Hi Anon! I hope you don’t mind that I copy & paste my private answer to a similar question that I received a few days ago because I’m not feeling very creative with my exam coming up.
For now I believe there are two possibilities for the identity of the person lil Casca wants to meet and yes, Griffith is indeed one of them because at the moment where lil Casca speaks, all that they recovered was her memories up until the moment they left to get Griffith back. So “I want to see him”, taken into the context of her memories, could have to do with Griffith and thus he could be the person she wants to meet with.
At this point in her memories, Griffith is still someone that she holds dear after all, even if he’s not the one she has feelings for anymore.
The other possibility aside from Griffith is if we’re considering that her wish should be taken out of context of the memories because lil Casca…
is what’s left of our currently traumatized Casca ever since the eclipse, which is to say that the more memories they get, the more lil Casca grows (starts talking, etc) and in that case, the person she wants to meet could be Guts.
The flowerstorm Queen described Casca as being afraid of Guts and that is something made obvious with little Casca being afraid of Dog Guts within the dream too…
…but still, Dog Guts is also depicted as a protector. A strong, very scary and intimidating protector, but he’s one at least, and since everything we see is from Casca’s memories, feelings and dreams, even if she’s afraid of Guts that doesn’t mean that very deep inside she doesn’t understand that he’s been trying to protect her this whole time.
So if we’re considering that lil Casca is speaking out of context of the memories but that the memories are helping her grow again (with the ultimate end being to gain her sanity back), that would mean that it’s our current Casca that is speaking through the little one (because the little one represents her current self) and in that case, recovering all these memories about the past but mainly about Guts and why she fell in love with him indicates that Guts is the person she wants to see.
Guts, as in the man before the eclipse by the way, since the current one with his wrath, guilt and trauma scares her.
Additional point but, since the eclipse also obviously traumatized and changed Guts, I believe it will be Guts’ turn to do a lot of self introspection and maybe to start healing (about the eclipse, about everything that happened until he met with Puck, about what almost happened with Casca :/) once Casca will do better. He’s still so tormented himself, it’s not just her, and he is trying to restrain the beast of darkness within him but it won’t stay low forever (and all of this is why Casca is currently afraid of him, despite knowing full well that his intentions aren’t that bad since Dog Guts is shown as a loyal protector).
Anyway, due to the memories and the fact that she is frightened as she speaks
I’m vouching for Casca saying she wants to meet Guts, as in the Guts she fell in love with…
…because she’s a little afraid of what he became post eclipse. I could be wrong though.
I hope it helps, sorry that it was a bit long! Have a nice day Anon 🙂
Reading Berserk 349, and in the convo between Guts, Serpico, and Roderick (about Farnese and how much she’s changed), it occurred to me just how much good Guts and Casca have both done. Like even as damaged as they both are, they’ve managed to touch these lives around them and change them for the better, to transform and heal and inspire these strangers and create this ragtag family with them. That’s a powerful message, I think, that as hopeless as one may think they are, or as damaged as they may be, they still have value. They still have good to give and good to receive. And while this sentiment can apply to all of Guts’ Party in some way, there’s an extra power to it for Guts and Casca, whose stories we’ve followed all this time. We’ve seen all their horrors with them, one after another; firsthand we’ve seen the damage done to them, and felt the hopelessness of their shared fates, and are still feeling some of it as we hope for Casca’s recovery. But it’s really nice to know that, regardless of all that they’ve been through, they’ve done this. Touched these lives and made them better, and especially in Guts’ case, become better themselves in the process.
I really really hope that, if and when Casca recovers, we get even more of this. Guts and Casca continuing to have this influence on others, small as it may seem in the grand scheme of everything, and feeling that influence in return.
More like crack theory, but it invaded my mind this morning and it just won’t leave me alone, so here goes nothing: going back to the tower of conviction arc, there was a scene that never struck me as odd until, well, this morning and that is:
What that apostle implied about the demon infant dying and dreaming about the “new world” (aka Griffith being reborn and becoming humanity’s savior lmao) hit something in my mind today because the story is currently focusing on bringing Casca’s sanity back, thanks to a journey through her dreams.
And in ch348, it was implied that, even though they’re technically called “dreams”, it’s completely possible through them (and thanks to magic) to change the dreamer who is currently asleep in the “real world”.
In Casca’s case, hopefully Schierke and Farnese will be able to make good changes, but that got me thinking: what if, through magic, this “corridor of dreams” was… somehow like another “dimension”? A bit like the astral plane if you would, except that it is about “dreams”…
…and only powerful beings like the Sovereign of the flower storm have access to it.
Now, look at the moonlight child: he’s a young kid that many readers believe could be what’s left of the demon infant ever since Griffith’s rebirth, but Schierke told us many times that…
his OD, to which the brand doesn’t react to, is strange, which means it has nothing to do with the beings of the astral world (or the underworld) that Schierke is used to and he’s clearly not human (or having to do with Danan).
We know he’s using the full moon to appear because that’s the time magic forces are at their strongest, and it’s actually been hinted that Griffith doesn’t disappear on full moon nights (meaning that these two probably don’t share a body, at least not during the full moon). We also saw him disappear in vol 37…
…through that tree that expands even to the moon and that apparently links every plane/world together.
Back to the demon infant and dreams, considering his behavior until Griffith’s reincarnation, I wouldn’t be surprised if he were to have dreams about living a happy life with his parents, especially since the Skull Knight confirmed that all children (even demons) yearn for their parents.
And anyway, one of the reasons many readers associate the moonlight child to the demon infant is basically because the moonlight child, each time he appears, behaves as if he were Casca’s child (eyeing Guts and saving him when necessary too). Isidro even called them and Guts out for looking like a family once.
…that means that the moonlight child (if he’s linked to the demon infant) got his body from someone/somewhere else.
So here’s my theory: what if the moonlight child is none other than the corporeal incarnation of the demon infant’s own dream?
If the baby that became a part of Griffith when he was reincarnated is sometimes dreaming, as the apostle of the tower of conviction implied, then he might be dreaming about seeing his parents again, or simply about what it would be like to spend time as a family?
And thanks to this baby being a strange being in the first place, but also being a part of Griffith and full moons helping, maybe that’s how the moonlight child comes to be every month for just one night (naked as the demon infant always was and powerful, because it’s the full moon or because of Griffith’s powers that the demon infant might be sharing)?
That would definitely explain the boy’s strange OD in any case and maybe even why he looked to have grown up in vol 36/37, as he would be the first dream incarnation that we would meet in the story (and that would fit with the fact that Griffith/Femto definitely seems still corporeal during the full moon).
TL;DR maybe the “corridor of dreams” that Danan uses is some kind of plane, like the astral plane, that can be accessed through the world tree. And maybe, during full moons, the demon infant has enough powers to materialize his dearest dream for one night, which is to say he “dreams” of being a young boy able to spend time with his parents, which is why a corporeal moonlight child materializes where his parents are.
Sorry if something doesn’t make sense, but feel free to leave your thoughts!
Bringing this post back because…
I’m betting that what’s going on, thanks to Danan, isn’t just a simple dream. It’s more like it’s based on Casca’s dream (and it also has to do with her memories and her trauma), otherwise…
…Schierke wouldn’t have been able to bring these things from her own dream. It’s as if Danan was linking their dreams together, so maybe the “corridor of dreams” really is its own dimension/plane (and it’s gathering every dream together?).
Anyway, considering how Schierke was able to maximize the use of these objects “because it’s a dream”…
…once again, I vouch for the (crack) theory that the moonlight child might be the result of something the demon infant created/dreamt, either thanks to his own power, or to Griffith’s, on top of using the time of the full moon. That would explain why the moonlight child seems to be so close to Casca, why he’s curious towards Guts, why he saved them both and why he disappears through the world tree once the full moon ends.
So he might not be the demon infant directly, but he comes from the demon infant living inside of Griffith. And I like the idea that he comes from a dream because it could be seen as once being implied by the egg apostle + as we saw, even as a cursed child, the demon infant always yearned for his parents and wanted to protect them.
Additional detail because it’s a crack theory, but…
Danan chose to materialize inside Casca’s dream as these flowers to guide Schierke and Farnese and, the more I think about this crack theory, the more it reminds me of…
… the 3 times the moonlight child stopped Guts’ fury as he, too, materialized within Guts’ mind, whenever he was on Berserker!mode, bringing him back to his senses.
So I don’t know for sure, but I like the idea that the moonlight child has something to do with the demon infant and the “dream dimension” (as I’m calling it), which might be a separate plane, allowing those who can access it to reach the deepest parts of other people’s minds.
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