#chilposting

[idiotsonlyevent]

i really like this detail in chapter 51 where tall-man chilchuck pulls ahead of the party as they're walking.

i know it's in part because there are gaps and grates in the floors, and since he's physically larger, it's easier for him to walk around or over them, and his step length has increased, but it also makes me think that he's had to adopt a faster walking speed to compensate for his size. now that he's larger, he's turned into the dungeon's faster speed walker lol

[lesbianslovenamari]

I want to make a compilation of Chilchuck making ‘paint me like one of your French girls’-esque poses throughout the manga cuz he seems to do it a lot

If anyone has any they could share I’ll be grateful but otherwise I’ll probably get round to doing it myself when I get the time

[nailgunstigmata]

thinking about the fact that young chilchuck used to have freckles and in the genderswap mirror verse he has pigtails….meijack looking so much like her dad while taking after his interests and also having her moms eyes is very important to me. its so cute

[godforsakenpaladinofnigh]

Can someone please validate my feeling that this song is very Chilchuck coded!!!!!!!

[idiotsonlyevent]

i wonder where the idea of chilchuck being a deadbeat came from when theres like. no textual evidence for it ?

he knows what all of them are up to; he still writes to flertom and she sent him his neckwarmer, so that to me implies that they at least have a somewhat positive relationship?

its more ambiguous with meijack and puckpatti, but since meijack is also a picklock, i wouldn't be surprised if he taught her himself, considering how trades are often passed down through families, and because he talks about sending people to her if he dies.

also the way he talks about puckpatti is very like... it's obvious he wants her to take things more seriously, but he's accepting, and his tone here reads more fond to me than anything else.

like, he keeps his daughters' old toys under his desk? that doesn't scream 'deadbeat' at all, it screams 'empty nester' who doesn't know how to reach out or is scared to do so

EDIT: i know a lot of the 'deadbeat dad' stuff is jokes, but some people are Not joking and genuinely think chilchuck is a bad dad. this post is not saying that you cant joke about it; it is just outlining what canon shows regarding his (clearly positive) relationship with his kids.

[idiotsonlyevent]

nothing prepared for the noise chilchuck made here

[lesbianslovenamari]

This is something I’ve thought bout many times glad to not be the only one

Dandan and Chilchuck's wife look pretty similar. I think it would be kinda cool if they were canonically related. Him being her brother or something. And that he was mostly the one Chilchuck rented his home to. And since we know Dandan introduced Laios and Chilchuck, maybe he even helped Chilchuck form the guild, being brother-in-laws and all.

Seems like they know each other decently well too since they even interact in official art. You could assume that they've know each other for a long time, possibly even being childhood friends through his wife. Maybe Dandan has his own family as well, so the "relatives" are Dandan's family.

Maybe it's a reach, but I still think it's fun to think about.

[idiotsonlyevent]

slavic chilchuck moodboard

[idiotsonlyevent]

i've seen people talk a lot about how chilchuck is a caretaker, but he tries really hard to hide it - and how it seems like he probably wouldn't ascribe that label to himself - and i was wondering why until i remembered the genderbend extra!

here, woman chilchuck leaves the party because of her family - presumably because she wants to be with or take care of her kids and husband..... y'know, the things that man chilchuck is currently Not Doing? and its not because his family Isn't important to him, because it obviously is! and that's when it hit me:

many people have discussed how chilchuck is allergic to being emotionally vulnerable in-part because of the way half-foots are treated.... but i think there may ALSO be some gendered expectations associated with caretaking and being emotionally vulnerable that make him reluctant (at least earlier on in the series) to be open with others, especially about personal matters. especially when he's already being infantilized and dehumanized, being 'emasculated' (whether by other races'/cultures' standards or his own - unclear) is another thing he cold be trying to avoid by putting up his colder, more distant 'i'm only in it for the money' worksona.

[idiotsonlyevent]

throwing my hat in the ring with my own cunty chilchuck amv that happens to push the slavchuck agenda w a classic russian club banger (and a companion to my yalla senshi amv!)

[idiotsonlyevent]

i know the anime cut this chilchuck scene, but in the manga, it parallels the above izutsumi scene pretty closely!!

that's why it's so important at this point in the story, he's the only one treating her the way he is. it's not just because he's 'fathering' her, but also because he sees how her experiences parallel his own

something i noticed in the new dunmeshi episode that i didn't notice in the manga, is that when the group is petting and cooing over izutsumi even though she hates it, chilchuck doesn't participate and looks kinda mad at the others afterwards. i bet it's because he feels solidarity with izutsumi in that moment, given how he's also infantilised and has his personal space invaded pretty often because he looks like a cute little kid despite being a full grown adult. he could probably relate a lot to how she was feeling lol

[lesbianslovenamari]

Let’s talk about Chilchuck’s height

The average male half-foot is 100cm/1m tall (3’3”)

Chilchuck is 110cm tall (3’7”)

This makes him 10% taller than the average.

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In-universe, the average male tallman is 180cm tall (5’10”)

10% of 180cm is 18cm, 180 + 18 = 198cm (almost 6’6”)

So in universe, Chilchuck would be almost 2m tall as a tall-man

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Irl, the worldwide average for adult men is 171cm (5’7.5”) - but this varies a lot from country to country

Based on this average, Chilchuck would be 188cm (6’2”)

But a lot of people are used to averages based on specific countries, so for the fun of it I’ll do one based on the average for the UK (cuz I live there), which is 176cm, rounded (5’9”)

Based on this, Chilchuck would be 193.6cm (6’4”)

I think what all of this shows is that he’s really fucking tall (for his race)

Since half-foots are often surrounded by taller races, and a half-foot marrying a dwarf doesn’t seem to be too unusual an idea, it might be that this is less of a big deal in their society since they’re used to being so much shorter than others, but Chilchuck would still be ridiculously tall.

It makes a lot of sense that he’d have to be malnourished in order to not set off traps like most of his race can do at a healthy weight.

[lesbianslovenamari]

I was reading DunMeshi and was so confused by this phrase that I decided to look it up

(Do correct me if you think this isn’t accurate cuz I just used google)

But I find it frankly hilarious that Chilchuck is using slang from various parts of the British Isles out of nowhere in the last volume??

(I’ve now had someone explain to me that apparently it’s not uncommon for certain uncommon types of informal Japanese to be translated as slang from specific areas, typically around Britain, in English)

First of all I’d alr seen people jokingly headcanoning him as Irish on here (which was an idea I absolutely love)

ALSO I come from a part of the UK where I’m very familiar with the term ‘git’ but had never heard of a version with an e and I also had no idea it meant the same as ‘bastard’

(I have considered that this could just be the regular meaning of the word ‘get’ but I thought it wouldn’t grammatically make sense here so I assumed it was slang esp cuz he would totally call someone a git)

Anyways I’ve checked other translations and it’s not the same so I find it so funny that this one (which I’m pretty sure is the official English translation) included it

(^ another version I found online)

Anyways this is the translation I have and used as an example for this post, which I’m pretty sure is the official English translation:

Edit: Btw also check tags I kinda wrote this when I was drunk on sleep deprivation

[lesbianslovenamari]

Anime Chilchuck Alcoholism Compilation

(I’ve been wanting to make this for so long)

[lesbianslovenamari]

This is so funny specially to me because

My dad started reading Dunmesh the other day

And was convinced that they all were teenagers (Chilchuck 12yo, Marcille 15yo, Laios 17yo)

Chilchuck I expected ofc but the others are probably just cuz he’s not used to anime artstyles.

Anyways he gets to the cover page of the Kakiage chapter (forgot the name but it’s like the 4th or the 5th chapter) and he takes one look at Chilchuck looking pissed, unlocking a chest and is like

‘Oh I can see how they’re older now.’

I wanted to cry laughing

Chucklefuck eyebags moment

[idiotsonlyevent]

i love izutsumi and chilchuck's relationship soooooooo much. chilchuck's arc (or at least a large part of it) is about opening up to emotional vulnerability and admitting that he needs others to help him just as much as he helps them - and him reaching out to izutsumi is a big and Very Important part of that!!

there's a reason He's the one always needling her, and it's not just because he's An Actual Dad... it's because he recognizes that she's similarly closed off, he's already recognized how being emotionally vulnerable isn't Actually All That Terrible, and he wants to guide her through that process too :')