Guts

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|-|Early Golden Age=
"I've been fighting in battles for as long as I can remember. The mercenary leader who raised me taught me nothing except how to wield a sword. I've never had anything, except my sword. I don't want to die, for me that is the only reason I keep fighting. There is nothing to save myself for or give myself to. I fight because I know nothing else. Once I was willing to do just that, to commit myself to fighting, and let anyone else fight a reason for me."
- Guts to Casca, discussing about dreams
|-|Post-Timeskip Golden Age=
"You are going to be alright, you just stumbled over a stone on the road, it means nothing, your goal lies far beyond this, I'm sure you will overcome this, you will walk again soon."
- Guts to Griffith before leaving the Band of the Hawk
|-|Black Swordsman Arc=
"He died doing what he wanted, no matter what, right? I bet he was happy."
|-|Conviction Arc / Early Millenium Falcon Arc=
"There's no paradise for you to escape to."
- Guts' response to Jill wanting to go with him
|-|Berserker Armor=
"Even if we painstakingly piece together something lost, I guess... it doesn't mean it will be back to normal..."
- Guts after explaining to Schierke why he has a metal arm
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Tier: 9-B | 9-A | High 8-C | 8-A | 7-C
Key: Early Golden Age | Post-Timeskip Golden Age | Black Swordsman Arc | Conviction Arc / Early Millenium Falcon Arc | Berserker Armor
Name: Guts, "The Black Swordsman", "Struggler", "Hundred-Man Slayer", ”Branded Swordsman", Commander of The Hawk's Raiders
Verse: Berserk
Gender: Male
Age: 15-18 | 19 | 21 | 24 | 24
Powers and Abilities:
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|-|Early Golden Age=Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery (Guts has carved his own effective sword style that mainly utilizes greatswords), Martial Arts, Enhanced Senses (Defended himself and several others from a professional assassin sniping them in near-total darkness, fights unimpeded despite lacking an eye post-Eclipse, could keep up with Rosine while being deafened by her sonic booms), Acrobatics (As seen here and here), Supernatural Willpower (As "the Struggler", Guts' persistence and willpower is unimaginably powerful, which allows him to act through pure rage and hatred alone not caring about any wounds, which is essentially his refusal of death), Analytical Prediction (Correctly predicted in his first fight with Nosferatu Zodd that focusing his attacks on Zodd's sword to break it was his strongest bet at survival. As the Black Swordsman, would go on to fight several duels with Serpico, one of the best fencers in the setting, and see through his tactics and predict his moves each time, even when he had territorial advantage), Stealth Mastery (Sneaked to Julius' house without beings noticed by guards), Immense Pain Tolerance, Limited Air Manipulation (By swinging his sword broad-side first, he can alter the air pressure in its trajectory to create gusts powerful enough to knock away Silat's whip swords), Passive Probability Manipulation (Due to the circumstances of his birth, he has the supernatural ability to evade certain death), Possibly Regeneration (Low. Likely not combat-applicable. After his and Griffith's first fight with Nosferatu Zodd, Guts healed from his injuries significantly faster than Griffith, despite being the more wounded of the two), Resistance to: Empathic Manipulation (Is not under the influence of Femto's supernatural aura that can induce fear and obedience, and could attack him even while on the brink of death), Limited Resistance to: Causality Manipulation and Fate Manipulation (Skull Knight states that due to Guts inhabiting the Interstice he exists "outside the logic of the physical world". This compounded with his pre-existing Probability Manipulation allows him to defy the flow of causality established by the God Hand and the Idea of Evil to a small extent, being able to survive even in situations where he is preordained to die, such as when he was sacrificed by Femto)
|-|Post-Timeskip Golden Age=All previous abilities.
|-|Black Swordsman Arc=All previous abilities, Non-Physical Interaction (Can attack ghosts and beings on the astral plane with the Dragon Slayer, can even interact with Abstract Beings such as Slan), Soul Manipulation (Can damage the soul) and Limited Regeneration Negation (Severe wounds caused on the Astral Plane/dealt to the soul do not heal properly, reopening even after being healed, magically or otherwise) with the Dragon Slayer, Minor Cyborgization (Has a detachable steel arm that has many functions, like a cannon arm that has Explosion Manipulation (can create explosions) and a repeating crossbow.
|-|Conviction Arc / Early Millenium Falcon Arc=All previous abilities, Pressure Points (Easily knocked out Farnese by lightly hitting her in the back of the neck, leaving her basically unharmed), Self-Healing with Elf Dust (Up to Low-Mid; Due to his elf companion Puck stowing away inside his travel bags, he has a supply of Elf Dust that he can use to heal wounds, such as from extreme torture and having his neck pierced by the mandibles of a man-sized praying mantis), Minor Explosion Manipulation (Via miniature bombs), Resistance to: Possession (Was able to expel multiple spirits attempting to possess him), Heat Manipulation / Fire Manipulation (He has repeatedly tanked building and forest fires and other high-heat hazards and attacks), Limited Resistance to: Poison Manipulation (Survived Rosine's poison) and Soul Manipulation (Has ignored severe wounds on his astral body)
|-|Berserker Armor= All previous abilities, Berserk Mode, Limited Immortality (Type 2; He can take far more punishment than before, but will still die from total blood loss, destruction or stoppage of the heart, and/or a cease to critical brain functions. The armour essentially "holds him together"), Enhanced Acrobatics (Enhanced Condition, Hypermobility, All-Terrain Mobility. Can leap large distances even with his sword, and is not affected by high falls. Can do powerful flip attacks. Is also this swift, and could use Air Manipulation to break a fall and depreciate damage, which was compared to Serpico's wind magic flight), Statistics Amplification (Drastically improves the physical strength of user), Enhanced Senses (Night vision, can see clearly in the dark), Resistance to: Electricity Manipulation Withstood lightning from Ganishka, who even prior to becoming Shiva is the most powerful Apostle seen to date), Fear Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation (Incapable of feeling fear, and can resist attempts by even high-level magic practitioners like Schierke to snap him out of his Berserker state), and Telepathy (His bloodlust was so intense that Schierke couldn't use her thought transference on him), Immunity to: Pain Manipulation (Incapable of feeling pain in this armor)
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Attack Potency: Wall level (Defeated Bazuso who can kill a Grizzly Bear in single combat, destroyed the wood of a barrel as a kid) | Small Building level (Can hurt and take hits from Wyald, who can destroy a boulder) | Large Building level (Has defeated many low level apostles at this point, should scale to this feat) | Multi-City Block level (Can hurt and take hits from Mozgus, who's God Breath is this powerful) | Town level (Swinging his Dragon Slayer generates this Kinetic Energy, can fight against Zodd which is this powerful, scales to this feat (Note 1))
Speed: Supersonic (Can dodge sword swings from point-blank range) | Supersonic (Can stop a Chakram at point-blank range) | Supersonic (At least as fast as his previous key) | Hypersonic (Stops a slowed down Rosine, keeps up with transformed elves) | Massively Hypersonic+ (Dodges lightning and sticks his sword into the ground to avoid being struck by lightning)
Striking Strength: Wall level | Small Building level | Large Building level | Multi-City Block level | Town level
Lifting Strength: Class 50 (Can swing his greatsword) | Class 50 (Higher than before) | Class 50 (Higher than before. Can lift the Dragon Slayer, which is this heavy, grip it with his teeth and swing it at superhuman speeds) | Class 50 (Higher than before, can lift and throw Mozgus) | Class G (Can stop a shipmast from falling and move the Demon Slayer at this speed)
Durability: Wall level (Scales to his Attack Potency) | Small Building level (Survived an onslaught of attacks from Wyald's Apostle Form) | Large Building level, Town level with the Dragon Slayer (The Dragon Slayer can tank Daiba's water snake being evaporated and lightning from Ganishka and doesn’t break when used by Berserker Armor Guts) | Multi-City Block level (Scales to His Attack Potency) Town level with the Dragon Slayer | Town level (Can withstand multiple lightning bolts from Ganishka, which could harm Nosferatu Zodd's Apostle Form and one-shot several other Apostles, Immortality makes him hard to kill. Can take heartbeats from the Sea God's heart (Note 1))
Stamina: Superhuman (Was able to fight against one hundred men lasting an entire night) | Superhuman (Endured a long drawn out battle with Apostle Wyald. Withstood almost the entirety of Eclipse, where he lost his arm and eye and was bleeding out without any help but kept on fighting with tens of physically superior Apostles in that state, only being fueled by pure hatred, but also was mentally devastated because of continuous death of his comrades and rape of Casca before his very eyes. Right after that, he could run for an entire day) | Superhuman | Superhuman (Significantly higher than before. Can withstand attacks from Apostles and keep fighting like nothing happened. He is even willing to be injured by his enemies to gain an advantage in battle. Consistently fights with little to no break between fights where he loses a lot of blood and is gravely injured), higher with Elf Dust (He has been shown to undo the effects of torture that left even the likes of Guts unable to move) | Superhuman (Indefinitely higher than before. Will stop fighting only when the last drop of his blood is spilled, can’t fell pain and can reattach his broken bones)
Range: Extended Melee Range with Great Broadsword, Several Meters with Dragon Slayer (It was said to be longer than Guts' body) and Hand Cannon, Tens of Meters with Repeater Crossbow
Standard Equipment:
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|-|Golden Age=
*Great Broadsword: Large broadsword that was made to suit Guts' way of fighting his enemies, with as much power and durability it can muster. Even then Guts needed to replace several of these swords due to Guts putting them through much pressure but these swords should not be underestimated because these are still able to cut heavily armored men with ease and withstand blows from a person who was as strong as Guts.
*Leather Armor: Light and effective armor used by Guts as a mercenary, it brings relative protection from arrows and sword slashes but is quite easily shredded by powerful opponents such as trained knights, assassins and apostles.
|-|Black Swordsman / Conviction / Early Millenium Falcon=
*Dragon Slayer: This weapon was built with the singular purpose of being able to slay a dragon. Its creator, Godot, made it oversized and crude, as a means of criticizing and mocking the ridiculous demand of its commission, and put it in his shed to rust after it was rejected in disgust by the king who ordered it. Years later, it would be found by Guts, who, to Godot's shock, could wield it just as he could any other sword. And ironically enough, the weapon has come close to fulfilling its "purpose", Guts having used the weapon to defeat, albeit not kill, the Dragon Apostle, Grunbeld. Aside from it absurd size and its subsequent ability to deal equally absurd damage, what makes the Dragon Slayer special is that due to it being tempered in the blood and malice of thousands of the monsters and malicious spirits inhabiting the Interstice, it has gained the ability to attack the ethereal body.
*Hand Cannon: One of the few long-range weapons Guts has. It can be morphed out of Guts' right hand and is quite powerful, being able to blast through Apostles with little effort. Guts also uses the Hand Cannon's recoil to propel himself forward whilst swinging the Dragon Slayer, enhancing his velocity. In turn the hand cannon can also turn into a brutal melee weapon -- due to its sledgehammer-like weight and sturdiness, Guts, even after being pushed to the point of collapse from a gauntlet of ruthless fights just a couple hours prior, effortlessly killed a fully-armored knight with a single punch.
*Repeater Crossbow: A crossbow mountable to Guts' prosthetic arm, capable of firing arrows rapidly. It's mainly used for fighting a horde of enemies.
*Dagger: Used by Guts for usually cutting meat of animals but it is also used as an effective side arm that Guts can use in blink of an eye when the Dragon Slayer isn't necessary.
*Throwing Knifes: Guts has a really accurate throwing capability with knifes so he opted for the wide leaf-shaped daggers that can easily penetrate even armored opponents.
*Miniature Bombs: While seemingly underwhelming at first glance these miniature bombs are not to be underestimated, they can easily blow up armor and severely damage pseudo-apostles.
*Black Swordsman Armor: Really durable armor that is resistant to blunt and slash damage and specially for the former as Guts has survived being crushed several times due to the help of the armor. The armor provides relative protection to the legs and the shoulders as he can shrug off most arrow strikes and sword slashes.
|-|Berserker Armor=
*Berserker Armor: A cursed suit of incredibly durable armor that removes the body's subconscious limiters, allowing the wearer to achieve incredible feats of strength, speed and agility that are far beyond what they're normally capable of, at the cost of causing heavy strain and damage to the body in the process. It also keeps wounds from slowing Guts down, forcibly relocating joints, reinforcing broken bones, and binding flesh to the bone with barbs. However, it does not mend wounds, meaning that Guts will still be bleeding out from particularly severe wounds. Additionally, it strips the user of whatever sanity they once had put them into a constant state of bloodlust. The bloodlust is so powerful that Schierke was unable to possess him in this state.
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Intelligence: Gifted. Guts is an infamously skilled swordsman, being able to take on most Apostles and humans with his casual swings alone thanks to the enormous heft of the Dragon Slayer. Guts is a capable thinker and a pragmatic fighter, a fact he proves by solving problems with his wits when brute force doesn't work, such as when he used an enemy as bait by disguising them with his cloak, played dead to get close enough to fire a point-blank Hand Cannon, and adapting to exceedingly unfavorable situations. Contrary to popular belief Guts is quite clever, as shown when he uses his scientific knowledge, such as utilizing Dragon Slayer against lightning and puncturing the Sea God's stomach to take advantage of the difference in air pressure to get vacuumed within another part of its body
Standard Tactics: Constant state of Bloodlust with Berserker Armor, but this doesn’t greatly affect his combat negatively
Weaknesses: Bloodthirsty and sadistic to a fault at times. Suffers from PTSD that makes him fear to be touched intimately | Is cursed by the Brand of Sacrifice and will be attacked by Tidal Wave of Darkness during the night. Can't swim with his steel arm | The Berserker Armor does not heal wounds, only delaying the effects of damage taken. The Berserker Armor also removes his subconscious limiters, causing his body to harm and eventually destroy itself. Now suffers from severe PTSD
Notes:
*The way Guts scales to the Sea God feat is the following:
*# Since the storm is caused by a scream from the Sea God, we can apply Newthon's third law. This means the Sea God is this durable and from the inside too (since that’s where the scream came from). Guts can cut the Sea God from the inside so he should scale.
*# The storm was created by the Sea God's wail, therefore generated by it's vocal cords, which would need to be tough enough to withstand producing that much energy. Vocal cords are much smaller and thinner than the heart. Guts was able to cut the Sea God's heart in half, so he should scale.
*#Guts could take heartbeats from the Sea God's heart. Since both the heartbeat and the scream are sound based attacks, we may assume that if they’re of comparable decibels they are of compare potency. The heartbeat reaches 170 to 200 decibels. Schierke heard cannonballs while she was with Guts but didn’t hear the Sea gods scream, there isn’t information on a direct decibel amount for cannonballs but according to this and with muskets being 140 db using this calculator you get 180 db for cannonballs at 1m
*While there are claims that Dragon Slayer negates durability by attacking the soul, this is not true, nor are claims it outright possesses a busted degree of regeneration negation (this argument commonly phrased as something to the effect of "Dragon Slayer kills with a scratch"). Its power is more along the lines of creating wounds that will never fully recover, and even if healed or regenerated, they will open up again. This isn't full-blown regeneration negation but will function as such when it comes to more debilitating injuries.
*Guts' Probability Manipulation is likely not quite as effective in a VS match as it is in-story, as many of the times he's survived were due to outside help. While still otherwise applicable and even potentially highly effective, this does limit his potential options for a bailout with luck hax.
*Respect Thread
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