Think about it again. Wasn't Flora that said that the encounter of Silke and Gutts was somehow "predestined"? It's very contradictory to say this, since is Flora itself the one who says that Gutts might be able to not to follow the same path as the SK, And the SK doesn't not referr to Fate, he just refers to the Tale that Griffith is living, Gutts must live outside that Tale, that's all.Arresty wrote:The brand itself is proof that fate has declared him dead. Since he is "dead" then he no longer has any fate and can change fate.
And again, Gutts has himself put against lots of choices "after branded" choices that we all know the answer, even if we saw, in the pages of the manga, Gutts debating alone with himself, He will save Casca first. Fate's made all the characters here take a decision, even the branded one. Big decisions, the only problem here, that leads to pre-made situations, is that the development of the characters is so well defined, that if you ask yourself "If had the choice, would Gutts kill Griffith or save Silke?", u may already know the answer. It's like so bound to Fate whims, since Fate first picked up Gutts to the job of Gutts (X'D) and Griffith to the job of Griffith. Anybody else wouldn't have sufficed Fate requests.
Another example is here: the Count offers Gutts as the last sacrifice, which is rejected of curse because he was already a sacrifice and doesn't meant a shit to the Count, he is asked for his daughter. Even in that moment Gutts there is just "causality" he has nothing to do about the Count, Gutts itself didn't changed anything, any other moment would been the same for the count (imagine the Kushans crushing his territory) and he whould have to offer his daughter nomatterwhat.
