Berserk gay sex
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Thesis statement of this goddamn thesis: Guts is sexually attracted to Griffith.
Now, this is long. This is the shortest part of a four-part series, and this isn’t a short post. Basically my intention is to show why I find it so incredibly simple to read Guts as attracted to Griffith, and describe how this reading adds layers of meaning that fit neatly within Berserk’s themes and enrich the story. I’m not going to speculate on Miura’s motives for adding a ton of gay subtext, appreciate, it could be anything from trying to be as gay as workable without pissing off his publishers to it all creature totally coincidental and meaningless with an alternate explanation for every point I have, or anywhere in between.
My signal is only that Berserk readily lends itself to queer readings, with a focus on Guts’ sexual attraction to Griffith (as I feel like it tends to be neglected in favour of interpretations that Griffith has a one-sided crush.)
Part one covers the Inky Swordsman stuff and the way Guts and Griffith’s affair is revealed to the audience, part two covers the first several chapters of the Golden Age with a focus on vi
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Visual Chemistry Pre-Promrose
Part One
Okay, onto the Golden Age. This part is going to go up to Promrose Hall, because that’s when Guts’ image of Griffith shifts dramatically. But from their first meeting til then, Guts’ sexual attraction to Griffith is like, painfully obvious to me.
This is largely focused on visual chemistry and eroticized shots of Griffith specifically from Guts’ point of view, because there’s a lot in these first few chapters - it’s the main lens through which we’re introduced to their association and chemistry up close, rather than through the vague implication of their dynamic and how it ended which we saw last arc. I’ve limited myself to contextually relevant moments and really blatant shots that proceed above and beyond just exhibiting that Griffith is objectively attractive, to showing that Guts feels the attraction. If I took every image of Griffith looking pretty while Guts looks at him I’d be posting half the Golden Age here.
There’s also going to be some step by step analysis of Guts’ giant boner for Griffith and how their relationship screams intimacy, but
Okay ummmm griffith gay?
The Blackswordsman said:
Being gay, having been gay, gay experiences??? What the hell is that?
I thought he was just raped!
Griffith is not gay nor is he straight, sex has no meaning for him, Its a tool like everything else. He would probably have sex with water if it could bring him closer to his dream.Click to expand...
I agree with that. I think he is ambisexual. He uses people and whatever means that is, including sex. But he's good at it...apparently. Why would Gennon fall for him so quickly? What an idiot that guy was. And then he got dash through...see the look on his face when Griffith said," Well, I don't have ANY emotions for you good or poor, you were a pebble in the path and a noisy one at that.." And then rams him with the sword.
Then there was the thing with Charlotte. While he might have consideration Charlotte was pretty ( he did notice her when she was peeking from behind the stone wall when he was talking to the King of Midland and Prince Yurius) he went to her that night because he was upset about Guts. And look where it got him...even without the disgusting King trying to rape Charlott
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Anonymous asked:
do you assess that berserk is homophobic?
yeah absolutely. ignoring every ounce of subtext, the only characters who illustrate textual same sex attraction are youth predators and groups of heretics having hedonistic and love fuckin baby eating orgies before dying horribly.
As for the subtext, I love to interpret it in as positive a way as possible (ie Guts and Griffith’s bond and lives are totally fucked up because they lose to recognize and act on the attraction between them, largely because of their past traumas), but as much as I ponder it fits the story perfectly and is the neatest and most resonant reading of Guts and Griffith’s connection, it’s still only subtext, and possibly accidental, so that doesn’t really mitigate any of the actual homophobia characteristic to the story.
And then ofc you have the corrupt gay subtext, yk like Femto staring at Guts during the Eclipse rape and the Beast of Darkness talking about Guts’ longing for Griffith and Guts assaulting Casca to feel closer to him. Unyielding to defend that lmao. I represent I can still read it as inoffensively as feasible (the negative part comes when they redirect their feelings from