#more like L'garde

[jester-collision]

Me at 2am after fucking up my fear and hunger run for the 36th time

why everyrhing so FUCK‼️‼️‼️‼️

[ivanvew]

termina!griffith in his machine god glory!.. messy lore drafts under cut read with caution

(will probably post more ab this au (berserk x fear and hunger termina crossover au!!) later on so if u dont want to see it block the tag "charlottes berkmina crossover" sorry mwah)

p.s. his name is Griffith Falke:) a v lazy one but it has a ring to it and has sort of stuck lol. Wait till u hear Guts' name hehe

I imagine termina!Griff as a Bremen dude being born in wartime already, then making it up the ranks of L'garde's military (I'm pretty sure from what we know ab Bremen from lore that under L'garde it's government and military are pretty much merged), gaining power to eventually have enough of it to overthrow L'garde and establish a Bremen kingdom that is HIS OWN!!:3 and has NO FIGHTING!!! ain't that lovely. He is the public's sweetheart, and commands a division or something similar that is rather obviously first loyal to Griffith and only second to Bremen or Kaiser or anything (basically a loose analog to the canon band of the hawk).

Eventually, as war goes on and more bloodshed occurs - bloodshed which Griffith now has a hand in contributing to, he grows more hopeless and desperate - until the hawks get their hands on Eastern Union's research about something called Project Logic. (I know this is not at all how it goes down in termina canon okay? but reila doesn't exist here as of now so that doesn't matter) Griffith sees his only chance to fulfill his dream in becoming a machine god, giving his power, money, men, sanity, anything to bring the project to fruition. while disguing it as something more L'garde-friendly obviously.. although L'garde can tell Griff has no intention of donating his godhood to anyone.

Then a bunch of minor war prisoners from the Union (as in Union soldiers held prisoner by Bremen lol) gets sent to the project as free labour or something more sinister. One of them is a dude named Guts, and the rest is history. Bthump bthump, Griffith's resolve wavers, and boom, the esteemed Griffith Falke is caught in an affair with an enemy soldier. Legarde does not pass on the opportunity to get rid of Griff after the latter has been pissing him off for like a decade - there is a scandal, the hawks are scattered and gently ostracized from anything that matters, and Griffith is ofc slowly tortured to death for all of his fellow big military people to see and fear.

After getting proper tortured yet not quite killed yet, Griff gets rescued by Guts and Casca (the second in command of griffith's disbanded division). The two convince themselves that if they can fix Griffith somehow, Griffith can fix the entire situation and bring back the hawks and finally end the war and invent the eternal engine also. Desperate, they search for ways to do so. Griffith silently directs the search to the city of Prehevil, Bohemia - and it's connection to ancient religions and practices worshiping older gods. The tales of the old goddess Sylvian tell of miraculous recovery - and what Griffith needs is nothing short of a miracle. With nowhere else to go, the trio on the run sets off for Prehevil.

Neither Guts, nor Casca know of testing grounds for Project Logic underneath the city - started by the Union's scientists and bring to completion under Griffith's command. The only thing missing is a vessel. The final sacrifice on the way to his dream will be gargantuan and fell of terror - Griffith can feel this with every fibre of his being.

But he has gone so, so far for this dream that he shares with so many corpses - stopping has not been an option for a long time.

///this is faar from all of it even immediately concerning griffy and man i really need to reread golden age I don't remember 60% of anything what the hell

also plssss Imk if im you think something in my ramblings is inappropriate!! as a refugee myself I understand that war, even fictional, is a very sensitive subject (esp with all of the fkn third reich symbolics shoved into termina for shock value) so any breach of this sensitivity deserves to be called out thanks🙏