Are there really??? omggg

i mean i guess to be fair the scene w/ casca and griffith in the wagon confuses everyone, and if you add that to the (absolutely nightmarish) dream sequence i could… maybe kinda sorta see how some people come away not knowing what else to think if they’re the kind of person who defaults to man+woman=attraction lol.

But I mean come on even if you can’t make sense of some of it it’s so clearly about Griffith’s helplessness and powerlessness. Like, the nightmare of living with Casca while Guts is off doing his thing is his worst case scenario and he tries to kill himself right after! How do you read that and think, ah yes clearly Casca is the person Griffith wants.

I mean I’d say a solid potential throughline from Griffith and Casca in the wagon to that nightmare is Griffith grasping at straws for some kind of life, since he’s dependant now and has no choice but to rely on someone else to take care of him (which Wyald helpfully made absolutely clear a chapter earlier), and then realizing that he’d rather kill himself than live that life if Guts is absent from it.

I mean there are romantic feelings there, but they sure aren’t directed at Casca.