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Guts is the main character of the Manga and the animated series Berserk . Also called (according to the ear of the spectators and/or the commentators) Gatsu, Gatts…
In English, “Guts” means “tripe”, “entrails”. This name refers to the pitiless circumstances of its birth, extirpated entrails of his/her dead mother hung with a large tree to fail itself in enough of blood and flesh, before being collected by Sys, the woman of the chief of a group of mercenaries.
This character refers doubtless to Götz von Berlichingen, known as " Gottfried with the hand of fer" , mercenary and German of the 16th century, known knight to have carried, following the loss of one with its hands, a functional metal prosthesis. Useless to say that the name is also strongly inspired by it
History
Its childhood
Its life starts badly since it born of a dead, hung with a tree. It is then collected by Sys, the woman of the chief of a group of mercenary, who dies of the plague whereas Guts is only 3 years old. At 6 years, it accompanies his “adoptive” father, Gambino, chief of the mercenaries, on the battle fields and is involved hard with the handling of the sword. However, Gambino maltreats it and thinks, like the other mercenaries, whom it carries misfortune (because born of a dead). Equipped with a force surprising thanks to a rigorous personal drive, it takes part in its first battle at the 9 years age and keep silent there its first adversary. The evening of the battle, Gambino “sells” Guts with one of its mercenaries, Donovan, which will violate it. A little later, whereas the mercenaries of Gambino attack a convoy of refugees, Guts benefits from confusion to be avenged for Donovan by drawing a square to him from crossbow in the heart. In spite of the dires of Donovan, Guts does not want to believe that his/her father sold it. Two years later, Gambino, drunk, tries to kill Guts because it is, according to him, person in charge of its misfortunes (meanwhile, Gambino was made cut down by a leg, becoming thus a load for the group) and reveals that it was well him which had sold it. Shocked by this revelation, Guts kills Gambino inopportunely and must flee, pursued by the other mercenaries. It finally is caught up with, wounded by a square of crossbow, and fall from the top of a cliff. The mercenaries cease research then, convinced that Guts died. Although seriously wounded, he survives and is recovered by travellers.
Within the Brigade of the Falcon
Guts continues its career of mercenary and ends up being committed after some disappointments by a group named the “ Bande of the Falcon ”, it is indeed beaten by their chief, Griffith, with which it swears then obedience.
Griffith, of which the ambition is unbounded, is persuaded that Guts is that which will enable him to rise at the top. Indeed, Griffith, which wishes to create its own kingdom, needs a man whose force equalizes his, Guts will be thus that one.
Guts connects the victories with the Band and ends up putting up with this community life. It also ends up being reconciled with Casca which considers that it made deviate Griffith of its goal and was upset with him for that. Guts and the Band is finally adoubés knights after the victory against the Empire of Tudor, against which Midland had been in war for hundred years.
Guts decides however to leave the Falcons, the councils of Zodd and its own feelings saying to him to move away from Griffith. This one which does not accept it and defies Guts in duel again, but is beaten.
Guts thus leaves the group, but by learning that his/her former friend is captured by the King, it again joined the Band, from now on carried out by Casca and will release it, not without to have massacred the troop of Bakiraka and that of Wyald to the passage.
Unfortunately, Griffith which left the jails of the King has great any more a deal to see with the Falcon of formerly, ravaged in the flesh and in the heart, it is completely desperate and neither Guts nor Casca does not arrive at comforts. The Band will find finally its end when Griffith, driven back, releases the capacity of Béhélit and offered it in sacrifice. Were Guts and Casca the only survivors (Rickert also owing to the fact that it was not with the band at this time there), but at which price? Guts lost its left arm, its right eye and inherited an incommensurable rage against his/her former friend, Casca it lost the reason after its rape by Femto.
From now on, Guts does not think any more but of one thing: Griffith and how to be avenged for him. It ends up being joined by the Puck elf, then later by Isidro, Serpico and Farnese, Schierke and of course Casca.
Personality
Guts is thus presented from the start like the lightning of pitiless war. It is about a character very marked by his childhood and the ambient violence in which he lived and in which he continues to live. For him, the mercenariat and the combat form integral part of its being and force is to note that it can nothing make of other.
But much more than this natural empathy with the combat, Guts is a character having an anger and an inexorable rage, rage which it tries to hide with deepest of his heart not to make evil with his close relations, but which arises inevitably early with late. The last memories of left eye one also made re-appear his feelings and one creates a kind of némésis at Guts, a bète which symbolizes its thirst for revenge and blood, it is this bète which perpetually watches for Guts at the time of the engagements, in particular lorsq' it is vétu Armor of Berserker and which recalls him what justifies it and which pushes it with living: the hatred of the white falcon, Griffith.
By facility, Guts is thus a very solitary character, after the victory of the Band of the Falcon at the time of the War in Midland, he moves away deliberately from the only comrades that he forever have, giving up Casca, Judeau and Griffith. But despite everything, Guts does not manage to only evolve/move, and it is besides the origin of its hatred towards its former chief and only true friend. When Puck decides to follow it, although he threatens it to kill it or affirms that he did not really want to save it, he cannot let it move away. Once joined by Farnese, Serpico, then Schierke, it feels really well, with people on whom it can count and which believes in him.
The Dragonslayer and the Armor of Berserker
The Dragonslayer (litt. Pourfendeuse of Dragon ) is the immense sword of Guts. According to the legend, the king wished a sword so powerful which it would be able to kill a dragon and then placed order of this blade to Godo, the best blacksmith of the time. Godo thus forged a monstrous sword having this potential, but it was so heavy and imposing that no soldier managed to handle it. The king took this creation for an insult and banishes the blacksmith and his sword. Guts puts finally the hand above when it fights against an apostle at Godo. Indeed its own sword breaks and the apostle launches it in the part or is hidden Dragonslayer, once made, Guts puts in part his enemy. This weapon is probably the trademark of Guts, according to the various observers, Dragonslayer resembles more a plate of iron , that with a sword. A little later, Schierke notices that the weapon exhales one of will have died and that it is close to a démoniaque blade. It is because Dragonslayer has abbatue quantity of apostle, that it in some kinds became them némésis.
The Armor of Berserker appears rather late in the manga (volume 26), it is a gift of good-bye with Guts of Flora. This armor was formerly the property of Skullknight, it is him which wished to see Guts carrying it. The armor is very resistant of course, but it allows also superhuman acts. Indeed, if the carrier is not controlled mentally, the malefic power of the armor takes the top and multiplies by ten the power of its manager at the price of intense pains and a certain loss of control. When Guts is taken of an unverifiable rage, the helmet of the armor is folded back, symbol on the wild side and the blind violence of the warrior besides (the helmet has the pace of the tète of the Bète , the interior demon of Guts). At the time of hard combat, the armor anesthesia any feelings of pain, which makes it possible to fight longer, but with the danger of its life, since once the arrété effect, the carrier can die of exhaustion (if it pushed the combat too much) or of a too important heavy bleeding. Once activated, the armor makes it possible Guts to fight without being tired, but it is with double edge.
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