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You could make a very good case for Guda already being insane (tendency to perceive random people as servants unprompted, repressed a FUCKTON of emotions, Is A Saber, ect) but the thing is that “insane” implies that this is something bad, something that should have been avoided, and the question is would it have been better if Guda had stayed normal? Would it have been better if Guda had stayed fearful of the strange and the off-putting? Would it have been better if they couldn’t take wild gambles to reach victory? Would it have been better to die as a human rather than survive as someone unrecognizable as one? Would it have been better to break under that pressure rather than to let it reshape their spine?

What does it mean to be sane? When your life is in danger 24/7 and you have to go back, willingly, into situations where you might very much get killed. What does it mean to be sane when half of your dreams whisk you away to some faraway land, and the other half are memories that never belonged to you? What does it mean to be sane when you carry the regrets and the issues of a hundred people, and the hopes and dreams of a hundred more? What does it mean to be sane when you carry the weight of the world with hands covered in blood only you can see?

Where is the line? Between sane and insane, smart and stupid, normal and abnormal, human and nonhuman. Where is the line? The world is burning and you have to keep walking through corpses and ashes. Where is the line? They call you insane and reckless and uncanny as if anything else would have kept you alive. Where is the line? Where is the line? Show me the goddamn line.