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| 3 | [-'''Touden Party''' | [[Characters/DeliciousInDungeonOtherAdventurers Other Adventurers]] | [[Characters/DeliciousInDungeonOther Other Characters]] | [[Characters/DeliciousInDungeonMonsters Monsters]]-]]]]] |
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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:300:The original Touden Party before their fateful encounter with the Red Dragon. [[note]]Clockwise from top-right: Laios, Namari, Marcille, Chilchuck, Shuro, and Falin. Not pictured: Senshi and Izutsumi[[/note]]]] |
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| 8 | A group of dungeon crawling adventurers originally consisting of Laios Touden the knight, his sister Falin Touden the cleric, Marcille the mage, Chilchuck the locksmith, Namari the fighter, and Shuro the swordsman. |
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| 10 | After a disastrous encounter with the Red Dragon ended with Falin being eaten, Namari and Shuro left (the former due to their lack of resources, the latter to gather his own party to rescue Falin). Laios, Marcille, and Chilchuck prepare to embark on their own rescue mission, joined by newcomer Senshi, an expert in cooking monsters. Come Volume 5, SixthRanger Izutsumi increases their numbers to a party of five. |
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| 16 | * AntiHeroTeam: Most of the core 5 are not what you'd call {{Ideal Hero}}es, each landing on different points in the spectrum. |
| 17 | ** Laios's eccentrities and inability to communicate clearly land him in ClassicalAntiHero territory. [[spoiler: However, he's eventually revealed to have a subconscious resentment of mankind due to how him and his sister have been treated, and it's possible that his love of monsters stems from how they kill and eat humans. He never acts on this contempt himself and always wants to talk things out with other humans rather than fighting, which makes him a KnightInSourArmor at worst.]] |
| 18 | ** Marcille could also count as a ClassicalAntiHero, given she's the least enthusiastic about having to eat dungeon monsters on their journey to save Falin and is the butt of many jokes as a result. However, what really cinches her as an anti-hero is [[spoiler: her willingness to use forbidden spells to bring back her friend and the overwhelming fear she has of outliving the people she loves, the latter of which is used by the BigBad to turn her into his pawn for a while. PragmaticHero might be a more fitting description.]] Despite this, she's also the most insistent on helping strangers. |
| 19 | ** As a cynical rogue who's nonetheless ready to help his friends when they're in danger, Chilchuck is a textbook KnightInSourArmor. |
| 20 | ** Izutsumi is a moody teenager with a history of being abused who's primarily motivated by the promise of personal freedom rather than any altruistic cause, making her an UnscrupulousHero. |
| 21 | ** Of course, this means that the closest the core 5 get to a conventional hero is Senshi, the weirdo dwarf who's lived on the fringes of society for decades. [[{{Irony}} How ironic.]] |
| 22 | * BadassCrew: There's absolutely no denying the skill and strength of the entire party, which is doubly impressive because they're lacking one of the most critical things for a party - a cleric. Their original party would've killed the Red Dragon [[WorfHadTheFlu had it not been for severe hunger]], and ex-member Namari outright admits to having killed dragons before. |
| 23 | * BreakingTheFellowship: |
| 24 | ** The second edition of the World Guide shows that the party was first formed with Laios, Falin, Namari, and three others (a half-foot and another tallman fighter Laios and Falin worked with while gold-stripping, and a tallman mage referred to in other supplementary comics as the 'marriage-seeker'). The first two left the party as it reached too deep in the dungeon for them, though the half-foot introduced Laios to Chilchuck first. The marriage seeker left later, after other party members protested Laios's special treatment of her and he stopped giving it. And of course, Shuro and Namari leave after the inciting incident at the start of the manga. |
| 25 | ** [[spoiler:After the party permanently save Falin and destroy the dungeon, the party agrees to split and choose their own paths in the future. Laios is made king of the new Golden Kingdom, with Marcille as his chief advisor, Chilchuck starts a locksmithing store and helps the halfling adventurers who no longer have a job, Senshi travels the countryside, and Izutsumi, while unsure of what she wants to do, feels content that she now has a choice.]] |
| 26 | * ChronicHeroSyndrome: Team Touden will always stop to help other adventurers in distress despite the severe time limit of getting back to the Red Dragon in time to save Falin before she is digested. [[spoiler: Turns out it wouldn't have mattered anyway since the dragon has been on the move rather than sleeping, meaning its metabolism has been sped up far more than normal.]] |
| 27 | * CurbstompBattle: Their very brief fight with [[spoiler: the Lunatic Magician]] consists of the team getting completely overwhelmed almost immediately and getting thrown into a deathtrap with little effort from their opponent. While [[spoiler: Marcille]] manages to repel some of the attack (much to [[spoiler: the Magician's]] own surprise) the party is still hopelessly outmatched. |
| 28 | * ExperiencedProtagonist: The protagonists are definitely not newbies. They are very experienced people capable of surviving and telling the readers the lore behind the great dungeon, even having experience with killing dragons and descending to the lower levels of the dungeon. |
| 29 | * EnsembleCast: Initially, Laios seems like the obvious main character, having the closest and most personal connection to the quest as well as being one of the two characters that drive the food angle, but in truth he gets no more of the spotlight than the other team members. Most chapters feature the entire team with similar screentime and the [[ADayInTheLimelight ones more focused on a singular one]] are very even. That being said, Senshi tends to have less of a role overall since he isn't as prominent unless food is around and largely keeps quiet during interpersonal discussions. [[spoiler: Downplayed in the final arc of the series, when Laios gets the most focus and becomes the center of the cast.]] |
| 30 | * FantasyCharacterClasses: They fit into the archetypes, though with the slightly unusual addition that several of their "classes" are redundant, but they have different archetypes within those classes; |
| 31 | ** Laios and Shuro are both Warriors, with Laios embodying [[KnightInShiningArmor the European archetype]] and Shuro the [[{{Samurai}} Japanese archetype]]. |
| 32 | ** Marcille is a mage; while her specialty is in destructive and offensive magic, in Falin's absence, she also serves as the healer. |
| 33 | ** Chilchuck and Izutsumi are both Thieves, with Chilchuck focusing on the lockpicking and trap-disarming part of the class and Izutsumi on the stealthy fighter part. |
| 34 | ** Falin is also a mage, but focused on healing and supporting, making her the setting's equivalent of a Cleric. |
| 35 | ** Namari is an axe-wielding barbarian. |
| 36 | ** Senshi is interesting in that he can come across as a barbarian like Namari, wielding an axe and little armour in battle, but his skill in foraging and preparing food actually makes him closer to a Ranger. |
| 37 | * FighterMageThief: The party at the start of chapter 2 fits the description perfectly with Laios the swordsman, Marcille the magician, and Chilchuck the trapmaster. Senshi is a mix of Fighter and woodsman/ranger. |
| 38 | * TheFriendsWhoNeverHang: The original iteration of the Touden party, prior to the Red Dragon incident, was this to each other, to the point where this could be an inversion. While they worked well together as a party, the members rarely interacted with each other outside of adventuring. Chilchuck especially liked to keep his private life and professional life separate, though it's mentioned in omakes that he enjoyed drinking with Namari. The exceptions are Laios, Falin, and Marcille; besides the former two being siblings, the latter two attended the same magic school, and the three would regularly meet outside of the dungeon. Despite this, late in the story Laios realizes that he knows very little about Marcille's past and personal life. The events of the story have Laios, Marcille, and Chilchuck become more acquainted with each other, averting this trope. |
| 39 | * InconsistentSpelling: Before their names were officially confirmed by the ''Explorer Guide'', there were some variations on the exact spellings, particularly Chilchack/Tirchac and Laius/Laios. The official releases use Laios, Falin, Marcille, and Chilchuck. |
| 40 | * MrExposition: The series often has Laios info dumping on monsters, Senshi on cooking and proper nutrition, and Marcille on magic. |
| 41 | * PersonaNonGrata: Their plan to return to the surface to resupply after dealing with the Red Dragon is cut short after meeting up with Kabru and Shuro's parties due to [[spoiler:the understanding that their use of TheDarkArts will be reported and that they'll be arrested at best upon arrival.]] |
| 42 | * RobbingTheDead: They usually don't do this, but it has happened on occasion, especially with Kabru's party. The first time, much of the treasure was actually bugs mimicking the appearance of treasure, which Touden killed and ate (and Chilchuck threw away the real treasure mixed in among them under the mistaken impression that it was inedible bugs). The second time, after towing the bodies of Kabru's party to shore so someone could revive them later, Laios collects some of their barley which had fallen from a split pack to float in the water. He considered piling it up for them but Chilchuck told him that was going too far, so he just decides to feed it to his party. Since Kabru's party just know that once again the Touden party took something while they were out, [[PoorCommunicationKills they assume they were outright robbed]]. |
| 43 | * TechnicianVersusPerformer: |
| 44 | ** Senshi as the Performer, to Laios', and Marcille's to a lesser degree, Technician. The dwarf, having spent years in the dungeon, understands it, and the monsters in it better than the latter two, despite Laios' book about monster eating and Marcille's years of study. However, it's still shown that the technical knowledge the other two have is important and Laios' deep knowledge about monster biology and habits on a technical level makes him great at strategizing in their battles. |
| 45 | ** Falin is the Performer to Marcille's Technician. When the two met at the magical academy, Marcille is a grade A student type of person that gets everything done correctly by the book, however, she ends up learning more from Falin, whose actual experience with real dungeons make her small dungeons far superior to Marcille's. |
| 46 | * WorfHadTheFlu: Both iterations are a BadassCrew that can take down almost any foe they face, even capable of slaying Red Dragon-level dangers, but during their first fight with the beast they were cripplingly hungry, making them slow, sluggish, and overall weak, resulting in them nearly getting a TotalPartyKill and losing Falin. Laios realizing this was the problem is what he used as the perfect excuse to finally enact his desires to eat dungeon monsters, so that they're never that hungry again. |
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| 49 | !!Original Members |
| 50 | [[folder:Laios]] |
| 51 | !!True Name -- Laios Touden |
| 52 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KentaroKumagai (Japanese), Natsu Yorita (Japanese, child), Creator/DamienHaas (English), Creator/MarinMiller (English, child; episode 3), Creator/EricaMendez (English, child; episode 11)[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Jim Redler (French), Ibna Mahdiansyah (Indonesian), Ismael Verástegui (Latin American Spanish), Sebastian Fitzner (German)[[/labelnote]] |
| 53 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_laios.png]] |
| 54 | ->'''Age:''' 26 years old\ |
| 55 | '''Gender:''' Male\ |
| 56 | '''Race:''' Tallman\ |
| 57 | '''Birthplace:''' Northern Continent\ |
| 58 | '''Family:''' Father, mother, little sister (Falin)\ |
| 59 | '''Height:''' Around 185cm / 6'1"\ |
| 60 | '''BMI:''' 26\ |
| 61 | '''Likes:''' Dairy products\ |
| 62 | '''Dislikes:''' Cephalopods |
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| 64 | The leader of the party, and an experienced human fighter. He is extremely knowledgeable in monsters and the like, which in turn has fueled a lifelong desire to... eat them. Which is exactly what he gets a chance to do due to the critical circumstances at hand. |
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| 66 | * AdmiringTheAbomination: Laios is quicker to awe at the dangerous monsters of the dungeon than be wary of them. Upon laying eyes on [[spoiler:Falin's chimera transformation for the first time (which he has just seen kill several people)]], his first thought is to admire how cool it looks. |
| 67 | * AnimalMotif: He has a dog motif. Besides his friendly, straightforward and trustworthy personality, he knows their behaviors and can mimic their calls perfectly since he grew up with several of them. [[spoiler:When in Marcille's nightmare, he turns into a dog to do some digging. When Marcille remembers the dream after waking up, she remembers being with a dog (Laios had already returned to his normal form by the time he met her in the nightmare.) Notably, the dog resembles a dog Laios' family owned in during his childhood named Dustrag.]] |
| 68 | * ApologeticAttacker: He apologizes to the bicorn when dealing it a killing blow. Laios doesn't do this with other monsters; it may have just been because the bicorn fled from the party rather than attacking it until Chilchuck approached it alone. |
| 69 | * AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:He sacrifices his left leg just below the knee to deal a fatal blow to the Red Dragon. Thankfully Marcille reattaches it, but a scar remains.]] |
| 70 | * AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: [[spoiler:As he is the one who ultimately defeats the demon and destroys the dungeon (preventing any future dungeons in the process), he is crowned king of the island. Though to everyone's shock, the "island" is revealed to be much larger as more and more land mass rises from the ocean, creating a rather large country.]] |
| 71 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: Has a lot of intel about monsters, down to their anatomy, behavior and varieties, which proves to be a valuable asset on several occasions in the dungeon. For instance, when fighting a living armor he's told that they detect him with magic and don't need eyes to see. He quickly deduces that this is wrong, since he noticed one of them prioritize picking up its helmet and adjusting it so the visor is in the front before attacking him, which it shouldn't need to if it can "see" without it. |
| 72 | * BadassNormal: Despite being a [[HumansAreAverage normal Tallman, with Tallman-made armor and weapons]], Laios is able to more than hold his own against mages, monsters, and dragons. [[spoiler: And, eventually an extradimensional eldritch horror.]] Later on, he takes the EmpoweredBadassNormal route by learning magic from Marcille, making him a MagicKnight. |
| 73 | * BadLiar: When confronted by [[spoiler:the Canaries]], he tries lying to them but gives away what he's trying to hide completely. |
| 74 | * BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: One of Laios' greatest wishes is a peaceful kingdom where humans and tamed monsters coexist. [[spoiler:He gets the kingdom, but the Winged Lion's curse makes it so that all monsters are ''repelled'' by him and basically act as a natural guard against invaders. Not to mention Laios winds up ''in charge'' of the kingdom, when the last thing he ever wanted was political responsibility, let alone on a country-wide scale (this is fortunately made a lot easier due to Kabru and Yaad acting as his advisors).]] |
| 75 | * BetterWithNonHumanCompany: He had no friends in his hometown, and instead grew up with lots of pets. When he first saw Falin as a newborn, he had no reaction in front of his parents, but rushed to tell all the animals around the house about his new sister. He tried to join the army as a teenager, but hated it because he never fit in with the others. According to [[spoiler:the Winged Lion]], Laios fundamentally doesn't like humans and loves monsters more because they kill humans, which in turn makes him wish he ''was'' a monster (though due to its [[ConsummateLiar nature]], its words should be taken with a bag of salt). |
| 76 | * BigBrotherInstinct: He absolutely loves and adores Falin, and would have charged into the dungeon alone to save her if need be. He dislikes his parents in part for how poorly they handled Falin's ostracization from the village, and as a child he would imagine a horde of monsters slaughtering everyone in the village but himself and his sister. |
| 77 | * BigEater: When the adventure is over and everyone else is stuffed full from days of feasting, Laios is still hungry enough to polish off an entire pot of stew and says he doesn't feel more than 40% full. [[spoiler:They theorize that eating the Demon's appetite imparted some of its insatiable hunger to him, and decide to monitor his intake to keep him from overeating. As king he becomes known for researching many agricultural innovations, both mundane and magical.]] |
| 78 | * BlackSheep: Aside from his sister, Laios never got along with his parents or anyone else in his hometown. Because of this — and further exacerbated by witnessing the prejudice that Falin herself faced, exposing Laios to the cruelty of humans at a tender young age — he left his home while still a teenager and became a soldier, only to find that he couldn't fit in there either. Afterwards, he found work as a caravan guard as well as stripping gold in a dungeon and was later joined by Falin, with both of them eventually becoming skilled adventurers on the Island. |
| 79 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: [[spoiler: After Marcille becomes Lord of the Dungeon and the party escapes the room where she put them, the Winged Lion possesses Kensuke and wraps many tentacles around Laios's sword hand, making him unable to sheath or put the sword down for several chapters.]] |
| 80 | * BrokenPedestal: Laios was given a guide to eating monsters as a child and he fell in love with it, reading it over and over as he grew up. When he starts eating monsters himself, he realizes that their tastes are completely different from what the guide said about them, meaning the guide was essentially made up whole-cloth. This severely disappoints him. |
| 81 | * BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu: [[spoiler:Through cunning, he is able to deceive the all-powerful Winged Lion and strip him of his desires to consume the world and trap everyone in a HellOfAHeaven inside his stomach. The demon is '''''not happy''''' at being denied at the cusp of its long awaited victory, and curses Laios to never have his greatest desire fulfilled likewise.]] |
| 82 | * BunnyEarsLawyer: Laios is a skilled professional who is well versed in monsters, a pretty competent warrior, and has surprising aptitude for magic, though he hasn't had the chance to really learn any since finding this out with the party being in an extended dungeon crawl and all. However, he is unflappably cheerful to the point of unnerving the rest of the party and everyone he meets and has a bizarre fascination with eating every monster they come across, to the point of having no real lines for what's acceptable to eat and what isn't (he's okay with eating [[spoiler:sentient mermaids eggs; needless to say Chilchuck and Senshi are not happy when they find out what they're eating and they chose to hide it from Marcille who is generally the most averse to eating monsters]]). He's also a ditz when it comes to things outside his specialty, making people generally nervous about his competence even when it involves things he ''is'' competent in. |
| 83 | * ButIReadABookAboutIt: His desire to eat monsters started from a book he got as a child about how different monsters tasted. He frequently carries around and references this book over the course of their adventure on whether or not certain monsters are safe to eat. However, it turns out the book is complete bogus and the author probably made everything up. Fortunately, they never eat anything actually poisonous following the book's advice, but Laios does get a nasty taste of kraken flesh and giant scorpion tail because the book said it tasted good. Fortunately, Senshi actually has experience hunting and eating many monsters to offer more reliable advice. |
| 84 | * ButtMonkey: He's hurt or incapacitated on a regular basis, to the [[ComedicSociopathy general indifference of the party]]. When he eats some raw kraken parasite and ''its'' parasite tries to poke holes in his stomach Marcille works just enough healing magic to keep him from dying. He touches a kraken spermatophore which then latches painfully onto his forehead, in an omake. After he works magic for the first time he gets mana-sick and lies on the floor hallucinating while the others leave him there. [[spoiler: A Duhallan stabs him and he tells the others to run and leave him; they do without any pause to argue, which has him taken aback. Kabru once punches him for being dense. And when the Winged Lion possesses Kensuke, wraps its tentacles around his hand so he can't put it down, and talks through the sword, eventually Marcille partially seals it by ''slamming'' a book closed around the sword, and his hand, which seems to be quite painful.]] Laios doesn't seem to mind, aside from taking against cephalopods. |
| 85 | * CasualKink: Downplayed. It's implied many times during his dialogue that may be into ''Vorarephilia'' (or Vore fetish, as it's more commonly referred to) since he's very interested in eating monsters despite knowing some of them could be sapient, but this is never explicitly stated in the manga. |
| 86 | * TheChainsOfCommanding: Laios is the leader of the party, but it does not come naturally to him. His people skills are lacking, which means he is helpless whenever his party experiences inner strife. A former mage had been using him for special privileges, with Laios being completely oblivious to it until Chilchuck had pointed it out. The party was close to disbanding until Marcille joined (and only because she accidentally restored party morale trying to learn about previous drama). In an omake where party members rate their leaders, Laios has the lowest average behind Mithrun, with not even Falin giving him a 100. His leadership skills largely bear fruit when it comes to fighting and engaging monsters, and while his party members find his monster obsession weird and off-putting, they fully trust him when it comes to dealing with them. [[spoiler:When Laios is crowned king of the new Golden Kingdom, the stress piles on even more, but it's shown that he becomes a [[TheGoodKing great king]] and allows the kingdom to flourish.]] |
| 87 | * ChickMagnet: Despite his personality and quirks generally turning people away, Laios had an above-average rate of having women attracted to him. A former party member looking for marriage was interested in Laios and, during the Golden Kingdom chapter, Marcille blushes when she thinks Laios might compliment her. |
| 88 | * TheChosenOne: The people of the Golden Kingdom were told of a prophecy that someone with a winged sword will defeat the Mad Mage and become the new king. [[spoiler:Yaad believes that this prophecy refers to Laios, who then notices that not only has his sword has wings, but the head of a lion on its crest. Indeed, the Winged Lion is the GuardianDeity of the Golden Kingdom who told of the prophecy, and the deity itself later confirms that Laios has the greatest potential in becoming the Lord of the Dungeon and creating a kingdom where monsters and humans live side-by-side. [[DeconstructedTrope However, it is heavily implied that this is the Winged Lion's manipulations]]; in reality, it is interested in Laios because it recognizes his innate desire to become a monster and wants to use that desire to eventually take over his body and become the Lord of the Dungeon itself, and is implied to have manipulated and pushed Laios into the role. Incidentally, Laios' defeat the Mad Mage and his removing the Winged Lion from reality fulfills both the Winged Lion and King Delgal's prophecy anyway, and he becomes exactly the king that the Winged Lion said he would be in the end.]] |
| 89 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He has a tendency to fixate on the oddest details [[SkewedPriorities during even life-threatening situations]], wonders out loud about the taste of every monster he comes across (even the sentient ones), and acts upbeat in the most inappropriate of situations. |
| 90 | * CommonalityConnection: [[spoiler:Just as he robbed [[BigBad The Winged Lion]] of his desires to swallow up all humanity, the eternal beast cursed him to never be able to fight monsters again. Laios ends up ruling over a kingdom, the demon returns to his higher plane of existence. Both can only look on forlornly over their respective domains, almost void of passion.]] |
| 91 | * ConsistentClothingStyle: This doesn't really come up in the main story because the story takes place over the course of a single adventure, so he doesn't get any different outfits, but supplementary sketches show that he only likes plain, loose-fitting clothing without any colours or patterns. He's shown rejecting a turtleneck sweater, a Hawaiian shirt, a pink t-shirt, and a leather jacket for not meeting these criteria. |
| 92 | * CoolCrown: [[spoiler:After being made king of the Golden Kingdom, he gets a crown. Evidently, he designed the crown, because its three spikes correspond to the three different heads of his "ultimate strongest monster" chimera.]] |
| 93 | * CreepyGood: Laios is a NiceGuy, but his fascination with monsters (especially eating them) and odd perpetual relaxed mood can be downright off-putting. |
| 94 | * CripplingOverspecialization: A lifetime of sketching monsters out of books has left him able to draw ''monsters'' decently, but not much of anything else. |
| 95 | * CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Laios may be an oddball sometimes, but when it comes to action he knows what to do (most of the time) and how to win. |
| 96 | * CursedWithAwesome: [[spoiler:The Winged Lion's curse ultimately makes Laios unable to live his dream of living with monsters, since every monster will have the natural drive to stay miles away from him. While this sucks for him, it makes the capital of his kingdom incredibly peaceful, as monsters never attack the city, but surround it enough to stop invaders and serve to be hunted for resources.]] |
| 97 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: Before he became an adventurer, Laios spent a while as an underpaid caravan worker who ran away from both home and the military, too depressed to even [[ThePigpen wash after himself]]. Before that, he lived in fear of the humans of his village and how they treated Falin with disdain for her magical powers. |
| 98 | * DarkSecret: He reflects at one point that it took Falin's fate at the Red Dragon's hands for him to be able to show his true monster-curious self to his friends, implying that he'd kept it hidden all his adventuring years until this point. Considering how badly people tend to react to his curiosity about/desire to eat monsters, it probably counts as one of these. |
| 99 | * DemonicPossession: [[spoiler: Towards the end of the manga, Laios makes a deal with the demon to trade his body for that of a monster. The demon possesses his body in Laios' place.]] |
| 100 | * DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: He had a fairly alienated backstory, drifting from place to place without committing to anything. He ran away from his hated hometown, dropped out of school, deserted from the military, did odd jobs on the road like guarding a caravan, and worked with gold peelers for a bit of easy money. Apart from his sister, friends, and love of monsters, he doesn't have much to ground him; he even only [[spoiler:becomes King]] because he's pushed into it. |
| 101 | -->'''Senshi:''' Now that's living without a plan. |
| 102 | * DoesNotLikeSpam: Despite being an ExtremeOmnivore for the most part, Laios refuses to eat squid or octopus after contracting a parasite from a larger parasite that was living inside a kraken and getting stabbed by a spermatophore. This notably remains as the only kind of food Laios dislikes entirely and absolutely refuses point blank to eat again. |
| 103 | * DitzyGenius: He has a great deal of knowledge about monsters and can be a very capable tactician in fights, but he's also [[NoSocialSkills bad at picking up social cues]] and often lacks common sense. The shapeshifter incident is a good display of this--he knows a lot about shapeshifters, but his memory of how his teammates look is questionable at best. He does manage to solve the incident in the end, but not without his teammates questioning every second of his efforts. |
| 104 | * TheDragonslayer: [[spoiler: The title is discussed by the party in regards to him in the Volume 11 extras. While defeating the Red Dragon and outmaneuvering Thistle's summons with his experience means the title is fairly applicable, Laios doesn't like it because he thinks dragons should be the strongest. He briefly entertains the idea of becoming a Dragonslayer-''slayer'', only to realize that'd just be called [[DidntThinkThisThrough a murderer]]]]. |
| 105 | * DreamWeaver: His "Idea of a Cool Monster" shown when discussing the merits of chimerae [[BrickJoke returns nearly forty chapters later]] as a summoned monster within his dreams to defend himself from a [[DreamStealer shin]]. Shortly afterwards, he rips himself open to transform into a dog to dig his way into Marcille's dream. |
| 106 | * DumbassHasAPoint: Laios is fully aware that he is not good with people, but even he knows that if Kabru [[spoiler:simply wanted to be friends with him]], he wouldn't have gone so much effort in delving the dungeon, dying more than once, and eating monsters despite hating them to do so. Ironically, Kabru may have been [[CassandraTruth genuinely telling the truth]] in this instance. Also, because of his monster obsession, people tend to begrudgingly sit through him ramble about monsters. In serious moments when he seems to be going off on similar tangents, he gets shouted down, only for him to snap back that what he's talking about is an entirely relevant concern, such as sorting out Falin's bones from any others that may have mixed in with them before attempting resurrection. |
| 107 | * EveryoneCanSeeIt: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Everyone in the party, except Laios, is aware that Shuro has feelings for Laios's sister; he's a little embarrassed to learn about it. An embarrassing flash-back even shows Namari and Chilchuck trying to stop Laios from inviting himself to Shuro's dinner-date with Falin. |
| 108 | * EveryoneHasStandards: |
| 109 | ** Despite his love of eating monsters, even he is a bit hesitant when Senshi starts talking about eating the red dragon in the first chapter, since eating something that ate his sister feels a bit like indirect cannibalism. |
| 110 | ** He feels guilty about using ghosts to make sherbert, which comes up when dealing with less hostile ghosts [[spoiler: and when the Winged Lion tells him that eating monsters is more respectful to the dungeon than leaving their bodies]]. |
| 111 | ** He thinks monsters are cool [[spoiler:including chimaera Falin]], but he (mostly) knows not to trust them. This is the case with a kelpie named Anne that Senshi believes he has befriended, whereas Laios tries pointing out to the former that there is a serious difference between "befriended" and "has not attacked yet". Sure enough, after allowing Senshi onto her back, the first thing she does is submerge and try to murder him underwater, where he struggles to defend himself. |
| 112 | ** In an omake about chimaeras incorporating humans he points out that [[spoiler:the chimaera of his sister is awkwardly designed - it can't fly so much as glide and fall slowly, has a fuel sack but can't breathe fire, struggles to talk with compressed vocal chords, and will probably starve or lose organ function instead of living very long. Then he starts an ImagineSpot about a better design before going "If there were males and females they could breed-" and snapping out of it.]] |
| 113 | ** After he ate raw kraken parasite and contracted a parasite from it in turn Laios became disgusted by the idea of eating cephalopods. The thought of contracting a parasite from eating squid or octopus terrifies him, and his reaction to hearing that squid sashimi gets around them by cutting the squid thinly is to consider the people who thought of it insane. |
| 114 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: A Daydream Hour omake shows what he'd look like if he became another evil Lord of the Dungeon, with darker armor ornamented with furs, horns, and claws. [[spoiler:When the Winged Lion takes over his body, it decides not to give him the kind of makeover it gave Marcille, as he doesn't think Laios can pull that sort of look off. A tiny inset shows Laios in black armor with goofily oversized ShouldersOfDoom.]] |
| 115 | * ExtremeOmnivore: It's easier to list things Laios won't eat. He even wants to eat ''animated armors''. He kind of manages to do it, for it turns out that the animated armors are actually a group of clam-like molluscs who use the armor as their "shell". [[spoiler:This isn't even getting into the kinds of stuff he's willing to try in the second half of the series (albeit for well-intentioned reasons), like the chimera parts of his sister and his own human body.]] |
| 116 | * FetishesAreWeird: The first time he admits to his 'fantasies' about monsters, and eating them in particular, his party members react in confusion and disgust. |
| 117 | * {{Foil}}: to Kabru. Kabru is obsessed with studying humanity, Laios is obsessed with studying monsters. Kabru struggles to make progress in the dungeon, Laios is extremely skilled at navigating the dungeon. Kabru is a gifted and very perceptive speaker, Laios struggles to communicate his thoughts and misses social cues. |
| 118 | * ForScience: A lot of his decisions about monster cuisine seem to boil down to "let's find out if this is edible". |
| 119 | * GeniusBruiser: The ''Adventurer's Bible'' gives him a 4/5 in Intelligence, and he ''is'' actually very observant, knowledgeable (particularly about monsters), and thinks quickly on his feet. Unfortunately, his nigh-complete lack of social skills tends to make him look like a fool when dealing with others. |
| 120 | * TheGoodKing: [[spoiler:For all the gripes he has about taking a leadership role, the ending tapestries show that he becomes a well respected and appreciated king among his people. His agricultural exploits greatly benefit his new country, and he seems to get along fine with the child residents.]] |
| 121 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: He's very friendly, well-intentioned and selfless, and his hair is dirt blonde. |
| 122 | * HatesTheirParent: He despises his father, hasn't been in contact with his parents for ten years, and deliberately styles his hair to minimize any family resemblance. Their village's poor treatment of Falin has something to do with it, but supplemental material suggests that the father was always a cold figure who cared more about hunting than his own children. |
| 123 | * HealingHands: Due to not having a spell focus, such as a staff, Laios can only heal those within arm's reach. We get to see how awkward that can be when he's still learning; he finds touching Marcille's face uncomfortable, and both he and Senshi do ''not'' want to have him heal the gash on Senshi's chest that way. |
| 124 | * HealThyself: [[spoiler: By the time he fights with the Lunatic Magician, he is capable of casting healing magic on himself in the middle of combat. It's not very dramatic, but it ''greatly'' extends his ability to stay in a fight solo and is credited alongside his monster knowledge as one of only reasons he survives the gauntlet of multiple dragons that Thistle summons to kill him.]] |
| 125 | * HeroWithBadPublicity: [[spoiler: Kabru and the Canaries share the common opinion that if Laios were to take over the dungeon, his love of monsters coupled with the corrupting influence of the demon may lead to destruction. Thus, they do their best to kill him before that happens.]] |
| 126 | * HiddenDepths: As the series goes it's slowly revealed Laios' infatuation with monsters actually carries a little more weight behind it beyond just being a goofy trait. Near the end of the series, [[spoiler:the Winged Lion points out to him that he has always had resentment and indifference towards his fellow humans for how his sister was treated back when they were younger, and that he was always glued to any book that showed the fantastic and varied world of other races and monsters. Laios tries to deny it, but the Lion continues to interpret it as him liking monsters ''because they kill humans'', and points out that as a child he thought human-devouring monsters were beautiful and cool, and even fantasized that monsters would maybe come and destroy his village. Ultimately, the Lion makes the plausible argument that perhaps Laios decided to go into dungeon-delving because he heard a rumor that in there, even a human could become a monster, and a small part of him believed it. It is this, combined with the Lion reassuring Laios that his friends will remain safe, that tips Laios over the edge]]. |
| 127 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Laios, as part of his characterization as TheDitz. |
| 128 | ** Ironically, [[spoiler:he is the one to warn Senshi about trusting the kelpie Anne, who tries to kill him, as it turns out Laios is much better figuring out monsters and animals in comparison to people]]. |
| 129 | ** Similarly to the above, [[spoiler:Laios is the one to figure out who the impostors in the party are when they are infiltrated by shapeshifters, deducing his friends' true identities by comparing their actions with their demonstrated behavior over their adventure thus far. The imposters that use his memories of his friends were also the closest to the originals, especially his memory of Marcille, the only difference being tiny details like not remembering the holes in Senshi's helmet or not knowing that the item around Chilchuck's neck isn't a scarf. Meanwhile, his own imposters were so obviously not like him that they were eliminated immediately.]] |
| 130 | * HumansAreAverage: Laios considers tallmen like himself to be "boring" physically, as they lack the attributes other races and monsters have. Namari tells him tallmen are not boring and their racial quirk is a tendency towards song and dance, but that's not something Laios has skill or inclination towards, so it doesn't make him feel any better. When he sees a monster he admires, he often expresses he wishes he could turn into it. Narrative-wise, however, he's anything but the average one of the team due to his unusual solutions to problems and his monster enthusiasm. |
| 131 | * HumansAreBastards: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. While Laios is a NiceGuy, he is personally troubled by the extreme cruelty, hatred and selfishness that people often display, such as the prejudice that Falin received as a child due to her affinity for magic and the mistreatment he received from the villagers as well due to not fitting in well with them. This is part of the reason for Laios' fascination with monsters and his social awkwardness with people. [[spoiler:The Winged Lion is able to play on this.]] |
| 132 | * HumansAreLeaders: Combined with TokenHuman after the first encounter with the Red Dragon. However, Laios isn't considered a very good leader due to his lack of interpersonal skills, and the party was on the verge of splitting up before Marcille arrived due to their lack of confidence in Laios. During their encounter in the dungeon, Mr. Floke assumes Senshi is the actual leader of the party. |
| 133 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 134 | ** He disagrees with Senshi about bonding with a monster because people cannot know exactly what's inside a monster's mind, all while keeping a living sword and hiding it from the rest of the party. Although his living sword is too weak to physically harm him and seems incapable of independent thought, he still doesn't practice what he preaches. [[spoiler:This bites him hard when his living sword runs away during the fight with the Red Dragon.]] |
| 135 | ** In an omake where he gets to talk to werewolf Lycion without the pressures of the plot getting in the way, they initially get on well, but the fact that Lycion doesn't know just what sort of canid soul was fused to him, or care if it has goofy-looking ears because now it's ''his body'' really irritates Laios. [[spoiler: In the endgame, the Winged Lion grants Laios's desire to be his ideal monster, an asymmetrical multi-headed mashup of as many creatures as he could manage. Everyone watching is exasperated in the extreme and finds it terribly silly-looking, but he poses for the crowd, clearly pleased.]] |
| 136 | * IAmNotMyFather: An {{omake}} shows he used to have longer hair and a beard because he thought it was too much work to trim it, but when Falin said it made him look like their father, he ''immediately'' cleaned himself up. |
| 137 | * ICallItVera: Names his living sword Kensuke. Before the rest of the party know Kensuke's alive, they hear Laios call its name in horror when a giant frog yanks it away, and they think he's made a silly choice. |
| 138 | * IdiotHero: Laios is an odd mix of dependable and undependable, being rather idiotic when dealing with people and knowledgeable yet far too enthusiastic about monsters, which causes issues. Later on he sobers up on the monster obsession (at least in combat) and works as a better leader and planner, but he still has his moments. |
| 139 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: His love for everything monster-related leads him to do questionable things. In one chapter where everyone is stripping down out of their wet clothing, he wants to see a naked Itsuzumi. Not for any sexual reasons, but to see how her fusion with an animal soul has affected her body. He's still forced to wear a blindfold by the others for the rest of the chapter. Apparently, even in the past his air-headed personality caused Shuro to secretly dislike him (not that Laios ever noticed). |
| 140 | * InterspeciesFriendship: [[spoiler: With his sword, Kensuke, a piece of living armor.]] |
| 141 | * IntimateHealing: His abilities as a healer are ''very'' basic and he doesn't have a tool like Marcille's staff, so if he's gonna perform any cures he has to touch ''alllll'' over his target with those big hands of his. Laios is embarrassed by this, though Marcille explains it's an understandable common issue for rookie healers. |
| 142 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 143 | ** Despite his obsession with eating every single monster he comes across being one of the main aspects of the manga, when asked what his favorite food is, it's completely unrelated to monsters, not something shown or foreshadowed in the series, or even a meat of any kind. It's [[spoiler:cheesecake (a subsequent supplementary sketch shows him about to scarf down an entire cheesecake with his bare hands, but this is the only time it's ever shown)]]. |
| 144 | ** Laios left his village after years of enduring the prejudice aimed at his sister for her magical abilities and Laios not wanting to become the village's chief. Instead, he pursues the life of an adventurer. [[spoiler:The end of his journey has him become king of an entire country, with his sister becoming more monstrous but accepted by everyone.]] |
| 145 | ** Laios above all things loves monsters and wants to live in a world full of them. [[spoiler:As the new King of the Golden Kingdom, he gains a land teeming with monsters. However, as a spiteful last act from the Winged Lion, it curses Laios to not have his greatest desire granted: as a result, all of the monsters of the Golden Kingdom avoid Laios, meaning he'll never interact with them again. While this is actually great for the kingdom, since it means the monsters are far enough away from the kingdom's denizens, yet also fend off intruders, it's upsetting for Laios.]] |
| 146 | * ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:After hearing the story behind Marcille's desire to make all lifespans equal, he remembers the time he entered Marcille's nightmare and believes he is responsible for her falling prey to the Winged Lion, as he encouraged Marcille to overcome her fear of losing the people she loves by any means, and even put the demon's book in her hands. Though Chilchuck quickly assures him that no one thing or person can be blamed for how events transpired.]] |
| 147 | * {{Keet}}: Laios has his moments, usually while nerding out on monsters. |
| 148 | * KillTheOnesYouLove: [[spoiler:He assassinates his resurrected sister turned violent chimera by suffocating her with a wet piece of cloth [[MoodWhiplash after she falls asleep from happily eating a gourmet meal.]]]] |
| 149 | * TheLeader: Officially, he's the head of the party, which even has his surname. Functionally however, the party is small enough to not actively need a commander and they all follow the main quest without much complaint. Additionally, Laios doesn't realistically have the authority (nor the intension really) of ordering his teammates around besides tactical planning where his monster expertise is actually well regarded. If anything, Chilchuck of all people serves as something closer to this due to his people skills and charming nature. |
| 150 | * LivingWeapon: [[spoiler:The sword he takes from the living armor still has a living parasite in it, and it reacts to potentially dangerous monsters. This is both useful since it lets Laios get a heads-up to an incoming threat, but can also be a problem if the sword is too scared of a powerful enemy.]] |
| 151 | ** Later, [[spoiler:becomes more problematic when the Winged Lion reveals his [[BitchInSheepsClothing true]] [[ConsummateLiar nature]], allowing him to take control of the sword and forcibly bond it with Laios's right hand so that he cannot sheathe it and cut off the Winged Lion's communication. Marcille manages to temporarily silence the Winged Lion — giving some control of the sword back to Laios — by covering the handle and cross-guard portions with the book that initially sealed half of the Winged Lion's power]]. |
| 152 | * LargeAndInCharge: He's the leader of the party, and while not unnaturally large, Laios towers over most other adventurers, save only for Tade, the ogre in Shuro's party. It does help that the other two men in his party are a half-foot and a dwarf. |
| 153 | * LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Doesn't have one as part of his usual equipment, but sometimes dons Senshi's [[spoiler: adamantine pot]] as a very effective one. |
| 154 | * MadeOfIron: The ''Adventurers' Bible'' give his constitution as a 5/5 and he's survived things like being noshed on by a dragon or absorbing large amounts of tentacle venom without being paralyzed. Whilst Marcille's HarmfulHealing makes both Chilchuck and Senshi scream out in agony despite being seasoned adventurers, Laios takes the fixing his far-more grievous injury in comparison, [[spoiler:getting his leg cut off below the knee]], without even a whimper of pain. [[spoiler: This comes into play in the battle against Thistle's summoned dragons, with him being able to survive inhaling the Wyrm's toxic gas.]] |
| 155 | * MagicKnight: He has tried to learn magic in the past several times, however his sister ended up being a very lousy teacher, going mostly by "instinct" that he couldn't understand at all. Marcille is more by the book, which proves to be far more successful since he learns to conjure basic healing and maybe even petrification curse removal in under a week of training. By the end of the manga, he can even cast the water walking spell for his entire team. The ''Adventurers' Bible'' gives him a Magic score of 3/5. |
| 156 | * MercyKill: [[spoiler:Strangles his chimera sister to death in Chapter 67 due to her being under Thistle's control and a mockery of herself, swearing to find a way to fix her.]] |
| 157 | * MisanthropeSupreme: According to the Winged Lion, Laios when he was younger would actively [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior fantasize about his town being attacked by monsters that would kill everyone but him and his sister]], solely out of disdain [[HumansAreBastards for people]] and love for monsters. Though he understands objectively that this is wrong, Laios admits that he's never quite gotten rid of that part of him. |
| 158 | * NeverMyFault: He develops a fear and hatred of cephalopods after having a kraken parasite painfully burrow into the walls of his stomach, but that only happens after he foolishly eats a piece of the larger parasite raw. |
| 159 | * NiceGuy: The most friendly character in the series by a long shot as well as selfless and helpful. Any ulterior motives he might have don't go over wanting to eat something unusual. As a result, when [[spoiler:the Canaries announce (erroneously) that he's become the new lord of the dungeon and a threat to the world, nobody believes them because they've all met Laios and know he would ''never'' put everyone in danger like that.]] |
| 160 | * NightmareFetishist: He's fascinated by monsters and had been curious about their flavor for quite a while before the events of the series. Still, he fully understands how dangerous they can be. He also cheerfully admits to an attraction to orc women. |
| 161 | ** Amongst all known monsters, [[MixAndMatchCritters chimera]] are the most fascinating to him. In addition to [[spoiler: his enthusiasm toward Falin and Izutsumi's conditions,]] he notes that he used to believe a monster was best composed of as many creatures as possible before coming to appreciate how just two creatures in one heighten each other's charms. |
| 162 | ** When a succubus takes the form of Marcille to seduce him, Laios is completely unaffected[[note]]That said, the fact it took her appearance at all says alot[[/note]]... until it takes the form of Marcille ''as a monster'', and claims to have a bite that will turn him into one as well. After that, it's all over for him. |
| 163 | ** How much does he love monsters? [[spoiler: The Winged Lion curses him with his dying breath to never have his heart's desire, and while Laios worries this means his sister is dead for good, he and the others still manage to bring Falin back to life. Turns out, the curse actually means ''he'll never see a monster again.'' That's right, his enthusiasm for monsters is more deeply held than his love for his sister, and you only need to see ''the entire rest of the series'' to know how much Falin means to him.]] |
| 164 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: He has been known to "design" his own monsters, which invariably fall into this; he likes to simply take as many cool traits he can think of and then mash them together. In particular, he seems to have developed a fondness for two-headed creatures that have one fire-breathing head and one ice-breathing head. |
| 165 | * NoSocialSkills: His radar chart in the official World Map book is very well-rounded, with the exception of his social attribute at a pitiful 1/5, and in-universe, he's constantly misreading social situations, putting his foot in his mouth, or giving people the wrong impression about his intentions. He's also a comically bad liar and has difficulties with making friends (he wasn't close to anyone in his hometown aside from Falin, and he was bullied after joining the army). |
| 166 | * NotQuiteBackToNormal: |
| 167 | ** [[spoiler:The lingering effects of his experience with the Winged Lion consist of a curse which keeps monsters away from him, and (due to consuming the demon's appetite) the constant feeling of never being more than about 40% full. The others note that they'll have to keep an eye on his weight and diet from now on to make sure he doesn't get obese]]. |
| 168 | ** [[spoiler: Played for laughs in a bonus chapter where the lingering effects of his transformation include his ultimate monster's desired ability of sprouting entire forests from its poop. Laios using temporary toilets causes the reforestation of the newly restored continent, which is good news because it was a salted wasteland from being submerged undersea. The ability is temporary but lasts long enough to recover everything]]. |
| 169 | * ObliviousToLove: A supplementary prequel comic depicting how the party originally formed shows their original mage before Marcille was recruited was a GoldDigger who would constantly attempt to seduce Laios in order to get special treatment and even get him to marry her. Laios, [[NoSocialSkills being who he is]], had absolutely no clue until the rest of the party got sick of her and told him directly, demanding they get rid of her. |
| 170 | * OfferedTheCrown: [[spoiler: The reward for defeating the mad mage and clearing the dungeon. Laios isn't sure whether he wants to accept, but the former inhabitants of the Golden Kingdom insist.]] |
| 171 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Though he is perfectly professional when the situation calls for it in combat (and sometimes not even then), he is rarely truly serious. The exceptions are pretty jarring. |
| 172 | ** He's usually blithely unconcerned about people's misgivings towards him, but in Chapter 38, the HiddenDisdainReveal from [[spoiler:Shuro]], whom he'd seen as a trusted friend, makes Laios angry enough to [[TalkToTheFist beat the stuffing out of him]]. |
| 173 | ** In Chapter 67, he is ''100%'' serious about the business of [[spoiler:{{Mercy Kill}}ing his chimera sister. It needs to be done, but it's a long, ugly process.]] |
| 174 | ** In Chapter 88, [[spoiler: despite having secured a promise to have a meal with everyone and so try to restore his sister, he tells Izutsumi to kill him if anything goes wrong with his plan to become Lord of the Dungeon and immediately wish for a world in which demons leave humans alone. She's quite surprised that he's willing to let Falin go, but he understands that the world may be lost.]] |
| 175 | * ThePigpen: Supplementary sketches show that before he arrived on The Island, he was absolutely filthy and made zero effort to ever keep himself maintained. He was gaunt, dressed in dirty rags, there were bugs in his hair, and his face was hardly visible behind the caking of grime. His sister made it priority number one upon arrival for him to get a bath, and the bathwater quickly turned ''brown''. |
| 176 | * ThePollyanna: He's perpetually cheery and relaxed, which can be jarring as he casually talks about how he cooks and eats monsters from the underworld and plainly comments how [[spoiler:his sister was resurrected using extremely dangerous dark magic]]. It's not that he doesn't worry or understand the gravity of the things he's talking about, it's just that his near-unshakable demeanor clashes horribly with the mood. |
| 177 | * RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler: Though his father may have been the village's chief, there's a big difference between his standard of living in his hometown and him eventually becoming king of a lost continent.]] |
| 178 | * RedBaron: |
| 179 | ** When The Canaries mistake him for being the ruler of the Dungeon, they call him "The Lord of Monsters" and "Dark Lord Laios". While he assures Chilchuck they'll clarify the mistake shortly, he is blushing and enjoying the names. |
| 180 | ** [[spoiler:Once he takes the title of king, the public (many of whom are his friends) give him several names: Namari calls him "The Demon Eater", Kabru calls him "Laios of the Three Heads", the general public uses "The Vegetable-Armored", "The Dragon Slayer", "Demon King Laios", and finally seem to focus on "Devourer of All Things Horrible".]] |
| 181 | * SayingTooMuch: When asked by Zon whether or not Laios feels that his wives are attractive, Laios points out the qualities both humans and orcs appreciate: full lips, straight teeth, large eyes... [[NoSocialSkills he probably should have shut up before also mentioning large breasts and curvy backsides]]. From his point of view Laios is innocently pointing out attractive similarities, but Zon doesn't see it that way. |
| 182 | * TheSmartGuy: Laios tends to fit into this role in combat, owing to his encyclopedic monster acknowledge and tactical mind. In a fight, he's by no means weak, but the raw power he brings into combat is lesser compared to that of Marcille, Senshi and Izutsumi. A few {{omake}}s show the party is always surprised when Laios ''doesn't'' know something about a monster. |
| 183 | * ShipTease: Laios seems to have some degree of interest in Marcille. He was very flustered when she teaches him IntimateHealing and he has to cup the side of her face with his hand to heal a cut. His succubus also takes the form of Marcille, though initially he resists its charms and dreads the embarrassment of everyone else believing he is into her. |
| 184 | * SkewedPriorities: He often faces a dilemma on how to cook or eat something when the rest of his party (sans Senshi) tends to debate the moral implications instead. Such as what type of monsters would be considered too close to sapient beings to eat. |
| 185 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: He looks almost exactly like his father, but with no facial hair. In fact, the only reason he keeps his face regularly shaved is because he doesn't want to resemble his father (whom he doesn't get along with) more than he can help it. |
| 186 | ** He also resembles Falin, just less strongly. Senshi, to whom male tallmen are inherently feminine-looking, thinks he and Falin look nigh identical (a sketch of Falin with short hair looks exactly like Senshi's mental image of Laios seen during the shapeshifter encounter). Marcille does not agree at all, however; at the Magic Academy she was told Laios looked just like Falin, so she was stunned during their first meeting when he wasn't actually an exact copy (in Marcille's mind, Laios looked like a PrettyBoy). |
| 187 | * SuperSenses: Not to the extent of Chilchuck, but he can hear the difference between the footsteps of multiple types of undead and living beings. |
| 188 | * SympathyForTheDevil: He's sympathetic to the Lunatic Magician pretty much since their first encounter, despite Thistle immediately wanting to kill him. [[spoiler: Laios picks up on Thistle's FreudianExcuse and hopes they can work things out by talking, even after Thistle turns Falin into a chimaera. Even after Thistle's dragons kill the rest of the party. Even after Thistle completely fails to grasp the point of Laios's heartfelt explanation and immobilizes him in a plant that pumps nectar down his throat.]] This sympathy ''does not fade''; he feels like he can understand Thistle and why he does what he does even as he resists him. |
| 189 | * TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: [[spoiler:Having defeated The Winged Lion, he tells the CosmicEntity not to be weighed down by human desire anymore and re-embrace the infinite where it originated from. This backfires. The beast is '''''furious''''' with him for taking away its desire to eat, as to it an eternal life is hollow and empty [[HumansAreSpecial without human flaws]]. The Winged Lion hatefully ''curses him'' to feel the same pain it has, in being robbed of his greatest desire: in Laios' case, fighting and hunting monsters.]] |
| 190 | * TalkingYourWayOut: When faced with humans, he'd really prefer to talk and try to find common ground than to fight them. [[spoiler: He holds on to hope that Thistle can be reasoned with and in fact sits down to have a meal with him after managing to subdue him. Later, after Marcille becomes Lord of the Dungeon he wants to return to the Canaries and have an actual conversation about what everyone wants and what can be done, despite them having bespelled him and attacked her. The Winged Lion isn't happy with him either time, but it's a good trait for a King.]] |
| 191 | * TastesLikeChicken: [[DefiedTrope Defies]] this while the party [[spoiler:eats the Red Dragon's meat]] and tries to compare it to things they've tasted previously, wondering why it has to be compared to anything and that it should just stand on its own. |
| 192 | * TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: He tries ''really'' hard to test the definition of [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman what is Demi-Human and what isn't]]. |
| 193 | ** He once puts demi-human eggs in his friends' lunch without them knowing. Chilchuck is horrified and later confronts Laios about this, but they both agreed to keep Marcille in the dark (who is also strictly against eating anything demi-human). |
| 194 | ** He gets to push that boundary again in chapter 46 by [[spoiler: both milking a minotaur cow and getting a taste of minotaur meat.]] |
| 195 | * TokenHuman: After his party's encounter with the Red Dragon in the beginning of the first chapter leading to his sister being eaten and Shuro leaving, he becomes the only tallman. While elves, halflings, dwarves, etc. are all considered "human", tallmen are the equivalent of humans in real life. |
| 196 | * TookALevelInKindness: For about the first half of the story he's a bit defensive about monster-eating. He argues sometimes with Marcille about her reluctance, gets angry when Chilchuck insists that they can't eat mermen because it "feels" wrong (and then ''sneaks merman eggs into the meal'' because he knows otherwise the party won't eat them), and is quite annoyed when Izutsumi initially refuses. In that last case however he listens when Marcille tells him why it isn't illogical to be wary of this kind of diet. Later [[spoiler: such as when he declines to help Marcille and the Winged Lion after she becomes the Lord of the Dungeon]] he says that he understands that what's good to him can be terrible to someone else and shouldn't be forced on them. |
| 197 | * WeakButSkilled: While he is decently strong and physically capable, Laios is noted several times for not being extraordinarily gifted, with Namari implying he'd be easily outclassed by an average dwarf in a durability and strength contest. That said, his encyclopedic knowledge of monsters and ability to think on his feet make him an exceedingly dangerous opponent, [[spoiler: to the point he managed to beat Thistle and could have killed him if he so chose]]. |
| 198 | * WhatTheHellHero: Many of his comrades call Laios out on his obsession of eating almost anything monstrous in the dungeon rather than focusing on rescuing his sister. Chilchuck gives a vicious one to him for almost crossing the line of trying to eat demi-humans like mermen, then going so far as to eat their eggs. Laios [[DefiedTrope defies]] this however, pointing out that eating proper nutrition is important for surviving in a dungeon, not to mention they cannot be picky about their choice of food given their need to conserve resources.\ |
| 199 | Case in point, when Shuro's patience and politeness with Laios [[RageBreakingPoint finally snaps]] due to believing he isn't taking the dire situation with Falin and the Lunatic Magician seriously enough, the former attacks the latter. However, Laios defeats Shuro in a fist fight despite Laios believing Shuro is normally stronger between them, declaring that Shuro's refusal to take care of his personal health by not getting proper sleep and not eating enough nutritious meals -- all because he's too worried about Falin and can't keep her out of his mind -- have led to his body's health declining. Laios then states he's far more serious about the situation than Shuro because at least he's keeping himself in good condition to stand a better chance at defeating the Lunatic Magician. |
| 200 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Laios initially has a fear of animated armor due to these being responsible for his first death. However by the time the story start he's gotten over it. |
| 201 | * YoungAndInCharge: The youngest member of the party after their encounter with the Red Dragon in the first chapter. |
| 202 | [[/folder]] |
| 203 | |
| 204 | [[folder:Marcille]] |
| 205 | !!True Name -- Marcille Donato |
| 206 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SayakaSenbongi (Japanese), Creator/EmilyRudd (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Marie Nonnenmacher (French), Kuswayanti Woro Dewi (Indonesian), Creator/ErikaUgalde (Latin American Spanish), Magdalena Höfner (German)[[/labelnote]] |
| 207 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_marcille.png]] |
| 208 | ->'''Age:''' 50 years old\ |
| 209 | '''Gender:''' Female\ |
| 210 | '''Race:''' Elf [[spoiler:(actually Half-Elf)]]\ |
| 211 | '''Birthplace:''' Northern Continent\ |
| 212 | '''Family:''' Mother\ |
| 213 | '''Height:''' Around 160cm / 5'3"\ |
| 214 | '''BMI:''' 20\ |
| 215 | '''Likes:''' Seafood, nuts\ |
| 216 | '''Dislikes:''' Any sort of weird food |
| 217 | |
| 218 | A powerful, albeit skittish, elven mage. She is a very close friend of Falin and insists on following Laios into the dungeon to save her. Unfortunately, she isn't as... thrilled to eat abominations from the depths of the underground. |
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| 220 | * ActionGirl: She’s a mage who can blast enemies with her magic. |
| 221 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Marcille's ideal person, as portrayed by a succubus, is a princely, elegant elf man, and she gets a little flustered when Kabru smiles at her. However, she has a very close relationship with Falin, and is willing to risk diving into a dungeon, eat monsters, and [[spoiler:use forbidden magic]] to rescue her. They have no problem bathing together or sleeping in the same bed, and when [[spoiler:the transformed Falin rips her top apart]], we see Marcille getting flustered the same way as Shuro, who is outright stated to be in love with Falin. When Marcille first met Laios, she treated him with great hostility under the impression that he "took [Falin] away from her" when they became adventurers. The ''World Guide'' describes her relationship with Shuro as "[angry] he's courting Falin" for some reason, which is especially notable given that she's normally a LoveFreak. |
| 222 | * AwesomeButImpractical: |
| 223 | ** Her way of harvesting mandrakes. Since she can't use a dog (her character profile states she never even tried it with a dog because she didn't have the stomach for it), she ropes a giant bat to pull out the mandrake while she is far enough to not hear the scream. The problem is that she can't control where the bat goes. When it gets killed it crashes into her and she still hears the scream, if from far enough away that it rattles rather than seriously injuring or killing her. However, mandrakes harvested her way turn out to be better tasting. |
| 224 | ** Also her battle magic, which tends to be on the dramatic, indiscriminate side - not usually a problem when just ''fighting'' monsters, but when they have to be left relatively intact to be eaten she can't just cause explosions and be done with it. |
| 225 | ** She can have a familiar, a magical creature that does her bidding, but finds that making or converting something into one takes a lot of time, resources, or both. Marcille refused to make herself a communication fairy when she realized that the ingredients required were disgusting and that it also took forty weeks of feeding it blood every day. She creates malleable familiars to go up against a griffin that wasn't interested in staying on the ground and fighting, but familiars have no autonomy - she has to see through their eyes and puppet them, and is slightly harmed when they die. It also takes a huge amount of food to make them. |
| 226 | * BadassBookworm: A high powered mage and the party's magical [[TheBigGuy powerhouse]] who was top of her class at magic school, and loves to read and study. Heck, even her dreamscape is a library. |
| 227 | * TheBeastmaster: [[spoiler:As Dungeon Lord, she can create and control monsters at will, though she usually delegates the actual controlling to the Winged Lion due to not having much experience in it herself. Unlike Thistle, the dungeon lord before her, her monsters tend more towards strange and whimsical than realistic and pragmatic]]. |
| 228 | * BerserkButton: [[spoiler:She hates it when full-blooded elves assume that just because she's a half-elf she envies full-bloods and wants to be like them, seeing it as another example of the sort of arrogance the divide between long-lived and short-lived races fosters]]. |
| 229 | * BlackMage: Her magic is mostly combat-oriented and explosive, but she also knows healing and revival magic as well. It's hard to say if she's more of TheRedMage, or if healing magic is just more common in this world. [[spoiler:Completely fitting with the traditional term for Black Mage however, as her expertise is in incredibly dangerous and illegal Ancient Magic.]] |
| 230 | * BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: On paper, human-elf hybrids having double an ordinary elf's lifespan sounds like a win. In practice Marcille is [[WhoWantsToLiveForever deeply upset that she'll outlive all her friends and loved ones]]. Her human father lived into his eighties, but in most of her memories of him he's old and sick. She feels that he died young and is stricken with fear at every reminder that to many of the faster-lived races that's an unrealistically long life.]] |
| 231 | * BloodMagic: [[spoiler:It is later revealed this is her true specialty. She can draw from an "infinite" pool of power and perform very complex, potent ancient magic, but the spells require varying amounts of blood, are very taxing in terms of mana usage and might take a light toll on her sanity (though the latter is up for discussion since rapid mana drain tends to do this anyway).]] |
| 232 | * ButIReadABookAboutIt: It's shown a few times that while she has encyclopedic knowledge of dungeon monsters, it doesn't match up to actual experience of being in dungeons, since a lot of information in her studies tends to be outdated or incorrect. For example, it's taught that the best way to uproot a [[BrownNote mandrake]] safely is by tying it to a dog and calling the dog to you (which kills the dog), but Senshi [[MundaneSolution simply pulls the root up and cuts the head off before it has time to scream]]. It's also how she originally befriended Falin, in a magic class where they were cultivating sprite jars, Falin's sprite jar turned out to be far superior to Marcille's despite Marcille being considered the ace student, because Falin based her jar after an actual dungeon she liked to frequent, while Marcille's was completely by the book. |
| 233 | * ButtMonkey: Though all of Laios' party members tend to have moments when they suffer humorously, Marcille is the most likely to go through some manner of slapstick or hardship and generally gets wildly indignant when teased. She's usually the first to complain or get grossed out when Laios or Senshi try to cook up the next weird monster, making her one of the prime sources of comedy of the series. |
| 234 | * ChekhovsHobby: Early chapters have her offer to heal and revive people, but is always turned down in favor of just waiting for an actual healer to do the job, and she mentions knowing how to create golems. As the party makes it deeper into the dungeon she begins actively healing, [[spoiler: and golem creation is revealed to be [[TheDarkArts forbidden magic]] hinting at the [[BloodMagic dark nature of her knowledge]].]] |
| 235 | * ChildOfTwoWorlds: [[spoiler:As a half-elf, she found she had trouble fitting in with either tallmen or elves. As a child, she developed slower than tallmen, resulting in her having more childish interests than tallmen children her physical age, but she developed faster than pure elves, leaving her mentally more developed and more mature than elves her chronological age.]] |
| 236 | * TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong: In the early chapters, every time the party decides to eat something she will complain about how weird and disgusting it is, often refusing at first, only to break down and eat. She ''dislikes'' a couple of dishes such as pearl centipede but most are at least palatable to her, and after Laios she's the most likely of the party to enthuse over a food. As she gets used to it and more committed she complains less if at all, barely raising a protest when the party starts eating harpy eggs although those are demihumans. |
| 237 | * CourtMage: Her parents were both court mages for an unspecified human kingdom. [[spoiler:Laios uses his influence as newly crowned King of the Golden Kingdom to pressure the Canaries into letting Marcille stay in this role instead of being taken back to the elf kingdom to stand trial for use of dark magic. She also serves as a liaison to the kingdom of the elves.]] |
| 238 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Sports these for the back half of Chapter 65, where her confidence is shattered after being forced to stop the Dungeon Rabbits by using the animated corpses of her friends. Even after they're revived, she's still too depressed to immediately lighten up. |
| 239 | * CryIntoChest: She's prone to doing this with Laios whenever she thinks he's dead, [[DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist or he actually dies]], as seeing close friends and family die is traumatising to her. |
| 240 | * CuteClumsyGirl: She doesn't ''quite'' have the kind of grace you'd expect from an elf. |
| 241 | * TheDarkArts: [[spoiler:She dabbles in forbidden magic, believing that magic is inherently neither good nor evil, and only man can be both. Could also be terribly, terribly wrong about this - when she's using forbidden magic to cast DispelMagic on the Lunatic Magician's dragonblood minions, she starts chuckling and smiling as she's spattered with blood, bleeding from the nose, and her eyes are unclear and distant. However, those are also symptoms of large usage of mana, which BloodMagic requires, so it might just be that.]] |
| 242 | * TheDarkSideWillMakeYouForget: [[spoiler:The Winged Lion eats her desire to take care of her hair after she contracts with it.]] |
| 243 | * DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler:Makes a pact with the Winged Lion, in part to repel the attacking Canaries and save Falin, and in part to grant her wish of extending everyone's lifespan to match hers.]] |
| 244 | * DeathGlare: In a flashback to when she first meets Laios, she's polite until she realizes he's Falin's brother and glares at him, believing that he'd taken Falin away. [[spoiler: When she meets up with the party after becoming the Lord of the Dungeon she seems like herself - except that when Laios says they need to talk to the Canaries and work things out with them, Marcille ''glowers'' at him with an expression worthy of Thistle. The hostility, irritability, and propensity for BlackAndWhiteInsanity that inevitably overtakes originally well-intentioned Dungeon Masters is already taking root in her.]] |
| 245 | * {{Determinator}}: What her philosophy as revealed in Chapter 44 boils down to. She ''does not'' like eating monsters, and using magic while on her last dregs of it is utterly exhausting and painful, but she feels like if she tries to avoid every problem she comes across, she'll lose sight of her goals, so she grits her teeth and powers through. |
| 246 | * DisappearedDad: [[spoiler:Her father was a tallman. As a result, he died while she was still a young girl (although, for a human, he lived to a ripe old age). Marcille still dearly misses him and wishes they could've had more time together, and it's a primary motivator to find a way to make everyone have the same lifespan as her.]] |
| 247 | * DispelMagic: Uses this trick against [[spoiler: the Lunatic Magician, surprising herself, the party and even the wizard]], instantly destroying otherwise-invulnerable magic constructs. She is only able to do this due to the fact that both her magic and [[spoiler: the Magician's are the same type of ancient, forbidden blood magic]]. |
| 248 | * DitzyGenius: Marcille was an ace student and knows a lot about magic, but she is clumsy and her common sense fails her especially when she is panicking or under duress. In the shapeshifter chapters, she absentmindedly pours out hot water without checking what she's pouring it into, which in a previous chapter had angered an undine that nearly killed her. While making such a mistake is the [[SpottingTheThread tip-off for the other party members' imposters]], this is used to prove that ''only'' the real Marcille would make that mistake again. |
| 249 | * EntertaininglyWrong: Referring to the dungeon-wide spell that makes revival possible by binding souls to bodies, Marcille says it only applies to humans, not monsters. [[spoiler: Maybe ''most'' monster souls aren't bound, but the Red Dragon's soul was, as one of Thistle's particular favorite monsters. This means that when Marcille revived Falin using the Red Dragon's flesh, its soul was combined with hers and she was under Thistle's control.]] |
| 250 | * ExoticEyeDesigns: Her pupils are white rather than black, a trait she shares with some but not all elves. |
| 251 | * ExpressiveEars: Her ears perk and droop expressively. |
| 252 | * EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler: After she becomes Lord of the Dungeon and starts marshalling forces towards the surface, the Winged Lion puts her into an elaborate all-black costume that it says will give her courage, and that keeps her hair out of her face since it's already eaten her desire and ability to braid and tie it. She doesn't immediately remove the outfit when the rest of the party talks her down and she manages to reduce the Lion's influence. Later when her party talks about the clothing as being "weird" and something the Lion tricked her into wearing she protests that it's cute, but is self-conscious enough to remove it.]] |
| 253 | * FantasyCounterpartCulture: Based on her surname, Donato, and the types of dishes mentioned from her homeland (pasta and porchetta), it's likely that Marcille comes from the equivalent of Italy. |
| 254 | * FictionalDisability: [[spoiler: Relatively minor, but after the Winged Lion eats her desire to take care of her hair she [[StoppedCaring stops caring]] about it and it soon gets messy, sometimes trailing into her mouth as she eats. Marcille isn't upset by this, but Laios and Chilchuck are horrified, knowing how important her hair had been both magically and personally - taking it down had been a feature of her large-scale spellcasting, and she'd cut locks to use in the less-messy precursors to BloodMagic. Chilchuck combs her hair out and puts it into two braids, and she doesn't even realize that that's a childish style and resolves to just chop it all off so she doesn't have to think about managing it. In material set post-series, she always seems to have long braided hair, if often messier than her old styles, because someone's doing it for her. She also indicates that the lion ate her desire to resist her other desires, i.e. why she was growing more comfortable taking drastic measures as dungeon lord. It's unknown if this has any lasting effect]]. |
| 255 | * FishEyes: Happens to Marcille after she hears the scream of a mandrake. Fortunately it's only temporary. |
| 256 | * FriendlessBackground: [[spoiler: Due to being a half-elf growing up at a different rate from both humans and elves, she wasn't really able to have friends growing up. Tallmen peers matured into older children, while elf peers stayed young as she grew. The only playmate she had was her father.]] |
| 257 | * FriendVersusLover: This never comes up in the story proper, but the relationship chart in her character profile between her and Shuro states she is actually ''angry'' that he's courting Falin (while he in turn finds Marcille kind of scary). |
| 258 | * GenreSavvy: {{Downplayed|Trope}} as it's limited to one scenario -- when Chilchuck describes his marital issues, Marcille gives him an incredibly detailed breakdown of where he went wrong and what it looked like from his wife's perspective, all based on her favourite [[ShowWithinAShow romance novel series]]. |
| 259 | * GetOutOfJailFreeCard: At the end of the series, [[spoiler:the fact Marcille used Black Magic and temporarily became Lord of the Dungeon does hang over her head, it was not forgotten by The Canaries who were still intent on apprehending Marcille to face trial even though the world had just been saved by defeating the Winged Lion. Marcille was resigned to turn herself in after successfully seeing with her own eyes Falin was brought back to life for good this time; Laios, however, quickly used a power move as the newly appointed King of the Lost Continent to appoint Marcille as one of his royal advisors, shielding her with political immunity in his kingdom to prevent her from leaving its premises and face trial; The Canaries find his move stupid at first but Mithrun and the Elven Queen don’t protest, as by that point they really didn’t want to be concerned with such matters anymore]]. |
| 260 | * GirlyGirl: Marcille is very much a girly girl who loves [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel romance novels]], [[GirlsLoveStuffedAnimals stuffed animals]], and is typically seen in [[TrueBlueFemininity blue attire]]. Interestingly, as a result of growing up in an all-girls' school, as well as being an [[{{Elfeminate}} elf]], she seems to have an aversion to masculinity in others. She is one of the only people who ''don't'' think Laios and Falin look similar, largely because he's far more taller and rugged looking than she expected. She's also shown to prefer when Falin wears feminine outfits and dresses and is especially dismayed where, in an omake, she has her hair cut shorter (though it might also be because Falin becomes even ''more'' similar to Laios). |
| 261 | * GlassCannon: She's easily taken out and vulnerable to damage, but the strategies for many of the party's encounters basically revolve around her, and she's capable of going from complaining about food to ''golfing sea monsters out of the water.'' Not to mention, [[spoiler: when she starts using BloodMagic, she becomes capable of standing toe-to-toe with the Lunatic Magician, the creator of the dungeon, for a brief period of time before overexerting herself. Keep in mind, she's the ''only'' person in the party capable of even slowing the Magician down.]] |
| 262 | * HalfBreedAngst: [[spoiler: Marcille is visibly shaken when Thistle reveals her HalfHumanHybrid nature, even as she points out the perks of being a hybrid. Her unstable life-span and her sterility that result from her mixed lineage -- which may condemn her to a life of loneliness after all her current friends have passed -- are likely the cause of her angst. Notably, whenever someone assumes she envies full-blooded elves she firmly denies it, and never demonstrates any such inclination, even by implication. Her character profile also states that she isn't ashamed of her heritage; the only reason she doesn't mention it to others is because she thinks it's too much effort to explain]]. |
| 263 | * HalfBreedDiscrimination: [[spoiler: As a half elf, she is heavily discriminated against by elves, with the elvish court even refusing to allow half elves in their ranks, as they are seen as an untrustworthy group who hate all pure elves out jealousy of not being full blooded themselves. Ironically, Thistle and later the Canaries incorrectly assume Marcille wants the power of the dungeon to get revenge against elves or become a full blooded elf when in reality she has no such desires and really has good intentions like saving her best friend. On a lighter note Clan Dalton, the novel series that she loves, features a half-elf who she was suspicious of at first because elf media that features them at all usually portrays them as simpleminded and energetic. Instead he fits right in with the dramatic narrative and she finds him very relatable, from feeling fated never to love to not being able to wear commercial ear protectors.]] |
| 264 | * HalfHumanHybrid: It is revealed in chapter 68 to the reader (and 69 to the rest of the party) that Marcille is a half-elf with a human father. [[spoiler: Notably, unlike most examples of half-human hybrids in fiction, Marcille is stated to be sterile because of her lineage, unable to have children of her own despite the fact that her lineage also gives her the best of both worlds physically.]] |
| 265 | * HarmfulHealing: Particularly when she works fast, her healing magic sometimes hurts more than the injury that necessitated it, often making her party members reluctant to receive it. Back when Falin was a member of the party, the others universally preferred her healing magic to Marcille's, because Falin uses her magic to dull the sense of pain before healing. Marcille doesn't agree with this method, since it fiddles around with the body's functions more than absolutely necessary. |
| 266 | * HatesBeingAlone: It becomes clear that her biggest fear is being left alone after all of her friends die. Beyond the obvious element of the risk of everyone else dying in the dungeon, she is also scared of the fact that as an elf, she will long outlive everyone else due to elves living much longer than other races. [[spoiler:This fear leads to her wanting to strike a deal with the Winged Lion.]] |
| 267 | * HavingABlast: Her standard offensive spell is to conjure a localized explosion, ranging from human-sized to considerably larger. She can also use stronger versions of it with some cast time. The magic is dangerous enough to require special licensing, but can be impractical when she needs to avoid collateral damage. |
| 268 | * TheHeart: According to the ''World Guide,'' at the time she joined the party, tensions were high after their previous mage left them on bad terms, and the remaining party members were starting to question Laios's leadership. It was thanks to Marcille's efforts to befriend everyone and integrate herself into the group that they were able to mend their relationships and stay together. [[spoiler: Ironically, the whole reason Marcille was acting so friendly was to get them to lower their guards enough to spill all the not-quite-as-lurid-as-she-was-expecting details about her predecessor]]. |
| 269 | * HeroicSacrifice: It's thankfully temporary, but she takes the opportunity while her arm is bitten by a cockatrice to cast an explosion spell on its snake neck at point blank range, blowing off the snake head and giving Senshi a chance to attack the cockatrice's head before turning to stone. |
| 270 | * HiddenDepths: Marcille knows how to make soap using animal fat and she was also top of her class in magic school. [[spoiler: Even bigger is her magic specialty: ancient forbidden magic]]. |
| 271 | * HidingYourHeritage: She's only exposed as a [[spoiler:half-elf]] in the final third of the story. Although she's shaken to have Thistle throw her background in her face, and has suffered for it before, she furiously shoots down the accusation that she'd prefer not to be what she is. |
| 272 | * HybridPower: [[spoiler: Elf-human hybrids have an average lifespan of 1000 years, twice that of pure elves, but Marcille grew up in only a few decades rather than the 80 it takes a pure elf or the 160 it would take if ProportionalAging fully applied. To Marcille however, this is definitely a case of BlessedWithSuck because it means she'll outlive all her friends and loved ones.]] |
| 273 | * HybridsAreACrapshoot: On the flip side, [[spoiler: her mixed blood also comes with a variety of problems. She didn't age steadily or synchronously as a child, and she's sterile too.]] |
| 274 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 275 | ** She detests and complains about the rest of the party's bizarre and outlandish combat tactics and eating habits but she herself [[spoiler:is a specialist in forbidden blood magic, which is far more outrageous and unacceptable than simply eating something a bit weird]]. |
| 276 | ** Marcille is nosy and wants to know about Chilchuck's out-of-dungeon life, something he prefers to keep to himself. Late in the manga, the party realize that none of them know much about ''her'' life when she's not dungeon delving. [[spoiler: She hadn't told them about being a half-elf, but says it's not that she was deliberately keeping it from them, [[YouNeverAsked it just never came up]]. She did keep her interest in ancient magics quiet as it's generally forbidden.]] But she does reminisce about her father to Laios [[spoiler: after Thistle is defeated]]. |
| 277 | * ICallItVera: Named her staff Ambrosia. Apparently she handcrafted it herself over a period of years. |
| 278 | * InconsistentSpelling: Early translations spelled her name as "Marshill" or "Marsilla" before settling with "Marcille", which was later officially confirmed by the ''Explorer Guide''. |
| 279 | * InsistentTerminology: Her field of study is not dark arts! It's "ancient magic"! |
| 280 | * LettingHerHairDown: When Marcille needs to cast a high-level spell complete with a runic circle, she undoes her hair first. Apparently proper hair maintenance is key to magic usage. |
| 281 | * TheLoad: Early on, she seems to be this (and seems to fear it being the case even), what with her constant whining and complaining about eating monsters and mostly just following the party along without doing any magic. Becomes a bit justified since Senshi pretty well forbids her from using magic for a large part of the early chapters, but once she let loose... |
| 282 | * LostFoodGrievance: Perhaps because it's relatively normal food, after helping harvest vegetables from the back of a golem Marcille becomes attached to the vegetables. There are too many for the party to just take them all but she objects to the idea of just dumping them to rot. When they try to sell the vegetables to a shady third-floor tavern and the proprietor takes offense, Marcille's angry and says that those who waste food will be punished. |
| 283 | * LostPetGrievance: This is only slightly alluded to in the story proper, but one of the motivations behind her goal to eliminate the differences between lifespans, besides the passing of her father from old age, is because of the death of a beloved pet parrot named Pipi (mentioned when Laios ventures into Marcille's dreams to rescue her from a Nightmare). When [[spoiler:she becomes the dungeon lord]], she populates her abode [[ReplacementGoldfish with numerous parrots]], showing she never quite got over this personal loss. |
| 284 | * LoveFreak: She's a big romantic at heart and loves to pry into her party members' love lives. When [[spoiler:Chilchuck reveals that he's estranged from his wife]], Marcille immediately deduces the exact reasons why his wife left, why he never brought it up, and that he's not actually in trouble with her, all by using her experience with gossip and romance novels. It's to the point where the party's encounter with succubi reveals that her ideal partner is an unbelievably outlandish caricature of a romance novel hero. |
| 285 | * MagicalBarefooter: Normally Marcille wears sandals, unlike Laios or Chilchuck whose feet are entirely covered. [[spoiler: When casting ancient magic Marcille takes down her braids and removes her sandals. Her EvilCostumeSwitch after becoming lord of the dungeon also has her going barefoot.]] |
| 286 | * MagicHair: |
| 287 | ** Proper hair maintenance is a basic rule of magic, as sufficiently messy hair can interfere with it. The only times her hair isn't braided are when she sleeps or [[spoiler:when she's [[SlipknotPonytail turning to forbidden magic to revive Falin]].]] She braids and ties it into a different style each time the party rests. |
| 288 | ** [[spoiler:After the Winged Lion is defeated and everyone's preparing for the feast, it turns out that due to her DealWithTheDevil, Marcielle has not only forgotten how to braid her hair, but ''forgotten she ever did so at all''. Despite the issues it may cause her as a mage, having that desire eaten means she doesn't care. Chilchuck braids it for her out of pity, and she's delighted with the result despite it being a style better suited for a little girl, but she thinks if he's not going to keep doing it than she'll just have to cut it all off.]] |
| 289 | * MagicPants: At one point she gets turned into an Ogre, which somehow just causes her clothes to become extremely tight-fitting. This stands out because at the same time Chilchuck is turned into a Dwarf (he was previously a half-foot) and his clothes got torn lengthwise despite his change being less drastic in comparison. Knowing Marcille though, her clothes could literally be magical (especially since this is the second time this happens). |
| 290 | * AMasterMakesTheirOwnTools: She wove her personal MagicStaff in a long-term project as a researcher at mage school. This becomes a ChekhovsSkill in the Dungeon, as she can repair it with [[CraftedFromAnimals dryad wood]] when it's damaged. |
| 291 | * MayflyDecemberFriendship: Apparently one of Marcille's greatest fears is the fact that as an elf, she has a much longer lifespan than those closest to her, such as Falin. [[spoiler:It's later revealed that as a half-elf, Marcille has a projected lifespan of ''twice'' that of even elves. No matter where she goes she will outlive the vast majority of other people around her.]] |
| 292 | * TheMedic: She knows healing magic and thus is the reduced party's go-to mage for healing, but not being a cleric like Falin ensures a vastly reduced effect. Unlike Falin, she's more like a [[MeatgrinderSurgery meatgrinder surgeon]] rather than a nursing healer. She heals wounds really fast but her patients will experience extreme pain as their damaged organs, torn flesh, and cracked bones correct themselves.[[note]]It's noted in an omake that Falin is able to use magic to temporarily nullify the sense of pain while healing, but Marcille doesn't want to mess around with mental magic on people, even more so because its not her area of expertice.[[/note]] On top of that, it only heals it to immediate working order, there are quite a few shots of Laios in particular still having nasty gashes that have to recover naturally after her healing. |
| 293 | * MortalityPhobia: As the [[MayflyDecemberFriendship only elf among her friends]], she has the longest lifespan by far; her deepest fear is outliving her loved ones over and over again and her dream is to create a LongevityTreatment to equalize their lifespans. [[spoiler:The Winged Lion temporarily recruits her by promising to make it happen.]] |
| 294 | * {{Necromancer}}: After a near total-party-kill occurs against a group of [[KillerRabbit dungeon rabbits]], Marcille reveals that she's knows necromancy ...by basically turning all her dead friends into puppets that follow her movements. |
| 295 | * NoodleIncident: The first edition of the Adventurer's Guide showed a timeline of Marcille's life that left out some rather important events later covered in the manga proper, but ''did'' include that at age 13 she was "scolded for being mean to ants", and didn't clarify. A later omake, in which party members discuss what they'd been like at thirteen after hearing that Chilchuck had become a father at that age, reveals that a toddler Marcille had been observing "Mr. Ant" and tried sharing her juice with the insect, by pouring out her sippy cup. |
| 296 | * TheNotLoveInterest: Marcille fulfills several roles an actual love interest would in other works, but the story remains firmly unshaken in keeping her and Laios as just great partners who mean a lot to each other, but they are just that, and only friends otherwise. Throughout the series it is shown Marcille has been influenced by Laios in several ways, with the unintended consequences of unknowingly giving the final push to her dream of [[spoiler:making all species have the same lifespan]]; Laios himself, who never makes a single comment about any other female in the entire series, casually said to himself in a flashback prior to their adventures that he wishes to make Marcille smile more, noting she should always be happy. [[spoiler:It is also worth saying that a succubus targeting Laios takes Marcille's shape, though he [[NoSell shrugs it off]] until she [[AdmiringTheAbomination shifts into a monster.]]]] In the end, [[spoiler:Marcille and Laios spend the rest of his life together, him as King and her as one of his closest advisors, the closest they could be without becoming lovers]]. |
| 297 | * NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Not as severe as most examples, but Marcille's main way of showing affection is to glomp people. This is particularly apparent with Izutsumi once they grow close, but she'll readily hug all team members in an emotional moment. |
| 298 | * OddFriendship: |
| 299 | ** Before she even met Laios, her idea of him was already in the dumps because of Falin's stories about him (which, funny enough, Falin only ever spoke about him [[BigBrotherWorship in reverence]]). Their actual first meeting wasn't any better, since she blamed him for Falin leaving the academy and he and Falin's plan to get Marcille to see the joys of adventuring ''got Marcille killed''. Even in the present day, she is constantly exasperated by his monster obsession and lack of common sense. Despite all of this, though, Laios and Marcille share an incredibly strong bond, with one having absolute faith in the other. Before the events of the manga, Laios was the only party member besides Falin that she would regularly hang out with outside of adventuring. |
| 300 | ** She sometimes teases Chilchuck and they sometimes share an OnlySaneMan moment together. Using her knowledge of romance generally and him specifically, Marcille is also able to speculate about his wife and how his marriage crumbled with a degree of accuracy that renders him incoherent, and she badly wants to meet his family. |
| 301 | * OlderThanTheyLook: An inevitable side effect of being an elf. Laios assumed that Marcille was Falin's fellow student since they look similar in age. While Marcille did study at the same Magic Academy, by the time Falin was a student there Marcille was actually a researcher at the school. She did take part in some of Falin's classes, but as a teaching assistant moreso than a classmate. |
| 302 | * OnlySaneMan: She's the only one to point out how outlandish or dangerous Laios and Senshi's plans are. Chilchuck is more resigned and goes along with it. |
| 303 | * PointyEars: She is an elf, after all. Unlike other elves in the series, her ears have slightly rounded tips rather than being sharp [[spoiler: because she is a half-elf. (Fionil, a very low-level adventurer and minor character, also has rounded ears, and the supplementary material confirms she's also a half-elf, something that never comes up in the story)]] |
| 304 | * RitualMagic: Most of her spells can be cast on a whim, but her supremely powerful, rule breaking [[spoiler: blood magic resurrection]] requires a very complex and sinister magic circle to be drawn, [[spoiler: a large source of flesh and blood]] as well as reciting incantations in an odd tongue. |
| 305 | * SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Making a contract with the WingedLion quickly takes a toll on her sanity, much like it did with the previous Dungeon Lord. She remains friendly to her party, but becomes willing to lock them up so they won't interfere with her plans, even as she tries to give them as much comfort and friendship as possible.]] |
| 306 | * SelflessWish: Marcille believes that the differing lifespans between races forces a barrier between them, so her greatest wish is that everyone would live and age at the same pace. [[AmbiguouslyEvil The Lion]] may not have been the best person to express this wish to, however. |
| 307 | * ShipTease: Despite the Not Love Interest Trope above, there are several hints about some degree of attraction between Marcille and both Toudens. Regardless they spend the rest of their lives together, though whether she ever pairs off with Laios or Falin isn't stated. |
| 308 | * TheSmartGirl: Graduated at the top of her class. She joined an adventuring party to acquire some practical knowledge to go with her theoretical learning. Her magical knowledge regularly keeps the party ahead of the game, and lets them circumvent a lot of problems. |
| 309 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Falin is eaten on the first chapter and Namari leaves the party immediately, leaving Marcille as the sole female member of the team until Izutsumi joins roughly halfway through the story. |
| 310 | * SquishyWizard: Nearly as frail as Chilchuck, and with none of the agility to compensate, her Constitution is a mere 2/5 and the party is forced to move at her pace and often rest, so that she doesn't hurt herself pressing on. However, she is a high class offensive spellcaster and can reliably oneshot lots of opponents with ease once she's protected. The fact that the party actually needs monster corpses to be in a decent state for consumption does limit her usage of the most destructive spells though. |
| 311 | * SummonBiggerFish: [[spoiler:As Dungeon Lord, one of her powers is to create monsters. When the Winged Lion informs her that her friends are being attacked by familiars controlled by the Canaries, she creates the Couatl, arguably the ''biggest'' fish in the entire dungeon, to take care of it and retrieve her friends]]. |
| 312 | * UndignifiedDeath: Despite all her magical expertise and power, her first death came when a lowly slime monster dropped on her face and asphyxiated her. |
| 313 | * WalkOnWater: One of her available spells. Absolutely key in Level 4 due to the presence of a large lake and water monsters. |
| 314 | * WeAreAsMayflies: Nearly everyone around her is short lived in comparison, due to elves having very long lifespans [[spoiler:and half-elves much more so]]. Throughout the story, she is troubled by the fact that she'll outlive those close to her who aren't elves and [[spoiler:it eventually leads her to make a deal with the demon in charge of the dungeon in hopes of making all beings' lifespans equal.]] |
| 315 | * WhenSheSmiles: Marcille smiles readily in the 'present day', but in a flashback to her first arrival on the island she's far more aloof at best, smiling politely at Laios before realizing that he's the one who "took Falin away". During her first dungeon delve she was focused and intent, and quite dismissive of Falin's desire to stay. Then she was killed by a slime and revived, at which point she was thrilled and excited by this experience with ancient magic, beaming as she says "Fantastic!" |
| 316 | * WhoWantsToLiveForever: [[spoiler:Downplayed, as she won't live forever, but still a ''very'' long time. As a half-elf, she has a life expectancy of a full millennium, twice that of a full-blooded elf, which is already the longest-lived of races. She views it as more of a curse though, as it means she will vastly outlive everyone she's ever loved, motivating her to find a way to make ''everyone'' live to one-thousand.]] |
| 317 | * WorfHadTheFlu: She is a powerful mage with access to some of the most powerful magic in the setting. However, she is limited by the circumstances most of the time. She can't use more explosive or destructive spells because they need the monsters relatively intact to eat them, and [[spoiler:her blood magic requires intricate ritual to perform and can't be cast in the middle of combat]]. |
| 318 | * WrongContextMagic: [[spoiler: Her actual speciality is ancient blood magic, later revealed to be full blown ''demon magic''. It allows for advanced spellcasting and breaking the usual hard rules the normal schools of magic have, including an extremely high level form of resurrection and necromancy. However, this comes with its own slew of issues, such as very long or difficult casting styles and soulmeld.]] |
| 319 | [[/folder]] |
| 320 | |
| 321 | [[folder:Chilchuck]] |
| 322 | !!True Name -- Chilchuck Tims |
| 323 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Asuna Tomari (Japanese), Creator/CaseyMongillo (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Thomas Sagols (French), Sofia Farida (Indonesian), Diego Becerril (Latin American Spanish), Carlos Fanselow (German)[[/labelnote]] |
| 324 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_chilchuck.png]] |
| 325 | ->'''Age:''' 29 years old\ |
| 326 | '''Gender:''' Male\ |
| 327 | '''Race:''' Half-foot\ |
| 328 | '''Birthplace:''' Eastern Continent\ |
| 329 | '''Family:''' Mother, wife, older brother & sister, 2 younger brothers, 3 daughters\ |
| 330 | '''Height:''' Around 110cm / 3'7"\ |
| 331 | '''BMI:''' 18\ |
| 332 | '''Likes:''' Alcoholic beverages (in particular, ale)\ |
| 333 | '''Dislikes:''' Sweet side dishes |
| 334 | |
| 335 | A half-foot rogue and master lockpicker with very advanced knowledge of traps and their mechanisms. While he says he prefers not to mix his private life with his work, he is a good friend of Laios and follows him to rescue Falin. He is not as enthusiastic about eating monsters, and might be grossed out over some species, but usually agrees and enjoys eating the well made monster dishes. |
| 336 | ---- |
| 337 | * AbsurdlyYouthfulMother: Gender-flipped. He's 29 years old with ''three'' independent children, and had his first one at the age of 13. It's justified due to ProportionalAging, as half-foots are [[ShortLivedOrganism the race with the shortest average lifespan]] in the series' setting--they're considered adults at 14, so he was basically in his late teens (still rather young to be a parent). Marcille was downright horrified by how quickly Chilchuck became a father (she was still a toddler at 13). |
| 338 | * TheAlcoholic: A heavy drinker, although he doesn't let it interfere with his job. One Daydream Hour sketch shows him as drinking buddies with Namari, a [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame dwarf]]. His father died of drink, but Chilchuck feels going out doing what you love isn't so bad. |
| 339 | * AngerBornOfWorry: Gets pretty damn pissed off at Laios's insistence on continuing deeper, despite [[spoiler: the party being very worn down in every possible sense after the fight with the Lunatic Magician]]. However, Chilchuck is simply worried about losing his friends. |
| 340 | * AnnoyingArrows: Chilchuck is not a strong person, nor a fighter of any sort as he'll often remind people. Even when using his bow it does little more than slightly chip some ice, with the implication that its primary use from him has always been to just point out weaknesses he spots. |
| 341 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: He's the party's expert on all things pertaining traps and the like. Later, he deduces the logic behind the MobileMaze of the dungeon's fifth level and leads the party straight to the exit. |
| 342 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: Played with. Chilchuck is treated this way by the rest of the party because of how young he appears, much to his annoyance. In reality, he's actually older than Laios, and arguably the most mature member of the party, though Senshi and Marcille still consider him a baby because of the long lifespans of their respective species. |
| 343 | * BadassAdorable: Expert thief and capable of ''[[spoiler: nailing the dragon in the eye with a thrown mythril chef's knife]]'', all while looking like a cute, 12yr old boy. [[spoiler: Hilarity ensues when [[TheReveal he finally admits his age of 28]], making him essentially the oldest member comparatively due to the average lifespan of a half-foot being about 50]]. |
| 344 | * BerserkButton: |
| 345 | ** Not following his orders when it comes to traps, due to the nature of how they work and can go off in tandem - which usually results in him getting killed. |
| 346 | ** To a lesser extent, being treated like a kid will annoy the piss out of him. [[spoiler:Considering he's a middle-aged man (by the standards of his species, anyway) and a father of three, the anger is pretty justified.]] |
| 347 | * BoyfriendBlockingDad: |
| 348 | ** One side comic has Chilchuck telling the rest of the party about his daughters, one of whom is actively looking for a dwarf boyfriend. When he sees Senshi smiling along with the others at the idea of one day all having dinner together, he angrily tells Senshi that he's not allowed to go near his daughters (accompanied by an ImagineSpot of two of his daughters demanding to meet him while the third looks completely disinterested). |
| 349 | ** In a post-series omake, [[spoiler: he and his daughters are invited to a dinner party at the castle. When Fullertom starts feeling self-conscious that she doesn't have a boyfriend to bring with her, Chilchuck reassures her that everyone attending the party is still single. Realising that this means ''the king'' is single too, she and Packpatty both get excited at the prospect of marrying into royalty, while Chilchuck, horrified by the thought of Laios becoming his son-in-law, yells at them to stop whatever they're planning]]. |
| 350 | * CharacterDevelopment: At first Chilchuck was very honest about his idea that a party is merely a temporary job, forming real friendships and opening up your personal life was unnecessary, one should just stick to their role in the group by doing their jobs properly; he breaks out of his shell as the series progresses, Chilchuck opens himself to the party, bonding with them. His development is then put on display when Izutsumi joins the party, her initial distant and sometimes uncooperative behavior puts Chilchuck at odds with her at first. |
| 351 | * ConsummateProfessional: Chilchuck is very business-minded. He started a union for half-foot adventurers and refuses to take a job unless paid upfront (and as a result, refuses to ''leave'' a party until the job is done). He holds no grudge towards Namari for not rejoining the party because he understands that adventuring is a business where word can get around jeopardize your future prospects if she was come to be known an adventurer that swapped parties haphazardly. |
| 352 | * CunningLinguist: His profile mentions that he knows how to speak several languages. |
| 353 | * EveryonesBabySister: Senshi treats him like a young child, despite him being an adult, much to his displeasure. At one point, Senshi even tried to teach him about "pistil and stamen", which horrifies Chilchuck. |
| 354 | * DeadpanSnarker: When one of his teammates screw up, he'll be the first to call them an idiot. Usually the victim is [[CloudCuckoolander Laios]], but Marcille's whining and Senshi's lack of logic get their fair share too. |
| 355 | * DrivenToSuicide: Sort of. [[spoiler:When the Winged Lion has seemingly won and everyone on Earth is being devoured by demons, Chilchuck screams that he's going to grab onto one of the demon hands snatching people up and be devoured, because it's preferable to being left behind as one of the last humans on Earth. The Winged Lion stops him though, since one of the mandates of Laios' deal with it was that no harm could come to his party members.]] |
| 356 | * GenerationXerox: His oldest daughter, Mayjack, is the spitting image of him. Besides looking like Chilchuck with braids, she is also a practicing locksmith/lockpick and he would have recommended her to join the team in case anything would have happened to him. |
| 357 | * HasAType: When the party is attacked by succubi (monsters which take the form of something irresistibly alluring to their prey), all of them that target Chilchuck have long, blonde hair, leading Marcille to guess that his wife also has blonde hair. In supplemental material it was revealed that actually, like their second daughter, his wife has black hair. |
| 358 | * InsultingFromBehindTheLanguageBarrier: At one point lapses into an unknown number of languages to insult Laios for [[spoiler: hiding the fact that Kensuke is part of a living armour]], because, according to him, the common tongue doesn't have an appropriate insult to describe how stupid that was. |
| 359 | * {{Irony}}: He looks like a kid or teen and Marcille and Senshi sometimes treat him like one, but he is surprisingly protective of the rest of the team, usually has the most mature and levelheaded words and is the most socially adept by a mile. [[spoiler:He's also the only one in the party who has actually gotten married and had kids.]] |
| 360 | * ItsAllMyFault: After [[spoiler:the battle with the Red Dragon]], he mentions that he hadn't stuck with the party the rest might have given up early rather than risking their lives. |
| 361 | * JerkassFacade: He's very private, and would rather people assume the worst about him than open up about his true motives. [[spoiler: Other Half-foots on the island consider him a greedy old man who created the guild to take a cut of their money and he doesn't bother telling them that he did it to keep them safe because other races often treat Half-foots as expendable. He tells Marcille that he's divorced because he cheated on his wife, when in reality they're just estranged because of his unwillingness to open up to her]]. |
| 362 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In one chapter he constantly complained about how the party's behavior will get them all killed someday and how he is willing to lie to them so they won't make him go further. But then he got speechless when it's pointed out he just didn't want his friends to die. He has a habit of pretending that his motives are darker than they actually are, such as claiming that he only stuck with the party to get paid when he's clearly more worried about his friends' safety, or [[spoiler:pretending that he cheated on his wife to hide the fact that he doesn't know why she left him]]. |
| 363 | * KnightInSourArmor: This is the reasoning behind him being OnlyInItForTheMoney. He sees people who claim to work for free as the least deserving of trust as there is nothing in place to ensure it, and the way things are set up for adventurers jumping from one job to the next based solely on pay and not completion is the fastest way to end up with no jobs other than potentially criminal ones. Things just do not work out well for anyone but those who approach the matter as anything other than employment. |
| 364 | * TheLancer: He more or less fits this role to Laios's leader, having a good mix of common sense (which Laios and Senshi lack) but also tolerance (which Marcille lacks) and his advice is usually the one best considered by both Laios and Marcille. Additionally, any order pertaining his area of expertise is taken with utter obedience and respect. |
| 365 | * LargeRunt: Inverted. He's a half-foot, which are the shortest of the races and he barely comes up above Laios's waist, but it's shown and told in concept sketches he's actually tall for a half-foot. A supplementary sketch notes that if all of the party members were half-foots, he'd be the tallest. Notably, his height causes some issues with his trap-detecting specialty, because he's ''almost'' heavy enough to set off traps. Even carrying a full skin of water tips him over, as when he gets trapped with a mimic. Chilchuck has to constantly watch his weight (which he becomes less good at after [[SupremeChef Senshi]] started cooking the party's meals). |
| 366 | * TheLightfooted: He keeps himself underweight so he's too light to set off [[BoobyTrap pressure plates]]. He's also fast and nimble in a fight, not least since he can't do much except dodge. |
| 367 | * LovableCoward: Downplayed. Before facing the dragon, Chilchuck remarks that it'll be hard to take it down with just three people (Laios, Marcille, and Senshi), as he himself has no intention of fighting it. This is less about fear, and more about knowing that his skillset does not involve fighting giant monsters, and as a union man he is not doing more than he is paid for. |
| 368 | * MistakenForRelated: It's never brought up in the main story, but in Senshi's journal, he says he was under the impression that Chilchuck was Laios' younger brother (as it took a while for Senshi to understand that half-foots aren't just tallmen children). |
| 369 | * NonActionGuy: As a half foot he's smaller and not as strong or tough as other races, so his expertise lies in disarming traps and picking locks rather than fighting. Whenever an actual fight breaks out his move is usually to retreat to keep out from underfoot. He can throw a knife with great accuracy but this requires being dangerously close to an enemy. Chilchuck had a bow that got left behind in the first fight with the Red Dragon and doesn't replace it on the surface - he has good aim, but rather than inflicting damage his archery skill is only really good for highlighting large enemies' weak spots for the rest of the party's benefit. |
| 370 | * OddFriendship: He likes to tease Marcille and they're often the OnlySaneMan together whenever something they find ridiculous is happening. Much as Chil would deny it, he does clearly care about her. In an omake after she admires his fantasy fanny pack and demands to know where he got it, he haggles the vendor's price down for her. |
| 371 | * OlderThanTheyLook: He's 28, but since he's a [[{{Hobbits}} half-foot]] one can't know from looks alone, being evocative of a kid or teenager. This surprises Laios, but to [[LongLived Marcille and Senshi]] he's still basically as young as he looks. By [[ProportionalAging half-foot standards]], he'd be considered middle-aged and his profile in The Adventurer's Bible says he's the equivalent of a 50-year-old human. [[spoiler:He is even married with three daughters, all old enough to live on their own, though he hasn't seen them in a while due to circumstances. When he’s turned into a human, his appearance better fits his actual age. Marcille and Senshi, who hadn't fully grasped that he was an adult, were a bit disturbed by the drastic difference.]] |
| 372 | * OneLastJob: Sort of. Before meeting Laios, he was planning on retiring from dungeoneering and becoming a locksmith. However, he felt that no other half-foots had as much experience as he did with the deeper areas of the dungeon and agreed to join up with Laios's group. |
| 373 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: He ''says'' that his only reason for following Laios and Marcille back into the dungeon is that he agreed to complete the 'job' and was paid in advance; since they didn't slay the Red Dragon, his job isn't complete, and he's bound to Laios via his own terms. In truth, he values the party as more or less his closest friends, but he has a lot of trouble showing affection. |
| 374 | * OnlySaneMan: ''Usually''. Marcille says he's normally the most level-headed person in the group, but he's not above having a FreakOut on occasion (usually due to [[CloudCuckoolander Laios's behavior]]). |
| 375 | * {{Protectorate}}: As one of the oldest and most experienced half-foots on the island Chilchuck sees himself as responsible for others of his race, to the extent that he formed a trade union for them as well as looking out for their welfare in general. |
| 376 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After he learns that [[spoiler:killing the Red Dragon]] put a giant target on his and the party's backs, he briefly tries to find some way to trick Laios and Marcille into giving up on Falin and leaving the dungeon for their own good. |
| 377 | * SenseLossSadness: Inverted; when he's briefly turned into a tallman by an encounter with changelings, Chilchuck notes that his senses all seem dulled and actually finds it relaxing. |
| 378 | * SirSwearsALot: Downplayed. He doesn't use particularly vulgar words, but is prone in insulting others, sometimes in various languages. He even claims to have a notoriously foul mouth. |
| 379 | * StopBeingStereotypical: It's stated in his character profile he dislikes when half-foots use their cute and child-like appearances to try and manipulate people of other races, either to gain their trust or ultimately deceive them, because it just continues discriminatory prejudices of their race. |
| 380 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: An {{omake}} shows that his eldest daughter Mayjack looks almost exactly like a gender-flipped version of himself, differentiated only by her freckles and messy, braided hair. |
| 381 | * SuperSenses: As a half-foot, he has extremely acute hearing, which helps him detect enemies from a distance, detect trap mechanisms, and analyze dungeons by their acoustics. |
| 382 | * SurefootedBarefooter: Takes off his boots while navigating trapped floors, both because since he's big for a half-foot he's almost heavy enough to set them off and to better feel the terrain out. |
| 383 | * SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: He's so terrified of the Canaries suspecting his group that he tells them that they are ''normal'' adventurers who perform ''normal'' magic and have done nothing to warrant torture, to the Canaries' confusion. [[HypocriticalHumor This is just after he says he wants to make sure Laios doesn't blab.]] |
| 384 | * {{Tsundere}}: Platonically, for the rest of the party. He can be a bit of a jerk and has a temper, but most of it is due to concern and he genuinely cares. [[{{Deconstruction}} However, it's also this attitude]] that was what [[spoiler: caused his wife to become estranged from him, since his jerkish facade and tendency to avoid showing outward affection made her question if he really loved her]]. |
| 385 | * ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: He throws Senshi's [[spoiler: mithril]] knife - the only weapon that so far had any success - with perfect accuracy and ''devastating results'' into [[spoiler: the eye of the Red Dragon]]. This move is a key factor in the victory, but he gets taken out of commission soon thereafter. |
| 386 | * UtilityPartyMember: While Chilchuck can use a bow, he's primarily the party's picklock and trap dismantler. He also has very sensitive hearing, which helps him detect threats early and warn the rest of the party, and generally tries to keep out of fights where possible. |
| 387 | * WeirdTradeUnion: After barely escaping an incident early in his career when a group who'd hired him planned to use him as succubus food, he founded a guild of half-foot adventurers, of which he's still the chairman. Some half-foots such as Mikbell work independently, however, due to both not trusting Chilchuck and/or not wanting to abide by the bylaws of a guild. |
| 388 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He detests mimics, which have killed him several times in the past and are very difficult to deal with, so when he notices one he of course ends of screwed. Due to the nature of his job he can recognize them easily, but he is not infallible. Much to his annoyance - as a master lockpicker and trap disabler - many parties expect him to open and deal with mimics, which is almost always a supremely dangerous waste of time. |
| 389 | * TheWorldIsJustAwesome: Although at first horrified when Senshi tries to give him TheTalk by explaining the details of plant reproduction to him, judging the way he contemplates the Jack-o'Lantern fruit at the end, he seems to have come away from it with a new appreciation for the complexity of life. |
| 390 | * YourSizeMayVary: How short he is changes slightly between chapters. Sometimes he looks to be about chest-level to Laios, but other times only barely comes up to his waist. |
| 391 | [[/folder]] |
| 392 | |
| 393 | [[folder:Falin ('''Unmarked Spoilers''')]] |
| 394 | !!True Name -- Falin Touden |
| 395 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/SaoriHayami (Japanese), Creator/LisaReimold (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Valérie Bachère (French), Melati Pertiwi Putri (Indonesian), Georgina Sanchez (Latin American Spanish), Milena Rybiczka (German)[[/labelnote]] |
| 396 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_falin.png]] |
| 397 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her chimera form]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/falin_chimera.png]] [[/labelnote]] |
| 398 | ->'''Age:''' 23 years old\ |
| 399 | '''Gender:''' Female\ |
| 400 | '''Race:''' Tallman (later beastkin)\ |
| 401 | '''Birthplace:''' Northern Continent\ |
| 402 | '''Family:''' Father, mother, older brother (Laios)\ |
| 403 | '''Height:''' Around 170cm / 5'7"\ |
| 404 | '''BMI:''' 24\ |
| 405 | '''Likes:''' Fruits, cream\ |
| 406 | '''Dislikes:''' Nothing in particular |
| 407 | |
| 408 | Laios' younger sister, she [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] herself to save the rest of the party and is subsequently eaten by the Red Dragon, kickstarting the plot. Before being eaten, she was a skilled mage and cleric and Team Touden's main healer. She and Laios are very close and she's also close to Marcille, who she attended school with. After they finally find the Red Dragon and kill it, she's on the verge of permanent death, to which Marcile uses dark magic to revive her using meat from the dragon, causing her to transform into a draconic chimera under the control of the Lunatic Magician, providing the new main purpose for continuing through the dungeon to put her down. |
| 409 | ---- |
| 410 | * AnimalsHateHer: 'Hate' is a strong word but one of the "[[AllThereInTheManual Daydream Hour]]" books reveals that the dogs owned by the Touden family didn't really respect Falin, frequently knocking her down and biting her things. One illustration shows one of the dogs thinking of the hierarchy of the family [[ButtMonkey with Falin at the very bottom, below two other dogs.]] After she's revived, Kensuke senses the Red Dragon in her and skitters out of her hands. |
| 411 | * AwesomeButImpractical: Laios comes to think of her chimera form this way. She's winged but can't actually fly, there's enormous stress on her rearranged organs, she can't survive out of the dungeon and can barely move even on the first floor where the mana is relatively thin, she has to eat constantly or always feel on the verge of starvation, her vocal chords are compressed so that even before getting a SlashedThroat she could barely speak... There's even a gas sac such as used by the Red Dragon to fuel fire breath, but she doesn't have its ability to ignite it. |
| 412 | * BackFromTheDead: She's resurrected by Marcille using forbidden magic combined with dragon meat in order to reform her completely, as only her bones were left after the Red Dragon digested her. In the finale, after most of the dragon's spirit has been neutralized, Marcille resurrects her again with help from the gnomes and elves. |
| 413 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: She is normally very kind and even tempered. But during an epilogue chapter, when she, Laios, and Marcille get surprised by a cockatrice, she, without any prompting, proceeds to bludgeon the cockatrice to death as Laios and Marcille just watch. She reverts back to her normal demeanor immediately after. However, that fierce behavior, opting for a relentless physical attack is implied to be part of Falin’s new and intrinsic remaining Red Dragon nature within her. |
| 414 | * BigBrotherWorship: Falin absolutely adores her brother. Whenever she speaks of him to others, it's always in high regard, and when she found Laios impoverished and destitute in a caravan, she quit school on the spot to support him. |
| 415 | * BigEater: Justified. In her chimera form, she only has her human mouth as a way to eat, but her body is massive, which means she's constantly malnourished and has to be munching on something all the time to get enough nutrients to do anything. The party eventually weaponizes this to defeat her, luring her away from the Lunatic Magician with a massive plate of curry and letting Laios get the drop on her during the resulting FoodComa. |
| 416 | * BloodFromTheMouth: When she's revived, flesh and blood from the red dragon flow over her bones to replace the digested parts of her body, and she has to cough up quite a lot of blood from her airway. It doesn't cause her any harm. |
| 417 | * BodyHorror: Falin's transformation into a monstrous dragon chimera is pretty icky, involving a lot of liquefying dragon flesh. When complete she's been fused at the waist, centaur style, to a giant dragon/harpy type body. Everyone is horrified...except [[NightmareFetishist Laios]], who naturally thinks she looks awesome. |
| 418 | * CameBackStrong: |
| 419 | ** After being resurrected with dragon meat through forbidden magic, Falin should not have had much, if any mana at all. Despite this, she was not only able to drop a protection spell strong enough to leave Senshi undamaged from a point blank gas explosion, she did so instantly, without any incantation or preparation whatsoever. |
| 420 | ** The "Kensuke" epilogue story has Falin beat a cockatrice into submission with her mace, implying that her second resurrection has made her more aggressive and physically stronger. |
| 421 | * CameBackWrong: |
| 422 | ** Chilchuck suspects her to be this, since he doesn't like the forbidden magic Marcille used to resurrect her. Also, the fact that the living sword hides itself and jumps out of Falin's hands might be a hint. This is confirmed later, since resurrecting her with the Red Dragon's flesh causes its soul to be mixed up with hers and puts her under Thistle's control, leading her to attack her former party not long afterwards. |
| 423 | ** When she is later resurrected again in the final chapter, she comes back with most of her body still covered in feathers, as well as pointed cainines and draconic eyes. More feathers have grown in in an epilogue chapter and supplementary art. However, in this case it's more downplayed since she's otherwise completely human, she's fine with it, and in fact thinks it's pretty cool. |
| 424 | * CarryABigStick: Her magic is evocative of a fantasy cleric and she needs to defend herself physically in the dungeon, so her "MagicStaff" is actually a metal mace. |
| 425 | * ChildProdigy: As a child, she was capable of taking on a spirit with no training whatsoever while resisting possession and communicating with it. A rare trait that set her towards the path of being a cleric when combined with her endless compassion. |
| 426 | * ClothingReflectsPersonality: It never comes up in the story, but some supplementary sketches showing her wearing modern clothing shows she strongly prefers masculine/unisex clothing and finds feminine clothing like dresses, skirts, and short shorts to be uncomfortable or embarrassing to wear, reflecting her lack of any sort of stereotypically feminine personality traits (further shown in a supplementary comic where she finds putting on make-up is too much effort). |
| 427 | * CooldownHug: Falin is invaluable on the third floor where the spirits are. She can spell the party to be untouchable by ghosts, and when encountering unluckier adventurers possessed by said ghosts, Falin can exorcise them with nothing but a hug and an apology. |
| 428 | * CuteLittleFangs: At the end of the story, she still has a small portion of the Red Dragon's soul and flesh, which, among other features, gives her small pointy fangs. |
| 429 | * CuteMonsterGirl: Even as a big dragon-harpy creature, she's still quite adorable and expressive. The monster half is all fluffy and feathery. |
| 430 | * DamselInDistress: The story is driven by Laios and the others trying to rescue her from the depths of the dungeon after she's eaten by the Red Dragon. They partly succeed, but in the process of resurrecting her, Falin's soul is mixed with the dragon's, and this allows the Mad Sorcerer to turn Falin into a chimera, so now Laios and the others have to rescue Falin ''again'' and also find a way to turn her back into a human. |
| 431 | * DontThinkFeel: Falin's approach to magic. It works really well for her, but it turns out that it isn't the best method for ''teaching'' magic, at least when it comes to trying to teach her brother. Laios had little success learning from her, but picks up some basics from Marcille and her more analytical approach fairly quickly. |
| 432 | * EpicFlail: A single-panel flashback showed her swinging a flail while she chased after Laios who was charmed by a kelpie. |
| 433 | * EyesAlwaysShut: Her eyes are almost always closed, highlighting her relaxed nature, though they do occasionally open when she gets intense. The ''World Guide'' says it's because she's nearsighted and squinting constantly. When she's turned into a chimera she gains the dragon's superior eyesight and doesn't squint as often. |
| 434 | * FaceMonsterTurn: Because she's revived using dragon flesh, Thistle is able to command her as if she's the dragon, and mutates her into a dragon chimera with harpy-like feathers. While the characters speculate that she'll be back to her normal personality without Thistle's commands, even after Thistle is deposed as lord of the dungeon Marcille doesn't revive her, so we don't see until the final chapter, where she's NotQuiteBackToNormal. |
| 435 | * FacialDialogue: After Kabru cuts her throat, she no longer speaks out loud but is very expressive facially and with her hands to the Lunatic Magician, not that he pays attention. |
| 436 | * GodzillaThreshold: It's established much later in the story (and further clarified in supplementary material) that her teleporting the party to the surface in the first chapter was this. It's insanely risky due to being a very advanced spell she's never performed before, has a high-risk of fatal TeleFrag, and she doesn't even have the certification to perform that sort of spell (since she's a dropout from the Magic Academy), so she could've been arrested had someone seen the party teleport back up, but given that a TotalPartyKill was imminent, it was that or everyone being KilledOffForReal (they were so deep in the dungeon it's very unlikely they would've been found by any corpse hunters). |
| 437 | * HeroicSacrifice: Setting off the events of the manga, in the first chapter she shoves Laios out of the way of the dragon's attack and teleports the party to safety while clutched in its jaws. |
| 438 | * TheHeart: She was this to Team Touden, being the peacemaker between party members who otherwise disliked each other, particularly for [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} her brother]], [[ChildhoodFriends Marcille]] and [[HeartbrokenBadass Shuro]]. Her death is the reason why Namari and Shuro leave Team Touden in the first place. |
| 439 | * InconsistentSpelling: Before "Falin" was officially confirmed by the ''Explorer Guide'', "Farlyn" was one other translation of her name. |
| 440 | * {{Irony}}: Falin's latent magical ability made her a pariah of her village. By the end of the story, despite becoming monstrous as a result of the Red Dragon's soul still lingering within hers, she's never been ''more'' accepted by others, with everyone the Touden Party has met in their journey eagerly awaiting when she comes back to life. |
| 441 | * JustFriends: Regarding Shuro. She knows he's in love with her, but she just doesn't feel the same way about him, and is only considering his proposal because she isn't sure if she'll ever get another. |
| 442 | * LittleBitBeastly:At the end of the manga, her final resurrection has her human again, albeit with slit pupils, small fangs, and her midsection still covered in feathers. Supplementary material has the feathers spread up her chest to her neck as well. |
| 443 | * LuminescentBlush: She has a perpetual one. One of the side comics shows that she has been prone to blushing her entire life and once asked Marcille to help her buy makeup that could be used to cover it, though it ended up being more trouble than it was worth. |
| 444 | * TheLostLenore: To Shuro and, to a more platonic extent, Marcille. |
| 445 | * TheMedic: Way more proficient than Marcille in healing magic. |
| 446 | * MergerOfSouls: She's resurrected using enough red dragon flesh that the dragon's soul is also joined to hers, allowing Thistle to control her as if she were the dragon. However, the souls aren't completely, evenly mixed together, so by eating the dragon flesh before resurrecting her again, she's almost entirely Falin with only a light tinge of dragon. |
| 447 | * MixAndMatchWeapon: Although she's one of the party's mages, she doesn't have a magic-only staff like Marcille, she has a mace which can be used to conjure spells, as well as being a bludgeoning weapon. |
| 448 | * MoreThanMindControl: When she's revived the Red Dragon's soul is comingled with hers. Thistle, able to command the Red Dragon, is then able to control her, and she faces his enemies like the dragon would have, without any sign of internal struggle or any attempts to talk things out, even when those enemies include her old party. ''Outside'' of battle she still has some degree of her old personality, healing Thistle unbidden and offering to share food with him, then indignant when he takes her whole handful of berries instead of the two she wanted to give him. |
| 449 | * NakedOnRevival: Unlike other resurrections in the story, she comes back naked in Chapter 27 because her clothes had already been digested with her body and there wasn't time to move her remains to the surface. It's played for drama -- especially where the anime shows more of her body messily congealing out of liquid flesh -- but her companions are too emotional to care until she complains about the cold. |
| 450 | * NatureLover: Enjoys spending time outside and finding interesting things like bugs. |
| 451 | * NightmareFetishist: Falin isn't ''as'' monster-crazy as her brother, but she's not far behind, treating it with complete and gleeful enthusiasm. She's more interested in normal animals than Laios is. Shuro falls in love with her after seeing her intensely and happily examine a caterpillar. |
| 452 | * NoodleImplements: Her character profile states she carries random items like unidentified leaves and a snakeskin around with her. Whether they're actual magical items or just sentimental knickknacks is left intentionally unexplained. |
| 453 | * NoSell: Kabru slashes her throat and brutally stabs her in her lungs, kidneys, and heart. It does nothing but piss her off and [[TheyKilledKennyAgain add to Kabru's death count]]. |
| 454 | * NoSocialSkills: To a lesser extent than Laios. While a kind and gentle person, she never fit in at school due to her odd habits, and as a child Laios doesn't think she even noticed that her home village was ostracizing her for fear of her magic. In later flashbacks it does seem like she ''noticed'', but didn't have hard feelings about it the way her brother did and even still keeps in contact with their parents, who she believes were just clumsily doing their best. However, in the period between Laios leaving and her befriending Marcille at magic school she didn't have any friends. |
| 455 | * NotQuiteBackToNormal: It's necessary to leave a portion of dragon on Falin's lower body so the resurrectionists have some meat to reconstruct her with. This results in both some draconic physical features (which she loves) and a bit of her soul still consisting of red dragon (which she also seems cool with). |
| 456 | * OnlyFriend: She was Laios' only true friend for most of his life because his [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} odd personality]] tends to annoy almost everyone else. |
| 457 | * ParentsAsPeople: After her ability to see spirits and use magic manifested as a child, the villagers became cold and harsh. Laios sees their parents as having been somewhere between neglectful and abusive. Falin, knowing more of the context, tells it differently; where Laios remembers their father saying Falin would have to leave the village, Falin knows he went to see a mage who advised sending her to a magic school to control her powers and just thinks he didn't have the "composure" to properly explain. Their mother was upset and tried cutting Falin's hair, bathing her in herbs, and an improvised exorcism that all in all Laios was shocked by but Falin thinks of as fun. She doesn't bear any resentment towards them, believing they tried their best. |
| 458 | * PlotTriggeringDeath: It's her sacrifice that saves the party and inspires Laios, Marcille, and Chilchuck to delve into the dungeon in a hurry. An interesting spin on the trope, since the party is quick to accept that she died in the process; it's resurrecting her that is their goal. However, they have to do it quickly before her body is digested to the point of being unrecoverable. |
| 459 | * PosthumousCharacter: An interesting varation. While Falin almost certainly died by getting eaten by the Red Dragon, if not shortly after, the party's goal is to rescue and resurrect her. Until then, she figuratively haunts the characters and narrative, with much of her own personality being shown through flashbacks or other characters' relationships with her. Even after she is resurrected, she spends only a chapter as herself before she is transformed into a mindless chimera under the thrall of the Lunatic Magician, then later killed and frozen in a block ice until she is permanently resurrected in the final chapter. |
| 460 | * QuietingTheUnquietDead: Falin's specialty (besides healing) is in compassionately putting TheUndead back to rest. She even had a job lined up as a gravekeeper after graduating from school, if she hadn't decided to join Laios as an adventurer instead. |
| 461 | * SharedFamilyQuirks: In personality she's basically Laios if he was dialed down a notch or two. She's kind and cheerful but not as blithe as Laios; she has interests others find strange but isn't as obsessive as Laios; she has similar difficulties with making friends as Laios but is better than him at picking up various social cues; and most notably she has zero problems with eating monsters. |
| 462 | * TheSecretOfLongPorkPies: |
| 463 | ** She's pretty much exactly like her brother Laios in this regard. Her response to the fact Laios and Co. had to eat monsters to survive is "A-amazing!!" and she even asks if they ate any merfolk outright! |
| 464 | ** She's also the first person to bite into the red dragon's meat when everyone else is having last-minute misgivings about eating something that had eaten her. |
| 465 | ** She's on the receiving end in the finale, where Laios gets everyone in the dungeon to cut up and feed on her chimera half in order to properly revive her. |
| 466 | * SimplifiedSpellcasting: When she's resurrected with dragon flesh, she's so saturated with magic that she can use powerful spells in an instant without even speaking the incantation. |
| 467 | * SlashedThroat: Receives one from Kabru. It's not lethal to her, but where before she spoke a little and with difficulty as her chimera vocal chords were compressed, afterwards even when there's no mark of injury she doesn't say anything until she's revived a second time and her throat is restructured. |
| 468 | * StrongFamilyResemblance: It's shown in some {{Omake}}s that if Falin were a man or had Laios' hairstyle, she would be a dead-ringer for him. In Senshi's journal, he remarks that she and Laios look identical, and other characters remark on their similarity, mostly people of other races who aren't used to seeing tallmen. |
| 469 | * SuperStrength: |
| 470 | ** As a chimera she possesses the monstrous strength and weight to smash through rock and crush humans with ease. Even disregarding her monstrous size, her human half is able to easily NeckLift and then NeckSnap Daya with little effort, which is even more notable because Daya is a dwarf which are much stronger and tougher than tallmen. |
| 471 | ** Once resurrected a second time as a beastkin, Falin easily beats a cockatrice to death singlehandedly, implying that she still retains a degree of draconic strength. |
| 472 | * SuperToughness: |
| 473 | ** As a chimera, she shrugs off damage that would normally kill any of her components. In her case, a slashed throat and stab wounds where her heart, right lung, and kidney would be if she was still human-shaped. Either because they're no longer vital organs for the whole, or because she has redundancies. That said, she does stagger and pull a fast retreat at that point. |
| 474 | ** More generally, she also tanks the combined efforts of Shuro and Kabru's parties, ranging from Daya swinging an ax into her ankle and Kuro stabbing and biting her body to Rin striking her with lightning, without any meaningful damage besides some pain, some of this can be explained by her draconic scales but Kuro attacked her feathered and human areas without any apparent effect. |
| 475 | * SwallowedWhole: Initially by the Red Dragon, who keeps her in its stomach for a majority of the story. Rescuing her becomes a driving force for the rest of the party. |
| 476 | * TouchedByVorlons: The final chapter shows that while the Red Dragon's essence is much much smaller after the feast, it is still a part of Falin and will be for the rest of her life. The Kensuke extra chapter also shows that Falin has become a lot stronger physically. |
| 477 | * WalkingSpoiler: Her dark arts resurrection that ends with Falin turning into a chimera is a pretty big turning point of the series. Thus, it makes it quite difficult to discuss things about her character without spoiling anything after this point. |
| 478 | * WeaksauceWeakness: As a chimera, Laios can't figure out which spot to aim at to kill her, this leads him to realize that while she is resistant to getting stabbed or attacked, her single, small mouth and nose makes her an easy target for asphyxiation. |
| 479 | * WhiteMagicianGirl: The original party's cleric, capable of everything from spirit possession wards to escape magic and exorcism. |
| 480 | [[/folder]] |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[folder:Namari]] |
| 483 | !!True Name -- Namari of Kahka Brud |
| 484 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Akira Miki (Japanese), Creator/MarinMiller (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Jessie Lambotte (French), Lady Carmelita Novita (Indonesian), Creator/DesireeGonzalez (Latin American Spanish), Bianca Warnek-Steinke (German)[[/labelnote]] |
| 485 | [[quoteright:260:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_namari.png]] |
| 486 | ->'''Age:''' 61 years old\ |
| 487 | '''Gender:''' Female\ |
| 488 | '''Race:''' Dwarf\ |
| 489 | '''Birthplace:''' Eastern Continent\ |
| 490 | '''Family:''' Father\ |
| 491 | '''Height:''' Around 130cm / 4'3"\ |
| 492 | '''BMI:''' 34\ |
| 493 | '''Likes:''' Spare ribs\ |
| 494 | '''Dislikes:''' Raisins |
| 495 | |
| 496 | A dwarf who left Laios' party and opted out of rescuing Falin due to said party's lack of resources, Namari can still be found in and out of the dungeon as a recruit of the Flokes. |
| 497 | ---- |
| 498 | * AdaptationalCurves: A good comparison between her manga and anime counterparts make it clear that the latter got significantly muscular and beefy. |
| 499 | * AmbiguouslyBi: Her {{fetish}} for tallmen legs doesn't seem to be effected by gender, as Kiki asking if Namari wanted to see both her ''and'' Kaka's wearing leg pouches, results in her getting flustered. |
| 500 | * BackForTheFinale: In an "extended finale" sense. As the manga enters endgame [[spoiler: and a large force of Canaries enter the dungeon]] Namari appears again, along with Shuro. |
| 501 | * BoomHeadshot: A furious undine propels water right through her skull at high speed, killing her instantly. Mr. Floke, who'd been using her as a HumanShield, has her dragged away and then resurrects her almost as quickly. |
| 502 | * DeathIsCheap: Firmly against thinking like this. While it's established dungeon keeps souls tethered to their bodies and allows for simple resurrection, Namari is fully aware of all its shortcomings and restraints, and that having such a mindset is what will end up getting you killed for good. |
| 503 | * FallenPrincess: Her family served the Island's lord before her father ran away and stole money. Her father's action not only ruined the family name but also made the lord hate dwarves. |
| 504 | * {{Fetish}}: On numerous occasions, her fascination with tallmen legs is pointed out, particularly with clothing made specifically for their long legs. She gets rather flustered and downplays it whenever it's mentioned. When Kiki asks if she wants to see her and Kaka wearing leg pouches Namari instantly gets sweaty and turns full red. She does the same at the very end when [[spoiler:Laios walks into the crowd with his wolf pelt across his armor.]] It was clear she was very interested. One of the Daydream Hour drawings has Namari dancing with Kiki and Kaka, and Namari is nervously ogling Kiki's leg. |
| 505 | * HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: She gets mistaken for Kaka's girlfriend at one point. The same people also thought she was dating Laios too. |
| 506 | * HumanShield: She gets used as one by Mr. Floke pretty often, much to her ire. He does at least heal her when she gets killed and pays generously as a result, but she thinks he's too casual about it. |
| 507 | * TheLadette: Somewhat downplayed, but she's a capable fighter and likes drinking ale, implying she's not exactly all that feminine, though such traits aren't that unusual for dwarven women. |
| 508 | * MortalityPhobia: It's implied that after the Red Dragon Incident that Namari now realizes that just because DeathIsCheap in the dungeon doesn't mean that there aren't ways for someone to die for good, and as a result joins a party that not only pays well but has a healer capable of tending to wounds when things get bad. Granted, he also tends to revive her after using her as a HumanShield, but the pros seem to outweigh the cons for her. |
| 509 | * MultiMeleeMaster: She is knowledgeable of melee weapons, but she can't really handle projectile ones, though her aim is still good enough to kill a monster with a crossbow in a single shot despite never handling a crossbow before. |
| 510 | * MundaneUtility: The second cour's ending credits show her with the Flokes' party... carrying Yarn Floke piggyback up a staircase and looking aggrieved. Getting hired for her dwarven warrior strength means hauling {{Squishy Wizard}}s around sometimes. |
| 511 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: Treated sympathetically. She joined Laios's party to try and ease prior financial troubles, but since she wasn't getting ''paid'' to rescue Laios' sister (an incredibly dangerous mission), she leaves the party. She does feel bad about it and liked being in the party, but had been considering leaving it for some time, as Laios wasn't serious about making money. She ends up joining the Flokes' expedition because they paid well. |
| 512 | ** Namari refuses to rejoin the party even when Marcille promises to get her the money somehow. Chilchuck tells Marcille that gossip will get around. If Namari starts too readily changing parties she'll get a reputation for being willing to do ''anything'' for money, which will be very bad for her working life. Namari implicitly confirms this and stays with the Flokes - and Marcille, who'd resented her for leaving, understands and they part on better terms. |
| 513 | ** Her character profile goes a little deeper into her motives; her father embezzled a ton of money from the Island's governor and ran away, and she took part of the blame just for being his family, to the point of being all but {{Unperson}}ed by the other dwarves on the Island. Without funds she couldn't even leave the island at first. She hopes to collect the amount of money stolen so she can buy back her honour and be restored to their clan. |
| 514 | * OptOut: Opted out of returning into the dungeon to save Falin. Later chapters show she does seem to feel bad about this, though upon meeting the group in a chance encounter later, she sticks to her decision, even when Mr. Floke tells her she is free to return to the Touden's party. Even still, she remains one of Laios' staunchest allies when the Canaries start muscling in on the dungeon. |
| 515 | * OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: She drinks and wields an axe. Give her a beard and put her in a mine and she'd be any other dwarf. That being said, she is shown to use more than just the axe. Unlike the atypical Senshi, she also has a keen eye for blacksmithing and is immediately horrified at how he's let his axe degrade without maintenance. When discussing Laios's fear that HumansAreAverage as they don't have the kind of metallurgic aptitude of dwarves etc, she points out that the human tendency is towards song and dance even if plenty of individuals don't do either, implicitly indicating that while the stereotype exists for a reason, Senshi's not the only odd one. |
| 516 | * OutOfFocus: Of the party members who actually appear in the series itself, Namari gets the least focus, considerably less than even Shuro in both actual manga and the supplemental material. She becomes a bit more prominent again in the final arc. |
| 517 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: She, like Shuro, opt to leave the party minutes after Falin teleports them out of the dungeon. Unlike Shuro, she wasn't planning on coming back to save Falin. While this gains Marcille's disdain, Chilchuck is much more understanding of where she's coming from. |
| 518 | * SinsOfOurFathers: Her backstory had her banished from her clan due to her father stealing the governor's money and vanishing, and ostracized by every other dwarf to boot. |
| 519 | * {{Unperson}}: The World Guide elaborates on dwarves some more and explains that while dwarf society takes care of many of its own, those who stray or misstep aren't shown any clemency. A weary-looking Namari explains that such dwarves aren't allowed to marry or own property. Because she's ostracized by most other dwarves, she can't get work with them and associates almost entirely with other races. She doesn't have trouble with Senshi, but of course he doesn't know, and in any case ''he'' left the town he was born in many decades ago for a more precarious existence himself. |
| 520 | [[/folder]] |
| 521 | |
| 522 | [[folder:Shuro]] |
| 523 | !!True Name - Nakamoto Toshiro |
| 524 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ShinjiKawada (Japanese), Creator/MickLauer (English)[[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']] Nanang Kuswanto (Indonesian), Creator/DafnisFernandez (Latin American Spanish) [[/labelnote]] |
| 525 | [[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_shuro.png]] |
| 526 | ->'''Age:''' 26 years old\ |
| 527 | '''Gender:''' Male\ |
| 528 | '''Race:''' Tallman\ |
| 529 | '''Birthplace:''' Isle of Wa, Eastern Archipelago\ |
| 530 | '''Family:''' Father, mother, two younger brothers\ |
| 531 | '''Height:''' Around 180cm / 5'11"\ |
| 532 | '''BMI:''' 23\ |
| 533 | '''Likes:''' Soba\ |
| 534 | '''Dislikes:''' Cheese |
| 535 | |
| 536 | A swordsman from the East who left Laios's party to muster up his own entourage to save Falin. He comes from a noble family. He had fallen in love with Falin and proposed to her before she was eaten by the Red Dragon. She had yet to give him an answer, saying she needed more time to think it over. |
| 537 | ---- |
| 538 | * BattleHarem: His new party consists of female warriors from his home country. They're not quite a "harem", given that he's exclusively in love with Falin and only one member of his party is really interested in him, but they're quite loyal. His middle brother, who was assigned exclusively male retainers, complains that ''he'' wanted to go adventuring with a battle harem as well. |
| 539 | * BeardOfSorrow: Grows a lot of widely spaced bristles while he's searching for Falin. |
| 540 | * ButtMonkey: Most supplemental material that includes him has him ''miserable'' in Laios's presence, getting dragged along by Laios's overwhelming enthusiasm and his own inability to say no. He's also comically unhappy when Maizuru relates an upsetting event as a funny story, and when caught between Flamela and Rin arguing. |
| 541 | * CruelToBeKind: Plans to report [[spoiler: Marcille's use of the TheDarkArts to the town on the surface, effectively getting them banished but permitting Laios to immediately focus on rescuing Falin rather than wasting time returning to the surface. Maizuru provided Senshi the cooking supplies they would have returned for, and Shuro himself provided a [[EscapeRope magic bell]] to be used when they succeed that will get them safely to the east.]] Ultimately though, he's not the one that reports [[spoiler:Marcille's use of the dark arts]] and the Canaries only learned about [[spoiler:Falin being a chimera]] because they witnessed it themselves. |
| 542 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: |
| 543 | ** [[spoiler:After peeling through his initial refusal to remain with Laios' party in the self-admitted suicidal plan to rescue Falin no matter what, Shuro grows to become resentful and disappointed in himself for choosing to be logical and thinking of securing more people and resources to go after Falin later, reasoning that his love and loyalty to Falin wasn’t as strong as Laios and Marcille's. At the end of the series end with Falin truly saved, Shuro isn't in the room with the current party at all; only when Falin comes out of the lodge, ecstatic to greet all the people Laios made acquaintanceship with that Shuro can't help but be approached and greeted by her]]. |
| 544 | ** [[spoiler:An epilogue omake finally has him confess to her and asks if she wants to come with him to his homeland. Falin says that she'd love to see it but has too much wanderlust to stay, but she promises that whenever she does visit the eastern islands, she'll come and see him. In a later-set omake she mentions sending him things she thinks are interesting.]] |
| 545 | * ExhaustedEyebags: He gets these when he returns, due to how much he's been pushing himself. |
| 546 | * ExtremeDoormat: The omake where he and Laios meet has poor Toshiro completely steamrolled by Laios's thickheaded enthusiasm, conversing with him for ''five hours'', because "Shuro" despite being ''very'' put off could not just say he'd had enough. This seems to be how he ended up in Laios's party at all. It might be telling that when he ''leaves'' the party in Chapter One, he just leaves with a note. |
| 547 | * HatesBeingTouched: In an omake showing Laios hugging the original members of the party, everyone else is pretty happy to do it. Shuro protests weakly, then looks frozen and unhappy when Laios barrels in anyway. Text says that Easterners aren't as free with physical contact. [[spoiler: He does hug Laios quite genuinely near the end of the manga, though.]] |
| 548 | * HeroicSafeMode: Has gone into one after Falin's loss, neglecting food and sleep in his single-minded efforts to save her. |
| 549 | * HiddenDisdainReveal: When he and Laios gets into a fistfight, Shuro reveals just how irritating he finds Laios, showing his side of the story during moments Laios used before to describe their friendship. Although after the fight, it’s clear that while Shuro hates how dense Laios is, he still considers Laios a friend, and in fact envies how honest and forthright Laios's density lets him be. [[spoiler: After the climax of the manga he actually hugs Laios!]] |
| 550 | * HintDropping: Shuro's fantasy-JapanesePoliteness and crippling social anxiety meant that when he was in the same party as Laios he was constantly trying to suggest a little distance and time to himself or with Falin, and the cheerfully oblivious Laios didn't catch any of them. |
| 551 | * HypocrisyNod: [[spoiler: Admits he probably would have used TheDarkArts to revive Falin if he was in the same situation as Team Touden had been. See ThisIsUnforgivable.]] |
| 552 | * InconsistentSpelling: Fan translations had his name as Sureau, while the official translation and the ''Explorer Guide'' went with Shuro. His full name is Toshiro. |
| 553 | * InformedAbility: Shuro is stated to be an incredibly strong and effective fighter, with a bonus comic showing how the Touden Party came together showing that he was chosen because of his strength, and it's elsewhere stated that he was a significant part of dealing with dragons, including dealing the critical blow. In the actual manga, he doesn't get to show off this power (aside from dealing the finishing blow to the sea serpent); like the rest of the party, exhaustion and starvation made him helpless against the Red Dragon, and for the same reasons he loses to Laios in a hand-to-hand fight (though Laios admits that if that wasn't the case, he would have handily lost). [[spoiler:He hesitates against Chimera Falin]] and he doesn't have any opportunities for fighting after that. |
| 554 | * InSeriesNickname: His real given name is Toshiro, but Laios misheard it as "Shuro" when they first met and [[AccidentalMisnaming thought that was his name]]; after Laios introduced him to the party as Shuro, the name stuck since he couldn't bring himself to correct them. |
| 555 | * {{Irony}}: Shuro secretly resents Laios for his lack of social skills, but falls in love with Falin, who shares many of Laios' traits and even interests. It's justified by Shuro disliking how Laios is unable to take a hint, while Falin's own lack of social skills is less pronounced and manifests as something more like a detached aloofness, which Shuro finds alluring. |
| 556 | * JapanesePoliteness: A constant difficulty for Shuro when dealing with Laios, who has NoSocialSkills and doesn't understand an indirect "no", resulting in Laios doing things like keeping Shuro up when he'd like to sleep by asking for tales of distant lands or interrupting his attempts to get closer to Falin. Even with his own retainers, Shuro mostly lets things lie. Maizuru's "Ninja Art of [[ExplosiveLeash Babysitting]]" utterly terrified him as a child and he's uncomfortable when it comes up now especially as she's quite proud and seems to think it was harmless and beneficial, but says nothing. He'd also like to talk to Tade about either her troubled past or her worship of his father for employing her, but he doesn't. |
| 557 | * LiterallyShatteredLives: His first death, which occured at some point prior to the begininning of the story, was the result of being petrified by a cockatrice and broken. Thankfully he was apparently able to be put back together and revived. |
| 558 | * TheLostLenore: Falin is this to him. He even planned on proposing to her. |
| 559 | * OptOut: Like Namari, he chose not to return to the dungeon after barely escaping the dragon. According to Namari, he's in love with Falin and has been pursuing his own lead on saving her. Confirmed when he is later encountered by Kabru's party with a new party of his own within the dungeon. |
| 560 | * PetTheDog: [[spoiler:Despite his animosity of Laios and his intention to report them for using forbidden magic, he gives Laios a bell that, if used, will allow them to escape capture and flee to the East when they return to the surface.]] |
| 561 | * {{Samurai}}: He certainly looks the part, as he wields a katana, wears Japanese-style clothing and armor, and has his long hair in a SamuraiPonytail. Later chapters confirm he hails from the East (specifically the Isle of Wa, which seems to be this world's equivalent of Japan). Also he is a noble, which is an important samurai trait that many fantasy works conveniently forget. |
| 562 | * TheSmartGuy: Laios describes him as this, saying that Shuro is pretty knowledgeable about the outside world and that his smarts had helped the party a lot before. |
| 563 | * ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:Although he doesn't say it aloud, he goes from friendly to ready to kill Laios after learning they used the dark arts to revive Falin. After he explains the potential consequences for everyone involved, it's kind of hard to blame him. Though he admits that in the same situation, he probably would have done the same thing. It's mostly Laios's blithe attitude about it that infuriates him.]] |
| 564 | * WorfHadTheFlu: There's many remarks to the effect that he's a better fighter than Laios, which is why it's a good thing that the only time the two actually come to blows, Shuro has been [[HeroicSafeMode running himself ragged for days]]. |
| 565 | [[/folder]] |
| 566 | |
| 567 | !!Later Members |
| 568 | [[folder:Senshi]] |
| 569 | !!True Name -- Senshi of Izganda |
| 570 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HiroshiNaka (Japanese), Creator/SungWonCho (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Gérard Surugue (French), Salman Pranata (Indonesian), Creator/JoseLuisOrozco (Latin American Spanish), Sven Brieger (German)[[/labelnote]] |
| 571 | [[quoteright:270:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_senshi.png]] |
| 572 | ->'''Age:''' 112 years old\ |
| 573 | '''Gender:''' Male\ |
| 574 | '''Race:''' Dwarf\ |
| 575 | '''Birthplace:''' Izganda, Eastern Continent\ |
| 576 | '''Family:''' None\ |
| 577 | '''Height:''' Around 140cm / 4'7"\ |
| 578 | '''BMI:''' 36\ |
| 579 | '''Likes:''' Monster cuisine\ |
| 580 | '''Dislikes:''' Food lacking in nutrients |
| 581 | |
| 582 | A weird but friendly dwarf encountered early on the first level of the dungeon. He is a veteran in the art of consuming and cooking monsters, but also has a deep sense of responsibility with the ecosystem and the well-being of the people. He is the main enabler of Laios's monster obsession and usually cooks for the party, being a master chef. |
| 583 | ---- |
| 584 | * AchievementsInIgnorance: One of the original ten golem cores had been lost due to Senshi dropping it down a drain when washing it. The core eventually reached the sixth floor and once it froze over accidentally created an ice golem. |
| 585 | * AncestralWeapon: His pot used to be a heirloom shield, but since he doesn't need the shield he repurposed it into a pot. Oh, and it's made of adamantine capable of withstanding an undine's water jet (easily capable of cracking stone and punching through flesh like a knife) - not to mention that it's an unbelievably excellent metal for cooking with. [[spoiler: He also moulded the fabled mithril into a ''cooking'' knife, an... underutilisation which would probably get him killed by Namari]]. |
| 586 | * ArtEvolution: He was more {{Gonk}} in his first appearances, with a far more exaggerated moustache and helmet horns. Gradually his character design shifted and became more attractive. |
| 587 | * AwesomenessByAnalysis: He's the party's expert on all things pertaining foraging, cooking, and survivalist skills. |
| 588 | * BerserkButton: |
| 589 | ** Do not be a PickyEater. More importantly do not be a picky eater with poor table manners, [[SeriousBusiness or you will receive a lesson on proper etiquette regardless of whose lives are on the line.]] |
| 590 | ** Treat the ecosystem of the dungeon with respect. Don't kill more than you need to survive. |
| 591 | * BigBeautifulMan: Though he's normally drawn as something of a {{Gonk}}, he's good-looking whenever drawn realistically, which happens most often when he removes his helmet. [[spoiler: When the party falls victim to a Shapeshifter, none of the party is able to tell the difference between his usual look and an extremely handsome, chiseled version created by the Shapeshifter, showing that the {{Gonk}} is just artstyle.]] At one point, the characters even lampshade his growing attractiveness and conclude that he's just [[InformedAttractiveness always been handsome]]. In an omake, Chilchuck doesn't want his younger daughters to meet Senshi because he knows they would fall for him at first sight. |
| 592 | * BookDumb: Senshi is StreetSmart, but he doesn't read books much and distrusts magic. [[spoiler: He's even unaware that a red dragon carcass is very flammable due to its fuel-producing innards and tries to start a fire nearby.]] |
| 593 | * CharacterDevelopment: He is initially strongly resistant to using magic for any reason, but slowly comes to accept that some uses are good and becomes willing to ask Marcille to use magic on things, and to cook using magic circles now and then rather than insisting only on fire. Because he keeps so much to himself and isn't facially expressive it's often difficult to tell how he feels, but in his diary, reproduced in the world guide, he works on his own FantasticRacism over the course of traveling with the party. |
| 594 | * ChefOfIron: He has to be since he lives in the dungeon full time. |
| 595 | * CrazySurvivalist: He has elements of this, and his sanity is rather suspect although stable. He doesn't live in a monster-infested dungeon because he wants to survive some crisis, he does it because he's good at it and enjoys the lifestyle. [[spoiler:Justified as he has been living inside of the dungeon for many years, and as the rest of the party realizes after he gets grabbed by a hippogriff, the rest of the world has only known about the dungeon for ''six'' years.]] |
| 596 | * CrutchCharacter: A rare non-video game example. Early on, his survivalist training and willingness to harvest the more unique and seemingly inedible monsters makes him a massive asset to the overall party, especially when paired next to Chilchuck, who is more of a UtilityPartyMember specialized in overcoming traps, and Marcille, whose magic is powerful but often deemed as overkill given the relative power level of the monsters and how her magic seriously risks leaving nothing left for the party to eat. The further down the party goes, however, the more Marcille turns out to be ''pivotal'' to the party's survival against stronger monsters the party ''absolutely'' needs magic to overcome, and the more the rest of the cast take to cooking up monsters for survival on their own terms. Senshi is never rendered useless, because his pot lid shield and skills with an axe make him a sturdy warrior, but he becomes less prominent overall, [[spoiler: especially once the party's other primary warrior, Izutsumi, arrives]]. |
| 597 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:He is the [[SoleSurvivor only survivor]] of a group of dwarven prospectors that tried to mine for gold when the dungeon first appeared. Trapped within the dungeon, [[DwindlingParty the group was slowly killed off by a griffin]], resulting in them eventually running out of food. A loud argument between Girin and Briggan, the remaining survivors aside from Senshi himself, eventually resulted in only Girin returning, who claimed to have slain the griffin and taken its flesh for food. Desperately hungry, Senshi ate the meat while Girin mysteriously disappeared. Senshi eventually found his way back to the surface, but [[IChooseToStay chose to stay because of his acquired dungeon experiences]]. Later realizing the dreadful possibility that he could have [[ImAHumanitarian eaten meat from Briggan's corpse]], Senshi is absolutely terrified at the prospect of eating griffin meat, which could either confirm or disprove his years-long suspicions. As it turns out, what he ate in the past was hippogriff meat, which puts those concerns to rest.]] |
| 598 | * DoesNotLikeMagic: The times he has supported the use of magic over more mundane methods of achieving a goal are incredibly rare, putting him at odds with Marcille regularly. It seems to be a common trait amongst dwarves, and is at least partly influenced by the fact they are a naturally magic-resistant race. |
| 599 | * EarlyPersonalitySigns: In his very youngest appearance he's thirty six - an adolescent barely starting to grow facial hair - and pauses when the prospectors he's with want to rush into a new dungeon unprepared and undersupplied. When he's older Senshi is quite willing to forage and hunt as he goes, but he really doesn't like to be understocked. |
| 600 | * EntertaininglyWrong: He's not terribly familiar with tallmen and elves and not at ''all'' with half foots, so he's not sure if Laios is an adult and if Marcille is done growing, but he ''definitely'' thinks Chilchuck is a child for quite a long time. Even hearing that Chil is twenty-nine doesn't shake this conviction, since [[ProportionalAging to a dwarf]] that's still ''very'' young. In his journal he's quite shocked and embarassed when the party encounters changeling mushrooms and Chilchuck becomes a tallman with facial hair, visibly middle aged. |
| 601 | * FantasticRacism: He rarely shows it but he absorbed some of the common enmity dwarves often have towards elves and tends to think the worst of Marcille. The doppleganger made from his perception of her has odd, exaggerated features and keeps talking about dark magic. When changeling mushrooms turn him into an elf, he notes in his diary that he feels like the same person but now the others are saying he's become snooty and aloof. Realizing that he's said and thought these kinds of things about Marcille he vows to do better. |
| 602 | * FitnessNut: Downplayed. He's firmly aware of the importance of balanced diets and plenty of exercise, certainly more than anyone else we see in the setting, but in our era he'd probably come across more as simply a health-conscious individual. 'Balanced diets', in his case, do include fat and sugar as they're good fuel and good flavor. |
| 603 | * FreudianExcuse: Why is he so insistent on making sure the party is eating well? Because many years ago when he was younger, [[spoiler: his old party became trapped in the dungeon and at the end nearly starved to death when they ran out of food. Senshi himself was TheLoad at the time because he was only a child, but he never wants anyone else to go through what he had to.]] |
| 604 | * GeniusDitz: He's an expert chef and fighter, but the fact that he tries to set off every trap in a room after being told they are all unique (and then uses them to ''cook'') probably says it all. |
| 605 | * HyperspaceArsenal: He carries around a ridiculous number of cooking utensils, large pots, spices and other ingredients, as well as several spare clothes, a journal, a waterskin, his ax, and a sleeping bag. His character profile notes that the quantity of objects would be impossible for anyone other than a dwarf, [[JustifiedTrope noted to have exceptional physical strength]], to carry around continuously. |
| 606 | * ImprovisedWeapon: While facing some ghosts, he turns a jar of homemade holy water into a flail by tying it to a rope. |
| 607 | * InnocentlyInsensitive: Any time Marcille offers to help cook using magic (usually by lighting a fire), Senshi refuses, since he doesn't like magic and prefers to do it the old-fashioned way. This unintentionally plays into Marcille's concerns that she can't contribute anything to the party, especially since he dismisses her field of study, which she has spent ''years'' mastering, as "the easy way." |
| 608 | * LoopholeAbuse: When Senshi buries the magic cores to reactivate the golems, Marcille states that activating magical creatures is a crime. Senshi replies he's not activating them; he's just digging up dirt and putting it back. |
| 609 | -->'''Senshi:''' I know where the loopholes are... |
| 610 | * LyingByOmission: He tells Laios' group that he's been living off the dungeon for more than ten years, a considerable understatement from the real figure of ''76'' years. |
| 611 | * MagicHair: Or in his case, AntiMagic Hair. His hair is initially so poorly maintained and so heavily caked in monster blood and fat that magic has little effect on him, a water-walking spell only succeeds in making him sink slowly. Only after that failure and the failure of his own attempt at crossing the lake does he allow Marcille to help him wash it so he can join the rest of the group in simply walking across. |
| 612 | * MeaningfulName: His name translates into "seeker" in dwarven. His name can also mean "warrior" in Japanese, [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep leading to some brief confusion on Falin's part]]. |
| 613 | * MisappliedPhlebotinum: He has a mithril cooking knife and an adamantine cooking pot. It's noted in supplementary materials that anyone with a vested interest in weapons and armor would be outraged at such valuable materials being used for cooking implements. |
| 614 | * MorphicResonance: His big and very bushy beard that completely obscures his mouth stays on him regardless what form he assumes. It's not just because he's a dwarf, either -- Senshi's beard is such a part of him that he keeps it even when changed into other races that don't normally have facial hair; after being turned into a half-foot, he looks like he just shrunk, and his elf form has a beard and a wispy little mustache. Supplementary art by Ryoko Kui confirms [[https://i.imgur.com/z4tGX9A.jpeg he'd pretty much have his beard no matter what]]. |
| 615 | * MistakenForProfound: [[spoiler: In chapter 94, Senshi mishears Mithrun relating his own condition as being the vegetable scraps left behind on a plate and takes it as him literally talking about vegetable scraps, and gives a lecture about how scraps can be used for a lot of things and shouldn't be thrown away. This helps inspire Mithrun to commit to finding a new purpose in life now that the Winged Lion is gone.]] |
| 616 | * MrFanservice: Senshi is a BigBeautifulMan who gets several panty shots throughout the story, and the anime goes an extra step by adding a bulge to his crotch where the manga didn't show it. Depending on the person, it can viewed as FanDisservice, but most call it full on fan service for the laughs. |
| 617 | * MysteriousPast: A lot of the few details known about Senshi's backstory aren't really all that informative and are rather cryptic. He eventually reveals his whole past after the party realizes they know nothing about him. |
| 618 | * NatureHero: Senshi lives alone and prefers spending time with the fauna than with other people. However the monsters of the dungeon still want to kill him. He admires them all the same. |
| 619 | * NoMouth: His mouth is completely concealed by his helmet and moustache, only showing when it's wide open. Somehow, Senshi doesn't have to remove his helmet to eat. The anime doesn't animate any motion at all when he's talking unless he's being particularly emphatic. |
| 620 | * NoPartyLikeADonnerParty: [[spoiler: Thanks to persistent attacks from a winged monster they guess is a griffin, the party that Senshi first entered the dungeon with [[DwindlingParty dwindled]] to him, Gillin, and Brigan. A child at the time, Senshi couldn't materially contribute much but Gillin supported and protected him, giving him a larger share of the little food they could find. Brigan resented this to the point of attacking Senshi. Gillin took it outside, where shouting turned to crashing and screaming, and then returned, bearing a wound a griffin couldn't give someone, saying the griffin had appeared, killed Brigan, and been killed itself, but Senshi shouldn't look. He gave Senshi the meat before dragging himself away to die. Ever since, Senshi has feared that Gillin wanted him to live so dearly that he attacked and killed another dwarf to feed to him. Thankfully, Laios is able to figure out that the party had actually been attacked by a hippogriff. Whether or not Gillin killed Brigan or had been completely honest, he'd fed Senshi monster, not person.]] |
| 621 | * OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], at least with him. He has no interest in blacksmithing, and he's not good at telling ores apart, instead his specialty is hunting, farming and cooking. He mentions this would put him at odds with his old group, implying that smithing and mining skills are commonplace among dwarves. |
| 622 | * RaisedByOrcs: [[spoiler:Soon after his original companions died,]] he was captured by the same band of orcs presently living in the dungeon. The young Senshi got on their good side by teaching them to read dwarven runes, helping them navigate the dungeon, and before long he was being treated as a guest rather than a prisoner. (Living among orcs was how he got started on monster cuisine.) However, as he grew older, he sensed their attitudes changing again since he was not properly a part of their clan. At that point, his options were to take one or more wives and begin participating in raids, cementing him as a member of the ingroup, or to stop living off their hospitality and leave. The former obviously not appealing to him, he chose to leave while they would still be sad to see him go, and remained friends with their chief as a plus. |
| 623 | %% * ShipperOnDeck: Senshi makes a wistful comment about "youth", when watching Marcille teach Laios magic. |
| 624 | * SkewedPriorities: |
| 625 | ** When another adventurer is dying from a basilisk's poison, he is leery of giving him the antidote herbs because he was planning on using them to cook and it's too early for lunch. |
| 626 | ** His first reaction upon encountering a flame-thrower trap is to wonder whether the oil which fuels it would be good for frying. After Chilchuck disarms a boiling oil trap shortly after, he asks the halfling to set it off while holding his pot ready. Turns out that it's olive oil, and (as he calmly notes with his thumb in the stuff) that it's just the right temperature for frying, too. Chilchuck asks if he's actually a monster of some sort. |
| 627 | * TheStoic: With his mouth and eyebrows hidden, and with his eyes usually drawn either round and wide or closed, he's not very expressive. Senshi often [[ThatMakesMeFeelAngry verbally express his feelings]] about dungeon ecology or food but he keeps quiet about a lot. Notably, in a journal entry about meeting and joining the Touden party he mistakes Chilchuck for an actual child and is quite angry that he's being employed this way but decides not to let it on - and you wouldn't know from the actual manga or anime that he had the slightest qualm about it. |
| 628 | * SupremeChef: Senshi is an expert at cooking, although he too learns more tricks along the way. |
| 629 | * TakeAThirdOption: During his existence among the orcs, he was very low on the social hierarchy because he was an unmarried outsider. He had the option to marry into the group to increase his standing amongst them, but then he would've had to participate in raiding parties on outsiders. He didn't like either option so he reluctantly left to set out on his own, knowing that if he left while everyone was still sorry to see him go they'd remain on friendly terms. |
| 630 | * TeamDad: He views himself as one. In Japanese he has speech patterns associated with older men (in particular he uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns personal pronoun]] "''washi''"). When the party runs low on food, he blames himself for "not being able to provide food for the youngsters". Ironically, he seems to be very young by dwarf standards -- he was 36 when he entered the dungeon, considered a growing teen by his companions, and stayed for "over 10 years", making him a dwarven young adult at the absolute oldest. His character profile clarifies that "over 10 years" actually meant 76 years (he hasn't been in the dungeon for the entire time but has been in and out and only committed to living in it again about a decade ago) and he's actually over 100. |
| 631 | ** In non-canonical supplementary material set in the modern day, he has fast food with Izutsumi and takes her to a festival to win a goldfish in a very fatherlike way. In the actual manga, he insists she learn some table manners and carefully plans meals after she joins the party, knowing that there are foods she won't touch and wanting to make sure she's still getting enough to eat. |
| 632 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Not that you'd know from seeing the main manga or anime, but in his diary Senshi is quite upset with Laios and Marcille early on for allowing Chilchuck, who he assumes is a child, to disarm traps for the party. He initially assumes Chilchuck is a tallman child, and only with the party because he's Laios's brother— but later he records a suspicion that Chilchuck is an orphan being forced to take dangerous adventuring jobs due to poverty, and that he plans to confront the rest about this (which never comes to fruition before the misunderstanding is cleared). He also stereotypes Marcille, derisively interpreting her attitudes and actions as "typical elf". This mellows out over time as he comes to understand that Chilchuck really is a grown adult and that he's been influenced by prejudice against elves, though he still finds Marcille's interest in ancient magic deeply troubling. Senshi does look forward to being on his own again but he's quite fond of the party by the end. |
| 633 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Terrified of griffins. See DarkAndTroubledPast above for the context. |
| 634 | * TragicKeepsake: His horned helmet originally belonged to an older dwarf who mentored him in his youth, named Gillin. Gillin died many decades prior to the main story, but Senshi retains the damaged helmet Gillin wore as a memento of his close friend. |
| 635 | * WildHair: Senshi lives in the dungeon full time and has definite elements of a CrazySurvivalist. His hair and beard are so wild and caked with monster blood that they actually repel magic. |
| 636 | [[/folder]] |
| 637 | |
| 638 | [[folder:Kensuke]] |
| 639 | !!Kensuke |
| 640 | [[quoteright:1000:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kensuke_anime_appearance.png]] |
| 641 | |
| 642 | A living armor mollusc monster who lives in the handle of Laios's sword. It came from the "chief" living armor, which had laid the eggs for their group. It rattles when dangerous monsters are near. |
| 643 | ---- |
| 644 | * AmbiguousGender: It has a male name, but it was part of the suit of armor that laid the group's egg sac, suggesting it might be female. Then again, it ''is'' a mollusc, and Laios wonders if the living armors are hermaphrodites for this reason. |
| 645 | * AnimatedArmor: The sword of one of the living armors that Team Touden encounters. |
| 646 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: Towards the end of the series [[spoiler: when the Winged Lion talks through it, it extends a mass of tentacles around Laios's hand, making him unable to put it down or use the hand for several chapters.]] |
| 647 | * CoolSword: Particularly after it grows the lion head between its wings. [[spoiler: It may have something to do with a certain prophecy]]... |
| 648 | * DirtyCoward: It flees during [[spoiler:the battle with the Red Dragon]]. Much later, it refuses to be drawn from its scabbard [[spoiler: while Laios is facing multiple dragons.]] This is justified however as Kensuke is a basic animal with no sentience, it would be naturally terrified of [[spoiler:dealing with bigger and fearsome predators such as dragons.]] |
| 649 | * ADogNamedDog: Close enough, anyway. "Ken" means "Sword" in Japanese, and "-suke" is a common generic masculine name-ender. A direct translation would probably be something like "Swordey" or "Swordbert." |
| 650 | * EquippableAlly: Kensuke the sword, half ally and half LivingWeapon. |
| 651 | * EvilDetectingDog: As a monster itself it's able to sense other monsters nearby, vibrating to warn Laios. Of course, it's also still a wild animal and when faced with the Red Dragon [[spoiler: it just runs away]]. |
| 652 | * GoodOldFisticuffs: When it's set atop a table and Falin pokes curiously at it, it extends two curled tentacles and waves them at her in a fisticuffs sort of pose before retracting. |
| 653 | * LivingWeapon: Yep; it's a mollusk monster after all. |
| 654 | * NonMaliciousMonster: Aside from a bit of cowardice [[spoiler: and when the Winged Lion acts through it]] it doesn't seem to mean the party any harm - all right, the harm it could cause is minimal as it can just about manage to hop and skitter along the ground, but it could have run away and gotten back to the other living armors. Laios interprets it rattling as warning an ally and thinks they're friends. |
| 655 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During the second fight with the Red Dragon, when things aren't going great, Kensuke leaps out of Laios's hands and tries to get away. This simultaneously disappoints Laios, who thought they'd formed a bond, and outrages Chilchuck, who had been unaware until that point that Laios was carrying a monster around. Later it tries to stick itself to the ground and stay out of the conflict, but Senshi's strong enough to pull it up. |
| 656 | * SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: [[spoiler:The Winged Lion uses Kensuke to observe the Touden Party's progress through the dungeon. Later, this becomes a full-on VillainOverride, as the Lion begins speaking through Kensuke directly and controlling its actions (as far as a sword can do anything, anyways; mainly, this involves it extending its tentacles and grasping at things).]] |
| 657 | * SoleSurvivor: Of the living armor that it was initially part of, as the Touden Party cook and eat the rest of the armor's creatures. |
| 658 | * SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Laios, [[{{Hypocrite}} despite being openly skeptical of monsters that appear friendly]], thoroughly believes he's formed a bond with Kensuke through his ordeals with it. However, given it's still a wild animal with no hint of sapience or sentience, [[spoiler:it's only natural that it flees from Laios when facing the Red Dragon, as it would only be natural for an animal to run in fear from a bigger predator.]] |
| 659 | * ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: [[spoiler: It sticks in its scabbard when Laios is cornered by dragons. He hucks it, scabbard and all, at a Red Dragon's neck and it sticks flat against the dragon's throat, presumably either in panic or according to the Winged Lion's will. This doesn't hurt the dragon whatsoever, but it hesitates to breathe fire when something's so close to its inverse scale and pauses to claw the sword away.]] |
| 660 | * UncertainDoom: |
| 661 | ** [[spoiler:When Falin is revived in the ending, she mentions wanting to eat living armor. The next panel shows Laios's sword among the items his party retained from their journey, and it's later mentioned that Laios's curse makes monsters keep their distance from him. Since Kensuke is the only living armor in the vicinity...]] |
| 662 | ** [[spoiler:Averted in Monster Tidbits #14; a year after the ending, Laios, Marcille, and Falin explore a dungeon for old times' sake. After narrowly saving Senshi from a cockatrice, Laios decides to retire from adventuring to focus on being a king. Believing Kensuke to be dead, he leaves his sword and armor in the dungeon. However, Kensuke rewakens and reproduces using Laios' armor. This incidentally creates a legend a hundred years later about the late king of the Golden Kingdom's spirit roaming around dungeons for monster flesh.]] |
| 663 | [[/folder]] |
| 664 | |
| 665 | [[folder:Izutsumi / "Asebi"]] |
| 666 | !!True Name -- Unknown |
| 667 | !!!'''Voiced by:''' Mitsuho Kambe (Japanese), Creator/LauraStahl (English) [[labelnote:'''Other Languages''']]Alice Taurand (French)[[/labelnote]] |
| 668 | [[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dungeon_meshi_izutsumi.png]] |
| 669 | ->'''Age:''' 17 years old\ |
| 670 | '''Gender:''' Female\ |
| 671 | '''Race:''' Tallman (beastkin)\ |
| 672 | '''Birthplace:''' Eastern Archipelago\ |
| 673 | '''Family:''' None\ |
| 674 | '''Height:''' Around 150cm / 4'11"\ |
| 675 | '''BMI:''' 17\ |
| 676 | '''Likes:''' Fish, meat, crab\ |
| 677 | '''Dislikes:''' Vegetables, mushrooms |
| 678 | |
| 679 | A cat beastkin and former member of Shuro's party who later joins Team Touden. She hopes travelling with Team Touden will help her find a cure for the curse that has made her into a chimera. Standoffish and self-centered at first, she soon thaws and begins to bond with the other members of the party. |
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| 681 | * ActionGirl: Is able to easily get the drop on the party, and apparently knows ways of assassinating people quickly and effortlessly. [[spoiler: She gets the chance to put her money where her mouth is in Chapter 43, felling an ice golem with minimal help from Chilchuck.]] |
| 682 | * AdaptationalLateAppearance: She was a member of the group well before reaching the Red Dragon in the one-shot. The series proper introduces her alongside Shuro's party and keeps her disguised until the concept of artificial chimeras is brought up, both [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight providing explanation on why there would be a catgirl ninja]] in an otherwise [[MedievalEuropeanFantasy fairly western styled setting]]. |
| 683 | * AmbiguousSituation: Izutsumi's animalistic mannerisms and overall nature being closer to a cat than a human could be because she literally is more cat than human, but is equally likely to be because she's never been treated as anything other than an animal, and thus hasn't had the chance to learn how to act like a human. |
| 684 | * AndThenWhat: Gets hit with a hard case of this at the end of the manga. [[spoiler:With the demon defeated, the dungeon neutralized, and having come to terms with her own half-human nature, she's finally free to live her own life and do whatever she wants. Then she realizes she doesn't know what she wants to do, because everything she ''really'' wants is tied up with the friends she's made as part of the Touden party, and they've all resolved to split up and move on with their own, separate lives. Ultimately, she realizes this uncertainty is a good thing: not knowing what to do with her life means she gets to ''choose'' what to do with her life.]] |
| 685 | * AnimalEyes: Izutsumi has cat eyes thanks to her being a chimera. |
| 686 | * ArtificialHybrid: As a beastkin, she was created by fusing a cat and a human in infancy using ancient magic. |
| 687 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Izutsumi has a difficult time paying attention and listening, partly due to a poor attention span, partly due to her simply not caring. Ironically, when the party watch a drama based on Marcille's memories, Izutsumi is the only one enthralled until the end. |
| 688 | * TheBabyOfTheBunch: Her character profile reveals she's only 17, making her the youngest member of the party by far, and the other members of the party often have to teach her common courtesy and not to be so self-centred all the time. She seems to have a particular rapport with Chilchuck, who has experience raising daughters. |
| 689 | * BarbieDollAnatomy: Downplayed. When the party strips for an impromptu sauna, she goes topless. As a young part-cat beastkin she's fairly flat chested and her fur hides any nipples. Senshi and Chilchuck immediately restrain Laios who wants to look closer. |
| 690 | * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Not a literal daughter (she doesn't actually remember who her parents were), but otherwise fits this trope. The rest of the party are basically a collective ParentalSubstitute, taking turns teaching her not to so selfish, not to be such a picky eater, and to have better table manners. Her character profile reveals she's only 17, but only Chilchuck actually notices that she seems very young (likely because he's the only actual parent of the party and raised three daughters). |
| 691 | * BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Shuro's household was never able to keep her in check, and she manages to give them the slip even after having a magical ExplosiveLeash tattooed around her neck. Conversely, even if she squabbles with the Touden party and is affronted to be given lessons in using utensils they're overall kinder to her and don't physically keep her from leaving. She was surprised and uncertain when Chilchuck gave her a sleeping bag and apologized for squabbling with her. Izutsumi insists that she doesn't care about the Touden party and is only sticking with them in the hopes of finding a way to dispel her curse, only for her to ''continue'' sticking with them after finding out this is probably impossible, and even after deciding being half cat isn't so bad after all. |
| 692 | * CatGirl: Izutsumi is a beastkin (a human/animal chimera) of the cat variety. She has kitty ears and a tail, pointed teeth, and her body is covered in fur. She also tends to have rather catlike mannerisms. The trope is [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in her case, as she's only a cat girl at all due to experimentation, and years of being exhibited at freak shows and treated like an animal made her mindset and behavior far more "cat" than "girl" until she was taught how to behave more like a human. A supplementary comic also clarifies that she's ''literally'' more cat than human; unlike Lycion, who is an elf with a beast soul inserted, Izutsumi is a cat monster with a tallman soul inserted (this means, unlike Lycion, Izutsumi cannot "suppress" her beast side, as the beast is the default; attempting to "suppress" her beast half would result in the human half being suppressed instead, turning her full cat, which cannot happen either, since a human soul is too powerful to surpress, meaning she is forever stuck just as she is). |
| 693 | * CatNinja: She's a CatGirl who worked as a ninja for Shuro's family. |
| 694 | * CatsAreMean: When she first meets Team Touden she's pretty rude and selfish, but does start to improve and treat the other members better fairly quickly. |
| 695 | * ClingySleepers: Befitting her catlike nature, despite her standoffishness while awake, she likes having someone to share body heat with in her sleep. |
| 696 | * CursedWithAwesome: She hates being a chimera and wants to be made fully human, even though the superior senses, reflexes and jumping ability of her cat side get her out of a lot of trouble. From her point of view, her feelings on the matter make a lot of sense, since being a chimera is responsible for her DarkAndTroubledPast. |
| 697 | * CuteLittleFangs: Comes with being part feline. |
| 698 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: She was a freak show exhibit and [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman treated like an animal by multiple owners]] for most of her early life before she was taken in by Shuro's household. Maizuru went to considerable lengths in teaching Izutsumi how to behave like a human again, eventually using a [[ExplosiveLeash curse]] to keep the worst of her behavior in check. While Izutsumi eventually stopped acting like a feral animal, she remains quite selfish and rebellious. Her traumatic past is also the reason why she is slow to trust and rely on others. |
| 699 | * DireBeast: According to ''The Adventurer's Bible'', the cat-half of her actually comes from a monster known as a giant cat, which is common in the East and apparently resembles a panther (although possibly with domestic cat coat patterns, given Izutsumi's fur colouration). |
| 700 | * ExplosiveLeash: She was subjected to a curse, written around her neck, that would summon a [[{{Youkai}} Yamanba]] to herd her back to Maizuru or kill her. Marcille attempts to dispel the curse, but due to Izutsumi's movements the summoning is triggered instead [[ItMakesSenseInContext with Laios and Senshi killing it in the middle of a lesson on the proper way to hold a spoon]]. |
| 701 | * ExpressiveEars: Indicate emotion even more clearly than Marcille's ears. |
| 702 | * FurryReminder: She ''is'' part cat. She licks herself to groom, and she can sense ghosts (referencing the supernatural beliefs surrounding cats). In an omake she coughs up a hairball. When she's preparing the succubus milk, she can't tell which powder is sugar and looks disappointed after trying what she's made: cats can't taste sweet. The anime gives her an additional mannerism of clacking her teeth together while eating. |
| 703 | * HopeBringer: Meeting her and learning what she is restores Laios's hope that Falin can be restored from her chimera form and regain her sanity, despite the fact that defusing souls is considered impossible. |
| 704 | * HypocriticalHumor: Supplementary material shows she has trouble sleeping alone, so she always tries to cuddle up in someone else's futon. Her favourite amongst the Touden Party is Chilchuck, because he's small and huggable (he doesn't like it though). However, it's noted below that she didn't like sleeping with Hien because she would always hug her in their sleep. |
| 705 | * InnocentFanserviceGirl: She casually strips down to nothing but a lower bit of underwear, stating that nobody would actually be interested in seeing a naked beastkin. Meanwhile Laios is subdued by Senshi and Chilchuck in the background while he asks to at least get to count her nipples or examine the base of her tail. |
| 706 | * ItsAllAboutMe: Due to years of being treated as a sideshow spectacle and then being purchased, threatened, and coerced into working with Shuro's family, she has an attitude of only depending on herself and not being a "team player". Whenever the party's inner thoughts are represented, Izutsumi's thought bubble is always filled by another, identical Izutsumi. Her RelationshipChart even shows she has no opinion of any other member of the party at all (she also sees both Shuro and Maizuru negatively, and Tade simply as "the one with horns"). Her CharacterDevelopment is based primarily on being less selfish and more trusting of others. When [[spoiler:everyone on the planet is being eaten by the demon, Izutsumi is the only one of the party who isn't stricken with despair, simply because there isn't anyone she actually cares about.]] |
| 707 | * LittleBitBeastly: She's a beastkin, essentially an artificial chimera that includes a human component, and more specifically is a combination of some form of cat and human. She begins traveling with the Touden party to find a way to break the curse that is keeping her beastly. |
| 708 | * MeaningfulName: Unlike most of the other Easterners, who have proper (if uncommon) Japanese names, Izutsumi's name is basically gibberish. This is used to imply two facts: she is poorly-educated, and she chose her name for herself. |
| 709 | * MergerOfSouls: As a beastkin, she's an ArtificialHybrid of a human and a cat, both body and soul. She's disappointed to learn that their souls are so thoroughly mixed that they can never be separated, but the merger has some advantages, like making her immune to succubus {{Glamour}} because the human and cat sides desire radically different things. |
| 710 | * MyInstinctsAreShowing: |
| 711 | ** From time to time when she's wary she approaches something on all fours in a catlike posture. |
| 712 | ** When the party enters the Golden Kingdom, she's overcome by her cat-half due to the monster-taming magic saturating the land, and acts like an overly-affectionate kitten. She's incredibly embarrassed when they leave and the magic wears off. |
| 713 | ** During the fight with the dungeon rabbits, she ends up reverting to a feral state, treeing herself with hackles raised and having killed the rabbits with her ''teeth''. |
| 714 | ** [[spoiler:During an epilogue chapter, Laios notes that she pretty regularly brings him back dead monsters as a cat is known to bring their humans dead animals they have caught. Though she demands payment for it.]] |
| 715 | * MysteriousVeil: Wears a veil and head covering in her first appearance to hide her non-human features. |
| 716 | * NoSell: Izutsumi may be the only character to be able to ignore a succubus' charms. It's stated that facing a succubus one-on-one is basically impossible, and that you need at least one other person to help fight them off. When a succubus approaches Izutsumi in the form of a motherly woman, she believes that she is her mother (even though she can't remember her at all) but seemingly attacks the succubus on instinct. Another succubus takes the form of a panther, which Izutsumi realizes is what her cat side is attracted to, but she herself harbors no attraction towards. As a beast-man, her beast side rejects what her human side is attracted to, and vice-versa, meaning a succubus' charms are powerless. |
| 717 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: At least within Shuro's party, she's only known as Asebi. In an omake Tade starts to refer to her as Izutsumi but swaps to Asebi. One of Izutsumi's objections to being a retainer is having a name chosen for her. |
| 718 | * OnlyOneFindsItFun: PlayedForLaughs in an {{omake}}, when a nightmare releases an epic dream of an elven romantic comedy. The rest of the party start to lose interest around Season 2 (Senshi loses interest halfway through Season 1), but Izutumi is still completely enraptured late into Season 3, her awed expression unchanged since the beginning, except with bags growing under her eyes. |
| 719 | * PetsAsAPresent: It's revealed in a flashback {{omake}} that Shuro's father, in an extremely inebriated state, purchased Izutsumi in an attempt to impress Maizuru. She was much less impressed to discover the so-called "kitten" he got her was a mangy, dirty, half-monster human child. |
| 720 | * PetTheDog: While with Shuro's group she would give any food she didn't like to [[BigEater Tade]], who was always happy and thankful for it. Later, when Marcille bursts into tears [[spoiler:on the dungeon subway]] Izutsumi very awkwardly and tentatively pats her on the shoulder and is horrified when Marcille clings to her, but resignedly allows it. |
| 721 | * PickyEater: |
| 722 | ** When Senshi first offers to cook something for her, she immediately insists she'll kill him if it includes any monster, which limits him to cooking with mushroom, rice, garlic, cheese, and butter. After her first bowl, which she's hungry enough to eat entirely, she goes out of her way to pick out the mushrooms and dump them on the ground. |
| 723 | ** When Maizuru organizes Shuro's party to cook for him, she specifically leaves Izutsumi out of it because she "wouldn't want anything strange getting mixed into the food". Combined with her initial refusal to eat what Senshi is cooking (until the smell of it reaches her) and her unfamiliarity with regular table manners, this suggests some really odd eating habits. |
| 724 | ** She's indicated to not be fond of vegetables, as well. Whether it's the cat physiology or just regular old finickiness is hard to place. |
| 725 | * TheRunaway: In her backstory, it's noted she continuously attempted to run away from the Nakamoto household despite them taking her in because she hated constantly having every aspect of her life controlled. Eventually, Maizuru resorted to placing a curse on her as an ExplosiveLeash to keep her in line. |
| 726 | * ShortTeensTallAdults: At 17, she's one of the youngest characters in the story and also by far the shortest of the normal human (tallman) race. |
| 727 | * SignificantWardrobeShift: After the fight with the ice golem, her default outfit changes from full-coverage ninja garb to some light armor consisting of solely of a bow, breastplate, loincloth, and bracers, putting her cat-like features on full display. The color distribution of her fur makes her look more dressed than she is. |
| 728 | * SixthRanger: Well, fifth, but as the team already has the other archetypes for party members (with Laios being a combination of TheBigGuy and TheLeader) she fits squarely in this role. |
| 729 | * StockAnimalDiet: She likes meat, especially seafood, as befits her feline chimera half. (A flashback to her DarkAndTroubledPast even shows her eating a rat.) It's not specified whether her food preferences are caused by feline instincts, or if they're just a coincidence. There's even a point where she's shocked and outraged when Laios tells her that kraken flesh tastes bad. |
| 730 | * SuperSenses: Due to being part cat. Her hearing at least seems to be much better than a normal human's. |
| 731 | * TheTeetotaler: In a chart showing various characters' alcoholic tolerances, it's stated Izutsumi doesn't drink at all, because she hates the smell of alcohol and hates being around drunk people. This comes up in the storry during a meal when she gets curious about the ale the others are drinking. When she tried some, she found it disgusting. |
| 732 | * ThereIsNoCure: She joins Laios' group to look for a way to break her chimera "curse" but learns that it's impossible -- not only is the MergerOfSouls irreversible but she's actually a cat with human elements added, so she can't even suppress it with magic. By then, she doesn't mind much, since she's found friends and personal freedom along the way. |
| 733 | * TomboyishVoice: Her dub voice provided by Creator/LauraStahl is noticeably deeper and more boyish than her original sub voice. |
| 734 | * TooHungryToBePolite: Her table manners are shown to be pretty awful, usually holding her utensils wrong or shoveling food into her mouth. It's unsurprising, since she didn't just grow up poor, as a child she was literally caged for display and had food flung at her now and then. Maizuru sternly drilled the absolute basics of table manners into her - as in, using a bowl and implements to eat at all. Under Senshi's slightly more forgiving style of instruction her manners do actually start to improve... slowly. |
| 735 | * UndignifiedDeath: Her first death happens when the Touden Party encounters the Dungeon Rabbits -- though instead of falling to the monsters like her party members (bar Marcille), she instead dies out of shock after falling into the arms of Laios' reanimated corpse. |
| 736 | * WalkingSpoiler: Definitely. She can't even be talked about without giving away the fact that Shuro comes back or that Team Touden gets an extra member later in the series. That's not even going into all the plot points involving chimeras. |
| 737 | * WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: As a child, she was treated like a sideshow attraction or animal for being a chimera, and retains a deep fear that she genuinely might not be human. This is why she's so intent on having her chimera curse removed, despite the benefits of her catlike agility. |
| 738 | * WomenPreferStrongMen: When confronted by succubi, she's rather impressed by her cat half's ideal partner, an absolutely ''savage'' black panther. |
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