#griff-guts

guts and griffith: kissing passionately, flowers bordering the frame of the shot, griffiths hand is up guts shirt berserk fans: ok see this is CLEARLY a reference to the way ancient roman soldiers were told to use physical intimacy to strengthen the Brotherly Bond among comrades. this is actually some pretty smart stuff miura is doing he’s using the historical allusion to suggest that like rome griffiths kingdom will fall after he’s killed by his former ally guts (an allusion to caesar). genius

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this always trips me up when i realize i’m scrutinizing too hard, like lmao they’re stupid kids making stupid mistakes like kids do .. even guts dramatically and silently going off on a vision quest of his own fits this ... like lmao i can imagine him composing a dramatic journal entry about it hoping griffith would see it later, and basically fantasizing about the drama that would follow oh my god

@griff-guts said: can confirm im a teenager and i sound like hamlet annoyingly waxing poetic 99% of the time so who can blame them

lmao this is all so legit

guts needs someone who’s obsessed with him bc he wants to be wanted super bad serpico just can’t provide the level of mutual ownership of the other in a relationship guts needs that’s just how it is

ngriffs true emotional breakdown moment will happen when guts touches him again. miuras just a coward who won’t write it

i could still see it happening

especially after all the emphasis on neogriffith’s untouchability (and rickert being able to slap him), or at the very least i could see a significant touch between them, even if it doesn’t cause a breakdown

“I mean I genuinely do think (human, obviously) Griffith is by far a...”

lmao i think about this all the time. also audience leniency and sympathy towards guts moral failings is amplified due to him being the narrative point of view and protagonist for the majority of chapters, and in comparison to starkly standard evil characters like apostles, femto, etc he SEEMS to be a good guy, even though realistically he isn't. the grey morality of berserk extends to literally everyone even guts. it's like really no coincidence that miura draws guts visually similar to femto and the apostles often lol. i mean i can’t insert examples or whatever bc this is just a rambling reply but i’m sure you’ve seen the comparison posts of guts in berserker armour or just in battle to femto. it’s like….. so not subtle that he’s an asshole and not presented as a shining example of perfect morality yet bc the fandom can’t read and he’s their macho straight guy testosterone hero he gets a pass for doing bad stuff lol

yeah absolutely lol, like most of the point of Guts’ narrative is that at times he gets pretty damn indistinguishable from demons/monsters even without a magical transformation. Like yeah definitely visually, but tbh it’s also directly stated a lot lol. Like ngl this is actually one of my fave (well, non griffguts) lines:

And then once we’re in NeoGriffith’s narrative and meeting the cool apostles, a lot of them seem way better than Guts by any moral standard lol. Grunebeld, Zodd, Irvine.

Like the dock fight really directly compares Guts and Zodd and both of them balancing humanity/reason and bloodlust.

griffith is the master of guts sword ;) ;) ;)

yk what this works as a d/s joke, a masturbation pun, and as serious analysis

like the chapter title actually does seem like a potential reference to guts dedicating his sword to him now that you mention it. and lol i saw this reply right after posting a long thing about how that moment basically is what motivates guts for the rest of the story

guts and casca are pushed together because on a base level they don't feel attracted to each other, guts and griffith are pushed apart because they are extremely attracted to each other. classic!!!