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Everyone knows that Guts and Griffith are counterparts of one another; Guts is aimless, masculine, dark featured, brutish and coarse and pragmatic, whilst Griffith is ambitious, effeminate, idealistic, with a clear dream in mind. In the story, numerous characters note the closeness of the two men, and it's an entire plot point that Griffith resorts to male prostitution to climb up the ladder of feudal politics. When he meets his rapist again in battle, who is enamoured with him (apparently Griffith was so good at gay sex he wanted him to be spared in battle to be a fucktoy again), Griffith merely says that he was a stepping stone to a greater path, and kills him.
In this way, there may be a hidden dimension to the story here; the Ying/Yang aspect of the two men may again be a contrast in sexualities; Guts is very straightforward in his advances to Casca over the course of the story, developing feelings for her the way the archetypal hero does, and doesn't feel the need to repress that part of himself during the Golden Age arc, whilst Griffith uses his sexuality as a stepping stone to his dream, making it loveless, aromatic and inorganic. It's left up to the viewer/reader to decide if Griffith's courtesy toward the Princess of Midland is out of genuine affection, or if he is using her too (the latter is much more likely).
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Yet the genuine feelings over the course of the story expressed by Griffith are towards Guts. They are on the surface platonic, but if, hypothetically, there were homosexual repression there because of Griffith's prior experiences as a concubine, it would contrast Guts' sexuality, contrasting him in yet another way, and giving the rest of the story an interesting angle; one thematically of unrequited, repressed love. Griffith raping Casca as Femto would be a supplanted representation of this; his feelings quite literally corrupting Guts' union and offspring. The rest of the series would then be something of a Greek tragedy; Guts is now forced to swear revenge on the man who, at some point, may have had unrequited feelings for him - another contrast, a spurned friend (in his point of view) on a quest to kill an unleashed, uninhibited and sexually depraved demon who used to be sexually repressed; making the story's romantic arc be about platonic love, versus repressed romantic love turned misplaced lust and perversion
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Good thread.
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What about Guts's feelings for Griffith?
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>>151010794
Is this some sort of copy pasta? Even if it is, it's well written.
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nice queer theory analysis
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Yes. In fact, that's the whole point of GA. Guts and Griffith are both tragic characters (as in Greek tragedy, not that their backstory is sad) and this reasoning for development goes even further for Griffith during Phantasia. The Emperor's vipering nature is the contraposition of Griffith's hawk attitude. Fear of death against resentment and infinite ambition.
I often tend to see how people just grow a hateboner for Griffith because of the eclipse and just deny all the implications that derive from Phantasia. Griffith literally is described as a character who fully embraces the fact of inmoral choices in order of a greater good. Lacking of any moral compass he still manages to drive mankind towards a world of understanding and peace. The beautiful chaos referred during the battle between Griffith's demons and human soldiers against the Kushaan army is an obvious demonstration of what Griffith's command has done for mankind.
Tragic it is, because he should and will be executed.
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So the only reason why he raped Casca is because he felt Guts was taking her, a follower of him away, is that right?
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>>151014959
maybe he just wanted to test his new demon dick
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>>151014994
He mostly wanted to corrupt the relation between Casca and Guts. But one could also argue about the fact that he knew that without him to command the Band of the Hawk, Guts was the one in the spotlight. In the end it's all down to jealousy coming from his impotence after all that torture.
Also this is the last time Griffith saw Guts before becoming a frail husk of what he was. Let's think about how scarred he was.
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>>151010794
why are all homos in anime white haired and black haired?
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>>151016905
Blame Devilman
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>>151017047
B-But Ryo doesn't have white hair!
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