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Dungeon Meshi - Female Dwarf beards

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Flowey: NOOOO! STOP! YOURE SUPPOSED TO OBEY ME

The six human Testosterone bottles:

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slay the princess is a very serious and existential game

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I had the "come here" Shiningale interaction from Chapter 13 in my head for quiet some time now so take this quick thing I put together I guess. I got to record the OST used in this chapter and I had to sneak it in here hehe

This happened, right?? Right???

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me and who

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Its time for Big Ike’s feeding.

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look, the thing with Toshiro is that he is not a bad guy, I don't think he would work out with Falin no matter the case, but he's not a bad guy. He is just a guy in a foreign land, and he was sheltered as a rich guys son who has retainers instead of friends, he doesn't know how to act towards people.

He is friends with Laios, yes things in ep 17 came to a boil and Toshiro finally exploded, but that doesn't mean he really hates him. He might not be the best friend Laios imagined him to be, but he doesn't hate the guy despite what he said. Yes, I'm sure he was genuinely bothered by the way Laios acts like the rest of the party, sans Falin, but him exploding at Laios because it's the worst possible time is not the same as him secretly always hating him.

At the time things break bad, had just had a party wipe where not only did they lose to a dragon, the woman he was infatuated with didn't leave with them. He did what he thought was best, get skilled retainers and head back into the dungeon. He has been fighting monsters through the dungeon, not resting, sleeping or eating for days. He finds out the same girl he likes was revived with dark magic, then turned into a Chimera that tears through his retainers, and almost kills them. As he's panicking Laios keeps saying the wrong thing at the wrong time and he finally explodes.

People are not just who they are at their worst moments, just like they're not who they only who they are at the best moments in their life. He's not an asshole for believing Marcille is dangerous because of her using dark magic when he thinks it turned Falin into a chimera and the social norms is dark magic is evil. Especially when Falin became the most powerful monster in the dungeon capable of using magic that slaughtered his retainers and every other adventurer in a few minutes.

*Spoilers for the manga*

When he's had time to think and get some rest and food, Toshiro is on Laios' side, willing to fight elite elven dungeon specialists on his behalf.

Also I know Laios is the fandom's precious little autistic bean, but he isn't guiltless in their relationship. Sure, there was not a malicious bone in Laios' body, but it doesn't change that he saw a foreigner in a bar and blasted him with questions without asking him his name. Yes, Toshiro should have explained, but everyone in the Touden party is neurodivergent, you cannot change my mind. Sometimes it is easier to avoid awkwardness by not correcting people when they get your name wrong. Toshiro didn't think he's be a part of Laios' party for years, he thought it was a meeting with a stranger in a bar, and then he's Shuro for 2 years to everyone in the party and the adventurers community.

People are complicated, and they should be allowed to be. Toshiro might not get a lot of chapters, but it is clear he is not just some asshole who has secretly hated Laios, it's just at the worst moment of his life after a series of terrible weeks things come to a boil. The whole manga/anime has more nuanced characters than any I've read/watched.

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This man needs to be put into a container and studied!!!!

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"Shuro loves Falin for the same reasons he hates Laios" Completely and utterly wrong, could not be further off base.

I get the impression a lot of people watching Dungeon Meshi as it airs, or are a bit removed from its original manga run, have forgotten that Laios and Falin being monster freaks wasn't actually apparent until the events of the story. The only person that knew Falin loved monsters as much as Laios was Marcille because they were best friends at school.

Once Laios and Falin were in an adventuring party together, they both had public facing personas because they had both learned through their separate upbringings that being super interested in monsters and dungeons wasn't normal. Laios is the blunt but well meaning, outspoken and opinionated guy we all know, but Falin was way more withdrawn and soft-spoken, non-confrontational, easy to get along with. Everyone that interacted Falin would say she's a sweet, gentle girl that everyone likes. Because she was, frankly, kind of a doormat.

The whole thing with Toshiro's infatuation with Falin is he doesn't actually know her. She is outwardly very polite and reserved, and that appeals to Toshiro because it meshes with his cultural sensibilities and how he was taught people are supposed to behave. Then he sees her marveling at a caterpillar in a private moment and decides on the spot that she's the ideal woman and proposes without actually talking to or getting to know her.

And his lack of understanding of Falin as a person is brought to the forefront in every action he takes after she gets eaten. He leaves the party and makes no attempt to contact the two people that Falin loves the most. Whether it's a matter of him just not knowing how much Falin cares about her brother and Marcille, or actively avoiding Laios to rescue Falin himself, he's demonstrating that he doesn't actually know what's important to her or understand how she feels.

Then when he meets Laios's party on the lower floors and they go over what happened, it's made even more blatant that Toshiro's affection is shallow and half-baked. He came into the dungeon a week too late and neglected his health the whole way down, so he was in no state to actually try and save Falin when he got there. When Laios talks about eating monsters, something Falin was thrilled about, Toshiro is disgusted. He threatens to kill Laios and turn Marcille in, which would never fly with Falin. His anger at the use of black magic is entirely based in his selfish idea of Falin being tainted and blaming Laios and Marcille for "ruining" his attempt to rescue her, as Kabru points out that Toshiro would have done the exact same thing in their shoes and that he's being a hypocrite. To say nothing of how he'd rather kill Falin after she's been transformed and "put her to rest" rather than put any effort into saving her, because that would require further involvement from Laios and Marcille and methods that Toshiro doesn't approve of.

And there's the fight he has with Laios, and Toshiro's subsequent confession that he had hoped to just take Falin home with him. He at no point gives consideration to what Falin feels or what she might want, only what he has decided about her based on the most surface level observation. Just like how his problem with Laios arises from his refusal to just talk to him about his boundaries, he has no actual connection with the woman he claims to love because he just wouldn't actually talk to her.

Like it's not a coincidence that every time his attraction to Falin is brought up, another character goes "yeah he's being weird about it".

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Love how this implies that after the downfall of humankind that doge is the species to supercede us

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Amiya by NUEE [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

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FINISHING SIGNALIS and then maybe some Silent hill 3 :)

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oldie from last year

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I think that it's an interesting character note that what Kabru blames himself for is where he restrained himself and didn't act.

He didn't kill Laios when he had the chance. Now, if the world had ended I do think he would bear some responsibility here... not to the extent he feels he does, which is driven to extremes by his survivor's guilt. It's certainly not "entirely his fault"! After all, if the world had ended, some of the blame should definitely go to Laios! And it's not really "blame", since the outcome is ultimately a great one - the demon is defeated! But, essentially, it is true that Kabru's presence in the story is instrumental in getting to the point we are at in chapter 90.

But what I'd pinpoint as the reason for that responsibility is not because he didn't kill Laios, but because he intervened to stop Mithrun killing Thistle and conquering the dungeon, and then intervened again to stop Laios from being captured by Lycion.

In this moment, these interventions don't even occur to Kabru. He's such an action-oriented character that he instinctively reaches for a place where he didn't act, rather than the places where he did. It's like he needs it to be the case that "I could have stopped this if I'd done more", rather than "I could have stopped this if I hadn't involved myself". I think that's really telling about the kind of person that he is. It also links compellingly to a self-soothing narrative, where "I can fix this and control the outcome if I work out the right set of actions to take," which is a result of the way he's processed the trauma of his childhood.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: 明日方舟 | Arknights (Video Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Czerny/Ebenholz (Arknights) Characters: Ebenholz (Arknights), Czerny (Arknights) Additional Tags: Moving In Together, Sharing a Bed, Banter, Mental Health Issues, “what if our bad brains fit perfectly together and we can be functioning people together?”, Ebenholz is allowed one (1) meme for enrichment Series: Part 9 of (Your Songs) Send Love Through Summary:

“You need to change the bedsheets. You’ve had these ones on for almost two weeks now.” “Es tut mir leid, mein Herr. My deepest apologies for forgetting that amongst the rest of my cleaning today.” Czerny adds a put-upon sigh as he gestures to the rest of the room. “I even dusted in here. Dusted! I was sneezing for hours.” “Means you need to dust more often.” — On cohabitation, chasing away nightmares, and how brilliant the dawn can be if the night is shared with someone you love.