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Honestly I think Casca is going to be the only one of the three who will ultimately survive in the end. Griffith’s pure and wonderful kingdom is just /too good/ to last, and I think it will be Guts (our apparent “hero”) who will actually destroy that – and make the world a worse place for it, all in the name of revenge, which is always seen as cool and good in most other He-Man Manly fiction. In a way, it’ll be like both Guts and Griffith are destined to fail through “winning” what they’ve got
and I’ve seen too many
people say they want to see Guts and Casca kill Griffith and go off to
live happily ever after.. LOL. as if Guts’ entire history of not knowing
anything but fighting and killing is suddenly going to be “cured.”  The
guy is the literal embodiment of live-by-sword, die-by-sword, and he
will never stop. Griffith’s death will be tragic not so much for losing
him, but the world he has created for others.  Casca deserves to be
without their drama anyway lol

…totally agree that
the rape was cheap and a crappy stark way to make readers hate Griffith.
Like I understand why it’s there, but it was a very poor choice. I
preferred the ambiguity of grey morality with the entire sacrifice on
its own.  A more direct and personal “fuck you Guts” via Griffith
without raping Casca could’ve easily been switched with any number of
non-sexual acts

honestly this ending would be fantastic imo. i mean i fell in love with berserk when it was a tragedy about 2 dudes whose understandable and empathetic yet still fatal flaws ruined everything, and i want it to return to a tragedy about 2 dudes who continue to ruin everything bc they can’t overcome those flaws.

painting the destruction of falconia as a bad outcome because guts failed to find a better way to deal with his issues than sword swinging would work v well for me.

if miura needs a hopeful note he can have it with the children and maybe some of the other side characters, but i want guts and griffith to destroy themselves and each other again so bad and for that to be shown as a another tragedy.

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Berserk is great in that almost no character is decidedly “good” or “bad” and that really messes with the status quo and expectations

yeah ia, Miura’s pretty good at giving his characters interesting, understandable, and morally grey layers, and it’s pretty much why I like Berserk.

the moral greys are especially a good touch in a story where people can literally transform into monstrous representations of themselves lol, it seems like it would be so easy to go full black and white, good and evil and I’m glad he hasn’t.

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The best conflict is not Good vs. Evil, but rather Good vs. Good or Evil vs. Evil.

this is a good way of putting it tbh, and i def agree

with the caveat that my ideal conflict is [good vs evil] vs [good vs evil] ie 2 people struggling with their own inner darknesses/humanity while they’re in conflict with each other, and who complement/complete each other/pull each other towards the middle

mostly bc it describes a surprising amount of my favourite ships + character dynamics lol

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How do you interpret the scene where Griffith reaches for Guts’ throat?
I’ve read a lot of different takes and enjoy them all quite a bit. Personally I feel that Griffith almost wants to strangle Guts after finally seeing him after almost a year of constantly obsessing over Guts leaving him while he is physically tortured, like he blames Guts for his psychological torture (and is in more pain from that, and not the physical). Guts feels it and doesn’t care and possibly believes he deserves..
Deserves Griffith’s
hatred. The one other comrade (omg I forgot his name???) sees this
exchange and is actually taken aback by them both.
Despite his rage and ill feelings towards Guts, however, Griffith can’t
even make himself act out in strangling (also because he’s weak af but I
mean emotionally) because deep down he is, surprised to admit to
himself, elated to see Guts again and to be held by him.  This is just
my current favorite take but I won’t argue its accuracy!

oh i pretty much agree. i think griffith definitely wanted to kill him there. not “wanted” as in so direct that if he, say, had a gun he would’ve shot him, but more “wanted” the way casca wanted to murder guts when he came back so spent a while swinging a sword with intent to kill but then kind of freaked out when she actually stabbed him.

if he had the physical ability to kill him there i don’t think he would’ve been able to go through with it, but yk, he would’ve probably strangled him for a few seconds before letting go

though i don’t think guts really noticed imo, because if he did i feel like… idk his interactions with griffith up til the eclipse would be different. guts would be more hesitant maybe, if griffith tried to physically lash out bc he blames him for his torture/emotional vulnerability that led to a year of torture, and guts realized that. He’s good at burying his feelings of guilt, but idk if he’s that good.

But ia that if he did notice then his reaction wouldn’t be like, outrage or anything, it would def be guilt.

i have a post i wrote a little while ago in answer to a similar question here, and i go way more into what i think griffith’s emotional state is etc there if you’re interested

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Okay but please consider this: Theresia comes back and ends up being a huge endgame villain to Guts AND Griffith. Because she promised.

i would love that so much ngl. at the very least i really want to see her get some kind of hard earned revenge, and with the potential elfhelm timeskip in the works it’s possible we’ll see her as a badass adult at some point. I’ve got my fingers crossed hard

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All good points, I was really just trying to base off assuming Casca and Guts where around the same age (in order to guess Griffith’s age) but yeah, a 15 year old would probably not consider an 18yr old “the same age” since like you said, 3 years is a lot to a teenager. Unless even at 18, because of his very fair and slim build, an 18yr old Griffith appears to be around 15yrs old?
Though I DO like the idea of Guts being the youngest of the 3!

Yeah I mean you could make an argument for it. Until there’s hard and fast canon it all comes down to personal preference, or just going with the ova ppl’s guesses/decisions. I was just laying out my reasoning for assuming Griffith is close to the same age as Guts bc I see people say Griffith is 3 years older all the time thanks to the wiki taking the ova behind the scenes info as fact, but yk, it’s all headcanon in the end.

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Considering casca is supposed to be the same age as Guts, and she met Griffith when she was still young, and Griffith was old enough to not look off in armour, I would say Griffith is at least 3 years older than both of them

all the straightforward info we have on anyone’s age other than Guts, as far as I know, comes from the movie guides, which I think do say Casca is Guts’ age and Griffith is 3 years older. But I don’t think (and please correct me if I’m wrong or forgetting something) that’s stated in the manga anywhere.

Could be Miura signed off on it or suggested it himself, or it’s in the guidebook too or something, but I personally still wouldn’t consider it technically canon if it’s not in the manga. I mean I’m biased because I like the idea of G+G being about the same age. But also I have a rly hard time seeing Griffith as 18 before the 3 year time skip:

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Especially w/ Guts thinking of him as just a kid, and about his age, etc. Three years is a p noticable age gap when you’re teenagers.

and Casca could also be around the same age, rather than younger than either imo. she says she was 12 when Griffith saved her (to me she looks younger than that, but w/e, canon says 12), and I could easily buy Griffith as around 12-13 in that scene just going off looks. He acts older, bc at this point he’s got more life experience, but honestly they both look like babies to me

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I mean maybe it’s a stretch to think of a 12 yr old leading a group of bandits soon to be mercenaries, but enh child soldiers abound in Berserk, Rickert was a unit captain at about that age lol, and the other Hawks are also relatively young according to Guts so I can suspend my disbelief and accept it.

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It’s funny how weird and almost “bad” his anatomy is but how much better it’s gotten

yeah the Black Swordsman and v early Golden Age could get dodgy wrt anatomy imo but from Mid golden age on it seems pretty spot on to my untrained eye.

But even back then I still think his emotions were spot on – even if the expressions were a little less realistic/nuanced, he still conveyed all the right feelings imo.

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I hope she comes back as a kickass villain friend

lol i’m never sure if replies to things i’ve reblogged are meant for me or the op but either way, super agree, theresia showing back up to get revenge would be amazing