[choveshinchan]

Guts is a mentally broken character affected by the isolation and loneliness that he has both been cursed with and brought on himself. Despite this, he always finds a way to keep on going throughout the manga. He is not only surviving, but living his life by his terms and this is what gives him grounding in what is a wild fantasy setting and also is what sets the storywriting apart from just a simple fantasy manga.
“People bring the small flames of their wishes together… since they don’t want to extinguish the small flame… they’ll bring that small flame to a bigger fire. A big flame named Griffith. But you know… I didn’t bring a flame with me. I think I just stopped by to warm myself by the bonfire.”
He doesn’t want to put his desire, passion and effort towards someone else's goals, something that I feel everyone can relate to and it’s in these moments where you can see what Miura meant when he said the character was based on himself.
He is a character that constantly has turmoil inside himself. In the anime, and this is the one that came out in the 1990s not in 2016 because we do not talk about the 2016 Berserk, showed this best with a beautifully written musical theme that played in the character’s more pensive moments.

[tinykittenmweeew]

Correct... we do not talk about 2016 berserk (Besides the few drawn out still-frames, theyre the exception :3)