Unidentified Female Apostle

Unidentified Female Apostle
Basics
Status	Deceased
Fatal event	Killed by Guts
Features
Kind	Human (formerly) Apostle
Gender	Female
Hair color	Blonde (as human)
Eye color	Red (as apostle)
Designations
Affiliations	God Hand
Chronology
First seen	"Black Swordsman"

This unidentified female apostle, her true name unknown, was the first apostle to be introduced and the first to be killed in the Berserk series.

Quick Answers

Who was the first apostle to be introduced?

The first apostle introduced was an unidentified female apostle, who was also the first to be killed.

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What physical changes does the unidentified female apostle undergo in her apostle form?

In her apostle form, the unidentified female apostle retains only her upper face and breasts with her arms and legs almost becoming reptilian in appearance. Her mouth stretched out widely to expose many sharp teeth and a fairly long tongue poking from the inside. Her head gained many spike-like appendages in addition to what appeared to be tentacles and even a hand or two. In addition to this, wing-like features sprouted from the back of her skull.

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How does the unidentified female apostle's human form appear?

In her human form, she is a blonde woman, slender and naked. Her face is partially covered by her hair, and she has cold, emotionless eyes with a dead smile.

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What is the significance of the unidentified female apostle in the first page of the manga?

She holds significance as the inaugural apostle and the first to be slain in the series. Notably, although she exploited her human guise to attract and eliminate men, her demise came at the hands of the series' protagonist, Guts.

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How does Guts interact with the unidentified female apostle?

She misinterprets Guts as an easy target, but when she morphs into her true form to eliminate him, Guts counterattacks and ends her life. This event is a segment of Guts' determined mission to eliminate all apostles.

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Personality

Her apostle form while eating Corkus' head.

Through her only speaking role at the start of the manga, the female apostle expressed arrogance as people fell into her trap so she would kill them while giving them pleasure.

Story

Golden Age Arc

This apostle appears among those gathered for the Eclipse to partake in the feast on the sacrifices provided for Griffith to begin his transcendence into the fifth member of the God Hand. She makes her presence known during the ritualistic killings when Corkus suffers a mental breakdown in the carnage around him as he attempts to delude himself that he is only dreaming it all up. The apostle touches herself seductively to take advantage of Corkus in his vulnerable state. He them comes closer, embracimg her. The next time the apostle is seen, she has Corkus' head in her mouth.

Guts killing the female apostle.

Black Swordsman Arc

Two years after her involvement in the Eclipse, she comes across Guts and has sex with him. However, the moment she assumes her true form to kill him, Guts shoves his prosthetic arm down her throat and kills her with the cannon, leaving a large hole in her skull.

Notes

• In Berserk: The Golden Age Arc and Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - Memorial Edition, she is seen on her way to the fifth Eclipse, having taken a colossal size. In the manga, the Snake Lord appeared in a similar scene instead.
  • She is also seem feasting on various Band of the Falcon after having eaten Corkus.
• Her base form is always presented bare.
• Whilst the manga depicts her released form as green-skinned, all animated versions depict it as brown-skinned.