![]() I think everyone should think for themselves and form their own opinions, and I completely agree that diversity of opinion is important in any fandom. Like, I don’t reblog posts just to disagree with them (unless they’re a friend and I know they’re cool with discussion) because I know it sucks when you keep getting notes from people who are liking or reblogging the take you disagree with, but I don’t think that should mean not discussing other people’s meta at all, as long as it’s done respectfully of course.Īnd I understand why someone might want a second opinion on something they read. Like I recognize that attitudes have changed in the era of mostly unmoderated spaces and reblogs and the lack of diverse comms with their own norms and discourse running rampant lol, and so it’s often considered automatically rude to disagree with people now, but I think that can only extend so far. My meta is here to be read by anyone who wants to, and to provoke thought and discussion, and that’s generally what I assume of others’ meta as well. ![]() ![]() This might be my 00s internet bias here lol, but I tend to view meta on a public platform as fair game for response or external commentary - which includes my own posts. I think that’s a fair concern but honestly, I don’t see it as inherently a problem. So I don’t think this is actually that much of a stretch. And I don’t think Miura would’ve necessarily framed it this way, but based on some things he’s said in interviews where he acknowledges and discusses the homoeroticism a little, some of his cited inspirations being textually gay, plus the Golden Age’s recurring theme of repressed attraction (see Casca, Judeau, the Queen, and the King), it wouldn’t surprise me if sexual repression was an intentional aspect of Guts and Griffith’s relationship. Like I said, this is just one way to read the subtext, but it’s one I enjoy and like to lean into. So it’s not just heteronormativity, it’s misguided heteronormativity. That dream is also shown to be unnecessary because Guts was always Griffith’s equal, and when he realizes it he no longer wants to pursue a dream and leave with Casca (chapter 71) ( and part of a pattern of Guts and Casca’s relationship). So essentially Guts leaves because he feels like a predatory monster compared to Griffith, to try to achieve a dream to become Griffith’s equal, and that dream is contextualized through a relationship with a woman. All you need is to feel alive.”)Īnd Casca represents the dream to Guts as well, as we see in chapter 34, where he essentially equates winning Casca’s affection to becoming Griffith’s equal. Like, this is textual, even if you don’t see it as gay, it’s a fact that Griffith sleeps with Charlotte to try to forget about Guts for a while (“Take all the sad and frightening things and cast them into the fire,”) and the same wrt Guts trying to ignore his feelings of guilt for Griffith being tortured for a year (“Don’t think about those things. Guts’ brief sexual relationship with Casca is paralleled to Griffith’s sexual encounter with Charlotte, and they both use sex with women to try to repress their feelings for each other. Guts’ negative frame of mind is important wrt informing his emotional reaction and his subsequent conviction that he needs to chase a dream to live up to Griffith’s apparent expectations.Īnd taking the gay subtext/homoeroticism into account (hopefully I don’t have to justify that, but like, see the majority of my blog if you want more of an explanation for how Berserk reads as gay lol) it’s very easy for me to read part of Guts’ self loathing as related to internalized homophobia, mainly in the way he compares himself to his own rapist.Īnd it’s also very easy for me to read dreams as a thematic concept as intwined with internalized homophobia/heteronormativity. The narrative shows us this by having Guts mentally compare himself to Zodd and, obliquely, Donovan (through parallel imagery to his chapter 13 nightmare) in a fit of self-loathing thanks to killing Adonis, right before overhearing that speech. I have a post about that here if you’re interested, but the short version is that Guts has low self-esteem because of a childhood full of abuse including csa, and that low self-esteem is why Griffith’s Promrose Hall speech got to him so bad. Textually, Guts leaves because of his trauma. I think it’s one justifiable interpretation of the subtext. Where did you get the idea guts leaves the band of the hawk because of subconscious homophobia?
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