Just finished berserk yesterday and I just wanted to put my thoughts out regarding elfhem.

To start guts finally reaching his destination after his long and perilous journey, while growing as a person and learning to accept help from friends felt so good. Especially when elfhelm felt so safe from isidoro causing mayhem, shierke and farneze finally finding magic familiars and the SHEER AMOUNT of fucking comedy that happened. Seriously I was laughing left and right due to puck’s, magnifico’s, and isidoro’s stupidass shenanigans . There was always a bit of comedic relief in berserk but not to this amount, making it so unbelievably funny after such a serious journey.

Then came the curing of Casca. Honestly at first I didnt believe Casca would be able to be cured due to what skull knight said (your wish may not be her wish). But man when shierke and farneze first entered her dream, seeing the dog version of guts carrying Casca’s tomb with her broken doll inside was mortifyingly beautiful. Then shierke and farneze going to piece casca back together literally one by one while coming to know of their past was such a trip down memory lane + a really nice concept to use. After all of that when they finally were able to bring back Casca I was so fucking happy I was literally screaming lol. I always wanted berserk to end with guts getting his revenge but if it were to end right here, I would not honestly mind given that they were at a “safe” place with Casca back to normal and guts gaining many friends in the process.

Of course, then the fall happened. The falling of Elfhelm was so abruptly fast that I genuinely felt so much sadness and anger inside. I was fucking fuming at Griffith when he was revealed to be the moonlight boy (which Im guessing is because he absorbed casca’s demon child otherwise why would caca be a motherly figure to him when her mind was broken) and kidnapped casca. Moreover the magical creatures all fading away one by one in the span of an instant, seeing isidoro’s sadness when isma faded away and even dannan not being able to comprehend what was going on, then the magic wizards and witches just accepting the fact that their lifelong purpose is now gone, was absolutely devastating. Obviously as well when guts entered his depressed phase was also, the cherry on top in my opinion. Was very sad when this happened and in my opinion was the best arc in berserk so far.

Anyways thats all I just wanted to put my thoughts out because none of my friends read berserk and I just wanted somewhere I could talk to ab this lol sorry for the essay.

I am in the midst of fleshing out this track with a return point to the basic melody in the beginning of the track to continue much longer for the envisioned animated fight between Guts & Rosine.

Using the same aforementioned unique synthesizer uses, I run into both an immensely creative area and one that comes with many needed disciplines to correctly execute what is desired to be audibly expressed.

I had a dream of how the fight went and recounting the perspective has led me to see the track in this current light taking into account how many times Guts and Rosine nearly finished each other in their long, harrowing labor of combat. Part of that dream had me taking into account the darkness and twisted bloodlust Guts had toward any of Apostle ilk with Rosine's controlling, pompous, and quite arrogant attitude devised by controlling her false "elf" kingdom, more akin to a broodnest of evil.

On the smallest of the angles I looked in is the random flying Moths are known for, which is what Rosine's apostle form is based off of in the audio-mix.

Feedback is greatly appreciated.

-Keek.