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“oh yeah they’re fifteen” is has SUCH a different impact than “barely older than isidro” im losing my mind

lmao ikr but i mean look at this child:

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and i think isidro’s 14 rn so there u go, it’s terrifying.

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                       I just thought it was Miura’s art progression,
but nope, those were real child soldiers alright

yeeep. tbh guts’ age progression is actually rly laid out in detail so i think while reading it doesn’t strike you as much bc you see him grow up progressively, but going back after seeing 24 year old guts is jarring.

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they look so smol here! I didn’t really notice that reading the manga for the first time, but it really cements the fact that they are all so young

yeah that really struck me while re-reading it after getting used to adult guts lol, they really do look 15ish at the start of the golden age. like they’re barely older than isidro, lol, it’s kind of wild.

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Oh yeah, I remember Flora asking Guts whether the betchi is his or he’s just a carrier, so I guess it’s possible. Ughhhh I can imagine all the tension between Guts and Casca, no thanks, Miura don’t do that. But on the other hand Casca will surely have a lovely relationship with Farnesca, since they got really close. I can’t wait till they finally have a proper conversation.

yesss no matter what happens I can’t wait for farnese to interact with sane casca, plz miura i desperately need them to talk.

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Can she use a behelit if she’s already a branded sacrifice? The two don’t have to necessarily cancel each other, but I don’t think it’s probable.

The godhand said early on that you can’t sacrifice someone who’s already been sacrificed, but nothing about whether a sacrifice can use a behelit. Since we’re meant to think the possibility exists for Guts to use it it stands to reason the possibility exists for Casca.

But it’s just my theory because I want something epic and game-changing ito happen soon with Guts and co, and if it makes G*tsca much less likely to happen or become a sexual tension will-they-won’t-they get back together thing, that’s an added bonus lol.

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I really can’t wait for the inevitable fight between Guts and Casca when she gets her memories back, she’d totally break up with him and want to stay away, though I think she won’t just leave the group because, like in her mind scape, she understands fundamentally that he did try to help her. Guts is already resigned and I think he’ll be “I totally deserved that, but it still hurts”.

I’d be pretty much down with this happening tbh. It would be awful if they just got back together no harm no foul, though I doubt that will happen. This seems like the happiest possibility, really 😀 And yeah the fact that he’s the dog dragging her around in her head does suggest that she sees him as helping her.

My biggest hope is that she wakes up, and reacts to her years-delayed trauma in some way that advances the plot. My main idea is that she uses chekhov’s behelit, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be that drastic. And she could do something important after hashing everything out with Guts.

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It can get really messy if Casca not getting her memories back leads to her leaving Guts because she remembers him assaulting her and go to Griffith because she doesn’t remembers his. That would be poor taste though, I’d much rather like Casca working through her feelings and memories.

Like if she only gets partial memories back, but doesn’t remember the eclipse? I actually hadn’t thought of that possibility, but yeaaaaah I def would not want that to happen. As well as being bad taste I think it would be cheap frustrating drama, and Casca would still be a plot device for conflict.

I’d also way prefer if she gets all her memories back and has to work through the trauma in some way, whether that means Elfhelm therapy or going on a rampage, I just want Casca to be an active character with agency again.

While reading the part of that last post and the part about Casca being healed, I started thinking whether Casca will completely regain her memories/sanity, because just maybe Schierke and Farny will see the Eclipse memories, be really disgusted/scared can decide that she shouldn’t remember them for Casca’s mental health. I think that’s not veey probable, what do you think though?

I think it would be rly disappointingly anticlimactic after all this ominous build up if Casca ended up not getting her memories back (tho that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen lbr), but yeah now that you mention it ia that there’s probably going to be at least some inner conflict w/ Schierke and Farnese when they reach the Eclipse about whether they should continue on, or whether making Casca relive those memories is too cruel, etc.

After all those warnings Guts got it would make sense to have Farnese and Schierke doubt whether they’re doing the right thing or not. Plus they’re fighting mind monsters and stuff too that get stronger the closer they get to the Eclipse, so I think it’s likely that things won’t go perfectly, especially if they’re conflicted. Idk but I bet it’s going to be tense.

How big do you think the timeskip will be after Guts and the others leave Skellig? It’ll probably happen since time flows differently there, but it can’t be too big. Maybe just enough for Falconia to get even bigger or something. Rickert could start a resistance movement? What do you think?

Yeah ia a time skip seems really likely. If I had to guess I’d say maybe 10-15 years?

If it’s like, a century then Guts would come back to Griffith running an empire as an immortal god-king, all the characters we know like Rickert and Charlotte and Silat etc would probably be dead, and I think it would change the tone of the story too much. Like yeah it’s an epic story, but at its core it’s about relatable characters, and if you start kiling those characters off for no reason other than to add to the epic-ness then it throws the balance off.

I could maybe see 50ish years, making Rickert an old wise mentor like Godo lol, and maybe aging Sonia so that she reminds Schierke of Flora? Could be interesting. But overall I’d probably prefer less time, that still seems like too much.

10-15 years gives Griffith some time to start acquiring his Gaiseric-esque empire, it’s enough time for the new fantasy reality of the world to change how things work and function, it’s enough time to Rickert to grow up and do whatever he’s doing up in the mountains with Silat and co (resistance movement sounds good tbh), enough time to make everyone sad (like say if Farnese’s parents died in the interim or something, or Isidro had a family waiting but not anymore), but it’s not so much time that the world Guts returns to is unrecognizable and without familiar touchstones.

Also just to be self indulgent for a sec, several decades is too long for NeoGriff to be chill and serene and doing his thing without Guts despite his unfrozen heart imo. It makes the whole beating heart that he blames on the fetus thing seem irrelevant if he can easily function for that long regardless. But a decade or so sounds like a perfect range of time for NGriff to start out serene, throwing himself into his empire etc and pretending he doesn’t care at all about Guts, only for the cracks to begin showing just as Guts is set to return.

Of course if he is able to put Guts out of his mind for 50 years until he’s standing in front of him, unaged, and then he has an emotional response, I’d still be okay with that. It’s just a little less fun to me.