i might elaborate on this someday but i think the only relationship in fiction i've seen that reaches griffguts' level of emotional intensity in guts hating longing for resenting feeling betrayed and abandoned by griffith while at the same time loving him dearly and helplessly and eternally is itempas/nahadoth from the inheritance trilogy with nahadoth's feelings toward itempas. itempas/nahadoth also has the same type of cataclysmic world-altering consequences that griffguts has! however i will also say itempas is significantly crazier about nahadoth than griffith is about guts. which is impressive





















