When it was necessary
Berserk is about letting things. If something happened in the past let it be.
Guts left The band of The Hawk and felt good about it. He’s travelling the world and fighting for himself.
Godos monologue about the sparks is key to understanding Miuras thoughts. In his interviews he said “I like to draw. I am absorbed by that and can’t let it go” pretty much the swordsmith’s words isn’t it?
The Eclipse happened because he turned back and saved the psycho Griffith. In reality the cold mastermind was a fragile vase, it smashed after an impact of his own decisions. Letting Guts be on his own and giving him a hand when necessary he raised him a free man, but wasn’t ready to acknowledge him as a free man.
Guts was born from a dead woman’s corpse. His step mom Shisu died of plague when the boy was three years old. Gambino raised him as a battle unit, not a kid or at least human being. But that’s the reality of the time.
At age eleven Gambino decided to kill a poor boy to compensate for his lost leg, and died himself but gave an idea “You should die, you demon kid” to a scared kid who absorbed like a sponge the idea of his uselessness.
Then he met Griffith and the band, because of the freedom he got from the leader, the white hawk, he made himself a guy strong enough to lead men and to be the finest battle unit in The band. Griffith, like Gambino, viewed Guts as a tool and the latest scene of episode twenty five was about that. The pose of Guts while the rape of Casca was the embodiment of “Know your place”
And in the episode where Guts decided to go away (episode nineteen) we, for first time, hear Griffiths thoughts and he said “If i am not gonna have him, so I’ll kill him and nobody will have, because he is mine”
Griffith sacrificed the band because everyone in the band was a tool to get a kingdom and his words “If i’m gonna kill you during achieving my dream, why can’t I sacrifice you now?” Of course he was hesitating at first, but the feeling of impunity for his decisions made him become Femto.
That’s the curse of all leaders to view friends as a tool, but one is deciding himself to be an ambitious leader. So no mercy in the attention of them. Alexander The Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon – they were leaders and lost their mind at the end of their roads, but ALexander understood his mortal being and asked the famous paymans for his burials.
Caesar was stabbed by a friend, Napoleon exiled to a small island and died betrayed.
I think that Griffith’s destiny is to be left alone in the end. Because that much he irritated the universe and its laws.
