#Gnome Chilchuck

[fuumiku]

Day 4: race swap

Gnome Marcille is my new favorite thing. I want gnome Marcille charms someone make that please… I put them in these gnome outfits designed by Kui. I tried red for Chil’s tunic instead of yellow and it was really cute but it also looked like Santa Claus haha

Human au ftw, redraw of their Shibuya ad artwork because it drives me insane plus some date and selfie thoughts. Chil forcing a smile and it being bad makes me laugh a bit but a very deadpan B| is always great so I dunno which option to pick for that one. Having a hard time pinning down Marcille as always It’s so funny because doing this made me realize extreme size difference I’m great and fine with but if they have 1 head of height difference my sense of scale gets thrown off so hard

This is why all my entries are late because for every prompt I go bonkers and make 100 things. There are doodles I didn’t get around to making and in my heart all of these should be rendered… Chil would be insufferable to Marcille if he became an elf temporarily I think, and she would be Conflicted™️

[cozmos-artz]

*violently shaking my prison bars* THEY NEED EACH OTHER LET THEM BE TOGETHER

[britcision]

I’ll dig it up later for y’all if you like but there’s an extremely funny comic in the Adventurer’s Bible that is definitely tongue-in-cheek funny about half-foots

And it’s the one about why they’re called that, the elves saw their footprints and went “yeah that sounds right”

Chilchuck is explaining it to Laios and then calls it fucking bullshit because “why should we be described relative to someone else you should be called double-foots”

He says

To Laios

The tall-man

Tall relative to who Chilchuck

[rhatt3]

[wombrion]

Okay I’m sorry if this is weird but For that last comic you made I imagine that Senshi, Namari, Kabru, and Laios are all at Laios/Falin’s house drinking/pregaming/chatting to go out together for the evening with Chilchuck and Marcille’s there too (she didn’t drink but just likes feeling included) and Falin was drinking with them for funsies and drank too much since she can’t handle alcohol and Marcille takes Falin upstairs to her bedroom to rest and then a lil later Chilchuck shows up in his car (which absolutely CAN fit Laios and everyone a la clowncar physics) but Chilchuck sees that Laios looks way too drunk and goofysilly and doesn’t feel like dealing with that so he lies a little on the spot that Laios won’t fit (which Laios buys bc he’s drunk) and then Laios stumbles back upstairs to hang with Marcille and Falin.

Yes I’m sorry this is oddly specific but ily. Mwah. Everytime you post it activates the part of my brain that compels me to chew on things. Hope this helps

😳... do u wanna kiss rn orrrr

no but srsly you got it like. perfect tbh

only difference is that i imagine it to be marcilles place instead of falins, i just think itd be funnier that they just used her appartment to crash a pre party, mess most of it up, then dip to some other place AND she didnt even gets to drink (also she now has to put up with falin willingly + laios by defect)

[pikminapplebloom]

if Homer Simpson was a fantasy character he’d be called Gnomer Simspon

his catchphrase would be “Gno’h!”

Also Marge would be an elf like in that one WoW ep with the olive oyl body type

[orcgirlcock]

i had a dream last night that me and chilchuck skipped our college class to go smoke weed with a gnome. he rolled the fastest joint i have ever seen

[dunmeshistash]

Dungeon Meshi World Map

REGIONS (Descriptions taken from the Adventurer's Bible)

WESTERN CONTINENT

Description: Bears the most scars from the ancient war. It has many monsters and ruined dungeons, and although it's vast, there are surprisingly few habitable areas. Most of the inhabitants are sturdy, short-lived races and demihumans. Elven culture has had a strong influence here. Characters: Kabru and Kuro Places of Note: Utaya Dungeons of Note: The Utaya Dungeon, The Dragon's Lair

NORTHERN CENTRAL CONTINENT

Description: The continent that is home to the largest nation, ruled by the queen of the elves. The term "Western Elves" mostly indicates elves from this region. It's the safest area and life is easy here, but its shrinking population has dangerously weakened it. Characters: Mithrun (and the Canaries) Places of Note: Western Elves's Royal District, Canarie's Headquarters. Dungeons of Note: Central Watchtower

SOUTHERN CENTRAL CONTINENT

Description: The area with the second-largest elf nation. It has more inbound immigration than the Northern Central Continent and a rather disorganized atmosphere. While it's in an alliance with the Northern Central Continent, they really aren't on good terms. Characters: - Places of Note: - Dungeons of Note: -

EASTERN CONTINENT

Description: Home to the largest gnome nation. Once dwarfs and gnomes made up the majority of the inhabitants, but in recent years there has been an influx of short-lived races from the Northern Continent and Eastern Archipelago, and the population is growing rapidly. It's a melting pot where various cultures are jumbled together. Characters: Chilchuck Tims (Kahka Brud), Senshi (Izganda) Places of Note: Magic School, The Island/Melini, Kahka Brud, Izganda, Dozahk, Bonnario, Sadena Dungeons of Note: Island, Brud Dungeon Cluster, Budou Pit, Tower of Night Cries

NORTHERN CONTINENT

Description: A severely cold continent where over half of the land is covered in perpetual snow. The majority of the inhabitants are short-lived races, particularly tall-men, but the population isn't large to begin with. It has been strongly influenced by dwarf culture. Characters: Laios & Falin, Marcille Places of Note: - Dungeons of Note: -

EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO

Description: An area where short-lived races live. As a result of a pact, there has been no interference by long-lived races for a very long time. The effects of the ancient war are slight, and they have almost no trouble with monsters or dungeons, but there's constant strife among humans. Characters: (all from different Islands) Izutsumi, Shuro and his Retainers, Rinsha Fana (Not shown) Places of Note: Island of Wa Dungeons of Note: -

SOUTHERN CONTINENT

Description: Home to the largest dwarf city. Gnome and dwarf nations often build down rather than out, and the innermost layers are extraordinarily deep. War still erupts frequently, and there are never-ending disputes near the borders. Characters: - Places of Note: - Dungeons of Note: -

If you're interested I've found a post on pixiv with the map outlines and some more info (in japanese)

I'll make a post about the dungeon descriptions later but here they are, there's a little more info about Kahka Brud dungeons on my last map post

1 The Island, 2 Budou Pit, 3 The Brud Dungeon Cluster, 4 The tower of Night Cries 5 The Utaya Dungeon 6 The Dragon's Lair 7 The Central Watchtower

Map Outline

[big-greer]

a BIG part of the lore of Dungeon Meshi is how ageism is bad. About how the long lived races treat the young lived races like children and thus infantilize them and do not show them the respect and understanding they deserve simply because of their looks or short life spans. Whether its because to them they look like children in their eyes (like half foots and gnomes) or because the adult ages of the younger lived races are still in the child ages for the longer lived ones and so they get treated/viewed as children (we see otta receive comments about getting with minors when in reality she dated adult half foot women. so we already see this view towards things like this are a thing in the lore) We see this with chilchuck, senshi, and marcille where the two later view chilchuck as a child and treat him like one even though he is a full grown man who drinks (and is supposed to have grey hairs) all because he looks young and in the newest episode its revealed he is 29 which is still young children to the two of them. We see how perspectives that characters are children because of their age being a childs age for a different race as opposed to their race or because they look like children is a completely infantilizing and disrespectful behavior that causes so many problems in the long run. a theme that is completely flying over the average tumblr users head.

ive seen people get furious at other people because they sexualize chilchuck and even marcille

“oh they look like kids so dont do that you freak”

you absolute fool you missed a major theme of the fucking story. But because they look young suddenly they are children? have you paid no attention to the story? did you just ignore how the ageisim and weird mindset about ages like that causes so many issues that could easily have been avoided. and as for the age one i see people getting furious at others for being into and sexualizing izutsumi even though she is a year past adult in tall man years, but because she isnt in the adult age range in real life (wild your applying real life society standards to a fictional medieval fantasy world). even though even in lore she would be well an adult able to get married and everything tumblr really does have the media literacy of a toddler.

[prismatoxic]

(this post features transmasc chilchuck! if that's not a headcanon you enjoy you may look the other way)

chilchuck returns to kahka brud after laios's coronation, but as he'd somewhat suspected, things with his wife don't work out. returning to merini, he reunites with laios, and without a party to compromise and no existing romantic relationships for either of them, they finally confront things they've both been feeling for a while.

chilchuck never did anything drastic to prevent himself from conceiving more kids after puckpatti was born, and as he and his wife's relationship grew distant, sex wasn't an active factor anyway. so he's maybe... not as careful as he should be, when he and laios fall into bed together.

winding up pregnant, chilchuck finds himself unwilling to get rid of it, and just as quickly finds that laios doesn't want him to either. scandalous though chilchuck is sure their relationship would be to the kingdom, laios seems unconcerned, and is far more invested in being with chilchuck.

fentripp is larger than any of chilchuck's girls were, but to laios, he seems so small. chilchuck frets about him being late to all of his developmental milestones, but to laios, he's meeting them all earlier than he thought kids did. he's small for a tall-man, but big for a half-foot; his senses are sharp, though, and his mana pool is reasonably deep, so he did get some benefits from both.

fentripp is two years old when laios proposes, taking chilchuck entirely off guard. having an illicit relationship (and half-breed child) is one thing, but officiating it...? making chilchuck his spouse and fentripp his successor? chilchuck is baffled by the choice, but to laios, it's the most natural decision to make in the world.

as he ages and discovers his aptitude for magic + grows ever closer to his doting aunt falin (whom he idolizes), fentripp decides he wants to be a mage. like falin, he uses the gnome magic system, going so far as to turn up his nose when aunt marcille tries to teach him anything from the elven side. spirits are his friends, not his tools; it's very important to him.

laios's curse isn't hereditary, and fentripp can freely interact with the kingdom's monsters. it may not be what laios had always dreamed of for himself, but seeing his son adopt his enthusiasm for monsters is deeply heartwarming, all the same. (chilchuck wishes fen would maybe be a little more careful, but at least if laios comes running, the monsters scatter.)

he's a beloved child, cared for deeply by all of laios and chilchuck's friends and family. he's also, frequently and with little remorse, a handful--but in a soft, friendly way that makes it hard to stay mad at him. (chilchuck tries. the kid needs some discipline. but he's got laios's eyes, and does a great impression of laios's kicked puppy face, and "a troll will get you" doesn't work so well when his half-sisters have been fondly referring to him as a troll since they met him.)

[crowfanity]

So I figured out how to convert Dungeon Meshi ages into their equivalent for different races.

Assuming the age of adulthood is roughly equivalent between all of them, and that a 16 y/o tall-man is equivalent to a 14 y/o half-foot, 80 y/o elf, 40 y/o dwarf, 40 y/o gnome, etc., then divide the character's age by their race's age of adulthood to get your multiplier, then multiply that number by the age of adulthood for the race you want to convert it to.

Or put simply:

([character age]/[their race's age of adulthood]) x [age of adulthood for different race]

For example, Mithrun is 185. Elves reach adulthood at 80. 185 divided by 80 is 2.3125. So that means Mithrun is 2.3125 times the age of adulthood for any given race. If I multiply that by 16, then he would be 37 in tall-man years.

That being said, if Chilchuck was a tall-man he would be 33.

He should've been at the club

[ellaphnt]

Shuro’s status of nobility has been brought up a few times when discussing his fight with Laios. I’m sure there’s credibility to the argument but the way it’s been used makes me go, “huh??”

I’ve seen his upbringing used in a negative context, usually to flatten his reasons for fighting with Laios. “oh he’s used to people listening to him so he’s never met anyone who doesn’t do exactly what he says” or “he’s never been exposed to anyone new or any new perspectives and that’s why he hated Laios”. I don’t think these opinions are salient in fan spaces but I saw it enough times I wanted to talk about it.

I feel like we just, forgot that Toshiro is a foreigner? The only poc in the party? And never interacted with gnomes, dwarves, and halffoots since they don’t live in the east? (well, the last point depends on how much you’ve seen from the Adventurer’s Bible)

Compared to everyone else, he probably had the MOST exposure to new people and experiences. And yet he was able to, best he can, quickly assimilate and harmonize with everyone in his new party. Regardless of what he thought about them, it seemed everyone else thought he was amicable. As a poc (and East Asian specifically), that’s mission accomplished.

With all that effort into making himself culturally digestible, it’s no wonder he resented/envied Laios. He put in all this effort to learn their status quo, to not offend the new people he’s meeting, only for Laios to not give him the same consideration. Both of them were socially inept in some way, but only one of them felt the need to do something about it. It’s important to note that their fight was a turning point for Laios too - he realize he had to be more aware and present for his team.

So Toshiro didn’t want to say no outright because it might set back the bonds he’s trying to form. Confrontation is hard, confrontation in a new country is harder. He settles for “close enough” because hey, it’s not that big of a deal. Their opinion of me is way more important than obtaining respect for myself. I’m the foreigner. This has the consequence of making him a pushover, but I digress. He seems to identify himself more as a foreigner than nobility.

And that had to do with separating his identity! The identify he has at his house was kept VERY separate from the one he has with Laios and co. He doesn’t want Laios’ party to know that he is nobility. He doesn’t even care that they call him by “first name”, albeit butchered. He never mentioned the retainers to them (since Chilchuck had to ask who they were).

The retainers are people he’d rather keep at a distance due to their connection with his dad. This might be why he joined Laios’ party solo given the opportunity. But as we see in the image below, they followed him into the dungeon ANYWAYS. You can’t convince me he wanted them to do that. They watch from a distance, disregarding Toshiro’s independence. They don’t always listen to him, they do what they think is best for him, which means they actually follow MAIZURU. To her, his status as their young master is very important, and therefore he needs to be waited on hand and foot. It’s not that he’s used to people doing stuff for him, it’s moreso Maizuru does it regardless.

What drives both identities is an inability to assert himself. He don’t think highly of himself (living under his father’s shadow) and it shows in how people treat him. With Laios and others, he had the opportunity to shape a new identity, but because Laios was the one that introduced him, he and everyone else just accepted the misconceptions. I’m sure Toshiro noted his surprisingly strong influence on his team, something he hasn’t achieved.

With his retainers and Maizuru specifically, she doesn’t put faith in his decisions. She tsked at the fact they went to save Falin, but obeyed anyways because he’s never asserted himself before. (Reminder that assertion is him on his knees requesting their help - the hierarchy of his upbringing does not feel ingrained in him. Giving me overly respectful and considerate vibes, the silly guy)

So he CAN do it! He CAN shape how people see him if he is able to open up a bit more. Rather than his nobility, it’s moreso that he’s never trusted anyone to open up to in the first place. He doesn’t fit in back home. He’s distant from Maizuru, he’s distant from Hien. He’s distant from his brothers and parents. He basically never had friends until Laios. This is his first friend too!!!

He finally opened up to him, and that’s going to pave the way for his character development in the future. He now has someone he can trust, someone to put his faith in, and someone to teach him how to communicate better. By airing his resentment, now all that’s left is that envy/admiration. He’s going to learn from that.

Edit: just because I like keeping things together, here’s more discussion about this post :P

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

To celebrate one thousand followers on this blog, it's the

Favourite Anything from the Series Tournament

This is the masterpost for the tournament. I'll pin it and update it with every new round, so you'll be able to find all polls easily.

The rules are very simple: You just vote for whichever thing you like better. The thing with the most votes advances to the next round.

Propaganda is encouraged! Please put it in the body of the post so I can reblog it. I don't reblog propaganda from tags or replies.

Spoiler warning: This tournament contains material up to the end of the manga. If you haven't caught up yet, you may be spoiled.

Finale:

Farcille vs The way Kui draws expressions (The way Kui draws expressions won)

Battle for the bronze:

Laios eating the Winged Lion vs The way the series does horror (Laios eating the Winged Lion won)

Previous rounds under the cut

Semi-finals:

Farcille vs Laios eating the Winged Lion (Farcille won)

The way Kui draws expressions vs The way the series does horror (The way Kui draws expressions won)

Quarter finals:

Farcille vs Chimera Falin (Farcille won)

Laios eating the Winged Lion vs Marcille covered in blood (Laios eating the Winged Lion won)

The way Kui draws expressions vs Falin eating the Chimera (The way Kui draws expressions won)

Falin's birth comic vs The way the series does horror (The way the series does horror won)

Bracket 4, round 4:

Chilchuck's freak-outs vs Falin's birth comic (Falin's birth comic won)

The way the series does horror vs The Demon eating Mithrun's desires (The way the series does horror won)

Bracket 4, round 3:

Chilchuck's freak-outs vs Chilchuck's grey hairs (Chilchuck's freak-outs won)

Falin's birth comic vs Marcille jostling Laios' head with her staff (Falin's birth comic won)

The way the series does horror vs Falin feeding her soul dragon (The way the series does horror won)

Kiki teasing Namari vs The Demon eating Mithrun's desires (The Demon eating Mithrun's desires won)

Bracket 4, round 2:

Chilchuck's freak-outs vs "That makes us more serious about this than you" (Chilchuck's freak-outs won)

Chilchuck dating sim vs Chilchuck's grey hairs (Chilchuck's grey hairs won)

Falin's birth comic vs Falin eating rabbit curry (Falin's birth comic won)

Marcille jostling Laios' head with her staff vs Nutritional value charts (Marcille jostling Laios' head with her staff won)

The way the series does horror vs Senshi fanservice (The way the series does horror won)

"We just fed her an emoji" vs Falin feeding her soul dragon (Falin feeding her soul dragon won)

Kiki teasing Namari vs Senshi squinting when he dislikes something (Kiki teasing Namari won)

The Demon eating Mithrun's desires vs Touden sibling dog naming fights (The Demon eating Mithrun's desires won)

Bracket 4, round 1, part 2:

Laios caressing Big bat bones vs The way the series does horror (The way the series does horror won)

Spread pages vs Senshi fanservice (Senshi fanservice won)

"Go in the dark" image vs "We just fed her an emoji" ("We just fed her an emoji" won)

Falin feeding her soul dragon vs Characters in modern clothing (Falin feeding her soul dragon won)

Kiki's crush on Namari vs Kiki teasing Namari (Kiki teasing Namari won)

Senshi squinting when he dislikes something vs Elf vs Gnome magic side comic (Senshi squinting when he dislikes something won)

Zon's son vs The Demon eating Mithrun's desires (The Demon eating Mithrun's desires won)

Chapter 44 cover vs Touden sibling dog naming fights (Touden sibling dog naming fights won)

Bracket 4, round 1, part 1:

Chilchuck's freak-outs vs "Unforgivable Dungeon Meshi" (Chilchuck's freak-outs won)

Dragon kitchen page vs "That makes us more serious about this than you" ("That makes us more serious about this than you" won)

Werewolf Monster Tidbits vs Chilchuck dating sim (Chilchuck dating sim won)

Chilchuck's grey hairs vs "Don't worry, we'll manage somehow" (Chilchuck's grey hairs won)

Falin and the caterpillar vs Falin's birth comic (Falin's birth comic won)

Falin eating rabbit curry vs Mandrake-plucking dogs (Falin eating rabbit curry won)

Treasure insect sandwich vs Marcille jostling Laios' head with her staff (Marcille jostling Laios' head with her staff won)

Undine fight vs Nutritional value charts (Nutritional value charts won)

[cinnamonsikwate]

i'm really curious about what marcille's mother's deal is. seems like she's not too big on the rest of elven society. here's what we know about her so far:

mage at a human royal court (adventurer's bible)

courtship with marcille's father donato lasted 17 years (adventurer's bible)

specialty is roast pork, which was also donato's favorite (chapter 81)

had a cheerful personality up until the point donato got too sick to eat his favorite food. her extreme emotional reaction to this left a lasting impression on marcille (chapter 81)

remarried to a gnome and moved away from the city at some point after donato died (adventurer's bible)

several portraits of her appear in marcille's nightmare (chapter 42); this is the second time we see marcille dream of her (chapter 3)

preferred non-elven food and didn't introduce marcille to any traditional elven dishes (chapter 74)

from the canaries' reactions in chapter 74, it appears elven society looks down on elves who go to live among and work for short-lived races. they seemed especially put off that she would have a mixed-blood child. when they're talking about the lyrikmumare to get marcille to trip up, marcille envisions her mother saying that the food "here" (i.e., the northern continent) tastes so much better. so the picture we're getting here is of an elf who has removed herself from elven culture, but the question is, did she do it willingly or was she forced to?

keeping her other actions in mind, i'm leaning more towards the former. the most intriguing thing for me is that she eventually married a gnome, despite elves and gnomes having infamously waged war against each other over differences in the practice of magic and presently tending to discriminate against the other on sight. (one thing's for sure — marcille's mother is winning the idgaf war!)

marcille never talks about her gnome stepfather though, and it's unclear what she thinks of her mother's remarriage. the timing of the remarriage is also a mystery. donato married marcille's mother when he was 32 (after having courted her for 17 years) and died at 82, meaning they were married for 50 years. marcille is also currently 50 years old, but we know she wasn't born immediately after the marriage: in chapter 81, donato's doppelganger says marcille was born when he'd started "getting on in years." based on marcille's memories of him and the established fact that the average tall-man lifespan is 60 years, i'd hazard that he was in his 50s then. this gives him 30 years or less with marcille — definitely less than 35, which we know is the age at which she left for the magic academy.

we don't know if marcille's mother remarries before or after marcille leaves (if before, than that's definitely a shockingly short time), but it's interesting that she chose to marry someone from a long-lived race this time. maybe this is her way of ensuring she spares herself another heartbreak? or maybe she *is* still heartbroken and is trying to cover it up.

but. i can't help but kind of agree with chilchuck in chapter 81, that marcille's parents are not blameless for marcille becoming the dungeon lord. since it's apparently well-documented, they surely must have known — as well-educated people — that mixed-blood children face not just discrimination but also mental anguish that comes with their unstable aging (not to mention the sterility). so the way they raised marcille feels frankly irresponsible 😭

anyway. i'd love to get spin-off content where post-adventure marcille and her mother meet again. i feel like there's a lot of unresolved issues there (that can of course be hashed out over a good meal).

[raconcoon]

I just realized but according to Chilchuck, half foot find gnomes attractive and even his daughter wants to marry one. But gnomes are a long living race while half foot live for around 50 years in the lore... Man, that must be so heartbreaking for half foot and gnome relationships.

[savaralyn2]

do you know if the halflings page changed at all in the new daydream hour? or was chilchucks wife always there at the top right and we just had no idea it was her

It’s definitely changed. In the previous daydream hours it didn’t even get a full page, rather, just a line of portraits in the grid along with dwarves/elves/gnomes. Only tallmen got a full page to themeselves initially, then ogres/kobolds got a page each later as well. (Those weren’t altered from their original daydream hours though, which is why I didn’t post them.)