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bthump · 1 month

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what do you think is Guts’ an Griffith’s biggest fears?

Guts: anything bigger and stronger than him. I think that's essentially what the monsters function as in Berserk, thematically - personifications of Guts' fear stemming from his childhood trauma. I mean, that's essentially stated when Guts encounters Zodd and the narrative describes him as terror itself:.

Griffith: I'm going to say failure to achieve his dream. Guts leaving him was worse on him, but it's not something he lived a good portion of his life in fear of the way I think he lowkey, mostly subconsciously, lived in fear of failure. And he sacrifices Guts because he caused him to fail to achieve his dream, by becoming more important.

As a fear it's something that in a happy ending Griffith would've been able to grow past, but he never got the chance to in Berserk.

Like I'd describe Griffith as being driven by guilt, but that kind of goes hand in hand with a fear of failing to achieve the dream so many died for. The fear isn't given centre stage for Griffith the way it is for Guts, thematically, but yeah as a headcanon that's my answer.

Thanks for asking!

#ask #anonymous #character: guts #character: griffith #theme: fear #character thoughts #headcanons

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bellwethers · 11 days

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GURIFISU

#I just wanted to experiment with a colour pallet #but that red kinda makes me feel sick when I look at it #I also feel like I should try drawing different things since all I ever do is draw characters from one angle but I also enjoy doing that #so why stress about doing other things?#I don’t want my art to be boring I guess #fanart #berserk #griffith #griffith berserk

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el-ladron · 1 month

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Isabela Merced

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phorigami · 1 year

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#six characters #fanart #digital art #my art #charles henri sanson #warrior of light #vampire hunter d #griffith #wei wuxian #wei ying #devilman crybaby

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tikattu · 3 months

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settled with my oathbreaker paladin's design and scribbled some lore stuff. his name is griffith carnelian and he's an old knight led astray by the forces he once served

#oc: griffith carnelian #dnd character #paladin #half elf #dungeons and dragons #dnd

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nostalgicsneeze · 5 months

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Terry from Just One of the Guys ★ just unbelievable amounts of gender…

( Run DMC - It’s Tricky ♫)

#oh were making niche 80s character edits now #i know this movie was just supposed to be one of those Twelfth Night inspired comedies but there is something different about this one #i could not be normal about this dumb movie the first time i watched #we can ignore that ending #terry is transmasc #TO ME <3 #just one of the guys #terry griffith #80s movies #sneeze edits

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orcarnage · 4 months

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I don't know if I'm just deranged but.... I think this is it, this is the point where things went irreparably south between Guts and Griffith.

Let me try to explain it; in this scene, had guts spoken his mind, it would likely have prevented him from leaving the hawks altogether. Griffith asked this not because he thought he might be cruel, he knows he is. He asked because he wanted to know what Guts, thought; he wanted reassurance. He asked this to Guts knowing he'd reply with something akin to this, because it is something familiar. He knew Guts would downplay it, give some sort of 'and you ask ME?' kind of response.

This was the wrong choice. Griffith predicted it would be this way, and he proved himself right, because he always does that, doesn't he? What he did here was essentially just shouting into a void. Griffith is not content with this arrangement, having Guts just follow him as a soldier, and had he known Guts also wanted to stand equal to him, this scene would have gone a completely different route. This scene separated them, it put them each back into their roles, a leader, and one who is below him.

The face that Griffith makes when he asks that question, his expressions are very delicate but it is a deliberately big panel. His eyes are determined, but he's tense. His eyebrows are about to furrow, his posture is really stiff, and he hesitates. The sorrow in his words is insane, I'm going insane. HE NEEDS YOU TO HOLD HIM!!! GUTS YOU DUMB FUCK!!!

And then this HORRIBLE {affectionate} CONTINUATION.

God this was awful. You said exactly what he expected you to, you ruined the opportunity to speak your mind, im losing my marbles. GUTS IM PUSHING YOU INTO THE SEWER.

That fucking smile. Its so forced. This is the point where Guts puts Griffith on a level he sees himself as being below. This is the point where Griffith realizes his dream will come at a cost.; forever elevated above his peers, unable to stand shoulder to shoulder with Guts, something Guts accidentally made clear with his comment. And Griffith can do nothing but accept it. This will cause him to cling to his dream harder than ever, and Guts will seek to elevate himself to stand beside Griffith. They're so physically close, but they're worlds apart. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN FIXED!!! OH THE TRAGEDY!!!! THE TRAGEDY!!!!! MIURA SENSEI, WHY?????

Anyways I'm very passionate thanks for coming to my ted talk feel free to add on or argue or discuss i just wanted to analyze this scene a bit specifically due to the face Griffith makes.

#berserk #griffith #guts berserk #griffith berserk #character analysis #i hate them (affectionate)#griffguts

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my-fancy-hat · 4 months

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This is me rambling about some thoughts I have about Makima and why part of the reason I like her character so much, now that I realized I tend to draw her like this. An ominous entity rather than a person, a shadow, silloute or a faceless woman, like a faded memory, she can be anything everywhere, always present. A face provides of identity and individuality but she's above it all, just as how she still haunts the narrative years after her death. Sometimes I think about her body as a vessel that it wasn't mean to broke, because now the control she contained is everywhere, the entire system, that so obscenely inflict on p2 characters (take for example Miri with the church or Yoshida with PS, or Yuko with her bullies). That's why Asa is such a fascinating character to me as well, she embodies her motives, birds and cats so well. Every decision she has made is by her own volition, all his falls and pain, she's the owner of it all. Famine and PS couldn't subjugate her because she's the owner of her own life, in a way, she's the antithesis of Makima, the antidote to p2 conflicts. Anyways, I ended up talking about Asa too lol. Seems like I like to play with these concept on my art, they're so cool.

#makima is *that* type of character yk. like griffith!#godlike devilish religious saviour imagery associated with sexuality betrayal and animals (falcons/rats and crows)#maybe someday i will draw her normal lol #makima #asa mitaka #chainsaw man #csm #myart

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arcadebroke · 23 days

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#Berserk #ベルセルク展 #ベルセルク #art #Manga Reproduction Pages #Griffith #Guts #Farnese #manga #manga pages #design #manga page reprints #character art #character design #Berserk Exhibition #Berserk Manga #personal collection

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13eyond13 · 3 months

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love it when a character that's hard to read intuitively for you has like a dedicated fandom interpreter who can just glance at their blank face in a panel and then give you a 3k word essay on their innermost thoughts & desires & fears and neatly tie it back into the themes & whatnot as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

#im talking about griffith btw #guts i feel i get intuitively - maybe because i have some personality traits in common with him #and we get more about his life concretely told to us in canon. so he is a bit easier to pin down as a character and feel attached to for me #but whenever i was reading the manga i just kept wanting more insight about griffith's actions and feelings #like ok yeah its fun to have mysterious antagonists and suspense /tension etc but its also fun to feel like you deeply understand them too #and i felt like that was a bit missing from him for me in canon #so reading about him in analysis and fics is the most fun for me rn #he always felt kinda half unreal to me- which maybe was the point of him - but i wanted a bit more about his childhood or something?#and wished we had more stuff explicitly from his pov in the story to read or explanation about his transformation or wtv #and now he's so much more closed off to me even than he was in the golden age. i keep waiting for him to explain stuff and he does not #ANYWAYS all this rambling to say some people out there are very good at interpreting him and making his like. insecurities #more obvious to me bc i didnt really get that side of him from canon intuitively well #also im really enjoying reading the first few berserk fics ive read #there may not be a ton of them out there but there is def writing talent in the fandom #i'll share some recs once i'm done sifting through most of what's out there to read #also (not to tie everything back to death note but it IS my home fandom after all)#i feel griffith is obvs the more light-like character here and L maybe a bit guts-like? but unlike berserk in death note #light is the one you get to know best and L is the mysterious / unreal one you don't get a lot of concrete insight into #and in the DN fandom I can read the more mysterious character intuitively but had to warm up to the less mysterious one instead #and the mystery of L makes sense to me and doesnt bug me as much due to like - he HAS to hide a lot about himself or else he will die lol #so some similarities there but also some opposite feels as well #berserk spoilers #p

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fertbutt · 1 month

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have i shown this guy yet. uuhhh dnd character 😁😁😁😁 im playing curse of stradh its my first ever full campaign ive just done a couple one-shots before this!!!! Im really excited!!!!! Pls no spoilers

his name is sanguine hes a half-elf warlock hes very weak and sickly so as a kid he would get these spells where hed just rot in bed for like weeks like a little victorian child. but he survived and now he has a zest for life since hes so fragile hes on a quest for immortality. also he joined a church and then burnt it down theres a lot of stuff hes done it's not so important but that's why he's wearing the priest get-up

#dnd #dnd art #dnd character #dungeons and dragons #curse of strahd #my art #he is just a reskin of sanguine from my story btw. just dnd-ified and not so completely evil #other inspirations include griffith and thistle from dungeon meshi!!!!#he is 18 years old btw. compared to everybody else in the party being like 22-25 at least

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bthump · 8 months

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Is there any straight explanation for how a lot of men in the manga are textually thirsty for griffith? Like what was the point? And also i feel like Miura be projecting his own atracttion into it... Like he really wants to fuck him i get uncomfy sometime, idk if that makes sense

Based on at least this interview Miura did have a thing for androgyny so yeah that's likely a factor, though I don't find it uncomfortable. Who doesn't want to fuck Griffith, good for Miura if he wanted to too.

That said, it does fit the themes lol. There's no straight explanation, but imo there is an explanation that goes a little deeper than fun homoeroticism. I've discussed aspects of it before so I'll link a few things.

I have this post about people pedestalizing Griffith and how it facilitates the tragedy of the Golden Age.

This post about how Griffith is a symbol to people and his beauty reflects that.

And this post about his sexual vulnerability and how that's a major theme of his narrative wrt trauma.

Basically Griffith's attractiveness fits his narrative perfectly because his narrative is all about embodying an idealized image of himself to achieve his goals and deny his own vulnerabilty, and how that ultimately fucks him over when everyone including Guts believes that image and doesn't see the real person underneath, and results in him eventually losing everything human about himself and more literally becoming the image when he becomes NeoGriffith. And this is all tied up in trauma as well, which is also related to his beauty, eg Gennon.

Thanks for the ask!

#ask #anonymous #b #a #theme: homoeroticism #character: griffith #theme: trauma #theme: repression

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paint-it-dead · 6 months

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everybody's always taking about griffith/guts parallels or guts/casca parallels but why is no one ever talking about the griffith/casca parallels???

#berserk #guts #griffith #casca #not ships just character study

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srlbureau · 5 months

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(@srl.bureau)

#berserk #motiondesign #nope #motion graphics #graphic designer #character design #graphic design #character art #motion art #animation #guts berserk #kentaro miura #griffith #casca

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althanair · 3 months

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i can understand hating griffith for what he did, but what i don't understand is why he is so fervently hated while characters who have committed similar actions to him are not.

take DIO from jjba, for example. he had a mansion full of women that he raped and then drained of blood. he had a woman kill her own infant. he killed multiple people including beloved characters and yet he is still very much loved.

#like don't get me wrong #i do like griffith #but i think his actions cannot be excused #but i still don't understand why he's treated differently from other villains #i don't think i have ever seen a character being loathed so much

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conostra · 6 days

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Griffith's Relationships

The White Hawk. The White Phoenix. The King of Falconia. The Savior. Femto. The Blessed King of Longing. Once, the greatest mortal to ever wield a sword. The bane of the Black Swordsman. The most beautiful man alive. Him with a stature nothing short of pure magnificence. You know him. You love to hate him. I’m talking about one of the greatest characters not just in manga, but in all of fiction: Griffith.

Griffith is one of many examples of how masterful Kentaro Miura was with a pen, be it pressing against a notebook or a panel. An incredibly written character, as complex as they can come, with some of the most complicated, deep, and tragic relationships I’ve ever seen put to any form of media.

Here, I’ll be discussing what is inarguably a core tenet of Berserk: Griffith’s relationships. With two exceptions, there is no dispute that Griffith’s relationships are the singular most important part of the media he resides in, there is no debate over whether or not they are still crucial parts of understanding both Guts’ disposition, and the world of Berserk. Griffith’s different approaches to interacting with those in his vicinity warps the very world itself, and his whims shape the very nature of the conflicts the protagonist engages in.

Here, in 6 parts, we will be dissecting Griffith’s most important relationships through Berserk, how they shaped him, and what they explain about who he is and how he got to where he is now.

Part 1: The Boy, and The Hawks

Part 2: The Governor.

Part 3: The King.

Part 4: Charlotte.

Part 5: The Wings of the Hawk (1)

Part 6: The Wings of the Hawk (2)

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Part 1: The Boy, and The Hawks

Throughout the story of Berserk, Griffith goes through many changes, some more drastic than others. But no change is more pivotal than the one caused by a certain young bird who flocked with him and the Hawks when he first started his journey. Before Guts, before Casca, Griffith was no one. He was a commoner, no more than a child, starting his own little group of misfit warriors to become… something. Whatever it was, surely, it must set him on the path to his dream. But to the others, whatever that something was did not matter. It was of no consequence to them whether that mystical something ever came into fruition. All that mattered was that Griffith was the one who was pulling them along with him into the smoke that obscured their immediate war-torn futures.

Among them was a young boy. Younger than Griffith, even. So young, he would even bring his toys onto the battlefield. A young boy who admired him from what he thought was afar, but in actuality could be only a few feet away at times. It was like admiring a star, or, as Griffith puts it, “the hero of some story.” A hero not too unlike the toy knight Griffith found one day in his satchel, no owner left to claim it, as he lay on the ground, blood pooling around him as it soaked through his bare clothes, no armor, merely a tunic and a dream. A dream to serve alongside Griffith. A dream to aid Griffith in achieving his dream, a small dream, a dream to aid another man’s story.

Griffith wondered, as he placed the boy’s toy back on his chest, whether, when he died, he felt comfort from his dream. Or, perhaps, did he die in agony, unable to achieve it? Was death the start of a new dream, or the end of all other ones? Was it even the boy’s dream that he felt as he slipped away? Or was it the dream Griffith imposed upon him? He did not know the answers.

But he knew one thing- that he could no longer idly hope for his dream to be achieved. He knew he could not simply throw enough numbers at the board, have enough fights, gain enough men, and maybe he’d get lucky, and his dream would simply fall into his lap. He would have to take initiative. He would have to work for his dream, would have to devote every waking moment, every sleeping moment, to the pursuit of that dream.

One night, later on, upon returning to the castle, Casca finds Griffith with a man known for… having a particular taste regarding young boys. Later on, she finds him, bathing himself in a nearby river. He begins to quite literally tear into himself, ripping open his arm in a perfect metaphor for how he feels. He claims he has logically reasoned out that what he did was necessary in order to make sure that he gets the funds needed to properly helm a militia the size he will require. But this is only after admitting that he feels that he must be as filthy as those who follow him, because he does not deserve to be clean when his dream is smeared in the blood of thousands who follow his words.

Despite his supposed recovery from this mental break, and despite his claims, the scene of that young boy, dead on the battlefield, with his only belonging encapsulating the lofty ideal to which he held Griffith, broke him. It could have, should have broken any man who would be in the same situation. But it did not just break Griffith. It melted him down, only to reforge him again. That young boy pushed Griffith to do whatever it takes to achieve his dreams, and to accept that casualties will occur. It was a notion Griffith accepted, but not one he fully understood until it was there, laid bare in front of him, forcing him to either confront it, or to give up. And Griffith confronted it. And it warped him. As the story progresses, we see that Griffith is still affected by the death of this young boy, and that his blood still stains crimson all of Griffith’s decisions.

Without this death, perhaps Griffith is content to simply grow the Hawks through skirmishes, through battle, and through battle alone, until another opportunity presents itself. Perhaps Griffith does not sleep with the old man. Perhaps Griffith does not engage in the activities he does later on in the story, assassinating rivals in his chase of his dream of a throne. Perhaps he does not pull Guts as his sole equal in the depravity he lowers himself to for his dream, sending him on an assassination mission where Guts has a realization of equal magnitude to his own. But Griffith does not recover from this spiral. Perhaps, if this child did not die as a result of Griffith’s own actions, perhaps The eclipse never occurs. Perhaps Griffith must work ten times as hard, it takes ten times as long, but perhaps Griffith does not become the false emotional stonewall he acts as. Perhaps he gains a new dream, perhaps he does not, but either way, perhaps he can have that journey with those he loves, he values, to keep him company.

And Griffith loves the Hawks. All of them. Perhaps not to the same degree, but for all of them, Griffith feels this same type of patriarchal, shepherd-esque obligation, with perhaps the exception of Guts, and Guts alone. He takes on the burden of making the hard choices, of putting himself through hell, to attempt to mitigate the harm they can potentially receive as much as possible. He bears the weight of every victory, every loss of every individual, all willingly given for the sake of his dream. He alone bears the cross of being the head of the Hawks, at every step of their journey.

And this makes his decision at the Eclipse all the more powerful. Some may think that Griffith made the decision because he did not actually care about the Hawks, those who would so loyally lay down their lives if he were to so much as ask. But no. The thing that makes Griffith’s decision to follow that through, to sacrifice all of the Hawks for the sake of his dream so sickening, so gut-wrenchingly despicable, is that he does care. He values each and every single life that was lost at the hands of the apostles, and the demons that began to ravage his party at his behest. He has to care. After all, the Behelit requires him to sacrifice whatever he values most in order to give him his chance at his dream.

All this death and mayhem, yet underneath it all, it is the scarlet blood of a single child, barely younger than him, that tinges Griffith’s memory.

#griffith #casca #guts berserk #anime discussion #griffith is probably my GOAT villain I'm ngl #character breakdown #berserk #femto #RIP Miura #every time his pen touched paper was a masterstroke

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