I've always thought that there were very many similarites between guts and griffith and i've sorta loosely seen a similar pattern to their lives, and i think that guts' path is following a similar pattern that Griffith's did. though whether or not Guts experiences the same tragic ending that griffith did is probably up to where fate leads him, or in most other people's mind, whether or not he escapes from fates plan. but basically, right now it feels like guts is going through the same phase he went through when he was first becoming a true member of the hawks and finding his home with them.
i just wanted to touch on this. the cyclical phase that i see guts being is now, is the same one griffith went through when he first found guts. Griffith had this huge dream of one day becoming king, and then one day this person comes along whose flame burns so bright that it is able to distract him from his life long dream, something no one has ever been able to do. now to relate this to guts. post-eclipse guts has only one thing on his mind: killing griffith. during this time, Griffith and guts both have a lot in common, seeing people as mere tools to accomplish their goals, et cetera. the little child that died for griffith could even be seen as something very similar to the daughter of the priest that gets killed by the skeleton in the first volume i believe. both test their will power to continue on with their dream, and both reaffirm their belief that they cannot care about the ants below them, and that the people around them are there by their own choosing, they aren't forcing them to do anything. (if you think about it, guts' attitude about the companions he has taken on is very similar to how Griffith viewed people). well to get back on topic a little.Istvan wrote:Agreed. I mean, it's not as if it would be all that hard for him to find Griffith now if he wanted to. In order for Griffith to achieve his goal the Band of the Hawk has to make itself rather noticable. Now as to how Gutts could manage to kill that many apostles, it will be interesting to see (probably not for a number of years yet, though).2 - The invasion of the Kushan is not taking Gatts away from Griffith, therefore posponing his vengeance. Simply because that is not in his mind now - he's worried about healing Casca. I'm quite sure that, if that was his will, Gatts would be riding against the self-proclaimed 'Neo Band of the Hawk' to kill them all, and slaying Griffith...
So basically Guts and Griffith start their cylces off focused greatly on this dream of theirs, and then this distraction comes. now i haven't really thought about this very deep, and there are a lot of different ways to interpret this, but basically the idea i've chosen is that Griffith becomes distracted by guts, and guts becomes distracted by casca. both act very similarly to them, Griffith found himself doing things to protect guts that he would have never done to protect any other person, and guts finds himself doing much the same for casca. however, i get pretty shaky on any arguement here from actual lack of looking into it cause i've been lazy and without a complete library to actually compare the two. basically the main thing i got out of this is that Guts is probably going to kill casca, but the more the story progress i think it could possibly be farnese he kills...but you never know what is going to happen with Berserk, you can only guess. (and put it into the stupid theories thread
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