#millenium world arc

[darkscorpiox]

Kaiba paying his respect to Kisara

Kaiba had seen how the Blue-Eyes came to be his. It hadn’t been done with forceful means like he did with the BEWD cards in the manga and anime, but out of love, devotion, and a desire to protect (from a corrupted father figure).

Did he see at that moment their similarity in the length they would go to for their most important person, showing why said dragon is his most beautiful and most loyal servant (shimobe), and the embodiment of his pride and soul? Just for that (if not, then as the first owner of the dragon), she deserves his respect and gratitude.

I like to believe he lowered his head to express those two things to her. I also noticed his eyes blinked rapidly for a split second after that, indicating he’s struggling emotionally and / or lying. My guess is both: Kaiba may scoff at the occult and the past (lying), but we know they affect him more than he lets on (struggling emotionally). In other words, he had finally acknowledged the 3000 yearlong connection he shared with Kisara.

@kaibanerdgang @kisara-kaiba @sapphira-mydnyte @kisaraslover

[kaibasupremacy]

// episode 214

[icharchivist]

and let’s not forget how the Jasdevi song reflects so well on the Campbell twins as well!

Checking multiple translations because, as often with dgm, the translations are all over the place but

Long Long Ago/Once upon a time comes back as well, giving the impression of the time that passes.

There was one cradle: the Earl Body/Suit There was one inside the cradle: The Earl before he split The one became two/became a twin: The Earl splitting into Mana and Nea

Then only one cradle, the other, like a star lost in the fog: Mana, alone, now that Nea has “died”, was “lost” where no one could find him

Shaking in a graveyard until it disappeared/a star shining bright at the sacred place and disappear: Once again can echo the “death” of the “other twin”, disappearing because of death. Could be about Nea.  Or could be about how Mana himself also came to disappear since he’s the one associated with a crooked grave in a graveyard, and having faded away into a “star” (Allen’s pentacle)

WITH the irony that if we consider that both twins "disappeared" to be inside of Allen, Allen ends up being the "merged body", just like this song ends up merging Jasdero and Devit together.

If Nea was always supposed to be the Odd One Out, it means that “The Bond” was a Noah memory that existed before the Mana/Nea situation happened. Yet this one song the Jasdevi sing to merge together is thematically fully about Mana/Nea.

And we don’t know how Jasdevi came to be: were they two humans before the Noah gene awoke? Were they one that split into two? Were they two brothers, or were they two strangers who started to bond over their memory? 

Meanwhile we know for certain that their song fits Mana and Nea.

Food for thought!

Jasdero and Devit's bond more like whatever the hell Mana and Nea got going on tbh

Different personalities and bodies

Twins nonetheless

Both sets of twins end up as part of a single being when bonded together tho(Jasdevi and the Earl)

[wisyhana]

Devotion

Couldn't wait much longer to show you this piece so here it is!

I don’t know if you want to read my thoughts behind this piece, I hope it talks by its own, but I’ll give it a try:

The two faces of Devotion, loyalty and pride, a palace in ruin and the ruler’s life gone. I thought of this piece as a summary of the Memories World arc from Millenium World and how both devoted characters acted towards the Pharaoh. Atem’s body seems to float on its own, even if both priests are holding him, he seems weightless ascending by the little power left in him, and still he trusts them, let them hold his lifeless body as he trusted them in life. Priest Seto is the only one standing strongly, looking directly at the observer: he‘s the heir, responsibility that the Pharaoh casted upon him, there’s darkness hidden in his eyes, a past that could had blame him the decease of the ruler, but he’s still standing pridefully. Priest Mahad holds the Pharaoh dearly, eyes of sadness and concern, somehow his eyes seems to look directly at the Millenium Puzzle as a sign of awareness of its dangerous power, and yet he’s holding him desperately almost preventing the Pharaoh from leaving the mundane world. In the end a story of loyalty, pride and sacrifice.

Hope you like the final piece, I would totally love to read your thoughts since I feel this piece is not as clear as I’m trying to explain myself here. Also considering that my english is not close to be polished, I tried my best to be as clear as possible.

Adding the sketch version cos I like it a lot.

[askneftis-sam]

Character sheet for Sam, Iris and Neftis in the Memory World Arc.

My ocs are super old, and I think I've finally reached a final form for them, hence the details explained in these :3.

Got inspired by some ygo…arc V? Magazine pages for this, I’ve always wanted to make character profiles for these 2! Sam and Iris now have a bit more visual difference, Iris’ bangs are straight like Neftis’.

Some fun trivia about Neftis. When Pegasus found a tablet with what looked like a dragon (the same one from the Tablet of Lost Memories) and a phoenix linked to the Millenium Pendant and Rod, the Egyptian inscriptions described a “phoenix of Neftis” (referring to the phoenix that way bc it was Neftis’ ka). So Pegasus named the monster as such, thinking that was the monster’s name, linked to the Egyptian goddess Nephthys and not an individual. So Sam and all the Yugioh gang have always known Neftis’ name, they just had no idea xP. (Imagine Sam’s annoyance when she learned THAT was Iris’ real name in the memory world arc haha). (btw I write Neftis to refer to my Oc and Nephthys for the phoenix or the Egyptian goddess so it’s easier to differenciate, but both are pronounced the same way xD)

[bthump]

What would be like you're dream manga scene to happen in Berserk? Cause personally my favorite would be Casca leaving Guts behind and making her own life.

Yeah I would definitely love to see that. If they both survive at the end I think that could be a great ending tbh.

As for me, I have a few possibilities I'd love to see near the end. One scene is Guts realizing that Griffith still has irrational feelings for him in the middle of a climactic fight, maybe surfacing from his beast of darkness side if he's succumbed to the armour at this point, or maybe he only realizes because Griffith failed to bring himself to kill him and took a fatal blow from him instead.

Another is a reprise of Guts hanging off of a tall structure after Griffith has caught him, and dragging Griffith down with him instead of letting go this time - or Griffith letting himself fall rather than let go of Guts' hand, or both.

A parallel to the end of the Millenium Falcon arc with Griffith vs Ganishka, but with Guts in place of Ganishka, and both of them seeing the other as the only light in the world, metaphorically or maybe literally if Guts is seeing through the armour. And the two of them dying/joining together in a way that brings about a great metaphysical change to the world again, paralleling all the high fantasy paradigm shifts to Guts and Griffith's ultimately mundane but persistent love for each other.

Yk, that kind of thing lol. I know what I'm about, I guess.

Thanks for asking!

[danthepest]

I absolutely love the conversation between Kaiba and Atem in their final duel in Battle City.

This is the closest Kaiba has come to opening up to anyone. And Atem is disappointed in him. He has been fighting people whose sole motivation was greed, anger and hatred. After Death-T and Duelist Kingdom, Atem expected Kaiba to be better. To move on, to fight for something more than that.

Yet here he was. After everything they've been through, still motivated by anger and hatred. And Atem is well aware of the cycle by this point and he's trying to get Kaiba to understand that it's a self destructive path. There is neither peace or satisfaction waiting at the end.

And as Kaiba says, Yugi/Atem is part of his past. The past that was still controlled by his upbringing before Atem shattered his mind. For Kaiba to move on, he needs to defeat Yugi. To prove that he's better so that he can conquer the last remnant of a past he wants to forget.

A part of him wants to let go of the hate and anger that fueled most of his life, but he contradicts himself later when he says those same things give him power. Not realizing just how trapped his is by them.

Atem respects and admires Kaiba's talent, skills and determination and wants to break the cycle. He wants Kaiba to let go of the pain that drives him so that his life isn't so empty. So that he can be happy. He wants him to learn that having friends and people who care about him is not a weakness.

He may have even been getting through to Kaiba until he dropped the "power of friendship" line. Kaiba knows how much of a corny line that is and Atem saying that's what he lost to was insulting to him.

Atem realizes he's lost Kaiba with that line. He questions what their relationship even is at this point. Why can't they bury the hatchet?

Its a great example of how both have done horrible things to others and had horrible things done to them, but deal with it differently.

Kaiba would rather rage and destroy everything that hurts him. Never letting go of the wrongs done to him. Yugi and Atem? They are able to move on because they forgive. Yugi forgave Jonouchi and Honda for how they treated him. Yugi & Atem forgave the Kaiba brothers for the attempted murders and hospitalizing his grandfather, while Jonouchi still holds a grudge over it. Yugi was even willing to forgive and accept Dark Bakura when he came to help during his battle with Ryuji Otogi. He even forgave Ryuji and his dad for nearly getting him killed and separated from Atem forever.

Forgiveness is a part of healing and moving on. For Yugi, it comes naturally. Atem learned it through him. But Kaiba?

For Kaiba, forgiveness is admitting defeat. To him it's like saying that what was done to him doesn't deserve punishment. That it was acceptable. Perhaps even deserved. And worst of all, that it can be ignored.

And he lashes out at Atem, ending the conversation.

It takes his encounter with Ishizu later and Mokuba's outburst to truly make him understand the dangerous path he's going down. Ishizu's willingness to die on the island if Malik can't be saved reminded him of his own back in Duelist Kingdom and it shakes him. Its what convinces him to give this whole "trust" and "friendship" garbage a chance. (In the anime he just kinda...changes his mind about leaving. They cut out the bit with him realizing he and Ishizu weren't that different entirely and I will always be salty about that).

He still plays it off as him wanting to prove its all bunk, but by the end when the island is destroyed, he's beginning to learn the lesson Atem has been trying to teach him. And unlike the anime, he's gone for the rest of the manga. There's no Dartz or Kaiba Gran Prix. They go straight to the Millenium World arc and Kaiba is absent in it except for one of the final pages, being too late and missing the duel between Yugi and Atem.

Say what you want about Yu-Gi-Oh, but the manga has some stellar character writing.

[temporalbystander]

Okay Tumblr peeps, I need ya.

I ramble a bit about specifics and ideas under the cut but the TL:DR version is this. I want to know if there's a story (or stories) where the Yu-Gi-Oh anime is rewritten to put more focus on the shadow games, the millenium items, and the overall magic of the heart of the cards.

So I'm currently watching YouTube videos on the first season of Yu-Gi-Oh! Not only has it inspired me to go read the manga but the creator said something that just hit me "what if Kaiba just fully believed in the heart of the cards from here on?" This is in reference to the "ghost of a chance" dub duel where Kaiba hacks blue eyes and then it goes boom.

Now according to the comments on the video this is due to the whole monster spirits thing but it's what leads me here to all you. Has anyone done a fic where the themes from season 1 to the tabletop Egypt arc are consistent? Like, the creator made a joke about Yugi/ the pharoah getting stronger in his shadow games after every duel like a zenkai boost and I... I really want that as an overall story. Like maybe the manga does this but I do love some of the changes the anime makes, like the shadow realm or Pegasus resurrecting the evil part of Kaiba in the dub, and the virtual world and waking the dragons arcs I know are just filler but are still awesome.

Basically, a rewrite of the anime, but instead of getting so caught up in making the card game make sense it's just season 1 continued. A clash of magic millenia old, powers growing, and each duelist relying more and more on their deck, growing to believe in the heart of the cards, nay, the soul of them.

Key examples, blue eyes warning Kaiba during his match with Ishizu. Dark magician refusing to attack Yugi when with Shadi inside the puzzle, dark magician willingly sacrificing itself during the duel against Arkana.

That but going even further, like say with Joey's duel against Valon. Instead of Lord of the Red being a ritual monster Joey uses, it comes about from his refusal to give in, his desire to lend Red Eyes his own power thus giving it a Life Point transferral effect like Marik did with Ra. Red eyes could roar as a direct attack comes for Joey and a meaningless face down suddenly shifts into red eyes transmigration and they unite!

In fact that would be more awesome. If it becomes commonly accepted, probably showcased during duelist kingdom finals and more prevalent during battle city, that strong duelists can turn the tide in an instant, manifesting victory like the shining draw in Zexal except it can happen at any time with any card. The more generic duelists would see this as some new technique from the new technology while the main cast would realise it's the true power of the heart of the cards.

[communist-ojou-sama]

as someone who only knows blue archive from art and toki's wiki page (after being lured in by her eyes and hair vents), i genuinely am very curious about your thoughts on himari-toki-rio!

Oh thank u thank u! As a disclaimer I don't actually olay the game :p I've just watched videos of all the main story arcs, but theres a whole lot that I like about the deeply strange relationship those three have going on.

So for a bit of story summary, in chapter 2 of the main story Rio is the main antagonist, kidnapping the girl around which the story revolves because while she doesn't know it, the girl in question is a biomechanical superweapon and the princess of the nameless priests who want to bring an end to the world as we know it, and she wants to destroy this girl before she can realize that destiny.

In order to do so she has apparently built an entirely new city under the existing city in which the story takes place, enlisting entirely robot labor without the knowledge of the General Student Council of the city, with Toki, her personal maid, as her sole confidant. But Rio's secretiveness and overconfidence backfire. When she attempts to put Aris, the princess in question in a machine she built to destroy her, the second personality within Aris is able to hack into the control system and seize control of the entire mechanical city, threatening to turn it into a staging ground for the very invasion Rio was aiming to prevent. But before that happens, Rio uses her automated security systems to slow the protagonists down, and Toki goes out all on her own to fight the entire main cast, in a bespoke mech that Rio designed and had constructed for her, and fights against the protagonists to the bitter end to buy time for Rio. (Sorry this is all necessary context)

So Himari, on the other hand, is on the protagonist side, she's the only person at Millenium academy who's acknowledged as Rio's intellectual equal, but she's got the exact opposite personality to Rio's cold, calculating, conservative approach. She's totally confident that the threat inside of Aris can be neutralized and fights to save her, and it's her hacking skills that allow the main cast to defeat the nameless priests when they hijack the city.

In the aftermath of this event, Rio disappears into hiding, not even telling Toki where she's going or taking Toki with her, and so with nowhere else to go Toki begins working under Himari instead.

Himari and Rio are long-standing rivals who disagree about everything but have grudging respect for one another's intellect and talent, which is fun on its own, but going by minor appsreances from Rio (via surveillance drone, shes still in hiding) imply that she's genuinely very sorry about what she's done, and theres a scene much later where Himari rips into Rio for abandoning Toki after all the girl has done for her.

ALL OF THAT SAID

Whats really making me ill is a prospective day when Rio finally returns, how will Toki react? And how will Himari react to that reaction? Will Toki immediately accept Rio's apology and return right away to Rio's right hand? And if she does how would Himari feel? Would she beg her not to go? Would she plead to her to remember how shed been betrayed, to no avail?

Or the contrary? What if Toki's so hurt that she's not willing to associate with Rio right away? Due to some things I don't wanna get into Himari's attitude toward Rio has softened, and I'm not unconvinced Himari doesn't have feelings for Rio herself, is that why she got so angry on Toki's behalf, because she felt abandoned too? The more I think about it the sicker I get

[qedmirage]

Godzilla Final Wars: What Are We Even Doing Here

Godzilla: Final wars, released in 2004, is a film where this happens:

As mutant supersoldier Shinichi Ozaki realizes his full potential as a super-duper solider called a "Kaizer", with "the power to control the universe". What? Where are we? Let's back up.

Godzilla: Final Wars, released in 2004, is the final entry in the "Millenium" subseries of Godzilla films, those released in 2000-2010. Short millennium! It's the first and only Godzilla film by director Ryuhei Kitamura and it is extremely early 2000s action movie. It's a bad movie, and a bad Godzilla film. And yet, it's kind of a blast to watch? The back half of this film is so stupid. Peak comedy moments abound. You'll hear the dumbest line in the universe followed up seconds later by a somehow, even dumber line. So, meta stuff. This film is something of a send-up of Invasion of Astro-Monster (1956) and Destroy All Monsters (1968), films where aliens steal various kaiju and Godzilla has to beat them all. It's even using the aliens from Invasion of Astro-Monster, the Xiliens, with some slight updates to their design:

Xiliens in Final Wars (left) and Invasion of Astro-Monster (right)

Aliens show up, say they're friendly, take monsters away. Then it turns out they're evil, they unleash the monsters, and the humans need to have Godzilla beat up all the other monsters. Shrimple as that. However, this is a 2004 scifi action movie, and it's being directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, who first rose to prominence with a film Versus about yakuza fighting undead in a forest on a hellmouth. Very early 2000s action schlock. Thus, alongside the more standard Godzilla fare of a united world response to kaiju attacks, we get this:

And, right after the first establishing kaiju fight, we get a several minute training fight scene between two mutants in The Octagon:

Because god damnit, we are going to have our martial arts fights and you'll like it! Get used to these mutants doing martial arts fights because it happens a lot.

So the film's plot. Mutants have an extra DNA base called M-base, which is present in all kaiju except Godzilla. Our protagonist Ozaki has it as well, and the mothra fairies refer to it as a 'dark power' within him. He also gets berated for not going as hard on his opponents in training as he should, because he has wishy washy things like 'feelings' and 'empathy'. This information is structurally delivered way worse in the film but you get what his arc is from that, right?

Ozaki and the other mutants commit the first kill of a kaiju by infantry in the Godzilla franchise, defeating Ebirah with a cheesy one-liner while a truly ass soundtrack plays in the background. I'm sorry, I know the (three?!) composers worked hard, but this sucks. Original Godzilla composer Akira Ifukube became so enraged at hearing the soundtrack to Godzilla vs. Biollante he un-retired himself specifically so he could make the next soundtrack better for the next film, and Biollante had a soundtrack miles better than whatever we're calling this.

Anyways, aliens show up, replace some world leaders with imposters, the protagonists slowly figure it out, shoot said world leaders, and then the aliens give up and decide to use their M-base related mind control on all the mutants and kaiju to destroy the earth. This plot takes about 30 minutes of the film and is delivered in a very Xtreme way.

It's important to hold your gun sideways when shooting a body double of an important world politician. The film drags here, I'll be honest! But eventually it's over, the second in command alien guy shoots the main alien guy, they start the violence plot, etc. High points to me include the above side-guns and the televised reveal of evil aliens showing cuts of people the world over panicking and also this couple, who look only mildly concerned:

This is one of your signs that this may not be a very serious film. Fully an hour in to the movie the protagonists go down to antartica to free godzilla, where we get to see some of my favorite minor characters in a godzilla film:

The world's exploding and the two guys in the Godzilla Monitoring Base down in Antarctica are just chillin. Reading a book on Zen, having an espresso and a toasted croissant, it's great. Love them. Did you know this is a two hour movie? Anyways, the protagonists wake up Godzilla (while one of the monitoring guys wonders: "Is this a wise decision?") and what follows is nearly non-stop action as they pull Godzilla's aggro towards the alien mothership, with all sorts of kaiju showing up to stop them. And I gotta say, this part of the film? Kinda rocks. They're fitting in Way Too Many Kaiju into a film and so Godzilla is just absolutely dumpstering these monsters as it continues the march to the final battle. American Godzilla shows up and is beaten in under a minute, while the main villain keeps making faces like this:

inevitably followed shortly thereafter by:

I just really like it for some reason, like this guy is trying so hard to be cool. So hard. This happens like three times. Anyways, the protagonists break into the alien ship, all their redshirts get killed, there's some big dumb action scenes with funny shots:

while outside Godzilla and Mothra fight Gigan and the alien's mysterious new monster:

"Monster X" is a fun one. In the first phase of the fight it actually does grappling stuff against Godzilla, kind of mimicking the throws big G was using to dumpster all those earlier kaiju. It's fun that the martial arts godzilla film let the monsters use martial arts on each other.

Ozaki gets told he's a Kaizer, they do a whole 'you should join me' thing, you can guess how that goes and then he and the main villain do a super saiyan fight while the rest of the crew tries to escape. Oh, and the world leaders who got replaced before show back up again, with the UN Secretary-General having the dumbest set of lines in the entire film (a high bar!):

To be clear, the last time we saw this character, he was on a plane that exploded midair.

"I managed to escape somehow". He spends the rest of the film holding two rayguns. He's the UN Secretary-general. It's great. There's a part where a katana deflects laser beams. Captain Gordon puts his katana aside so he can fistfight the aliens instead. What are we doing here again? The fight between our two super saiyans is mixed in with Godzilla fighting Monster X, and just as the aliens are defeated, Monster X does a phase transition:

the audience reactions were priceless.

They fight, Ozaki lends his spirit energy to Godzilla through the ship's guns-Yes, it can do that. Why? Stop asking questions, don't you realize what movie this is by now-Godzilla wins, Godzilla goes right back to fighting the humans, before Minilla gets it to calm down and walk off into the sea. Roll credits.

THE BAD:

Alien bodysnatcher plot

Basic script flow

Soundtrack

highway martial arts fight too long

The Octagon martial arts fight too long

A guy does a kamikaze suicide attack and it works

The nipple covers our hero wears for the first half of the film

THE GOOD:

Comedic insanity

Monster X phase 1

the dumbest lines you've ever heard in a movie

Godzilla absolutely demolishing the toho franchise is surprisingly fun

The EDF having more than just white people and japanese

Captain Gordon macho grumbling in english and dressing like a WWII admiral

The reaction our main villain makes after Legendary Super Saiyan Ozaki punches him:

You can just hear the inner monologue of 'fair, you get one'

Is it a good movie? No. I highly recommend it. Watch it with a group of friends. ...Godzilla 2000's probably better, though.

[darkscorpiox]

This fancomic gives Kisara a reason for not leaving Priest Seto when she had had the chance to do so in the manga (beside the fact that Takahashi couldn’t work more on their development)

Down there is a rough translation of the text (along with a few personal touches). Please tell me if I’ve made mistakes.

Anyway, enjoy 😊

Page 1  This has happened many times. (こんなことならいくらでもありました)

Page 2 Villager 1: It’s a calamity! This girl has brought a calamity to the village! (災いだ！この娘が村に災いを呼んだのだ！)

Villager 2: You and your cursed appearance! If you hadn’t been here…! (オマエのその呪われた姿！オマエさえいなければ…！)

Page 3 I thought I had been picked up and taken somewhere, but no, that’s not it. The village had disappeared. (どこかに拾てられたのだと思ったのだけど そうじゃなくて 村が無くなっていたの)

Page 4 I don’t know why did such a thing happen, but I’m sure it’s my fault. Everything…Everything… (どうしてこんな事になったのかはわからないけど きっと 私が悪いのだと思�� 全部 全部)

Page 5 For the first time… (⸻はじめて)

Page 6 …I saw light in this world. (世界に光が見えました)

Priest Seto: Listen! Get away from this castle as fast as possible! Go, quick! (いいか！早くこの城から離れろ！早く行け！)

Page 7  My… (私の)

Page 8 My light is over there, right? (私の光はあそこにあるでしょう？)

Page 9 After meeting you… (私あなたと出会って)

Page 10 …for the first time, I thought I was glad to be born. (はじめてうまれてきてもよかったのかもっておもえたの)

@kaibacorpdork @kisara-kaiba @sapphira-mydnyte @kisaraslover

[kaibasupremacy]

Parallels

Episode 214 // episode 45

[linkspooky]

Yu-Gi-Oh Hot Take #12

I will defend Season 4 of Yu-Gi-Oh! as filler. I'm saying this as someone who vastly prefers the manga, and thinks the anime version is lesser to the manga because Death-T is never mentioned.

My one critique of the manga is that Yami has amazing development, starting out as basically a serial killer -> duelist kingdom -> the beginning of Battle City where after Yami and Yugi become so attached to one another he makes the decision to search for his lost memories even if it means saying goodbye.

However, after that his development kind of stops. I like the loss against Raphael they throw into Season 4, because it's a callback to Yami almost murdering Kaiba because he wanted to win a duel. Yugi and Yami seperating once and Yami nearly having a mental breakdown about it then learning to cope before they reunite is good. It's a good buildup to the millenium world arc.

Noah's entire season however, is unforgivable.

[wisyhana]

YGO themes/characters/arcs/elements/etc. I couldn't care less but I'm still open to talk about them, (as in I don't hate them, but I don't mind ignoring them either):

-Magic.

-Monsters archetypes and backstory.

-The Whole Millenium World Arc. (with exception of TKB)

-Yami Bakura/Zorc.

Which I think is very funny considering most of them are essential for the whole story, and I acknowledge it, but I just get tired trying to think further.

Especially with AE content because there's always history or mythology in between of any discussion and I truly try to only stick to what the manga showed, because that's what I only care.

[askneftis-sam]

Q: “how did you come up with the nickname Iris for Neftis? And did Sam always know Neftis’ true name?” Iris is the name Sam gave the spirit in her millennium pendant after learning she had no memories nor name. It’s a name Iris treasured with all her being.

Sam: Thanks to my dad, since he loves mythology (he's an archaeologist in his spare time after all) I've always been in touch with ancient Gods stories. After I met the spirit of the Millennium Pendant I felt like she was some kind of messenger like the Greek Goddess Iris c: that's why I chose that name. And no, I didn't know her name was Neftis, that's why I gave her a name!

As for the name Neftis… Pegasus created the Phoenix card based on one of Sam's drawings that resembled a tablet that depicted both the phoenix and the blue eyes white dragon surrounding the Millennium rod and Millenium pendant. That tablet was made in honor to the two monsters that helped the nameless pharaoh, and as history was “recorded”, the phoenix was referenced as a “phoenix of Neftis”, meaning it belonged to Neftis. But Pegasus had no idea that was the name of a person so he attributed it to the goddess Nephthys when the hieroglyphics were translated and named the phoenix “Sacred phoenix of Nephthys”. So… you can imagine Sam’s total annoyance in the memory world arc when she learns it WAS Neftis’ name lol. I tried my best inventing that tablet with the phoenix and blue eyes lmao sorry if it’s messy, also of course I’m bullshitting the inscriptions so don’t be harsh on me. 😂 I had very little time to finish this.

And oh well, also she resembles the card Iris, the Earthmother -u-

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hi! i wanted your opinion on something, if you are interested in this of course. i was thinking how guts still looks for griff's attention, even after everything. his behavior has changed tho, as seen in elfhelm when he is questioned and he does not reply in rage as he may have earlier. why do you think this change happened? do you think there is a way guts could have lived on ''letting go of his obsession'' and be satisfied? and thirdly, what do u think would happen if ngriff gave attention to guts finally?

Oof, sorry for the wait, this got buried in my inbox and I forgot about it til I went back a page and saw it again.

I think the biggest difference between Guts needing Griffith's attention in the Black Swordsman arc and Guts trying to move on in the Millenium Falcon/Fantasia arc, is that NeoGriffith was born, told Guts he doesn't think about him at all, and left lol.

I think it kind of made Guts' need to force Griffith to acknowledge him feel futile.

Griffith appearing human now rather than demonic might also have an impact, since Guts says seeing him looking like the old Griffith made him forget his urge to kill. It's probably easier to move on from your revenge campaign when a part of you is now reluctant to kill the guy because he looks exactly like the dude you were in love with.

Also the fact that he has a different goal helps too - while he's focused on taking Casca to Elfhelm he has a distraction. I think he's also lowkey hoping that when Casca gets her mind back they can get back together and that will also help him forget Griffith, the way he was able to bury his realization that Griffith loved him and threw his life away because of him, after sleeping with her the first time.

Then that didn't work out and Griffith showed up naked in front of him and Guts still couldn't touch him and now he's having a breakdown all about Griffith lol, so he didn't manage to actually move on.

I think for Guts to actually move on he'd have to acknowledge his very complicated feelings towards Griffith. The hate, but also the love, the guilt, the inadequacy, the loneliness, the regret, the fear, etc. He'd have to talk it through with someone, I guess kinda like his rambling flashback to Casca mid-sex, and then he'd have to start over with new friends and a more emotionally open attitude with them, rather than the mysterious broody thing he's got going on.

And if Griffith did give him attention again, I think Guts would drop all attempts to move on, and if that attention was positive he'd even drop all attempts to kill him and just straight up reconcile. I mean narratively I think it's theoretically possible for a version of Berserk to have Guts manage to move on, and for Griffith's attention to be a test that he passes, essentially, but based on where we're at now with Guts having a breakdown after fighting him I don't think that's how this version of Berserk is going lol. I don't expect Guts to reconcile with him either in any way but maybe a dying confession of some sort, but like, hypothetically, in a fanfic type scenario, it's so easy for me to see Guts forgiving NGriff.

Guts' sense of morality is based pretty much entirely on his social circle and his sympathy for children. He doesn't care about anything else, so it doesn't matter to him that Griffith filled the world with dragons and trolls and stuff. All he cares about is his dead friends and Casca's rape, and if NeoGriffith expressed regret over that, and/or suggested that Femto was a different version of himself and he's not that demon anymore but more like the old Griffith (similar to Guts' Beast of Darkness), Guts would no longer blame him, and imo he'd leap at the chance to reconcile. He wanted that chance back at the Hill of Swords, when he was searching for a trace of the old Griffith in NGriff, and demanded to know if he feels anything now. He didn't get it, and he still moped like Charlie Brown after NeoGriffith "deserted" him lol.

So yeah, I don't think Guts would have any reason to maintain his hate, and he wouldn't want to. He'd be glad to have an excuse to return to him, imo.

And if Griffith's attention was negative, like say, he realizes he's still in love and goes out to kill Guts to save himself from it, then Guts would consciously do everything in his power to kill him, including becoming a monster, but subconsciously might hesitate (as would Griffith in this scenario) and ideally they'd semi-purposefully die together. Would love to see this happen in canon.

Thanks for the ask!