do you ever see someone in some quiet intimate moment and suddenly love them so desperately you feel like youāre dying
#like when they pass a mirror and make a face and mess with their hair a little #or when you hear someone singing in their car with the windows rolled up as they drive past you #i donāt know how to express this i just. people are people and it makes me so sad and filled up sometimes
Thereās something so important about dungeon meshi choosing falin to be their missing party member. Sheās their healer. She is, in many ways, the most important member. Sheās the one who ensures they all come home in one piece at the end of the day. So from a storytelling perspective, it makes sense that it would be her. It intrinsically raises the stakes by taking away the partyās ability to quickly heal.
But from a thematic standpoint itās even more significant. Falin is the best of them. She holds them all together. Thereās a reason why the party splits up when they lose her, after all. The only reason Laois and Marcille know each other is because of Falin, so by extension sheās the only reason their party exists the way it does.
Thereās something almost divine about the way sheās characterized by her friends. They talk about her kindness, think of what sheād do if she were with them. You never hear anyone speak poorly of her. Everyone else has flaws. Laois struggles to connect with others, Chilchuck canāt admit when he cares, Marcille refuses to be wrong, and Senshi is very stuck in his ways. None of these are necessarily a bad thing. It just makes them complex people. But Falin is almost more of an idealized concept than a person.
And then we see Falin on screen, a mess of bones and viscera. We see her put back together with forbidden magic, her new body soaked with blood. We see that thereās something off about her, that alongside her kindness is incredible power. And everything up until that point reframes itself. Falin has always been part monster, from her compassion for the dead to her magic school hideout in a dungeon. She dies and comes back, not just changed but amplified. Sheās a healer, a ghost, a monster, all tucked beneath the same skin.
Hello everyone! Enjoy this helpful gif I made for anyone who might be a little confused by F pose Veilspun anatomy.
I know a lot of ppl joked when the F pose was created that they had a very wide back-end, but it's actually an optical illusion created by their hind wing! I hope this little gif clears everything up! :>
I noticed this while looking at their skin pdf, and I also noticed that it has already been missed by some accent artists, who cover the hind wing by accident because they think it's part of the mane. (this is easy to miss, as the mane and wings are both considered the secondary and are colored very similarly)
For those who might have a hard time reading my handwriting, it says "Spine, Wing, Mane" in that order.
As someone who works w animals āanimals are not mindless automatons, they actually do have feelings and individuality and are capable of feeling acute physical and emotional pain and of forming deep attachments with other animals and peopleā and āanimals are not human infants and have a limited capacity to communicate with humans so you have to familiarize yourself with their boundaries bc if they feel threatened or overstimulated they will fall back on their basic instincts and if you fuck around you are going to find outā are statements that can and should coexist
hmmm why does my uterus hurt and why do i feel kinda off. weird. surely these are not the warning symptoms of a predictable biological process that occurs on a regular schedule. anyway. im going to wear white pants today.
My interpretation of this art (it's from one of the Daydream Hour issues!) is that Chilchuck took the time to prepare the chest, wear the mimic costume, get inside and give his daughters a fun little jumpscare when they opened it, but they were either not impressed, didn't get it, or just wanted the candy, so he just went. Deep fatherly sigh.