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If he's going to sacrifice everything for his dream, if his dream is to fight and cut away his own path, then I want to be his sword.
– Casca[9]

Casca is a former unit commander of the Band of the Falcon and an estranged companion of Guts.

Originally a callow peasant girl living in a remote mountain village,[10] she develops into a capable warrior upon joining the Band of the Falcon and aids greatly in the group's storied successes during the Hundred-Year War. Following Guts' departure and Griffith's subsequent imprisonment, she is forced to assume the position of the band's leader,[11] succeeding in preventing the complete annihilation of the Band of the Falcon and rescuing Griffith from the Tower of Rebirth.[12] Crippled from his year-long torture and demoralized by his fall from grace, Griffith ultimately invokes the Eclipse, in which he is reborn as the fifth God Hand member Femto and rapes Casca.[13] Having physically survived the ordeal, she regresses into an infantile and largely mute state.[14]

In order to restore Casca's fragmented mind, Guts and his traveling party journey to Elfhelm.[15] After Schierke and Farnese take part in the Corridor of Dreams ritual conducted by the Flower Storm Monarch, Casca is mostly restored to her prior mental state.[16] However, she now suffers from crippling panic attacks whenever she sees Guts face-to-face and recalls the trauma of the Eclipse.[16][17]

Appearance[]

Casca is a slim, well-built adult woman with dark skin, thin pink lips, brown eyes, and short shaggy black hair. As a commander of the Band of the Falcon, Casca donned a slender muscular physique and an armor. Following the events of the Eclipse, her appearance remained largely the same, her hair had grown to her shoulders and a Brand of Sacrifice on her chest.

Personality[]

Manga E187 Casca Old Self

As one of the Band of the Falcon's most formidable warriors, Casca commands the respect of her comrades.

Prior to the events of the fifth Eclipse, Casca proves to be a determined and capable leader within the Band of the Falcon who merits the respect of her comrades in arms. So great is her leadership that she is able to rally the band behind her in their moment of utmost peril and prevent the complete annihilation of the fugitive band for a year following Griffith's imprisonment.[11] She fosters morale among the rank and file of the band, who in turn affectionately call her "Big Sis".[1] Even amid the Eclipse, Casca does not allow the band members to panic, commanding them to assume formation and contribute what they can.[18]

Casca's hardened appearance and austere attitude can be seen as "unfeminine", prompting Judeau's initial observation that she "gave up on being a woman in order to become a mercenary".[19] In actuality, her womanhood forms an integral part of her identity; she wears men's clothing for its practicality in battle, rather than because of any inherent desire to do so on her part.[20] Occasionally, her status as a woman is the source of her perturbation,[21] though she masks such doubts with an exterior of sternness, lashing out with physical violence in moments of vulnerability.[19][22][10] Beneath this guarded exterior, however, Casca yearns for acceptance as both a warrior and as a woman, which she originally desires from Griffith. She even slept with a wounded Guts for two days in order to warm him up following Griffith's orders, who added that "warming up a man is a woman's duty".[19]

Her loyalty and devotion to Griffith caused her to develop a yearning for strength, wanting to serve as his able sword in the pursuit of his dream.[9] Because of this, she initially harbors resentment for Guts, jealous of the swordsman's superseding importance to her idolized leader.[23] Eventually, Casca comes to acknowledge the unrequited nature of her admiration for Griffith, while also developing equal affection for Guts, growing beyond her dependence on Griffith's dream. Notably, when Griffith resolves to duel Guts in an attempt to prevent him from leaving the band, Casca interjects, questioning her leader's challenge – an action Judeau notes she would have never taken previously, as she considered Griffith's will akin to gospel.[24] She later begins falling in love with the swordsman after his acknowledgment of her as both a capable warrior and as a woman, cultivating a relationship based on mutual honesty rather than one-sided reverence.[21]

Femto's rape of Casca during the Eclipse inflicts severe psychological trauma upon her, which causes her to regress to a largely mute, infantile state[14] in which she is unable to truly think or feel.[16] Though capable of a primitive form of empathy, she is left unable to process people's feelings beyond immediate situations; she does, however, display motherly affection for her demon child[25] and the Moonlight Boy,[26] becoming distressed when they suddenly vanish or are in harm's way. In her fragmented form, Casca remembers fondly her days as a Falcon,[6] though deeper within her psyche, her mental imagery becomes starkly hostile and revolting – a defense mechanism safeguarding her most repressed memory fragment.[27]

Following her mind being restored, Casca returns to being the person she was before the Eclipse. She is shown to have been aware of everything that happened during the years she spent being in her previous state,[17] recognizing Farnese immediately upon seeing her, and tearing up with a smile when asked about Guts.[16] However, Casca still suffers from severe psychological trauma, to the point that she's unable to look at Guts directly without experiencing vivid flashbacks to the actual events of the Eclipse itself and visions of Griffith's ravaged body.[16][17]

Background[]

Manga E16 Griffith Saves Casca

Casca rescued by Griffith.

Casca was born the youngest of six children in a remote mountain village. As a young lowborn girl, hardships such as starvation and potential abduction were a normal fact of peasant life for Casca, giving her a pessimistic view of the world. When she was twelve years old, her parents sent her off to work as a castle maid for a seemingly courteous nobleman.

En route to the castle, however, the noble revealed his lustful intentions, chasing Casca from their carriage and pinning her down in order to rape her. Just as she begins submitting to her attacker, Griffith appeared on horseback and sliced off the noble's ear, expressing his disdain for the man's sense of entitlement and superiority. Rather than eliminate the pedophilic noble himself, Griffith extended his sword to Casca, telling her to wield it if she had something to protect. As the nobleman lunged for her neck, Casca took up the sword and placed it inline with her attacker's chest, piercing through and killing him. Filled with unease from her first kill, she was calmed by Griffith and entranced by the marvelous nature of her savior from then on. With her attacker dead and her chances of being reintegrated into her village low, she decided to join Griffith's Band of the Falcon, having now learnt to stand up for herself instead of just enduring.[10]

One day, following a battle, Casca, Griffith, and Pippin discovered the body of a young boy who had recently joined the band. While Casca never personally knew the boy, Griffith was profoundly affected by his death.

A few nights later, Casca noticed Griffith standing on the balcony of the castle they were stationed at. Casca called up to him, but the feudal lord with an interest in young boys was up there with Griffith, inviting him into his room. Griffith departed with him after a final glance at Casca. The following morning, Casca came across Griffith bathing in the nearby river. When Casca asked Griffith why he visited the lord in his room, and her suspicions that they had sex were confirmed by Griffith.

Griffith explained to her that he didn't simply have sex with the lord due to mutual attraction. Rather, the noble offered a sizeable war chest in exchange, which Griffith needed to curb the growing costs of maintaining the ever-growing Band of the Falcon. Further explaining he wanted to honor those who died under his command by achieving his dream as fast as possible. Casca then noticed Griffith became absorbed in his own words and began to scratch deep gashes into his own arms, and proceeded to stop Griffith from his self harming behavior by stepping into the water and embracing Griffith from behind.[9]

Story[]

Golden Age Arc[]

Meeting Guts[]

Manga E0-13 Casca Hiding

Casca was filled with great jealousy due to Griffith's strong desire to enlist Guts.

Years later, having become the Band of the Falcon's second most formidable warrior and a forefront unit commander within the band, Casca confronts Guts under Griffith's orders when the swordsman defends himself against an ambush party led by Corkus. She and Guts battle until Guts knocks her off her horse, thereafter realizing he is fighting a woman. When Guts overpowers and prepares to end Casca, Griffith intervenes, incapacitates the swordsman, and then has him taken back to the band's encampment.[28] He orders Casca to sleep bare with an injured Guts for two days to provide the swordsman with warmth. Though Casca prevents vengeful band members from killing Guts after he recovers, she expresses no favor for the swordsman; on the contrary, she becomes envious of him due Griffith's strong desire for and eventual enlistment of the swordsman into the Band of the Falcon.[23]

Glory Years[]

Manga E15 Rewarming

Casca being rewarmed by Guts.

In three years time, the Band of the Falcon, having earned the trust and approval of the king of Midland, is enlisted by Midland in its century-spanning war against Tudor.[1] When Griffith sustains injuries attempting to rescue Guts from Zodd, she blames Guts for the event,[29] later punching him when attempting to see Griffith during his recovery.[30] During the Autumn Hunt, in which the Band of the Falcon acts as the king's guard, Casca is concerned about Griffith's state when an arrow is shot on him, stating that his injuries needed to be checked.[31] The following day, Casca sees Guts covered in sewage and inquires on where he has been. When Guts attempts to locate Griffith, she follows after Guts, patching up his arrow wound while the two listen to Griffith and Charlotte's conversation at Promrose Hall.[32] Before departing for the campaign on Tudor forces, Casca has a brief conversation with Princess Charlotte, promising that she will carry out the princess' request tp protect Griffith with her life. During a battle between the Band of the Falcon and Tudor's Blue Whale Knights, Casca silently suffers from menstruation in her bout with Adon Coborlwitz, eventually fainting and falling off a cliff. Though Guts manages to save her, he is shot off his horse by Adon and the two are sent free falling into the river below. Guts manages to drag Casca out of the chill water and into a nearby cave. Realizing a fire would merely alert the Blue Whale Knights to their position, Guts takes Casca's soaked clothes off and instead rewarms her with his own body heat.[33]

When the rain finally ceases, Casca wakes and immediately attacks Guts, flustered by her womanly shortcomings as a soldier. Subduing and tiring her out, Guts asks why she became a mercenary to begin with, to which she explains the reason for her idolization of and devotion to Griffith as his sworn sword,[9] as well as the jarring effect her leader's desire for Guts had on her. Their conversation is interrupted by the movements of Tudor troops near their location; realizing enemy forces would soon home in on the cave, they decide to depart after sunset.

After the two are found by Adon and his soldiers, Guts decides to buy time for Casca to return to the band, and in a remarkable act of survival, manages to defeat all of the mercenaries in the hundred-strong Tudor legion.[34] After he is found by the band and tended to at their encampment, Casca learns of his growing detachment from the mercenaries' collective "campfire of dreams" and intention to eventually leave the band, to her dismay.[35]

Manga E35 Casca Devotion Shaken

Judeau realizes Casca's devotion to Griffith has been shaken by her growing affection for Guts.

Later, during the Battle for Doldrey, Casca succeeds in defeating Adon in a perilous rematch and leads the successful recapture of the fortress from within.[36] For their successful recapture of Doldrey, the Band of the Falcon is formally enlisted as Midland's White Phoenix Knights, and its unit commanders are knighted and raised to the peerage.[20]

On the morning of Guts' departure from the band, Casca goes against Griffith's challenge of dueling Guts for the swordsman's freedom – a notable deviation from her usual unquestioning adherence to Griffith's will.[24] Having developed affection for Guts, her heart is torn after Guts defeats Griffith, as she witnesses a disconcerted Griffith kneel in defeat and Guts decisively leave the band. Guts' departure unexpectedly compels Griffith to impulsively bed Princess Charlotte, resulting in the White Falcon's imprisonment for crimes against the royal family and the labeling of the Band of the Falcon as outlaws. With the abrupt disappearance of her leader, Casca is forced to take leadership of the band when they are attacked by Midland's army and driven away.[37]

Fugitive[]

Manga E47 Sleeping

Guts and Casca cement their new relationship.

For a year, Casca leads the Band of the Falcon through its tumultuous time as fugitives, oftentimes overcome with exhaustion and despondence due to her role.[11] When Guts returns and aids in fending off a raid led by Silat, Casca takes him away from the rest of the band to vent her ire for his momentous defection a year prior. After a brief sword-fight with him, she attempts to take her own life, deciding to leave the responsibility of leading the band to him. After Guts in turn saves and comforts her, the two reconcile and proceed to make love,[5] finally acknowledging their feelings for one another and cementing their new relationship.[38]

Rescuing Griffith[]

Casca forms a rescue team and leads the infiltration of Wyndham to rescue Griffith. With the help of Princess Charlotte, the group is able to reach Griffith's cell in the lowest level of the Tower of Rebirth. Upon finding the White Falcon, they discover the horrifying injuries inflicted on him during his year-long torture. Fighting their way through a wave of alerted Wyndham soldiers, the rescue team is able to reenter the sewers, thwart an ambush by Bakiraka assassins sent to kill Griffith, and escape Wyndham to a farm outside the city.[39]

Manga E27 Doldrey Recaptured

Lead by Casca, a Band of the Falcon infiltration unit successfully recaptures Doldrey.

En route to the Midland border, the group realizes they are being pursued by the dreaded Black Dog Knights. Though their laid traps fail to deter the Dogs, the squad eventually rejoins another Band of the Falcon unit and fights their chasers. The Dogs' apostle leader, Wyald, eventually transforms into his true form in his bout with Guts, attempts to rape Casca,[40] and grabs a defenseless Griffith in retaliation when Guts decisively overpowers him, disclosing the full extent of the White Falcon's grievous injuries to the band. Soon after, Zodd abruptly arrives and shockingly tears his fellow apostle in two, afterward imparting a message to Griffith – foreshadowing the return of the Falcon's lost beherit – before flying off.[41]

Eclipse[]

At the Midland border region, the remnant band members come to terms with the gravity of Griffith's injuries and discuss their futures. While Casca replaces his bandages, Griffith uses his feeble strength to force himself on her; though initially opposed to his advance, she is overcome with pity for his weakened, fragile state and gingerly hugs him as he relents. Outside of Griffith's carriage, Casca pleads with Guts to again leave the band if he is truly Griffith's friend and equal.[42] Having mustered enough strength to commandeer his resting carriage, Griffith abruptly flees from the area, with Guts and the mercenaries in pursuit of him. When Griffith wrecks the carriage and lands in a lake, Guts and the others rush to his location, as a solar eclipse begins and ominous figures approach in the distance. As soon as Guts reaches him, the mercenaries are all whisked away into an alternate dimension by Griffith's returned crimson beherit.[43]

Manga E78 Casca Branded

Casca marked with the Brand of Sacrifice.

Numerous demons are present to greet the Band of the Falcon members, welcoming them to the nocturnal feast coined the "Eclipse". Four profound entities emerge from within the dimension afterward, introducing themselves as the God Hand and revealing the purpose of the Eclipse: for Griffith to offer his comrades as sacrifices in order to join their divine ranks, as has been preordained by fate.[44] Proving to indeed be an inevitability, Griffith, having weighed his options as an invalid and reaffirmed his dream and ambition, offers his former comrades as sacrifices, therefore triggering the branding and unilateral slaughter of the band.[45]

A mass-scale massacre of the band is initiated, with most of them being slaughtered by an inundation of materialized apostles. Judeau comes to Casca's rescue on horseback as Pippin mounts a last stand against one of the demons, demanding that she survive as the band's leader.[46] As the two ride and ceaselessly combat apostles, Judeau continues to place himself in harm's way to protect Casca, sustaining mortal injuries after shielding her from a whip-like apostle's lashing. Heavily injured, Judeau tells Casca to carry on alone, but is reprimanded by the commander and told to stand on his feet. In spite of her urging, Judeau slowly goes numb before eventually succumbing to his injuries. With his death, Casca is surrounded and stripped naked by an onslaught of lustful apostles.[47]

Manga E86 Femto Kisses Casca

Femto forcing himself on Casca.

After all band members but Guts and Casca are dead, Griffith, reborn as the fifth God Hand member Femto, immediately descends down before an ensnared Guts and motions an apostle to bring a captured Casca to him. Femto then proceeds to rape Casca in front of Guts, intent on forcing the latter to watch as his lover begs him to look away.[48] After Femto finishes with Casca, the Skull Knight breaches the Eclipse and is able to escape the temporal junction unscathed with Casca and Guts in tow.[8]

After she wakes in the blacksmith Godot's cave, it is revealed that, due to the trauma she suffered from the Eclipse, Casca has repressed all of her prior memories and capabilities, and is now but an infantile shell of her former self. Four days later, she gives birth to her and Guts' demon child – the infant having been tainted by Femto's violation of Casca – before it fades away into the Astral World at sunrise.[25]

Conviction Arc[]

Two years after Guts leaves her in Godot's cave, Casca wanders off after Erica lets her out and ends up in the company of a harlot named Luca, whose group is among the refugees traveling to Albion. Along the way, the refugees are ambushed by would-be assassins targeting the Holy See inquisitor Mozgus. Casca nearly gets herself arrested when she interacts with a pleading assassin, though Luca dispels any suspicions of her being associated with the attackers.[49] Intent on keeping her safe from men who would take advantage of her defenseless state, Luca takes in Casca and issues her the false identity of "Elaine", wrapping her face in bandages to mask her as a syphilis-infected prostitute.[2]

Manga E148 Reunion

Guts and Casca seeing each other for the first time in two years.

Not long after reaching Albion, her presence as one branded begins to rile restless spirits of the dead; her cover is blown when a cult dedicated to the Goddess of the Flame, believing her to be a witch, conducts a ritual to marry her to their leader. Pandemonium breaks out when the pagans are possessed by the vengeful spirits of their many sacrifices and the Great Goat is turned into a pseudo-apostle. Luckily, having been propelled to find her after receiving a vision of her burning, Guts arrives to save Casca from the Great Goat's clutches.[50] Despite Guts entrusting her safety to Isidro, Casca ends up being captured by the Holy Iron Chain Knights and taken to the Tower of Conviction.[51]

Manga E166 Witch Burning

Thought to be a witch, Casca is sentenced to burning at the stake.

In the tower, Mozgus, having observed her Brand of Sacrifice and denounced her as a witch, places Casca inside an iron maiden in order to bleed her to death.[52] Her branded presence begins to rattle the spirits of the tortured dead and triggers a tidal wave of manifested spirits, which begins to sweep over and consume the living.[53] Casca survives under the protection of her demon infant, though the child expends its life force in doing so. Believing her death will end the torrent of manifested malice in Albion, Mozgus conducts a witch trial in which he sentences her to burning at the stake. However, Isidro is able to make amends for his earlier blunder by freeing her from the stake.[54] After Casca's rescue, the Incarnation Ceremony continues to run its course, bringing about Femto's incarnation in the form of Griffith at sunrise.[55] Following the ensuing influx of Kushan soldiers, Guts mounts a horse with Casca in tow and rides for Godot's hut.

Millennium Falcon Arc[]

Returning to Godot's home, Guts encounters Griffith atop the Hill of Swords.[56] When the swordsman attacks Griffith and is forced to do battle with Griffith's new protector Nosferatu Zodd, Casca enters the fray just as Zodd reemerges from Godot's destroyed mine, and is nearly crushed by the resulting debris. As if by instinct, Griffith unwittingly protects her; given pause by his involuntary act, he orders Zodd to cease his battle with Guts and departs.[57] With the destruction of Godot's mine, and therefore a lack of secure shelter for Casca, Guts sets off in the winter with a new destination: Puck's homeland of Elfhelm, where Puck states Casca will be safe to stay.[15]

During their winter journey, Casca initially sticks close to Guts, having acknowledged him as a protective figure. After Guts momentarily falls victim to spiritual possession and nearly strangles her to death,[58] she becomes perpetually fearful of him and begins wandering away from his proximity. Their relationship is only further strained when the swordsman submits to his inner darkness and sexually assaults her.[59] Only when Farnese, Serpico, and Isidro find and accompany them in their travels does Casca begin to open up again, particular to Farnese, who acts as her caretaker thereafter.

Manga E238 Like a Family

Casca and Guts holding the Moonlight Boy.

The group sets their destination for the port city of Vritannis, in order to acquire a ship. Casca and Farnese are later abducted by trolls and taken to the border realm of Qliphoth when the group protects Enoch Village from a troll invasion[60] as a favor for the witch Flora, ultimately rescued by the rest of the traveling party.[61] On the beach before entering the port city, the Skull Knight reunites with Guts, telling him of the Flower Storm Monarch, who can potentially mend Casca's broken mind.[62] Soon after, Casca has her first known encounter with a mysterious "Moonlight Boy", who displays a particular interest in her and Guts.[26]

She remains in the background for much of the ensuing chaos from the Kushan attack on Vritannis. The group eventually manages to board Roderick's ship, the Seahorse, and sets sail on the western sea.[63]

Fantasia Arc[]

Another encounter with the Moonlight Boy is had on a solitary island the Sea God resides under. After Guts succeeds in defeating the deity, a pod of grateful merrows escorts the Seahorse to the island of Skellig.[64] En route to the island, speculation is made regarding the nature of the Moonlight Boy when he again disappears. Upon reaching Skellig and arriving in Elfhelm, the party rests for a night and is then escorted by archmage Gedfring and the attendant Danan to the Flower Storm Monarch's cherry tree palace, where Danan transforms into and reveals herself be the very sovereign the group has sought.[65]

After sentencing Puck and Magnifico to a day of community service when the two's plot to overthrow her fails, Danan asks Schierke and Farnese to accompany her and Casca in the "Corridor of Dreams". Once in a mushroom filled chamber, Danan explains to Farnese and Schierke that the Corridor of Dreams ritual requires them to astral project themselves into Casca's mind and find a resolution for the incident responsible for their companion's mental state.[66]

The two initially find Casca's dreamscape to be a series of childish scribbles, representative of her current fragmented psyche.[67] Guided by Danan's cherry blossom petals, they discover a fractured doll representing Casca's current state, and trek onward collecting memory fragments to gradually repair the broken effigy. After climbing a miasmic mountain hovered by a black sun, the two sorceresses arrive at a thorned cocoon containing Casca's last memory fragment.[27] They are briefly overcome by visions and tumultuous emotions elicited by the fifth Eclipse, which ultimately condense into a heart covered in thorns – the final fragment. When Farnese places the heart inside the now repaired effigy, the dream is ended and Casca awakens in the real world.[68]

Manga V40 Casca Restored

Casca restored to her former self.

Returned to her former self, Casca greets and expresses gratitude to Farnese, Schierke, and Ivalera. She describes her broken state of "Elaine" as being similar to a daydream, in which she could only observe the group's journey, unable to truly think or feel; additionally, she mentions having vague memories of her past, and being unable to remember anything immediately following a visit to see Griffith in the Tower of Rebirth. Danan – having telepathically contacted Guts and asked him to meet them underneath Elfhelm's great cherry tree – celebrates the successful restoration of Casca's mind by granting her an elfin makeover, in preparation for her reunion with the person she misses. Leaving the Corridor of Dreams to reunite with Guts and remembering her past with increasing clarity along the way, as soon as Casca sees Guts, she is overcome with horrifying memories of Griffith's ravaged body and the fifth Eclipse, causing her to scream in terror.[16]

After the encounter with Guts, Casca requests Danan to give her clothes that are easy to move in and a sword. Danan also cuts Casca's hair for her. Casca shows up in her new clothes -similar to those of forest guardians- for everyone to see. Everyone mentions how different of an impression has compared to the Casca they knew. Casca ponders on how Luca and her partners are, hoping to thank them if they ever meet again. She then thanks Farnese for taking care of her in her regressed state the way a mother or a big sister would, causing Farnese to tear up.[17]

Eyeing up her sword, Isidro ponders how good of a fighter Casca is. In return, Casca smiles, speculating how she might be rusty. Danan brings over "veykin" golems made of straw and enchanted witha non wounding, non-killing incantation for Casca to practice on. Casca impresses everyone with her swordsmanship skills and easily beats the veykins. Isidro then asks for her to be her sparring partner. During a short sparring session with him, Farnese tries to reunite Casca and Guts once again after a talk with Schierke and Danan.[17]

Casca talks to Guts hiding behind a tree, while he listens. She mentions that Isidro's fighting style reminds her of Judeau. But as soon as she says Judeau's name, flashbacks of what happened to Judeau in the Eclipse flash before Casca's eyes. This causes her to feel a panic attack. Guts becomes concerned, crying out her name as she collapses. When Casca looks up at Guts, she sees him as a shadowy figure with apostles behind him, and screams out loud. Guts grimaces, looking at the woman he loves becoming utterly scared at the mere sight of him. Guts walks away as Casca takes comfort in Farnese, who realizes she still can't see him.[17]

A short time after this episode, Casca is in bed being offered a warm drink by Farnese. Casca apologizes for what happened, but Danan, Schierke and Farnese understand the state of her mental health and are nonjudgmental. Casca starts shaking again, telling everyone that every time something reminds her of the old days, she is suddenly brought back to the Eclipse. As she is about to cry as she thinks of "his" voice and face as a dread shadow covers her, the Flower Storm Monarch blows magical petals to help her fall asleep. Danan tells Farnese that she'll be fine as she lets Casca rest. But before Farnese leaves, a sleeping Casca clings on to her garbs.[69] With the Moonlight Boy's arrival in Elfhelm, the child is brought to Casca. She remembers being with him as "Elaine" on the full moon nights of his recurring appearances. Danan makes note of the particularly strong bond the child shares with Casca and Guts. At night, as Casca rests with the Moonlight Boy, she explores the sense she has harbored of having known the Moonlight Boy even prior to first meeting him as he currently appears, and in a moment of deep reflection recalls being saved as "Elaine" by the Demon Child in Albion. The shocking imagery of her recollection wakes her, and she notices the Moonlight Boy is no longer sleeping with her, but is outside in the moonlit night with Guts. While Casca rushes outside, the kid transforms into Griffith at the break of dawn.[70]

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Casca's Brand of Sacrifice profusely bleeds and her protective necklace breaks into pieces, with more memories flooding her mind and rendering her nigh-unconscious.[71] Despite Guts', Schierke and Farnese's efforts at fending off the Falcon,[72] Casca is taken away by Griffith[73] and is whisked away by Zodd and Griffith to Falconia.[74]

In Falconia, Casca is lavishly served by several handmaidens. She is seen crying after spotting the Band of the Falcon head to a campaign, and visits a group of children playing among the flowers. During a bath, she remembers the people in Skellig and tries to escape, fearing for Guts. Eventually, she reappears in her room, with Irvine informing Griffith that "the bird is peacefully dozing in her cage" now that her flight is over.[75]

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Abilities[]

Manga E27 Casca Outmaneuvers Adon

Casca's superior agility allows her to outmaneuver stronger opponents such as Adon.

In the days of the original Band of the Falcon, Casca is respected by her comrades as both a leader and formidable warrior, said to only be surpassed by Griffith in sheer skill[28] prior to Guts' enlistment. Her expert swordsmanship, honed reflexes, natural agility, and above average strength allow her to battle and defeat male opponents much larger than herself.[36] For a while, a sleep-deprived Casca is even able to hold her own against the highly-skilled Bakiraka assassin Silat.[11] She also seems to have a degree of knowledge about the human body that allows her to pinpoint where to strike.[76]

Though mostly defenseless in her puerile state, she has displayed spurts of her former self in precarious situations; such instances include manifesting her inborn agility to deftly traverse down the side of a cliff,[51] and rediscovering her swordsmanship to swiftly dispatch a group of would-be bandit rapists,[77] even though she has not practiced in years.

Once she was restored, it was revealed that Casca never truly forgot her combat training. She easily took out a number of "Veykin" golems armed with shields, swords and helmets. Her prowess was were well-received by fellow warriors such as Azan, Serpico, and Roderick. Isidro then begged Casca to become his sparring partner due to Casca's stature, more closer to his than Guts'. Despite using wooden weapons due to her claim of not being able to strike as true as she used to, Casca was able to inflict him a head bump.[17] In Falconia, when attempting to escape from her gilded cage, she uses her reflexes to grab a guard's sword and sever his arm.[75]

Portrayal[]

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Notes[]

  • The Berserk Official Guidebook states that circa the Fantasia Arc, Casca is 24 years old, 165 cm, and 50 kg. (NOTE: The Berserk Official Guidebook is highly questionable in its veracity.)
  • Casca is the only known female member of the original Band of the Falcon.
  • Casca was conceptualized as Kentarou Miura's ideal woman – a "brown female warrior" who is "strong, but still feminine", qualities Miura found attractive at the time.[78]
  • Casca lacks confidence in dancing, having only ever danced at her village festival as a child.[20]
  • Casca has several symptoms of dissociative amnesia, including the fragmentation of her memory,[14][6] disruption of her perception and sense of self,[14] and intense recollection of a traumatic memory when in thematically-similar situations.[79][77]
  • Casca's puerility manifests as a fascination with animals[58][80] and shiny objects, including Puck.[81]
  • Casca has repeatedly fallen near bodies of water,[33][5][82] causing Guts to note that "anytime she stands next to water... nothing good ever comes of it."[82]
  • The first English voice actress of Casca is not Carrie Keranen from the 1997 anime adaptation, but rather B. J. Ward from the video game Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage. The English dub for Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage was released in 2000, while the English dub of the 1997 anime was released in 2002.

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Berserk :: Volume 5, "Sword Wind"
  2. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 18, "Tower of Shadows (2)"
  3. ^ Berserk :: Volume 19, "Ambitious Boy"
  4. ^ Berserk :: Volume 27, "Departure of Flames"
  5. ^ a b c Berserk :: Volume 9, "Confession"
  6. ^ a b c Berserk :: Volume 39, "Fragments of Memories"
  7. ^ Berserk :: Volume 9, "Comrades in Arms"
  8. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 13, "Escape"
  9. ^ a b c d Berserk :: Volume 7, "Casca (3)"
  10. ^ a b c Berserk :: Volume 6, "Casca (2)"
  11. ^ a b c d Berserk :: Volume 9, "Fugitives"
  12. ^ Berserk :: Volume 10, "Thousand-Year Fiefdom"
  13. ^ Berserk :: Volume 13, "Birth"
  14. ^ a b c d Berserk :: Volume 13, "Awakening to a Nightmare"
  15. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 22, "Prologue to the War Chronicle"
  16. ^ a b c d e f Berserk :: Volume 40, "Beneath Sun-Dappled Trees"
  17. ^ a b c d e f g Berserk :: Volume 41, "Barrier"
  18. ^ Berserk :: Volume 12, "Promised Time"
  19. ^ a b c Berserk :: Volume 4, "Golden Age (5)"
  20. ^ a b c Berserk :: Volume 8, "Moment of Glory"
  21. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 9, "Wound (1)"
  22. ^ Berserk :: Volume 6, "Departure for the Front"
  23. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 7, "Ready to Die (1)"
  24. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 8, "Morning of Departure (2)"
  25. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 14, "Demon Child"
  26. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 28, "Boy in the Moonlight"
  27. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 40, "Forest of Corpses and Thorny Cedars"
  28. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 4, "Golden Age (4)"
  29. ^ Berserk :: Volume 5, "Nosferatu Zodd (4)"
  30. ^ Berserk :: Volume 5, "Sword Master (1)"
  31. ^ Berserk :: Volume 6, "Assassin (2)"
  32. ^ Berserk :: Volume 6, "Assassin (4)"
  33. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 6, "Casca (1)"
  34. ^ Berserk :: Volume 7, "Returning Alive"
  35. ^ Berserk :: Volume 7, "Bonfire of Dreams"
  36. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 8, "Battle to Capture Doldrey (5)"
  37. ^ Berserk :: Volume 9, "Demise of a Dream"
  38. ^ Berserk :: Volume 10, "Sparks from a Sword Tip"
  39. ^ Berserk :: Volume 10, "Flower of the Royal Palace of Stone"
  40. ^ Berserk :: Volume 11, "Forest of Atrocity"
  41. ^ Berserk :: Volume 11, "The Immortal, Again"
  42. ^ Berserk :: Volume 12, "Warriors of Twilight"
  43. ^ Berserk :: Volume 12, "Eclipse"
  44. ^ Berserk :: Volume 12, "All the Inhuman Monsters"
  45. ^ Berserk :: Volume 12, "Parting"
  46. ^ Berserk :: Volume 13, "Storm of Death (1)"
  47. ^ Berserk :: Volume 13, "Storm of Death (2)"
  48. ^ Berserk :: Volume 13, "Afterglow of the Right Eye"
  49. ^ Berserk :: Volume 17, "To the Holy Ground (2)"
  50. ^ Berserk :: Volume 19, "Reunion"
  51. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 19, "Cliff"
  52. ^ Berserk :: Volume 19, "Iron Maiden"
  53. ^ Berserk :: Volume 19, "Blood Flow of the Dead (1)"
  54. ^ Berserk :: Volume 21, "Jumping Fish"
  55. ^ Berserk :: Volume 21, "Arrival"
  56. ^ Berserk :: Volume 22, "Reunion on the Hill of Swords"
  57. ^ Berserk :: Volume 22, "Unchanged"
  58. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 23, "Winter Journey (2)"
  59. ^ Berserk :: Volume 23, "Fangs of Ego"
  60. ^ Berserk :: Volume 25, "Qliphoth"
  61. ^ Berserk :: Volume 26, "Retribution"
  62. ^ Berserk :: Volume 28, "Proclaimed Omen"
  63. ^ Berserk :: Volume 32, "Setting Sail"
  64. ^ Berserk :: Volume 37, "Spring Flower of Days Long Passed (1)"
  65. ^ Berserk :: Volume 39, "Great Gurus"
  66. ^ Berserk :: Volume 39, "Flower Storm Monarch"
  67. ^ Berserk :: Volume 39, "Corridor of Dreams"
  68. ^ Berserk :: Volume 40, "Awakening"
  69. ^ Berserk :: Volume 41, "Cherry Orchard"
  70. ^ Berserk :: Volume 41, "Teardrop of Morning Dew"
  71. ^ Berserk :: Volume 42, "Lull of the Waning Moon"
  72. ^ Berserk :: Volume 42, "Eye of the Maelstrom"
  73. ^ Berserk :: Volume 42, "Vanishing Cherry Blossoms"
  74. ^ Berserk :: Volume 42, "A Dying Light in the Pitch Black Night"
  75. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 42, "The Red Raven Sleeps in the Birdcage"
  76. ^ Berserk :: Volume 7, "Ready to Die (2)"
  77. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 23, "Overflowing Time"
  78. ^ Berserk Official Guidebook
  79. ^ Berserk :: Volume 18, "Witch"
  80. ^ Berserk :: Volume 35, "Solitary Island"
  81. ^ Berserk :: Volume 19, "Ambush"
  82. ^ a b Berserk :: Volume 33, "Bubbles of Futility"

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