Casca survival after the eclipse becomes a “narrative inconvenience” for a lot of berserk stans who just want guts revenge arc or their preferred ships to play out. (🙄) They see her primarily as a tool for guts development, existing to give him purpose or push his story forward, and nothing more. Her trauma and dependence are treated as annoyances rather than real aspects of her character, which is why some act like she’s in the way of guts growth or romantic possibilities. A lot of them even think she should have been discarded with the rest of the hawks during the sacrifice and are upset she was kept alive, because her survival interferes with the story they want. Before the time skip, she had agency, leadership, and real complexity, but after, her identity gets overshadowed by how she affects guts trajectory, reinforcing the perception that she exists only to serve his story. Casca haters reduce her to a tool whenever she doesn’t fit neatly into the storylines they prefer, treating her presence as a problem instead of recognizing her as her own person.
