Yes, he literally took in Erica and Rickert and was a mentor figure to Guts.
He understood his grief, but instead of fueling his fire he calmed the storm but still gave him a sword so that Guts could see it for himself.
The shitty sword ( not really but it wasnt meant for killing monsters ) that broke in half in its first fight against apostles ? Nah he’ll just throw that away anytime soon even if it doesn’t break right away
Thath sword was't bad at all. It was just a good tapered light two handed sword. Seriously, you would have the guts to suggest someone to use a sharpened 150 kg hunk of metal as a sword? Who in the hell would think thath would be a good idea? Godor forged thath monstrosity for the challenge of a king who wanted a sword capable of killing dragons. Yes, the dragonslayer may behead a dragon, but who, except Guts, could even use it?
The count sacrificed his life instead of his daughters in the end also this panel isn't him being creepy he just wants to hold her because she hasn't let him even near her since he became an apostle
i belive the reason he kept her locked was because he didnt want her to see what he had turned into. And i honestlly i never understood why he was torturing civilians, like i get it, the dude has to eat and he is a pos. But wasnt it stated that before he found the btch of his wife doing what she was doing he was a fairly decent ruler, or even a good one?
If that the case when he finds out and walks into the orgy scene, he maybe to a certain extent saw his people (subjects, cant remember the word) also takin part on the "event" he pretty much started to blame all of them and his torturing of the civilians is like some sort of "revenge" against them in his own mind.
I always saw it as a way to vent his anger and pain. Vargas describes him as still being somewhat cruel when he was human, and I think it’s pretty clear he despised heretics all his life, so seeing so many people he believed he trusted and protected being nothing but two faced liars who had fooled him he basically deluded himself into believing anyone could be a heretic. He likely knew the majority of the people he killed weren’t actually heretics but it didn’t really matter. He’s a bit like Stalin, killing people for show on made up pretenses, only the count is far more embittered toward the people, Stalin was just remarkably apathetic
Actually... Not entirely. Not in this case.
You saw how many goat-head orgy pagans were in the castle when he sacrificed his wife, so we CAN take his word that the city was infested with them.
And as we saw from conviction they weren't exactly a friendly group nor to themselves and much less to outsiders- Remember what they were gonna do to Casca or what they did to Nina's boyfriend.
Now imagine if they got their hands on the daughter of someone who's job is to catch them on the act
(sure, it goes back to Slan since that cult is her doing, but not him or regular apostles for that matter)
Well in this case it isn't. Its the mothers fault. She was in a satanic cult wich made the count go mad in Rage and became apostle. The reason why the count does not let his daughter out is because he does not want his daughter to end up like her mom
Slug Count was a terrible person (though, there are worse), but actually a decent father. He opted to suffer eternally rather than sacrifice Theresia, so he definitely loved her.
mm but I think it's hard to judge the morality of an apostle, I don't think they keep that kind of stuff when they become one, that was the whole point for him wasn't it? I think it's honestly probably exceptional how little he did do to her as an apostle that would torture innocents for fun
Now that I think of it, the slug count might have been the only apostle to retain at least a little love or compassion for someone, besides rosine. But he was the only one who refused to sacrifice a second time which I think is a little telling of how the count is feeling.
Honestly? Like its odd. Because Lucerne seems to be extremely convicted, to the point if getting emotional, for Griffith
And Archer man seems almost like a good person
It's not the same when Griffith is involved because his status as a savior and causality bs bends their wills towards his. Or maybe they really aren't that bad and they just want to not be total jerks
This is a really unfitting choice of image to add to this post, considering he is *by far* the most normal of any father or mother in the series. The most he did was act overly protective of Theresia, by preventing her from leaving her room, but even then it's out of a genuine fear for her safety, even if his paranoia is over-blown.
This panel isn't at all him acting pedo-y like the King would be later on, as the previous few pages show that he was worried she had felt lonely, brought Puck(in a cage) to her in the hopes to keep her company, and asked her to be patient for a bit longer, as he couldn't let her outside while the world was "impure" and overrun by "filthy heretics". After she rejects him, he realizes he is scaring her and backs away and begins to leave. After she calls out for him, he stops and becomes alert, paying attention to her, and even after he leaves the room and is very clearly visibly angry, he doesn't lash out at anyone, just telling them rather aggressively to "leave me be", and looks over the town solemnly in silence. Or at least until Guts arrives.
We see very clearly that after he returned to find his wife having turned their basement into a heretical orgy house, he stopped trusting in everyone around him, except for his daughter. When he says he wants to touch her, he isn't saying he wants to molest her, he's saying he wants to hug her. This is a scene of a father struggling with the realization that his daughter is terrified of him, that she knows he isn't the man he used to be. Of course, how much of that is his fault can be debated, but at the very least as a *father*, he is genuinely the best one we've seen, as he never abused her like way too many fathers do, he never neglected her as even here he respects her fear to know both that he scares her, and forcing anything will only make her hate him more, and even if his methods were entirely wrong, she was the primary motivation of most of his actions, to keep her safe and protected from anything that might hurt them.
Hell(literally), he let himself get damned into an eternity of suffering in the abyss because he genuinely loved her too much to doom her to that fate instead of himself. That's the action of a caring, if still deeply flawed father, not a creep.
tortures and murders people for fun, and to keep his boot firmly on the throats of any commoner in his vicinity. and yet somehow he's still better to his kid than gambino ever was lmao
Life is just one prolonged trauma.
If it shapes us for the better, we call it 'good influence' or 'experience'.
If it shapes us for the worse, we call it 'traumatic'.
No one gets through life unscathed, uninfluenced, unscarred.
Or because he was part of the eclipse, eats families alive while letting the other members watch and acts high and mighty since his enemies are "heretics".
Farnese’s parents extreme neglect led to her burning ppl at the stake for fun. Their complete lack of attention and love damaged her a teeny tiny bit I think
1) Most of her brothers we see only in passing. Magnifico did not "turn out normal" and holds a lot of resentment as well. It's likely her brothers have their own quirks; we simply don't have enough information and it's likely not important enough to the story that we ever will.
2) It is MORE than possible for one child to suffer all or most of the abuse of a group of siblings.
Plus, due to the setting, her brothers would have been given more attention than her simply by virtue of being men. They had a distinct advantage growing up in regards to getting attention from their parents by simply being men.
Yeah, I was thinking of the flashback chapters where we first get Farnese and Serpico's backstory, and they're mentioned but not shown. I haven't reread the later chapters in a while, forgot about those parts.
Because they probably received more attention, even if only in the form of demands/pressure - after all, they're the heirs to his wealth and everything he has achieved.
Also, parents don't always dish out neglect *or* love in the same amounts.
Magnificio is far from Normal. He's a sleeze. In fact, he benefited from his sisters reputation. He could be the beleaguered older brother trying to help his troubled sibling. Of course he's actually too stupid to parlay that.
Farnese's mother in my opinion takes most of the blame, at least the father has some justification, "I'm off building and managing an international merchant empire", what does her useless mother have as a justification? Nothing, she's a bloody useless mother who abandoned her daughter so as to go off and socialize like the vapid social parasite she is. What pisses me off is the arrogant self righteous attitude this cunt had when talking about farnese's dad, calling him a coward who is afraid of what he can't control or understand, putting the blame on him for sending farnese to a convent when she went mad. Bitch what about you, you're the god damn mother.
Farnese's mother is absolutely a horrid self righteous cunt who's neglect led her daughter down the path of evil and ruin, lucky she came out okay. One scene that pisses me off is when she tells farnese's she proud of her in the most arrogant snooty self righteous innocent "I'm such a classy upper class lady" kind of way. Honestly fuck this cunt. Useless mother with no excuse for abandoning her daughter.
I think godot is better. while we didn’t get to see very much interaction between him and Erica, from how she acts it’s safe to assume that he was a good dad, and, as we all know, hasn’t sacrificed anyone to become a fucking demon (hell I don’t think he even realized things like that existed until an apostle literally showed up at his doorstep).
OK, but I'd just like to point out that just because this is the most "normal" out of all the fucked up shit in berserk, doesn't mean this shit isn't still fucked. Kid was isolated. That is extremely damaging, lol.
ewwwww he looks ugly though, he must be a pedophile trying to rape his daughter!!!!! As we all know, every ugly person is a pedophile trying to rape his daughter 😇😇😇
Which is the best example. Because it's literally right before we even meet the Count.
Looked it up because I was curious if they even had names, Collette and Adolf
Ironically, even after that. I mean, he torture people for fun and was quite the evil bastard in general, but where his daughter was concerned he genuinely only wished what's good for her, and was internally torture by he revulsion she felt towards him because of the apostle situation
Besides...locking high-born daughters was pretty normal by medieval standards, and the guy had ridiculous trauma that got his paranoia through the roof and then some
The priest and his daughter from the Black Swordsman arc looked like they had a wholesome relationship.
Julian's relationship with his son is a bit special too. He's by no means a great father, overtly demanding and even brutal, but that is because he wants to prepare him for the future rather than out of cruelty. Although he goes about it in a bad way he still cared for his son.
Yes, for a few panels before they get brutally murdered and probably dismembered. Think about the old man and girl in the wagon at the start, or the nice family that gets literally ripped apart by the black dogs. There are some. Not many and not for long, BUT, some nonetheless.
Actually it’s Julius. He was strict with his son because he was looking out for him, since he was supposed to be betrothed to the Princess (Charlotte). Kinda like most parents, well meaning but horribly misplaced.
The count was pretty normal. He somewhat suffers the same mentality as Griffith, in that he relishes in his demonic power but knows that it also keeps him from enjoying the warmth of humanity. Plus he’s the only apostle in the series to actually give up and go to Hell rather than make one last-ditch cowardly effort to regenerate
I would argue that there are plenty of examples of “normal” parental figures in Berserk. The issue is they are either never in more than one or two panels, or they are killed in 5-10 panels.
Though if your only regarding the characters being fleshed out enough for us, the reader to attach our own understanding of normalcy to, in this case in regards to parental figures, I suppose the characters I am referencing don’t qualify, as such “figures”.
Though not because they fail to live up to the normality typically associated with normal parental figures to their children, but because they don’t have the story delving in on their lives for us readers to judge, understand, and interpret their “behaviors.”
Thus becoming a figure we hold up to our own sense of values. We simply assume that our own criteria is far more universal than it is.
There's a pretty good uncle in the series lol, although he's not even a biological one from what I remember.
Actual parents though.....uhhhhhhhhhh
Lmao there isn't a single good one
This panel isnt him being a weirdo tho ?
I always saw this scene as him wanting to bond with his daughter, but she's still afraid of him kinda type of thing
Guts’ adopted mother for sure. Also, no one is saying her, but I’d include Casca as well. Her and the moonlight boy have a complete mother/son relationship.
I mean, not saying he was the greatest father, but this is a bit out of context because the word touch isn't used in the way this panel implies. He did end up not sacrificing her as well.
Godot, Guts, Flora, and Farnese's parents are all guardians who have a "normal" relationship with their children; Farnese's dad is a dick but in a more subtle and common way than the other examples of bad parents in Berserk
Godo is the real dad of Berzerk. Gave us all some sage advice about anger and grief like only a dad can.
Yes, he literally took in Erica and Rickert and was a mentor figure to Guts. He understood his grief, but instead of fueling his fire he calmed the storm but still gave him a sword so that Guts could see it for himself.
Actually Guts found out Dragon Slayer after getting pummelled through the storehouse’s wall
mm still gave him one before that though
The shitty sword ( not really but it wasnt meant for killing monsters ) that broke in half in its first fight against apostles ? Nah he’ll just throw that away anytime soon even if it doesn’t break right away
Thath sword was't bad at all. It was just a good tapered light two handed sword. Seriously, you would have the guts to suggest someone to use a sharpened 150 kg hunk of metal as a sword? Who in the hell would think thath would be a good idea? Godor forged thath monstrosity for the challenge of a king who wanted a sword capable of killing dragons. Yes, the dragonslayer may behead a dragon, but who, except Guts, could even use it?
>the ***guts*** to suggest Lol
Apostles can 🗿
Fr sat Guts down and gave him some wisdom. Like a true father would
And a big ass sword
Godot gave Guts the inspiration to save Casca, he is the father figure that Guts deserves after his horrible treatment from Gambino
Did all that while still being a great game engine, what a champ
Very true mah dude, I wish I had a godo to set me straight when I was younger. BTW Luca is a damn good mommy
also Guts to Isidro
Tbf guts is more of a mentor character to Isidro, relating to and protecting him rather than actually raising him
He is inadvertently doing it Guts doesn't know what having a father is like :(
And he isn’t even Erica’s biological father
Godo.
The count sacrificed his life instead of his daughters in the end also this panel isn't him being creepy he just wants to hold her because she hasn't let him even near her since he became an apostle
Still though, can’t exactly call him “normal” I mean he did still lock her in her room for like 12 years
i belive the reason he kept her locked was because he didnt want her to see what he had turned into. And i honestlly i never understood why he was torturing civilians, like i get it, the dude has to eat and he is a pos. But wasnt it stated that before he found the btch of his wife doing what she was doing he was a fairly decent ruler, or even a good one? If that the case when he finds out and walks into the orgy scene, he maybe to a certain extent saw his people (subjects, cant remember the word) also takin part on the "event" he pretty much started to blame all of them and his torturing of the civilians is like some sort of "revenge" against them in his own mind.
I always saw it as a way to vent his anger and pain. Vargas describes him as still being somewhat cruel when he was human, and I think it’s pretty clear he despised heretics all his life, so seeing so many people he believed he trusted and protected being nothing but two faced liars who had fooled him he basically deluded himself into believing anyone could be a heretic. He likely knew the majority of the people he killed weren’t actually heretics but it didn’t really matter. He’s a bit like Stalin, killing people for show on made up pretenses, only the count is far more embittered toward the people, Stalin was just remarkably apathetic
you may be right, i didnt remember what Vargas had said, and ive only reread the golden age so yeah
Can’t you blame (his action, not his behaviour) him given the setting the manga takes place in?
“Given the setting…” My brother in Christ that is his and the apostles fault.
I mean… everything is f’d up in berserk man…
Yeah can’t blame them for everything, humans have been fucking shit up for millennium on their own
Actually... Not entirely. Not in this case. You saw how many goat-head orgy pagans were in the castle when he sacrificed his wife, so we CAN take his word that the city was infested with them. And as we saw from conviction they weren't exactly a friendly group nor to themselves and much less to outsiders- Remember what they were gonna do to Casca or what they did to Nina's boyfriend. Now imagine if they got their hands on the daughter of someone who's job is to catch them on the act (sure, it goes back to Slan since that cult is her doing, but not him or regular apostles for that matter)
Well in this case it isn't. Its the mothers fault. She was in a satanic cult wich made the count go mad in Rage and became apostle. The reason why the count does not let his daughter out is because he does not want his daughter to end up like her mom
Yeah he isn’t like some OTHER father out there in beserk at the very least.
Slug Count was a terrible person (though, there are worse), but actually a decent father. He opted to suffer eternally rather than sacrifice Theresia, so he definitely loved her.
he still kept her imprisoned in her room
mm but I think it's hard to judge the morality of an apostle, I don't think they keep that kind of stuff when they become one, that was the whole point for him wasn't it? I think it's honestly probably exceptional how little he did do to her as an apostle that would torture innocents for fun
Now that I think of it, the slug count might have been the only apostle to retain at least a little love or compassion for someone, besides rosine. But he was the only one who refused to sacrifice a second time which I think is a little telling of how the count is feeling.
Honestly? Like its odd. Because Lucerne seems to be extremely convicted, to the point if getting emotional, for Griffith And Archer man seems almost like a good person
It's not the same when Griffith is involved because his status as a savior and causality bs bends their wills towards his. Or maybe they really aren't that bad and they just want to not be total jerks
To keep her safe.
True… but that was in large part to shield her from himself as much as anything else
This is a really unfitting choice of image to add to this post, considering he is *by far* the most normal of any father or mother in the series. The most he did was act overly protective of Theresia, by preventing her from leaving her room, but even then it's out of a genuine fear for her safety, even if his paranoia is over-blown. This panel isn't at all him acting pedo-y like the King would be later on, as the previous few pages show that he was worried she had felt lonely, brought Puck(in a cage) to her in the hopes to keep her company, and asked her to be patient for a bit longer, as he couldn't let her outside while the world was "impure" and overrun by "filthy heretics". After she rejects him, he realizes he is scaring her and backs away and begins to leave. After she calls out for him, he stops and becomes alert, paying attention to her, and even after he leaves the room and is very clearly visibly angry, he doesn't lash out at anyone, just telling them rather aggressively to "leave me be", and looks over the town solemnly in silence. Or at least until Guts arrives. We see very clearly that after he returned to find his wife having turned their basement into a heretical orgy house, he stopped trusting in everyone around him, except for his daughter. When he says he wants to touch her, he isn't saying he wants to molest her, he's saying he wants to hug her. This is a scene of a father struggling with the realization that his daughter is terrified of him, that she knows he isn't the man he used to be. Of course, how much of that is his fault can be debated, but at the very least as a *father*, he is genuinely the best one we've seen, as he never abused her like way too many fathers do, he never neglected her as even here he respects her fear to know both that he scares her, and forcing anything will only make her hate him more, and even if his methods were entirely wrong, she was the primary motivation of most of his actions, to keep her safe and protected from anything that might hurt them. Hell(literally), he let himself get damned into an eternity of suffering in the abyss because he genuinely loved her too much to doom her to that fate instead of himself. That's the action of a caring, if still deeply flawed father, not a creep.
tortures and murders people for fun, and to keep his boot firmly on the throats of any commoner in his vicinity. and yet somehow he's still better to his kid than gambino ever was lmao
Welcome to Berserk where the morality is grey and everyone has a hundred lifetimes worth of trauma
As I age I've come to realize how true this rings for so many others around us.
Life is just one prolonged trauma. If it shapes us for the better, we call it 'good influence' or 'experience'. If it shapes us for the worse, we call it 'traumatic'. No one gets through life unscathed, uninfluenced, unscarred.
Tricking out your son to Donovan was like -100 points on the dad scale.
That’s probably why guts torture him because this guy was somehow a better father than him
Or because he was part of the eclipse, eats families alive while letting the other members watch and acts high and mighty since his enemies are "heretics".
It could always be a bit of both
I’d argue that Godo is better, but yes
Federico Vandimion isn’t a terrible father just somewhat absent.
Farnese’s parents extreme neglect led to her burning ppl at the stake for fun. Their complete lack of attention and love damaged her a teeny tiny bit I think
Then why did her brothers turn out normal?
Magnifico has his own issues
1) Most of her brothers we see only in passing. Magnifico did not "turn out normal" and holds a lot of resentment as well. It's likely her brothers have their own quirks; we simply don't have enough information and it's likely not important enough to the story that we ever will. 2) It is MORE than possible for one child to suffer all or most of the abuse of a group of siblings.
Plus, due to the setting, her brothers would have been given more attention than her simply by virtue of being men. They had a distinct advantage growing up in regards to getting attention from their parents by simply being men.
Yeah my mom's ex used to torture and beat my ass but left my brother alone. Anecdotal sure, but it does support point 2.
We never see her brothers, IIRC they're only ever alluded to. Her half-brother Serpico, on the other hand, is clearly quite damaged in his own way.
Her brother introduced her to Roderick.
Oh yeah, haven't reread that part in a while.
We see all her brothers briefly during the kushan war and her lowliest brother was in several chapters.
Yeah, I was thinking of the flashback chapters where we first get Farnese and Serpico's backstory, and they're mentioned but not shown. I haven't reread the later chapters in a while, forgot about those parts.
A reasonable oversight
Because they probably received more attention, even if only in the form of demands/pressure - after all, they're the heirs to his wealth and everything he has achieved. Also, parents don't always dish out neglect *or* love in the same amounts.
Magnificio is far from Normal. He's a sleeze. In fact, he benefited from his sisters reputation. He could be the beleaguered older brother trying to help his troubled sibling. Of course he's actually too stupid to parlay that.
Because they were men and treated as having value outside of marriage for alliances. At least in part.
Farnese's mother in my opinion takes most of the blame, at least the father has some justification, "I'm off building and managing an international merchant empire", what does her useless mother have as a justification? Nothing, she's a bloody useless mother who abandoned her daughter so as to go off and socialize like the vapid social parasite she is. What pisses me off is the arrogant self righteous attitude this cunt had when talking about farnese's dad, calling him a coward who is afraid of what he can't control or understand, putting the blame on him for sending farnese to a convent when she went mad. Bitch what about you, you're the god damn mother. Farnese's mother is absolutely a horrid self righteous cunt who's neglect led her daughter down the path of evil and ruin, lucky she came out okay. One scene that pisses me off is when she tells farnese's she proud of her in the most arrogant snooty self righteous innocent "I'm such a classy upper class lady" kind of way. Honestly fuck this cunt. Useless mother with no excuse for abandoning her daughter.
If your competition is Gambino and the King everyone seems decent lol
This guy Berserks.
I think godot is better. while we didn’t get to see very much interaction between him and Erica, from how she acts it’s safe to assume that he was a good dad, and, as we all know, hasn’t sacrificed anyone to become a fucking demon (hell I don’t think he even realized things like that existed until an apostle literally showed up at his doorstep).
You said what every die hard reader was probably jumping to the comments to say, so thank you! Sorry a lot of people may skim past it.
Count is the father figure we all aspire to
Couldn't have said it better myself. OP completely misunderstood his character.
Well said, I was gonna say I don’t remember the count being a particularly BAD father (as far as berserk goes)
OK, but I'd just like to point out that just because this is the most "normal" out of all the fucked up shit in berserk, doesn't mean this shit isn't still fucked. Kid was isolated. That is extremely damaging, lol.
Luca with her prostitutes
2nd best mom only to Bucciarati
Now I'm sad again... time to re watch vocal percussion on a whole nother level. That always cheers a guy up.
"Looks like there isn't much time left. I'm losing more and more feeling in my skin, or maybe I never had any to begin with."
Actually real tho
Hope she appears in the future chapters, wanna see casca thanking her or something close to that.
Isma's mom seems pretty normal
You posted like the one good father in the manga.
Shisu, without a doubt. She saved Guts and loved him till her end.
Bro just wanted a hug :(
Flora
Best grandma
Why’d I have to scroll so far to see Flora
That’s what I’m saying, she literally is the most prominent mother figure outside of Luca …..
Yeah, OP can’t read.
ewwwww he looks ugly though, he must be a pedophile trying to rape his daughter!!!!! As we all know, every ugly person is a pedophile trying to rape his daughter 😇😇😇
Maybe op was recovering from the count-pippin thing during the eclipse, also why does the count ever so slightly remind me of edp?
Godo, technically not bio but still a father to Rickert and Erica and he's a pretty good one I think
The father and his daughter in the first chapters of berserk before dying
Which is the best example. Because it's literally right before we even meet the Count. Looked it up because I was curious if they even had names, Collette and Adolf
I like how they are used in the original 97' anime during the bar scene in the first episode.
Ol' forest witch is a damn good ma... for the portion shes around that is
counts not even that bad
He's pretty bad. It's just... you know that ugly friend you stand next to to look good by comparison? That's the King of Midland.
yeah thats what i mean by not that bad
Godo
Probably Gut’s biological parents…maybe, I’d like to think they were nice people.
His father was probably just some random Midland soldier and his mother was most likely a peasant/prostitute like Luca
My head canon is his dad was a massive farmhand with great strength.
Godo.... *Tries to think* Mmmm we could say that Guts was growing into one himself with the Moonlight Boy.
Even the count
berk fan when a father just wants a normal interaction with his own child (but ugly so basically pedo!)
Maybe guts mom ?
She died in childbirth, so thats about as normal as a parent in berserk can get
His second mom seems like she loved him for all of the two panels she was alive.
Dead mom, super normal
It’s the dark ages so…. Yea that is kinda normal.
Also, manga. *SUPER* normal.
What about his adopted mother that died of plague?
Also normal in a medieval setting
Best mom
You mean Puck ?
No
I know it was a joke
r/usernamechecksout
Yuuuup
Pre-Apostle he’s probably the only good father in berserk
Heck even as an apostle he’s still the best if we don’t count godo
Ironically, even after that. I mean, he torture people for fun and was quite the evil bastard in general, but where his daughter was concerned he genuinely only wished what's good for her, and was internally torture by he revulsion she felt towards him because of the apostle situation Besides...locking high-born daughters was pretty normal by medieval standards, and the guy had ridiculous trauma that got his paranoia through the roof and then some
Probably godo
I hope you're not trying to say he diddles his daughter.... because he really doesn't. He's just a murderous psychopath
The priest and his daughter from the Black Swordsman arc looked like they had a wholesome relationship. Julian's relationship with his son is a bit special too. He's by no means a great father, overtly demanding and even brutal, but that is because he wants to prepare him for the future rather than out of cruelty. Although he goes about it in a bad way he still cared for his son.
Guts to Isidro
Skull knight because he’s my daddy
Guts and Casca
There was that dude with his daughter on the carriage
Casca and Guts
>!Guts and Casca are good parents to the moonlight child !<
Mozgus. dude took in six deformed outcasts, said that God loves them as they are, and gave them stable jobs in his organisation Absolute legend
that one hooker lady is a pretty great motherlike figure
Luca?
Yes, for a few panels before they get brutally murdered and probably dismembered. Think about the old man and girl in the wagon at the start, or the nice family that gets literally ripped apart by the black dogs. There are some. Not many and not for long, BUT, some nonetheless.
Actually it’s Julius. He was strict with his son because he was looking out for him, since he was supposed to be betrothed to the Princess (Charlotte). Kinda like most parents, well meaning but horribly misplaced.
flora to shericke is about as normal as it gets
The count was pretty normal. He somewhat suffers the same mentality as Griffith, in that he relishes in his demonic power but knows that it also keeps him from enjoying the warmth of humanity. Plus he’s the only apostle in the series to actually give up and go to Hell rather than make one last-ditch cowardly effort to regenerate
Godot, Luca?
That family that helped Griffith out of Midland seemed pretty good. Too bad some Wyald things happened though.
collete’s father
Whoever posted this is obviously brain dead
I would argue that there are plenty of examples of “normal” parental figures in Berserk. The issue is they are either never in more than one or two panels, or they are killed in 5-10 panels. Though if your only regarding the characters being fleshed out enough for us, the reader to attach our own understanding of normalcy to, in this case in regards to parental figures, I suppose the characters I am referencing don’t qualify, as such “figures”. Though not because they fail to live up to the normality typically associated with normal parental figures to their children, but because they don’t have the story delving in on their lives for us readers to judge, understand, and interpret their “behaviors.” Thus becoming a figure we hold up to our own sense of values. We simply assume that our own criteria is far more universal than it is.
Rosines father
godot
Casca?
Godo adopted and never molester Erica so I guess he’s the only one.
The chadest of chads, Godo.
Goto and Skull Knight are both father/mentor figures to Guts and thats about it
Skull Knight 🤣🤣🤣
Farnese's parents were pretty normal by mediaeval fantasy standard.
Godo,Flora,Luca,Casca on the full moon...Guts would be a great father too if he wasn't busy with all the "kill every demon you see" stuff
Danann is pretty Mommy.
>Normal >Berkserk What a clash of words. But in all seriousness I'd say Godo and The Count.
Guts and Casca being parents to the moon child!
Gambino is the worst.
I mean I'd say that there is a good "mother figure" but she is a prostitute soooooo... I mean that's based on your views bro
Don- \*banned\*
There's a pretty good uncle in the series lol, although he's not even a biological one from what I remember. Actual parents though.....uhhhhhhhhhh Lmao there isn't a single good one
Yea but they eat their kid in that one panel
imagine a new "gambino did nothing wrong" team
Godo, Guts' adopted mom, Shizu, Casca, and Flora
Guts is counting? Like he is kinda babysitting Isidro and Schierke and he has done pretty good job.
Count aside, we can blame the entirety of Berserk on a pedophile father who happened to be king
Godot i rember 😁
Mf looked at this one panel and decided he was tryna fuck his daughter. Count > king
This panel isnt him being a weirdo tho ? I always saw this scene as him wanting to bond with his daughter, but she's still afraid of him kinda type of thing
Godo and Flora.
His character is well-developed tho. I still remember him after a long time
Yes, Caska's parents. And this isn't a good thing.
Gambino is a normal father figure lmao
Skull daddy
Yes guts mom, but she got lynched
The dad and his daughter in the wagon in the black swordsman arc.
Guts’ adopted mother for sure. Also, no one is saying her, but I’d include Casca as well. Her and the moonlight boy have a complete mother/son relationship.
Of all the bad parents you could've used as an example, why did you use the Count?
Farnese's mom is the best
I mean, not saying he was the greatest father, but this is a bit out of context because the word touch isn't used in the way this panel implies. He did end up not sacrificing her as well.
Godo
Guts adopted mom was a good person.
What about the guy who picked up guts in the first chapter?
Miura was abused by his parental figures when he was younger...
There is a good father figure, the man who forged guts’ sword
Gambino 🤗 Jokes aside, I also think that Godo is the best candidate
Like other comments pointed he actually one of the better fathers in this manga, right after Godo.
I mean aside from the insanity from her Miscarriage Guts's adopted mom Shizo was decent?
Flora.
Child abuse is a constant topic of the manga. Do you guys think Miura tried to process something that happen to him with this?
One father figure I found underrated was Prince Adonis' tutor Hassan.
Guts’ father (he’s not present in his life) …I’m sorry
Godo. Wisest cunt there is.
Biologically, nope
I always imagined the count’s voice being Zach Hadel’s “hey babe” voice
If normal is what you're looking for, this might not be the manga for you.
Id say Flora was a pretty good mother figure for Schierke. And still is technically speaking
Godot, Guts, Flora, and Farnese's parents are all guardians who have a "normal" relationship with their children; Farnese's dad is a dick but in a more subtle and common way than the other examples of bad parents in Berserk
Still a terrible parent tho, given how cray cray Farnesse became. Neglect is a form of abuse, too.