I can’t wait for next month too! This chapter gave me mixed feelings… Like those thorns symbolism around her heart meaning that they might have her back but the pain inside her heart won’t go away. It’s so sad =( That’s why I don’t understand people who say that Casca will go back to Griffith after all the pain, suffering and abuse he caused. Have a nice weekend as well. ^_^

Hi again 🙂 And don’t worry, I think it’s natural to have mixed feelings, I do too, namely about the impending Gutsca reunion. :3

I mean, we now know that the Skull Knight’s warning was about…

…Casca not wanting to come back when Guts really needed her to, so it’s possible that she will be angry and ungrateful about this at first (coping takes time).

At the same time (hence why I have mixed feelings xD)…

…the girls caught on that too, so it’s possible that they will be able to make Casca realize all that Guts and their group went through just for her sake.

Finally, as you said, while I think the pain in her heart will take a long time to be dealt with (understandably, considering what she went through, just like Guts), I think that finding a motivation to go through in life will help Casca with accepting it’s a good thing that she’s back.

This is exactly what happened to Guts: getting Casca back in his life helped him a lot with what he had become as the Black Swordsman, that’s why Flora said…

and

how he managed to get over his violent urges at the most critical times.

So the same will probably happen to Casca with…

…what seemed to be the most important for her ever since the Eclipse, especially since it’s extremely plot relevant considering that her baby is used by Femto + that…

it was always foreshadowed the original Band of the Hawk led by Casca would come back. :3

Honestly I just want Guts to get a break right now. I love my girl Casca and I don’t mind her getting all the time she needs to cope, but I hope she will at least let Guts feel happy that he didn’t do all of this for nothing.

It definitely was a selfish wish of him to get her back when she didn’t want to, but the guy went through a lot and he’s been clinging onto this single hope for a while now, so I don’t want the beast of darkness to overwhelm him again now.

He deserves to feel better about a few things, especially since he might find out really soon about what Griffith did to his kid and there’ll be plenty of time for anger again then.

As for the people who think Casca’s going to go back to Griffith… I mean, I see people saying that Femto will get redemption, that Guts and Casca were never in love and some people just coming to the realization that Femto’s “feelings” for Guts and Casca are only the demon infant’s…
So

I don’t know, sometimes people simply can’t read and that’s too bad for them, because they’re clearly missing out. xD

Ahhhh, I can’t wait for next monthhhhhhhh! >_< Thanks for passing by again and have a lovely week! ^3^

OMG BERSERK NEW CHAPTER, I GOT CHILLS !

cobblepotts:

midnight-in-town:

This was me at the end of the chapter…

Okay it’s only been 22 years, but still…

we’ve come such a long way…

and now…

she’s back. ❤ ❤ ❤

I’m so happy! And I just know I’m going to cry next month when she finally speaks again (~~if Sensei changes to Falconia or Rickert and the Kushians tho I’ll just… akzjhbkezbjbrzek~~).

Have a nice day Anon, I can’t wait for next month! ^3^~~

I’m so worried she’s going to go back to hating guts like she did before her break

@cobblepotts

I hope you’ll see this since apparently I can’t tag you, but I don’t think this is something to particularly worry about, especially since…

…the girls fully realized that she was scared to come back already.

The thing is, we know Casca is currently scared of Guts…

…but so did she use to be for a while before he managed to approach her again after some time:

so the Gutsca dynamic always comes and goes in full circle no matter what.

She used to dislike him => they talked and learnt about each other => but he left => then came back but Casca was angry => they realized they fell in love (a two-faced moment there again) => the eclipse happened and she became scared of men => but Guts still managed to physically get close to her thanks to the Tower of conviction => until he unfortunately attacked her in vol23.

So, as it happens, I think our Casca is bound to be confused and hurt and definitely in need of time to process everything now that she came back, which is why it’s hard to be sure of how their reunion will go. Still, anyone who saw Guts around Casca can say for certain that…

…he would never willingly hurt her, not after putting everything else to the side just for her sake, so why wouldn’t she realize that again as well?

The events of vol23 are definitely casting a shadow over the Gutsca reunion, I won’t deny that and in fact I think it’s something that should be addressed by the two of them, but Guts beat himself a lot over it already, so I doubt this is going to be what puts an end to their romance (even if they will probably need time to get as close as they used to be).

In other words, I’ll just quote Flora on this:

So don’t worry, the girls and even Guts (thanks to the warning of the Skull Knight) know that bringing Casca back will not magically make her feel better about the Eclipse, but Casca also has her role to play in helping Guts cope with everything too.

Being scared =/= hatred and neither have to last forever anyway. 🙂 Guts and Casca are bound together…

and this is one of the major foundations of Berserk so it’s never going to change.

So even if their reunion (next month?) doesn’t live up to what you’re hoping, they will very probably find a way to get over everything that happened to them with time. And I personally hope Sensei will allow Guts to rest a bit, emotionally speaking, because he did a lot for her & this journey and I think she’s able to realize at least that (even if she didn’t want to come back). :3

We’ll see next month hopefully!

OMG BERSERK NEW CHAPTER, I GOT CHILLS !

This was me at the end of the chapter…

Okay it’s only been 22 years, but still…

we’ve come such a long way…

and now…

she’s back. ❤ ❤ ❤

I’m so happy! And I just know I’m going to cry next month when she finally speaks again (~~if Sensei changes to Falconia or Rickert and the Kushians tho I’ll just… akzjhbkezbjbrzek~~).

Have a nice day Anon, I can’t wait for next month! ^3^~~

Hello! I hope this isn’t a forbidden question. I was wondering what you meant when you said in a post last week that Femto « hurt » Casca (you know the r word) as a punishment for Casca and Guts?

Hello Anon, no worries at all. 🙂 Did you mean when I said this? [x]

Okay so, it comes from the fact that ever since Casca and Guts realized that it was okay for them to accept their feelings for each other before the Eclipse, things changed so much so quickly that basically everyone noticed.

Judeau, Pippin… even Charlotte (who basically indirectly told Casca “hey so, love totally changed you????”) did, so you can be sure that one year of horror wouldn’t have stopped Griffith from noticing that the dynamic amongst their little trio had changed too, because:

Griffith used to be the one Guts followed and the one Casca was clearly devoted to
then Guts left because he decided not to abandon his own goal for the sake of Griffith’s dream
but after vol9, it turned out Guts was actually very happy to follow Casca while Casca’s heart now belonged to Guts.

And Sensei really insisted on the fact that Griffith instantly realized things were different, by showing him staring very intently at his friends more than once, which was extremely creepy. Two examples amongst many:

Basically you see the current twisted sort of love triangle [Roderick => Farnese <= Serpico] and Sensei always drawing a panel of Serpico staring most of the time Farnese interacts with Roderick?
It was the same back then with Griffith, except that I have high hopes that Serpico won’t become an Apostle over his codependency with Farnese.

Anyway, Griffith stared and stared until it led to this…

Fortunately, he was so weak that nothing happened at the time but it’s really impossible to misinterpret that he was basically trying to gauge or reenact Casca’s old devotion to him by showing some… affection.

If this doesn’t make a lot of sense, just think that Griffith was definitely aware of Casca’s feelings for him in the past but he never addressed them on purpose, because Casca’s devotion made her a skilled blade and right-hand woman and it also meant not giving her an opportunity to move on (at least until she herself fell in love with someone else).

So Griffith, who totally noticed how close Casca and Guts got, tried to see if he could shift Casca’s focus over Guts onto him again, which obviously didn’t happen and which led to…

another very pivotal moment.

Moving on to the Eclipse and to Griffith becoming Femto, in that aspect it’s not so surprising that, after becoming so very powerful and invincible, his prideful demonic ass decided to make Guts and Casca pay for excluding him out of their little trio (especially when he used to be the center of that trio) while he was being tortured for a whole year.

Call that pride, jealousy or whatever else you want, he suddenly had the power to make them pay for moving on without him and so he did just that.

From the moment he always made sure to give Guts a very clear sight of him hurting Casca when she herself was begging Guts not to look, that’s how you know the main point of Femto doing what he did was to punish both of them for choosing the other over him.

I hope it’s clearer that way. For a more detailed interpretation of what happened during the Eclipse, please check this post.

Have a nice weekend!

BTW I love how Casca appears to be completely insane and yet she is hyper-aware of everything around her on a completely meta level, more so than any characters, since everything is truthfully depicted in her dreams.

This makes me love her even more because I don’t know how many Berserk readers called her useless or not plot-relevant anymore over the years, but Sensei proved them all wrong with just how freaking accurate her dreams turned out to be.

We’re heading towards Berserk’s ending when Casca comes back guys, she’s definitely going to lead that magic army right up to Falconia and demand her son back. Griffith will regret having taught her to use a sword to get what she wants.

Okay, I know I wrote this post about who Casca possibly was speaking about in this scene already, but gosh I feel so
very sad for Guts, because Sensei is very probably not going to let him be happy soon.

Or if their reunion is a happy one (plz sensei ;_;) then it won’t last, because, considering the amount of times we were warned, I don’t think Guts’ wish will end up being Casca’s wish, at least not until they sort all their problems out, starting by addressing the events of vol23.

However, I’m kinda scared because Guts became so dependent on the idea that Casca would be by side again (to the point that it literally obliterated his thoughts of revenge against Griffth) that…

who knows if that might not be enough to release the beast of darkness within him?

…Actually, maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but I’d love for Guts to also be given a chance to look back on the fact that, just like Casca, he didn’t cope at all with what happened during the Eclipse while they’re on Skellig.
Casca ended up becoming insane after the Eclipse while Guts became consummed by revenge and that’s not something he has yet to solve either.

That’s why he clung so hard onto the only hope he was given in vol28, which was Casca’s recovery and the idea that things between them would go back to the way they were before the Eclipse, a time where he truly was happy. Except they won’t, at least not right away.

That’s kinda why I’m hoping he talks to someone or gets a chance to look back on things, just like Casca was given, if just because narratively speaking he’s been stagnating for a while. Wait, no, that’s not particularly true because he admitted to relying on his friends more easily now, but still, he’s in need of help (especially if Sensei ever intends on breaking up that nasty parallel to Gambino).

So I was thinking, maybe it’s gonna be (a part of) Gedfryn’s role?

For obvious reasons, I’m expecting something from that guy in the current plot, but maybe I’m wrong and that look was just because he knew Guts had things to say about Femto.

@thekeenbouquetcrown

I’m sorry, please know that I rarely ever act like that, but there is clearly just so many things you are misreading about Berserk and its characters that I couldn’t help myself.

Had you written your comment differently (in a slightly less presumptuous way), I would have probably chosen to answer differently too, because I’m always happy to explain stuff to anyone. However, you’re kinda disdaining great writing by acting very ignorant of canon and that’s something I definitely can’t close my eyes on, so let me break that down for you:

…

doesn’t sound fake but okay.

Things actually changed so much between them after they admitted to being in love with each other that even Griffith, who saw nothing but his torturer for one year, noticed immediately that something changed between them and gave them the stare™ more than once.

Of course, it’s also not like Guts loved Casca, otherwise, you know…

he wouldn’t have offered to stay for her sake when she cried about leaving a weakened Griffith behind, despite not even being willing to do it for Griffith.

And of course, it’s not like Femto raped Casca partially as a punishment to both Guts and Casca because his huge ass ego made it unbearable for him not to be the center of their little trio anymore after Guts and Casca had started to revolve around each other and not around him anymore.

So it apparently is news for you, but yeah they did love each other.

“narratively is no longer necessary in the plot”

omg

did you actually read the manga or did you just watch the anime and then go comment on my post somehow?

“narratively is no longer necessary in the plot”

I mean, yeah no, it’s not like Guts let go of his freaking revenge against Griffith just to make sure Casca would be safe?????

It’s not like, even when Guts loses control with the armor, the simple thought of Casca helps bringing him back

and it’s not like this scene happened too:

and whatever he said, that was enough for the two other girls who have a crush on him to understand they would never have any chance.

Finally it’s not like Casca coming back is the most relevant thing that is going to happen to the plot for a while (I mean, we’ve been heading towards this ever since vol 28), which means that the Guts/Casca dynamic (although currently very strained, I do not disagree on that after what happened in vol 23) will always keep on developing, especially since their son is at the very heart of the plot.

I only gave you a few examples but frankly the story is full of more…

So I’m sorry, I really really don’t want to come across as being rude, because it’d be my pleasure to debate about Berserk with anyone, but if you really need Miura-sensei to describe word by word everything that he directly shows and implies through his amazing artstyle and characterization/development, you’re going to have some difficulties with some other parts of Berserk’s plot.

I don’t disagree with you on the idea that things between Guts and Casca won’t immediately go back to the way they were once Casca comes back, as the Skull Knight already warned Guts about, and as I wrote about in the past. However, I do not, in any way, think that it’s a dynamic that’s going to stay strained.

Guts and Casca are the main characters of Berserk. They were in love, Sensei dedicated many volumes to build up to them realizing their feelings for each other, so there is frankly no doubt about that and I’m sorry to see that you’d think otherwise. It’s the Eclipse and Griffith that fucked everything up, but you can be sure that their romance is still and will keep on being at the heart of the story.

For now things between them are strained (for several reasons) and will probably be for a while longer, but ultimately, I do not think it will stay like that, hence why I’m baffled that you’d say it’s no longer narratively meaningful, especially when they have a son, conceived out of love, who’s also a huge part of the plot.

Finally, Sensei kinda implied before that, Berserk being such a dark story, its ending probably wouldn’t be as grim and considering, again, how the Gutsca dynamic is such a main part of Berserk, you can be sure that it’s also meant to be partially about that.

Berserk is a very complex story, so I don’t blame you for misunderstanding some parts of it, but IDK, maybe reread it from the beginning because you really have the wrong idea about Gutsca and they kinda are the main characters.

Have a nice day.

Berserk question! I always felt shy to ask so please don’t laugh but can you explain why Casca was ashamed of her scars when Guts and her…. had a moment?

Hi Anon and no worries :3 Did you mean this scene?

Personally I always understood that moment as Casca feeling self-conscious about not looking enough “like a woman” for Guts, which is why she initially didn’t like him focusing on her scars.

It’s always been one of her issues with being a mercenary…

because the scars are a proof that she’s a warrior, and a good one at that since she survived through a lot of battles. However, in Berserk’s universe, women aren’t mercenaries or soldiers, so the scars make her stick out from what usual women look like, which obviously is a good thing but also why she looked so self-conscious about them.

The context of their lovemaking also plays a part in her reaction in my opinion since, at the time, Casca had just realized that she had gone from seeking a life as Griffith’s blade (to help him achieve his dream) to Guts reciprocating her feelings and seeing her as an equal.

So it was probably scary for her to realize about her feelings, but also to suddenly see herself holding a lot of value for someone else’s heart, hence why she was worried about not being pretty/womanly enough to meet Guts’ expectations

(besides, at the time she had no idea that she was his first too).

Casca’s worries about not being pretty enough for Guts were irrelevant though…

…

because

he didn’t give a shit and was just impressed by what these scars tell about Casca’s skills and journey as a mercenary. xD

Sorry if I couldn’t explain properly, I hope it can still be helpful! Have a nice day Anon. :))

midnight-in-town:

midnight-in-town:

A few months ago I was joking as I added to someone else’s post that a neutral ending to the possibilities for who lil Casca was talking about previously was her son (compared to ‘good ending: Guts’, ‘bad ending: Griffith’) but…

frankly now I wonder if that really wasn’t who she was talking about from the beginning, especially if you consider that lil Casca is a direct representation of current!Casca.

It would explain why the Skull Knight insisted so much about Casca and Guts having different wishes when she comes back: maybe what will motivate her to come back isn’t even Guts in the first place but her son because she’ll want to save him from Griffith/Femto. I mean, ever since the Eclipse, she always was the most “aware” whenever her son was around.

Even in this state, she knows he’s inside of Griffith 2.0 (when no one else does, just saying), which is probably why the last fragment took this form in the first place. Her son turning out like that is a direct consequence of the Eclipse and so is him being used for Griffith’s rebirth during the tower of conviction arc.

@lenok993

aaahh OMG, but you’re right, I had forgotten:

I had always assumed this cover was in relation to the fact that her son became the receptacle of Griffth 2.0 (and maybe it’s also what it means), but now that I saw your tags it really reminds me of what Rickert (in vol 38) and Judeau (before dying) basically implied about Casca remaining their leader because, as long as she survived, their group would too.

So, despite her probably intense fear of Griffith, maybe Casca will go back to being a leader, except that she will do it all for her son’s sake and, in that case, her “Band of the Hawk” will mean something in relation to her son and not Griffith.

Besides, looking at the Moonlight Child…

it’s probably because of the current link between the demon infant and Femto, but he certainly shines bright like the Hawk of Light, just like the demon infant does in Casca’s dreams:

TL;DR maybe the “Hawk of Light”, the true savior of humanity that the Pope sees in Griffith 2.0 actually is the Gutsca baby, as foreshadowed by the cover of vol 20, because his parents will save the day and the rest of the world all for his sake.

Such a development would be so fitting when that poor baby was cursed before it was even born. ;_;

Ahh, my bad Anon! Basically, it’s more “true Hawk of Light = Gutsca baby (demon infant + moonlight child)”, thanks to @lenok993 making me realize something.

Let me reexplain in different terms:

Casca and Guts will never give a single care that Griffith/Femto/the God Hand decided to cast an era of chaos and darkness upon the world.
They aren’t going to save the world just because “they’re the only ones who might be able to stop Griffith”.
However, what they will care about, especially Casca, is the fate of their son who’s currently trapped within Griffith 2.0.

Now, considering the following:

I always thought that the Pope was manipulated like the rest of the world by Femto, but maybe he’s not completely wrong when he says that “the Hawk of Light you see here is our savior” because the Griffith we see in this scene = Femto + the demon infant.

We know Femto is never going to be anyone’s savior but rather the one who brings doom to the whole world, however, here’s what Rickert said…

meaning that there currently are two bands of the hawk: the new one led by Griffith 2.0 (made of humans and apostles) and the old one, which survived and is still led by Casca because…

So, symbolically speaking, couldn’t we say that there might be “two hawks”? Maybe “the White Hawk” and “the Hawk of Light”? And one of them is Femto obviously but what if the other is…

…the Gutsca baby, because he too is constantly associated with a shining light and Griffith?

All in all, the reason we could consider the Gutsca baby as the possible Hawk of Light is that, beyond being currently associated with Femto, it was said that “the Hawk of Light would be humanity’s savior”.
So either Miura-sensei is just enjoying dark humor here, since Griffith is not going to save anyone, or he is actually double-trolling us because there is going to be a Hawk of Light that will (indirectly) save humanity, however it’s just not going to be Femto but the other part of Griffith 2.0, a.k.a the Gutsca baby.

Again, Guts and Casca probably won’t care about saving the world, but they will surely want to try and save their son. And if they do and get rid of Griffith/Femto at the same time, then humanity will be saved, indirectly making the Gutsca baby the hawk of light and humanity’s savior.

So, looking at the cover of vol 20…

you can interpret it in two ways:

Casca gave birth to the demon infant and Femto used him to be reborn into this world and become “the Hawk of Light”.
Casca gave birth to the true “Hawk of Light”, because it’s not Femto but rather her and Guts’ son and his parents rescuing him will be what is going to save humanity.

Finally, I also like this theory because the demon infant was cursed from before even being born and yet…

he constantly saved his parents, which is slightly contradictory to having the nature of a demon. Of course, the Skull Knight said it might happen but still, he never ever was even slightly aggressive towards them, so… maybe this kid will really indirectly save humanity, because his parents will have to get rid of Griffith/Femto in order to save him.

Is that… more understandable? 🙂 I hope so in any case, but keep in mind it’s just a theory, it really doesn’t have to turn out like that, haha.

Please have a nice weekend Anon!

Source: midnight-in-town

midnight-in-town:

A few months ago I was joking as I added to someone else’s post that a neutral ending to the possibilities for who lil Casca was talking about previously was her son (compared to ‘good ending: Guts’, ‘bad ending: Griffith’) but…

frankly now I wonder if that really wasn’t who she was talking about from the beginning, especially if you consider that lil Casca is a direct representation of current!Casca.

It would explain why the Skull Knight insisted so much about Casca and Guts having different wishes when she comes back: maybe what will motivate her to come back isn’t even Guts in the first place but her son because she’ll want to save him from Griffith/Femto. I mean, ever since the Eclipse, she always was the most “aware” whenever her son was around.

Even in this state, she knows he’s inside of Griffith 2.0 (when no one else does, just saying), which is probably why the last fragment took this form in the first place. Her son turning out like that is a direct consequence of the Eclipse and so is him being used for Griffith’s rebirth during the tower of conviction arc.

@lenok993

aaahh OMG, but you’re right, I had forgotten:

I had always assumed this cover was in relation to the fact that her son became the receptacle of Griffth 2.0 (and maybe it’s also what it means), but now that I saw your tags it really reminds me of what Rickert (in vol 38) and Judeau (before dying) basically implied about Casca remaining their leader because, as long as she survived, their group would too.

So, despite her probably intense fear of Griffith, maybe Casca will go back to being a leader, except that she will do it all for her son’s sake and, in that case, her “Band of the Hawk” will mean something in relation to her son and not Griffith.

Besides, looking at the Moonlight Child…

it’s probably because of the current link between the demon infant and Femto, but he certainly shines bright like the Hawk of Light, just like the demon infant does in Casca’s dreams:

TL;DR maybe the “Hawk of Light”, the true savior of humanity that the Pope sees in Griffith 2.0 actually is the Gutsca baby, as foreshadowed by the cover of vol 20, because his parents will save the day and the rest of the world all for his sake.

Such a development would be so fitting when that poor baby was cursed before it was even born. ;_;

Source: midnight-in-town