Griffith should have been able to rely on himself and no one else. The problem here isn’t that Guts failed to understand his own importance to Griffith and therefore left, the problem was that he was important to Griffith at all. Like according to conviction arc themes, the fatal flaw in griffith and guts’ relationship was that it was too intense and they needed each other too much In part because it seems to contradict everything i get out of the golden age lmao Obviously, the actual reason that the scar didn’t disappear is that it’s iconic to Guts’ character design, but that there is a possible in-universe justification for it is just SO great.Every time i re-read a bit of the conviction arc i want to say something about its depiction of relationships, whether that gels with the rest of the story, etc, but it’s always so hugely daunting Even so, something like that upbringing doesn’t just magically go away. The wound Gambino left on Guts runs much deeper than the little scar he put across his nose, it’s something that Guts has been carrying forever, and STILL carries: it’s just not had as much attention paid to it since the focus of the story shifted to the effect the Eclipse had on Guts. Just off the top of my head I can list things like Guts’ outright stating to Casca how laughable it is that he can’t get over killing Gambino, his touch-aversion, the recurrent nightmares that feature Gambino with his head hanging half off and telling Guts he should have died, the unsubtle parallel between Guts and Gambino’s relationship and Adonis and Julius’ relationship and how badly killing both of them messed with him because of it. Before the Eclipse occurred, deep-seated hurts relating to Gambino popped up a lot. The two biggest traumas in Guts’ life are the Eclipse and everything surrounding Gambino: dealing with the reality that his adoptive father sold him to Donovan, tried to kill him, and was killed BY him. Though it’s a small thing, it’s still significant to his soul. Slan pulls this same trick later on when she leaves the wound across Guts’ chest.īut why wouldn’t a scar as tiny as the one across his nose not be suddenly gone? That the Brand of Sacrifice didn’t disappear is unsurprising, of course: Flora herself can’t erase it, and it was left on Guts by a being that can directly wound ethereal bodies. And if it hasn’t, then the reason it hasn’t is that the ethereal body that the physical body should be matching up with is ALSO wounded. That she bothers to point out the difference means that it SHOULD heal scars. Schierke’s wording in the first picture becomes important when you think about it: what has disappeared are ‘minor’ wounds and ‘recent’ wounds. The Brand of Sacrifice, and the little one across the bridge of his nose. The night before (Ch 202), you can see that Guts in particular is still, as always, covered in tiny little marks, no matter what distance he’s drawn at.Īll of them are gone by the time they’re leaving, except for two. I thought that was a little odd, so I searched back through to see when exactly it had happened and came across something very interesting.Įveryone’s wounds disappear when they stay overnight in Flora’s mansion (Ch 203). I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily evil, but it’s been stewing in feelings of hate for very long, I wouldn’t be surprised if Casca were to be sensitive to the od that surrounds the armor and Guts as well.Īt one point during a reread of Berserk, I got to the battle against the trolls in Enoch village before realizing that all of Guts’ scars had disappeared. Going back to what I said about the Berserker Armor, it’s acknowledged that that shit is bad mojo. I’m sure she wouldn’t ask him to just lay everything down. Of course the answer would be “kill all the Apostles so you can take it off permanently” but we haven’t heard yet what Casca thinks about Griffith, and wether or not it’s related to what she wants.Ĭasca more than anyone would understand what Guts is like, to be uncomfortable without a sword by his side, finding meaning only when fighting. Take the armor off to be with Casca but unable to fight toe-to-toe with the Apostles, or keep it on to continue fighting with a chance to survive but unable to ever be with Casca again, even casually. I wonder how much the PTSD Casca gets from looking at Guts is actually from looking at Guts’ face and how much of it is influenced by the Berserker Armor’s bad vibes.Ĭause that would be an interesting dilemma for Guts.
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