Wwwwellllllll ... it would be difficult to say that Griffith loved anyone more than his own megalomania as he sold to the "Apostles"/demons of the Behelit everyone he loved and who followed him, including Gatts, Caska and the original Band of the Hawks, in order to become one of the five fallen "God-Hands"/ Biggest Demons. He isn't human anymore, or if there is, his humanity has been utterly suppressed to let this chthonic elemental horror dominate his soul. What was left of his humanity before everyone got sucked into the Behelit and it all went to hell, was that sad, maimed, flayed sack of useless flesh everyone had rescued from the torture dungeons/ancient demonic sacrificial altar at the base of the King of Middlelands' Tower of Repentence (or whatever it was called.) .... And I'm going to continue this comment in a new form field because this one is jumping all over the screen.
While Griffiths basically dropped Caska in order to enthrall Gatts, he also dropped both of them in order to seduce the Crown Princess Charlotte — a process which began as soon as they were admitted to the Court of the King of the Middlelands. Do you remember the conversation he had with Charlotte back along the corniche of the palace gardens where he repudiated all his followers and, basically, told her (or Gatts, actually, who was standing just under the ballustrade, eavesdropping, while the meaning of Griffith's speech was plainly sailing over Charlotte's head) that he despised anyone who gave up their dreams to follow his? Maybe that was intended as a sort of psychological kick in the pants to motivate Gatts to start showing some leadership, but Gatts is a very simple guy and, if there was an subtlety in Griffith's meaning, it didn't work as Griffith intended.
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Gatts took it as a signal to move along, not to conquer Griffith. So he licked his wounds with Caska, defeated Griffith in their duel and moved on, setting the whole deflowering scene with Griffith and Charlotte in motion, and we know how that ended. When faced with the utterly maimed, crippled and disfigured Griffith who was rescued from the King of the Middleland's dungeons, Casca's compassion and gratitude meant that she told Gatts she had to remain with Griffiths and could not leave and follow him.
Griffiths, meanwhile, had lost none of his ruthlessness, and was still beholden to the power of the scarlet Behelit. When Griffith became the fifth Godhand, he left his remaining damaged physicality behind (or suppressed it) along with his soul. In doing so, he became trapped inside the Behelit/Astral Plane Hellworld and could no longer manifest in the physical realm. To materialize, he needed a physical body. That's why he raped Casca and that's why he allowed Gatts to rescue her from the river of the damned. The first thing she did when she returned to materiality was to give birth/miscarry that horrible deformed embryo/foetus thing. Gatts wanted to stop her, but she treated it like a beloved baby, and it so resembled the circumstances of his own birth, he couldn't kill it, even if it was clearly a monstrosity. He could perceive the sentience within it.
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The little horrible embryo kept following them up until they ended up at the scene of the second eclipse, where that egg-shaped "Apostle"/demon gobbled it up in order to create his "new world". It ended its birth cycle in the body of that goblin and burst out, during the eclipse, into the reborn "Hawk of Light". Well, the Hawk of Light IS the fifth "God-Hand", that creepy thing which Griffith turned into when he sacrificed all his companions. He looks pretty, but he isn't human, just like Falconia looks like a beautiful refuge and City of Light, but is really a feeding ground for demons.
In short, the Fifth Godhand/Griffith raped Casca so he could be reborn as the Hawk of Light.
ou a fan-fick on-line storyteller showed up ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭ keep goin lad keep goin! maybe u will explain smf that ppl who watch and read Gatz series for 20 years dont know OR SOMEHOW FORGET O O and maybe U KNOW BETTER! OH OFCOZ U KNOW BETTER U ARE SO BETTER!
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What? Really...by who? Also it probably not in the book because guts way too bad ass to get raped.... Again.
What no way!!! I Need to see that XD also how do guys make those cute faces their so adorable :)
That might be true but Guts hates Griffith and I wanna see Guts put huge sword threw his face (๑•ㅂ•)و✧

Didn't Guts got raped ?? ( ̄へ ̄)