Branded as a sacrifice for Griffith's entry into God Hand as Femto, Guts in all reality should have perished along with his fellow Hawks. But since he is branded with 'the seal' he is placed on a fate that is beyond humans. In a plane of existence between human and demon fate. There seems to be a rule among the humans, they cannot alter their own fate. Only gods or demons can change their destiny. Guts is beyond human fate, and thus can alter both human and demon's destinies. The most recent example of this, is in chapter 166, where Guts breaks through the wall of demons seperating him from Casca, something that he shouldnt be able to do. This is but one example of many of Guts feats of defying a demon or gods expectations of a human. In much simpler terms, Guts brand places him on a fate of both potential death, as demons are constantly after him in the night...and the freedom to chase his dream, for he is outside of causality...

Skull Knight, after the Roshinu incident:(vol 16) "For a human to follow this path...as cruel as this...can he continue to walk it as a human? Or will he..." Zodd, after the eclipse: (vol 13) ( additional help by Olivier, thanks!) "...so, that swordsman survived the eclipse...such a cruel fate, we'll see how you will do in this world of night, Marked Swordsman." Demons chasing Guts in volume 16 say that if Guts continues killing, he will eventually become like his friend (referring to Femto/Griffith), and like them, live only to kill..

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My question of all this is...will Guts become something...more?

i noticed in vol 3, as Guts faces femto, that he has utterly no chance against femto's power. While fate will allow him to alter a demons fate, or even that of those around him, Guts power is what is stopping him. The God Hand are, as of right now, the single strongest force in the Berserk universe ( dont talk Idea with me )...if Guts is truly bent on revenge, I believe that he must become something other than what he is now...Throughout the manga, we see that Guts still carries around the apostle level behelit in his knapsack, which doubles as Pucks house =). How will that come into play?

Look at Skull Knight, do we truly know what he is? Not yet, not yet. Perhaps Guts will have to become something like Skull Knight, or perhaps he already is...


+ ( sept 15,2000 )
i found some new info out thanks to olivier (he does all the real  work!), according to the berserk illustration file ( which i own, but am too dumb to know what its saying ) Kentarou Miura himself said that he would like Guts to remain as a human, even though he knows that Guts is not powerful enough to destroy God Hand...Olivier hints at perhaps God Hands fall, if ever, will have something to do with Griffiths reincarnation...Perhaps, but i still have my GUT ( excuse pun ) feeling that Guts will become something "other''...but hey! im allowed to be vague! this is the speculations section after all!