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[archangelofthestars]

I wish laios had a cool prosthetic leg

[toudencestyay]

I think the reason why it took me a while to warm up to farcille is because ever since episode 12 came out, I was bombarded with farcille spoilers. So when I finally watched the anime and got to the ressurection, I didn't see anything I didn't expect.

But what I didn't expect was for laios to let his leg get bitten off just so he could kill the dragon that ate his sister. To dig his way into the dragon's insides in the hopes of finding her remains. To look through its stomach, its intestines, its liver. To not be done with that and still look into its fuel bag. To cling to the meagre hope that is the sight of a strand of hair. To help his friend sort thought the bones and reassemble her skeleton. To support his confused sister while she's choking on her own blood. To hug her blood-soaked body while tearing up. To curse himself because the contact of her skin against his armor makes her feel cold. To tenderly envelop her into a blanket.

The fandom led me to believe that falin's rescue was all marcille's doing, but what I saw is that laios's love for his sister was just as important to her ressurection.

[felixcloud6288]

Dungeon Meshi Chapter 7

Marcille looks amazing in armor.

Of Laios's guesses over how Living Armor moves, I think the third one is closest to my guess. The actual truth was way outside anything I would have guessed. It's a colony of shellfish.

Note: When I say "Living Armor" going forward, I'm referring to the individual creatures that animate the armor rather than the armor itself.

After Laios removed the head, the body became blind. So the colony is doing more than just muscle contractions to make it move. They probably have some way of sending nerve signals to their connected neighbors so they can quickly coordinate themselves.

As seen in the end of the chapter, the Living Armor have eyes of their own. So they can see without the head, but the Living Armor in the head are probably specially tasked to get visual and auditory information.

So next question I'd have is whether the Living Armor in a suit act similar to the Thing where they're more like a confederacy willing to work together but would abandon each other if necessary. If the suit of armor were blown open in the chest area, would the Living Armor in the arms and legs try to separate from it and abandon the ones in the chest area, or would they stick together?

If Living Armor is akin to how the Thing works, then that would imply every Living Armor is equally capable at fulfilling whatever role it needs to perform and what it does is dependent entirely on where it is in the body.

That is a good submission hold by Laios.

I'm going to guess the exterior of the Living Armor is an actual suit of armor. The Living Armor occupies it and uses the inner walls as half of its shell and then it makes the other half itself.

I'm with Laios. This is an amazing discovery. He should publish a book about the monster discoveries he makes alongside Senshi's dungeon cookbook.

How many times has Marcille previously used her staff as a lasso on Laios?

Look at Laios wanting those Living Armor innards.

I like how Senshi is experimenting with how to cook Living Armor. It's a new edible monster for him so he's trying several ideas at once to find out what is a good method to cook them. And as a nice detail, the nutrition details are unknown because this isn't anything he's ever cooked before.

Do the Living Armors smell like iron because they inhabit iron armor or do they have a high iron content? Maybe their shells are made of iron to help blend themselves into the armor. How do they get any nourishment?

Not everything can be a hit. I'd be concerned about the Living Armor used for the feet.

Laios got his old sword from a normal suit of Living Armor. I guess those ones were using regular swords. The wing pattern of his new sword is part of the hilt itself. Maybe the Living Armor inside the hilt has something to do with the pattern?

Laios has been desperately trying to smuggle something from their monster hunting adventures with him since the beginning. He tried to pocket some man-eating plant seeds only for Marcille to add them to the dish Senshi was making. Then he tried to take some giant bat bones only for Marcille to make him throw them away. And he was quick to hide the Living Armor's eyes when Marcille offered to check it for curses.

Well he's finally got his monster souvenir. And it will be an amazing companion if he ever decides to present his findings on Living Armor.

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[chuckeroo777]

Dungeon Meshi Volume 7 Part 2

And here we go!

Laicille shippers can have one panel, as a treat. I choose to interpret this as poor bisexual Marcille feeling way too flustered wearing a sexy dress in front of her friends. Plus when Laios softens his eyes like that, he looks uncomfortably like Falin.

Funny how it's these two in particular who feel this way. I'm sure this is in no way foreshadowing how they will be tempted into creating their own versions of this.

Maybe it's just a coloring issue, since it looks more natural in the anime, but Yaad's eyes are creepy as hell.

Gotta love aspic, the epitome of cool looking food that is probably really bad. Also, are they raising... rabbits?

Somehow, Izutsumi is less picky when in full cat mode.

When the DM really wants you to take the plot hook.

Real friends let their little friends beat them up cause it doesn't actually hurt. This is a beatdown(affectionate).

Senshi may be Izutsumi's favorite, but Marcille and Chilchuck are her parents.

Retcon? What retcon?

See? Not even the golden country folks really believe in that stupid prophecy. Honestly, I kinda love stories where there is a "prophecy", but divination magic is actually bogus.

What's wrong Yaad? He's just concerned about you. (The anime made this scene way more sinister.)

She's so excited! :D

Well, they tried.

A precious image.

So, this is Izutsumi's default outfit, yeah? Funny how it's on this volume's cover, yet I don't think we've seen her in it in a chapter proper. When we meet her, she's still in her ninja robe, then she gets Namari's coat. Seriously, we won't see this outfit until next volume.

Senshi has only been with them for like a month, but they are already so attached. I love this family of idiots.

Seems like a waste of a perfectly good centipede. Why make one(1) treasure bug, when you can make slitherpedes? (A horrifying chimera which is basically a giant snake with legs. Four fangs glistening with venom. Two vertical, two sideways. Armor plating and heat vision. Your players will love them.)

It's a little moment, but this really shows how dearly Marcille cares for her friends.

...says the one who uses forbidden ancient magic.

An important image.

I like how you can see Laios questioning why the hell a griffon would kick.

See, post-canon Marcille needs to teach Laios how to make familiars. He would have way too much fun. Plus, controlling a familiar might be a way to bypass the curse.

This is actually a pretty cool creature known as a Rod. Rods are a type of cryptid which are super fast rod shaped creatures which can't be seen by the naked eye, only with cameras. Turns out they're just bugs caught by cameras with long exposure times.

Thanks! I'll keep that in mind next time I prepare sky fish.

Local gossip girl baffled good friend was able to keep massive secrets from her.

With that, I'll go ahead and finish up with chapter 49 and the misc monster tales in a final post. See ya!

[mantisgodsdomain]

On Dungeon Rabbits

(Dungeon Meshi spoilers for the manga - tread with caution!)

So, we've been working on a particular AU lately. And that AU, as it turns out, means lots of thinking about Dungeon Rabbits, as well as decapitation.

(full ramble below cut - spoilers through to Dungeon Meshi Chapter 65)

(FULL DISCLOSURE NOTICE: we are repurposing an Author's Note for this, as we won't get to post it during the General Posting in (however long it takes us to finish this ficlet), and we also are no longer sure that it'll fit in the Ao3 End Notes)

We thought about dungeon bunnies a lot for this particular universe. In their intro, it's established that they decapitate people, or at least, are capable of decapitating people - and yet, when we encounter them, they just slash people's throats. Their spurs are relatively short, even if it's clear they're ridiculously sharp, not enough to fully sever a neck, and they don't ever actually take off a head, even with relatively-small Chilchuck - what is it that would let them behead someone, exactly?

As anyone who's ever butchered a whole animal will know, beheading something is harder than you'd think - necks are TOUGH, and they sort of have to be, since they've got to stay intact for a whole lifetime. They've got a metric ton of gristle and connective tissue that's a right bitch to get through even without the spinal cord - and when decapitating fully, the spinal cord is very much a concern, since it'll get in the way of pretty much any beheading method out there. It's a right bitch to work around, and even if you didn't have to worry about accidentally getting a knife stuck in it, it's gonna be hard to cut through. So how could a rabbit decapitate someone?

The first likely point, of course, is the spurs. They have sharp things attached to their heels which are shown to cut through flesh like butter. Obviously, this would make decapitation easier - but we see them using those spurs in the manga, and they don't behead anyone, just slit throats - and the throat is far from the most challenging part to work through, when it comes to decapitation. They go for the front of the neck, not the back - which would be very inconvenient to decaputate someone with, even if you were working with a blade long enough to allow it.

As dungeon bunny spurs don't appear to struggle at all with most armor, or most clothes, for that matter, we doubt that they'd struggle much with a spine. They pierce through as though there was nothing there, for anything except Laios's bunnyplate armor - and that seems to function more on a buffer of air, so that the bunny's spurs slash the air rather than the user's neck (and then the blade is stopped by the bunny's actual leg, which doesn't have the cutting power of the spur). We feel fairly safe saying that a bunny's spur COULD decapitate someone, if it were long enough - but it isn't long enough to make it all the way through the neck, so it would need something extra to actually decapitate.

This, of course, is when we make a Connection.

Our second point: the movement on those bunnies. The dungeon bunnies, much unlike the bunnies we have IRL, seem to have some RIDICULOUS jumps. Taking Laios's height into account, we know that they can jump at LEAST 185cm into the air (roughly 6 feet if you're American) - and with some of the panels, they go even HIGHER, over Laios's head. Rabbits aren't large animals, by any means, but putting anything that high into the air takes some power - that's fucking RIDICULOUS amounts of movement! For reference, IRL rabbit can only jump around 61cm in the air, with the world record being a 99.5cm jump. This is more than twice that! That's a ridiculous amount of height!

Normal rabbits can kick hard enough to snap necks on small animals, if they're lucky, and this is more than thrice the average jump height. Dungeon bunnies would have a RIDICULOUSLY strong kick, especially exerting that strong of a force on the tiny plane of a rabbit leg. We'd bet that they have some damn strong leg muscles, as well as probably some significantly beefed-up bones - IRL rabbits can break their own legs or permanently paralyze themselves by kicking too hard, and dungeon rabbits hop all over the place without batting an eye.

That is STUPIDLY strong! That's gonna be a concussive force at the VERY least! That shit's gonna hurt! With the spur cutting the neck open, it would probably be easy for something that stupidly strong to finish the job and kick a head clean off! All it needs to do is follow that nicely-cut path of least resistance, and you've got a headless adventurer! If it were less of a bitch to actually cut a head off, we might assume that'd be enough to chop that off even without the spurs, but it's surprisingly difficult to blow parts off with blunt force alone. You need the cut to make a weak point - though honestly, we're surprised that the FIRST kick doesn't decapitate, with a kick force that strong.

With that figured out, we're surprised Chilchuck still HAS a neck, after Marcille used his body as a meat shield. We're pretty sure that they exert MORE force than a horse's kick, with that much force on that small of a surface area, and you saw how that turned out for Senshi's family. We wonder if the warning thump would scare off other monsters? With them aiming for the throat, they'll be going RIGHT for the weak point on a red dragon, so they might pose a genuine threat to some of the bigger monsters. Fucked up little beasts. Fun to think about, though.

(Special Note: We studied the Bunny chapters of the manga for this, and the spurs on dungeon bunnies actually look to have some sort of armor-phasing effect, rather than simply piercing it. With all of the party members, even when they're bleeding out through their throats, anything they might have in front of those is completely unscathed - scarves, armor, beards, and anything else in the way are entirely untouched. A Dungeon Bunny's kick appears to simply ignore everything that isn't flesh - but their legs aren't subject to the same phasing effect.

Laios's bunny-plate armor works because it puts enough air between the wearer's neck and the bunny's spur that the bunny simply can't reach past the plate, and as the spur phases rather than cutting, the armor isn't even damaged by the interaction - minus whatever dents that the sheer blunt force of the kick might put in it, of course. It's possible that the cutting force of the spur, too, is a magical effect - rather than needing for it to be physically sharp, a dungeon bunny simply needs its spur to exist, and the magic does the rest. Neat!)