HEY! CASCA FIGHTING ZODD BUT GUTS COMES UP TO SEE THE COMMOTION AND THEN ROCKS START TO FALL ON GUTS BUT GRIFFITH SAVES HIM AND GUTS LOKKS LIKE FOR A SECOND HE RECONNZIES HIM BUT NOPE! HE JUST GRABS AT GRIFFITH HAIR AND GIGGLES AND SAY”HEHEHEHE PRETTY…” BEFORE HE BENDS OVER IN PAIN CUS OF THE BRAND.
dragonslayer is like significantly larger than casca. poor casca stuck dragging thst shit
this keeps tripping me up when i think too hard about this au lol. like does casca just work out a lot more, does she graduate up to the dragonslayer when the brand imbues her with enough super-strength, does she have a different, just as awesome but less gigantic weapon instead ???
w/ guts he has his whole thing about using an overly large sword since he was like 4 yrs old. casca should get an equivalent cool weapon backstory.
dragonslayer is like significantly larger than casca. poor casca stuck dragging thst shit
this keeps tripping me up when i think too hard about this au lol. like does casca just work out a lot more, does she graduate up to the dragonslayer when the brand imbues her with enough super-strength, does she have a different, just as awesome but less gigantic weapon instead ???
w/ guts he has his whole thing about using an overly large sword since he was like 4 yrs old. casca should get an equivalent cool weapon backstory.
Yeah like I’m all about the badass Casca in this AU but regressed Guts has its own uniquely depressing vibe. I think we’re exchanging demon rape for mind-breaking psychic magic bc if the end result is an insane character with no agency it’s just a better method to get them there (I have a lot of issues with Casca’s story let me tell you but w/e) but there’s a lot of aspects to explore w/ Guts all fucked up instead of Casca.
(Like consider: NeoGriff moving involuntarily to save Guts from rocks and feeling uneasy about seeing him as an empty shell.)
Also check out the ask I’m about to post by @tfan2013 for more, she’s got you covered for sad details lol.
ngl when it comes to replacing guts with casca i’m torn between something epic and badass like the first time guts puts on the armour and starts mowing apostles down like grass, or the ganeshka fight at the docks complete with bickering with zodd, or even the angel fight during the mock eclipse with cynical quips about religion and the crowd below terrified of her and farnese in horrified awe etc.
and like the scene with intestine-slan trying to get stabbed, or farnese possessed and grinding on her sword – ooh or the ridic opening scene: Casca fucking the female apostle with one hand while the other’s about to reveal a canon.
talking like total flip au here? def black swordsman because 1.) theresia probably wouldnt be traumatized for life 2.) reaction to femto and the associated bullshit
ngl i’m kind of into vengeful casca wandering around traumatizing kids and using them as bait and hostages but i could rly see her being way colder than guts and just straightforwardly killing count slug instead of taunting him in front of his daughter first so either way you might be right
and man i’d love to see her reaction to femto. I think it’d def be less complicated by lingering feelings than guts’ bc she was already trying to move on before the Eclipse happened, and she’s just more pragmatic than Guts in general, plus she’s used to thinking of Griffith as a lost cause, so I think she’d be better at writing him off as a jerkass demon. So like she’d still try to kill him, but with less of the pay attention to me vibe mb?
OK DOES CASCA STILL GO THRU A LIKE? TRAUMATIC
LOSS OF BABY? demon fetus still around? because the burning babies in
lost children would be Murderous on the emotions
oh shit i forgot she’s pregnant. so maybe she’d be less inclined to traumatize kids when you consider that, good point. But man the Lost Children arc would be so much more fucked up, ouch. Also I could see her identifying with Rosine a little tbh – escaping a fucked up situation in childhood by joining something that seems like a fairytale…?
tho if the eclipse still caused the miscarriage but without weird magic demon corruption (fighting apostles is not that easy on the body so sure) she probably wouldn’t’ve known she was pregnant at all, so there’s a way to ignore it too if u want. choose your own preferred level of trauma lol.
@bthump i would actually like to see her fight a hundred men buut considering her period was on at the time it’s unlikely but it still would be cool
that would be so cool and epic
anyway we could swap more stuff around. say casca’s fine but guts is sick and running a fever and falls off a cliff, bam. casca the hundred man slayer, damn i’m so into that.
Man I would love to see all the griffguts golden age drama replayed with a running commentary lol.
actually if in this au casca was the main character the whole time dealing with her own shit so we only saw all the griffguts mutual pining from an outside perspective as just an annoying additional complication to casca’s life, it would be ridiculously fun to get an up-close and personal chapter-long revisitation with all of guts’ emotions at the forefront. I mean idt i’d trade it for the story we actually got, but this is kind of a delightful idea.
god every time i remember that black swordswoman casca au i replay the entire manga from the eclipse on in my head with a bitter, pissed off, one-armed casca in place of guts and sigh wistfully
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