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#cheetah #cat #dog

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I feel like something that really works for Dungeon Meshi is that all the characters are good at their jobs from the beginning. At the start of the show/manga the Touden party is one of the best parties in the business.

They got wiped in the first episode/chapter, but they got wiped on the 6th floor where we don't see another party on a floor lower than the 5th, castle town, even then the only group we meet is Shiro's who was part of the original party and super skilled. Shiro is an expert swordsman who went to the dungeon to test himself, he was the best fighter in the party and the ace to deal killing blows to dragons. Namari is a dwarf who is likely a better fighter than Senshi and takes better care of her equipment. Laios is a good fighter, maybe not the best, but he is good an super knowledgeable. Falin and Marcille are two top class mages, Marcille might be inexperienced as a practical caster, but by the time the series starts she is very powerful. Chilchuck is the leader/creator of the half-foot union, he is good at his job and has survived since he was a wide eyed kid to a grizzled old man who looks like a kid to other races. they were stacked at the start of the series and it makes sense why they are well known in adventurers circles.

They aren't newbies who are blessed with plot armor and being the main characters of the story. They are very powerful and experienced adventurers who just happen to meet the most powerful monster in the dungeon on empty stomachs. Even once the series starts, they're at a disadvantage not because they're lacking skills, just they lose two of the parties best fighters. Marcille, the parties mage, is easily able to knock out/kill a running mushroom that was giving a party of noobs a thrashing.

I get why a lot of stories start with young inexperienced kids, but sometimes its nice to read stories that star older heroes who are good at their jobs instead of something like a rookie red ranger situation. Especially now that I'm older

#dungeon meshi

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#getting commed as a red mage who saved the party from a wipe by dualcasting verheal>verraise #its actually less of an occurance than you might think #ff14

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waking up like

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#bird #birds

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as the mansion's doctor just casually walks by with a box of syringes and drops one containing heart attack serum, by coincidence

The opposite of a mansion murder mystery where everyone present is a bounty hunter who really wants to take credit for the murder and the detective has to find out who really did it

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If people were too mean to you when you were growing up, a newborn animal will materialize inside your brain and it’s so so scared and shivering and it will stay there for years. Decades, even. And whenever you say something kind of weird but true to your heart the animal will tell you “Noo! You can’t say that! If you say that, everyone will hate you!”. The animal means well. It’s so so small and everything is so scary for them and it’s just trying to protect you. But listen to me. Listen to me. Whenever this happens, you can’t do what the animal says. You can’t. If you do, you’ll become as scared as the animal. You have to keep saying weird shit. You have to keep doing things the animal wouldn’t approve of. If you do enough things that scare the animal, maybe one day it’ll go to sleep.

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I just had to, it was a desperate need

From this

#oh im following the mouse you know on twt #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi spoilers

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i love you, silly ff14 wol names

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"no spam liking" stfu that's how i know my mutuals are alive smh

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wint, chilli, and theia all babysitting wints baby bro (born post ew, but this is when hes a couple years old)

sylb (mum): WIIIIINT

wint: yea, hi

sylb: why does he have a sword? why are we giving your brother weapons, hes only two he doesnt need a sword

wint: its not real its plastic dont worry ^-^

sylb: 😑

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[when hes like 7]

chilli enthusiastically, with a selection of weapons in her possession, handing them out to wint and theia: HEY KID lets go play pirates? dont tell your mum this is a real pirate sword

#wint #chilli #sylb #theia #wint has no clue how to look after a child #do you like talk to them? hold them like potato? #theia and chilli both know #theia more actual parental skills #chilli is the 'encouraging you to misbehave' auntie

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#lil guy! #look at him go #rat #hfw #horizon

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#xbcx

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oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

#im imagining marcille trying to climb the tree #and laios is the one giving her the boost #and they summon a hoarde of dungeon gorrilas that just want to climb trees with them

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"i would kill for you" "i would die for you" okay but would you forgive me if i forgot something important for the 51204th time in a row even though i tried my best to remember

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Gonna get myself a fun little surprise I guess