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I've briefly used the search function, but it looks like my own interpretation hasn't been touched yet.
Ever since Guts has gotten his Berserker Armor, he's been even more on the edge than he's ever been, as impossible as it may seem. He's not just on the verge of losing his life, but his humanity before anything else.
Now, there starts my theory. We know that the Skull Knight once wore this armor, both evident by statements and the shape of the armor before Guts got it. What's more, the helmet has pretty much the same shape of the one Geiseric, currently known as Skull Knight, has worn during lifetime thousand years ago and the same look of what's SK's face (well, not a face, but a skull...but you get the point) today.
It's clear that the Berserker Armor takes a different shape depending on the wearer. And obviously, this is dependant on strong (maybe coercively negative?) affections of the wearer, such as the Dark Beast of Guts, which can be said to be the very manifestation of Guts malevolent feelings - mainly hatred - accumulated over the years he lived with the brand on his neck. In light of this, it seems that Geiseric had a particularly strong affection for skulls. Or maybe not for skulls in particular but rather an obsession over death which the skull presented a symbol for? In any case, this was most likely the most dominant characteristic that most caused the Berserker Armor to change into one with the skull shaped helmet.
Either way, let's move on closer to the point. Geiseric was undoubtedly a human, yet he continued to exist for a whole millennium as a lifeform, that probably isn't one at all. Maybe the term "transcendent" would fit here. I will eat a broom if he has lungs and can breathe in his skeletal armor body. Or if he has any kind of organism that would qualify for being alive.
Now, why is that?
I suspect, that the Berserker Armor played a major role in what made Skull Knight he is now. This a magical item, so it would be logical to assume that its magic will have some effects to the wearer one or another way.
My theory is that thanks to Flora, Geiseric survived the time he used the Berserker Armor's powers, but ultimately, because he didn't die, the armor began change him. It no longer was simply a manifestation of whatever the hell of a bond Geiseric shared with that fetish for skulls or skull helmets. Instead, Geiseric himself became the manifestation itself.
Now, one will have to wonder why he's not wearing the armor anymore. I'm thinking that the armor had no effect anymore on him due to him having lost his humanity altogether, thus becoming some sort of immortal undead. Or maybe the powers he gained through his manifestation simply exceeded those of his armor.
Now, onto my second point: Guts' white hair.
I've seen the argument that his hair turned white similarly on how people's hair turn white after experiencing some heavy stress (with children, for example). Follwing this logic, Guts' hair should have turned white a long time ago. I don't think, there was a straw that broke the camel's back, either. Guts is far too hardy, far too experienced and more importantly, far too strong willed for something like this to happen. You don't fight your way through hordes of ghosts and monsters just to have your hair turned because of something like....stress?
The helmet of this armor turned into something that would represent the Dark Beast that started to manifest ever since after he fought Roshinu. What caught my eye, was that the part of the white hair is located above the right half of his front. Now, why is that important? That's right, the eye he lost is the right one.
Remember on the beast shaped helmet? It has a different form from when Guts is fully conscious within the activated armor, more like Batman's mask (gotta wonder, if Miura intended this or if it was simply a necessity, given that the original shape would be too awkward for Guts to look through?). That was no Guts that looked through the eyesockets. Something glowwy sparked there.
My theory is that the white hair is a mark from the Dark Beast while the armor was activated the first time. Not just a simple mark. It's a mark from where the right eye of the Beast has manifested within the helmet, because there was no medium eye like the left to look through.
There's also another small detail, that caught my attention. When he ate a soup at night at a beach (they were on the way to Vritannis), he felt a wound inside his mouth. Could that be a sign, that there may have been some manifestation of the Dark Beast's fangs back then? There was also Puck in whose eye there was a reflection of an Apostle's fangs thinking "he's right...it's as if..." after Isidro comments on how inhuman Guts seemed fighting in the Berserker armor. Another symbolic hint on how Guts is turning into the Beast? Or this could just have been the after-effects of having bitten that one insectoid Apostle Flora's forest. But even then, it was the helmet that did the work.
Could it be that we were able to catch a glimpse on how Geiseric became the Skull Knight by following Gut's development related to the Berserker Armor?
Your thoughts?
I've briefly used the search function, but it looks like my own interpretation hasn't been touched yet.
Ever since Guts has gotten his Berserker Armor, he's been even more on the edge than he's ever been, as impossible as it may seem. He's not just on the verge of losing his life, but his humanity before anything else.
Now, there starts my theory. We know that the Skull Knight once wore this armor, both evident by statements and the shape of the armor before Guts got it. What's more, the helmet has pretty much the same shape of the one Geiseric, currently known as Skull Knight, has worn during lifetime thousand years ago and the same look of what's SK's face (well, not a face, but a skull...but you get the point) today.
It's clear that the Berserker Armor takes a different shape depending on the wearer. And obviously, this is dependant on strong (maybe coercively negative?) affections of the wearer, such as the Dark Beast of Guts, which can be said to be the very manifestation of Guts malevolent feelings - mainly hatred - accumulated over the years he lived with the brand on his neck. In light of this, it seems that Geiseric had a particularly strong affection for skulls. Or maybe not for skulls in particular but rather an obsession over death which the skull presented a symbol for? In any case, this was most likely the most dominant characteristic that most caused the Berserker Armor to change into one with the skull shaped helmet.
Either way, let's move on closer to the point. Geiseric was undoubtedly a human, yet he continued to exist for a whole millennium as a lifeform, that probably isn't one at all. Maybe the term "transcendent" would fit here. I will eat a broom if he has lungs and can breathe in his skeletal armor body. Or if he has any kind of organism that would qualify for being alive.
Now, why is that?
I suspect, that the Berserker Armor played a major role in what made Skull Knight he is now. This a magical item, so it would be logical to assume that its magic will have some effects to the wearer one or another way.
My theory is that thanks to Flora, Geiseric survived the time he used the Berserker Armor's powers, but ultimately, because he didn't die, the armor began change him. It no longer was simply a manifestation of whatever the hell of a bond Geiseric shared with that fetish for skulls or skull helmets. Instead, Geiseric himself became the manifestation itself.
Now, one will have to wonder why he's not wearing the armor anymore. I'm thinking that the armor had no effect anymore on him due to him having lost his humanity altogether, thus becoming some sort of immortal undead. Or maybe the powers he gained through his manifestation simply exceeded those of his armor.
Now, onto my second point: Guts' white hair.
I've seen the argument that his hair turned white similarly on how people's hair turn white after experiencing some heavy stress (with children, for example). Follwing this logic, Guts' hair should have turned white a long time ago. I don't think, there was a straw that broke the camel's back, either. Guts is far too hardy, far too experienced and more importantly, far too strong willed for something like this to happen. You don't fight your way through hordes of ghosts and monsters just to have your hair turned because of something like....stress?
The helmet of this armor turned into something that would represent the Dark Beast that started to manifest ever since after he fought Roshinu. What caught my eye, was that the part of the white hair is located above the right half of his front. Now, why is that important? That's right, the eye he lost is the right one.
Remember on the beast shaped helmet? It has a different form from when Guts is fully conscious within the activated armor, more like Batman's mask (gotta wonder, if Miura intended this or if it was simply a necessity, given that the original shape would be too awkward for Guts to look through?). That was no Guts that looked through the eyesockets. Something glowwy sparked there.
My theory is that the white hair is a mark from the Dark Beast while the armor was activated the first time. Not just a simple mark. It's a mark from where the right eye of the Beast has manifested within the helmet, because there was no medium eye like the left to look through.
There's also another small detail, that caught my attention. When he ate a soup at night at a beach (they were on the way to Vritannis), he felt a wound inside his mouth. Could that be a sign, that there may have been some manifestation of the Dark Beast's fangs back then? There was also Puck in whose eye there was a reflection of an Apostle's fangs thinking "he's right...it's as if..." after Isidro comments on how inhuman Guts seemed fighting in the Berserker armor. Another symbolic hint on how Guts is turning into the Beast? Or this could just have been the after-effects of having bitten that one insectoid Apostle Flora's forest. But even then, it was the helmet that did the work.
Could it be that we were able to catch a glimpse on how Geiseric became the Skull Knight by following Gut's development related to the Berserker Armor?
Your thoughts?