ever since i got into berserk, there's this certain thing that keeps bothering my mind.
casca seemed very aware of what was actually happening between griffith and guts since the very beginning. she was even showing signals of jealously while she was having a conversation with guts, mentioning that griffith never acted that way with anyone else. also, there's that moment where she starts to say something about his relationship with guts and doesn't finish, (which is filled with romantic implications.) maybe she "misunderstood" griffith's feelings because of charlotte, sure, but it's still weird.
i mean, when guts returned after that year, rickert literally said that griffith was depressed because of him. it was obvious at this point and there was no room for any doubts about his feelings for guts. casca was also blaming him for what happened to griffith and despite all that, she still decided to throw herself in guts' arms? i'm not a casca hater or anything, i just can't understand her actions at all. everything looks very wrong to me.
i'd like to know your thoughts about this! (again, hehe.) ♡
Thanks for the ask!
There's a lot I hate about the Guts/Casca sex scene lol, but I don't think Casca fucking Guts while knowing Griffith loves him is an issue. For one thing, Griffith might be dead, which she says before they bone. She's tired of making decisions based on a dude she hasn't seen in a year and who might be dead by now. For another thing, even if she does make the connection that Griffith's love = he wants an actual romantic relationship with Guts, there's no indication that she believes Guts isn't straight and reciprocates those feelings, or that Griffith's love for Guts could even go anywhere if Guts' did reciprocate. He had a dream and a princess to marry, and now they have no idea what his situation will be if they find him alive.
Griffith and Guts ending up together romantically probably isn't a realistic possibility in Casca's mind, even if she is jealous of Griffith's nebulous feelings for Guts.
And finally, even if it was a distinct likelihood that they're both physically attracted to each other and willing to act on it, why should Casca have to step aside when Guts is also willing to hook up with her here and now? Guts has a free choice too, and he's the one who kissed her first, so he's choosing her over the potential of Griffith.
Like, I know I prefer griffguts lol, but I don't blame Casca for wanting something for herself here. She just spent a year maintaining the Hawks for Griffith's sake and losing her mind over it, I'm kind of happy for her that she decides to do something for herself, even if I think it's misguided, I don't enjoy it, and a lot of the writing around it is messy. Like, taking Casca's desire for Guts and suicide attempt at face value rather than criticizing it to hell and back as I'm wont to do lol, I think Casca fucking Guts rather than going 'I can't because Griffith is into him' was the better option for her.
Also, at the end of the day, the most accurate answer is just that the homoeroticism is still subtext and therefore you can't assume that Casca makes the connection between Griffith's love and Griffith's sexual desire, and judge her actions based on that, imo. Textually she's jealous of Griffith's feelings, but those are ambiguous, and it could be the intensity, rather than the nature of those feelings, that she's jealous of. Like yeah I think the homoerotic element is incredibly obvious, but if it's meant to factor in wrt how other characters behave and how we perceive their choices, then it needs to be textual.
