#fleki x marcille

[fumifooms]

Fleki x Marcille

I dub thee flekille Fourth entry of my “Dunmeshi rarepairs I will birth with my own hands if I have to” series. This one goes really well alongside laicion

Hear me out… Probably one of my most crackpair simply because they never really interact in canon, but it snowballed from me thinking about laicion so many months ago and I genuinely enjoy them a lot on their own now too.

Overview of the appeal: Silly prep girl that tries to not be silly x silly troublemaker that is silly on purpose. Could have been cellmates in another life 😍 /j It’s chaos x order, it’s propriety x will tease you specifically to make you uncomfortable, it’s Fleki sticking around Marcille when she gets the opportunity to because she thinks she’s entertaining, it’s her dragging Marcille to a shitty club that would give anyone epileptic a seizure and Marcille being so out of her depth but finding the thrill intriguing… It’s Fleki’s YOLO attitude rubbing on Marcille a bit, encouraging her to stress less and live more, it’s Marcille looking out for Fleki and teaching her to value her health, her friends and stability in life more. It’s banter, where Fleki is bold and amused and Marcille is panicked and horrified, which as they grow to know each other becomes Fleki teasing and Marcille responds with exasperated but fond comebacks. They have big yuri manga with a bad boy girl vibes, they deserve 50k slow burn rivals to lovers fics exploring the deepest emotional lows imaginable, they deserve cute funny bantery ficlets where they try out rollerskating together and Fleki skates face first into a pole and Marcille heals her up. ALSO it’s the mage who always talks about the importance of hair and braids hers neatly x the mage who keeps her hair long but at MOST brushes it every 3 days and looks feral

We see that Fleki looooves casual physical contact which I think suits Marcille well! Since she’s also big on casual & affectionate physical touches. Oversimplifying it, I kinda see Fleki as a more chaotic and less grumpy Izutsumi, which I think pairs really well with Marcille.

Ok, so the meme + below is my romantic flekille & laicion, qpr laimar & flekion vision… Maybe romantic laimar and flekion too idfc. Fleki’s bestie Lycion and Lycion’s boyfriend Laios and Laios’ girlfriend Marcille and Marcille’s girlfriend Fleki… A bond forged by the shared experience of having a feral partner. In my timeline they start hanging out because laicion starts dating and it goes from there, like they keep showing up at the other’s place to come pick their guy up or when laicion meet up in town at an agreed location both come with their bestie so then as Laios and Lycion head off the girlies just stand there awkwardly for a sec together… And it becomes habit enough that they start talking. One time one arrives early at the other’s place to pick up their dog guy so while she waits on Laios and Lycion being done hanging out they just chat and hit it off around the kitchen table. Eventually maybe they all live together, the girls have a qpr situationship with their respective dog boy too and they all snuggle up together on the couch and life is good… I have a couple of other flekille au ideas though.

The one college au I would EAT UP FR. Anything modern for them is so fun for some reason. They could even have a like… y’know ‘that yuri manga where the prep girl thinks the emo girl’s a boy and she’s interested’ thing (googling it The guy she was interested in wasn’t a guy at all is the name), they feel like they’d have that energy… Except that instead of Fleki being dressed all cool she’s dressed in Minions merch or something. Puke colored tie dye. Marcille cringes but also smth about the cringefail allure has her enraptured (jk it’s mostly Fleki being determinedly clingy) Like come on imagine Fleki with the alpaca trampoline hand tattoo, Marcille would be so endeared. They have the vibes ever, I wanna see them hang out and with Lycion and Laios too

Marcille, seeing this disheveled absolute rascal: … I can fix her.

I made a reblog post that goes into Fleki’s drug addiction a lil for the topic of the ship just so it’s easily avoidable if it’s an uncomfortable topic to some, I don’t go into the details though, just on how it might affect their relationship

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what if dungeon meshi was catholic wouldn't that be crazy lol

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i had a crisis while making this because i realized i missed Lycions tattoos EVERYWHERE before this

also, decided to finally use the comic font because my hands hurt making this and im also workin a job now ;-;

anyway, i really like the second panel cuz fleki and lycion look like major villains discussing evil thihngs (they're going to go to numerous restaurants and cafes on their captain's dime)

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a little drop of some dungeon meshi goodies!!!! mainly characters i like hehe i want to add pattadol and cithis to this mix next drop

these guys up for preorder...

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Bog's Dungeon Meshi Ship Tier List

Additional thoughts below ->

Laios x Winged Lion -> I have no explanation for this. It's fucked up, I know. But the Winged Lion is highly manipulative, and I think Canon Laios barely escaped falling for its false promises by the skin of his teeth. This pairing would only really make sense in a Dungeon Lord Laios scenario, where Laios has given up his morals and fully succumbed to its control. Also, Canon Laios is a freak, but I'm not sure if he's freak enough for this.

Fleki x Lycion -> Top ship of all time! They're completely obsessed with each other, but in a very understated way that you wouldn't pick up on until you spend enough time with them to realize that they do everything together. They have a big fat DO NOT SEPARATE label on them.

Chilchuck x Senshi -> Try as I might I simply cannot enjoy romantic Chilshi as much as I do queerplatonic Chilshi. I love the idea of these two middle aged guys opening up a joint noodle/dungeoneering shop together. And they adopt Izutsumi of course <3

Mayjack x Namari -> This is just really funny because imagine how scandalized Chilchuck would be if he found out his ex-party member is shacking up with his daughter...

Laios x Mithrun x Kabru -> Kabumisu and Labru are cute and all, but Labrumisu has a KICK to it. I could say SO much more, but I don't want to hijack this post.

Falin x Marcille -> Monsterfuckerism, necromancy, tender pining, childhood friends to lovers, WHAT IS NOT THERE TO LIKE??

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To celebrate Valentine's Day and as a rerun of last year, it's the

Seaworthiest Ship in the Dungeon Tournament 2024

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 ship you like better. The ship 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.

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:

Izutsumi by herself vs Farcille (Farcille won)

Battle for the bronze:

Kikimari vs Kabumisu (Kikimari won)

Previous rounds under the cut

Semi-finals:

Izutsumi by herself vs Kikimari (Izutsumi by herself won)

Kabumisu vs Farcille (Farcille won)

Quarter finals:

Izutsumi by herself vs Labru (Izutsumi by herself won)

Chilshi vs Kikimari (Kikimari won)

Kabumisu vs Cithidol (Kabumisu won)

Farcille vs the Flokes (Farcille won)

Round 3:

Izutsumi by herself vs Namari x Kaka & Kiki (Izutsumi by herself won)

Winged Lion x Laios vs Labru (Labru won)

Chilshi vs Lycion x Mithrun (Chilshi won)

Kensuke x Ambrosia vs Kikimari (Kikimari won)

Kabumisu vs Chaios / Chilaios (Kabumisu won)

Laisen vs Cithis x Pattadol (Cithidol won)

Farcille vs Otta x Chilchuck's wife (Farcille won)

The Flokes vs Hienichidori (the Flokes won)

Round 2, part 2:

Kabumisu vs Delgal x Thistle (Kabumisu won)

Winged Lion x Thistle vs Chaios / Chilaios (Chaios / Chilaios won)

Laisen vs Hippogriff x Anne the pony (Laisen won)

Fionil x Doni vs Cithis x Pattadol (Cithis x Pattadol won)

Farcille vs Laios x Kensuke (Farcille won)

Otta x Chilchuck's wife vs Senshi x Mithrun (Otta x Chilchuck's wife won)

The Flokes vs Cithis x Otta (The Flokes won)

Winged Lion x Mithrun vs Hien x Benichidori (Hienichidori won)

Round 2, part 1:

Izutsumi by herself vs Namarcille (Izutsumi by herself won)

Fleki x Lycion vs Namari x Kaka & Kiki (Namari x Kaka & Kiki won)

Winged Lion x Laios vs Falin x Namari (Winged Lion x Laios won)

Canary polycule vs Labru (Labru won)

Chilshi vs Marcitsumi (Chilshi won)

Chilchuck x Marcille vs Lycion x Mithrun (Lycion x Mithrun won)

Kensuke x Ambrosia vs Island governor x Shadow governor (Kensuke x Ambrosia won)

Winged Lion x Marcille vs Kikimari (Kikimari won)

Round 1, part 2:

Delgal x Thistle vs Yaad x Thistle (Delgal x Thistle won)

Hippogriff x Anne the pony vs Kabrin (Hippogriff x Anne the pony won)

Maizuru x Toshitsugu vs Laios x Kensuke (Laios x Kensuke won)

Senshi x Chilchuck's daughters vs Otta x Chilchuck's wife (Otta x Chilchuck's wife won)

The Flokes vs Gillin x Null (The Flokes won)

Marcille x Succubus vs Cithis x Otta (Cithis x Otta won)

Round 1, part 1:

Namari x Marcille vs Falin x Shuro (Namarcille won)

Fleki x Lycion vs Fleki x Cithis (Fleki x Lycion won)

Marcille x Touden siblings vs Namari x Kaka & Kiki (Namari x Kaka & Kiki won)

Canary polycule vs the Dryads (Canary polycule won)

Izutsumi x Marcille vs Laios x Thistle (Marcitsumi won)

Laios x Lycion vs Lycion x Mithrun (Lycion x Mithrun won)

Marios vs Island governor x Shadow governor (Island governor x Shadow governor won)

Kakamari x Kikimari (Kikimari won)

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list of QPRs (will add on more if i think of them)

fluttershy and discord (the QPR icons)

mike and sulley

deep cut

marcille + falin & laios

fleki and lycion

clumsy smurf and smurfette

brainy and clumsy also actually

4 and X BFDI

betty and magic man

courtney and tabitha team magma

i just went to find this in my drafts so i could add something and i've already forgotten what it was

[fumifooms]

Mind if I ramble at you for a bit.

So I read both of your Marcille/canary rarepairs and the Fleki one inspired me to share a one-shot idea I had a while ago (that I am never going to write). Anyways the idea behind this is that it happens in an AU, where Canaries recruited (arrested) Marcille at some point in the timeline (maybe during her brief stint as Dugeon Lord).

Anyways in the one-shot Marcille would have a mental breakdown, when she realizes that her sentence is longer then most of her friends´ remaining lifespan and she will likely not meet them in person again (not to mention the irony in the fact that her effort to prolong the time she has with her friends she lost the chance to the time they have, Marcille will be avare of) and Fleki ends up comforting her.

I also consider a second part, where Marcille "repays the favor" when Fleki has a bad trip.

I didn´t ship Marcille/Fleki before your post, so the original idea was gen, but it could work as shipping fic as well.

I also consider some other one-shots in this AU (which I decided to call Jailbird AU), like Marcille managing to peacfully resolve a conflict between the Canaries and some people living in a dungeon (maybe goblins since they didn´t appear in the manga/anime), or her interacting with Mithrun (maybe she could make him a soup after they end up stuck in a dungeon together and run out of food), since as you pointed out those two have a nice potential dynamic (platonic or romantic).

Also Falin and rest of the party would definitivelly mount a Marcille rescue operation, which would make for a nice inversion their situation at the begining of the canon.

Makes me wonder how well would Marcille get along with the other members of the unit and what their interactions would be like.

The way the canaries are is that there are two prisoners for one warden right, but Marcille could be assigned as a temporary third charge… 🤔 Especially since the canaries are understaffed, probably under Mithrun and not Pattadol then because Mithrun is much more high ranked and experienced than Pattadol. As a past dungeon lord she’d be considered higher threat I imagine, but she’s capable so like Mithrun after his dungeon stint they’d really want to recruit her. This mithrille fanartist makes some canary!Marcille AU art like this one that I find super fun to think about… Yeah they’re right Mithrun would treat newbie recruit Marcille like that (carelessly and ruthlessly) pfft, since canaries assigned to Mithrun used to die a lot regularly before things stabilized with the current group I like to think of wether or not they expected Marcille to die soon and if they’re fine with that. Not like Mithrun would hesitate to strike her down if she stepped out of line— but she seems to get along with Pattadol so that could give them some hope, so either way, stamp of approval.

Wether Marcille would get along with each canaries or not imo:

Pattadol: Yes. Pattadol’s soft on Marcille, she thinks she’s sooo sensible and smart and thinks her dunlord thing was just an unfortunate turn of fate that she’s already forgiven for. They chat a lot, each other’s favorite coworker. If it wasn’t for Mithrun being the top leader I feel like Marcille could sometimes get carried away and take over with leadership of the group tbh gdvgd, and Pattadol may or may not notice she’d doing it and let her. Marcille gradually climbs up the canary ranks au? Would be fun

Fleki: I def think she’d be the one both poking fun at Marcille, about how she’s new to everything in the canaries and how dramatic she can act, and the one to lighten up the mood and be friendly because she’s open and casual like that and the one to tell her to relax. Their relationship could be a little tense especially with how judgy and critical Marcille can be, and how singeing and uncaring Fleki can be. Marcille’s "you didn’t do this for friendship because it’s the right thing to do?! How heartless!". But especially with time and familiarity they’d grow closer and Mariclle would be sad Fleki keeps people at an emotional distance and Fleki doesn’t let her in more- "Fleki may seem rude and crass and lowbrow and a rotten egg and- but she’s a good egg if you take the time to crack her up a bit… She’s my rotten egg… I prommy…" Also her overbearing mom friend tendencies would kick in and she’d want to get Fleki to be healthier. Lycion-Marcille "spend less time high and be with us we love you" alliance pt 2. Ty for coming to my ted talk. Imagine Fleki climbling Marcille like she did w Otta in that one beach page. Dramatic duo <3 Anyways so yes they’ll often banter and chat and have disagreements and sometimes bad synergy but ultimately they trust each other’s judgement and work well together—

Lycion: ehhhhhhh. Lycion’s easy to get along with but equally distant, and more judgy than he appears, and I don’t think Marcille would try to get closer, if not just in curiosity to figure him out. Their dynamic would fall flat a lot imo. But I do think he’d also poke fun at her idealistic gullible nature kinda like with Pattadol, would find it fun to string her along with tall tales and push her around in these small jokey ways, especially if she acts holier-than-thou even at this point in her life (bc I do think he’d tend to have more patience and empathy for a fellow inmate). Don’t ship it don’t ship it don’t ship it Fumi Marcille falling for a mysterious werewolf help Marcille you cannot "you should love yourself and your body ✨✨" him out of this

Cithis: No, but Cithis might like to mess with her. I think Cithis would find her too loud though. Too dramatic too talkative too bumbly too annoying— Chilchuck does always call Marcille clumsy so there’s that. Cithis hates rich people and Marcille like Pattadol does give that vibe, and unlike Pattadol Marcille’s not her superior so I think she’d show more cold disinterest than mean playfulness bc there’s little power dynamic to play with and dunk on there. Pattadol playing favoritism with Marcille would def fan some flames though. Cithis would find out Marcille’s not so bad and untolerable over time but there’ll always be some cold rivalry vibes crackling I feel, maybe Cithis takes pity on her and takes her under her wing somewhat at one point. Eh. I think Marcille would get the vibe to steer clear of her esp with Pattadol’s warnings about her, think of her kinda like how she treated Toshiro or Namari after she left, but also……. À la Chilchuck the harder someone tries to be closed off and mysterious the harder she wants to befriend them and learn everything about them.

Otta: Decently yes! The inmate she gets along best after/alongside Fleki. She’s sociable and generally friendly though the less flashy type, she’s the most mature and tends to be quieter than the chaos duo Fleki & Lycion. Otta would also find Marcille easily overbearing I think but she’d tell it how it is and try to help her integrate. And then brag about how good of a person she is for it lowkey~ Jk haha or is she. They’d both talk seriously and joke together. Ultimately the Fleki-Lycion-Otta-Marcille quartet is a fun one to sit with at a table.

Mithrun: Both terrifying and unapproachable and the person she feels like she can talk to plainly with the most imo even if he doesn’t always respond much. She appreciates him being smart but thinks he’s reckless. His words and judgements are harsh but often something she has to grapple with and accept— Pattadol’s very kind on her (sometimes overwhelmingly so) and sort of a rookie that follows orders so Marcille has trouble talking strategy or for real for real™️ with her, and Otta’s approachable and levelheaded but well- Not necessarily the most moral or that knows what she’s speaking about. Fleki’s easy to talk to plainly with but isn’t often constructive, Lycion’d be great actually but they don’t talk like that. Mithrun? Academic and experienced and blunt and there’s no pretenses ever. Maybe Cithis would want to drop some of her Mithrun-caring duties onto her but I doubt it tbh. On ship travels she might get overwhelmed and seek some quiet in his room tbh, and he says he doesn’t care either way… she could read books in there or talk onesidedly. Idk idk idk, them……..

Marcille starting out trusting no one and vowing to keep to herself and go unnoticed for the time she has to serve, but being surrounded by so many mysterious cool people that aren’t as bad as she wwass bracing herself for…… And wanting to know everyone’s tragic backstories. Mithrun’s is pretty much common knowledge and she learns it quickly through gossip, maybe from Pattadol, either once she starts taking an interest in her coworkers or a bit before and it’s what piques her interest because before then she found him so senselessly rude & she tends to assume people are black and white at first… He might even overshare himself like he did with Kabru and she’s on the edge of her seat all the while gdbdg. Pattadol has nothing to hide or so she says so she tells Marcille all she wants to know about herself. Marcille eventually learns about Lycion I think but Fleki she has to fight tooth and nail to get anything except one liners casually dropped randomly here and there and what do you mean you have a brother?? Cithis will never let her know anything so gossip or such is her only way but tbh Marcille doesn’t dare.

OKAYYYY that was way longer than I thought but hopefully it’s some fun food for thought lol. I still think I’ve thought about Otta the least but I’ve started paying her more attention a while ago esp when I realized she’s pretty much the Chilchuck equivalent of the group. -Squints and suddenly gets a vision- Chilchuck’s a mix of Otta and Fleki………… Me liking flekille so much suddenly makes even more sense to me hm

Any and all canary Marcille AU is very fun, here I was thinking halfway between ‘she becomes a canary in a canon divergent ending where the demon isn’t defeated and Laios isn’t king’ (which would def make the Mithrun-Marcille dynamic even more interesting) and her having become a canary pre-canon someway sometime somehow. I also like AUs where Marcille went to jail post-canon in general, I have some old laimar and marchil wips with that since the manga wasn’t over then and I thought she might spend some time in prison but have an early leave because of Laios’ power and influence and good behavior hehe. Here’s one fun other canary Marcille I just stumbled upon~!

"Not to mention the irony in the fact that through her effort to prolong the time she has with her friends she lost the chance to the time they have" beautiful mwah… Jailbird AU is a banger name

[fumifooms]

Okay okay new flekille angle... Fleki joking about being a "dark elf" and Marcille being uncomfortable about it... Fleki saying it and teasing with it BECAUSE it makes Marcille unsure and uncomfortable.

No because okay okay rundown : 'dark elf' is a catch-all term for elves who show unsavory behavior or commit wrong actions, wether violence, theft, scamming or lying... It being a shorthand for criminals in general is a safe assumption to make, especially since they're classically demonized already.

"Okay but Fleki? Run me through the situation what does it have to do with flekille." Short sociology lesson, because of urgent needs being unable to be met through honest means & with the system favoring others instead, people from poorer more neglected social classes tend to fall into crime & bad crowds more easily. Having less ressources means the 'solutions' you do have are more extreme, wether it be for regulating your mental health or stabilizing your income or living situation. Here's a study link if interested.

Why I think Fleki may have been lower class, before becoming a prisoner? Okay stay with me here, elves are very hierarchal and xenophobic, even while being colonizers. Referring to the area guide blurbs, the northern central continent (NCC) is managed with more restrictions but also more valued in general than the southern central continent (SCC), which also has a widespread elven population. It's said life is "safe and easy" in the NCC, so alongside all the noble elves we have info for come from the NCC, we can see a dynamic form where NCC continent elves are from a higher safer social class than SCC elves.

Another hint of this is the characters' names. If you compare their name origins, a pattern starts appearing where... Well @room-surprise did the work and has more knowledge than me so, the way they put it: "It seems like every elf that has a clearly Germanic or Slavic name is either a criminal or a lower-class person and everyone who is higher class seems to have names that are Latin, Greek, or West/South Asian."

And this seems like a lot of large vague groups options that don't mean much, but this tidbit of info becomes more telling when knowing which races are more associated with what languages and cultures. For a full look into it I recommend this essay, but to get to the point here concisely: 'Fleki' is old norse. 'Otta' and 'Helki' are other elves with old norse names, but for what it's worth Otta is from the NCC, and who knows about Helki's origins. They're the only elves with old norse names at all, but three's a crowd. Who else do we know are scandinavian coded? That's right, Laios and his home region. Tallmen.

Prisoner/non-noble elves tend to have old norse names while none of the noble ones do. And wouldn't that be interesting if tied with tallmen being nordic, wouldn't it be a result of the cultural mixing happening in the less rich regions and the lower social classes, since noble elves are especially xenophobic and uppity about social classes?

Ironically, our protagonist Laios has a greek name, something associated with elves in Dungeon Meshi, but just like Anoutolid and Nussa (two of Laios' father's dogs) could have been picked as names because Laios' father likes names from myths, with the dogs this is canon but in case of Laios it's probably more of a meta joke. ANYWAYS! Go in the essay for more info, all I'm saying is, tallmen = nordic, elves having nordic names = possible cultural mixing, on the continent that canonically has more immigration and less restrictions but is also less safe and 'easy' to live in.

Elves concentrating all their efforts and wealth into the 1% is too real and it checks out. It's also hinted at and mentioned many times through canon and extra info (Misyl's Complete Adventurer's Bible blurb for one) that the canaries overpolice and charge criminals too heavily because they lack manpower, so they want people arrested and want them arrested for longer to have more canaries. Fleki was arrested because of possession and sale of ancient magic artifacts, and only got into ancient magic for the money. Look I'm just saying, it lines up that Fleki would turn to crime because her material conditions weren't great! And as a criminal, she's automatically fit to either having been treated as a dark elf or joke and taunt about it. Especially since the lore info extra on dark elves is set somewhere where tallmen approached unfriendly elves, while this could be a tallman unused to elves outside of rumors thus approaching them with a reckless idealized view, the casualness of it makes me think this is the sort of contact that was likely to happen in an area with a lot of elves and a lot of tallmen living nearby each other, ie the SCC.

Mentioning the Mithrun-Hareus parallels AGAIN but Mithrun and the canaries directly contrast Daltian Clan, it' holds up and makes sense a result especially of Mithrun being hareus' exact lookalike. It's fantasy vs reality of Marcille idealizing Daltian Clan and elven military through General Hareus and novels growing up, then realizing that the real elven military is miserable and very much not glamorous and general Mithrun is dehydrated, rude and after her life. So this plotline about idolizing vs demonizing elves as a race, stances that are very split within the dunmeshi cast, is very Marcille-centric within canon's story. She herself goes from associating with them a lot and being prideful about it & elven customs, to condemning their superiority complex and narrow-mindedness and being on the run from the elven military, before becoming an advisor for a short-lived tallman court, which is seen as dishonorable for elves, as Marcille the half-elf. There's a bit of an arc here, regardless of how much change she actually went through or if it was always just performance on her part that she wasn't really attached to.

So obviously this is all to say that Marcille having a romance with a very underprivileged elf, a "dark elf", would be not only compelling but relevant. FLEKILLE SUPREMACY!!!!!

Half-elf woman who drank the koolaid a bit growing up and idolized elves and tried her best to fit the image of one x woman who knows personally the shortcomings of that same idolized society and embodies that a bit, who breaks that elegant image by being crass and unapologetic and a criminal prisoner, who would have no problem breaking Marcille's fantasies about it, a full elf who still grew up disadvantaged and demonized. Marcille has been emulating elves all her life, perhaps in the hopes of being accepted more or feeling a bigger sense of cultural belonging, but Fleki is there, showing her hey, it isn't that great anyways, hey it doesn't matter squat if you're an elf or not people will always find excuses to mistreat you anyways. It's Fleki taunting and saying come be dark elves with me and Marcille coming to understand and replying no, we're both just elves.

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Now that the Best Dancer or Musician in the Dungeon Tournament is finished, I'm taking another weeklong break before starting the next tournament. Since that tournament will coincide with Valentine's Day, I think it'd be fun to run the Seaworthiest Ship in the Dungeon Tournament 2024.

All the ships from last year will return, in a bracket seeded in by how well they did last time. I'll also be adding new ships. Any ship is welcome. All of the ships are listed below. If you have any more ships you'd like me to add, or ship names you'd like me to use, feel free to message me.

New ships: Lycion x Mithrun Gillin x Null Fleki x Cithis Canary polycule Yaad x Thistle Marcille x Touden siblings Namari x Kaka (Kakamari)

Returning ships: Falin x Marcille (Farcille) Falin x Shuro Namari x Kiki (Kikimari) Namari x Kaka & Kiki Mr Floke x Mrs Floke (The Flokes) Laios x Marcille (Marios) Kabru x Mithrun (Kabumisu) Kabru x Laios (Labru) Kabru x Rin (Kabrin) Chilchuck x Senshi (Chilshi) Chilchuck x Marcille Fionil x Doni Hien x Benichidori Delgal x Thistle Winged Lion x Laios Winged Lion x Marcille Winged Lion x Mithrun Senshi x Chilchuck's daughters Laios x Kensuke Laios x Lycion Laios x Senshi (Laisen) Laios x Thistle Cithis x Otta Cithis x Pattadol Laios x Chilchuck (Chaios) Falin x Namari Otta x Chilchuck's wife Fleki x Lycion Kensuke x Ambrosia The dryads Hippogriff x Anne the pony Island governor x Shadow governor Izutsumi by herself Marcille x Succubus Namari x Marcille Senshi x Mithrun Izutsumi x Marcille Winged Lion x Thistle Maizuru x Toshitsugu

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

To satisfy my own curiosity, it's the

Seaworthiest Ship in the Dungeon 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 ship you like best. The ship with the most votes advances to the next round.

Propaganda is encouraged! Please tag it or send me a message about it so I know to reblog it.

Finale:

Izutsumi by herself vs Kabumisu (Izutsumi by herself won)

Battle for the bronze:

Farcille vs Chilshi (Farcille won)

Previous rounds under the cut

Semi-finals:

Farcille vs Izutsumi by herself (Izutsumi by herself won, surprisingly)

Chilshi vs Kabumisu (Kabumisu won)

Quarter finals:

Farcille vs Kensuke x Ambrosia (Farcille won)

Izutsumi by herself vs Namari x Kiki (Izutsumi by herself won)

Laisen vs Chilshi (Chilshi won)

Winged Lion x Laios vs Kabumisu (Kabumisu won)

Round 3:

Farcille vs The Dryads (Farcille won)

Kensuke x Ambrosia vs Fionil x Doni (Kensuke x Ambrosia won)

Izutsumi by herself vs Hien x Benichidori (Izutsumi by herself won)

The Flokes vs Namari x Kiki (Namari x Kiki won)

Laios x Lycion vs Laisen (Laisen won)

Otta x Chilchuck's wife vs Chilshi (Chilshi won)

Winged Lion x Laios vs Winged Lion x Thistle (Winged Lion x Laios won)

Fleki x Lycion vs Kabumisu (Kabumisu won)

Round 2, part 2:

Marios vs Laios x Lycion (Laios x Lycion won)

Laisen vs Chaios (Laisen won)

Otta x Chilchuck's wife vs Senshi x Mithrun (Otta x Chilchuck's wife won)

Chilchuck x Marcille vs Chilshi (Chilshi won)

Winged Lion x Marcille vs Winged Lion x Laios (Winged Lion x Laios won)

Winged Lion x Mithrun vs Winged Lion x Thistle (Winged Lion x Thistle won)

Cithis x Pattadol vs Fleki x Lycion (Fleki x Lycion won)

Labru vs Kabru x Mithrun (Kabumisu won)

Round 2, part 1:

Farcille vs Falin x Namari (Farcille won)

Hippogriff x Anne the pony vs The Dryads (The Dryads won)

Marcille x Succubus vs Kensuke x Ambrosia (Kensuke x Ambrosia won)

Island governor x Shadow governor vs Fionil x Doni (Fionil x Doni won)

Izutsumi by herself vs Izutsumi x Marcille (Izutsumi by herself won)

Maizuru x Toshitsugu vs Hien x Benichidori (Hien x Benichidori won)

Delgal x Thistle vs The Flokes (The Flokes won)

Namari x Marcille vs Namari x Kiki (Namari x Kiki won)

Round 1:

Falin x Namari vs Falin x Shuro (Falin x Namari won)

Namari x Kaka & Kiki vs Namari x Kiki (Namari x Kiki won)

Laios x Kensuke vs Laios x Lycion (Laios x Lycion won)

Laios x Senshi vs Laios x Thistle (Laisen won)

Otta x Chilchuck's wife vs Senshi x Chilchuck's daughters (Otta x Chilchuck's wife won)

Cithis x Pattadol vs Cithis x Otta (Cithis x Pattadol won)

Kabru x Laios vs Kabru x Rin (Labru won)

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Now that the Queerest Character in the Dungeon Tournament is over, as mentioned, I'm gonna take a weeklong break and then start the Seaworthiest Ship in the Dungeon Tournament. For that, I need ships. So far, I have:

Falin x Marcille (Farcille) Falin x Shuro Namari x Kiki Namari x Kaka & Kiki Mr Floke x Mrs Floke (The Flokes) Laios x Marcille (Marios) Kabru x Mithrun Kabru x Laios Kabru x Rin Chilchuck x Senshi (Chilshi) Chilchuck x Marcille Fionil x Doni Hien x Benichidori Delgal x Thistle Winged Lion x Laios Winged Lion x Marcille Winged Lion x Mithrun Senshi x Chilchuck's daughters Laios x Kensuke Laios x Lycion Laios x Senshi Laios x Thistle Cithis x Otta Cithis x Pattadol Laios x Chilchuck (Chaios) Falin x Namari Otta x Chilchuck's wife Fleki x Lycion Kensuke x Ambrosia The dryads Hippogriff x Anne the pony Island governor x Shadow governor Izutsumi by herself Marcille x Succubus boyfriend Namari x Marcille Senshi x Mithrun Izutsumi x Marcille Winged Lion x Thistle Maizuru x Toshitsugu

These are all ships that I ship myself or have seen others ship. If you have any other ships, or any fun ship names for the ones on this list, lemme know and I'll add them to the list.

Also, if you have a manga panel saved with your favourite ship interacting, that'd be a tremendous help.

[fumifooms]

For those Fleki x Marcile modern AU ideas you have: how do you think Marcile and Lycion finally deciding to make the "Your going to rehab and that is final!' ultimatum went?

Okay okay so in my mind, in my flekille modern au timeline, there are a couple months of just getting to know each other and flirting, then a couple of months of dating. The time Fleki would reluctantly accept to try rehab wouldn't be the first time the topic comes up. I thiiink Marcille even just in the first couple of months of being friends would be worried occasionally, but ultimately attributed it to not being used to recreational drug use in general- until she realizes that oh, no, this isn't just 'normal ~people who take drugs~ things' this is a drug dependence- and I think that realization comes in a creeping gradual sense that Fleki gets high a lot, but that only starts to fully feel real around when they start dating and Marcille goes over to Fleki's more, and reaches out to her more often instead of being the one being reached to whenever then hung out. The easy to gloss over worried inquiries pre-dating became talks, and the talks became household meetings. Fleki is always frustrated about them, various degrees of anger, but Marcille gradually steels herself and gets more convincing arguments, even while as they grow closer some become more pointed as running jokes become running blame...

But see that's the thing, more time goes on and so they become more and more important to each other, closer, a bigger part of the other's life, so it also gets progressively harder for Fleki to just dismiss her thoughts and feelings. And then the true nail in the coffin is when Lycion joins one of those talks, on the side of rehab.

Lycion's more the type to stick to sides, and I don't think he necessarily liked Marcille at first. He's a little possessive and wishes Fleki would just apend her time with him instead, but she's also often somewhat uptight and overbearing. But both caring for fleki makes them inevitably see each other, and gradually Marcille starts asking him as his bestie and roommate for updates on her, asking how she's doing these days and if something happened, and so they start talking more about Fleki's state and how often she takes drugs and how bad it gets. Where before he just shrugged everything off the way Fleki does, now he started considering things more seriously, that things could change, that this may not be sustainable for anybody.

Lycion progressively starts agreeing with Marcille, even if he still thinks she’s a bit intense with it. But it gets tiring to always put your best friend in the recovery position when she falls asleep high "just in case". Lycion’s the type to cherish someone quietly just sticking by them and never asking for anything in return, just taking the love and attention he gets and not ask for more, so in the same manner i think he’s never really sais anything beyond "I wanna spend more time with you awake :/" before, I don't think he'd question her judgement and if it's worth her health or her time. But Marcille's loud and unapologetic, and frankly she's voicing worries he's had for a while, voicing thoughts and wants he's been having for a while. We love you and it's hard to see you in this state, to see you spend all your money on drugs, to see you so high you can't do anything but lay down and sleep so often, to hear you say the world we're in isn't worth living in compared to the "real world" you see when high. We love you and we want to spend more time with you. We love you and we want you to be happy, without the need of being under influence for it.

Fleki resists it like usual, but she's more quiet than usual too, and they just list point after point and they sound genuine and like they're trying to reach her when they list them. They ask her if she can't find any meaning in living with this world with them, ask her to just try rehab, etc. And yk, it reaches her. Something in her gives away, she's tired physically and mentally and her instinct is to go take a puff to forget all about having a mind for a minute. She'd never wanted to give drugs up, doesn't think the experience of them should be something she should give up in the least, it's worh it and it's good, but... They've convinced her to try taking less, and it is hard to get herself to take less, so she'll give rehab a go, for their sake. She does see merit in their words, even if she thinks it should all be her own choice to make. Part of her impulsively eants to angrily tell them that they can just leave her if they want to and it's so hard to see her be herself, but she always takes a second longer and realizes that she really doesn't want that, that she wants to spend always more time with them, too.

In my og flekille post I say Fleki is grumpy but doesn't stay angry at them for long upon them getting her into rehab, and instead of meaning they force or threaten her into going I meant it more in the way that they convinced her to go bit she wasn't happy about it. She accepts but spitefully, more or less with a "Fine, let's get it over woth and shut you up!!" or even a "Alright whatever, and i'll show you it doesn't work and then I get out of there, deal!". But that resolve and frustration with them chips away with time shortly and she's back to being her lighthearted gremlin self whenever she sees them, although more tired too at first. Turns out Fleki doesn't have much resolve in holding grudgesat people she loves.

Alternatively, I also like thinking about a timeline where it's an ultimatum she gives for starting dating Fleki. That she couldn't watch the person she loves put themselves in this state day after day forever, for her to see them wither away that way over time. So when Fleki pops the question, do you wanna date? Hopeful and nervous but dropped casually with her usual mischievous tone as if it was just any usual line to say, Marcille sort of just freezes... She's been trying and continues to try to not get too close, too attached too in love. So she's direct and says no and said what i mentioned, Fleki is hurt but it gets her thinking over the next month. They have a colder phase after that where they don't talk much, and Marcille accepts her choice and her discomfort and frustration with her now, but Fleki starts reaching out more and more again. And she doesn't manage to make concrete steps towards being clean, but when Marcille asks Fleki admits she's been trying to take less and put her better foor forward for Marcille, because she doesn't want to sacrifice their relationship for drugs. And i think maybe, Marcille compromises on her side too then and starts dating Fleki even if her worries aren't resolved- but Fleki is more mindful and aware of her problem now, and Marcille hopes that's a good sign, and not just something she'll walk back on next month.

[fumifooms]

as a nonbinary bisexual, please don't make your victim complex into a thing we all share. m/f shipping in dungeon meshi is inherently lesser and boring when provided with a wealth of good same gender relationships.

No two characters are the same and that’s the whole point in shipping. Thanks for confirming you think m/f shipping is inherently lesser. My victim complex is actually applying equal treatment to things and that means u don’t get a pass on being hateful bc u’re queer sorry

I love laicion. I love cittadol and fleki x marcille and ot3s and the big ships in the fandom too. Am I supposed to not get a balanced diet in shipping. Am I supposed to pretend Laios is genderbent Marcille if I want a marchil dynamic? I hope you realize how ridiculous this discourse is. Can’t we all just hold hands

[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 - kurokabu -

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 - Mickbell about Rin - Touden parents contrast -

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 - Mickbell and Laios dogboys - How would the canaries treat Marcille as a coworker? - modern au Marcille

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).

Featured:

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) fic stuff on my writing blog @fumiku instead, and for my fics here’s my ao3 Fumiku! I also uphold @feedmarchil, and I often do fanart at @fuumiku. I also made a post detailling my upcoming 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