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I don’t think that was the real guts tho, reasons why: 1) we didn’t see his reaction to danann’s message and his facial expression while approaching them was obscured 2) he came alone 3) danann made sure that casca was comfortable for the dream journey having guts stay behind since she sensed her fear of him. for her to just go “well you’re all better now go see ya man” without any kind of psych/emotional evaluation seems so out of left field

Yk I thought the scene where Guts walks up was weird, and it seemed really out of left field that the last time we saw him he was drinking with Serpico and Roderick and now we’re just casually informed that he got a psychic message and he’s here to meet her, (good point about Danann’s sudden 180 too) but I didn’t really consider it to be anything more than kind of rushed writing. But it is pretty suspicious when you put it all together like that.

Do you think it’s still a dream, maybe? Or is something else going on?

Why are you guys so pessimistic? I hope I am not offending you i just dunno why our impressions are vastly different. 355 completely subverted the expectations of g/tsca fans. Casca is gonna be angry, and I am sure she won’t get fair treatment by Miura but at least it will not be lovey dovey.. there are multiple ominous warnings and Casca was cheerful so far bc she didn’t remember. Also Guts is off revenge rn so the narrative *must* push him back to it. Which means g*tsca is cancelled imo

Nah, you’re right I am typically kind of a pessimistic person when it comes to continuations of things I’m into lol.

And actually thank you for this because it’s a good reminder that there are multiple reasons why g*tsca is not as sure a thing as lots of other fans think it is.

I have a lot more to say on this topic/the new chapter/etc lol, some hopeful and some still pessimistic, and today is going to be a day for it so I’ll probably answer your “why our impressions are vastly different” question soon (though idk if I’d say they’re “vastly” different), but I don’t want to here because this positivity is a good way to start the day lol.

more spoilers ofc

yesgabsstuff
replied to your post “ch 355, more random musing[[MOR] i s2g it’s like this chapter was…”

The. Fucking. Feathers.

thank you so it’s not just me thinking like

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this is kinda suspect

also the helix in the necklace a la brand of sacrifice that i just noticed?

like i’m not saying danann dressed her in this to be secretly evil, but i’m thinking it’s subtle visual hinting re: the source of her trauma, hawks/sacrifice/griffith, and purposefully suggestive as a little added layer of ominousness

i mean i’d take it as coincidence considering it’s mostly petals in the dress, but those hairpieces, man

nico-jero
replied to your post “355 spoilers[[MOR] ok i just saw a pic of sane again casca that…”

I miss the old art. I can’t connect to this Casca. :’(

yeah same. idk i can’t judge the art on a technical level or anything, idk what’s good, but i do know that when it comes to personal preference I am really not a fan of the fantasia art. like to the point where if it had been the look the whole time I might never have gotten into Berserk at all lol.

ch 355, more random musing

i s2g it’s like this chapter was especially designed to fuck me personally up and leave me fretting for however long until the next one comes out, it has no chill it’s either my personal worst or best case scenario and i have no way of knowing which. mb this is premature since we don’t even have a full translation yet, but still. i’m stressed lol

and seeing all the skullknight fans pretty much just assuming that there’s going to be an emotional chapter followed by guts and casca hugging it out has me torn between thinking that’s a good sign bc it means miura isn’t using the ominousness as a fake-out, since it seems your typical berserk fan doesn’t think anything too bad is going to happen – the ominiousness is just plain ominiousness and if things go truly wrong it will still take people by surprise and be dramatically effective. but also what if it’s a bad sign because they’re just better at predicting berserk than me and more on miura’s current wavelength? 😦

also i’m eyeing that last image of the tree and how it looks similar to the falconia branches and various hearts of darkness

i’ve got my eye on you skellig

also eyeing the feathers in casca’s dress design tbqh

also guts looking scary and intimidating in that spread of him in the berserk armour w/ the eclipse scene behind him is good, and the more i look at the last few pages, eclipse flashback + guts -> tortured griffith -> ominous looking tree the more i’m like, hmmmmmm

as soon as we get a translation i’m re-reading the entirety of the skellig stuff so far to see if i feel like it all fits together in some way

cut for not actually spoilers but the fact that i still haven’t shut up about this idea is kind of itself a spoiler i guess

4kduranzo
replied to your post “355 spoilers fair warning this is v rambly and stream of…”

she’s branded tho how can she use the behelit?

there’s nothing indicating a living sacrifice can’t use the behelit. we’re meant to believe that guts may be able to use it after all – flora wonders if it’s his or if he’s carrying it for someone – and he’s branded too.

the godhand do say that someone who’s already been sacrificed can’t be sacrificed again, which might be what confuses people (i’ve had other people bring this point up too other times i’ve mentioned my behelit theory).

355 spoilers

ok i just saw a pic of sane again casca that someone edited to look more like miura’s older art style and immediately started tearing up, so i’m hereby blaming my current lack of emotional investment in this whole thing on the art

i’m a visual person, it’s the difference between going ‘hmm yes this development could either lead to good or bad things storywise’ and going ‘omggggggg im crying rn i missed you so much casca!’

Hey this is pretty random but have you ever read the poem Richard Cory? When I first read it it reminded me of Griffith with how everyone in his life in this image, whether they loved him or hated him, they were all the same, never seeing the person he truly was. And in the end he ended up suffering for it.

I hadn’t but I have now, and yeah, I definitely see the similarities there. The perfect image vs something very different going on inside. Also ouch, what a depressing poem, ty for mentioning it!

For a start I am actually sorry to use the ask option so many times, there is a thing I want to get rid of: Somehow it seems that Casca is back at the start. At the beginning, before she met Griffith the length of her hair must have been around the same. She felt weak and used the sword as a form of empowerment going so far as wishing to become a sword for Griffith. Then Griffith” destroyed that by the rape. Casca somehow regressed to the state of a child until she regained her sanity again.

Asks are great, no worries!

And yeah ia the long hair does seem like a good visual indication of her regression to a point in her life before she was empowered.

I wonder if/how this will figure into things now that she has her sanity back.

355 spoilers

fair warning this is v rambly and stream of consciousness, and largely negative tho not entirely

(from this summary and these scans)

hoooooooooooooooooooooooo boy

all this time and i’m still in hope for the best, prepare for the worst mode, agh this is so frustrating

(lol @ reusing a bunch of images from casca’s life we’ve already seen
in our journey thru her mind. also my god i hate the art so much rn
lol. casca’s face deserves better.)

and idk how to feel about
downplaying the fetus/moonlight boy now lol, with way more memories
alotted to guts, since apparently “there’s someone i want to meet” is
repeated towards the end here, and the one saving grace of that fetus
was the hope that casca wanted to meet it, instead of guts (or griffith
for that matter).

also danann calling guts to show up psychically which then proceeds to trigger casca seems weird and fishy to me? but idk maybe it reads as less weird in context, plus i don’t trust elfhelm so.

and i’m extremely wary about guts triggering her because he reminds her of the eclipse, rather than because he assaulted her himself. those dreamy half-remembered memories sure are convenient

on the other hand they’re also convenient for this delayed reaction happening just in time for guts’ arrival. meaning there’s a reason guts had to show up first before casca remembered the eclipse.

this chapter seems to be playing up g*tsca for the sake of sweeping the rug out from under the readers at the end when casca sees him and shit starts going down, but is that leading to actual Shit Going Down or is that leading to, idk, farnese jumping in and calming her down before nobly stepping aside so they can have a tearful reunion, or guts like, saving the day by Being There For Her For Once??

i s2g miura knows exactly what the best case and worse case scenarios are (tho he probably thinks they’re reversed) and he’s taunting me personally. like i’m sorry but ivalera joking that schierke woke up the “final boss”? just plain and simple teasing about schierke’s crush on guts or also ominous foreshadowing? casca’s last clear memory is rescuing griffith, which explains why tortured griffith is one of the final images, but why make that her last clear memory, why give that a full page at the end of the chapter right before the picture of the tree that looks visually similar to the darkness in her heart unless perhaps… a parallel?

But even if that’s the case is Casca going to use the behelit in Guts’ pouch or is Guts going to get another chance to Not Fuck It Up This Time?

I’m feeling like the odds are getting higher that after a moment of emotional peril Guts comforts her, promises to stay with her, and they live happily ever after until NeoGriffith arrives to fuck shit up versus shit actually going down and Casca graduating into a secondary antagonist role. And the odds of anything in between happening, like eg Casca rejecting Guts romantically and healing while becoming close friends with Farnese, are feeling extremely slim after this. Like, imo we’re in for either g*tsca or the “tragic” opposite of g*tsca after how it’s been played up here, not “let’s just be friends.”

Also there’s a strong chance I’m just in the denial stage rn. But like I’ve been salivating over the idea of all three Golden Age protags being enemies with their own clashing goals by the end of the series for a while now and as long as that’s still a possibility I’m going to continue to keep hope alive.

I also think Griffith raped Casca, because he was angry at Casca, when she overheard her telling Guts to LEAVE Griffith to accomplish his own dreams and live his own life. Casca was Griffith’s most loyal follower and she knew Griffith wanted Guts back, yet she prioritized Guts’ dreams over Griffith’s feelings. There were times during the rape Griffith gave Casca the same look he was giving Guts. He was angry at her.

This seems like it’s a response to something I’ve said, but I’m not sure what. But yeah I don’t really disagree I guess, I think that could definitely be part of it, at least in theory.

In practice tbh I have my doubts that Miura put any more thought into it than symbol of humanity’s evil + jealousy + emasculating Guts, based on the actual depiction of the scene. Femto does give Casca the evil stare, but to me that seemed like an echo of those jealous looks we saw him shooting Casca and Guts at times pre-Eclipse.

But yeah this is a perfectly reasonable idea imo. If Femto is a monstrous expression of Griffith’s negative feelings it stands to reason that anger over Casca urging Guts to leave might be part of it.

One thing I noticed about the scene where Griffith gives Casca the sword is that he tells her “If you have something to protect, pick up that sword.” It makes me sad that he feels guilt about the way that his dream has to be accomplished then because he’s already laid out that this is a real matter of life and death/basic autonomy for him in that sentence. Just a thought.

ngl while my “official” take is that the dream started out as a stupid kid’s fantasy and snowballed horrifically and gained deeper significance as a coping mechanism/escape after the kid’s death and gennon (i’m pretty sure we’ve had some conversations about this ages ago lol), every time I read the scene where he saves Casca I’m like, nope there’s gotta be something else going on there.

He just lays everything out so plainly (”does being born of the nobility mean you’ve been chosen by god?” “if you have something to protect, take up that sword,” “you know how to fight already, don’t you?” “you might die you know,”) that it’s like, there’s no way the kid’s death and gennon was his wake-up call to how shitty the world is, everything’s already in place right here.

Like I guess it can’t be more than headcanon because if there was more to his story I’m sure Ubik would’ve said something while he was fucking with him to make the sacrifice, but chapter 16 like, establishes all of Griffith’s motivations/attitude towards nobility/making sure everyone follows him of their own choice/etc, which really seems to indicate that the kid’s death and gennon wasn’t the beginning of his bitterness re: people’s lives being bought and sold by nobles and his guilt re: ppl dying for his dream. It’s just like, an example.

lol in short, ia!

I hope that Casca feels next to the pain she had suffered also the warmth of the people surrounding here. Escpecially Farnese. At least I thought that when people wondered, why she didn t freak out right away…Maybe because since she still remembers the events after the eclipse, she is also able to integrate her “nightmarish memories” in the whole picture? Though there is a high chance that she still has to figure out, what she wishes to do with the resto f her life.

cut for leaked 355 page spoilers tho yk, beware the ask too, hope you have these tags blacklisted, etc

Honestly I’m not sure what to think based on that leaked page. Since last chapter had the ominous heart covered in thorns going on and now we’ve got Casca thanking Farnese and Schierke for taking care of her I’m feeling like yeah maybe you’ve got the right idea and maybe thanks to Farnese being awesome and caring for her Casca is already well on the road to dealing with everything?

tbh I am absolutely full of mixed feelings about this potential outcome lol, so I guess I’ll just wait til we have the whole chapter before I make any judgement calls. If the focus stays on Farnese helping Casca and Guts gets nothing this could be good. But I mean, just based on one page it’s impossible to tell whether those thorns are going to make themselves known in some other way. Guess we’ll wait and see.

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yk i think guts is supposed to seem chill and confident and generally changed in a positive way after his year long vacation but since every moment that emphasizes his cool chill attitude makes me want to punch him i’m not 100% certain lol

like i generally take as read that guts leaving the hawks is one of those things that’s overall bad but had some positive effects, like guts being more confident and cool, since yk the moments that indicate that are things the target audience of dudes would generally agree is cool, like calmly grabbing casca’s tit while she’s yelling at him and then saying, ‘come with me’ in a nonchalant non-commital way, or like telling casca she’s too naked and distracting during the wyald fight, or constantly being a smartass dick during the competition, that kinda thing.

but then again since i generally argue that leaving the hawks was a bad decision, maybe those moments are actually meant to be off-putting. like i don’t really think so, if i was a betting person i’d place money on miura thinking they make guts cooler, but i kind of want to believe.

I dont agree with this tbh. Guts leaving the hawks was a good thing. One of the most difficult and traumatic experiences is gaining independence and discovering your own way i life. The hawks were a home for guts but learning to leave to find his own way was special for me. I used to think that him leaving was sort of “cool” and used to set the whole tough lone wolf trope, but because of how guts felt inferior to his peers, and especially griffith, leaving the hawks was the most endearing action he couldve done. Its not played for a trope or for a demographic but rather to show the journey of a man who wants to be someone he can love. Ik ur a hige guts x griffith fan and i see the obvious undertones and interactions but when i see how guts feels when he seew his own journey next to griffiths i cant blame him for leaving.

I respect your opinion and I don’t mean to reblog this just to be like ‘nah you’re wrong’ because like, I do think Miura was trying to convey both good and bad effects of Guts leaving. Like I said, though I personally think that Guts’ more confident and independent attitude is shown in insufferable ways, I feel like Miura intended it to be a positive change for him.

And in general the idea of someone leaving a place to be more independent is a perfectly valuable and potentially a very positive narrative depending on the circumstances, and I don’t want to suggest that if you found Guts’ decision to leave the Hawks to be valuable then you’re wrong, there are plenty of reasons to appreciate it.

But, because this is one of those readings that tends to inform a lot of my other posts and meta etc, I just want to kind of explain where I’m coming from and what I mean by “mistake.”

It’s not a mistake you can blame Guts for at all, because his reasons for leaving are perfectly understandable and sympathetic, but it’s a decision Guts made based on misinformation (from Griffith’s stupid speech) and his own issues – largely desperately wanting to be loved and respected and believing all too easily that he isn’t thanks to his fucked up childhood.

And like this is also something Griffith shoulders blame for, for being an emotionally obtuse idiot who doesn’t recognize his own feelings until he’s spent a year in a dungeon. But again, like Guts’ issues, I find this sympathetic and understandable too.

(And like, while yeah I obviously ship them lol, this isn’t necessarily shippy, it’s kind of just a fact of Berserk that it, and the Golden Age especially, revolves around Guts and Griffith’s relationship, platonic or otherwise. Guts chose to leave because he wanted to be Griffith’s friend – before overhearing the speech he didn’t feel inadequate at all.)

Basically it’s not a mistake in the sense that Guts should’ve known better or that Guts choosing to leave was stupid and reflects badly on him, it’s a mistake because if Guts and Griffith were less terrible at communication Guts wouldn’t’ve wanted to leave in the first place, and once he realizes that he left because of misinformation he feels a lot of regret.

I think I’m going to write a full post on this soon because it would be nice to have something to link back to when I casually throw the idea that Guts leaving was a mistake out there, because I know it’s actually pretty controversial in fandom as a whole. So if you’re interested in my further thoughts with more like, textual evidence lol, I’ll get on that, and if not then no worries and I’m more than happy to agree to disagree 🙂

I would love to see a post on this. I always love seeing different takes on berserk and i do understand where ur coming from and it would clear up ur opinion because ur right it does sound controversial at face value.

Awesome, in that case I’ll tag you when I post it. And ftr I get where you’re coming from too, like tbh I always find Guts’ speech about sparks and how his sword is a part of him really moving eg, and I don’t want to dismiss that side of Guts leaving the Hawks, just like, complicate it a bit lol.

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yk i think guts is supposed to seem chill and confident and generally changed in a positive way after his year long vacation but since every moment that emphasizes his cool chill attitude makes me want to punch him i’m not 100% certain lol

like i generally take as read that guts leaving the hawks is one of those things that’s overall bad but had some positive effects, like guts being more confident and cool, since yk the moments that indicate that are things the target audience of dudes would generally agree is cool, like calmly grabbing casca’s tit while she’s yelling at him and then saying, ‘come with me’ in a nonchalant non-commital way, or like telling casca she’s too naked and distracting during the wyald fight, or constantly being a smartass dick during the competition, that kinda thing.

but then again since i generally argue that leaving the hawks was a bad decision, maybe those moments are actually meant to be off-putting. like i don’t really think so, if i was a betting person i’d place money on miura thinking they make guts cooler, but i kind of want to believe.

I dont agree with this tbh. Guts leaving the hawks was a good thing. One of the most difficult and traumatic experiences is gaining independence and discovering your own way i life. The hawks were a home for guts but learning to leave to find his own way was special for me. I used to think that him leaving was sort of “cool” and used to set the whole tough lone wolf trope, but because of how guts felt inferior to his peers, and especially griffith, leaving the hawks was the most endearing action he couldve done. Its not played for a trope or for a demographic but rather to show the journey of a man who wants to be someone he can love. Ik ur a hige guts x griffith fan and i see the obvious undertones and interactions but when i see how guts feels when he seew his own journey next to griffiths i cant blame him for leaving.

I respect your opinion and I don’t mean to reblog this just to be like ‘nah you’re wrong’ because like, I do think Miura was trying to convey both good and bad effects of Guts leaving. Like I said, though I personally think that Guts’ more confident and independent attitude is shown in insufferable ways, I feel like Miura intended it to be a positive change for him.

And in general the idea of someone leaving a place to be more independent is a perfectly valuable and potentially a very positive narrative depending on the circumstances, and I don’t want to suggest that if you found Guts’ decision to leave the Hawks to be valuable then you’re wrong, there are plenty of reasons to appreciate it.

But, because this is one of those readings that tends to inform a lot of my other posts and meta etc, I just want to kind of explain where I’m coming from and what I mean by “mistake.”

It’s not a mistake you can blame Guts for at all, because his reasons for leaving are perfectly understandable and sympathetic, but it’s a decision Guts made based on misinformation (from Griffith’s stupid speech) and his own issues – largely desperately wanting to be loved and respected and believing all too easily that he isn’t thanks to his fucked up childhood.

And like this is also something Griffith shoulders blame for, for being an emotionally obtuse idiot who doesn’t recognize his own feelings until he’s spent a year in a dungeon. But again, like Guts’ issues, I find this sympathetic and understandable too.

(And like, while yeah I obviously ship them lol, this isn’t necessarily shippy, it’s kind of just a fact of Berserk that it, and the Golden Age especially, revolves around Guts and Griffith’s relationship, platonic or otherwise. Guts chose to leave because he wanted to be Griffith’s friend – before overhearing the speech he didn’t feel inadequate at all.)

Basically it’s not a mistake in the sense that Guts should’ve known better or that Guts choosing to leave was stupid and reflects badly on him, it’s a mistake because if Guts and Griffith were less terrible at communication Guts wouldn’t’ve wanted to leave in the first place, and once he realizes that he left because of misinformation he feels a lot of regret.

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I think I’m going to write a full post on this soon because it would be nice to have something to link back to when I casually throw the idea that Guts leaving was a mistake out there, because I know it’s actually pretty controversial in fandom as a whole. So if you’re interested in my further thoughts with more like, textual evidence lol, I’ll get on that, and if not then no worries and I’m more than happy to agree to disagree 🙂

iiiiiii just realized that we were talking about two different metal bands with berserk inpsired music earlier lmao, for some reason i was thinking we were talking about different albums by the same band idk. in my defense they both have beast in their name.

i guess i’d heard of beast in black before but they’re not really my style of music and didn’t get into them, and battle beast is entirely new to me but i’m kind of into their sound?

madchen
replied to your post “yk i think guts is supposed to seem chill and confident and generally…”

oh same they feel posturing to me but who knows what miura meant

this is the problem with berserk there are so many thing that cpuld be interpreted as valid through through a certain critical lens but its absolutely up in the air or no way it was deliberate on his part. casca reliance on men for her sense of self and integrity as a woman is a good example, but miura probably hust doesnt know that women can exist outside of men. lol.

yeah exactly. idk berserk is such a weird combination of Actually That Deep and just Miura being a shitty dude that it can be rly hard to figure out where to draw the line

Like with Guts’ behaviour, it would make sense if it was supposed to be seen as negative because, like, part of the point of Berserk is establishing that Guts swinging his sword by himself instead of being with people affects him negatively, but that’s just not the vibe I get from those moments lol. Your Casca example is perfect too, like her narrative would make more sense and fit the whole vibe of the pre-Eclipse sequence if latching onto Guts in place of Griffith was meant to be seen as a mistake, but yeah I don’t think that’s purposeful.

I’d love to believe Miura’s just subtle and it’s all purposeful, but lol nothing about how he writes women and men and women interacting makes me want to give him the benefit of the doubt.

kajel-jeten
replied to your post “miura: *has an absolute wealth of potential with casca’s backstory,…”

No, I want to believe he wouldn’t do that to such a beloved character

m2 but my faith levels aren’t high 😦

like idk it’s a given that the fetus is going to get a lot of focus unfortunately, the only question i guess is whether there’ll be any spotlight left over for actual interesting things that have something to do with casca’s actual character rather than a generalized motherhood thing

miura: *has an absolute wealth of potential with casca’s backstory, various intense and complex relationships both pre and post eclipse, her values and dreams, her betrayals, and how it could all inform her narrative going on now that she’s an active character again*

miura: ok but what if instead of any of that she was like, obsessed with a demon fetus after being pregnant for 4 days 3 years ago

honestly if i trusted miura half an inch i would be so interested to see casca’s reaction to falconia and neogriffith having achieved the dream she wholeheartedly devoted her life to but only after betraying her, becoming one of the monsters who prey on the weak that she fought against, and traumatizing her into insanity

but alas i do not trust miura

The scene where Griffith gives Casca a sword reminds me of when a tortured Griffith was having a vision of his former self giving him a sword to remember his dream of the castle before the eclipse. Casca took the sword and defied her fate, while Griffith took the sword but succumbed to fate.

oh damn this is a really good connection and i am actually really pissed off at myself for not noticing it. not even just the chapter 72 bit – like I swear to god I have a total blind spot when it comes to this fucking scene because first while I was writing that Griffith meta like 75% of the point was “Griffith’s dream is a coping mechanism” and it wasn’t until I was almost finished writing all four parts that I realized “what do you fear in this place” and then vision Griff pointing to the castle was basically Berserk stating that fact directly.

AND NOW you’ve pointed out that vision Griff throws down a sword and I’m like !!! what the fuck I’ve been thinking about swords as coping mechanisms in Berserk for ages now how did I miss this too???? even after connecting this very page to Griffith retreating into his dream as a coping mechanism???

like look at this

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So thank you for sending this ask lol.

Wrt defying vs succumbing to fate, I think you have an interesting point there. While Casca isn’t technically defying her fate, knowing how fate works in Berserk, she is defying the “natural way of things,” ie strong prey upon the weak, as is Griffith. It turns out that Griffith’s fate all along is to overturn the natural way of things. But with the way later Berserk kind of sets up Guts defying fate vs Griffith succumbing to it, it’s ironic that in order to fulfill his (and Casca’s) dream and change the world Griffith essentially accepts fate’s mastery over his life and in doing so becomes the strong who preys upon the weak first, essentially taking the nobleman’s place here.

I don’t rly know where to go with that rn, but it’s something to think about.

For my part, I want to take this parallel as another indication of how swords and dreams are emotional defense mechanisms in Berserk (as you may have guessed from how I opened this response lol).

When Griffith throws the sword to Casca the straightforward reading is that he’s telling her to defend herself.

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Which he is. But there’s another level where she’s protecting not just her body but her heart. With the sword she does defy what seems to be her fate, and switches from meekly accepting that this is just how the world works to fighting back.

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And that’s what Griffith represents to her, which is the big reason I think she’s so uttery devoted. He represents that defiance, and that potential to change the world. And her dream to be Griffith’s “sword” after taking up the sword he threw her is basically her way of coping with the general shittiness of the world and how it’s fucked her over throughout her childhood by fighting back.

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idk at some point I’m going to have to sit down and hammer all this out.

alumirust
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“speaking about berserk playlists idk if you knew but there’s a band…”

Battle Beast also has a lot of Berserk-themed songs. They’re primarily power metal, but “Touch in the Night” is delightfully 80s (and about Griffith)

ok i actually listened to this one and i didn’t realize the singer is a woman?? also the 80s vibe is gr8, ty for the additional info! now i’m listening to more and i’m actually way more into their sound than i was expecting lol.

also ngl i had to read the lyrics twice before i realized it was about griffith fucking charlotte and not being in love with guts lmao

yk i think guts is supposed to seem chill and confident and generally changed in a positive way after his year long vacation but since every moment that emphasizes his cool chill attitude makes me want to punch him i’m not 100% certain lol

like i generally take as read that guts leaving the hawks is one of those things that’s overall bad but had some positive effects, like guts being more confident and cool, since yk the moments that indicate that are things the target audience of dudes would generally agree is cool, like calmly grabbing casca’s tit while she’s yelling at him and then saying, ‘come with me’ in a nonchalant non-commital way, or like telling casca she’s too naked and distracting during the wyald fight, or constantly being a smartass dick during the competition, that kinda thing.

but then again since i generally argue that leaving the hawks was a bad decision, maybe those moments are actually meant to be off-putting. like i don’t really think so, if i was a betting person i’d place money on miura thinking they make guts cooler, but i kind of want to believe.

speaking about berserk playlists idk if you knew but there’s a band called beast in black with a whole berserk themed album called berserker (i don’t agree with all of it rly but it’s fun as a concept)

I was like, vaguely aware of them but I didn’t realize they had a whole Berserk album, I thought it was just one or two songs, nice! Metal isn’t really my thing so idk if I’ll  ever really listen to it all lol, but that is a pretty cool concept tbh.