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Thistle & Senshi: Missed Connections

continuing my thistleposting... here is my manifesto for thistle and senshi: friends. In another life 😥

For one thing, they've been unknowing cohabitants for most of senshi's life. thistle doesn't think much of the non-golden kingdom residents of the dungeon, of course - he considers them trespassers and thieves! but there is a difference between trespassers and thieves who mind their own business, and even help keep other adventurers out (he obviously knew about and tolerated the orcs), and trespassers and thieves who make a mess of his dungeon (hateful, to be killed).

which I can't blame him for!

Based on what it looks like when marcille became the dungeon lord, we could assume that creating a dungeon is super easy - just rely on the winged lion for everything! But we see in thistle's flashbacks, that isn't how he did it.

Thistle did a lot of the work of building the dungeon manually. Perhaps because he was trying to build a sustainable dungeon, that could support a large population of living people - who he was invested in surviving themselves, not being replaced by puppets by the demon. They need a functioning ecosystem!

Of course, this is all pragmatic. After working on it for so long, I am sure Thistle is attached to the dungeon and its ecosystem, but more as a means to an end than for its own sake. As we see from the way that Laois defeats him, Thistle isn't really interested in monsters, and doesn't really understand the value of food...

Though I think he once did, and the fact he doesn't anymore is more down to the lion's interference than anything.

Senshi is attached to the dungeon's ecosystem. It's his home, even though he lost his family there, and he's come to care about it in its own right.

There are aspects of it he finds distasteful or dislikes, such as the immortality spell. But overall, if he had a chance to talk to Thistle about his hard work building up and maintaining the dungeon, he'd be greatly appreciative of it - this is his home, and it's a place that Thistle made to be a home.

In fact, Senshi (and the orcs) have been willingly living in the dungeon. Whereas the people that Thistle created the dungeon for have to be kept there by force. I doubt it's something he'd be easily appreciative of, but it's something, isn't it?

I also think it's incredibly cute that they both keep diaries.

Senshi's diaries have drawing, Thistle's have poems... they're both artists! Thistle with his music & Senshi with his cooking, they both have arts that they share with others to make them happy, and art that they keep to themselves.

Based on the diaries, including the ones in the complete Adventurers Bible..... it doesn't seem like Senshi ever learned Thistle's name! This makes sense since they really don't have much interaction - mostly Thistle talks to Laios or Marcille.

I don't think it should have gone any other way, since they're the protagonists and foils, but I do think in a more chilled out setting, Senshi and Thistle could get on.

Like Izutsumi, Thistle's a bit of a brat.

(I love him)

He probably had good table manners once upon a time, but I reckon he is very out of practice.

And we see he isn't in the habit of sharing:

Senshi would disapprove!

Senshi's desire to get everyone living well can be a bit overbearing. He already cleaned Thistle's kitchen for him!

But like Izutsumi, Thistle is another character that Senshi's habit of assuming non-dwarves to be children would be appropriate for. He's much older than Senshi, yeah, but his maturity levels seem to have stagnated along with his physical form in some ways. I doubt that anyone has treated him like a kid since way before he became a dungeon lord. The humans around him didn't understand his age, we can see that from the responsibility Delgal puts on him!

I think it would be good for him to have a person in his life who treats him like a kid, after he's had to be an adult so early and have so much responsibility for so long. And I'd like him to sit down and eat a delicious meal.

Sometimes that does happen! But Senshi would have done better </3

Thistle's ending is sad, but it's cathartic and makes sense. After being consumed by the winged lion, I doubt he'd be able to persist for a little longer, like Yaad - why would he even want to?

But I do think it would be nice if he could have met new people, formed new desires outside of his codependency with Delgal, and eaten a meal together with new people. Senshi could have helped him with that, if he had had the opportunity.

#lovely post #senshi of izganda #thistle

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getting really into women's thighs lately

#namari of kahka brud

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If you didnt believe Laios was autistic before todays episode i hope it clears that up for you

we were first shown his special interest, a very autistic trait to have. We get to see him indulge in his interest, we get to see him happy.

but this episode contains the scene that makes it clear Laios cannot understand social cues, tone of voice, sarcasm, or subtlety. He actively suffers socially with other humans.

Shuro is pissed Laios didnt pick up on the fact that he hated Laios, because he was being passive aggressive (at best, Shuro bottled up a lot of feelings), and said verbally he was Laios' friend. Laios takes things at face value, if someone says "im your friend" that's what he believes is true.

He hates that Laios "gets to be genuine". I hate the way he says that "gets" as if its a privilege for Laios. It's a privilege for Shuro who is nobility and has his behavior and emotions stifled. Laios doesnt understand that others are NOT genuine. he's not from that world.

that's why Laios asks "why didnt you TELL me?" and Shuro says it should have been obvious.

it was NOT obvious to Laios, not at all.

And also, that was who Laios thought was his FIRST friend on the island. he thought he made a friend, something actively difficult for him to do.

it devastated him to learn that he was wrong the entire time.

#great post - loving the addition especially!! #toshiro nakamoto #laios thorden

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ok lets settle it. which laios is getting the best dick rn

#hesitated between bottom left and bottom right but all are great contenders #laios thorden #😳 adult dinner tag

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#LMAO

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#piling my characters on top of each other like its a gymnastics competition

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You can tell that Laios has an accent. His letters are more squishy and soft and Marcille's are more angular. He pronounces a ㅁ like it's an ㅇ.

#woow i had never noticed those lettering details before how awesome

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modern au with these two 🐱🍙

#yes!! #this artstyle is so cute btw #inutade #izutsumi

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The thing that really gets to my heart about how Laios’s autism is portrayed in his conflict with Toshiro is that his pain is centered and sympathized with.

How many dozens, hundreds of stories have we gotten about that obnoxious side character who just won’t take the hint and get lost, plaguing the main character who is never up front about their actual feelings but we’re supposed to relate to? How it’s played for humor half the time, a lighthearted burden on the main to make them roll their eyes before the Big Challenges of their story, with no thought to the pain and loss of the side character investing so much emotion into caring for someone who finds them a nuisance?

I think it’s even more poignant that Ryoko Kui is writing from a Japanese perspective that puts Toshido’s approach even more in the default, culturally enforced norm, but still asks “what about the feelings of the person who doesn’t have that all-important knack for ‘reading the room’ and picking up on all those invisible messages never said aloud?” and encourages us to care

#laios thorden #toshiro nakamoto

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#the tit bounce.. im normal #(lying as i claw through the walls w my bare hands) #falin thorden

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what about labru but with chilchuck watching from the cuck chair

if chilchuck isnt the one being railed then i dont care but i think laios should be in the cuck chair and watch chil and kabru fuck in front of him while crying and jerking off really sadly. and also kabru should be in the cuck chair and watch chilchuck and laios fuck and jerk off in an unsettled yet intrigued way. and actually maybe there isnt a cuck chair but theyre watching through a crack in the wall or something. because i dont really care for cucking but i do like nonconsensual voyeurism. actually. they can both do that. i think chil should take a bath on his visit to the castle and there are two peepholes and laios and kabru have no idea about the other person but theyre both jorking it on opposite ends of the room while chil is undressing. i think one little guy can have two people have a weird psychosexual obsession with him…..lots of stuff to think about. what was this ask about again

#chilabru #😳 adult dinner tag #Ahfkzkd THE WAY HE COULD HEAR BOTH OF THEM.... Halfling senses bless/cursing him in the most fucked of ways

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what about labru chil threesome

i see the vision but the specific type of character brainrot i have makes it so i need to center my fav at all times…so it would be more like chilaios plus chilbru than an ot3. imagine laios and kabru fighting over chil in bed like two seagulls battling it out over a fry. the only people that get to be in love with anyone other than chilchuck are farcille <3

#chilabru #the flavor of it you brought to the table is so funny tho elly. wouldnt have crossed my mind but the image of the tallmen fighting over chil #like 'nooo its my turn' 'you had him yesterday + you have homework to do my king' 'dont bring my work into it!!' #chil having two (2) influential political figures around his finger is quite yummy

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doing my duty of drawing skeleton falin

#this ROCKS #falin thorden #laios thorden #marcille donato

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a bountiful harvest on this fine friday evening

#cute ! #chilchuck tims

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demon king laios coercing chilchuck over to his side by agreeing to expedite all the permits chil needs to remodel his basement into a bar

#lmaoo #guild leader not beating the corruption allegations after all.... how tragic 😂 #chilchuck tims

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Tbh the problem with ship wars is that everyone tries to find a moral high ground to prove their ship is superior when actually shipping should be about making two characters kiss like a kid playing with barbie dolls

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he makes me so happy and so profoundly sad at the same time