Description of Guts' most intense trial

Key Takeaways

• Guts' childhood was a nightmare filled with tragedy from the time he was born.
• During the Eclipse, Guts loses everything, including his new family.
• Griffith's kidnapping of Casca in the Fantasia arc completely broke Guts.

fierce It is a story full of horrors and conflicts that people cannot even imagine. In a world like this, it's no surprise that even the story's protagonists suffer cruelly, and many anime fans believe that Guts has suffered more than any other character in the medium. Despite his image of stoicism and courage, he has endured things that would drive other characters crazy.

These hardships are not recent events in his life. Guts has been through incredibly horrible conditions since the day he was born, and the scars from those wounds still haven't healed to this day. Despite this, he continued to persevere and became synonymous with remaining strong in the face of hardship. fierce Fans all over the world. There are many, but let's take a look at the worst trials Guts has faced in his life.

Guts' childhood was terrible.

Guts' was born in conflict.

Guts is a character who has suffered greatly at the hands of others throughout his life. Even his birth was filled with pain and suffering. For he was born from the body of a hanged woman and fell from her womb, leaving a pile of corpses and rotting corpses around him. Here a group of mercenaries found him, and one of the sailors offered to raise the baby as his own. This happened over the next six years, as Guts found the closest thing he had to a parent in the woman and leader of the crew. Gambino.

There is no paradise you can escape to.

However, when he was 6 years old, he witnessed his adoptive mother dying from illness, and the only way to overcome that hardship was to fight and train. When Gambino was nine years old, he was paid by one of his mercenary gang members to defile and violate his viscera in indescribable ways, which the young boy ultimately had to endure. Guts eventually sought revenge by killing the man, but was confronted by Gambino about the act, which led to him killing his adoptive father as well. Afterwards, he left the group and was left alone.

eclipse

courage loses everything

After abandoning Gambino's mercenary group, Guts was left alone for the rest of his life. However, he eventually met Griffith and became a member of Band of the Falcon. The Band is another mercenary group, but it is a group of people with similar tendencies as Guts himself. He eventually became close to all of these characters and they became Guts' new family. He even finds love within this group of mercenaries, along with Casca, and finally gets to know the warmth of camaraderie for the first time in his life.

You ungodly lambs of God born of man… enjoy the festival of this sacred night to your heart's content.

But everything would come crashing down during the Eclipse, when Griffith, leader of the Falcon Band, betrayed and sacrificed his entire group of mercenaries to ascend to godhood. Before his eyes, Guts saw his family murdered by an endless swarm of demons, screaming in deafening pain, while he was held in place by a demon with his arm in its mouth. During this time, he lost an arm and an eye, but his worst injuries were psychological, as he witnessed the love of his life, Casca, being violated right in front of him by Griffith's new Apostle form.

Griffith takes Casca

The courage finally broke

The Eclipse was the worst thing that ever happened to Guts, but it wasn't until Chapter 367 that Guts finally broke down and lost his composure. Despite taking all his trauma head on and never letting it break him, Griffith's appearance in the Fantasia arc ultimately led to him defeating the Strugler, as he kidnapped Casca and took her to Falconia.

Why do I always see these even after the task is complete and gone?

Despite everything Guts had done over the years to protect himself and Casca, and everything they had been through together, it was useless because Moonlight Boy ended up becoming Griffith. After kidnapping her, all the sadness and defeat Guts had been harboring finally exploded, causing him to lose all composure and sanity to keep going, showing that even the most determined and stoic characters have a breaking point. Fans haven't yet waited to see how this plays out, but it's already one of the worst things that's ever happened to Guts.

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