My fiancée: hey babe, can you analyse Star Wars species for me?
Me, an ecologist: yeah! It’ll be fun :)
Ten minutes later
Me: *crying* Pantorans should have blubber but they don’t because they aren’t chunky enough
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honestly something so brilliantly exemplified by the winged lion's whole... Thing... and dungeon meshi as a whole of course is that what you want is not necessarily what you need. having what you desire will not necessarily solve the problem you want it to solve.
mithrun wanted a second chance with the one he loved, a second chance at the imagined life and happiness he thought it would bring him. what he needed was to move on and find happiness elsewhere -- which he realizes by the end of the story, but too late to stop him from becoming a "leftover" dungeon lord.
thistle wants nobody he loves to ever die again, protect his country and its people. the lion gives them all immortality and "safety" within the dungeon. and they're all miserable and hate it and some of them die trying to escape. thistle ends up killing the people he wanted to save when they act out against him. what he needs is to accept the reality of loss and tragedy, to face the fact that nobody can avoid death and sometimes bad things happen for no reason. that doesn't make life pointless, it makes life meaningful.
marcille wants something similar, for everyone to live the same length as her so she'll never be alone, or have to see everyone she loves grow old and frail. but like laios points out, she'd be making the exact same mistake as thistle. she'd be forcing everyone on the PLANET to live according to her whims, whether or not they actually want to. there's a common theme here of refusing to accept loss, instead moving around it, trying to find a reality in which bad things will never ever happen.
laios wants to become a monster. humans are cruel and unpredictable and not nearly as interesting to him. life as a monster would be so much better than being a person, he doesn't fit in with other humans anyway, he'd be better off as some ultimately powerful creature, and never have to feel hurt by humanity ever again. sound familiar?
it's all unprocessed trauma babey. your trauma brain does not know what is good for you, even if it sounds appealing. even if it sounds like the exact thing that will fix your life. even if avoiding pain forever seems more doable than learning to live with it.
because if all you have is that one desire, who are you when it's taken from you?
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Text from each panel in order:
"Hello?? My order..?"
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"I guess you all must-a been VERY happy that Pep went inside [the tower] scared instead of angry"
"What do you mean by this, little gnome man?"
"Oh! Just that he is-a good with weapons! Knives, butcher knives, you-a know; Kitchen things! Sharp things! Very glad no one was hurt!"
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"little gnome man, I must head home. Good day to you."
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a taste of hannibal, a touch of megamind, a shot of venom (pours the whole damn bottle)
i love venom (2018) a lot, it’s my go-to movie when i’m bored or sad, i have seen it many many times. i saw it again a week or so ago with a bud and finally had the opportunity to pen down this lovely au i’ve been thinkin bout
i’ve got a much more fleshed out sketch of how this au plays out. not sure if i’ll write it yet
anyway some bullet points
noir (called, ofc, noir) arrives on earth-138 in the 1920s. his first host is robbie and they basically go through the venom movie, where noir slowly learns to love earth and humanity and all that jazz. up until the 50s or so they’re an investigative reporter and occasionally a scary vigilante superhero!
when robbie is killed (not ewaf style. i forbid it), it fucking devastates noir and he host-hops for a bit, doing fun anarchy things to keep up robbie’s legacy but also losing a few morals here and there. he can do a little murder and eat nazis as a treat
the symbiotes arrive en masse and osborn infects humans with them to turn into his fascist riot police army
through vampire-hunting-esque shenanigans, hobie and noir meet, and strike up a tenuous truce to fight the government. hobie does not like him at first, but noir very much does ;)
cue a slow burn gothic romance between a freedom fighter and a devoted monster <3
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