out of curiosity, why do you have that header image?

Kind of a pretentious meta-y reason lol, this is one of my fave post golden age chapters because I feel like Sonia’s thoughts on loneliness are extremely relevant to NeoGriffith and whatever residual feelings for Guts he has, based on how Miura frames him here, and like, the themes of Berserk in general.

Yk, Sonia is lonely because she’s different from everyone else, she briefly bonds with her Guts’ narrative counterpart and misses her, we get a conversation with Irvine about how relationships humanize and isolation dehumanizes, we get our usual light = companionship, darkness = isolation imagery, and then Sonia dreams of her and Schierke in the moonlight. Followed by the page of NeoGriffith surrounded by darkness, alone under that moon.

So “A dream of a kite and an owl playing in a moonlit forest” is roundaboutly griffguts related as far as I’m concerned bc Sonia and Schierke seem like a v strong parallel to me, and I like being needlessly subtle w/ my references sometimes lol.

I don’t really have a theory, but as you said Sonia might be a self taught witch. But to use the witch powers doesn’t she have to connect with spirits? Her thing reminds me more of the elves, but idk, it’s probably not important in the end.

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hmm yeah it is kind of inconsistent with the whole schierke calling on spirits thing, the rituals, etc. good point!

maybe she will have a surprise backstory, like only being half human or something. or at least it’s a worthwhile headcanon, if we never learn anything more about her.

I sort of feel like she’s just…different. As she says, alike to Griffith.

Legit tbh. It wouldn’t surprise me if we never got more of an explanation than this, and I’m ok with that.

I like to think of her as girl!Griffith and someday I want to see her grow up to be a horrifying beautiful world ruler of a utopia or something via sketchy supernatural powers too.

lol I could see this, and I’d be into it. tbh I actually really hope we get to see her as a powerful adult after the theoretical Elfhelm timeskip. I could easily see her as Griffith’s second in command, or ruler of a sub kingdom or something. Also assuming she matures a bit and doesn’t just turn into a drusilla-esque wacky psychic.

Do you have any theories on Sonia and the origins of her powers?

You know, that’s never actually occurred to me as something that needs an origin story. I kind of just assume she’s like a naturally talented witch, like maybe some people have more innate ability to see the astral plane than others.

The fact that she’s kind of weird and off-beat probably helps tho, since the more like, boring and conservative you are the more blind you are to magic and stuff lol. She talks about feeling alone all her life I think so I figure she was never formally trained by a professional witch or anything, it seems like something she was born with.

Do you (or anyone else reading this) have any theories about her?