"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” ― Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata

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"Падение сокола" "Fall of the Falcon"

A little WIP

I forgot to post this but heres the page I drew for @/BerserkZines ☺️🫶

I feel like I still need to improve on a lot of stuff but I'm proud of how it turned out regardless 🙇‍♀️

(The hands belong to Guts btw) 🙈

Berserk

art by shimhaq

Cartoonist Kayfabetober, 16 October 2023. Berserk! Griffith in happier times but the shadow of what is to come looms over him.

Uuuuu godhand hyperfixation

Slan but beautiful of course

female! Femto Berserk fan art

AI is working wonders on Fem! to

Queen of Longing

(I don't own anything)

I need ya’ll to look at this cute ass sticker pack I made recently

Hopefully @ayustar​ won’t mind me doing it this way because that post is insanely long and in danger of getting longer, but.

That’s an astounding thing to say. It’s a Japanese series. It’s written by and for Japanese people. We are the guests at the table, not Japan.

I....

Okay, here’s what I’m going to say:

I fully understand that art isn’t boxed up in one country or culture, and that different cultural perspectives are going to influence the way we see art, etc. This is one of the big things with Femto/Griffith and Japan vs. America (I’m trying not to speak for countries I’m not in) because obviously Japan has a very different attitude toward rape in fiction than the US does (now. I mean go back a few decades and you’ll see the same tropes in American media).

But that said, people need a fucking reality check sometimes. Because a story produced by and primarily for people from [country] is going to be written more in line with [country]’s general cultural outlook and this is why I keep saying Western Berserk fans are going to end up confused and frustrated - because they insistently cling to the idea that Berserk is like John Wick or something. And I’m not downing John Wick, which I enjoyed a lot, I’m just saying an American revenge movie doesn’t necessarily have the same assumptions or expectations baked into it as a Japanese revenge story because they are different countries with different tropes and expectations.

And this is kind of why I try to ground myself by looking at what Japanese fans say - because they’re much more likely to have a general feel for what the story is saying and where the story is going since it’s written in the Japanese cultural language so to speak (metaphorical language not literal language). 

Also how is anyone in the west going to throw stones about sexual assault in Japan? Did the SA rates drop in the west and no one told me? Because I don’t think that’s the case.

Anyway yeah that’s my experience with the Japanese fandom. I think it’s to be expected that Griffith attracts strong negative feelings in some people regardless of where you go, but the difference in the overall tone of the discussion and range of options they expect or at least would accept speaks for itself.

P.S. Which Femto statue? The garage kit of the rape scene?

Thoughts on the Moonlight Boy? Personally, I'm not a big fan of him and I think his existence just unnecessarily complicates everything within the story. Like I'm a Griffith enjoyer but I also see how fucked up it is that Casca and Guts' kid shares a body with Casca's rapist. And I don't even like that Casca and Guts have a kid in the first place. People think that since the three of them have cute moments and that Casca has "motherly instincts" (which I think is absolute bs), that the two of them would be great parents. But I don't think Casca and Guts would ever be ready to have kids anytime soon. I honestly think that no one in Berserk should have kids but that's just me...

Personally, I think naratively he makes a good deal of sense to me. It fits with the sort of religious imagery that Berserk likes to play with. You have Griffith reborn as one of the five "angels", a godlike entity that curses the womb of one of his most devoted followers. The resulting child, once combined with Griffith's resurrection- which in its self is another christlike allegory- becomes the 'son'. At least that's how I interpret it. Now the Father (or in this case, Femto whose seed made/distorted the demon child into what we knew it as) the Son ie. Moonlight Boy and the broken Spirit of whatever is left of Griffith's original heart/mind all in one body- as it seems he still has some lingering feelings. An unholy trinity. It is truly upsetting.

This would also cast Guts into a Joseph like role, taking care of the woman whose womb was cursed in this case instead of blessed by a God. Berserk loves its religious imagery, so it makes sense to me in a very tragic way. Of course this is just all my interpretation of the narrative- i could be way off from Miura's intent.

One could also say Moonlight Boy plays an important role in Griffith/NeoGriff's character development. As the man who traded all that he loved to empower himself with a godlike body, to have that new body compromised by the consequences of his own actions feels like karma. He must cope with the fact that even with all he could have ever wanted at his fingertips now, he is unable to feel or enjoy it as wholly himself. That godlike body he traded everything for isn't even entirely his. As a Griffith fanboy, it hurts but makes sense.

As for if I like MB on a character level, yes I do. If I were to separate him from how he came to be, the concept of Guts and Casca having a child together is quite adorable to me. I think that had their relationship had time to grow, had the Eclipse not occurred, they would have made good parents. Guts and Casca have a lot in common, and have shared parts of their hearts with each other that others are not given access to. It would have been a surprise, but they would have learned how to be good parents together as a team. I can imagine a lot of cute moments between them.

Of course if I'm going so far as to imagine no Eclipse then I might as well go full HC zone, right? In my little ideal world, Griffith, Guts and Casca would all get together during golden age and would raise their kids as one happy family unit- I definitely plan to make some art of that soon ^ ^ Because my main interest lies in mushing all three together to soothe my own poly bi heart ❤️ You know what they say, be the change you want to see or something like that haha

Thanks for the question, Anon!

Sorry for the loooooong answer! In short, yes I do like Moonlight Boy as both a narrative device and character, and I feel like Miura had bigger plans for him than just sharing Griff's body. It is horribly tragic, but it wouldn't be Berserk if it weren't. ♡

Mr. Steal yo girl. This was just supposed to be a sketch lmao

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I made berserk wallpaper for pc :D

His wings gave me re-occurring nightmare lmao

(feel free to use though this version is not the most high quality one)

What it looks like on my phone:

BERSERK

The remains of the Eclipse