#kabru was horrified

[notafagipromise]

I see directly post-canon labrumiso as a polycule that both laios and mithrun are dating kabru but not each other, BUT! I do think that they could be a triad after a while with mithrun and laios building a relationship.

it's insanely funny to me the image of laios sadly telling mithrun about a interesting monster he never got to see before he got cursed, so on one random regular meeting mithrun suddenly teleports into the room with a carcass of the monster laios wanted to see

but I think the funniest of it all is that because of mithrus terrible sense of direction he would have to teleport short distances to be able to figure out where he is and make his way into the castle,that week there was a lot of rumors of a elven ghoul dragging a carcass across the kingdom

also mithrun would immediately crash from lack of mana after teleporting all the way into the castle

[ask-utayaboy]

If you don’t mind me asking, how was your mother like?

If I'm being entirely honest, I don't think I remember enough to share a large-scale story like you were probably hoping for, Anon, and for that I .. apologize.

My mother, though... From what little I can remember, she was strong, resilient. It was just us two and yet she made it work. I can recall watching her cook in our little at-home kitchen, and she'd share the steps to each recipe since I was curious. No one in Utaya deserved what happened to them, but I find myself wondering about her far more often than the others. Mostly on the why's. Why did that have to happen to her in particular? She was kind, that much I can say for certain. She, before Milsiril, comforted me about ... well, assumptions made about me. She never once let me think it was true.

My memories of her are scarce. And I wish they weren't.

... Thank you for asking me about her.

[thiefnessman]

just watched the latest dunmeshi episodes. rip to falin for being turned into a monstrosity and losing her free will but also her chimera form is hot

[wintergrofyuri]

thinking of mickholm again. they are just the funniest thing ever to me.

holm healing mickbell and like. ok so ykno how when holm revives kabru after the faligon fight he like. pet him. soothed his hand over the wound. holm doing that to mickbell and mick starts acting kinda weird and holm's like "you dont have a concussion as well do you" and mick just goes "no" but he's still being weird. so holm just moves onto his other injuries and. ofc he does it again. but this time mickbell Shivers. and its like. Ohhh.

anyways holm flicks his forehead bc they may be fucking, but he is Not doing it in the fucking dungeon. he already has concussions and severed limbs to worry about. dont need to add dungeon stds to that list. mick curls into the fetal position of shame and prays to a god he doesnt believe in that holm forgets this ever happened.

smash cut to 2 days later, out of the dungeon and back at holm's place, mickbell passed out and holm smoking a fantasy cigar next to him. they are both butt ass naked.

[stolen-ass-name]

*Guy that has two (2) D&D related interests only voice* Haha Dungeon Meshi x Baldur's Gate 3 crossover when?

[untitledgoosegay]

i'll strangle you or i'll kiss you on the mouth

[lordofthefarts]

okay imagine if one day falin finds a drawing of her chimera self that laios drew, and then starts taking the little bits of feathers and scales to try to make a smaller replica of her former self and essentially ends up with the goodsmile chimera falin figurine

like she thinks its a fun project and then when she finishes making it, she gives it to laios who puts it on his desk and then when marcille and kabru come to see him next they're both absolutely horrified by it and marcille threatens to set it on fire and then laios says that falin made it and they just have to. accept it.

[hoofpeet]

My vision for modern day AU Kabru/Mithrun.... Kabru takes a job as a live-in caregiver to help get through college (And possibly hoping to get written into some old rich guy's will) --> When he gets there his charge (Mithrun) turns out to be the scariest old European man he's ever met. Mithrun inexplicably has a really nice car + house despite having no apparent job, keeps dropping horrifying stories about various near-death experiences and then laughing about them, refuses to disclose anything else about his past. Kabru shows up one day and the rest of the canaries are in his kitchen in matching black suits talking about something in Russian and he's like christ. This guy's clearly a fucking mob boss or something and I'm gonna get killed for being here . Do you see my vision here

[goforthequill]

Oooh my gosh thank you so much for drawing all of the hypothetical scenarios, this is incredible! This AU has so much potential, and your art is wonderful *O*

The panel where past!Mithrun takes Kabru for a swim is my favorite X) The first ever merman to almost drown an infer - I mean, a human accidentally.

I love how much of an insufferable brat past!Mithrun is here, and how Kabru goes from being rightfully afraid and cautious to completely aggravated. XD Such a fun dynamic! (At least they get along better once Mithrun learns how to walk on land, good for them!)

But of course Kabru x current!Mithrun is best KabuMisu. They are so precious. <3

💬dungeon meshi art request

Thank you very much for your request @goforthequill 🥹💐 I’m really glad that you like the mermaid AU!

Every trope was cute, so I just drew all of them🫶 hope you like it!

[laikabu]

labru illustrator-author couple... writing middle grade books...

it all started because kabru offered to be laios’s ghost writer after the reveal that laios’s awesome monster story didn’t have a plot

things snowballed and one day kabru receives the proofing pages and is horrified to see the big “written by kabru” text with a very tiny “illustrated by laios touden”, despite all the worldbuilding and characters and plot points are all laios’. he found out it was requested by laios himself

[thechekhov]

Chekhov Reads Dungeon Meshi: CH52

Everyone else: surrounded by at least family or friends.

Senshi: just me and my trusty frying pan

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I feel like Kui-san created the perfect explanation for the artistic whim of 'I wanna draw high fantasy.... or maybe horror.... hmm.... and now I wanna draw cookbooks. And now I wanna draw steampunk!' and just made it work for her.

Queen shit, honestly.

Wow, dwarves are way more uptight than I thought. No drinking in the trolley?!

It's YOUR turn on the backstory, Laios.

Laios going into the military and then immediately backing out with a 'thanks but no thanks' is very... Laios.

He's also suddenly emaciated. This feels like there's parts being left out.

and ALSO why is Falin here???? Oh wait it's just another person.

.......so Falin was at the academy until her brother showed up and then ALSO DESERTED????? She didn't even graduate or anything? She just noped out one day???????

Marcille heart attack in 3.... 2....... 1................

"You literally came by and STOLE my girlfriend from school!"

Senshi you..... you literally almost died of starvation in a dungeon due to lack of planning and then just did Whatever and got by. 😂

Laios, did you leave your baby sister behind because the people were dicks? Is this just Laios telling it badly, or was he just a kid dealing with it badly?

And WHERE ARE THE PARENTS, WHY IS SHE EATING ALONE.

For being a fantasy manga, this has incredibly modern social issues.

Or maybe the issues in question are just timeless.

AAAAA MARCILLE WERE YOU LISTENING

The horrified, stupid feeling of realization when you're a little bit of an asshole, but not on purpose - just out of ignorance. Oooooh godddds, this is so real. This is so REAL!

It's so dumb how human this manga is. I love it.

...th...this metaphor may be getting a bit out of hand...... is it really as simple as eggs on bacon...????

okay............where are you going with this.......?

MmmmmHMMMM. I see. Hmmm. Interesting. HmmMMM. I....okay.

no, no, he's got a point.

But actually, was IS the plan here? He says that as though it's a workable plan but.

Is the idea to just.... eat Falin's non-human parts??? That's most of her. Up to her neck. You have, what, a neck and a head? Are you working under the assumption that there's more human parts buried in dragon meat? You're working under the assumption that she hasn't become the dragon as much as it became her.

Idk, man. It all feels very....... raw.

But I'm sure it'll work out EXACTLY like this.

Get your knife and fork, Kabru. You've been formally invited to dine on the body of Laios' sister who killed you once.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

just finished vol 9 of dungeon meshi... horrifying lore drops all around but most important Kabru and Mithrun should have wretched and emotionally distant sex on that dungeon floor

[aqueer1]

I think my fav part about Kabru is how he’s Utilitarian to a genuinely horrifying extent. Like he literally puts a man down not bc he hates him but because letting him live would harm the future of the island. Even as a lesbian I can recognize how that’s terrifying in a hot way.

[kabru-of-utaya]

The thing for me with the Kabru and Laios scene in ch.76 is that I think making it romantic takes something fundamentally away from it and away from Kabru's character arc. However you choose to see their relationship, personally, I don't see them as romantic- I think it has to be exclusively a confession of friendship and one of the very very few times in the manga that Kabru is ever genuine. It's so fucked up how we went from the beginning when Kabru said he doesn't trust the Toudens, he thinks they're doing something shady, he thinks they're malicious, he doesn't trust Laios, to now such desperation that he's chasing after him and grabbing onto his clothes like a child begging him to stop and listen to him. It's such a sad display considering how Kabru is always so well put together. Him getting so desperate that he admits how all he ever wanted was to be Laios's friend, and then his look of horror as he realizes he admitted something he never wanted to admit, he was vulnerable without wanting to be? Then for Laios to turn around and say he was lying, that there were better ways to make friends, and that he didn't have time for this conversation. Oh, it hurts so bad. Kabru has no real friends, not really. Only Rin has gotten close enough to be considered it, he has been a hated child all his life, he has never fit in anywhere. You would never guess it with the way he acts, with his casually confident he is and how personable he is, but he didn't fit in from the moment he was born. No one truly knows him. How lonely to be disowned and hated by all your family besides your mother, to lose your mother when you were still so young, to be taken to a country where no one recognized you as someone to be respected because of your life span, to not be allowed to take on dungeons how you wanted to because you weren't good enough in the elves eyes. Even now, even when he wanted to make friends, Laios and Falin never noticed him, never paid attention, never listened, and what is Laios doing in that scene beside the exact same thing. He tried to shut down Kabru so many times, to the point that Kabru had to force him to listen by way of physical force. How sad for such a horrifying admittance to simply be, "I always wanted to be your friend". I think taking that scene to be a lead-in for romance undermines how truly sad and lonely Kabru's life has been leading to this moment where such a gutwrenching confession is just that of wanting a friend.

[yamchaisawesome]

That moment where Kabru dies in ep. 17 got me horrified for a minute because I was really attached to him. Then I’m like “oh right he’s died like thrice already. This is just a hobby of his.”

Like “Ol’ Kabru’s dying again!”

[johannestevans]

sorry i finished new episode and i'm obsessed as ever

kabru clasping hold of laios' hands is so insane. laios doesn't remember this little twink's name, all he remembers is that this guy ate monster food with him and showed a slight enthusiasm for him, which to laios is unthinkable

it's hilarious seeing kabru's fervent obsession with and manipulation of laios' feelings and priorities contrasted with laios' depths of pain and distress at shuro's rejection of him and how that was borne of shuro hiding his true feelings

obvs for shuro like. he's explicitly introduced with a level of politeness and also emotional repression that's linked not only to his cultural upbringing in the east but is obviously related to his class position, esp bc the dungeon was meant to serve as his coming of age

or to hone his experiences for a return to rule as lord - and with his proposal to falin like. it's so interesting to me that shuro finds so many of falin's traits so desirable when she and laios genuinely are so similar

falin IS extremely high-empathy whereas laios is very low-empathy, but they find pleasure and joy and intrigue in similar things, they have similar senses of humour, they're similarly inexpressive or overly expressive depending on the moment

at the end of the day like, if you're going to propose to that girl and ask her to come back to your home country and marry you despite the fact that she's so obviously a lesbian, at the very least you have to pretend to like her brother

but like. she's quite LIKE her brother. they have the same broad frame, if laios gained a bit of weight i bet he'd have a similarly luxurious bust, they're both a bit clueless. she's just a woman and laios is just a man

but yeah sorry to move on from shuro's deep and seemingly inherent distrust, nay disgust, of other men that is no doubt informed by the extent to which he's been raised wholly by legions of women vs his inclination to see other men as rivals or opponents

(worsened by the extent to which he sees laios as naive and is offset by the extent of laios' earnestness)

but here you see the EXACT SAME THING happening to laios again in REAL TIME. someone else needs to keep him on side and so they're being polite

kabru is going beyond politeness and is outright lying and manipulating because he's just a delicious bitch that way, but like. the exact same thing is happening to laios - he thinks he's making a new friend and he is LATCHING ONTO kabru just like he did to shuro

is he being intelligent or tactful about it? no. god no. he's infodumping eagerly about monster food, he's answering all of kabru's questions - and!!! kabru is asking him QUESTIONS! he's being so ENTHUSIASTIC!!! and so laios rushes to cook for this new friend, this stranger

and inwardly kabru is horrified because jesus fuck, is this guy SERIOUS? and yeah he's serious about everything, he's earnest and eager about absolutely everything, and kabru is fascinated with this new variety of man but also... fucking hell

i think it's vital that they're introduced to one another initially in this group setting, because i think marcille, who is much naturally more distrustful, would ask more questions of kabru - and falin is very trusting but also would. twig something off about everything

i die because like. falin left home because she couldn't handle people's issues with magic and also because like. she was constantly in the position, i would have no doubt, of trying to explain laios to their family and friends, whilst also being beset by spirits

like obviously she wanted to go to magic school, but it was more than that - she needed to go out and grow and become an adult, and not do so in her brother's shadow and laios went off on his own, haplessly, and they end up together again bc they take care of each other

falin is a weird girl, she likes to play in the dirt, she accidentally does all this genius stuff, she's a little clueless and a little out of it, but to marcille and shuro, this is desperately desirable - she's beautiful, she's a genius, she's so loving

they see those things in her because they shine out of her like sunshine - especially because she's not intimidating, you know? whereas laios, blundering, autistic, selfish, obsessive laios, who talks a mile a minute and is so tall and broad, people find him to be too much

idk i just. i think for falin a big difficulty she has is actually in setting boundaries - she's always rushing to take care of laios even though it's not her job, she holds back on saying no to shuro because she hates to say no

marcille touches falin ALL over, touches her hair, scrubs her clean, holds her TIT while channelling magic, and falin is overwhelmed by it and you can see it in her face, but saying no is so hard for her - no to spirits, to strangers, to her friends, to her brother

i say this because like. they really don't interact much at all in the course of the manga but i think that kabru and falin actually have so much in common, both of them haunted by ghosts and both of them fixated more than they mean to be on laios

falin because to some extent i think she feels guilty about abandoning him to go to school even though she NEEDED that, and kabru because he's just an obsessive little homo and he can't cope with his need for laios' massive dick