46693


Mind to help me with this curiosity? Griffith acts differently after Guts
decides to leave. He says, "you are mine" to him.

Was this to imply that he was gay for Guts? Ever since they have first met, it
confuses me.


CC BY-SA 3.0
2018-04-23T00:30:19.027
46692
2020-07-06T22:13:16.817
2018-04-23T00:47:57.310
63
38597
question
berserk
What did Griffith mean when he said "you are mine" to Guts?


You have to remember how Guts first joined the Band of the Hawk. Guts
challenged Griffin to a duel, and Guts agreed to join the band as his
subordinate if he lost.

[![Guts challenges
Griffin](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PUKaD.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PUKaD.jpg)

Before this Griffin even told Guts: "I want you", which Guts misinterprets as
a gay thing, and Griffin explains how he views him as a military asset with an
interesting willingness to risk his life.

This is the sense in which Guts is "his". His membership is guaranteed by the
conditions of the duel, and Guts has not won a release from this obligation.
This is why Guts and Griffith then fight again when Guts decides to leave.

A lot could be said and debated about whether or not Griffith has sexual or
romantic feelings for Guts. It's not implausible, but you have to keep in mind
that Griffin is consistently portrayed as a narcissistic sociopath. Sex,
sexuality, and personal attachments in general are just tools to him. Part of
his frustration and eventual breakdown over Guts's leaving is because Griffin
views it as proof that he's allowed himself to grow weaker and soft. He does
realize that somehow Guts became more important than his lifelong dream; a
dream he had been willing to sacrifice anything for, and had thought this
included Guts and the rest of the Band. But he doesn't seem to experience this
as "love for Guts" but rather "disgust with himself", as befits his
narcissism.


CC BY-SA 3.0
2018-04-23T01:38:15.290
46693
2018-04-23T03:50:40.710
2018-04-23T03:50:40.710
8024
8024
46692
answer


"You are mine" means exactly that, it does not have entail any romantic
feelings. It is the same when Griffith admits that only Guts was able to make
him forget his dream, it can be because of their strong friendship.

There are very few hints that may suggest he likes Guts that way and all of
them can have a different interpretation (i.e the reason he was thinking about
Guts while having sex with Princess Charlotte might very well be because he
had lost a good friend or simply because the princess reminds him of Guts).


CC BY-SA 3.0
2018-04-23T02:06:08.973
46694
2018-04-23T02:06:08.973
30137
46692
answer


**I've always interpreted it as both romantic and possessive.** Considering
Griffith never said (I want you / you're mine now) to anyone else before or
since, it's hard to take it any other way. Imagine if all army recruitment
posters were like that. We know he's pretty eloquent, if he wanted to be clear
that his words weren't vaguely sexual he'd have said it differently. And Guts
**completely** agrees to all terms even when it means he might be Griffith's
plaything.


CC BY-SA 4.0
2020-07-06T22:13:16.817
58062
2020-07-06T22:13:16.817
54168
46692
answer