#knak delicious in dungeon

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Hmm knak au w/ Delicious in Dungeon would be hilarious. Like imagine reader is a young half-foot, the double wammy of being a child as the one race that's confused for human children all the time

I want to do half-foot too because it's cute. But I don't think the ever looming threat of such a short life span would be fun. So how about a dwarf? Still small and cute. Plus Senshi would just dive deeper into dad mode.

This is set pre finding Falin hence no Itsumi

Content warning: Canon violence mentions, eating monsters, panic attack mention

The group finds you in their task to find Falin. It wasn't hard to when they could hear your crying. And why wouldn't you be crying? You had woken up in some unknown place, a place where everything was so big that you felt small. Well that had been your assumption that everything was big, they you looked at your hand and had your *first* panic attack.

Then things got *worse*, you ran into actual monsters. And all you could do was run. Run and hide and pray to whatever diety would listen to save you. You couldn't help the tears as you bunkered down in the cubby hole in the wall.

The sound of a child crying had put the entire group on edge. Was it a new monster mimicking a child? But ultimately the group decided to check. And their shock was intense as they found a small Dwarven child sobbing in a hole in a wall. The kid was lucky the cleaners hadn't started fixing the hole.

It took some time to lure you out and Liaos had almost been tempted to leave you. Not out of malicious intent. But their mission was time sensitive, and a kid would slow them down... but those thoughts were quickly silenced with his own guilt at having considered it.

Marcille was asking how you got here, she hoped a group of adventures wouldn't bring a *child* into the dungeon. But only had more questions when you said you woke up here. You didn't tell her the whole truth about your origins, fear of being abandoned in such a dangerous place overruling the instinct to tell the truth.

Senshi is already working on a meal. He knows they can get answers later, right now the youngin need to eat. If they woke up in the dungeon they probably hadn't have eaten. It also helped cooking made him calm, and the entire situation had him stressed.

Chilchuk was just as panicked. There was a child in the dungeon. Had some adventure group drugged or used sleep magic to keep you unconscious to use as monster bait? With his guild protecting the half-foots did some horrible group decide to get *creative*. That could be figured out later. Right now he had to convince the group to take you back to the surface... a task he didn't know he could manage. Either way he refused to leave a child like this, flashes of his own daughters in his mind fueling that.

[josnhoes]

Delicious in Dungeon knak idea... Give the reader a slingshot and make them a good shot. Aim for the eyes of any non slime or plant monster; head shots for all 👀

Content warnings Canon style violence

Chilchuk was the one to give you the sling shot. He knew it would at most buy you time should you be in a fight and have to engage. But really the entire group preferred the idea of you hidden away from the monsters. Truly he and Senshi would have preferred getting you back to the surface. A child of any race didn't belong in a dungeon. But their mission is time sensitive so they can't take you back. But they couldn't abandon you either.

The slingshot chilchuk gave you was old, and if you asked him why he'd explain that as a child you don't have a lot of strength to pull back the sling so an older more worn in one would be easier. You'd get stronger, probably graduate to a newer one. If you ended up with them long enough.

No one expected your aim to be any good. Liaos commenting on how being new at it you might hit one of them. That night while being taught, you showed him just how powerful spite could be as a motivator. And if you feigned a few small misfires to knock the man in the head he didn't notice. Everyone else did but no one complained. You didn't hurt Liaos after all just gave him a couple tiny bruises. He got worse from his own armor sometimes.

They still all try to keep you out of battle. Keeping you in the back with Marcille when they can. But the cover fire you help with while not strong enough to kill yet you do make openings; which is just as valuable to them.