#makes me whant to finish claymore

[ssallamander]

that's so interesting

Not a popular opinion, but I believe that Elric of Melnibone has more key things in common with Clare from Claymore than he has with Geralt from the witcher

What do I mean?

- Clare and Elric willingly became dependant on unstable and cursed powers they were subtly tricked into taking (although clare never intended to fully serve the ones who gave them to her unlike elric who is bound to them)

- considered the weakest of their kind (can prove this wrong on several occasions, but still considerably weak without their enhacements)

- they were (indirectly) involved in death of a loved one on more occasions, and those deaths were the catalysts of their stories (clare becoming a warrior and Elric venturing into the world) It's interesting that Elric had this happen after he obtained his cursed powers, and Clare before.

- not clare herself, but both Elric and other claymores destroyed their places of origin due to finding out the vile and disgusting truth about them (well, at least in the comics for Elric, the books gave a little underwhelming cause)

- Both of them being completely detached from human emotions (Clare was burying them inside, and Elric had little to no empathy) but re/gaining some during their journey, only for them to come to bite them back.

- them accidentally killing their girlfriend and it actually leaving them with some massive trauma

Edit: Also they are both in a way incarnations of powerful beings, albiet in different ways each

In conclusion, you can think of Clare as either Guts' little sister or an unofficial female Witcher, but now you can think of her as a more fucked up incarnation of Elric/eternal champion as well