#griffith genderbend

[kyberz]

“ She wants to break you, humiliate you. Stomp you into the ground! “

What do y’all think mikes genderbend name would be?

[breezyxxl]

One angel and a demon

[saturnsedan]

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[wolvesrain]

okay. some of this is a little outdated but here you go.

are a man who reads berserk, think guts would support you being mean (he wouldn't), you say mean things about dimitri from fire emblem, listen to 100 gecs, say "im baby" about yourself, british, beatles fans, post about call of duty yaoi, top gun fans, marvel fans, genshin fans, over 5'5", cilantro haters, main blasters in splatoon 2, bts fans, have ever killed me in splatoon (i hate you), don't like shinee (my friend loves them), have the same middle name(s) as me, genshin twink deniers, hate sephiroth, straight male au ra players, anyone i have played ffxiv with who is not my friend, anyone i have ever progged p3s in party finder with, are mean to people and think hello kitty would like you, you misuse the word himbo constantly, don't realize that czechoslovakia isn't a place anymore, have ever mistakenly called venom big boss, yakuza 3 hater, obsessed with griffith and doesn't care about casca (you must make at least one post about/including casca per every 3 griffith posts), have ever had a griffith icon, call any fictional women who isn't extremely feminine butch or masc and thinks actual butches are scary, tiktok users (except my friends), think yoshi p is going to love you back, make character genderbends where you change their entire appearance and gender expression, you think ogata has sex (no one wants to fuck him), you think ogata isn't gay, you dislike kiroranke, jjk fans, you kindate as nana characters, persona fans, burahkovsky shippers (unless you're normal about it), akiangel shippers. and geminis born in june i think you're toxic but you may interact with me anyways.

anyone wanna see the fake dni i made like 4 years ago (and have since edited)

[femflare]

[probably-need-sleep27]

Fanfic idea

Instead of Hayley getting pregnant what if female Niklaus (Nikalia) got pregnant instead because of one night stand with Vincent Griffith. Nikalia didn't realised she would find her happiness and her own Redemption in New Orleans, she didn't realise that she would find her soulmate but she did and she decided for herself that she need therapy if she ever wanna be good parent to her daughter and good wife to her husband Vincent, Nikalia and Vincent realised that New Orleans is as cursed as Mystic Falls and settle down in Auckland, New Zealand

[nefastum]

Have you ever thought about writing a genderbend fanfiction about Guts as a woman & Griffith? What would a female Guts look like for you? Do you think Griffith would act the same if Guts was a lady? I think he would most likely pursue her but Guts would be too scared because of horrible experiences in her past and reject him and Femto...well he would do the same he did in the manga. I think this is great material for a darkfic. What do you think?

Hello there, love~ I hadn't considered writing a fic, per se, but I have seen a few fem!Guts interpretations and have been tempted to try designing my own. Perhaps I shall get around to that, so keep an eye out for my take on her.

As for if Griffith would be interested in her, I would have to say yes. I don't think it was Guts exclusively being a man that drew Griffith to him, but more so, Guts' demeanor and attitude. There was something about him that instantly intrigued Griffith to an eventual point of infatuation beyond what even Griffith could put a name to at the time. I think that same spark would be lit regardless of Guts' gender. Perhaps Guts being a woman warrior would be yet another fascinating layer to the enigma of a young mercenary.

If Guts still had that persona that fascinated Griffith, he'd absolutely still find Guts distracting. I think a key difference would be that pursuing Guts openly would not be a dangerous/scandalous affair if they were m/f. I imagine Griffith would feel less internal conflict about the intensity of his interest in Guts. Perhaps that would lead him to admiting it was love/infatuation sooner. If he did, I can imagine his approach to overt affection might be different from their m/m canon. Of course, there is still his dream to consider, so pursuing Guts as a permanent romantic partner would butt up against his need to marry into royalty still. Ahh, it is really hard to say how he would handle his feelings towards Guts if openly courting Guts was an option that wouldn't compromise his reputation in the eyes of Midland and its connection to the Holy See, even if that meant abandoning his dream for her.

If Guts still wanted to leave the band, though, and the same downfall of Griffith occurred, I agree the Eclipse would still likely be unavoidable. Griffith’s mental state was a wreck. He wasn't in the mindset to be able to handle a second abandonment. Assuming Casca and Guts still spoke of Guts leaving the band again, Griffith would probably crack the same way as canon. As for the exact events of the Eclipse... it's really hard to say. Griffith used sex before to bury his anger and pain. Accosting Charlotte after Guts left and trying to force himself on Casca in his weakened state post torture. I think the assault by Femto only follows form. He was feeling immense amounts of mental and physical pain and anger. The only question I'm not sure of in this reality is if it would be Casca or Guts herself Femto assaults? In a darkfic setting, I could easily see it going either way. On one hand, Guts would have been violated as a young girl, and being forced to watch Casca experience the same trauma would be triggering (not unlike canon tbh). On the other hand, (and I've come across this in m/m griffguts art/darkfic as well) you could make it Guts herself that Femto abuses. Almost as if to say, "You may have rejected me, but you can never deny me. You are mine. You belong to me." Dark stuff, my friend.

Quite the interesting thought exercise! Typically, I only view griffguts in a m/m light (and occasionally a w/w AU), but m/f could be really interesting as well to delve into. Tbh, gender doesn't make a huge world of difference in my interest in character relationships, aside from the in-world implications that can add strife or spice hehe. It's one of the reasons my main ships are all over the place ^ ^;; I think m/f have just as much potential for dark, angsty, heartachingly interesting storytelling as any other ♡ I'm up for anything-- especially in a darkfic mwhaha~ m/m, w/w, m/f, give me all of it.

Thank you for the ask, dear Anon ♡ You've given me much to think about~

Please, have a happy new year, as well 💕

[ladygriffith]

female Griffith

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[thefanspov]

#Regram from @unlimitedcrossroads featuring @intraventus at Katsucon in National Harbor, Maryland, USA ・・・ Griffith-Berserk @intraventus #unlimitedcrossroads #katsucon #katsucon2017 #berserk #berserkcosplay #griffith #griffithcosplay #blackworbla #wings #armor #genderbend #battlearmor #femalebattlearmor (at Katsucon)

[mrs-swordslover]

Pig-tailed fem!Griffith. Inspired by @mastermistressofdesire. (I fucked up the left eye but 'ey, sketchet it between classes).

[femflare]

Fem! Griffith x Guts

fanart by me - I don’t own anything

What if griffith was female?

[buckynats]

10 (or any recent releases you've been meaning to read or any upcoming releases you're looking forward to?) & 17 & 4!

10. What was your favorite new release of the year?

I suppose a decent tie between Spear by Nicola Griffith and The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison. I really enjoyed the genderbend in Spear - there was a distinctly trans vibe to it (to me) despite the fact that Petyr was very definitively cis. The way she existed in the world in disguise and was largely unbothered by it, but firmly aware of herself underneath the facade was refreshing and hit home for me. Plus the writing was gorgeous. Grief was just fully cathartic, for me. It's been a weird, awful year and getting in the main character's head while he wrestles with his own grief and the slow unwinding letting-go of it was very...helpful.

Recent releases I've been meaning to read... A Taste of Gold & Iron by Alexandra Rowland, though it looks incredibly politically dense, so I need to be in the right mind for it. Nona, which I bought GtN in anticipation of finally starting so I could read it, but haven't done so yet. Absolutely certain there are others I'm forgetting at the moment.

17. Did any books surprise you with how good they were?

Aspects by John M Ford stands out in memory because it wasn't something I had seen on a list before, or even knew existed prior to running across it by chance in the New Books section of my local library. But Ellen Kushner had a blurb on the cover, so I picked it up, and once I read the summary I was intrigued enough to check it out, despite not being personally familiar with the author's extensive body of other work. It was a fascinating start to what would have been a series of novels if the author hadn't tragically passed away some fifteen years prior to its publication, which also means there won't be any more of them, which is tragic in itself, because the glimpse we got into the world he created in Aspects was tantilizing enough to stick in memory. The characters and the world-building in particular were most memorable. I'll be thinking about them for a while. I wish we would get to know more, I have so many questions about things that were just teased in this book, like the existence of Dark Rooms, and the magic system.

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

Ellen Kushner, for certain. I've read everything of hers I could find, including obscure short stories printed in various decades' old literary magazines. T. Kingfisher is another. I loved both What Moves the Dead and Nettle & Bone, and I'm absolutely looking forward to starting in on her Paladin series and the Clockwork books, probably in the new year.

[dreamt-of-manderley]

If Punchdrunk created an immersive piece based on another Shakespeare play, who would you cast?

THIS IS A FUN ONE! 

I feel the need to do Hamlet, because of the obvious confusion some people have already... 

Also, some of this is gonna be based on hearsay, because I obviously haven’t seen everyone in the Punchdrunk rolodex. Also genderbending because there’s not enough female roles in Hamlet. 

Hamlet- Austin Goodwin/ Tyler PhillipsClaudius- John William Watkins/ Eric Jackson BradleyGertrude- Isadora Wolfe/Tori SparksPolonius- Nick Atkinson/ Louis ButelliOphelia- Lily Ockwell/ Marissa MaislenLaertes- Ryan VanCompernole/ Stephanie Crousilliat Horatio- Quinn Dixon/ Tony BordonaroRosencrantz- Mallory Gracenin/ Evelyn ChenGuildenstern- Casey Jordan/ Adam GriffithGhost- Phil Atkins/ Gino GrenekGravedigger- Virginia Logan/ Colin Buckingham Fortinbras- William Popp/ Jeff Docimo

I challenge everyone else to do this! ( either with Hamlet, or another play!) 

[bthump]

The character of Griffith was inspired by Rose of Versailles' heroine Oscar François de Jarjayes. She was considered a major feminist character who struggled with her place as a woman taking a man's role. Kentaro Miura genderbended her character to a man who committed the most infamous rape scene in Manga history! What the hell?

lol I honestly can’t speak on this because I haven’t read or seen Rose of Versailles yet, though I plan to soon (it’s open in a tab as we speak lol).

But idk if it’s true that Griffith is directly inspired by/based on Oscar, and that’s not just a common assumption based on similar appearances and Miura being partly inspired by Rose of Versailles in general, then yeesh, I’d probably add that to the long list of reasons the Eclipse rape was bad and offensive writing.

[aion-rsa]

Ready Player Two: The Sequel’s Best Easter Eggs & References

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This piece contains spoilers for Ready Player Two.

When Ernest Cline published Ready Player One in 2011, its exhaustive array of Easter eggs were literally built into the worldbuilding—seemingly one pop culture name-drop per pixel that made up the digital OASIS, per the fierce 1980s nostalgia that creator James Donovan Halliday possessed for the most formative decade of his adolescence. And once the billionaire inventor revealed the Easter egg hunt for his fortune, it made perfect sense that the 2040s generation of gunters would immerse themselves in the same references, placing themselves into Halliday’s mindset to inherit his treasure.

Almost a decade later, those ’80s references are more exhausting in Ready Player Two—like when Wade rattles off his vintage morning routine basically cosplaying as Marty McFly, down to getting woken up by Huey Lewis and the News’ “Back in Time” via a Panasonic RC-6015 flip-clock radio. Whereas the Wade of Ready Player One enthusiastically logged onto the OASIS by quoting The Last Starfighter, the sequel’s gunter-turned-billionaire seems burnt out. He takes no joy in playing at a fictional character’s life instead of trying to improve his own.

Similarly, if Twitter reactions are any indication, readers of Ready Player Two are already finding the dense ’80s shout-outs to be more white noise than fun tidbits to be caught and noticed. It’s the same trick, but it loses its efficacy once you’ve seen behind the curtain.

That said, there are a handful of Easter eggs that break through the static. Because what’s the best way to make two familiar things new again? You mash them up.

Seven Shards for the Siren’s Soul

In some ways, it feels as if the sequel is retreading familiar ground, not quite copying Ready Player One’s Easter egg hunt but certainly building a seven-part quest around solving pop culture riddles. What somewhat redeems the narrative choice is a slightly different take on Easter eggs: not an exhaustive ’80s Wikipedia entry, but the personal Easter eggs of one woman’s life.

That woman is Kira Underwood, wife of OASIS co-founder Ogden Morrow, but also the unrequited love of James Donovan Halliday. As young adults, their Dungeons & Dragons campaigns eventually transformed into the creation of Gregarious Games and, ultimately, Gregarious Simulation Systems and the OASIS. But when Kira died young, both men mourned her… but only one tried to bring her back.

This time around, the prize is not Halliday’s fortune, but Kira’s “soul”—or, at least, a digital copy of her consciousness that Halliday copied without her knowledge or permission. Each Shard references a key point in Kira’s life, plenty of which overlap with Halliday’s ’80s obsession, as Kira met the two boys in 1988—in the middle of playing Sega Ninja, in fact. That’s the trial for the Second Shard, but later Shards relate to properties dear to Kira, which makes gunters like Parzival initially disregard treasured texts like J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion or the rich discography of a certain iconic purple-themed musician.

And as the Shard search goes on, the clues become more and more specific to Kira’s life, including the learning-is-fun planet that she and Og created together (Halcydonia) to bring free educational games to underserved children when they were unable to have biological children of their own; and Leucosia, her D&D character-turned-AI-persona. Each Shard also includes a “toll,” or a memory that Z must experience as Kira, to better understand how she was a vital person on her own, beyond these two men’s love for her.

While the Seven Shards won’t be immortalized in the best-of lists of fantasy quests, it’s a clear effort to reinterpret the notion of Easter eggs to be more than just however many pop culture references one person can hold over another. They can also be the personal artifacts that others are encouraged to excavate, and experience the world through another set of eyes.

Planet Shermer

Recast the foul, restore his ending. Andie’s first fate still needs mending.

The Third Shard’s riddle sends Z and Art3mis to Shermer, a planet named after the fictional Illinois town in which John Hughes set the majority of his movies. Inspired by his hometown of Northbrook (which was previously called Shermerville), Shermer was a composite of different aspects of suburbia from both sides of the tracks and everything in-between. A 2010 Vanity Fair article related how in Hughes’ mind, Sixteen Candles’ Samantha (Molly Ringwald) was a “passing acquaintance” of Ferris Bueller’s eponymous hero (Matthew Broderick), and The Breakfast Club’s Bender (Judd Nelson) grew up near Planes, Trains, & Automobiles’ Del Griffith (John Candy).

The OASIS’ Shermer follows Hughes’ thinking, by throwing his iconic teenage characters into a planet-sized Breakfast Club of sorts, with them all attending the same Shermer High School; Z notes that depending on which direction you approach the school, its facade resembles all three aforementioned teen films. That’s amusing enough, but then you remember that actors like Ringwald and Michael Anthony Hall collaborated with Hughes in a number of films—which means all of their alter egos are going to homeroom or the cafeteria together.

This portion of the book is rather delightful in how nonchalantly it plays out every fan’s crossover dreams and how it engages with parallel-universe casting decisions. For instance, Parzival notices Keith Nelson and Amanda Jones (Eric Stoltz and Lea Thompson) from Some Kind of Wonderful, only to realize that that couple is technically the original Marty McFly and his mother. And when it comes to deducing the Shard’s clue, superfan Samantha deduces that they must recast Duckie (the “fowl”) from Pretty in Pink, replacing Jon Cryer with a Weird Science-era Robert Downey, Jr., who had originally been up for the part. (You can already imagine the digital de-aging fun in the inevitable Ready Player Two movie.)

But while their goal is to get RDJ-Duckie and Andie dancing at prom, what’s most important is visiting Hughes himself in his home office to obtain his original Pretty in Pink ending. Perhaps the best Easter egg embedded in this mashup world is that when Art3mis and Z go to the Hughes’ home, they encounter his wife, Nancy Hughes. “I’ve never seen her here before!” Art3mis, who has played through this world’s rhythms countless times before, excitedly tells Parzival. “I didn’t know you even could!” It’s a nice parallel to Wade’s realization that Kira is more than just the wife or love interest, that she and Nancy Hughes are worth squeeing over all on their own.

L0hengrin’s Genderbending Avatar

As Wade relates, Parzival looks almost like him, just a bit thinner, taller, more muscular, and less afflicted by acne. His avatar is an idealized version of himself, as is the case for Samantha with Art3mis—though in Ready Player Two, she has incorporated her IRL facial birthmark into her digital persona, while Wade still sticks with his dream-self. They might also dress as pop culture characters, like Art3mis in her Molly Millions (from William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic) phase, yet it only goes so far as typical cosplay.

But in the sequel, Parzival meets YouTuber and gunter L0hengrin, who he identifies as a fan by name alone; in Arthurian legend, Lohengrin was Parzival’s son. When they meet in the OASIS, however, Parzival is struck by Lo’s avatar: She primarily takes the form of pixie-haired teen Helen Slater in The Legend of Billie Jean, but she’s also known for shifting into floppy-haired James Spader in Tuff Turf. While Lo, a trans woman, is not the first OASIS user to find herself in a nostalgic movie avatar, the fluidity of her gender presentation speaks to a deeper identification with various iconic figures depending on her gender in that moment. It also opens up the possibility of other genderqueer or nonbinary users finding their own unique representation via ’80s figures—after all, there are infinite personas to choose from.

The Afterworld

Another mashup world that Parzival, Aech, and Shoto visit on their quest for the Shards is a planet-sized shrine to Prince. And while its name is technically the unpronounceable Love Symbol, those in the know call it the Afterworld. Under ominous skies of “Purple Rain” they drive a “Little Red Corvette” to raid Paisley Park not for weapons, but for musical artifacts with which to challenge the Purple One(s).

Basically, the three gunters have to reenact Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, doing musical battle with seven iterations of Prince as the Evil Exes: Purple Rain Prince, Cloud Suit Prince, Gett Off Prince, Batdance Prince, Microphone Prince, Third Eye Prince, and Mesh-Mask Prince. Not to mention their henchmen, in the form of several past bands and collaborators. 

All things considered, the battle goes pretty quickly, especially since Aech is a super-fan coaching Parzival through how to wield the Cloud Guitar, and they have their own backup in the form of Prince’s old band Morris Day and the Time (a.k.a. The Original 7ven). There is a reason that Scott fights seven separate battles, each with its own arc and stakes. It ratchets up the tension in each fight and hints at Scott possibly failing, instead of seeming more like a means to an end, as is the case with Ready Player Two’s big jam session.

This one might be a tad more controversial for readers, depending on how sacred one holds Prince, but I would argue that inspiring a reaction—positive or negative—still counts as an Easter egg that works.

Needle Drops

Both Shermer and the Afterworld include dozens of music cues that can be triggered by passing over a certain spot or into a key moment out of pop culture history, though the needle drops are a consistent Easter egg throughout Ready Player Two. These “soundtrack landmines,” as Z calls them, set the scene, striding into Shermer High School to Killing Joke’s “Eighties”; or add gravitas to a moment, like when Parzival stares at Art3mis, realizing he’s still in love with her, and Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” begins playing.

For the most part, these cues belong to everyone: They’re planted in the same spaces for any user to trigger, regardless of whether or not they’ve ever actually sung or danced to these moments in John Hughes movies. Yet little Easter eggs like the Boston needle drop—which can only be triggered by one avatar staring at another for five seconds, while the ONI records an increase in heart rate—feel like personalized love letters to two lovebirds, caught in a special moment unique to just them. That’s exactly what you want an Easter egg to do.

Ready Player Two is available now from Ballantine Books. Let us know the Easter eggs that worked for you in the comments below…

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[ladygriffith]

female Griffith