I love love love your insights on Casca! I wanted to get your take on her current arc. I'm happy she is back but I find myself wishing for more read to her internal perspective, rather than her passive role of just thanking Schierke and Farnese. I'm also really hoping the narrative and the new team doesn't reduce her fear of Guts to just Eclipse memories because his assault on her was its own monumental trauma that changed everything for them and the story and I feel it's important that it isn't glossed over but so far it’s only been hinted at the eclipse. What's your read on where her character is headed?
Oh wow thank you so much! And sorry for taking so long to answer!
I honestly don't expect much for her from now on because I can't really see much coming from Mori and studio Gaga, unfortunately. The original character dynamics and their nuances are pretty much gone with Miura.. but i imagine she'll start to remember things slowly all over again in Falconia and start acting smarter, from inside out of the castle. Or so i hope. Makes no sense to have her back just to dope her into forgetting everything again :( Miura must have had a plan for her there, I'm sure.
But yeah, I so wish there was more of her perspective beyond that! Elfhelm, to me, was the perfect point in the story to get back to those poetic, complicated and grey take on characters, but it never happened.
It's a shame even her time with the Moonlight Boy was reduced to small panels when there was SO much to explore even before she realized he was her son...
I mean, when else had she taken care of a small child in her life? She was the youngest in her family. During that time with the boy, didn't she think about herself, her womanhood, what she wanted for life when caring for this "random" boy she instinctually loved? Those were such sensitive topics for her before... It's the sort of thing I could see her ruminating about when confronted with such a reality back in the G.A. But even her expressions after her healing lacked that "Casca" feel to them.
I guess it could be something to dwell on later, after knowing the boys identity, but it doesn't seem it'll be explored beyond the "he's my son/he's also Griffith" and the obvious dilenma of harming one along the other.
About Guts and his assault, I'm with you there. I think when she woke up, memories were still clicking and she couldnt process it yet, so she shoved all the traumatic experiences in the same box. Griffith's torture is there as well (though allegedly it's tied to the eclipse), her fear of Guts puts him on par with the other monsters who assaulted her, but she doesnt realize he's not just a trigger as a fellow survivor, but the trauma he caused her is. I'd love to see the confrontation. PS: I personally would love to cry with her as she realized the pattern that the three most important men of her life - her father (allegedly), griffith, guts - all betrayed her, abandoned her and S.A.ed her (or facilitated it). Don't think it'd come up, but the concept lives rent free in my head. Girl deserves to kick some serious balls and do some serious internal shifting.
I honestly think she'd eventually forgive Guts though, should she talk it out and she vented and processed it enough. Even without her full memories, in the dream corridor she was aware of the sacrifices he constantly made for her, and how much he was grieving. She has a big gratitude thing for people who help her, and seems genuinely moved to remember Guts did so. She also took it in stride when he hurt her when they had sex, as she realized it was a mental breakdown and he was genuinely sorry about it afterwards. She can be very understanding in that sense.
I'd love to see them navigating the angst of two S.A. survivors, one turned perpetrator, rebuilding trust after *that*. But alas
I rambled and didnt answer much of the question, sorry!
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