#helsiril

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They're dating

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New Kui art!!

Confirmed Milsiril kids aka potential Kabru sibs + helsiril what a day. They really are a duo

2. Speaking of duos

3. Marcille cute bag + marchil appeal examplified. That is all

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There's not much content about them but somehow I believe they have a special bond

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loosely inspired by the askblogs

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please.... do you have any helsiril brainbunnies... crumbs mayhaps

Oh gee it's hard to put my abstract vague thoughts into words, and this is embarrassing but I'll do my best for you anon

I mentioned before that I like to think about them both as friends and as lovers with no particular preference, that's because I like to imagine they have a certain kind of closeness that at first glance you can't tell? Maybe like an old married couple yeah, where they're been together so long the closeness is only natural.

I also like to think at first Milsiril didn't really want to get closer to him (as she doesn't seem to want to get close with any elves) but as she "couldn't leave him alone" she warmed up to him more than she expected. I like to imagine Helki also tries to take care of Milsiril, like he's her extroverted friend? Maybe it's less hard to talk to other elves with him around, I don't imagine there's much he can do since he's an (ex) prisoner but it's the moral support that counts 😔 Like I don't think he speaks for her or can really do much but having him around while in the canaries probably made things less hard for her considering we always see her glued to his side when he's there in the flashbacks.

I also think spending time with Milsiril made Helki more interested in short lived humans, like the interest he shows Rin compared to the other elves who lost interest pretty fast, considering how it went I also think he's not good with them tho lmao, he's trying

That all being said is confusing to me what's their situation in canon 🤔 to me it doesn't seem like they live together? And more like Helki comes and goes? (Like in the Rin extra and other times where is just Milsiril and Kabru) but sometimes it also seems like they spend a lot of time together (like in the Mithrun recovery comic and in some parts where Kabru talks about his training)

But tbh Kabru's siblings also don't show up in the flashbacks, he might have been living with them and be omitted for brevity, Milsiril lives 'deep in the mountains' so visiting her probably isn't easy but I still like to imagine he comes and goes*, and that they're still in a point of their relationship that is undefined and that maybe they'll be together for real in the future 😳

*My headcanon is that he still does canary work when he's not with Milsiril which is kinda disproven by the fact he's labeled as "ex-canary" along with Milsiril in the AB but then why was he there when Rin got captured? 🧐

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Here's something that i noticed after finishing Dunmeshi manga, dunmeshi adventure's bible complete edition and dunmeshi daydream hour complete edition.....

IM FUCKING IN LOVE WITH HELKI 🥲.

(and ofc Laios and Grandpa Mithrun and our beloved divorced middle aged man Chil)

But Helki tho..who the hell is this extra character??

My first thought of him is "Damn! is dat Kabru's Mom's lackey.. poor guy..I feel ya!"

But gradually im becoming more aware and more curious of him, since he keep coming in the extra stories 😂.

This mothafucka really ask "Yo kid.. Wanna eat dis cake?" while drenched in blood

And.. The audacity to eat the cake while staring at poor rin 😭

And look at him getting disgusted by bloody wet sticky mithrun 😂

I WAS LIKE, OH C'MON HE WOULD MAKE AN INTERESTING CHARACTER!

I would love to see his dynamic with Milsiril too! Oh c'mn Kui.. Give us some more extra stories about past canaries!

I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW HIS CRIME TOO KUI! LIKE WTH THIS MAN DO ? HE SEEMS LIKE A SIMPLEMINDED IDIOT TYPE TO ME 😭

I understand that he's not relevant for the plot, but still .. I think there are a lot of manga readers that adore him or him and Milsiril's dynamic! It would be such a shame to throw some potential good extra stories. At least as his fan it would be great to see a character description like everybody else.. I mean, he's doing a pretty good job in Utaya.

Like Kui.. whats the point of stirring us fans with that Q&A in Shanghai about Helsiril Kuii 🥺🥺 Damn you.. I love you but aarhhh

Its nice to see Helki loving the elf cake since Milsiril herself is a picky eater and her fav food according to her data is that elf cake (Its cute if she can only make that 🥲), even though according to Thistle , Kabru, and delgal that cake is somewhat weird.

If you want to see some fanmade about HelkixMilsiril, u guys can search in google,twitter, danbooru, pixiv by type ヘルキ or ヘルキ×ミルシリル or helsiril or helki... Its nice to see a lot of passionate fans.. But again, it WOULD BE REALLY NICE IF THERE ARE SOME CANON EXPLANATION ABOUT HIS CHARACTER ☺️🤧.

This is me everytime i think bout him

And this is me with non-helki lovers but we got the same love for dunmeshi

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i love ur fanart style !!! especially helsiril <333

Aww thanks🥺✨ I hope this ship more popular in future, maybe season 2 will happened...

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Mod question: What are your helki ships! Do you ship him with anyone?

Milsiril Mithrun and erm that's all I think. Helsiril is awesome and Helki x Mithrun is funny as hell. I am not a very original guy so if I see good ship fanart or a headcanon or fanfiction or anything of him and someone else I will probably start shipping the pairing lol

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Okay now I'm slightly free from overthinking what I say

I said in the other ask that my headcanon is that Helki and Milsiril are actually friends and to elaborate on that I mean cause she was his superior at one point, she was a guard and he was a prisoner and even tho he got pardoned we might assume he became her servant after because of that extra with Fleki, which is a real possibility! Not many prospects for a ex prisoner with visible ear notches I imagine, even Erique became a guard after being pardoned so becoming Milsiril's servant was probably his only choice, and that might mean he just has no other option but to stay with her (I've seen people argue that)

TO THAT I SAY that he seems to be on good terms with her regardless, they act friendly towards each other and not like someone who gives orders and someone who obeys orders, and he seems to be free to come and go as we see in the Rin extra, he even goes to ask Milsiril for help on his own accord

Also this answer from an interview with Kui gives me life, cause Milsiril really doesn't like other elves and the "could not leave him alone" Makes me imagine Milsiril begrudgingly taking him under her wing cause she just can't stop herself from caring for people she see's as outcasts

Which is my other headcanon for Milsiril: I like to think that instead of "surrounding herself with people she sees as inferior" she rather surrounds herself with people who she see's as outcasts similar to her. So not "I have power over them" but rather "they're similar to me". I like to think that because of her extra and how she talks about Mithrun

I hear some people say she only took interest in Mithrun when he became someone who needed her but that's not really accurate, she took an interest in him when she realized he was someone similar to her. She wishes they could have been friends before he became this way.

My other related headcanon is that I think Milsiril LIKES caring for other people, and that what she "gets" out of doing that is that she gets to care for someone lmao. I also think she's good at it, both the characters we meet who were under her care became completely independent of her and barely miss her in their current lives, considering Kabru is thankful for all she taught him and Mithrun seems to not even think about her often I think she did a great job caring for both of them. Everyone is always trying to figure out "why" Milsiril would care of them, my headcanon is that she just likes it.

I feel like some of these are points I repeat a lot but yeah, headcanons:

Milsiril and Helki are friends

Milsiril just "had" to become close with Helki since he's an outcast

Milsiril feels kinship with other outcasts

Milsiril likes to take care of other people

Also, I ship Helsiril both as friends and/or as romantic partners, I can see it both ways and idk which one I like more, I love Helki, my Helki headcanons based on not much is that he's more troublesome than the 4 kids she seems to have but that he tries to help even tho he doesn't especially like kids

Also also I don't get to talk about this often: I LOVE how annoyed Kabru look in some of his interactions with Milsiril, he's never this directly annoyed at someone until Laios makes him reach his limit lmao. My very self indulgent headcanon is that Kabru doesn't bother to hide how he feels in front of Milsiril, and that she's one of the few people he doesn't feel the need to put a mask on to interact with.

Yes tell us about your milsiril headcanons if you want at least on your sideblog if you want shes just so underappreciated

You really have a better chance to getting an answer about my personal takes on my sideblog! It feels awkward to be too self indulgent over here since I try to be a little more objective in this blog (try)

But tbh I'm not really one to think deeply about headcanons, I'm kinda boring. It's mostly my interpretations of the character that don't have a confirmation in canon. I reblog this to my sideblog soon with what's probably gonna be a huge wall of text (or maybe not)

And Milsiril fated to be underappreciated since she's barely there in the story, but it's okay Milsiril, you'll always be number 1 background character in my heart

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you'll never guess who runs the askhelki blog.

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Helki compilation

Helki is a prisoner-turned-servant. He’s a criminal canary and was implicitly one of Milsiril’s charges, and now that she’s retired he’s become her servant.

He must have gotten into Milsiril’s good graces, whether through attachment or convenience, which is a feat considering Milsiril’s a socially anxious recluse. Interesting since it’s not like he seems like the agreeable type, shifty upbeat delinquent style… We really don’t know much about him, not even what crimes he did, so there’s a lot of space for speculation on all grounds.

Edit: Shanghai QnA with Kui gave us a new juicy morsel of info!

Interesting… The original question in chinese is: 米尔西里尔是怎么接纳海尔奇待在自己身边的？毕竟她讨厌精灵，还被金丝雀队友欺负。 and the answer in japanese is: 海尔奇过去出过一些事，遭到了其他伙伴的抛弃，米尔西里尔对这样的人没法不伸出援手。That it’s written in japanese seems to say that there isn’t the same double translation issue there was last QnA, so if someone wants to look at the original phrasing and word choices it can be done. Perhaps Helki-Milsiril has a more protégé dynamic undertone than previously thought… "For various reasons", meaning that there were circumstances that made it so the squad had to choose between saving him and saving their own skin, or like, "man this guy’s personality sucks we don’t really like him"? Likely to be a mix of several things, since ‘for various reasons’ implies the situation had a lot of layers. Either way, the phrasing is very much that out of everyone Milsiril refused to abandon him, and so a relationship sprung out of that. Another instance of outcasts seeking out & sticking with other outcasts in Dungeon Meshi. This could mean that it’s a bit less out of personal attachment and more out of a sense of duty on Milsiril’s side as well, though.

Still edit: So then maybe him staying with Rin in that comic isn’t that much because of work ethics or that he cares for kids (or maybe he does because he feels kinship to them, alone and mistreated), but because he didn’t want to join the other canaries in that room chatting and laughing? Maybe the isolation was exacerbated because he became Milsiril’s favorite, teacher’s pet style, but I’d also be careful about assuming the others disproportionately dislike him, it could be that they just don’t really care for him. Why? Could be a lot of things, canary mentality, or because of his personality, because he’s seen as shifty or unreliable or annoying, if not an event, who knows who knows. But I like to think because of the Rin comic that he generally just tends to be a loner, that he’s "weird" in a neurodivergent vibe, he doesn’t conform to proper social behavior which in elven society seems especially alienating. He’s the only one to think of Rin's sake, not only sees her as worth observing/caring for but also asks her to eat— but he does this with an offputting stare, not really emoting, and then well, the infamous alone with her staring munching covered in blood panel. He stands out. I’m a fan of the theory that it was a "Helki? Not that I dislike the guy but I’m not risking my skin for him" situation… Ok end edit back to older observations.

He seemed to be acting out of his own initiative in the Rin comic, he doesn’t look thrilled to be there in many post-canary comics but he also seems content enough. He restrains Milsiril in the Mithrun cleaning comic which is interesting to think of for their relationship.

It’s fun to notice how he’s the only one that didn’t get bored of looking after Rin, and then reports back about her condition… I’d say he was getting used to taking care of kids which would come with the job of serving Milsiril, but then, not enough for him to clean the blood off himself hah. In this way it’s interesting to think about his relationship to the idea of parenthood, he’s probably the closest thing to a father figure/male role model Kabru had around him growing up, without mentioning the other kids as well. [Edit: the new modern AU art shows that he really did have a not unsignificant role in caring for the kids!] I feel like he’d consider himself an older brother, cousin or uncle figure sooo much sooner than a father, but even then I do think it’s just his job and he’s not really invested or forming real relationships with any of them much.

It’s curious to note that he’s dressed in canary uniform presumably after having been pardoned and living with Milsiril? Which you can tell by the armor bits (the yellow strips of spider silk). Specifically, in the Kabru training montage and the Rin comic. It seems very implausible for him to have still been a canary while being retired Milsiril’s servant and being with her all the time, and the cleaning with Mithrun comic (where he’s not in uniform) happens after Utaya, so it could happen after Kabru was taken in but around the time of the Rin comic. It is said that Helki was pardoned and Milsiril retired after their work in Utaya specifically, in the anime we also see a brief shot of canaries silhouettes at Utaya including Milsiril's, so combined with the Mithrun comic after Utaya and Mithrun's recovery efforts we have a pretty tight timeline of when they retired, year 499 when Utaya was destroyed to 500 when Mithrun became captain. (We know Mithrun started recovery efforts in year 480, but it's also hearing about Utaya that made Mithrun double his efforts, knowing the demon had struck again, so it's the next milestone we can use as reference point.) So why uniform? It could be one of the best outfits he has, so it’d make sense to wear it around especially if you’re sparring or getting… Blood on you? Could just be because that's how Milsiril wants him to dress. But yeah we don't know when exactly Helki becoming Milsiril’s servant happened. We do see Mithrun’s charge, Cithis, be tasked with taking care of him, so a charge being given a servant-caretaker role doesn’t seem all that out of the ordinary, sometimes even prior to retiring.

Imo, if he doesn't work for Milsiril he goes back to jail/the canaries/has to try and get a job instead of just tending to her, so Helki is staying with Milsiril because she's the best option for him. He’s Milsiril's personal servant and does mostly dull tasks of whatever she requires, cleaning, being a training mannequin, looking after kids. He’s not particularly suited to the role but they’ve gotten used to each other, she got used to him, so she took him with her, and he does prefer it to canary work so it works out decent for him. I think he’s used to reading her and managing her moods, he's evidently comfortable enough with her (and allowed) to physically restrain her when her emotions get the better of her, and he’s one of the rare social connection she has. Edit: The Shangai Q&A seems to point towards a deeper history and connection between the two. With Milsiril having implicitly saved Helki, it's likely he feels like he has to repay her, whether he's happy with that or not. But again, he seems content enough imo.

Under spoiler is stage 2 interpretation stuff, bigger speculation, in a reblog I’ll make soon I’ll go over my thoughts for stage 3 interpretation lol. Helsiril I’m coming for you

Translation of the canary hierachy chart used is by Thatsmimi, here.

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Look at all those ships! :o

I don't have more to add except some ship names I've seen:

Otta x Mayjack : Ottamei, Ottajack

Mayjack x Izutsumi : Izutsumei, Izujack

Mithrun x Milsiril : Mirumisu, Mithril

Falin x Rin : Farinsha

Chilchuck x Dandan : Danchil

Chilchuck x Kabru : Chilbru

Mayjack x Namari : Jackmari

Helki x Milsiril : Helsiril, Helksiril

Chilchuck x Marcille : Marchil

Marios (Laios x Marcille) : Laimar, Laicille

Alright, noted

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