We should see Griffith protecting Guts (sort of) in the next episode.. I mean.. Guts is his daddy. Like i've said in the Thread of Episode 275
You mean like you've said after you saw my fake preview?

Thinking about Griffith's apparent MPD, it kinda resembles an ego struggle within him. Meaning that the child is trying to take over gradually. At first we just see its emotions manifest themselves and Griffith performing an involuntary action (saving Casca), but now it is managed to get full control, literally taking over Griffith's body.
I think it's hard to say whether that's the Child "taking over" or just Griffith being a "new" himself and now having the child's feelings as well as a part of his personality inside of him. Could go either way to me for now. But yeah, it's easy to imagine a struggle, especially considering Griffith's goal and his status (as opposed to the child's simple aspirations).
It also casts a different light on Zodd and the whole USO thing. He obviously is aware of Griffit's "condition" which makes me wander which of the two is he actually folowing.
Hmm well, by following I take it you mean serving? Because if so, Zodd was beat by Griffith (as the Falcon of Light) before he child came into play, so I'd say Zodd is loyal to Griffith. But that might always change in the future anyway.
You misunderstood...maybe I used the word afterthought in the wrong context, possibly. I think that Miura wanted to leave a clue...(the one you found.) and thought, "how can I do this?"...I believe he may have possibly decided to use a similar technique used in the panel I found to illustrate the clue.
It's not that I misunderstood, you just expressed yourself incorrectly. Anyway, that's very unlikely as I said, and probably not related at all. I don't know what you're trying to prove here or why you're insisting so much but these panels don't have much in common, especially compared to other "similar" panels in the story. Do I need to post pictures or something? The context in which these are used is totally different, and they're not even
that close to each other... One is in three parts and shows a clear far away figure disappearing in the distance, contrasting with the horizon behind which it does, and the other just partly shows a silhouette that's hard to discern. Your premise that Miura wanted to train the reader's eye with one so he'd be able to spot the other simply seems preposterous to me, as I've said, and my previous post has points that you have yet to address.
I don't see where there could be any discrepency because you can physically look right at it and see that all that panel does is re-enforce your theory that Zodd is behind the hill in vol. 28, which I agree with.
It's not a problem with the theory or what that image implies. It's just that it's most probably not related. I know it's hard to speculate without seeing too far into things, but I honestly don't think you've got something here man. So since you've already profusely explained your point, I'd like you to stop talking about it now so that people can concentrate on the thread's topic: the Moonlight Child. Panel structure discussions aren't at their place here, so if you
really want to go on about it I'd prefer if you made a separate thread. Thanks in advance.
back to the Moonchild... We can safely assume he is the offspring of Guts/Casca due to his appearance and Casca's reaction to him especially.
These are strong hints yeah. That stays an assumption though. His appearance is also reminiscent of Griffith, what with the hair in the wind, the eerie eyes and the overall strange aura.
His powers, to whatever extent they may be would be due to being the seed of a Godhand. The deformed one chose an evil form, perhaps this one chose a different form and wasn't tainted with evil.
You're confused here I think. The Demon Child wasn't the "seed" of Femto. He was tainted by him and became evil. His powers were that of a "super spectre" sort of. The Moonlight Child on the other hand is a superior being. He's incredibly powerful from what we've seen, it can't even compare. As for choosing another form, how is this supposed to work? The Demon Child became Griffith's body. They're supposedly one and the same (based on what we see during the Incarnation and in volume 22) and we have no reason not to believe it. We really have yet to find a definite explanation for the whole phenomenon. However, I like to assume (like many others I guess) that in terms of appearance the Moonlight Child is basically the Demon Child washed of Femto's taint. What he would have been without it in the first place.
He's obviously come from a higher plane due to his entrance into the plot. Why does Zodd care to be there? Zodd cares alot about Griff these days, if the Moonchild really is their offspring Griffith probably wants something to do with him.
Obviously came from a higher plane? What? Due to his entrance into the plot and the fact Zodd was watching in his apostle form when Casca found him, I'd say his entrance can easily imply that he came over riding him. Otherwise, if we assume he came alone, Zodd could have been curious and wanted to see what was up with him (still assuming he's Griffith). If he's a different entity altogether, which is hard to assume for now, Zodd could have been sent there by Griffith to spy on him, or he could have seen the group by accident while scouting on his own (I elaborated about this earlier like Walter said). Given the way it's all put together though, I favor the "Zodd brought him there" hypothesis over the rest.
On a side note, I'm glad the "Hawk of Darkness" nonsense is gone, as it would have pained me to have to explain it in this thread.
Seeing how Griffith was reincarnated using the child of Guts and Casca, I can't imagine the child walking around as a separate entity from Griffith. I think that if it is their child, Griffith has to be physically connected to it.
Yes, this is a fatal flaw to the hypothesis that the Moonlight Child is the Demon Child but that Griffith and him are
not one and the same. There's always the possibility that he's not related to the Demon Child of course, but that's hard to believe (espescially since the child's age seems to fit).