#ninjabelle

It's a pretty deliberately sexy design lol so it makes sense. And lbr I guarantee you no straight guy has ever felt guilty over finding sexy evil women hot so you shouldn't feel guilty either.

xoxoannimuxoxo said: If Guts designed Femto himself he’d look like Bayonetta

lmao true

ninjabelle said: ‘till griff resurrects himself and guts’ dick’ ilu whahhaha seriously tho, nd this is a captain obvs. answer but the way femto is always posed in his mind and memories with the intense eyes is always gonna b about the eclipse and that staredown between them and how it wasn’t about Casca no matter how much Guts wants to pretend it was to make hating Griff as Femto easier. To me the only difference in attraction btween Griff and Femto through Guts’ eyes is an added layer- -of unease, because seeing Femto brings back some rlly fucked up things that very much would remind Guts of wanting him and BEING WANTED by him like i just mentioned, and in the end it’s still Griff in there. Deep down i know Guts wants to peel off the Femto layer and just get at whats beneath. At least the beast of darkness does lmao. I think theres attraction either way, just more twisted dark and scary. Which fits berserk tbh hahaha

the way i understand it is that while ryo is the true OG, he inspired kaworu (evangelion) who in turn has a million expies himself. but since kawo is very very different from ryo himself, charas inspired by these will be super different.

i'll list some well known ones + ones i personally think might be inspired too! definitely can't vouch for all of them, tho, bc i haven't engaged with most of this media! also i realise this doesn't answer anyone's question rlly. but oh well neat list maybe. also the charas are very across the spectrum and different from e/o but seem to share some core themes/traits

ryo (devilman) OG

kaworu (evangelion) definitely seems like a reversal on ryo asuka in many ways but. can't write an essay in ur poor ask box ofc

griffith (berserk) ryo expy for sure

akise (future diary) kaworu expy

N (pokemon)

joshua (world ends with you)

komaeda (dangan rompa)

ryoji (persona)

johan (monster)

khun (tower of god)

mika (owari no seraph)

lio (promare)

(yukito/)yue (cardcaptor sakura)

dio (jojo)

asra (the arcana)

lio (promare)

koizumi (haruhi suzumiya)

commonly shared traits seem to be light hair, impressive (gay) dedication/obsession (often with MC), manipulative streaks, tragedy, moral greyness, and a sassy attitude. oftentimes they seem 'above' the MC in an almost.. omniscient way? hard to explain in a short ask but a projected above-it-all vibe (that usually is just a cover)

this ask is such a mess i humbly apologize <3

Ty for all the suggestions! Honestly I haven't even heard of like half of them. Need to keep this for future reference.

ninjabelle said: Closest I can think of would be Shogo from psycho pass s1, it helps that he’s also voiced by sakurai and has a dark haired protag that’s chasing after him complete w. similar character themes and personalities! If you haven’t seen it it’s worth a shot! There’s one scene in particular that kind of reminded me of what Griff did to Casca proving a point more than enjoying the act itself which is really cool, but no worries, there’s no r*pe involved but its definitely -

ninjabelle said: - one of the darkest animes I’ve seen, theme wise. Fate/zero also comes to mind as far as a storyline with epic betrayals goes, but there isn’t a real griff expy there even though it does deal w themes of how much youre willing to sacrifice for an ideal which is similar to Griffs ideology!

this is coming out harsh but gtsca is a big ship and ppl really read into it but in my eyes miura wrote them just as doomed from the start as griffguts yet only one ship is considered ‘canon’ of the two and I guess I’m just curious what people see that I dont see?? If you have any thoughts about that I’d love to hear em!

Ofc I completely agree that Guts and Casca don’t make sense as a romantic end game ship and they read as doomed from the start to me too. Like I’d consider it a tragedy for Casca if they got together again lol.

Buuuuut that said they are The Het Ship, yk? I have seen so many terrible nonsensical misogynist het ships go canon in my life that like, the fact that it’s terrible and Miura clearly knows that it’s terrible in at least some ways only feels like a minor relief lol, like in my experience that is not necessarily, or even likely to be, a deathknell for a het ship.

I definitely think Miura is a good enough writer that I could see him doing something different and never putting Guts and Casca back together. But he’s also flawed enough that I could pretty easily see the opposite, and it’s not like I haven’t been burned before while reading Berserk lol.

And Miura has been... not pandering to fans of the ship exactly, but definitely acknowledging them and baiting them recently - like when Danann put Casca in a romantic dress and sent her out to meet Guts. That wouldn’t work if we’re all just meant to assume the ship is dead on the water. Neither would all the Moon Baby happy family motherly Casca hopeful bullshit lol, or Casca cooing at Guts and making him snap out of his rage a couple of times, etc. I still think it’s going to end in tragedy, but the way Miura’s writing the story, he knows that a big chunk of Berserk fans want Guts and Casca to live happily ever after and he’s writing at least partly with their expectations in mind.

I actually haven’t read this one yet because I’ve been hoping it would be finished and I could read it all at once eventually lol, but ty for the rec! I’ll tag this anon too since it’s also a response to them.

fic is here

killercorvid said: YES. Speaking without a tongue is indeed possible and from what I know, takes a lot of practice. But if Griffith could communicate his anger, his sadness, his self-loathing, the trauma of the torture that would’ve helped SO MUCH. And he could’ve bulked up a bit with a good liquid diet! There’s still hope, he went through actual hell but im gonna be the immovable optimist here.

Yeah like... realistically I’m no expert in the challenges someone would face without a tongue or working wrist and ankle tendons in medieval europe, but I’m sure it would be hellish in many ways. But I also think that like, with accomodations and supportive people around and a major adjustment to Griffith’s life philosophy, which he already got part of the way through in the torture chamber, he could still be happy. I’m with you on the optimism.

lol ty I’m glad you’re having fun, it’s been nice to get so many asks and stuff recently. and yeah I guess the griffguts tag at least is pretty chill afaik so that’s always a good option.

And aw it’s awesome that a lot of people feel like they can come here to share their thoughts and chat about Berserk and I totally encourage that, but tbf my blog probably isn’t a great hub for fandom discussion since I tend to keep this blog pretty centred around my own opinions and interests rather than facilitating discussion in general. People should have a place to chat where they don’t have to go through me “well actually here’s what I think”ing them first lol.