#tldr it's not only the revulsion of earned horror but the fascination of getting smth out of them he can barely comprehend | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

asterisk395 · 6 months ago

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#you might be right and I don’t like it #dungeon meshi #note: because of his study of them he’s also hysterically good at disarming people w guns #and destroying their weapons in the field #and then he…takes the guns he won (stole) apart and uses the parts to augment his armor? #not sure about analogy for eating here (via tanoraqui)

The thing about Dungeon Meshi is that if you translated it into modern world, the most exact translation to Laios' monster fixation would be having a special interest in guns. Like the society around them looks at the monsters the same way - these things are dangerous and kill people, and if they cannot be eradicated, then the best that can be done is to reduce their numbers and minimise the amount of damage they do, one way or another. And then there's this guy.

Imagine being Mr. "My entire family was gunned down when I was a child and I will do whatever it takes to end gun violence" Kabru, who's heard a lot about this fascinating man who seems smart and competent and knows exactly what he's doing, and when you finally meet him, This Fucking Guy is just like "yeah rip to your family and I don't think it's cool that they kill people but it's so fucking cool how they kill people. Check out how fast this thing can fire 10 000 bullets hard enough to penetrate a human skull."

#dungeon meshi #laios touden #guns #meta #tag theft:#yeah #i guess the distinction lies in moving from a societal frame of reference to a thematic one?#the other half of the monster fascination equation is monsters as they exist in an ecology #living things hunt; eat; are eaten #laios engaging with them on their terms isn't only engaging with death #but life #and engaging with guns doesn't really have a similar analogue bar. hunting. i guess #so in this analogy we're torturing from kabru's pov it's like if laios used his consummate knowledge of guns to disarm a shooter #knocked them out on the other end. with a bullet. field stripped the gunpowder to make some kind of poultice #all while enthusing abt the fire rate of the assault rifle yeah #cradling it like a baby #and dreaming abt the tank he'd animorph into given half a chance #turn a bit to the left and we've got laios talking up the ecological role of mosquitoes to someone whose whole family died of malaria #(i do remember those get rid of em proposals)#tldr it's not only the revulsion of earned horror but the fascination of getting smth out of them he can barely comprehend

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