinda have several hc about infantile!Guts but i’ll keep it simple: he
can say a few words but they are pretty simple but he mostly just nods
or shakes his head. he’s very shy around people but if you are kind to
him, he’ll be near you. he likes to stare at things alot and can get
distracted pretty easily(god forbid you go to a field full of
butterflies or he sees a dog) but old guts is still in there somewhere  
but it’s really rare

God, yes, esp to the second part (tho anything that gets rid of the attempted rape is good in my book, and ngl it is really easy to see Casca lashing out violently while in a dark place. Which is one of the reasons I love her. More fucked up female characters for all). And god anything with Casca interacting with more women is Good Shit. She might be less inclined than Guts was to let Schierke take the reins during the troll fiasco, but I think she’d respect and appreciate her abilities, and when the Berserker armour started taking over she’d probably have a similar relationship to her as Guts did (though let’s say without the unnecessary crush)

Farnese on the other hand would totally still have a hero-worshippy crush on her.

(also ok pardon my gayness but now i’m thinking of that scene where farnese was possessed and getting intimate with guts’ sword, but with casca instead, and whoa. And also that whole thing with Slan. Oh man so many opportunities for fucked up f/f scenes.)

And yeah, solid, kinda depressing (but that’s the point) Guts headcanons, especially since now I’m just imagining good old fashioned fantasy mental torture as the source. Also consider: Griffith saving him from falling rocks, and repressing some subtle disturbed feelings at what he’s reduced him to.

What do you think of the fact guts and casca originally weren’t supposed to be together (and as such casca wasn’t supposed to be important to the story) and miura only did it to make the eclipse more dramatic for guts? Imo it really speaks of the sexist nature of miura’s writing (i know he got better recently but still) and g*tsca.

Strong agree. Like I’ve said a few times that if Casca wakes up and does something really important plot-wise in reaction to her trauma that has to happen at this point in the story it would at least help a little to justify Casca’s 20 year long non-existence, but Miura’s comments make it so clear to me that he had no real long game for her in mind, and it wouldn’t change that fact. Like, like Guts, he shoved her into a cave for two years to keep her out of the way until he needed a damsel in distress and then a handy reason for Guts to try conquering his rage.

She really is like a walking plot device and it seems so obvious that it’s entirely because he didn’t know how to include her as a character in the plot so he just got rid of her character for a while in a really shitty way.

When it comes to G*tsca like… I mean technically I guess I prefer the tentative, two people giving something a shot vibe to say, a planned out epic romance, but the fact that it was just to give Guts more manpain is so, so gross. On the one hand at least there’s a silver lining there in the fact that Miura did not plan G*tsca as a true love happy ending thing from the start, which hopefully makes it less likely to happen, but on the other hand if it does turn into a romance again, then extra ew.

Especially since like, if he’s making it up as he goes along, the idea of Miura writing their “relationship” the way he did throughout the last 3 arcs and then deciding romance is the way to go from there is… horrifying lmao.

But whatever I’m clinging to “your wishes may not be her wishes” like a life raft rn.