Heero_Yuy84 wrote:I'm amazed no one's mentioned Guts from Berserk yet.
Starting off from a 'cursed' childhood under his dead mother, to watching his adoptive mother die...being abused by his adoptive father, who later tries to kill him (and, in self-defense, Guts's killing him causes him to be driven from his home.)
So he spends most of his life just wandering from battlefield to battlefield with no real purpose but to fight...then along comes Griffith and the Hawks. With them he finally starts to get everything together, starts to finally have a normal life... ...then along comes the eclipse, in which he watches his entire life crumble as his comrades are viciously slaughtered and the woman he loves is raped before his very eyes (...eye technically, given he loses one.)
and this is just the tip of the iceberg...then comes the manga.
If you think
he's messed up, what about Caska?
Spoilers! wrote: She's idolized Griffith since she was little and has always wanted to be with him, then she spends a year trying to save him from his imprisonment. She ends up giving up on being with him though, and becomes Guts' gf/fiancee or whatever. Then they save the man she's idolized since childhood after he's been completely raped of his body from an entire year of torture, then all of her comrades die around her, as one who, it turns out had an unrequited love for her dies to protect her. Then she ends up getting captured and raped by Griffith in front of Guts and a crapload of demons. I haven't read the manga, but I know I'd probably rather be Guts than Caska...
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