#magan gadungan

[trashbox-meow]

Macan Housamo (real)

Here’s the original sketch color that I edited because it’s kinda eye strain

Don’t ask me why I sketch in eyebleed red, I don’t know either

[askmacan]

Macan with Sneakers WIPs

This art is by RayneJayWright on Twitter

Check him out: here!

(Posted with permission 😉)

[askmacan]

"She came back and asked for apple juice again."

[badgerblitz]

Happy (late) Summon Day to my gorgeous husband!!!

(Leg anatomy? What’s that)

I initially planned to have this finished sooner but I came back from vacation and immediately fell into a depressive episode but that’s not important now bc MACAN!!! 😍😚🥰🐅🐯🍗🏋️‍♂️

I love him so much I want to kiss him

(Sorry if long-leg Macan looks unsettling to you I just struggle drawing top-heavy people)

[askmacan]

//NSFW text

"Uhm... actually I have the biggest dick in the Berserkers. I swing like a stallion."

Could we maybe get some Oniwaka headcanons?

The Big Dude:

Oniwaka isn't half as confident as he lets on.

It's kind of like the sad face behind the clown. He still can't get over his failures to protect his lord.

This has given him rejection sensitive dysphoria, meaning he can easily end up in a sour mood.

It can also happen if he fails any specific task or loses a fight.

He's also liable to parade his partner around as a piece of arm candy, even if he doesn't really have anywhere to go.

He does his best to avoid the police since it is illegal for a transient to pose as human.

Oddly, the group he hangs out with the most outside of the Beserkers is the Beast Tamers since they have a lot of cute animals.

His affection doesn't just extend to Cu-Sith, but also the trove of Alchemist Ueno has.

The kinky bits:

Oniwaka is huge having one of the biggest dicks in all of the Beserkers.

He says he's a top, but he can do either, and has a preference for bottoming.

He has no particular preference for when or where, so expect to be taken aside and pulled into an alley way, the locker rooms, a bathroom, or even a storage closet.

He does enjoy after battle blowjobs in the locker room.

He's rather vanilla when it comes to kinks, but he's willing to explore for the sake of a significant other.

[askmacan]

// god hes so hot (i drew this)

// Fun fact! The reason he is called "Macan" and also "Magan" is because a Magan Gadungan is a Javanese folklore monster; a "were-tiger" if you will. "Macan" is his actual name, but because of the translation from Japanese "マmaガgaンn" to English "Magan", his name is often mistaken to be Magan as well. But, Macan is the English equivalent to マガン, not a direct phonetic translation. So when refered to by name, he is called Macan, but when referred to as a were-tiger, you will see him called "the Magan."

[badgerblitz]

Macan is a jock, as deemed by this chart I modified.

(Yes I know it looks kinda bad it took me like ten minutes to make)

But yeah, he’s a jock, hence why I love him so much 🥰

Me and my friend have come to a conclusion which unintentionally spawned more questions:

Macan is not a Himbo because he's an asshole. But if not a Himbo, then what is said Pineapple Tiger?

Is Nomad a Himbo?

[askmacan]

So, who has the bigger chest? Snow or Macan?

"Surely you already know the answer. It's a well-known secret."

"..."

"..."

"It's me! Obviously! I have the biggest pecs ever! I'd be busting through that leather jacket like a bullet through a piece of paper!"

"My muscles are much bigger, but I'm in control of my own unrelenting pectoral prowess, unlike that brute."

"Nomad, help us settle this!"

"Wha– I have nothing to do with this weird contest."

"You know best, babe. Tell this fool his pecs are flat across his brittle ribcage. I'm the undefeated champion of the Ikebukuro Beserkers, and Shagri-La, and I'm the Magan Gadungan."

"I've never seen Snow's chest and I don't want to. You can both agree to disagree about your bra sizes."

(It is probably Macan, though.)

[askmacan]

Can i...squish macan's and nomad's pecs?

"Hell yeah, brother. Put your hands on my pecs. Feel all that muscle? If you put your face between em' I'll flex to show you just how strong I really am! And then I'll eat you and add you to the Magan Gadungan's epic mass!"

"Hey, I'm not all about this fanfare! If you wanna get handsy with me, you're seriously gonna have to pay up!"

[askmacan]

Let me try something

*Throws a large ball at Macan filled with catnip that is highly durable and extremely bouncy*

Wonder if he'll enjoy this and get him tired

"The Magan Gadungan never tires out! I will rip this ball to shreads and bask in the wonderful cloud of cat nip!"

[askmacan]

"I have big titties!"

Literally these two

[askmacan]

I mean don’t lie Nomad, would any CULTURED person not trip on YOU? I mean look at you, your so hot your burning me literally and figuratively

"I'm so hot that your hair is burning off."

[vegetarian-macan]

Macan’s Birthday 2021

As a lot of you know from following me or just watching me go completely off the rails, you’ll know that I’m very fond of Macan as a character. Unfortunately, he’s one of many characters that Lifewonders has introduced with an intriguing characterization that is shelved for the same joke over an over again. You know the one.

This post is going to be exploring that concept, and the ramifications it has on his character and how these beliefs affect him in his Date Quest. All information presented will be from his appearances that are lore-heavy, as well as some of my own inferences. Everything will be under the cut because this is going to be a little long.

And fair warning, I will be getting mentioning topics such as suicide and human trafficking as it is a part of his character, keep this in mind as you read.

First, let’s start with the lore that appears in his character quest (the first one, hoping for a second at some point), as that came first. The beginning starts with Macan speaking about how he woke up one day in a jungle with no memory besides the knowledge to find water, food and shelter, and the belief that if one consumes another, they will live on within you. He soon saw that he was a weretiger, with no recollection of how this transformation happened in the first place. In the scene in Chapter 3 where Macan and the MC are discussing himself, he brings up a theory of how this happened, saying that a tiger may have become human, or a human became a tiger. Either way, two beings were killed, and one was reborn from them.

He was unique in the world of Shangri-La, no one else was like him, as strong as him. He was unlike anything there, which made him truly and utterly alone. He hated what little time he spent as a weretiger in Shangri-La, being unable to speak to others as they were afraid of him, and with no one to talk to, he soon began to go mad. When the past Macan appears in his character quest, and the protagonist and the Macan from Tokyo have to fight him, he has a few lines of dialogue about how there’s no one around to answer his calls anymore, no one to listen to him. How he hates being alone.

After he is defeated, this past Macan cries about how he’s going to die alone, that he isn’t just another beast, he’s Someone. It is implied subtly in this scene that had he not been Summoned to Tokyo Macan would have either gone completely mad or committed suicide. Thankfully, this was avoided, although the result to being Summoned was less than ideal, which I will talk about later.

There is a scene in his character quest, right before Past Macan appears, that is explored in his date quest. While bathing in a lake together in the jungle, Macan brings up that with the protagonist there, being in Shangri-La is different. He’s more comfortable, he has someone to talk with now. He mentions that if he could, he’d want to go back to Shangri-La and live there forever with the MC, before stating that if he dies first, he’d want you to eat him.

As for his date quest, let’s set the scene with some lore provided in-game. It opens up with this: 

A world where the horizon is lost. This is the homeworld of Macan, Shangri-La. It is said that it is at the end of the mountain called Hourai "the end of Kunlun" and "behind Deva Loka". That is, it is "on the opposite side of the never-ending road" where people believe in "Reverse Reincarnation". In a world dominated by this faith, death does not mean the end of existence. They believed that even if the physical body was destroyed, the astral body and the spirit would continue living on in a separate state. They could continue living as long as the body, astral body and spirit were not all destroyed at the same time, which is the eternity that Shangri-La promised. 

Macan brings this fact up when he is introduced; those that he consume live on within him, and whoever shall consume him he will live on in them. This is the faith by which he lives his life. No living being is exempt from this rule in Shangri-La, which is most likely part of the reason that Macan has hangups over consuming animals like fish and livestock. They have no choice in how they die, and he cannot be comfortable eating them like that. 

As you may remember, Macan states, or rather implies, that he has eaten people that have lost in a duel against him before. He is completely comfortable with this aspect, seeing it as a natural result to things because, in his homeworld, it is. This is not shared by the residents of Tokyo and other worlds, however, with characters such as Suzuka and Nomad being put off by this. But there is a reason for why he fights the way he does.

Within Shangri-La there was a cycle that persisted up until the creation of the Macan we know, one that was completely broken by the actions of a single human. This cycle was the creation of the Weretiger King, and is explained in his Date Quest as follows:

The weretiger known as Macan Gadungan is also a believer of this faith [see above]. When a creature like him is created, a human is consumed by a beast. The human's spirit is then reborn in the body of this beast. The name of the magangadungan is known throughout Shangri-La as the king of the jungle where many monsters are said to roam. However, it is the opposite that is true. It is not the strongest magan becomes king, it is that the strongest king becomes a magan. Even the toughest bodies will eventually decay, and so even the strongest man will rise from his chair. But there was still a way in this world to make one's faith eternal. The way to accomplish this is to be eaten by a King and to become their flesh and blood. Even if one's body is consumed, as long as the rest lives on, so too will you. Therefore, it is the former king's fate to be eaten by a new king, and live on.* They will be reborn into a new body. The king of the jungle must then remain the best as well as fascinating target that everyone will want to eat. Until the day they too are consumed, no one can defeat them.

*(I’m aware of the contradiction here, but I will not know the correct translation of this section until it is translated officially)

Macan, or the human he once was, managed to stop this cycle, this loop, in its tracks by turning it on it’s head. The challenger is never supposed to defeat the King, and yet, he did. And so, every past King, every instance of this Weretiger King and the human Macan used to be were fused together, and became a new Weretiger King. One that hadn’t been seen before in that world. 

Soon after, he was Summoned to Tokyo, and sold on the black market run by Daikoku. His date quest explores as well, stating that his time as a prisoner was spent in a cage, shuffled between owners and trying to take pieces of him to use for medicine, leather, meat, anything they could take from him. And yet, he continued to live on, his immortality coming from the jungle of Shangri-La, and the former kings that now made up his existence.

He escaped by mauling one of his captors, and presumably picked up by Claude while he was on the run. Those captors of his wanted his flesh and blood, and it was something he would never give them willingly. 

The same cannot be said for the protagonist, or whoever he is paired with in his Date Quest.

During this quest, Macan’s beliefs are tested when he goes to finally consume the protagonist while they lay on the private beach, and he can’t go through with it. Even with his jaws around their throat, he cannot make the final push. Why?

You see, up until this point, Macan had lived by, essentially, the law of equivalent exchange. Give and take, in equal amounts. The bare minimum was given to him whenever someone interacted with him, and Macan gave the same back. So what happens when someone gives him more than that? What happens when he wants more than just the bare minimum? This part addresses that; his beliefs crumble under him.

Macan believes that he can’t ask for more than the bare minimum from others, their flesh and blood, because it would be going against the nature of the weretiger kings, to want nothing from others and also embracing your own personal desires to the fullest. This was what he learned in Shangri-La, the way to prove that he was alive and existed. It was simple, it was an easy world to live in with this belief. But it wasn’t enough for him, not when it came to the person he loved.

Macan wanted more from them; their flesh, blood, soul, everything. He wanted their time, their friendship, their love and adoration. But something deep in his being told him he didn’t deserve it, that they won’t reciprocate this need. The parts of himself, the human, the tiger, and the one that is neither and both, all want different things, and it confused him. Startled him. Scared him.

In the end, he realizes that if he were to kill and eat them, he would lose them. They would be apart of his existence from there on, but they wouldn’t be there. He would no longer be able to see them smile, sit with them on the beach, fight together with them. Which is a loss he couldn’t take, and was prepared to throw away his entire way of life to preserve that bliss. Were they to ask the same of him, he would give them everything he was without hesitation.

His date quest ends ambiguously, which is fitting. The player gets to decide how Macan and the one he has fallen for continue with their life. To follow one’s beliefs, or stop and reconsider when the price to pay is the one you love.

[askmacan]

"-"

"Don't."

"Cause of his size", wonder if they have something for giant transient condoms. Lol

Most likely yeah

[askmacan]

"You can kiss me but I am gonna eventually eat you!"

"Awesome art bro!"

Happy (late) Summon Day to my gorgeous husband!!!

(Leg anatomy? What’s that)

I initially planned to have this finished sooner but I came back from vacation and immediately fell into a depressive episode but that’s not important now bc MACAN!!! 😍😚🥰🐅🐯🍗🏋️‍♂️

I love him so much I want to kiss him

(Sorry if long-leg Macan looks unsettling to you I just struggle drawing top-heavy people)