Aazealh said:But there's no indication that Casca was raped by the apostles who captured her.
Not to dredge up an old topic, but I think there's a fair abount of indication that she was raped by the apostles.
First off, the apostles didn't eat her or tear her to pieces for a reason. They make the distinction that she's a "woman sacrifice," leer at her, and then tear off all her clothes. Wyald is only one indication of a rapey apostle, but we do know that they're all pretty base in their enjoyment.
Then the next time we see Casca, she's hoisted by the tentacle apostle and she seems unconscious or in a daze. Why is she not screaming her head off or terrified? She seems punch drunk or exhausted. If they were just passing her around, it seems weird that she'd be in this state.
Next, there is a lot of blood specifically around her genitals. She has other scrapes and cuts but there is a lot down below and I recall there even being panels that highlight this.
Lastly, later on in the series, there are several times where crazy Casca is assaulted by men who want to rape her and she has flashbacks. However her flashbacks are always of the apostles, never of Griffith. Almost as if there was some horrible trauma related to the apostles that she associated with rape...
There are other small things like the fact that most of the apostles surrounding her when Guts sees her are phallic in pretty distinct ways. This doesn't prove anything per se, but it seems to imply quite a lot about what these guys were up to.
On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that the time between Guts fighting the apostles atop the alter to the time where he found Casca was pretty parallel to the time spent where Casca and Judeau ran away to the point where Judeau died and the apostles swarmed her. These two are meant to overlap if you're paying attention. However it does seem like there was some missing time in between.
Also from a story telling perspective, the tension seems somewhat lessoned if the deed is already done, but then again they were likely going to finish her off in the most degrading way possible. It's also more powerful if Femto stops them and then rapes her himself. And I can also see the argument that the God Hand wouldn't want sloppy seconds.
But whether that seems to feel better from a story perspective, it doesn't seem to be what Miura indicates with everything else. The flashbacks and wounds just seem too damning for me.