Puella's comment in the episode 193 thread got me thinking... and since my ponderings usually grow pnderous I moved them here as a prememptive strike. There are too few Casca discussions out there anyway...
I think the real problem with Casca is that she is not controlled, rather that she have never had any dreams or aspirations wholly her own. When she was a younger daughter she did not have many dreams, because as she said, life back then was pretty much about surviving. When her father sold her she was even understanding, because she might have done the same thing in his place. It was when she met Griffith that she came to realise that there was other things in life. I don't know if she fell in love, she might have done that, but there was something a lot more involved. Griffith became her personal god and saviour, probably the first thing in her life that she had even considered worthy of worshipping. Think religious awakening combined with first love.
That is quite interesting really, because if Griffith had been any other sort of man she might just have ended up in his bed, a beautiful concubine and not much more. But since Griffith just valued things that could help him achieve his own dreams, she became that instead. Her whole career as a fighter came not from her own will, but rather that of Griffith. Not that she minded once she got started, it must have been wonderful to finally have control over her life, to be able to get guys like Corkus to just fuck of. Can we say powertrip anyone?
But what I am trying to say is that she had no dreams of her own, if not becoming the sword of Griffith (and his lover as well) counted. No dreams apart from Griffith would be a better expression come to think of it. And then she met Gatts. Who stole her position as Griff's right hand man, and stole the place in Griffith's heart she had wanted. Not that she had ever had it.... but still. Jelaousy. Funny really that she was the only one who saw what went on between Gatts and Griffith, with the possible exception of Judeau...
So what made her fall in love with Gatts? Well, he was worthy for once, he did hot hit on her, he quite obviously made it clear that he saw her as just another soldier and apprechiated ehr skills. Just like Griffith. And... I guess she trusted him. He had always come through for her, and there was something truly cute in the way he could just not handle emotions. Whith Griffith and Gatts both gone I guess she started thinking. Griffith was her first love, her truest loyalty, but Gatts... well, once he came back and showed her that not everything was hopeless, that he could stand all her anger, her hate... then I guess she dared to love him. That goes for both of them. It is frightening to love someone if you are emotionally scarred, but the two of them had dared to do pretty much else, hadn't they?
Love... In a way I wish it could have ended that way, but there is always Griffith is it not? Even in the end she could not leave him, not even for Gatts. Loyalty and love of course, but also because to strike out on her own, with no other commitments than herself and her love must seem a pretty scary thing. She had never, ever lived for herself before.
So where do that leave her now? When she becomes sane that is?
I just want Caska to begin a new life without two guys.
Why should her life always be controlled by men?
first Griffith and second Guts as you know.
In other words, can't she have her own life, huh?
Why should Guts give her salvation? Could she get her own life back for herself?
I'd not say Caska should have equal power like Guts but she can
use other ways as every woman have but men doesn't.
this is why I don't think highly of Caska while many people think Caska best female character.
She's best for only men that's what I think. A life as a woman fucked up.
and also I think this is just because berserk is manga for men.
I mean Caska is nothing more than "best female" is created by a man.
Furthermore, I can't like other female characters except Luca in berserk. Rather they always make me annoyed.
don't blame me.
this is just my personal point of view.
***I want to make it clear that I'm not god damn feminist and love guys very much..
I think the real problem with Casca is that she is not controlled, rather that she have never had any dreams or aspirations wholly her own. When she was a younger daughter she did not have many dreams, because as she said, life back then was pretty much about surviving. When her father sold her she was even understanding, because she might have done the same thing in his place. It was when she met Griffith that she came to realise that there was other things in life. I don't know if she fell in love, she might have done that, but there was something a lot more involved. Griffith became her personal god and saviour, probably the first thing in her life that she had even considered worthy of worshipping. Think religious awakening combined with first love.
That is quite interesting really, because if Griffith had been any other sort of man she might just have ended up in his bed, a beautiful concubine and not much more. But since Griffith just valued things that could help him achieve his own dreams, she became that instead. Her whole career as a fighter came not from her own will, but rather that of Griffith. Not that she minded once she got started, it must have been wonderful to finally have control over her life, to be able to get guys like Corkus to just fuck of. Can we say powertrip anyone?
But what I am trying to say is that she had no dreams of her own, if not becoming the sword of Griffith (and his lover as well) counted. No dreams apart from Griffith would be a better expression come to think of it. And then she met Gatts. Who stole her position as Griff's right hand man, and stole the place in Griffith's heart she had wanted. Not that she had ever had it.... but still. Jelaousy. Funny really that she was the only one who saw what went on between Gatts and Griffith, with the possible exception of Judeau...
So what made her fall in love with Gatts? Well, he was worthy for once, he did hot hit on her, he quite obviously made it clear that he saw her as just another soldier and apprechiated ehr skills. Just like Griffith. And... I guess she trusted him. He had always come through for her, and there was something truly cute in the way he could just not handle emotions. Whith Griffith and Gatts both gone I guess she started thinking. Griffith was her first love, her truest loyalty, but Gatts... well, once he came back and showed her that not everything was hopeless, that he could stand all her anger, her hate... then I guess she dared to love him. That goes for both of them. It is frightening to love someone if you are emotionally scarred, but the two of them had dared to do pretty much else, hadn't they?
Love... In a way I wish it could have ended that way, but there is always Griffith is it not? Even in the end she could not leave him, not even for Gatts. Loyalty and love of course, but also because to strike out on her own, with no other commitments than herself and her love must seem a pretty scary thing. She had never, ever lived for herself before.
So where do that leave her now? When she becomes sane that is?