9/20/2023 0 Comments Berserk tumblr![]() It should be another Tower of Conviction, by this logic, full of resentful baby-eating heretics lmao. Come to think of it, the Hawks should’ve all hated Griffith. I mean if a person hates someone because they’re weak and hurts someone because they’re strong, everyone in the rpg group should be full of resentment towards Guts. ![]() ![]() Or maybe this is all going to come back front and centre and we’ll find out the rpg group is also fucked up and about to tear itself apart. I half-wonder if this is an issue with Miura writing some of Berserk while depressed lol, considering how utterly cynical the Conviction arc is. But it’s so fucking awful lol, I absolutely loathe it.Īnd it is directly contradicted by stuff like the fact that this is portrayed as good: Like it’s hard to dismiss it all as bullshit. Even the religious stuff feels like a statement on unequal relationships - people clinging to a God like Nina clung to Luca like Casca clings to Griffith then Guts, like Griffith and Guts clung to each other. But that’s obviously not the case.īut like, man, the Conviction arc just hammers in this shit about unequal relationships and clinging to others, resenting the torches in the darkness, etc etc etc, over and over and over. Farnese calls him her saint, Isidro idol worships him, there are parallels drawn between Guts and the group and Griffith and his followers a lot.īut again, by Conviction arc logic, the rpg group is bad. I mean, he gains them because they’re all fucking clinging to him and considering him better than them lol. It’s all bookended by the Beast of Darkness, and it’s later contradicted by Guts’ rpg group. Someone else’s strength, Isidro’s, saved her.Īnd of course, Guts’ “I can do everything myself” stupidity continues until he sexually assaults Casca and finally realizes maybe he needs some people to rely on. Will you? Because to me it looks like you got caught up in trying to kill incorporeal images of the Godhand and trying to find Griffith and completely forgot about her, only remembering the whole “save Casca” plan once you realized you couldn’t kill the images you were swinging at. Of course, it’s worth noting that the Conviction arc is very Black Swordsman-y, and therefore its “most relationships are bad, actually” message may not be wholly sincere, but may be more a reflection of Guts’ current stupidity. Like, they’re not a happy healthy equal relationship either lol, either pre or post Eclipse. There’s also “a person hurts someone just because they’re strong” as a prelude to Guts assaulting Casca. Well, sorry to say, the Conviction arc is also gtsca negative, here’s Casca stating the theme right before saying it also applies to her: Oh but bthump, you might say, the point is that Guts and Griffith were too obsessed wtih each other while not being equals and that was a bad thing, while Guts and Casca have an equal relationship and therefore they are an example of a good relationship, just like Nina and her shitty boyfriend up there. I absolutely cannot reconcile the themes of the Conviction arc with the Golden Age, because that is clearly not the point of the Golden Age. Guts and Griffith’s problem was that they were never equals, and they admired and resented and clung to each other in turn. But the narrative seems to fully support it regardless:Īccording to the Conviction arc, Griffith was right when he said this:Īnd Guts was right to leave. Of course, this statement is extremely cynical and delivered by an antagonist. (They’re even both on the giant hands, and Luca and Guts both let go self-sacrificially. All they can do is stare in blank surprise at their illuminated, disgustingly cruel selves… and continue to suffer it… And to protect their stunted self-esteem they depend on it… all the while hating it. Transcription bc the writing is hard to read:īut those threatened by the dark… can by no means ever let go of a torch. Griffith should have been able to rely on himself and no one else. The problem here isn’t that Guts failed to understand his own importance to Griffith and therefore left, the problem was that he was important to Griffith at all. Like according to conviction arc themes, the fatal flaw in griffith and guts’ relationship was that it was too intense and they needed each other too much In part because it seems to contradict everything i get out of the golden age lmao Every time i re-read a bit of the conviction arc i want to say something about its depiction of relationships, whether that gels with the rest of the story, etc, but it’s always so hugely daunting
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