Hi Anon! Not sure I 100% understand what you’re asking so feel free to tell me if that’s not what you meant.
Of course it depends on where you’re at in the story, since the cast does get bigger with every arc, but as of the latest update, yes there are different groups of characters that we can follow in the story.
There is Guts’ and Casca’s party, currently on a place called Skellig Island…
There is Griffith’s army (the villains, so to speak) that we’re currently following:
And we had a few recurring secondary characters that we could follow sometimes here and there in the story, but recently they all formed one group…
…in order to escape Griffith and to possibly rejoin later with Guts and Casca.
We might follow other recurring secondary characters in the future (I’m thinking of the city of Vritannis in particular), but so far there are “only” three groups of characters.
I hope that’s what you were asking about. Have a nice day!
Listen tho’, I am 200% convinced that it is supposed to be super relevant and a big hint to a significant plot development (or answer about Guts) in the future.
I mean, look:
first there was the adorable Chitch…
…as a few random episodes right in the middle of vol37, before we switched to Rickert/Falconia and then again to Guts’ party finally reaching Skellig. And since I don’t think Sensei does random in his story… well, it must be narratively meaningful somehow. x)
Then, of course, there are all the references to Puck before they had even met, which in my opinion definitely hints that Puck and Guts could be linked by fate.
There was Judeau with some elf dust coming from Puck during the Golden age…
but also Rickert with some more elf dust coming from Puck, which was used to heal Casca and Guts after the Eclipse…
Puck who, unknowingly, was also of a great help to Guts during his two years as the terrifying Black Swordsman, as pointed out by Rickert once again…
…just like he was
already
hinted to be pretty significant to the plot in a very obvious way recently…
Puck who calls the Beherit Guts found in the first arc “his”…
and it’s been mentioned too often by now for me not to think it’s possibly hiding something relevant:
So I don’t know exactly what may link Guts and Puck, but fate is at work here and I’ll be really surprised if Puck doesn’t have an even bigger role in the future than during Guts’ Black Swordsman days.
It’s possible that the Beherit is really supposed to be his, especially since Puck knows all about Guts’ revenge against the Godhand and even met them in the very first arc. Not to say that Puck would sacrifice his friends or anything, but just that he may be the key to Guts going back to the Abyss
for the third time
in order to face the Godhand.
Otherwise, to be honest, I have had this super crack theory (i.e no real hint) for ages that maybe,
Guts survived through his rather savage birth circumstances because Puck happened to pass by and heal him? Then Gambino showed up soon after and the rest is history.
After all, we don’t know exactly when Puck left Skellig Island all those years ago, just like we don’t know if that circus troupe is the first group of humans he came upon (unless it was mentioned and I’m misremembering something?).
Besides, in Berserk, the notion of fate is extremely important, that’s why even Griffith couldn’t escape becoming Femto even when the Beherit was taken away from him that one time. So if the Skull Knight says that there is a possible tie between Guts and Elves, then I’m ready to believe it’s the case.
The question is does it come from Guts’ past or will it be explained by something that has yet to happen? Whichever it is, I’m pretty sure it’s going to be very important either to Guts’ character or to the plot iself (or both). :))
i had way too much fun making shitty Polaroids. Also, I’ve never draw the rest of the band of the hawk before?! Guts smiling is physically painful to draw???
And oh no, the introduction of farnese and serpico to my shitty gangster au! More on them next time!
And while I know this isn’t technically a blog focusing on Berserk, there is still something I wanted to point out because damn, the feels.
In this chapter we got the confirmation that bringing Casca back was definitely possible (even if we all knew that since volume 28), but the most interesting part is that while Guts smiled at Schierke being happy to hear that…
…He immediately stopped faking it a second after, something only Farnese noticed. And of course this is all linked back to what the Skull Knight once said…
…making Guts worry that, even if the woman he loves gets her sanity back, things between them might not go back to what they once were. And this is super important because of two things:
The sole purpose of Guts’ journey since vol 22/23 was to get Casca to a safe place, even if the Skull Knight gave him a different hope in vol 28, meaning that Guts’ revenge got stalled since Griffith’s rebirth while Griffith himself is gaining more and more power and was recognized by the Pope to be “humanity’s hope” (ha ha they are all screwed).
The beast of darkness that decided to “obey and stay bound and restrained for the time being” (vol 33) still is a major thing Guts will have to face one way or another and, I might be biased, but I don’t see how anyone not having with him the bond he and Casca used to have can help him on this (though Puck and the Moonlight Child are characters I’d put money on for this specific plot point).
So basically if things don’t go according to what Guts is hoping (or rather if things go according to what he is fearing) then it will be like the Black Swordsman arc all over again, with Guts having nothing but revenge to focus on, even if he found new companions since then that he knows he can count on.
The issue, if we can call it that, is that Casca regaining her sanity has been the only positive thing Guts bet everything he had on for a long time right now, so if Miura-sensei decides that Guts is to still suffer in order to have him go fight against Griffith/Femto and his buddies, then happier times between Casca and Guts might either be short or non-existent ifwhen Casca regains her sanity under the pretense that “[Guts’] wish might not be her wish”.
And about those two having different wishes… Well, personally I think in Casca’s case it has to do with their son because he is right now a big link between Guts, Casca, Griffith himself, the happier times, the eclipse and Griffith’s rebirth, but also because the first time the Skull Knight brought the matter up it litterally happened at the same moment Casca met with this little one…
And, while I’m ready to keep an open mind to any other theories, it’s basicallyconfirmed for 95% of the fandom that the Moonlight Child has a lot to do with Guts and Casca’s child (I’m ready to eat Schierke’s hat if that’s not the case) and since Griffith used their infant to reincarnate into the material world, having Casca take on a more defined role towards her child (amongst other things) would be a good way to tie Guts, Griffith and Casca together into the main plot again and towards the ending.
Often I’ve seen people writing how Berserk was the story of Guts vs Griffith and how Casca’s role was basically approaching its end with her possible recovery but personally I couldn’t disagree more:Casca still has a big role to play before Berserk ends, towards her child most probably, but also towards the battle against Griffith/Femto and what he’s trying to accomplish, as it was (for me) foreshadowed by Rickert in vol 38.
Because Rickert is the last member of the original/old Band of Hawk and Griffith stopped being their commander the day he messed up, the day Casca had to take over and as Judeau said before dying…
As long their leader lives on, the Band of Hawk isn’t finished.
Obviously though, besides Rickert all of Casca and Guts’ old comrades were sacrificed, but Rickert is currently travelling with Silat and Daiba (and Erica who’s super weird because she, like.. doesn’t grow old??? Or maybe it’s just me?) who are rather big names in the Kushan side of the story and Farnese, Manifico and Roderick are all heirs to important families who could maybe provide sufficient back up in case Casca were to lead an army against Griffith’s new Band of Hawk (and that’s without counting all the magical beings that could join on the big battle).
So the triangle Griffith/Guts/Casca is still a thing when it comes to the dynamics of the plot for me and if Miura-sensei took so many volumes to reach Casca’s recovery that means that she will definitely get her sanity back but that she’ll also still have a big role to play afterwards (otherwise way not to follow the rules of fiction and to waste time developing a useless plot point).
…This got hella long and I’m sorry about that. I’m just… y’know, hyped now that Berserk is off hiatus for at least a few months so I kinda had to sum up what developments I’m considering for Berserk right now. ^^’’
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