#marchil march 2025

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Marchil March 2025 🌱🗝️ | day 18th: animals

inspo by: @2tonkara9 (twitter)

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Day 21: Tavern

Pre-canon vs Post-canon 💖

Be careful guys it starts with your coworker asking "What's the name of your hometown?" and next thing you know it's "When is your daughter's wedding happening? Can I help get Flertom ready?" Love love love thinking about them meeting at taverns to think of plans to reconcile Chilchuck with his wife that somehow turn into her planning out a wedding. "Renewing of vows!! It's necessary trust me!!", Marcille argues. She's just having fun, and frankly who's not thinking it's kinda cute of her. He promised it to her alongside meeting his family & now she is claiming her rights

Which hey speaking of, this is kinda similar to the premise of the fic I posted (the first chapter of) the other day, meant for an early prompt in the month! Ten simple steps to not get your wife back! A romcom where Kabru sees their umpteenth efforts to make a plan to reconcile him with his wife, bound to once again go nowhere, and tries to help!... By matchmaking his friends together, because hey Marcille doesn't fake dating sound like the best way to achieve this? Hey Marcille it'll totally work, like in that romance political intrigue novel you read that other time, exactly yeah! Chilchuck is powerless to stop the menace of the two royal advisors working together

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day 6: timeskip

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Marchil March starts in a week!

A ship week event for the Dungeon Meshi pairing Marcille x Chilchuck! It will run from Monday the 17th to Sunday the 23th in march. But this year we expanded the week to have a prompt table for the whole month as well! Marchil March expansion pack, Marchil March+, Marchiler March if you will.

You do not need to participate in both, or to do every day! The focus on the week remains, and this is to allow more time and freedom for people to create their works to honor this pairing.

The prompts are also written in text under the keep reading cut! There are also japanese versions on Pixiv, Twitter and Bluesky.

You’re welcome and encouraged to put a twist on the prompts, pick either of them on any given day of the week or mesh them both into the same piece, stick to them as much or as little as you want. For example, the "quote" prompt could be a scene redraw as much as it could be a work inspired by song lyrics! There are essentially no rules, this isn’t inktober and there’s no pressure, feel also free to make things for it in advance rather than day to day. Every timezone is equally right. This is a ship event, but feel free to depict them in a platonic or queerplatonic way rather than romantic as well! This event is to celebrate them as a duo, and every work is welcomed: fanart, writing, edits, anything. Join the festivities!

Tag your posts for it “marchil march 2025”! 

I will be hosting the event on my sideblog @feedmarchil . On ao3, this is the ao3 collection you should post your work to, if you want it to be in it. The collection’s name if you input it manually is “Marchil_March_2025”.

1: Locked 2: Sewing 3: Home 4: Flowers 5: Prank 6: Fashion 7: Confession 8: Fluster 9: Hurt 10: Invitation 11: Sun 12: Mirage 13: Night 14: Shop 15: Trust 16: Unicorn

17: Travel / hands 18: Celebration / animals 19: Laughter / glances 20: Magic / Family 21: Tavern / Fight 22: Timeskip / Quote 23: Free prompt / food

24: Bicorn 25: Touch 26: Lie 27: Expectations 28: Gratitude 29: AU 30: Recipe 31: Kiss

[feedmarchil]

The month event of Marchil March starts tomorrow!

The ship month event for the Dungeon Meshi pairing Marcille x Chilchuck! Special highlight is given to the week of monday the 17th to Sunday the 23th, but it's been expanded to have a prompt table for the whole month as well! Marchil March expansion pack, Marchil March+, Marchiler March if you will.

The prompts are also written in text under the keep reading cut! There are also japanese versions on Pixiv, Twitter and Bluesky- and now even a chinese version on Twitter.

You do not need to participate in both, or to do every day! The focus on the week remains, and this is to allow more time and freedom for people to create their works. You’re welcome and encouraged to put a twist on the prompts, pick either of them on any given day of the week or mesh them both into the same piece, stick to them as much or as little as you want. For example, the "quote" prompt could be a scene redraw as much as it could be a work inspired by song lyrics! There are essentially no rules, this isn’t inktober and there’s no pressure, feel also free to make things for it in advance rather than day to day. Every timezone is equally right. This is a ship event, but feel free to depict them in a platonic or queerplatonic way rather than romantic as well! This event is to celebrate them as a duo, and every work is welcomed: fanart, writing, edits, anything. Join the festivities!

Tag your posts for it “marchil march 2025”! 

On ao3, this is the ao3 collection you should post your work to, if you want it to be in it. The collection’s name if you input it manually is “Marchil_March_2025”.

1: Locked 2: Sewing 3: Home 4: Flowers 5: Prank 6: Fashion 7: Confession 8: Fluster 9: Hurt 10: Invitation 11: Sun 12: Mirage 13: Night 14: Shop 15: Trust 16: Unicorn

17: Travel / hands 18: Celebration / animals 19: Laughter / glances 20: Magic / Family 21: Tavern / Fight 22: Timeskip / Quote 23: Free prompt / food

24: Bicorn 25: Touch 26: Lie 27: Expectations 28: Gratitude 29: AU 30: Recipe 31: Kiss

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Day 24: bicorn

I love the angle that Marcille would actually be the bicorn and Chil the unicorn because... The bicorn is magnetized by depraved old men and a unicorn is magnetized by pure young maidens. SOMEONE has an obsession with a bitter old man constantly rattling off about being selfish & cowardly and SOMEONE has a penchant for pretty young blondes. SOMEONE is obsessed with putting her nose in someone's business because he's so closed off and SOMEONE is obsessed about being on someone's case teasing and chiding because she's always so upbeat and has cute reactions. Need I say more........ So cute. This and how they're always dancing around each other is why I like to give this sort of atmosphere when I draw them I think. Will they ever talk instead of staying oblivious until they die? Very doubtful. Will they stop being all over each other? They had 100 chapters to do it and she got her ~in~ to his family it might actually get worse atp

ALSO as always I love the gold vs copper & silver motif, what if the innate gold of my hair was the prettiest thing in your eyes and the acquired silver of your hair was my worst nightmare etc etc, but then make his silver hair shimmer and purpley too because he's a cute unicorn yoohoo <3

I looove centaur AU marchil so much in general... I like to think Marcille is a blonde clydesdale and Chilchuck a brown spotted falabella

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Day 19: AU

Naga & researcher AU! Medicine expert Marcille is doing research on naga venom because it may have properties that could innovate pharmaceutics and could helo work towards immortality... My thought was that it causes paralysis in a way that keeps cells in stasis but idfk. So researcher Marcille Donato has to find a friendly enough naga gentlefolk to study and harvest venom from… Cue Chilchuck "I am sooo mean and dangerous, fear me or I'll do you in -proceeds to not do anything even when she sticks around and starts being clingy-" He had to grow harder and tougher it's a harsh world out there but he's a real nice guy… Just... Shouty... Marcille like "Actually I don't think you'll kill me if I stay here for some time to take field notes" and he gives up on denying it.

Pushing Marcille's "I want to study him like a petri dish" towards Chilchuck to the most literal I can

Maybe nagas have a short lifespan… Maybe to make venom strains the body and they have a faster metabolism. So it's kinda, the hope for her goals that he creates is also what kills him faster…? Like, harvesting the venom puts stress on the body because then it hastens to make more venom. And Marcille has to let her research about the far future of her friends go to instead enjoy her present with them...

Ok that's story info but design wise I also have to say, when I got to spontaneously choose how to color him I went with a Brazilian Rainbow Boa's patterns! Simply because I am biased and have one as pet. Are they venomous? ..... No. Do they have a fast metabolism? Snakes generally don't. Do they live in deserty places? A jungle actually. Did you know they are pretty close relatives to anacondas, they swim, burrow in the ground AND climb trees ☝️ They have really cool moon & star patterns lowkey and a nice kinda gold color, AND they're iridescent!!!! And those motifs always go so so hard with marchil It did send me spiralling though, like… A cornsnake or some plain brown snake would work really well for him, or a sand boa. And then I was thinking about his daughters and what species his wife should be and— black snakes often have really nice iridescence too, seriously look up black boas or indigo snakes, and now I'm thinking about Chil shining as some theme, like Marcille being like "noo you may not see it but you have plenty of qualities, you're a diamond in the rough"… Even if between the two of them Marcille is more diamond-like as far as he's concerned… The world looks so much more colorful when it's being reflected through her.

Pet snake pics just because under spoilers, she's called Mooncake and she has never done anything wrong ever in her life (except being a serial plant murderer)

She's shy. She also loves hollow logs <3 Snug nooks and crannies including using a layer of dirt as a weighted blanket. Return to earthworm

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fashion

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Day 19: family

The perfect nuclear family is parents and a cat

Another oldie, and this time a collab with @chaospikes too! She did the colors 💖💖 Thank you golden kingdom chapter I love you golden kingdom chapter

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locked (this was a perfect day 1 prompt to finish an old wip of mine but i'm gonna concentrate more on the prompts for marchil week though)

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day 2: celebration

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Day 11: sun

My redraw of @aatom87 's DTIYS on twitter of her WL Marcille! The dtiys post is gone but it was this artwork.

Started this back in January but then my ipad broke but hey starting March I had a new one, so I've had a lot of fun with this, the end and the start of a Fumi era™️, I had to redraw it again and I really like it overall~ Feels really good to be enabled to just draw monster people however I want to haha. 2025 Fumi is going to be drawing a lot more monster people a lot more stylized! Not as soft as what I thought I'd finish for today's prompt lol but Marcille's hair just really has that sun quality to it, don't blame me if it gets a little demonic... She's spellbound, oh no! Is there a trap specialist around who can lockpick his way through getting her back to normal?!

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Day 6: fashion

Can never go wrong with them just vibing! All the hype songs all the right left right left right go and the fashion put it all on me don't you wanna see these clothes on me! Shopping and slaying~ Marcille is invested Chilchuck is just wearing the thing & indulging her and chilling, one gets a date the other gets a much needed forced vacation from work both get quality time. Marchil clubbing when!! One's there for dancing the other for the booze, but those quickly merge… I've wanted marchil underboob window for sooo long. A special treat to the one who'll appreciate it best...

There're a lot of fashion thoughts to have with them, for example I love to think of the scenario of her planning he and his wife's reconciliation with him with her obliviously constantly self-inserting, obviouuusly she has to choose his outfit and obviously they go shop for it together and obviously she gets her hands in there to help style his shirt and hair but does she think of actually putting herself in the wife's shoes? Does she think of half-foot beauty standards or fashion, or elven ones, of what in her eyes makes Chilchuck attractive and bring out his best appeal? I rest my case. Get him in cute outfits!! Enough with the dad fits!! (Jk those are super endearing too, who could not swoon)

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Day 18: animals

Buddy asked me hey does vampire Chilchuck have a bat design and I was like 🤨 wtf do you mean, it's a bat. Then I farted out a doodle and immediately fell in love. This hits the same ugly-cute appeal for me as yokais lmaoo like this is why I love imagining Chilchuck as an azuki arai do you see!! God this is so stupid. I love him

Set in the marchil vampire au kinda... The timeline where one day she turns around and the poor cute helpless wildlife aka injured bat she took in from a dirty street corner became a really short old man vampire with a headache on her couch who’s married and has many many children- Who he stubbornly simply did not want to call and request help from. He was just conked out and dangerously dehydrated after getting hungover actually. Hey, it happens! It's not his fault!! He's really responsible!!!

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Day 17: travel!

Based on the 2023 Shibuya cafe collab! So the travel destination is Shibuya lol, heyy it is a touristy spot. It's still my favorite Dunmeshi collab I love love the art so much, I love Hachiko & I think Laios would have strong feelings about such a good dog™️ and I love how in the Complete Adventurer's Bible it looks like marchil is looking at each other & interacting hehe. "Hurry up" vs "gotta enjoy the little moments- and the crepes!", sneaking a glance vs sneaking a pic <3 City date with everyone third wheeling as always.

This one was a loooong time coming, I doodled all these LAST YEAR and now I'm having trouble translating them to digital like I'd envisioned, so that + to give myself a shot of surviving the month I'm leaving that last traditional sketch for me to fully draw and render at a later date, especially since I want it done well the most... Challenge weeks always put me in a stylistic "WHAT AM I DOING!!" mind state lol.

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day 7: free day (hug) I'm so, so happy to be able to participate in marchil month/week this year! It's been almost a year since I discovered dunmeshi and marchil community and it's only because of them I finally got back to drawing fanart and participating in fandoms after several years of silence.