xechnao said:Not a big deal as you say really, but if I recall correctly Femto intentionally let Casca escape the eclipse or so I remember somebody has said.
I don't remember whether someone said so or not, but I don't agree with this, and I don't think anything in the manga hints at it. One could argue that Femto didn't try (who's to say he would have succeeded since he failed at his first attempt) to kill them off when Skull Knight came to rescue them because of Guts, since we see a close up of Guts at that moment, but Casca? I really don't see what is supposed to imply this.
xechnao said:Hehe, yeah, but those are not a threat for Casca. Herself was able to deal with those. HACK SLASH
Well, it worked once because she could get her hands on a sword, but I wouldn't bet on it happening everytime, and that's not mentioning the wild animals, the cold, the hunger... I just don't buy the Casca-roaming-in-the-forest-for-2-years scenario.
xechnao said:I wouldn't be so certain. But even if you were right for sure, yeah, I would bet on causality as you say.
Demon Child against an apostle? Well I'm 100% positive on this, that would not be much of a match... As I said, she stayed in the cave, it was all convenient, and that's it. It doesn't seem to be very realistic to me to imagine that Guts attracted apostles but that Casca somehow wouldn't or would be protected from them until Femto's incarnation, I think it's more subtle than that, hence the cave. I'm afraid trying to see more into it won't lead us very far, due to a crucial lack of information (and lack of interest plot-wise, IMHO).
xechnao said:But it somehow knew that Casca would need Guts protection at a certain point -and that point actually is at the site where the hawk of light would incarnate and at the moment when it gets hurt and engulfed by the egg apostle. Isn't it this the reason it appeared to Guts and warned him about Casca?
Guts had the dream about the Falcon of Light like all of Midland, he saw Casca being burnt at the stake, and a Hawk formed by the flames around the top of the stake itself. Then when he woke up, the Demon Child warned him about Casca being in danger, basically mirroring the dream Guts just had, only less clearly. Casca had just escaped of the cave, and was heading to Albion. I don't think this necessarily points to precise events, really, especially if we consider the option that the Demon Child might just have had a dream similiar to Guts'. Nothing after all tells us that he had divinatory powers... Even if he did appear to Guts several times in the manga, he was mostly haunting him, not being helpful.
As you said, the Demon Child knew Casca was going to get in trouble, and he legitimately warned Guts about it, sensing that what was coming was big and that she would need him. If Guts hadn't been there, the goat quasi-apostle would have killed Casca for example, or maybe the H.I.C.K. would have taken care of her as well as of the other heretics, slaying her mindlessly. To me the Demon Child did what he could and succeeded at that, but it's going too far to assume that he could have handled everything in the world but taking a single attack from Mozgus (and through a big mass of incubi), a quasi-apostle, and knew it in advance...