#Berserker Life

[sarnai4]

Betrayal

I was going to make this a fun post, but then I discovered that there are Dagur gifs on here and...yeah, that light topic didn't happen. So, here goes a little sad something.

I think these frames of animation are very interesting. Actually, this entire scene is to me. It's in "The Night and the Fury" and is right after Dagur learns that Hiccup lied. I love how this occurred because it would have been so easy to just have him be like, "You have dragons? Okay, now I'm about to kill you." They didn't do that, though. Even as Dagur is connecting the dots, he harps on the fact that a lie was told. "Your father lied to me...YOU lied to me!" If you go back to Dagur's threat from "Twinsanity," he never even said that he'd attack Berk if they had dragons. He specifically said he would if he found out they did after they denied it. Technically speaking, Dagur could have attacked immediately if he wanted to, but he still had the intention of keeping the peace. These expressions in the gif are right after he says, "You could've been my brother, Hiccup. Now, you're my enemy." When he says this, he actually sounds sad. His expressions match that. Dagur, Mr. Gets Angry At The Drop Of A Helmet didn't immediately respond with rage. He's hurt and I think I know why.

Dagur doesn't perceive things like other Vikings to put it lightly. When he has his first episode, he's talking about how he and Hiccup had great laughs after he tries to drown the poor Berkian. He calls Hiccup his old friend when they see each other again in the episode with the gif. I think he genuinely believes this. For the strange things Dagur does, he doesn't see it. So, it's not just someone lying to him, it's his best, his ONLY friend lying to him and making him looking like a cool in front of his tribe. That's why he sounds sad instead of angry. That's why he has to look away and think through what his next move is. Yes, he attacks, but what are his options?

Hiccup doesn't give him any more time to think. He tries to leave with Toothless, so Dagur has to act then. Regarding his options, they all are bleak. If he attacks, then you have war and what we got. The alternative is that he doesn't then, right? Well, that's not great either. As soon as he gets back to his ship, one of the Berserkers says that he wants to kill Hiccup himself. Dagur has to make it clear that no one besides himself will go after Hiccup. This shows how the Berserkers really can be vengeful. They're not even an aggressive group (as shown in "Something Rotten on Berserker Island"), but they have tempers. So, if Dagur holds onto the friendship that he just realized didn't exist, he has to go back with his tail between his legs and admit not only that he was played, but that he doesn't want to do anything about it.

Dagur already was worried that no one would respect him as chief. They never would if they found out he was tricked and didn't even want to get revenge for it. He would be the young chief who was too foolish to see through lies and too weak to defend his people in case the liar decided to lie again and actually attack. So, yes, Dagur attacked. Was it a mistake? Oh most definitely. He could've caused the deaths of many people and was arrested for this. So, I'm not saying that Dagur is in the right for his war, but I'm saying that I don't think it's a black and white as the show tried to portray. We see it from Hiccup's perspective with Dagur being this wild kid who just likes killing. Dagur's so much more than just some angry or deranged Viking. I just wish we got to see more of his side of things.

#HTTYD #RTTE #Dagur the Deranged #Theories #Berserker Life #False Friends

[yugiohz]

year of the rabbit

#he is so cute :D #I’ve liked his silly bunny costume before he went berserk btw!!!!! #bnha #midoriya izuku #deku #sketches #my phone correcting his name to midorima knb girl 4 life 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🦧☝️

[chizoies]

My favourite ships from all kinds of media, did my ultimate favorite the biggest. Happy Valentines everyone! And do not fall into capitalist traps ☺️

#zotash #vivi x nami #frobin #guts x casca #legoshi x haru #mitsumi iwakura #shima sousuke #roronoa zoro #tashigi #one piece #one piece fanart #life is strange #berserk #beastars #skip and loafer #valentines day

[wraithdolll]

my borderlands era having a rerun after 5-6 years of dormancy is funny

#it never truly went away #i see my brain as a car w five seats #handsome jack permanently hangs out in the passenger seat at all times he just finally gets to drive #borderlands #shitpost #handsome jack #timothy lawrence #mr. chew #fl4k #brick the berserker #borderlands becomes a comfort place for me when my life is in a state of extreme turmoil and distress #cuz like no matter what going on w me at least im not on pandora

[bogkeep]

okay there's just SO many video essays about "the death of media literacy". how dead can it be when all of you are so good at it. has media literacy gotten provably worse or do we just have the internet now. when was the golden age of media literacy

#DON'T GET ME WRONG MANY PEOPLE ARE BAD AT IT........ #just the other day someone wrote the saddest most shallowest read of berserk in the tags of MY post and my eyelid twitched so bad #(IT'S A STORY ABOUT HEALING AND CHOOSING LIFE. IT'S NOT ABOUT ACHIEVING REVENGE AND DYING RIGHT AFTER??) #and we should absolutely strive to improve the culture of media literacy and reading comprehension #but there's always going to be people with bad takes and now we're simply more exposed to them than before #maybe im wrong!! maybe there's Statistics about how everyone is just worse at reading than before??!?!???

[13eyond13]

love it when a character that's hard to read intuitively for you has like a dedicated fandom interpreter who can just glance at their blank face in a panel and then give you a 3k word essay on their innermost thoughts & desires & fears and neatly tie it back into the themes & whatnot as if it's the most obvious thing in the world

#im talking about griffith btw #guts i feel i get intuitively - maybe because i have some personality traits in common with him #and we get more about his life concretely told to us in canon. so he is a bit easier to pin down as a character and feel attached to for me #but whenever i was reading the manga i just kept wanting more insight about griffith's actions and feelings #like ok yeah its fun to have mysterious antagonists and suspense /tension etc but its also fun to feel like you deeply understand them too #and i felt like that was a bit missing from him for me in canon #so reading about him in analysis and fics is the most fun for me rn #he always felt kinda half unreal to me- which maybe was the point of him - but i wanted a bit more about his childhood or something? #and wished we had more stuff explicitly from his pov in the story to read or explanation about his transformation or wtv #and now he's so much more closed off to me even than he was in the golden age. i keep waiting for him to explain stuff and he does not #ANYWAYS all this rambling to say some people out there are very good at interpreting him and making his like. insecurities #more obvious to me bc i didnt really get that side of him from canon intuitively well #also im really enjoying reading the first few berserk fics ive read #there may not be a ton of them out there but there is def writing talent in the fandom #i'll share some recs once i'm done sifting through most of what's out there to read #also (not to tie everything back to death note but it IS my home fandom after all) #i feel griffith is obvs the more light-like character here and L maybe a bit guts-like? but unlike berserk in death note #light is the one you get to know best and L is the mysterious / unreal one you don't get a lot of concrete insight into #and in the DN fandom I can read the more mysterious character intuitively but had to warm up to the less mysterious one instead #and the mystery of L makes sense to me and doesnt bug me as much due to like - he HAS to hide a lot about himself or else he will die lol #so some similarities there but also some opposite feels as well #berserk spoilers #p

[torisharp]

A Paradox for a Paramour (FigAyda)

A FigAyda prediction comic! In this AU Porter is the BBEG because it's funny. However, I don't remember what Porter looks like and i was too caught up in Fig/Ayda fluff to care. Enjoy. (◡ ‿ ◡ ✿)

Some Fantasy High Junior Year spoilers ahead, but it's mostly speculation! I got to wondering what would happen if there was a TPK while Ayda's away with her dad.

#fhjy #dimension 20 fantasy high #fhjy spoilers #figueroth faeth #ayda aguefort #wanda chillda #porter cliffbreaker #figayda #i don't know if i've ever made a fanfic comic before in my life besides like single joke panels #but i've had this idea since like the beginning of the season and we're more than halfway through now #apparently i'm deep in the figayda feelings rn tho because I cranked this out before bed #i'm also pretty sure Porter's not a berserker but pls just accept the mindless rage thing a nod to zac's cool moment last episode #fantasy high junior year #d20 junior year

[valarinde]

but to risk thousands of lives while never getting myself dirty... nothing is for free. — BERSERK (1997)

#he is so messed up (affectionate) #berserk #berserkedit #griffith #guts #casca #parallels #myedit #[ruins own life] i meant to do that

[cuntstable]

its like if youre gonna use sa as a repeat Thing that happens in your story, thats more or less an inescabable thing for the characters (particularily women) in it then one would hope you as the author would have like something to say about the subject. like maybe a point to make about it or the lasting trauma of it or the process of recovering from it. if the characters it keeps happening to just sort of freak out and then move on OR their struggles with it are off screen while the actual assault was shown in full detail then idk. is it worth putting in there? death and hell on you as a writer

#its like. hmmmm. how do i say this with out people getting mad. im even like more forgiving Personally of stories that do overuse sa and do #misshandle it at times that still OCCASIONALLY or Generally have like something insightful or compassionate to say about survivors and the #aftermath of that trauma. like even something like berserk for example #but when has ARAKI ever ever in his life written something compassionate and insightful in regards to sa. even fugos backstory which is lik #the bare minumum wasnt written by him. like its just a Thing he throws at WOMEN and goes anyway lets move on #the same way he throws idk. getting beat up by bullies at men. like hey i dont think he understands the difference…

[haviknovak]

Guts - Berserk

#anime #manga #focus #life #power #fight #guts #berserk #berserk manga #guts berserk #pain #hatred #apostles #sword #greatsword #demon

[shutupandmakemepizzaroll]

thinking about when okouchi said that suzaku and lelouch were two people who would “meet, get closer, separate, then yearn for each other”

#literally #the gayest shit #ive ever heard inmy life #this was from an intervieew where he was talking about his influences on cg btw #and he mentions berserk which made me very autistic #like idk. just that is the fruitiest way to describe two supposedly straight men #and the whole thing #where he’s with fukujun #and he ssaid somethinbg really weird (average okouchi L/W) #and fukujun was like #’that sounds like it’s already passed ‘love’ territory’ #IDK. THATS SO GAY #code geass #lelouch #lelouch lamperouge #lelouch vi britannia #code geass: lelouch of the rebellion #suzalulu #suzaku kururugi #suzaku x lelouch #lelouch and suzaku #kururugi suzaku #suzaku #code geass hangyaku no lelouch #code geass lelouch of the rebellion #suzaku and lelouch

[white-winter-hymnals]

Plastic surgeon here ☝️ I’m seeing lip fillers, buccal fat removal, rhinoplasty….

#berserk #griffith #I cannot for the life of me remember how this meme is worded #but I see it on tiktok all the time #I love me some yassified griffith #mine #my post #griffith berserk #to clarify this is about the glow up he received in more recent chapters #or since becoming a godhand anyway #y’all know his lips have gotten juicier

[petr1kov]

i do like berserk as a whole, but i'll be honest, part of me does sort of wish that the series had started and ended just with golden age. there is a reason why this part of the story is the most well known and it's not just because it's the one that got the most adaptations; it's because it just stands so well on its own. if you watch the movies or even the 1997 anime, infamous for its abrupt ending, you do get a complete, self-contained, coherent story - a complete tragedy, yes, but complete nonetheless. and given how we will never truly get the full, unadulterated ending miura had planned for the series, despite his crew's best efforts in completing what's left of it with what they have, i think that really means something

#seeing guts and casca and griffith (femto) after the eclipse. still alive but forever irrevocably changed #that almost felt like watching ghosts clinging to life. like HOW are you still here how are you still going how is that possible #and that's what's the most interesting about berserk i think. how guts still keeps going. what do you do after experiencing hell #it's why i expect the ending to the series won't be full bleak because if so then what's the point of finding hope again #but yeah the reason why it hits so hard was because the golden age (which is the foundation of the whole story) is that much of a gut punch #berserk

[chaos-of-the-abyss]

i know griffith’s getting freaky as hell with his apostles in their released forms. he’d find a way to take them all 💕💕💕

#another way he’s sustained his life force all these years :) #griffith #berserk griffith #griffith berserk #zodd #nosferatu zodd #zodd berserk #berserk zodd #zodd the immortal #locus #berserk locus #locus berserk #locus the moonlight knight #irvine #berserk irvine #irvine berserk #grunbeld #grunbeld berserk #berserk grunbeld #berserk tag #berserk rambling #i ramble #berserk manga #kentaro miura

[qvincvnx]

"give me culturally christian vampires." wow imagine a culturally christian vampire. maybe they'd be repelled by christian holy symbols, like they wouldn't want to touch a crucifix and maybe they couldn't stand on holy ground or holy water might bother them! what a funny way of bringing christian superstition into the timeless and completely universal vampire myth that has NEVER been culturally specific before :)

#other cultures... have other blood-drinking or life-sucking monsters. the vampire is... not those things. or at least isn't anymore. #UNNECESSARILY CUNTY POST SO I'M LOCKING IT SORRY THIS IS JUST MY BERSERK BUTTON #why do i vampirepost

[bthump]

hello! i hope im not bothering you with this ask or anything, but i really love your blog and the thoughts you write, so i wanted to ask if you any other titles you would reccomend that are similar to berserk (not necessarily in terms of setting, but mostly the Vibe) and deal with similar themes (i watched and read devilman!). i would accept anything tbh, be it a book or movie or a series. thanks in advance, hope you have a good week! :)

Thank you very much, and yeah I'd be happy to rec a few other things I like that have some similarities! Some of these similarities are pretty thin lol, but tbf Berserk is pretty unique, at least in terms of media I'm into, and I've seen some good homoerotic movies recently.

Anime/Manga:

Claymore is compared to Berserk fairly regularly, and it's not just for the big swords. There's no griffguts equivalent, but it's got medieval fantasy monster hunting vibes, similar themes wrt human nature (though more shounen, power of love-esque lol), great action scenes and cool monster designs, and a lot of great female characters with interesting relationships, which isn't similar to Berserk but it's a bonus by itself.

I've also seen Vinland Saga compared to Berserk, and again there's no griffguts equivalent, but there's a very Griffith-esque character who has an AU where Griffith became king the old fashioned way vibe, and a central theme is revenge.

An anon a while ago made the point to me that Light from Death Note is similar to Griffith in a few ways, such as wanting to create a kind of ideal world, and being very charismatic and having culty followers who view him as a god.

Books:

tbh I have a bad memory for books I've read, but here are a couple I read specifically because of Berserk similarities:

I read As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann because I was told it had griffguts vibes, and it did. Medieval lone wolf is recruited by idealistic blond mercenary who wants to create a utopia, falls in love with him, and gets fucked over. It's very dark, darker in some ways than Berserk, but it was a good read imo. More in depth post on it with warnings here.

Captive Prince by CS Pacat is known for the author having based one of the characters partially on Griffith, and you can tell lol. It's a fun read if you don't mind or are into the tropey sex slave setting, with an engaging gay romance that has surface similarities to griffguts, though the vibe of the relationship was fairly different to me. But like, the political scheming felt like a Golden Age AU to me. It's been a while since I've read it but for warnings there's rape, csa, incest, and sex slavery not portrayed positively but like, used as erotic scene setting if that's a dealbreaker.

TV Shows:

Hannibal! It's got intense homoeroticism, it's got betrayal, it's got an operatic level of intensity, it's fun to dissect analytically, violence revenge and trauma are significant themes, one character tries to escape his life ruining feelings for the other by killing him, and it's just a great time.

Yellowjackets also has strong themes of violence and how it's a temptation, and though I wouldn't compare any of the relationships to griffguts exactly, there's an intense tragic homoerotic friendship that haunts one of the characters decades later.

Xena has a campy overpowered anti hero dressed in black leather wrestling with their inner darkness and in love with a blonde, also a flirty exes kind of relationship with a god (though that's hetero lol). Not really similar tonally and no griffguts equivalent, but it's got some similar themes wrt violence, revenge, human connection saving your soul from darkness, etc, and it's a gr8, fun show.

Black Sails has a kind of love vs revenge thing going on, as well as an attempt to overturn the social order and create a utopian kingdom. In some ways it's similar in tone as well, often pretty dark and violent, but with some very funny moments, and set in a fictionalized historical setting. No griffguts equivalent, but all these shows are extremely gay.

Movies:

Ladyhawke gets a lot of comparisons to Berserk, and may have been one of Miura's inspirations since he cited Rutger Hauer movies. Starcrossed wolf and hawk themed lovers, medieval setting, significant eclipse, it's got the vibes.

Hellraiser is one of Miura's stated inspirations iirc, and I mean yeah lol. It's the godhand as sadomasochists. Idk that there's that much in common in terms of theme, but the aesthetic is there.

Yk what? The Lost Boys. Homoerotic, campy fun, brooding teen is recruited into a gang and has sexual tension with the leader... that should count.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture starts with Spock trying to purge all his emotions after we can only assume breaking up with Kirk, and failing, and it's a parallel to a godlike being learning to love.

Okay hear me out on this one... Sweet Smell of Success is like if there was no Guts and instead the homoeroticism was between Griffith and the King, and it was set in the New York world of 50s gossip columnists, and look, I recently watched and adored this movie and I want to rec it. And hey, it's about doing fucked up shit to feed your ambition and being pretty and charming while you do it.

The Favourite is about a servant seducing and manipulating her way to power in a royal court, kind of an f!Griffith AU without a Guts if you look at it a certain way. But also it's another movie I love and want to rec based on at least one similarity lol.

Uh, Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence is about a dude wanting to fuck a hot charismatic and guilt-ridden blond guy but being too repressed to go for it? Great movie in general. Also Midnight Cowboy is about trauma induced gay repression while we're at it.

And finally, Paul Verhoeven's sci fi trifecta of Robocop, Total Recall, and Starship Troopers have virtually nothing in common with Berserk in terms of theme, character, relationships, etc. But the tone feels exactly like the Black Swordsman arc to me lol, to the point where I've always said that the only live action Hollywood adaption of Berserk I'd accept is the one Verhoeven directed in the 90s in an alternate universe. Miura was directly inspired by one of his 80s movies that I've never seen, Flesh and Blood, and yeah, I feel like you can kind of feel the inspiration.

I have other rec lists, as well as things people have recced to me often on the basis of similarities to Berserk/griffguts that I haven't checked out yet, in this tag, so I'd highly recommend browsing through it for more media suggestions. And if anyone wants to jump in with more recs for things that remind you of Berserk in some way, please do!

#ask #b #anonymous #not berserk #theme: opinion #if you only watch one black and white movie in your life and you're a fan of fucked up homoeroticism sweet smell of success #is a winning choice