PLEASE read the full post. When posts praising Farnese are allowed, posts who differ should also be allowed! I know different opinions get bashed instantly on Reddit, but I beg you please read it completely.

I searched the Internet and found too few posts talking about this, so I made this. In hopes it may withstand the test of time and gets passed on to future generations.

Here is the lady Farnese Character development we got:

STAGE 1: Lady Farnese pre Religion (child hood/ early teenage years):

• torturing animals
• setting kids on fire
• Throwing torches at people - Yes she did it so she could be part of something, but that something is too cruel for there not to be some genetic inclination to doing such thing
• just a very cruel person, without any remorse
• feared by others

REASON:

1. She was definitely born evil/with a fable for doing these things.

(She had to have some kind of evil inclination that just got amplified by her circumstances.) 2. Her parents didn't show her affection
3. She had too much power, no body dared to tell her no 4. She used to watch people get burned alive all the time. She got used to it. She got jaded.

STAGE 2: Lady Farnese during religion (teenage years -> meeting guts)

• burning people alive
• making Serpico burn his own mother

REASON:

1. She used religion as a tool to keep being evil (She even admitted it's after she whipped Guts).
2. Religion justified the evil actions she likes to perform.
3. Religion gave her a sense of purpose (I assume)

STAGE 3: Lady Farnese meets Guts and sees the demons

• Her faith in religion starts to crumble
• She is confused about what to believe
• Still masturbating about the thought of burning people - this arousal may stem from the thought of beeing part of something bigger and not the burning people themselves (nevertheless it's stil morbid and evil)
• She starts to question if killing people for the sake of a religion, which seems to be fake, is just

REASON:

1. Guts the evil man they have been following for 2 years saved her multiple times.
2. She sees the terrible condition of the common folk. Despite being on holy Ground.
3. Mozgus is even crazier and more cruel than her (When he saved the womans baby but send her to the torture chamber)
4. She sees that Mozgus is also some inhumane being. And guts (a mere man) is able to beat the holyness out of him.
5. She survived the festival (end of conviction arc) not by praying but by holding that torch.

STAGE 4 (aka180 turn): She stops beeing religious. She starts to behave like a sane person and has empathy. She is the caretaker of Casca (emphasizing her new found empathy)

AT STAGE 4 IS WHERE SHE STOPS TO MAKE SENSE. PLEASE HERE ME OUT: Q: Where does this empathy come from? A: I don't know. She has no track record of ever beeing a good person.

Q: Who could have maybe inspired her to start beeing a caring person? A: Guts I guess? The amount of empathy that he actively emits is on par with Luca (That is a joke)

Q: How should she have been after conviction arc?

A:How she should have been after conviction: She should have returned back to STAGE 1 of her character development. She never had any empathy EVER. She had no person to learn it from.

She should have returned to STAGE 1 BUT because her religion just crumbled, her STAGE 1 is also crumbling / easier to break and rebuild. She should have found a person who helps her destroy STAGE 1 and then lead her on a new path of empathy.

But she needs a person to teach her the way! A person who has been evil all their life can't do it by themselves in an instant!

Q: So how do you think her character would make sense? A: Let me show you how it would make sense:

STAGE 1: Farnese is a friendly/innocent child. But she is lonely and has no friends/no place in this world/no purpose. She maybe tries to throw a torch at the stake, but regrets it (eventhough she felt somekind of purpose doing that).

STAGE 2: She finds Religion and it gives her purpose, but at the cost of hurting other people. She forgets her STAGE 1 and believes STAGE 2 is her true self.

STAGE 3 (is basically the same as in the manga): She meets Guts and the demons. And her faith starts to crumble.

STAGE 4: She loses her faith and remembers that she is not inherently evil. She remembers her true self: her STAGE 1. She starts to become empathetic and starts to take care of Casca.

That's how it would make sense!

If you think my theory doesn't make sense you need to do some research on psychology. Whenever you hear stories of people who joined nazi groups or cults but decided to leave after a few years they went through these stages (So what I am saying definitely makes sense).

PS: Please reddit gods! Let me overcome the causality of fate! Let this post not be removed. I spend over an hour writing this post. It's too difficult to not get removed on Reddit these days.

Now Iam quite new to watching anime and only really care for action having watched dragon ball jjk and Naruto/attack on titan Iam not used to sexual graphic displays when reading and watching shows is it possible to skip past these things with still understanding the series I just wanna watch cause there’s a cool swordsman

Just finished my collection. I’ve only read as far as volume 11 and I’m halfway through that right now. Berserk is my favorite THING ever so the fact that my collection is all caught up is a bit jarring.

Griffith. Hahahah. (I’m going insane, HAHA)

What continues with the story?

Never seen it before, but here it is for $28.48. That’s a steal.

I just finished reading the manga and I’ve been lurking around for lore and other stuff and I just don’t think I can handle the idea of how most of you predict that the story will end with Guts’ death, Griffith defeated but it feels hollow, or even how all the other characters will die as well.

I feel like the absolute most devastating point of the story so far has been, and will always be, the Eclipse. That kind of earth-shattering plot point should stand alone in the story with its only redemption being that it all comes tumbling down for Griffith and Guts and Casca finally get the opportunity to live freely without having to fight anymore. Guts as a character has developed far past where he was during the Golden Age Arc where he was just a sword swinging Chad. He’s become so much more and if he goes out like a punk without anyone in the world other than the people closest to him being able to recognize his suffering and sacrifices, I’m going to flip my lid.

Just wanted to open this up because it can’t always be just a depressing mess right? The nightmare eventually ends right?

I started drawing a week ago. This is my first time trying to draw Griffith. Any recommendation for improvement?

Hit like a truck guys , for real

He just spawned in the blacksmiths house

Since Griffith can still use his human form, would the other God Hand members be able to do that too?

I always really loved the Golden Age Arc, the ‘97 anime was my first exposure to Berserk.

Hey guys, i have made a realisation these past couple of days. I realised why Guts is such a powerful character. It doesnt matter who you are and where you are in your journey, we all have struggled in our life one way or another and because of that, we can empatise with Guts, he is a part of all of us. No matter how great or small the struggle. We all have met an arrogant charismatic person who has tried to control us, we all know people who were subject of abuse and sadly but not lastly we all know people who seem to be shells of their former selves because of circumstances in their lives. And that is the genius of Miura, making the saddest story you know, with a hero that will never give up and making it seem like your story. They say character is built through adversity and by God does Guts have character! I dont even know how to end this thought. May Guts find his peace and all of us with him!