Why Guts Stands Out From Other Protagonists · 4:28am Apr 16th, 2018
"He's no hero. Guts is the dark knight, who uses his rage, his resentment, his despair, turns it into a weapon and uses that to protect you.
He does what he can and frequently bites back when people note that most people he meets end up dead, not because he doesn't care about them, but because he started to care too much.
His agressive demeanour is the mask he uses to hide his wounded heart, and it can be seen as early as his confrotation with the Slug Baron where the Baron's daughter swears vengeance upon Guts.He takes it with a smile, because he knows that way she'll have a reason to live, but can't stop breaking down and crying because he legitimately feels sad at what she had to endure, at what he had to do to her father, at her hate towards him.
Guts is simply too humane, in an inhuman, unreasonable world." - from acheron16
