User blog comment:Altenativefuturefan27/Help Developing a Fic/Need Ideas?/@comment-86.100.116.109-20141206133630/@comment-86.100.116.109-20141208023457

Echidna's situation seems pretty reasonable. If she can't have a husband than she at least was granted a child but the tragic event is a bit too common. It appears to be a common trend in MGE to make the protoganist have some sort of tragic childhood that in some way breaks him and it always involves something happening to a parent. I would suggest a bit of a different scenario. Everything go as you said until the point where the bandits are about to rape Echidna. Seeing his mother about to be raped and most likely later killed, Guts has a flashback, like a smal vison from his past life where he is slaughtering his enemies in brutal anger. After the flashback ends, the same anger that Guts had in the flashback overtakes him and in blind rage he grabs a nearby placed sword (a bandit was undressing also puts away his sword).and before the group of bandits can react, he starts brutally killing them. The bandits didn't hame much chance to defend themselves as they had all discarded their clothes and weapons so they could have fun time with the Echidna. Those that did manage to grab their weapons were too much overtaken by shock and fear by the sight of a boy, now fully drenched in blood, kill their comrades brutally. After the last bandit is killed, Guts hears someone trying to approach him from behind and he attacks with the sword but stop in mid-swing when he notices that it his frightened mother. He drops the sword in shock and than the gravity of all that he has done kicks in, causing him to scream in fear at the sight of some much blood. Than he runs away, not hearing his mother's voice calling him to stop. Later in the story it could be added how Echidna acutally leaves her cave to look for her precious son.

True, a lilim amazon and a lilim kunoichi have the needed strength and flexibility for it. But you could also spice things up a bit by having Deruella chase him too. While her sisters try to capture Guts through physical force, Deruella would use trickery and scemes to do it. I imagine lizards, minotaurs, dragons, ogres being the most fierce in their efforts to claim him. True, the order would try to kill him if they found out that it is his fault that monsters are in their territory. But some would also see it as an asset. They would try to recruit Guts so that he would lure the high ranking monsters into a trap. I like the idea of Guts being sort of a nomad, always traveling, never stopping. The chief goddess whispering into his thoughts sounds a bit similar to Monster Girl Quest where Luka in his dreams is visited by the goddess and she gives him a mission. Just don't feel that exitement in this way. Perhaps Guts during his travels finds a small village that is very isolated from both the order and the monsters. He stays there for year, finding peace but is short lived as it is attacked and raised by a big group of mercenaries. Guts kills them and demands their leader to reveal who hired them, but the merc leaders dies and Guts sets out to avange the village by looking the ones responsable for the hired attack.

Instinct and danger would force Guts body to remember his fighting skills. Sounds pretty good. Centaur is definitely a companion that has intimate things concidered not a priority, plus centaurs have a wariors code and are pretty reasonable, if they don't get drunk of course. I can see how at first Guts would find her annoying, but her constant refusal to leave would break down his defenses and he would have to accept her.