This has probably been said before but god dammit I'm saying it anyway. Here we have Griffith, him and the Band have been granted knighthood and prestige, the highest glory a commoner could hope for, his dream is finally in hand! But he does not smile, no no, not until he turns and meets the eyes of Guts does a smile finally break through his cold facade, a beaming grin he shares with one of the only people who understands him. Fuck Griffith.

i love campy 80s movies and i think just one of the guys is the most 80s campy movie i couldve possibly watched

Wingless Hawk

aurghhh ok still rewatching '97 and the way guts and casca only have the room to breathe and really come to understand and care for each other in griffith's absence because he has such a strong hold over them both.... and the way their mutual dedication to him is what causes them to bicker for years (casca thinks he's not serving him well enough, guts thinks she doesn't get that he cares/how much he cares, casca's jealousy over griffith's feelings for guts, how he won his heart without even trying or being aware of it or doing anything with it) and is also a big part of what brings them together (earlier when guts deviates from the plan to save griffith and she commends him, in the cave casca opening up about griffith and her's past, showing that vulnerability, while it's mostly confrontational, leads to guts kinda getting her better, and his efforts to save and protect her (falling off the cliff with her, taking on the 100 men so she can escape, encouraging her to return to griffith so she can help him because it's what she feels she's meant to do (her dream, the direction in life guts shares and yet is questioning because of griffith's speech at the fountain, whether or not it's enough to serve him if it means he'll never be a true friend in griffith's eyes because he's not an equal), supporting the idea of her being with griffith/being his most important person like he won't because he doesn't view it as a competition like she has been since day one) leading to her realizing that he's kind of not that bad a guy and they have a lot more in common that she thought. and how the bonfire of dreams conversation is guts opening up to her in kind, the answer to her talking about how griffith saved her, how she feels. how neither of them ever call it love but it's something they know they both have for griffith. how it's something they're beginning to have for each other, different in ways they couldn't put a word to. because they're equals this time. the way griffith kind of becomes less and less important as they find other reasons to live and fight, as they become less singularly obsessed with him. how griffith is unable to stand it, guts' personhood, that agency and peer-to-peer equality he claimed to want (and perhaps truly did) that disappeared guts from his life, his plans, his side. how it barely even matters to griffith how casca changes because he never wanted her like she wanted him. god i can't fucking stand their shakespearean nonsense drama (<- hopelessly in love with their interpersonal dynamics)

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so magical that yakuza 1 and shadow the hedgehog came out the same year........ 2005 the best year for sega honestly.....

[ i could say GO AND PLAY FEAR AND HUNGER NOW but

do i. want you guys to go through that ]

i can live without jason griffith sonic, but life without jason griffith jet is completely miserable

and my body remains, but the person is gone.

[Belated] Wip Wednesday!

you know my life is hectic when notes ap fics while im waiting for the bus make a comeback. anyway Tesoro is being a weirdly sweet manipulative cunt<3 i need to write one of the many times Celia fucks up everyone lives shes looking to pity-able. this is notes app writing so no editing or rereading [except for the beginning with whos speaking] just stream of thoughts- i already know many places i will sit down and improve when i have time

[Tesoro] Do you know who Amelia reminds me of?

[Celia laughs] It's obvious, isn't it?

[Tesoro, dead serious] She reminds me of you.

[Celia, at the same time] Of Elen-

Seeing Celia freeze in shock, a cruel part of him was glad, to be assured that with just a few words he could still metaphorically lay Celia bare, strip away all of the stone walls and bravado, and leave behind a scared child, even after all these years.

Golden eyes were wide, the white fully surrounding. Bright pupils were growing larger, threatening to drown out the narrowing ring of gold.

Its a secret so few know that those pinpricks growing to even half the size of a normal pupil is an indicator of true fear, whereas the usual pinpricks is normal. To those who knew her younger, they think it just changed over time to be smaller, but the truth is she's in many ways conquered her old fears, and those that have taken their place are a slow constant fear, about larger factors. Celia doesn't worry that she will get physically attacked from any side. these days, its the era of mind games instead.

It was always interesting, Celias eyes. More normal than black in place of white, but those metallic eyes and bright pinprick pupils were unsettling to him even more. At first glance, human, second, anything but. Celia- of heaven, according to some old Latin books, derived from a surname meaning the same.

It was easy to see her as something other, even holy, but no benevolent god could create a soldier like her. Those who called her brother an angel were just as misguided, but the veneer of kindness and comfort that made it easy to ignore Cecios' terrifying power over people and see him as holy was lacking in his sister, who they viewed with fear, no seemingly benevolent and gracious angel but an awesome- in the most classical sense of the word- leader of man, set apart from the rest with an unsettling aura of difference. A far cry from the little girl Amelia so reminds him of. Elena was the seemingly godlike one, inspiring awe and fear, then. Celia was just another scrapper desperate to prove her worth in the eyes of her peer, and oh, how desperate she was.

It's the most likely reason why, why he can disable her like this, bypass years of walls. Because he was there before those walls became impenetrable, before she stepped up and shut everyone else out. Some lingering memories of him as her superior, in their childish hierarchy, instincts to listen to him, still dormant inside her.

For every time she learned to put up a higher and stronger wall, he had learned how to bring it crashing down.

It's the same cruel part of him that whispers it, but she truly is his greatest success, rising from the bottom to new heights - all with him by her side advising her.

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THIS RULES THIS RULES THIS RULES

that shipping post made me think and i was about to post like ”can you imagine berserk fans who ship like guts and griffith and like completely ignore and devalue if not outright hate casca as a character just for the sake of some What If It Was Happy yaoi-aus” but like then i realized how absolutely stupid that question is. like of course they are out there and i would go as far as to say that theyre prob NUMEROUS

coming to the realization that the list of characters i'm unfortunately very very very enthralled by who:

are awful horrible terrible people but really wonderfully written dad/dad-flavored villains

canonically know what piss tastes like for reasons very blatantly kept from the audience

who i don't hate/dislike because of point 2 (piss drinker rights) but defo hate for point 1

has expanded to two. something something 2 nickels not a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice. banking on a third one coming my way in 2024 fingers crossed but we'll see. this post is about sagawa tsukasa and clay puppington by the way.

so much to unpack in berserk. the framework of european medieval high fantasy, the pure white women threatened by demons and sinister eastern monsters (the orientalism is inescapable), the pure masculinity of the heroes threatened by homosexuality (which corrupts to the core), casca the incorrect woman who is lesser than the pure (white skinned) women and the real men (who don't have!! periods!!! during combat!! checkmate feminists) no matter how mentally & physically strong she is (her hysterical emotions always get the best of her don't they bc even though guts and griffith break under their emotions all the time, they're men and therefore their struggles are always tied to the fight to retain manhood and not born from fleeting womanly passions), griffith who is rotten to the core because his desires to escape destitution and powerlessness lead him to the worse corruption there possibly could be (look! he lets himself be fucked by a man!!! it's worse than all the rape we've be shown so far, all the violence and violations, no, what's wrong here is that he chose to and that's the corruption, that's the path which leads to lost manhood, look he lost his muscles the symbol of his manly strength it was always going to end there because he performed masculinity wrong and he though of a man when he was fucking a woman and therefore it all makes sense his corruption was foretold see didn't we tell you homosexuality corrupts), and guts who can't fuck his woman but don't worry it makes sense it's because he was also touched by homosexuality but it's ok unlike griffith he didn't choose it and he was a boy (which is a different gender than a man, closer to a woman), so it's fine he can still regain his masculinity and when he fucks casca he doesn't think about griffith even a little bit. and casca. oh casca. who cares about her desires. unlike the men her needs are selfish because she wants a good life and she doesn't even really want to be a man with a big dream.

“Love in a world painted by Violence.”

-Berserk

-Art by Kentaro Miura