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cabalt · 19 days

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We got the Shapeshifter episode so let's look at whose was whose, and what it says about the characters!

We'll start with Laios because he's the simplest. Despite both his own and the parties doubts, he does have a solid idea of who everyone is in his head, all their personalities match (well, his Marcile is a little more serious), but as stated it's the little details he gets wrong, Chilchucks wrap, Senshi's helmet and Marcile's hair.

Chilchuck is more interesting as a character study, because while it's easy to write off as "hater energy" I do think it says more about him than that. His Senshi is the most simple probably because he knows Senshi least, his thoughts are just "that handsome dwarf", but he has worked with Laios and Marcile for a while and suddenly they've become more unpredictable to him. Visually they're both accurate, but Laios' monster eating and Marcile's forbidden magic have altered his perception, while the "I must consume" Laios is more overt, this is what he pictures as Marcile's spellbook.

Marcile and Senshi I'll handle together because their biases both come from the same place: they're longer lived and have more of a focus on first impressions, because to them it's not been as long as it is for others, AND they have more overt racial bias. Both of them see Chilchuck as a child, in the bonus Senshi diary pages he actually thinks Chilchuck is a child tall-man, not a half-foot. Their Laios' also speak to this first impression/bias idea. Tall-Men look effeminate to Dwarves, so his Laios is soft and very Falin-like, while Marcile was told he looked "just like Falin" and was taken a back by his masculine features and blows them out of proportion.

Finally, Senshi's Marcile is, as stated in the description there, purely from bias, but again looking at the Senshi diary, it's also how he draws her when petrified

I mainly wanted to make this post because on the surface it seems odd that Laios' Shapeshifters are so "normal" while everyone else's, especially their ideas of him, are more caricature and I wanted to explore how it's not like, then being bad friends or being mean, but an example of character exploration!

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And it could always be much worse

#dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #laios touden #marcile donato #chilchuk tims #senshi #kabru #secret kabru 👀#rambling

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