#Chimera toshiro au

[untimelybones]

might come back someday to clean him up or do a better piece for him but. here's what i have for now??

eastern dragon doesn't make sense canonically but this is already so far from canon i don't care anymore

how do you even attach a bird to an eastern dragon they’re just noodles (i settle for neck fluff)

[ofowlsdinosaursanddragons]

Chimera!Toshiro “Shuro” design that was based on Battra, the Mothman, and Faputa

Toshiro, unlike the other chimeras, knows who is responsible for why they’re are so many chimeras running around the world. The culprits is a mysterious clan known as the Scalret claw who wish to “perfect” the races by first creating chimeras, and are planning on releasing the god of the lost island (the winged lion) in order to create their desires true.

[pears-palette]

I keep thinking about a Farcille role swap AU where Marcille is the one to get eaten and teleports everyone out. She doesn’t want to die, but at least this way she doesn’t have to see her friends die before her.

Falin being racked with guilt. Marcille is one of the most important people to her. People thinks she’s the more calm headed of the Touden’s but she’d try to go back so quickly. Laios supports her, of course. Maybe Toshiro says he’ll help to get into Falin’s favor, and thinks Falin would wait until he returned with help (only to come back to hear she already went in).

Falin, who is usually so placid, being driven with a desperation to get Marcille back. The party knew she would be affected, but they didn’t know it would be this much.

The main points go the same- the dragon is defeated and Marcille is bones. Falin’s specialty is healing + the body and soul and with how close she is with Marcille, she knows about the resurrection ritual. Her devotion to putting everything back in place.

Marcille is back, but of course it all goes to shit.

Chimera Marcille with black feathers, similar to her Dungeon Lord look.

Falin taking her place and the Winged Lion being so disappointed. Almost all of Falin’s desires are second hand desires of others. The only real desire of any kind of substance is her desire for Laios and Marcille to be safe. The Lion is frustrated or confused because surly she should desire something for herself. As another user, @yarrayora , mentioned Falin would be more like a seasoning instead of an actual meal. The Lion would be quick to discard her once he got what he wanted.

Maybe it’s just cause we got so little of Falin in the actual story, but I would love her self sacrificing tendencies/people pleasing and what her actual drives and desires outside of other people were explored more.

[chuckeroo777]

Dungeon Meshi Volume 13 Part 2

Welcome back! Things are about to get crazy, so let's dive right in!

Is it any wonder the community unanimously decided this was Marcille's chimera-sona? She's cute, she's sky-fish adjacent, she has a flower crown (A hallmark of only the most mentally stable characters). What's not to love? And as Mithrun will agree, snake women are sexy.

Later, Kabru suspects Laios stumbled into saving the world, but my man was seriously planning six steps ahead. He came up with the ultimate plan to kill the ultimate monster.

Marcille is understandably upset that the lion stole her cool outfit. She wanted to show that to Falin later!

Nothing personal kid.

The demon isn't malevolent my ass. It knows what Mithrun wants. It just can't be assed to bother.

I know the right page is the important one, but oh my god. Laios, did you seriously doodle blueprints of your stupid "Falin lives in a hole now" plan? Did you seriously doodle your "female faligon" idea?

Anyway, as is tradition with ultimate chimera appearances, here is another one of my creatures!

I'll leave it to the viewer to try and figure out what inspired this freak.

Of course Laios' takeaway from the succubus was that Scyllas are cool. Fun fact, some of these details are actually relevant. The ability to change shape is apparently how he managed to return to human form, and the poop thing explains why New Melini is forested despite being underwater for 1000 years.

Marcille isn't even surprised at this point. Just deeply disappointed.

Toshiro, why are you smiling? Kabru, that looks more like awe than fear.

Bitch, I'm fabulous.

Marcille, you're the one who created the monster that vores people, that's it's whole job.

Don't worry Marcille. This disaster is due to an incredibly complex confluence of unpredictable events. In other words, it's everybody's fault! Hooray!

God, this is so funny.

Leave my boy alone! At least we can all agree the collar is cool.

Oh, that's a neat detail. Time is stopped for all the humans, but the monsters can still move.

When I first read this, I thought the plan was that now that the lion is in a finite body, we can eat it. Like, I thought that was how it was going to end as soon as they swapped. But Laios is way ahead of me.

Good to see the rest of the party came to the same conclusion I did. And Marcille's eyes are still on the prize.

Famous last words.

Rude.

Yeah, but we're expressing a desire regarding his treatment you raging douche-muffin. You're freaking infinite. We've seen you have the power to pacify monsters peacefully.

It's so fitting, that Laios, our favorite dog, saved the world by eating something he really shouldn't have.

👏Full Circle!👏

Oh Marcille. I'd have thought you'd have learned by now to have a little more faith in your brother-in-law.

Ah, dungeon food. To eat is the privilege of the living. There is no hierarchy.

That sounds like the words of a loser to me.

And that's it for volume 13! Didn't have as much to say as I thought I might. Guess this climax speaks for itself. What a powerful and thematic ending to the demon. See why I'm having trouble figuring out what direction to take my AU? Figuring out the changes to monster of the week chapters is easy. Figuring out how to do the big thematic battles against Thistle and the Demon are hard. It's hard to imagine anyone but Laios prevailing against such opponents.

Anyway, see you next time for the finale! Here, have a couple of extra Marcilles. I thought I would need more of them.

Cannibalism?

A precious image.

[dungeonmeshimybeloved]

I know I said I might not continue the swap au fic but bc of that post about how people don't really like falin, and kabru was interested in laios (which I sorta agree on) made me think about kabru and falin more

From what I gathered in the story, Kabru was fascinated by Laios and wanted to know what his intentions were before the story took place, and while he clearly tried to speak with laios more (and failed bc laios was unaware), I feel like kabru definitely was able to speak with falin.

She's a bit more of a people pleaser, so if kabru were to sit down and start talking to her, I'm sure she would oblige in a conversation out of politeness. Kabru wouldn't be able to get a good read on her but may be able to figure out her deal for the most part

Then laios gets eaten, and Falin starts changing. When he meets her next (when Toshiros party and hers collide and chimera laios shows up), he sees the stark change in her behaviors. She's run herself ragged and seems less keen on being polite and submissive and more unsure of herself. If he were to needle her, I can see Falin either shutting him down (behaving more like laios but is more purposefully avoidant) or she's just - bluntly honest.

She may even be the one to tell him that they accidentally threw out their gold bc they ate the treasure bugs and didn't realize the non edible parts were treasure. She's so frank about what they did and apologizes for it, that kabru may be slightly taken aback ("You ate bugs?")

Ultimately I think Kabru and her would be able to develop a working relationship, but I think Falin would run into the issue of - essentially - trying to mask all the time. She's stressed out and tired and is way out of her element, and she knows how to manage her party members, knows how to mask, but she is probably close to having a melt down from it all.

In fact - she may even have a meltdown when Toshiro confronts her about the black magic. It would be an awful display but it would show the pressure she's under.

Idk this is just me thinking, just rambling

Falin and marcille also probably rely on eavhother way more, maybe swapping out the leader role more often so they can rest and share the responsibilities. The group dynamic would also be unstable

[fumifooms]

Rarepair pitches: Thistle rarepairs, mithrun x marcille, laios x lycion - Hien x Benichidori - cithadela (formal one to come) - Fleki x Marcille - Laios x Namari (I don’t ship, neutral take) - Mickbell x Rin - Thistle & Falin - Namari x Falin - Hien x unnamed canary - Kabru x Holm - Mickbell x Chilchuck (I don’t ship, neutral take) - Toshiro’s mom x Maizuru - Dandan x Asivia

Lore: Why did Falin see WL (theory) - Magic, desires & funnels (theory?) - beastkin tattoos - succubi vs demons - half-foots and marriage - beauty standards

Misc/short observations: Laios messing up Falin’s hair - gen themes - christian imagery, Falin as a vessel, Dunmeshi & Paprika - found family & Izutsumi - Maizuru cleaning up Toshiro - Marci & Chil matching pouches origins - Chilchuck smokes - ao3 stats when Dunmeshi hit 1k fics - Does Senshi ever laugh - marchil love loses random comp - Lycion wearing a shirt - Chil and letting people drown?? - Chilchuck's succubus bites - Chilchuck pov of Thistle-Marcille fight - Laios’ curse

Headcanons & thoughts: Post-canon Chilchuck & Izu, marchil rambling, Howl’s Moving Castle AU (marchil) - half-foot names - song lyrics for Chilchuck (and wife and marchil) - marchil ship nicknames + pt 2 - party eating misc monsters - Marcille and Chilchuck flower symbolism - Characters and plants symbolism - Chilchuck, family & alcoholism - songs for Chilchuck deluxe

Web weavings: Dungeon food (Laios & WL) - Changeling (Falin), Monsters and Ghosts (Laios & Falin) - The Winged Lion (mini) - Leaving (Chilchuck & his wife) - Out of touch, out of time (Marcille x Chilchuck) - Homegrown (Thistle) - Canines (Mickbell & Kuro) - Dad always said I was like him (Chilchuck & Meijack) - god of death (Marcille & Chilchuck, mini) - Chimera (Laios, mini)

Memes: Dunmeshi meme dumps (rest of the parts are linked on the post) - for the rest I recommend just browsing my ‘dunmeshi memes’ tag either here (blog archive) or here (blog tag).

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Will occasionally edit in new ones and keep this roughly updated.

Sometimes I talk about fic ideas on this blog, but usually I post and reblog those on my fanfic writing blog @fumiku instead, and my ao3 is Fumiku, I often make character studies yeah but y’know, fics and whatnot. I also uphold @feedmarchil, and I often do fanart at @fuumiku. I also made a post detailling my analysis wips, though it’s already outdated.

Is there an archive for all of your analysis? I want to read them in order 🙇‍♀️

I was gonna say yes and link you to the in-built tumblr blog archive with my tag ‘analysis’ but then I remembered I tag inconsistently. Oops! So here is a huh, attempt. Chronological order is less important imo than topic but for what it’s worth the oldest are the ones to the left. Gonna pin this. This got too much for Tumblr to handle so unfortunately I have to split between reblogs.

This is all for Dunmeshi because I haven’t done nearly as many analyses for anything else. Divided by post type and topic but I do repeats when relevant. My older ones tend to be less polished so uh apologies for that, I’ll put my favorite ones in bold. Looking back there are a lot of posts I’d like to either streamline or remake more complete... Many of this contain spoilers so for that be careful and refer to individual tags.

Masterposts: laimar crumbs (discontinued) - marchil crumbs - Chilchuck’s family - beastkin tattoos - Nakamoto household

Compilations: Marcille’s smile for Laios - Izu dad Chilchuck - Laios bragging faces - Teasing Marcille gone wrong - Chilchuck drunk/drinking - Chilchuck being crass - Chilchuck hugs (incomplete) - Kaka - Hien & Benichidori - Marcille & Chilchuck worsties (incomplete) - Chilchuck old man posture (incomplete) - Chilchuck's type 🤨 (incomplete) - Chilchuck wristwatch - Helki - Marcille and Chilchuck parenting Izutsumi

LAIOS: Succubus scene analysis - Laios-Shuro fight analysis - Izu-Laios relationship analysis - autism & the nonhuman - Laios' nightmare aka autistic existential horror - Laios and chimeras

MARCILLE: Mothers & mom friend Marcille - Chil & Marcille contrasts & parallels - love languages - Marcille and separation - Marcille's view of Chilchuck - Marcille and romance - Marcille and being a burden

CHILCHUCK: Chil’s sense of humor - Chil & Marcille contrasts & parallels - love languages - Chilchuck is underweight -Chilchuck’s family masterpost - Chil’s wife’s appearance - Chilchuck character analysis speedrun - Ask: Chil & wife and change - Ask: Chilchuck, good husband? - Chilchuck’s succubus - the importance of law - getting hired & job description - Chil's buckle shirt & wardrobe - Chilchuck, family & alcoholism - Chilchuck & guilt - Chilchuck and drinking: when and how - Chilchuck in song lyrics

IZUTSUMI: Mothers & mom friend Marcille - Izu-Laios relationship analysis - Nakamoto household masterpost - Izu & alcohol

FALIN: fairy’s child parallels - short Falin analysis - Falin who cares too much and too little - Thistle & Falin - Trans Falin

THISTLE: clown costume & belonging (+ read tags) - Homegrown (web weaving) - Thistle & Delgal and death - Yaad & Thistle - Thistle & Falin

TOSHIRO: Nakamoto household masterpost - Toshiro likes bugs + Falin relevance - Toshiro’s succubus - Trans Toshiro (and Falin) - parallels to Kuro and Forva

Minor characters: Lycion’s dysmorphia + follow-up on his past addiction - Kaka compilation - Chil’s daughters & party brotps - Nakamoto household masterpost (every related character including Toshiro's family members) - Hien’s younger sister - unnamed buzzcut gold-stripper - Dandan - a Hien reading - Yaad & Thistle - Chil's daughters and marriage - Helki - unnamed canary with eye tattoo) - Kuro parallels

Gen: Reactions to the dark magic resurrection

Marcille & Chilchuck: marchil crumbs - contrasts & parallels (not ship) - Taking care of each other sick - Marcille & Chil’s daughters - their love languages (ship but analytical focus) - pre-canon dynamic (not ship) - astrology (ship & short) - Chilchuck's type 🤨 - waxing poetic (good summary) - marchil from Marcille's end - Marcille and romance - marchil & stability

[untimelybones]

i forgot about this so. have him? if I manage to remember what I was gonna do with him I'll come back after art fight 🥲

[untimelybones]

It's been 5 million years but I'm back with some low quality doodles (also draft for updated chimera toshiro??)

dont u love when your image gets compressed into 1 pixel

[blimbo-buddy]

Note before I start: I’ve admittedly not remembered much about the characters and their personalities. Not that I’ve totally forgotten but it’s very likely that some aspects of their characters I’ll get wrong. That’s why I encourage any sort of input: Character fixes, corrections, even potential ideas for the au. There’s a lot of moments in here that are just “I don’t have a solid idea about it yet”

So this idea stemmed from a thought I had with the Chimeras, “Can multiple people be merged with the same monster as one entity”.

Basically it starts out as the regular story does but instead of eating Falin, the Red Dragon consumes Laios, Marcille, and Toshiro. Falin uses her teleportation spell but it only manages to work on her, Namari, and Chilchuck (since the other three already got eaten). Falin’s freaking the fuck out and, like Laios with Falin in the og story, she’s eager to go back and save everybody after recounting some vague information she remembered from Laios, that the digestion of a Red Dragon takes a while. That means if they’re fast enough they could get them all out in time.

Chilchuck and Namari aren't too sure about that idea: They have no money and most of their stuff got lost on that floor during the fight

I don’t know if I’ll have Namari stay with them (same reasons as in canon) but Chilchuck for sure will stay with Falin

He didn’t want to at first but seeing how serious she was on going into the Dungeon, he got a bit nervous at the thought of her alone down there

and also. Y’know deep down he doesn’t want anymore people to die or get hurt

Lot of this is fuzzy but generally things sort of go the same. Falin does suggest trying to eat monsters but she’s not as insistent about it as Laios would be (she still really likes monsters though). Maybe they manage to scrounge up some rations or something (Maybe some scenes where she would rather go hungry than see Chil get hungry). Thankfully they meet Senshi so, cool they got a chef now

I think Senshi would also help Falin realize that, while she has kind-hearted intentions, she can’t keep starving herself in favor of others not going hungry

Everyone needs to eat

Falin’s just really stuck and worried on getting Laios Marcille and Toshiro out and safe. I’m going to.. skip over a lot of the smaller aspects of the story because I’d like to brainstorm more in depth of how Falin would play off of the other characters in place of Laios. Of course in these moments we’d also get flashback scenes of her and Laios/Marcille/Toshiro to show her bond with each of them.

A lot of her info about monsters mainly comes from Laios and some of her newer info about them comes from Senshi

I think when Kabru’s party and Toshiro’s retainers meet, it’s made just a bit apparent that Maizuru and the others are searching for Toshiro (though they hide it as best as possible because sensitive information) maybe one of them overheard Namari talking about it while in a tavern. Even though Maizuru tries hiding it, Kabru pulls a total Kabru and sees right through her stoic attitude and sees a deeply anxious person worried for someone’s safety. He also notices the strange stand-off-ish attitude of the other retainers about retrieving Toshiro

Whoops another gap of info. Again I’ll save these moments for posts or asks about them but I also just. Need to reread the manga again to get a good idea.

Eventually they get to fighting the Red Dragon. Missing info here about how exactly they kill it because Falin , while not completely defenseless and dumb in actual combat, probably wouldn’t have that same knowledge in it as Laios did (Unless I’m wrong (very likely)). But they manage to kill it with just three people, hooray time to recover them all!

All they find is bones

Obviously just like in canon with Falin, the party is too late and Laios, Marcille, and Toshiro were digested  

Now this is the part I’m stumped at the hardest. Because in the og story, Marcille knew dark magic which is how she was able to bring Falin back. While Falin does know resurrection magic, it’s not the same as necromancy

Was there a way that Falin somehow learnt dark magic (did Marcille somehow teach her out of pure trust? Is it in character for Marcille to do that with a banned system of magic with her best friend?)

How the fuck did they manage to get their bones in the right places. How would they not mix them up

Because at least Falin’s bones were fairly easy to figure out, the other bones were from the Wargs

I just really don’t want to accidentally go the “These are WOMEN bones and these are MEN bones” route. Maybe they go by height? Taller people do have longer bones but I don’t know if this also carries weird connotations

However this goes, somehow, someway, the three are brought back to life by some miracle using the flesh of the Red Dragon. Yay they’re all back they can finally go home now(?)

Side note but I imagine Laios got really jealous that Falin got to eat monsters without him

Generally though Falin’s just so, so happy to see her brother and friends back

Might actually have some scenes of awkward but friendly interactions between Falin and Toshiro

That night the three (Laios Marcille Toshiro) feel like somethings off. This leads them back to the Red Dragon’s corpse and right to Thistle. The rest of the party comes across this and yaddah yaddah, Thistle tries getting rid of them and the last thing Falin sees is the three of them collapsed on the ground; flesh and blood piling onto their bodies.

Time skip to when Kabru’s party, Falin’s party, and Maizuru’s party all come across each other. It’s revealed, after Hien and Benichidori (and right after: Maizuru) are killed, that Laios, Marcille, and Toshiro, perched on the rooftops and surrounded by harpies, were transformed into Chimeras

But, not as three separate entities

Rather as three parts of one singular body, their lower torsos connected by three long, feathery necks that sprout from the Red Dragon’s body

They would later be nicknamed the Trimera (portmanteau of Tri- & Chimera

(Very poor artist rendition below. Pretend its Falin's drawing or something)

(Not exactly to scale. Marcille is in the middle but Toshiro and Laios can be on either side)

During the fight, it’s scary how strangely coordinated yet different the three parts of them are when it comes to fighting, likely due to the enhanced abilities from the Red Dragon. But hits are, of course, struck onto the Trimera

Laios is oddly in his element, attacking like a wild beast instead of how he would usually attack

Marcille, thanks to the Trimera still being capable of some speech, is able to cast destructive spells. Getting stabbed by Kabru likely enhanced some rage in her

Toshiro is quick, nobody can catch him off guard and trying to get him from his blind spot is near impossible. Even with a huge gash on his side he's still quick in battle

I would imagine right towards the end, Tade, who manages to recover pretty fast after being whipped by its tail, makes the boldest choice of her life

She charges towards the Trimera, narrowly avoiding another tail whip

Leaps onto and climbs towards Toshiro’s half

She sets her sights on a gaping wound that Daya left right at the spot where the base neck of the dragon (aka toshiro's lower torso) is located

And she starts to violently, brutally rip him off

I think this scene would show the very sad and unhealthy dedication she has to the Nakamoto clan

Toshiro’s dad expects him home at some point, Tade is going to make sure he comes home

The last tendon severs and the two are sent flying onto one of the rooftops, Tade struggling to not fall and to also restrain Toshiro

After the Trimera (still called this even after Toshiro got ripped off) flees, all of the casualties are revived. Tade comes down from the rooftops, Toshiro is barely even responding. Falin doesn’t keep her eyes off of the place that the Trimera fled from. She doesn’t say a word. All she can do is weep while the others try to comfort her. It’s too much for her to handle, it’s all her fault.

What has she done?

oh my god I got the most batshit crazy dungeon meshi au idea last night but I’m gonna let it marinate in my brain for a minute hope you guys are ready