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The Beast of Darkness is a personification of Guts's wrath and bloodlust, born from the trauma of what he's experienced in the Eclipse, the stress of losing his allies and [[Griffith]] betrayal driving him to homicidal rage. Like Guts, the Beast hates Griffith and refers to him as a light that burns. As some restless spirits explained, the beast becomes stronger each time Guts takes a life and thus subconsciously encouraged the swordsman to commit mass slaughter for two years. It was only when Guts starts to regain bits of humanity that the beast refuses to allow this and makes numerous attempts to force Guts to resume their committing of carnage, seeing Casca and Guts's new allies as frail enablers of its host's morality that it believes can be remedied by killing them all. But it also encourages Guts to cherish them as their deaths would drive Guts to in a deep enough despair that the beast would swallow him whole and resume the hunt of Griffith unopposed.The beast seems to be impatiently crafty as well, as once he told Guts that he would start to obey him and breathe lightly to store his power. But whenever Guts uses the Berserker Armor, especially during the night of a full moon where its influence is most strong, the beast would try to take control and increases in size with each use. |
The Beast of Darkness is a personification of Guts's wrath and bloodlust, born from the trauma of what he's experienced in the Eclipse, the stress of losing his allies and [[Griffith]] betrayal driving him to homicidal rage. Like Guts, the Beast hates Griffith and refers to him as a light that burns. As some restless spirits explained, the beast becomes stronger each time Guts takes a life and thus subconsciously encouraged the swordsman to commit mass slaughter for two years. It was only when Guts starts to regain bits of humanity that the beast refuses to allow this and makes numerous attempts to force Guts to resume their committing of carnage, seeing Casca and Guts's new allies as frail enablers of its host's morality that it believes can be remedied by killing them all. But it also encourages Guts to cherish them as their deaths would drive Guts to in a deep enough despair that the beast would swallow him whole and resume the hunt of Griffith unopposed.The beast seems to be impatiently crafty as well, as once he told Guts that he would start to obey him and breathe lightly to store his power. But whenever Guts uses the Berserker Armor, especially during the night of a full moon where its influence is most strong, the beast would try to take control and increases in size with each use. |
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Revision as of 23:43, 16 January 2016
The Beast of Darkness is the manifestation of the darkness within Guts' soul.
Appearance
The Beast of Darkness possesses black fur, pointy ears and demonic, red, lightning-like eyes. After he is "tamed" by Schierke, several chains were shown tied around its body. However, the beast is shown to be able to break them, using its mouth that is full of sharp teeth, as its power and size grow with time and with every repeated use of the Berserker Armour.
The Beast of Darkness has been mainly shown with its demonic left eye, corresponding to the damage that Guts had sustained to his right eye.
Personality
Growing stronger while being suppressed, it continues to tempt Guts to use its power.
The Beast of Darkness is a personification of Guts's wrath and bloodlust, born from the trauma of what he's experienced in the Eclipse, the stress of losing his allies and Griffith betrayal driving him to homicidal rage. Like Guts, the Beast hates Griffith and refers to him as a light that burns. As some restless spirits explained, the beast becomes stronger each time Guts takes a life and thus subconsciously encouraged the swordsman to commit mass slaughter for two years. It was only when Guts starts to regain bits of humanity that the beast refuses to allow this and makes numerous attempts to force Guts to resume their committing of carnage, seeing Casca and Guts's new allies as frail enablers of its host's morality that it believes can be remedied by killing them all. But it also encourages Guts to cherish them as their deaths would drive Guts to in a deep enough despair that the beast would swallow him whole and resume the hunt of Griffith unopposed.The beast seems to be impatiently crafty as well, as once he told Guts that he would start to obey him and breathe lightly to store his power. But whenever Guts uses the Berserker Armor, especially during the night of a full moon where its influence is most strong, the beast would try to take control and increases in size with each use.
History
Conviction Arc
The beast revealing itself to Guts.
As Guts took a path of revenge of blood and carnage after being rescued by the Skull Knight, the beast grew stronger with each kill Guts made for two years. It was only when Guts became conflicted after being forced by Jill to spare a dying Rosine that the beast finally made itself known to Guts by using a group of restless spirits taunting the swordsman over his recent actions as a temporary vessel to manifest through. The beast explains its origins to Guts, showing no remorse over its host being forced to kill children that Rosine made into his familiars, and tells him that they will become a monster like Griffith someday. In a fit of rage when the beast assumed Griffith's likeness, Guts drives the apparition back into his mind. When Guts received a vision about Casca being burned, the beast manifests again within Godo's mine to mock Guts before vanishing.
Millennium Falcon Arc
The Inner beast talks to Guts.
While Gut's desired a life of peace with Casca, the beast refused to allow that to occur and take advantage of the endless horde of spirits to mock Guts while convincing to give in to his darkest desires. This ultimately causes Guts to lose himself with the beast taking control and attempting to have its host ravage Casca before murdering her. Though Guts stops himself in time, the beast succeeded to having its host lost Casca's trust in him with Guts forced to align himself with Farnese de Vandimion, Serpico, and Isidro to protect Casca in case he loses control again.
The beast later makes its presence known to Gut's newly formed group when he dons the Berserker Armor. As the armor intensifies violent emotions as a form of pain killer, Guts suffering an ethereal wound from fighting Slan prior, the beast used it to completely possess Guts while altering the armor in its image. However, usually through Schierke astral projecting herself onto him, Guts can regain control and was able chain his inner beast once again. The beast continually urges Guts to give in to his dark desires to kill Casca and his new allies so they can resume his hunt for vengeance without concern for the lives of others.
Gallery
Trivia
- Similar to the Idea of Evil that was born from the collective subconscious of humanity, the beast is more like a personal construct of Guts's subconscious.
- While not seen in the early story arc, his presence is felt whenever Guts fights an Apostle and goes berserk.
- The Beast of Darkness is popularly but mistakenly referred to as "Hellhound".
- The beast appears to be influenced by the myth of werewolves and North mythology, namely Fenir who is chained until the end of the world and Sköll who is destined the swallow the sun.
- The Beast of Darkness is referenced in the video game Bloodborne via a boss called the Watchdog of the Old Lords. It most resembles The Beast of Darkness when it was consumed in flames within Guts's mind.