#chapter 384

Anonymous asked: Do you see more of a point to Moonlight Boy after the latest chapter? 'Cause (SPOILER) it seems to say that Guts and Neogriffith are both uniquely situated between realms because of their respective births (born from a corpse/stillbirth respectively).

In some ways I see less of a point, in that if Moonlight Boy/Fetus is something that makes NGriff paralleled to Guts bc of the circumstances of their "births" then... well honestly this seems entirely unnecessary lol. A lot of additional information and explanation for something that never needed to be explained, imo - though we'll see what else we learn in the next chapters I guess. Maybe that'll justify it better.

But hey if the ultimate reason Fetus/Moonlight Boy exists as part of Griffith is so the narrative can have something to point to while saying both Guts and Griffith are special magic boys, then I'm fine with that lol. I hope that's Moonbaby's only narrative purpose.

Anonymous asked: About chapter 384: I saw a theory that Griffith being Guts' "other half" might mean they are literally the same person. In that theory, Guts might have never had a physical body as he was born dead and has always been an astral being and Griffith is another shard that separated from that being. What do you think? Honestly the manga ending with them fusing into literal Griffguts weirdly intrigues me, but at the same time I'm kinda worried they are use that to explain away why they are so special to each other. Their very human relationship with all its tragedies during the Golden Age is so precious to me, and it would be a shame to see that reduced to some magical pull between two soul shards (also it would make Griffguts selfcest, which I don’t like either). In any case, it does seem they are somehow bound together by fate and I'm eating it up. I just hope the baby Guts got inserted with (the fact that Guts and Griffith both kind of have a magical mpreg is killing me) isn't some magical super power up and Guts isn't just going to go defeat Griffith now without at least soul searching some more. We'll have to see, I guess.

I have a longstanding dislike of "here's a random brand new extra special explanation for something that was already fully explained by established worldbuilding and/or organic characterization" style narrative developments, so I'm not a fan in general. Like we already knew Guts is part of the interstice - though that had formerly been explained by the brand; we already knew he and Griffith were narrative parallels, we don't need that to be literally true because of magic; we already knew Guts and Griffith were bound together by fate, that was the driving theme of the Golden Age. So I'm pretty :/ about some of what's being implied here, though I'm reserving judgement until we see the whole sequence.

Guts and Griffith being the same person split into two specifically would depend heavily on how it's framed for me. Like, to be clear I don't think the chapter is implying this, they're just being paralleled imo. BUT if this was the case, then it could either be a weird selfcest-y thing where like, they rejoin into one person or something and I'm immensely disappointed. Or it could be framed like a greek soulmates thing, one soul/spirit/od/whatever split into two bodies, finding their other half in each other. Still not a romance trope I particularly like lol, but I sure wouldn't be mad about griffguts being literal soulmates.