Griffith
With the streak of a tear, Like morning dew
Whatever they are, Guts and Griffith are the same, they’re differences are only superficial and circumstantial, and I’ve always found this juxtaposition between the two most fascinating. It’s amazing how different they can seem, simply because they look the exact opposite of each other (a device Miura is now drawing on more heavily, volume 22’s cover for example), and because Guts had no direction originally while Griffith did.I mean I can't say exactly which one is good or evil.
I think Guts and Griffith have the two at the same time.
They are two of a kind; they are both self-absorbed, have incredible willpower, ruthlessness and ambition. But both are much more complicated than just these traits, they are indescribable at their cores, like real people. Griffith lived for an impossible dream, one to justify his existence, and Guts lived for no reason at all besides the fact that he refused to die, so that his existence would not cease. But when he saw what Griffith had, he wanted it for himself. If Griffith is bad, then Guts is just as so, he just doesn’t know it, and his very refusal to acknowledge it is why he is actually worse.
After Griffith fakes his death, murders the Queen and has Guts murder those foolish enough to serve him (Guts needs to get better with foreshadowing), Griffith asks Guts straight out if he thinks he is an awful person. He deceived the Hawks, having them believe he was dead, he used people and then disposed of them like they were nothing and demonstrated that he would destroy anyone or anything that got in his way to achieve his goals; that nothing was sacred. Then he asks Guts if he was evil, and Guts said he was not.
Guts has no right to call Griffith, “villain”, Griffith has never hidden who he is from Guts, and Guts always understood and accepted Griffith and his actions, he even admired him and desired similar accomplishments, until…Griffith’s “evil” actions actually affected him that is. Only then did Griffith become a villain in Guts’ eyes (and the eyes of so many Berserk fans), because he dared to hurt him, and because Guts is just as self-centered and selfish as Griffith ever was. Guts could care less about how Griffith treated people, but when his turn came all of a sudden Griffith was a monster. They are so alike, and ironically because of it, they both refuse to consciously acknowledge the other's faults in themselves.
Though, at the moment I hold Griffith in higher esteem than Guts because he is a bit more mature and has a better understanding of who he is, and he accepts it; he’s more honest with himself and always has been. Meanwhile, Guts is in denial, he’s stuck where Griffith was three years ago; desperately confused emotionally and morally. Of course, Griffith’s maturity may be his biggest flaw, for although Guts is a step behind him, Guts still has the choice to walk in a different direction.
They are the same man, only at opposite ends of the spectrum. That is why they were so attracted to each other from the beginning; it’s what Griffith loved in Guts when he first saw him, and what Guts originally hated in Griffith. Nobody else can relate to either of them except the other, that’s why they resonate with each other, why they are drawn to each other, because they can only learn to understand themselves through each other.
-Griffith
P.S. They are unique to any man in the world except each other, in a way they are the only two people that really exist in the world, and they still have much to learn from and about the other, but in the end, the very designation of men like that dictates that only one can exist at a time, if they are to truly exist at all.