#fucchi dungeon meshi

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Pick what your heart says, not the one that got actual screen time...

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by the way I'm guessing the dog Falin and Laios are seen with in ep. 3 is Fucchi

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Dungeon Meshi Chapter 40

The title image wonderfully demonstrates the difference between Laios, Chilchuck, and Senshi in how much they pay attention to their party members.

Despite his lack of drawing skill, Laios's drawing has every major detail of Marcille's pose, including her hairstyle, how her arms are bent, her general expression, and how she's wearing her clothes. He just sucks at getting the fine details. Notice also that Laios is looking at Marcille and trying to be as accurate as possible.

Chilchuck's artwork is better but his drawing is an approximation of what she looks like. His drawing doesn't have her hairstyle nor her facial expression. Chilchuck is not looking at Marcille either; he's not checking to make sure his drawing is accurate.

Senshi just doesn't care.

Laios lost a bit of everyone's trust when they found out he'd been keeping a monster as a sword. And last chapter, they lost more trust when they learned he'd already met the magician and never realized it. This contest is probably not the best way to figure out who is real or fake. He's using it as a chance to prove he can discern things about people.

Since we're only dealing with one fake this chapter, I'm just going to call them that this chapter, but I'll go back to using my naming system from last chapter later.

The real Senshi, Chilchuck, and Marcille were the ones who voiced concern that Laios was going to screw this up.

Between the pairs, I had the most trouble keeping track of which Chilchuck was the real one. The best way I can describe the difference between them is Fake Chilchuck looks more "anime". His eyes are bigger and are generally more expressive than the real Chilchuck's. His hair is also messier.

With the Marcille's I was able to cheat by checking what her hair looked like before all this. But I also noticed that Fake Marcille has less expression than the real one. Fake Marcille always seems exhausted and resigned. Her forehead is also bigger than the real Marcille's.

Fake Senshi is easy to point out. He looks like he should be in a more serious series akin to Fist of the North Star.

The party is accidentally divulging a lot of their negative opinions about each other. Marcille and Senshi basically said they'd like Chilchuck more if he acted like a cute kid. Chilchuck and Senshi don't like how Marcille complains about everything. Marcille and Chilchuck think Senshi looks dopey.

This was when Laios had his epiphany.

The only time someone didn't seem to be fooled by the fakes was Marcille seemed to realize who the fake Senshi was. Everyone else fell for the fakes. And since they all fell for the fakes, and they didn't have any faith in Laios's ability to figure out who the fakes were, it wouldn't have mattered how correct Laios was. It was always going to turn into a fight.

The Marcille's are trying to keep the other from casting magic and maybe even trying to asphyxiate each other.

Laios needed the others to make a full course meal to determine who was who, but as soon as he decided to just hunt the shapeshifter itself, he figured out instantly what type of monster it must be, its behaviour pattern, and where it was hiding.

Falin did say Laios does a great dog impression in chapter 17. And yeah, he does. He was so impressive that he deceived a monster that specializes in deception.

Anoutolid and Fucchi were the dogs in the chapter 26 title image and flashback.

I think the shapeshifter's true form is supposed to be a tanuki but with the split tail of a kitsune. Both of them have myths related to shapeshifting and tanukis use leaves to make their transformations.

At first, I thought the shapeshifter looked like a wolf. It was introduced with a hypothetical situation of it infiltrating a sheep flock. So it would be a "wolf in sheep's clothing".

Marcille was the only one who realized how stupid the situation had gotten and decided to end it.

I didn't catch onto any of the things Laios used to figure out who was real. I did catch the part where Fake Marcille mentioned eating fishman eggs though.

Laios sucks at understanding people's motivations and he sucks at remembering what people have done. But it turns out that he's excellent at picking up on mannerisms and behaviour.

He loves studying monsters and that is all about learning how they act and behave. He kind of applied that to the others to figure out who the fakes were. With Marcille, its especially noteworthy because he knew that Marcille was the kind of person who doesn't learn from her mistakes. And it was only when Marcille brought up the fishman eggs that Laios remembered that he tricked her into eating them.

Senshi is picking up every grain of spilled rice. He will let nothing go to waste.

Wait, I recognize that face! I take back everything negative I said about Asebi!

And now I realize why that gauntlet in chapter 39 looked familiar. She's the one who grabbed Marcille's hand in the blizzard.

Now that this is over, I can go over who made which fakes. Here's a reference I found that came from one of the guidebooks.

I got all the Chilchucks and Marcilles right but I got F1 Laios, F2 Laios, F1 Senshi, and F2 Senshi mixed up. In my defense, I didn't know that Marcille was once told that Laios looks like Falin nor did I know that Chilchuck thinks dwarfs are manly.

I think part of what inspired F3 Laios was that moment in chapter 15 where Laios lost his temper because Chilchuck wouldn't let him cook the fishmen.

If F1 Marcille is based on when Marcille resurrected Falin, that would explain why she looks so glum. I kind of think F1 Marcille was also prone to acting annoyed, and I think Laios probably thinks Marcille is annoyed in general.

F3 Marcille's hairstyle is most similar to what Marcille had when they fought the red dragon. But it's missing the finer details like the side braids.

Every one of the fakes Senshi made can be summed up as "I grew up in a super racist community and it still negatively impacts my initial opinions of people".

Laios definitely has the least bias about his party members. The fakes he made are the most objectively accurate but were missing some finer details. It's kind of hypocritical that Chilchuck and Senshi chastised Laios last chapter when their fakes were far more off.

Since Laios created F1 Marcille, him managing to pick the real Marcille is doubly impressive because he had to pick the one who isn't perfectly like the Marcille in his head. In his head, Laios knows Marcille is scared of undines and she should know better than to casually pour boiling water since that's what angered the undine. But he knows her well enough to realize that she's also careless enough to absentmindedly make the same mistake twice.

I said the fakes Laios made are the most objectively accurate, but there's something about F1 Marcille that looks more "beautiful" than the actual Marcille. I proposed in chapter 34 that Laios might have an ear fetish, but I think he might have some romantic feelings for her. From what little we saw of F2 Chilchuck and F3 Senshi's behaviour, they act like the real ones. But F1 Marcille was less moody, more self-aware, and more self-sacrificing for Falin's sake. Laios picking the real Marcille means he had to accept who she actually is, warts and all.

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