Fumiku

My sideblog to post my fanfics and writing! I want to eventually pist wips and prompts, ideas that I'll never end up writing. Sometimes I'll make fanart for my fics after uploading them, I'll reblog them too. My ao3 is Fumiku. My fanart blog is @FuuMiku, and for fandom thoughts and rambles it's @fumifooms.

[fumiku]

The Figuier Fugue

When Eiji was young, he overwatered his plants. — Eiji was always thirsty for love. Just once, he wanted to know what it was like to get his fill of it, to drown in it. Just once.

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Part 2 of the Crown Shyness series

Credit: 1: Funeral, Phoebe Bridgers (x) / 2: Cicuta, Conrad Roset / 3: Cynthia Tedy / 4: Bluebonnet Scene, Robert Julian Onderdonk / 5: Vin / 6: Forget me not, Dovelin / 7: Fatima Aamer Bilal

[fumiku]

Keep me in an album, or a bookmark if you're kind

Eiji liked pressed flowers. It was so scary to wilt for everyone to see. It'd be nice, he thought, to be preserved at his best, as a symbol that brought beauty to the world from its untainted existence. How tight he was willing to be coiled, suffocated between pages of a book, if it meant finally being up to measure. Dried, so dried, it'd been so long since he cried.

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Part 1 of the Crown Shyness series

credit: 1: Online Presence, Litarnes / 2: unknown / 3: quote by Vincent Van Gogh, picture by whatever-you-write / 4: Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami / 5 & 7: VIN / 6: 9jedit / 8: Growth, Viivius

[fumifooms]

One of my favorite things about both Laicion and Flekille is imagining Kabru and Yaad's reaction to them. Their entire jobs revolve around making sure nothing goes wrong and help everyone in the castle manage the kingdom,so their reactions to the king and court mage dating criminals would be hilarious! I can already see Kabru screaming out the window as he sees Laios hanging out with Lycion like that Breaking Bad meme!

Fleki battling her fierce adhd to brush and braid Marcille's hair is kinda cute... But well. She still hasn't succeeded per se...

Gdbgd they'd both be menaces yeah. Flekille I tend to imagine more in a modern AU, or even a canary Marcille AU, but it's interesting to imagine post-canon in a timeline where... Either since she's Mithrun's servant and he has to come report to Laios about monster movement semiregylarly, or see Kabru, Marcille and Fleki have more chances to hit it up- OR laicion happened first so by default of their respective dogman dating each other they get to interact more often too. Over the years me and a buddy have had a lot of different possible post-canon laicion setups, like, Lycion being sent as an ambassador (because he's someone the king knows and everyone knows said king likes beastmen, are some reasons), Lycion being transferred some way or other to be a guard at Merini's castle as a diplomatic show of good will, or at his own request because that way he can be closer to Fleki since Mithrun is staying there. So this could be a good way to get both laicion and fleki going yeah, Fleki tagging with Mithrun, and Lycion doing simple castle job stuff~ Overall: castle shenanigans. Once they date I think Fleki starts showing up at the castle ro see her a little unpredictable and in an unpredictable state lol. Usually there're guards to escort her to Marcille, and she's learned Lycion's usual schedule anyways and they both run to each other, but sometimes Lycion deserts post. Oops

This ask though actually reminded me of an old doujin/comic I wanted to make that was both laicion and marchil lol, where laicion got married and it sorta like. Kicked marchil into going "okay it's been years of me just sleeping at your store whenever I can and you cooking me breakfast and us teasing each other while never making any actual move maybe we can like. Actually date? Hold hands? Okay yeah?" and examining their relationship and taking a leap lol. The point though is, look at these, my genius is timeless

Marcille being in disbelief at his choice still fits with flekille because 1) Marcille is not the monarch and 2) I love my girlie's flaws and hypocrisy <3 I had also noted something about Lycion and Marcille having a talk about outliving their partner.... Their dynamic is really interesting to me too tbh they compell me. And it's weird too because, Marcille will live much longer than both Fleki AND Lycion, and where Fleki is Lycion is close by, so like, either he'll have died or he'll be there mourning her too. And as hard as it is to imagining losing Laios it's just as hard for him to imagine losing Fleki. But also, Fleki treating her own health like she does, he is bracing himself for her to go first yes. This sort of doubling of mourning on an already hard convo and situation. They both have this almost bitter "you won't be the only one mourning them." But also this melancholic camaraderie forming between the two where it's like hey we'll still meet up for tea we'll see each other at bingo yeah yeah yeah 👉👉 But Lycion's philosophy is to make the best of what you can have, so hey, shrug, we've got plenty of time. Marcille's just glad Fleki's got more years left than Laios. Idk. Thoughts!!!

[fuumiku]

Day 21: Tavern

Pre-canon vs Post-canon 💖

Be careful guys it starts with your coworker asking "What's the name of your hometown?" and next thing you know it's "When is your daughter's wedding happening? Can I help get Flertom ready?" Love love love thinking about them meeting at taverns to think of plans to reconcile Chilchuck with his wife that somehow turn into her planning out a wedding. "Renewing of vows!! It's necessary trust me!!", Marcille argues. She's just having fun, and frankly who's not thinking it's kinda cute of her. He promised it to her alongside meeting his family & now she is claiming her rights

Which hey speaking of, this is kinda similar to the premise of the fic I posted (the first chapter of) the other day, meant for an early prompt in the month! Ten simple steps to not get your wife back! A romcom where Kabru sees their umpteenth efforts to make a plan to reconcile him with his wife, bound to once again go nowhere, and tries to help!... By matchmaking his friends together, because hey Marcille doesn't fake dating sound like the best way to achieve this? Hey Marcille it'll totally work, like in that romance political intrigue novel you read that other time, exactly yeah! Chilchuck is powerless to stop the menace of the two royal advisors working together

[feedmarchil]

Hey stop laughing! Do you have no respect for the sick!

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/wnXyfBo by Fumiku

Sometimes home is just a little of warmth. Yes, sometimes home is... a bowl of broth? Chilchuck is sick and Marcille comes to the rescue.

Words: 2745, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: ダンジョン飯 | Dungeon Meshi | Delicious in Dungeon Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M Characters: Chilchuck Tims, Marcille Donato Relationships: Marcille Donato/Chilchuck Tims, Marcille Donato & Chilchuck Tims Additional Tags: Post-Canon, set in Chilchuck's store, Sickfic, Fluff, Chilchuck Tims POV, Flertom mentioned, accidental wingwoman she is., Banter, dancing around each other forever, flirting but never making a real move as a love language, friends to friends because the slow burn never ends, 'If I were your wife' levels of avoiding making real steps in your relationship read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/wnXyfBo

[fumiku]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Thorne would always await the days when she came back. One such day, she walked in with a gem in her hands, of a size, quality and color so noble there was no question who had offered it to her. A golden mana stone, from the demon king himself. A token of bethrotal.  

Relationships: Thorne (The One Within the Villainess)/Remilia Rosa Graupner Words: 4,657 Rating: General Audiences

[fumiku]

MakiAngel fic prompts

Dropping my makiangel fic prompts/wips because I bet I won’t get to write out 99% of these, but the ship has so little and they’re dear to me so I still want to share them, for what they’re worth. Mostly, they’re bite-sized atmospheric prose to make you ponder touch starved lonely depressed monster who plays at being lazy uncaring and devilish x heartless lonely singleminded manipulator monster who happens to be one of the few able to touch him and modified his memories. Girl who everyone is in love with that has everyone wrapped around her finger x guy who isn’t but also isn’t not who’s somehow never thought of resisting or leaving or distrusting her... These two grabbed me by the throat and still haven’t let go for whenever I’m in that melancholic mood fr. This isn’t my ship manifesto, I’m just sighing looking out my window wistfully

Every separate prompt is in its own paragraph. CW for Makima and sad doomed exploitative relationship narratives

With that said while I’m here, I’ve also made a makiangel spotify playlist, it’s great if I do say so myself

Angel just wanted the days to drag on and blur or for them to not happen at all. For the dark to come, wether it be night or death. He didn’t care about how suspicious the bosses sometimes were. Humans are an-ill intentioned race too after all. Sloth was always his sin. An useful one. A virtue, the way she spoke of it.

Angel devil was a pawn. A tool. Useful and impersonal. All these words were synonymous with his very name, and so there is no need for her to repeat herself as she narrates this. [Makima pov, ficlet]

Makima was a very busy woman. A busy worker. He and just about anyone knew that her schedule was packed down to every hour. So why was she setting time aside to meet with him?

Makima understood the importance of rewards in training, of easing up the pull on the leash just long enough to remind them that at your call you can give them breathing.

Makima calls angel to her office to address his diminished results due to his laziness. She thinks he’s touch starved. She takes his face into her hands gently, Angel doesn’t react. He finds his apathy gets more pronounced when he’s with her, even as the touch makes spiders crawl under his skin. Backs him into a couch he falls-sits on, and she straddles him, touches his chest, lets her hands run for a moment where he does not move. "Do you like this, Angel-kun? Is it not enough as a reward for future hard work?" Goes straight into kissing him, pressing her body to his. This time he does gasp, at the stifling suffocating warmth of it all, even when her skin is slightly cold and firing off all the nerves on his skin. The kiss feels… Good, somehow. He wonders if this thought too was her design, planted into his mind somehow. Angel continued to be lazy on work duty, and Makima continued to touch him when they found themselves alone together.

Angel Devil was special. He’d always been the most complacent of her pawns, how fortunate he was also one of her most powerful.

Her tool. Her touch.

Her tool, her weapon, her messenger. She meticulously made him integrate the Hayakawa circle. Relationships are chain-like bonds, and the more chains one has… Angel Devil is obedient, but as it is, only by complacency.

Touch me Midas / Make me part of your design [My Ordinary Life, The Living Tombstone]

Angel wakes up from a nightmare and he wants to die. He wants to shed a tear at all but he stays dry and empty and hollow. A shell of an imitation of an imitation. He wants to die screaming and crying, his guts embowelled to the floor, everything out of him before he leaves this devilforsaken place for ever. Maybe by his sword. Makima comes visit him. Makima takes him to a movie, he ends up crying uncontrollably.

He claimed to like humans dying. Makima sees the sympathetic glint in his eye that he tries as best he can to make hollow. Her smile doesn’t shift a millimeter. "Oh, Angel… You truly are so kind." In a cute pitying demeaning ways of oh wow u do fulfill your gimmick

This is how Makima chooses to spend her last moments of peace on the beach, while Gun Devil goes to Denji. She hasn’t felt peace since forever, order does not rest, but here the waves bend around her ankles, mold themselves against her, and there is the body of an angel devil ungracefully lying in the sand, wet hair whipping at his face and sticking to false skin as he eats seafoam and bites back words. He asks her if she ever thinks about the people who die instead of her, from her contract. Makima smiles, but there’s an uncharacteristic softness to it, melancholy.

So won't you tell me / What do you know of devotion? / Be grateful for the freedom of lacking emotion [Like a Dog, Ferry]

Makima with Angel like aren’t we so glad to be devils. "If I a devil don’t feel what they call emotions, I can only imagine how awful and pitiful living as a human must be like." And yet they yearn.

Their hairs were both the color of hearts, despite neither having one.

Angel and reading the bible. What was the point, when he was an insulting imitation of an angel, and a devil who couldn’t follow these words of god? He doesn’t like reading, doesn’t undeestand this, feels guilt at every little fact of himself that overwhelms him so much it loops back around to numbness. [I am alas not knowledgeable enough to pull this concept off but it’d be interesting I think. Not very shippy though I suppose, but hey Makima god imagery…]

Connection control. Bond and chain.

Angel Devil has remembered what Makima is many, many times before. He just didn’t remember any of them. The only therapist Makima would have is one that forgets, that she can keep under her thumb fully… An employee with no rights she has full supervision over who happens to be a devil who’s a good listener out of apathy. "Movies are easier" she says. Devils will literally watch movies instead of going to therapy. He’s all singeing of course but gives up on killing her every time until they have a chat. Here it’s a hard reset where every time they do this it’s news to him, but alternatively it could be like the flip of a switch where he remembers every time before immediately at the snap of her finger.

Frankly, he never understood what was so great about Makima. Until…. What there’s to love about makima: she can touch him. Inexorably, ineffably, miracurously.

[Generally, I like when he knows she’s a devil but of course in most cases that can’t be the case, so my go-to explanation is that being a devil cancels out Angel’s lifesucking touch power but that when asked she tells him that she has a devil contract that protects her from his power and he doesn’t push. But alternatively… : ]

She tells him that as part of her contracts others’ lifespans dwindle in her stead when she touches him, and he bears all this guilt as well.

He thought himself above being fooled or charmed by her, but ultimately he fell into the warm comforting duvet of emotionlessness, lethargy and boredom. Denial, just another kind.

They kiss, and it feels unnatural and unfamiliar to both of them. He’s still starved for physical intimacy tho, and he wasn’t difficult. Makima seeing him as the perfect practice dummy He couldn’t hear her breathing, going to sleep against her.

His hair was always like a bush of brambles. She so disliked disorder. Makima personal grooming time, the dog fur with a comb kind.

"You’re very uncaring, you follow orders toughtlessly. Well, you follow orders most times. It’s not exactly respectable, but, I like that about you."

"Why me?" "Devils have no protected rights."

Any love she ever got was coerced. Sacrificial lambs on a false altar.

Like idk he wants to be free in general and free of her and he has this faint feeling pushed down deep in his stomach that she’s the source of that bind and he’s chained to her by her, but also he wants to be subjugated to not feel so much, like Denji. Complacency is his coping mechanism. Don’t care don’t feel everything is out of his control it’s all too big it all means nothing. The fear of angels, the fear of divine higher authority and divine servitude, the fear of the messengers of the order of the world and of how tiny you are.

[fumiku]

Stomach Aches

Read it on AO3 here!

She knows the taste of stains, and she learned he does too. Mickbell who day after day could only afford plain rice for weeks at a time, settling for food fallen to the ground because beggars can’t be choosers. Rin who was given day after day a plate of unseasoned food, with some hairs and dirt sticking to it, because after all no one cares for the palate of an animal. He likes eggs no matter which way you cook them and she likes sourness and spice. "Wanna try the shittiest food around here?"

Or, the party has a few days off work between dungeon dives and Mickbell and Kuro mooch off of Rin. They get food together, make food together and fight over food together. Shenanigans ensue.

A 22k words sitcom romcom!

[fumiku]

Coraline marchil AU(s)

Would Chilchuck willingly sew the button eyes on himself?

First of first, look at this coraline au art by Sanqiaori!!

Depressed divorcee with empty nest syndrome moves into an isolated house in an isolated town, and finds a hidden tunnel… On the other side is his Other Wife. His ideal type, blonde, young and pretty, bright and accommodating, though she can become black haired, cold and calm if that is what he desires. She materialized his daughters so perfectly after all, even from when they were still only happy children. She made them such a perfect routine, a perfect house, a perfect world. Like a better, more vivid, less marred reflection of the deserted home and dull life waiting for him before the looking glass, empty. 

Marchil server was cooking coraline AUs (shoutouts to Sushi_monster and Chau) so I’ll just be listing off a handful of collectively brainstormed versions of the same premise: Coraline AU where Chilchuck is the protagonist and Marcille is the demon, starting with the more straightforward ones then moving to the ones with twists and plots. It helps of course to have seen the movie or knowledge of it on an analytical level since the lore is rather mysterious otherwise. I discussed "what would Chilchuck’s perfect dungeon lord world look like and why?" in a post here, which is topical because there I talk about his avoidant tendencies in canon & in the same context as this AU more deeply, but in this post we’ll be focusing on AU brainstorming not analysis~

A Coraline AU starring Chilchuck is already fun without being marchil, the demon can be only fake Chilwife and similarly offer him the perfect family life, but I think adding a third separate distinct factor/character makes the plot & themes a lot more rich and interesting. You can have something that works with, well, the demon from Dunmeshi as the demon from Coraline, but shifting the demon into a more ambiguously antagonistic figure, with more of an identity…

A lot of Dunmeshi is about accepting reality over your ideal fantasies and coping mechanisms. And Chilchuck’s arc (paralleled by Marcille’s and their relationship together) to me is more about accepting loss and it still being worth experiencing for the risk of love & connection, rather than building upon the wrong you’ve done and regaining what you’ve lost, so Coraline feels very thematic for the two of them. It’s not about going back to how things were and never experiencing the setbacks of relationships but how to overcome loss and keep going and form new bonds, to accept reality even if flawed, like both their arcs in canon~ 👀 

A sad ending where Chilchuck stays in the other world is him failing at that lesson, and if the Demon dies it’s because Marcille refused to learn that same one and gripped too tightly onto her ways despite her second chances, and if they both have a good ending... Well. That’s hard to have that in the true sense because of the whole -gestures- situation, but not impossible… Learning to move on from relationships Chil vs learning to connect with people healthily demon Marcille……. Dual arcs my beloved.

This is also fun to do with them because out of everyone (besides Milsiril and Kabru), Marcille and Chilchuck have some plush imagery. With Chilchuck who regularly sews and fixes his clothes, the plushes at his home representing his history with his daughters, the past when they were young & when he still had a family life. With Marcille, plushes bring comfort, and even represent others like Falin in her nightmare. … Plus her habit of thinking she knows better than others and wanting to decide things for them, or thoughtlessly cutifying Chilchuck and infantilizing Falin etc etc- the whole dunlord thing where she wants to dictate the length of their lives and imprison them in her treehouse, Laios’ forcefeeding speech etc. Chilchuck mends plushes and Marcille treats people like them, changes people into them. Comfort teddies or dolls to manage that she still feels distanced from bc of her half-elfness and secrets. Does this not fit the themes!! Does this not fit a Coraline demon imagery!!! The whole Coraline opening oughhh.

Okok enough yapping!! Gimme actual deets actual plot!!

Marcille, the demon

So. What if the demon had more selfless goals than in Coraline, in a twisted way?

A lonely eldritch being in a cage-world of her own making, who gives people she takes an interest in everything they want, everyone they want at their most perfect pliant self, but doesn’t involve herself in that fantasy, only positions herself as a giver… Because she doesn’t think anyone would take an interest in her back, because that’s too unstable and risky, because that’s too new, because she prefers being a voyeur into others’ happiness……

This is what Ajo’s Coraline AU art, what sparked this whole marchil community horror and coraline AU craze all those months back haha, made me think of first. An Other Marcille, like herself as a dungeon lord, terrifying in its powers and in thinking it knows what’s best for you more than you do, yet innocently well-meaning though selfishly motivated by loneliness. Not unlike the demon in Dunmeshi, Other Marcille genuinely believes her relationship with her humans are a win-win, a mutually parasitic relationship. She’s making everyone happy after all, isn’t she? And if she’s slowly eating his soul, well, it’s the best death he could possibly have had, in the best world made specially for him, after she’s centered all her attention and life and fixation on him. And if she’s slowly eating his soul well, maybe she’ll feel like her pocket dimension’s a little less empty, if someone’s become part of her, someone that can never leave her behind not even through death.

She thinks she’s content with that, but… This is where the story can diverge. Is this only a tragedy? Is Chilchuck seduced by the life he’s shown and seduced to stay, or does it turn thriller because Other Marcille gets attached and he needs to get out and flee? Is Chilchuck only using her & it to cope, or does he catch genuine feelings? Does she only use him to cope or does she catch feelings?

I’m a monster x human romance enjoyer listen I’m all for any of these options— They could have a weird toxic-ish slow burn that gradually turns more and more healthy and genuine slowly over dinner table conversations and bugs in the matrix of the roleplay. Marcille would lose herself in the wife roleplay, playing the role of a wife and mother that she could never get to have any other way as a demon, something that was never meant to be hers but that he’s giving her in a warped way….. Get attached to the guy even if she sees him as "awww a human… Aww my food" in that classic holier-than-thou but still affectionate way that then may or may not turn into genuine respect. Very… Isolated romance you are literally 2 alone in the world in the same setting, the same made-up house for however many days as time blurs together and there’s only you and you and more of it for more of time. Other Marcille falling in love with Chilchuck, or thinking she does in that classic sort of twisted Marcille way, because she wants to romanticize any emotion and attachment she gets even if it’s born from desperation and misunderstood unhealthy attachment… And going "Why not me? Do mi ti" is so heartbreaking to me, bc yeah I’ve been obsessed with this Washing Machine Heart Coraline amv…

Cynical Chilchuck’s will to resist against the messed up supernatural situation crumbling like Laios with his succubus… It’d be fun seeing Chilchuck the straightman gradually rationalizing the situation more and more, because he wants it even if it’s obvious it’s an unwise decision to stay any second more. Yet seconds turn into minutes into hours into days into weeks. How long will they last? The Other World is neverending bliss and peace, joy and contentedness and pleasure, how could he give up on that? It’s Chilchuck Tims I bet he could do it but. He can be a weak man of earthly desires sometimes so! Flip a coin & gamble. Think depressed divorcee who moved into an isolated house, found a hidden tunnel and met this creepy but cute blonde witch, who created his children for him. Chil really could choose to stay on the other side. He’d go back to his life, his work, his alcohol, empty mailbox, no calls from his family and feel like he really has nothing left for him and stay on the other side. 

To take on a cuter role, he knows it’s not his real wife, of course he does, so he ends up saying let me see the real you, and she thinks he’ll run away but he’s like holy shit she’s hot. Lmao. Chilchuck: I love my 16th century creepy witch gf. Marcille is astounded that someone actually likes her for herself and doesn’t have to impersonate anyone when that’s all she knew how to love… Marcille sees his ex wife and thinks taking on her appearance is the best way to get to him… But for once what Chil craves isn’t an illusionary shell of the best but true actual companionship so he starts talking with other marcille and trying to push her to be more authentic and vulnerable. Since it’s literally another world, dreamlike, he feels like he can be vulnerable himself more easily too.

Another take could be that Chilchuck takes the role of Coraline’s father (just more dead eyed, drunk, and miserable rip) and Marcille sees how good he is with his ex-wife and kids and wants him for herself. Starts making a fake family for him and replaces his other wife with her. Dunno how that’d fit into the timeline ehhh 🤔 Definitely a more thriller horror take where you have this eldritch entity obsessed with you trying to veer your life the way they want to so you fall into their hands. Good god

Lore wise, I like the thought of being the demon is like being a dungeon lord, where these pocket dimensions are like dungeons that you get trapped in once you make a contract by the demon. Like maybe it’s a relay race thing where you can get the limitless powers you’re seeking but for it you have to take its place trapped in the dimension. Then becoming demons themselves… Gradually forgetting who they are and just succumbing to instincts and cravings as they lure in and hunt their prey each in their own way.

There are so many ways to handle her appppearance too. Did she always just loook like Marcille, or was it his wife (blonde or not), mayybe even an inbetween with herself as a half-foot like her bicorn theorizing. I like to think it’s a slow transformation, from his older black—haired wife to a younger blonde half-foot woman to a talllady with pointy ears dressed in black... Spider other mother transformation style pretty much.

It’s a premise that’s fun to think of as deeply or as shallowly as you want for daydreams… Like if nothingggg else the imagery is cool. 

Marcille, the neighbor

Coraline AU where Marcille is both the demon and Chilchuck’s perky overly nosy and friendly neighbor. Together they will defeat the Other Marcille! Her parents, whom she lost in a mysterious freak accident, were the original owner of the house, and she’ll be damned if she just let this mystery rest. She lives in the knowledge anyone who lives there might disappear at any moment, worried. She wants to save anyone who moves into it and that’s why she moved to the very next house, befriending every new neighbor, eventually trying to convince them to move away, but Chilchuck isn’t only a stubborn ass, he spits in the face of superstitions.

Her parents being the previous owners of the house who mysteriously disappeared, and then Marcille moved out of the house but could never really move on, and watches the new people going to live in that house to see if it’ll happen again…. Marcille trying to prevent tragedy from happening again, obsessing. Good reason tp obsess over someone all in all.

So then, Chilchuck does get targeted by the demon and sucked in, and when he comes back the investigations truly begin and he can’t brush her off anymore. She breaks into his house when he’s away in the other world at one point I feel. Interrogating him after like "There wasn’t one peep or move coming from your house for days, what were you up to?" "Umm I was hungover mind your business." Maybe he tries to hide it from her at first to keep living his blissful parttime demonic forbidden fruit fantasy or maybe he asks for her help straight away because he’s wayyy out of his depths.

People might ask: "why Other *Marcille* why does the demon take her form?" and I think, the parents being the previous victims of the demon... Other Marcille has that look (and name?) because her parents were the last people she got to, so she stuck with that appearance, the last appearance she took on from her victims’ memories, her parents baited by visions of her daughter forever happy, never experiencing pain or hardship or loss or loneliness.  That and/or down bad lonely Chil took one look at his cute neighbor and the Other demon said yep I can tempt him with this, lmao. Chilchuck, seeing Other Marcille for the first time: (am I really that sex deprived?) OTL

Alternatively, a happy ending (or at least one that doesn’t question if you can achieve happiness in an isolated world of makebelieve with 2 people one being eldritchly powerful and immortal 😰 I guess souls exist so maybe he could be too hm) would be he defeats the Other Marcille with the help of Marcille, his cute blonde neighbor. Maybe right as he’s about to give up and go to the other side, she starts visiting him. Notices he’s lonely and become obsessed with him and his personal life haha like how she behaves in canon. She inserts herself into his life and makes him hesitate on his decision to stay in the other side. Then maybe after enough visits she can learn about the tunnel or the other marcille and second half of the plot kicks up…

And this is where we thought of the next step: Her parents being the previous owners of the house who mysteriously disappeared, and then Marcille moved out of the house but could never really move on, and now watches the new people going to live in that house to see if it’ll happen again…. Marcille trying to prevent tragedy from happening again, obsessing. Good reason to obsess over someone all in all.

The unhelpful cat is Izutsumi lol. Enough said.  Chilchuck and izutsumi fighting each other: Other marcille:  Chilchuck: what the fuckkkkk is going on help meee (　ﾟдﾟ) Izutsumi: Izutsumi (walks away) Coraline Izutsumi being the one link between reality and the Other World bc she’s the cat, kinda fitting since she has a connection to both Chil and Marcille if that makes sense… Between humans and monsters too. In Coraline the cat is more of an antagonist to the demon so it’s interesting the different ways that can play out in an AU

Closing thoughts

Chilchuck moving into an isolated house in an isolated town after the divorce™️ expecting things to be boring, perfect for his currrent mood, but instead he gets thrown into a v scary yet enthralling magic world with a v scary yet v pretty witch-woman-thing and a digestive hallway and oh god. Also an unhelpful talking cat Izutsumi (Izutsumi).

I like to think about a Chilchuck Peter Pan motif sometimes and it feels topical for this a little bit… Guy who doesn’t want to grow up and acknowledge relationships take effort. Ok I need to pull myself together

But you know. If eyes are the windows to the soul then, it can be that they need to sew buttons on their eyes as in ‘closing their eyes’ on something and living in denial because ignorance is bliss, no need to self-reflect or see yourself in others’ eyes like they’re mirrors. Her black buttons are matte, without shine, there is no stray reflection of light that could ever give him a distraught glance of himself…

So yes yes that’s it that’s it. For now. We really do need fics of this au badly omg

Would Chilchuck willingly sew the button eyes on himself?

Opposite actually. Marcille would rip out her eyes to be with him.

[fumiku]

Kabrinmickuro Tinder AU

Imagine Mickbell with a tinder profile.

The AU has a Mickrin focus but there are kabrinmick and kurokabu shenanigans happening on the side so this is the schedule this is the situation buckle up, have the tangled mess that is their quartet

Ok so. Tinder AU. His tinder profile is terrible ofc and she only swipes right because they’re ex coworkers and she’d have felt bad + obligation + some pity and concern + morbid curiosity + vindication about kabru and freedom probably. So they chat and meet up but the flirting gets stamped down pretty quickly and instead they become buddies where they meet up to vent and talk.

The thing is, this is set in a modern au right, and it’s set the same year when Kabru and Rin go their own ways. College has ended and they’re going to univeristy, and Kabru picked a great medicine university… That’s on the other side of the country. He didn’t talk to her about it or ask for her thoughts at all, and Rin had assumed they’d be going to the good one in the same city they moved to attend the local college for. And she could follow him and get into the same one, but she doesn’t. Her personal arc of growing beyond Kabru and not uprooting her life and centering it around him has started and she’s like, oh, ok, fine whatever then. Kabru pretty much expected her to follow him when he told her about it even if the notion kinda annoyed him because he easily feels stifled, but he feels conflicted when instead she just goes congrats & good luck and lets him go.

MEANWHILE!! Kuro is also going away to university. Mickbell and Kuro are roommies ofc, and Mick’s a highschool dropout or just finished highschool or some such, doing jobs here and there. (Rin and him probably worked together in retail or such at one point. Rin maybe remembers Kuro as that really quiet coworker, but also it’s fun if she doesn’t know him yet too…) Kuro had followed Mickbell’s lead thus far (idk how i can make this line up with him possibly attending Kabru’s school though hmmm. Maybe kuro just never stopped education even when Mick did, just working a lot too when not in class. Maybe it’s a special university social program and that’s why Kuro gets a tutor?) but he’s been feeling a want for more. So of course Mickbell is PISSED and refuses when Kuro brings up he wants to move into an university dorm for the next semester, but unlike in canon here he’s able to just, leave. So he puts his foot down and is like, no Mick I need to experience the world for myself, I am seeking higher education!!!! Wether you approve or not!! Though he’s still gentle after with him once it sinks in for Mickbell that Kuro’s not changing his mind.

Guy who couldn’t follow his most important person to university because he doesn’t have the brains the grades or the means and girl who could follow hers but chose to let go because it was destroying her and she’s tired……..

Gbdvcjdh making a horrendous tinder profile was Mick’s way of going through the kuro breakup aftermath… Sobbing in his bed mascara running down his red cheeks as he writes "no pain no gain and baby I’ve lost consciousness from injuries several times in my life and I’m still broke rn so it’ll catch on soon and I’ll be rich just you wait everyone will be sorry for having left actually" Hitting people up in dms like a man possessed being way too agressively flirty and coming on thick bc he’s awfully coping. Rin swiping on the awful profile of her ex-coworker out of pity and morbid curiosity He posts pics of his "dates" with Rin on his socials to try and fail to make Kuro jealous (Kuro worries if anything) Mick handling the separation way worse than Rin she’s just kinda sad and melancholic and feels aimless sometimes but he’s mourninggg breaking downnn singing conceal don’t feel at 2 am

Kabru and Kuro take flights back to this city sometimes to visit~ Bc it’s like co-brainstormed with Toby this is kabrinmick and many many shoujo comedy love triangle shenanigans happens there with that but in my heart……… Kabru and Kuro having an university romance. Bromance at the very least… Maybe Kabru is Kuro’s tutor What would Kuro study… Economics… Linguistics… Psychology…. Some specific work program like idk eletric engineering……. Yeah this is the non-mickrin I was working towards. Gbdgdgd sorry, yay university romance kabukuro have all this context for the mickrin

To quote myself: In the end they become a 4 person household and everyone is uncomfortable /hj Wait in this au Kuro and Mick could actually possibly end up living apart woah what a concept

Co-brainstormed with @cranechel back in like july, more details from when we were developing it for more kabrin and nuggets of comedy gdbdg

I want the romcom sitcom bs for this AU but also in the angst route it’s 2 heartbroken people who lost their respective codependent relationship and smoking weed together in a dump after having cried a lot (their ‘dates’ lmao. Yes mick your hot date game is great. I bet he posts pics of them on his social hoping kuro sees and seethes and runs back to him) teasing that edge of having a codependent relationship themselves (cue Mick following Rin to the airport lmao)

I always have my hands in mickrin aus and timelines and this or that and lately kabrinmick also and it’s fun to me to think about kabukuro on the side there. In my vague mind relationships chart mickrin is happening kicking and screaming and then off to the side there are just Kabru and Kuro, chilling. Lmao

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Epic the musical/Odysseus Laios AU do you see the vision.

Laios going to war, and on the way back his interest & perceptiveness when it comes to monsters and beasts and inhuman mythical beings progressively made him the leader because he always knows what to do about the mythical obstacles the best… Going from black sheep to leader, getting increasingly high on the power and validation and bloodlust and freedom to do what he wants and indulge his interest and be monstrous all while obviously going from hardship to hardship. Different Beast COME ON. HE IS THE MAN-MADE MONSTER. HE IS A DIFFERENT BEAST NOW HE IS THE ONE WHO FEASTS NOW HE WILL TAKE NO MORE SUFFERING FROM YOU. -infodumps smugly about everything he knew about sirens and the plan he thought of to trick them that worked-. KILL THEM ALL. (and to ressource efficient be eat them all, ofc ofc)

AU where Laios never left the military and they suddenly got called to handle an emergency & go to war against monsters and he progressively rises in rank bc of the strategies he comes up with in the fire of action that he tells his comrades and his skills get more and more recognized and valued. Laios rising in power and status and approval but still feeling out of place, feeling alive the most when on the battlefield and seeing monsters kill and be killed. General Laios Touden, anti-monster tactician specialist. Maybe eventually rise to king Laios as well… The bad end way to get there, in a way… Maybe in the timeline of canon it’s just that the Island dungeon amongst others overflow since Laios isn’t in the party, and nations start being torn apart by monsters and war. The black witch, herald of the apocalypse……… That Laios defeats and puts to the sword, of course.

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Marchil AUs I’m not sure when/if I’d get to so might as well share! Gonna present 3 I’ve jotted down:

pilot & researcher AU sphinx Marcille AU vampire & vampire hunter AU.

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Pilot & researcher AU, inspired by the ff13 or ff tactics artwork here with the flying machine by @aatom87

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Sphinx!Marcille AU, inspired by the sphinx Marcille art also here by @aatom87. Brainstormed with @dayundying hehe~

3~

Vampire x vampire hunter AU. The vampire Chil & hunter Marcille bit was thought of by @room-surprise ~

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whats the discord you talk about chilcille in

Redirecting you to this post~ 👇

Join the Marchil Union Discord Server!

I heard a rumor that there is going to be a Marchilk discord 👀 HOW DID- It’s one day old I- Well I was going to publicize it today anyways

Marchil is the more common ship name so if you only search for it with chilcille that might have given you trouble finding stuff! Looking forward to meeting you if you join, we’d love to have you!

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HI. I loved your marchil fics and I love your lil blurbs and hcs and all you're lil thoughts on them it's beautiful and makes my heart melt. It's just seeing this lil guy and how he has all his feelings locked away in a box until marcille walks over and picks right through the lock and gets him to open up (well in a metaphorical sense-).

DAMN YOU FOR GETTING ME DEEPLY INVESTED IN THESE IDIOTS I LOVE THEM SO MUCH IM GETTING CUTE AGGRESSION!!!!

I KNOWW RIGHT, I love how you described it!! There’s so much fun imagery and metaphors you can do with them… They lost focus and had a consensual workplace relationship, as people say

I love their dynamic they are so romcom shaped… Speaking of romcoms I recently read Dame na watashi ni koishite kudasai/Please love me ! which has major marchil energy, I love reading it while thinking of them lmao. They banter and she infiltrates his social sphere & gets all the family gossip and also he owns a cafe and cooks her things, it’s like my coffeeshop AU but real 😭💗

People when getting into marchil:

Thank you for this ask! 🥺 It’s always really nice to hear things like these… I never know what to respond though so naturally I shall go overboard, handing out more marchil thoughts as per popular demand! Marchil nation is a tiny island I’m sorry for getting you invested, but also mwahahaha hahahA YES HAHAHA YESSS! Handing you these ramblings as apology

My motivation to write essays has been waning lately BUT I do have a big post about theories and facts on Chilchuck’s family planned, his wife and daughters plus some Chil’s dad and siblings, the whole package. On top of more marchil crumbs to post oof… Ideally I should also rework the first part of the marchil crumbs to make it more streamlined and dare I say convincing. Also fanart and fics which I hope to get around to finishing up… I def want to make more marchil content, but I honestly have no clue which idea to work on next… (I take requests and prompts btw~). I want to make more fluff but I also want to make more hurt/comfort, ahh dilemma

One idea I have that’s particularly relevant is a fic that I’d call Locks of Hair, about blonde hair and the key to his heart. I’d love touching on his attraction to blondes and how that might affect their relationship in a neat lil introspective oneshot like I like to make. LOCKS of hair? Being the KEY to his heart? I love the english language. There’s sorta this trope where if a character loves money has a liking for blondes it’s because like, the hair is "golden", and I’d find playing with that so funny too.

Another that really has my heart right now is Marcille’s mom visiting them to see her daughter and meet her new partner Chilchuck, and it throws them into a frenzy to prepare for it, Chil being entirely too stressed and dreading. And seeing them her mom’s eyes soften and she tells them they remind her of her and her late husband… The bittersweet pride mixed with anticipation at how her daughter has grown into someone who can accept loss, and is willing to throw all of herself into loving despite them not even having 20 years together ahead of them……. I think about marchil proposals and marriage a lot. Hey hey did you know that in Japan "I want to drink your miso soup every day" is a way to propose, because that’s so Dungeon Meshi. The way proposals are so meaningful with these two because it truly is like "i want to give my lifetime to you, knowing all that it entails, but I believe that it’s worth the trouble. That it’s worth it." I have so much proposal dialogue between them written up oogh they make me so emotional

You truly are a warrior for reading all I wrote about them omg, if you like these sorta convos then maybe you’d enjoy joining our dunmeshi discord! I rarely get the chance to speak with another marchil enthusiast~ We have a lot of big convos on characters and ships over there hehe, ofc no pressure though, invite link in comment just in case. I get cuteness agression over them TOOOOO I need them-shaped stress balls to squeeze in affection

-trips and falls and some of my favorite marchil moments slip out-Soulmates ❤️ (delusional)

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I love your analysis and your fics! Do you have any fanfiction you recommend written by other folks?

Thank you!!

I'm not very good at bookmarking or tracking fics I read but I've taken a gander back through my history to find some Good Stuff for you:

My biggest rec by far would have to be The Taste of Goodbye by Birbliophile, which is a Marcille-centric gen fic that I think pretty much everyone in the fandom should read. I'm usually not a big fan of stories that fast-forward to character deaths (frankly it can get ME a little existential), but this is so lovingly crafted with such a hopeful focus that absolutely nails the themes of the manga. I really love how it ends off, too, but I won't spoil that :p

Their other dunmeshi works are also great, and in particular I'll also rec It's Still You which somehow in less than a thousand words made me fall in love with Marcille & Laios' dynamic all over again. It's SO good.

Let's see, what else....

Tomato Quiche by OfficialSpec is a wonderful Kabru & Laios fic (and also pre-relationship Labru) that characterizes both of them fantastically and hits the PERFECT sweet-but-still-difficult flavor I love in my post-canon dunmeshi.

the end of desire by rubiginosa is a beautiful piece about the dungeon lords. It's gorgeous and thoughtful and and painful and loving and very good.

Tarts by Fumiku is just a really really sweet short Laios/Marcille fic that I especially appreciate because it has such a wonderful depiction of post-canon Laios gaining wait and being loved for it.

And. Okay. This is such an obnoxious level of revealing and silly but FOR YOU ANON I shall, perhaps, reveal myself.

So. I am Very Ace and don't really read a lot of smut fic (nor do I feel particularly qualified to rec it), but. Um.

A Midnight Meal by perilouspage is a Falin/Marcille fic with some of the most fucking incredibly tender and sensual descriptions of food and cooking that I've ever seen. Sensuality in all forms is so important to the manga, and I sometimes feel a bit out of my depth when trying to capture that in my own writing, so this fic has been a big source of inspiration on how to do that. 👍The sex also is very beautifully written and good I am not at all trying to diminish that by the way. I'm just, uh. It's not as much my area of expertise.

And that's all I've got! There are lots and lots of other great fics out there but these are some particular favorites that I was able to dig up. Hope there's something in there you enjoy!

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Selkie AU

Ok so on discord we went off. A lot of this is just paraphrasing or copy pasted from buddies hii guys. It’s honestly a fun concept to play with no matter how you turn it around~ I’ll start off with the version I drew these doodles for but it’s all under the cut because it got so long... There’s also always place for different flavors like if they realize the other’s a selkie immediately or over time, etc etc so this is all just food for thought. Marcille is always the instigator though lol, obsessed with him no matter the universe. As a selkie wants to learn more about this human and as a researcher is chasing after this secretive mysterious sea-guy while he very much tries to escape everyone’s attention.

Fisherman Chil & selkie Marcille

Old sad fisherman Chilchuck… He drinks out at sea even. Divorcee dad who’s got nothing waiting for him on land anymore. He’s on the sea every day to get fish to sell at the wet market or to the butcher, the sky and sea’s grey and everything’s dull and tedious. Seals are nothing special either. The only stuff he knows about selkies really could have some selkie storybooks he reads to his daughters. Meanwhile selkie Marcille… You could go a lot of different routes I feel. You know I feel like being a selkie fits with Marcille and her mom, with that interaction of "you’ll have to let others go and deal with that", like in this AU she’ll always be different and will have to leave people behind for the sea eventually here and there and whatnot…

Chilchuck and worksongs... Fisherman Chilchuck singing sea shanties while selkie Marcille sings her songs of the sea and then she hears him and gets curious and follows him back on land or something…… Tries to blend in with humans just so she’s like. What’s his deal. But them only meeting out at sea is very cute as well. Eventually she gets on his boat and they hang out. Melancholic psychological horror sea tragedy-romance would be fun idk. Maybe he starts hearing a woman sing out at sea randomly and thinks it’s the alcohol. But he’d be a goner already lmao. Like don’t get me wrong it’d take a while of actual interactions for him to actually fall in love, but also ~~he’s lonely~~ pretty blonde woman waaaa. Siren imagery hehe. "Hmmm I didn't know selkies had hypnotic voices as well" (they don't. he's down outrageous and he knows it.) Mr "in denial so bad maybe magic is the answer yep for sure". I want her to hear him singing something he used to for his daughters/wife etc and shes like 👁️👁️ who hurt this man........... (Could also work for selkie Chil) What’s his tragic backstory…..

I think marcille also deserves to go silly and catch a carp between her teeth, giving it to chilchuck batting her eyelashes like teehee... I'm such a good assistant right... He needs them undamaged if he wants to sell them but he still makes use of her gift anyway... Puts it in a stew and shares it with her... Something we made together..… Marcille being able to taste human food with actual spices and actual heat and actual cooked meat... His home is the warmest place on the surface. His hugs are more comforting than even the water’s. AGH and how long hasn’t he eaten a real homecooked meal you’d bet 😭 Marcille notices he’s underweight and is like "he’s always fishing though??? Does he just need like, a lot??" and takes it upon herself to bring him more fish to feed him. "He NEEDS to blubber up. I know it." Do you think when his wife was still there he'd come home to the smell of cooking.... but now there's nothing......... He’s on his own, he sleeps in the boat… It just smell like fish all day. The stench gets to him and even the burn of alcohol in his nostrils is a kinder hell. NOW he comes back to the stench of roting flesh and he's like :))) ahh.... my gi rl firned 💖 /j

Selkie Marcille getting onto his boat out of nowhere and slapping the beer bottle out of his hand. It’d go hard if he’s so drunk once that he’s leaning over the railing with his bottle hanging down from his grip and the beer goes into the sea and she tastes it and is like. Now what the fuck is this. Ew. He doesn’t look so good maybe I should splash him with water. She could save him from drowning... Girl who puts him on a rock somewhere until he wakes up and hides in the water as soon as he comes to… Peekinh at him from the surface of the water because, oh dear we're shy now because it's face to face… Drawing parallels between swaying (drunk) and swaying (motion of boat on the sea). She sways his world…… Makes him feel dizzy in a nice, light airy way…… He crashes into his bed in his home and still feels the rocking of the waves under him, and he falls asleep thinking of her…

Go out to the sea in a storm because you can’t stand feeling useless. The sea is your livelihood, it's where you're good and useful. On land you never know what to do with your hands. Maybe he should just let the sea pull him under. let it sweep him away.  Marcille does exactly that, but it's not something that erases him. It's not something that swallows him whole. It's something that shows him a whole other world- The coral reefs, the schools of fish that exist below, the lush seaweed forests that Marcille treasures so much. It's all been there for him to see, theres so much beneath his feet. And all he had to do was let her take his hand. This world full of fish and creatures he's caught and gutted... that he gets to see in a different light…… The idea of him trusting her enough to let her lead him underwater... I think the time that Marcille leads him into the water should be on one beautiful evening, with the water shimmering, and the sun casting rays onto the waters surface- enough that it's still scary at first, enough that Chilchuck still struggles against the salty grasp of the waves, but when marcille takes him under he can see just how the light of the sun casts its spotlight on the seafloor- and how even in the shallows therein lies a thousand wonders, ones he's stepped right over before. I'm just obsessed with chilchuck experiencing a whole nother world in there. Give me childlike wonder. Give me a Marcille who wants to show her grump fucking fisherman boyfriend the cute fishies and the minnows, the pretty hermit crabs. Something about the sea looking different from beneath the waves... The parallels of him on the beach stepping over shells and urchins in the shallows with his boots and just crush them right over, not even noticing he did from force of habit and routine having dulled everything… Him working on the sea all the time but never really seeing it because he’s so absorbed in his own shit and he always just uses the harbor so there’s never real contact with it anyways. When the sea water laps at his forearms when he reels the net in but they feel like lashes of frost against his skin. She'd look really pretty with her hair flowy in the waves............ Marcille’s hair should get used for creepy compositions more… In the water she takes him under and her hair tangles and latch onto him against his skin. Her hair is long, underwater it could engulf him probably, he likes blonde hair he'd be happy with that… Not the lowkey suicidal ideation of letting the sea take him and how he’d be happy suffocating in her hair when doing a dive wow ok

I keep thinking about the Dredge AU… The video game yes yes. It’d be a mess but ohhh ohh the sea and its wonderful world but also its dark secrets, Marcille researching the depths and finding dark powers and idk the tragedy of a man at sea who can’t forget what he’s lost and the mythical gf he made that was never meant to be and it’ll destroy them both idk idk. Bc of Marcille helping him fish from below as a selkie, Senshi like YOU ARE OVERFISHING YOU ARE DESTROYING THE ECOSYSTEMMM @ them lmao You are feeding the whole town and making big bucks but you’re fishing so much that some fish are starting to get stale without being bought, the sea is bleeding and the leviathan is hungry

Maybe one time, one of them gets upset at the other and holds the seal fur hostage, its sooo mean but it also feels very them. When I think selkie I think of the movie Song of the Sea and in that movie the father of the protags loved a selkie, the mother, but she had to leave at one point for the sea because that’s her nature etc etc, but he didn’t want her to leave so he hid her skin which like. Ruined everything and hurt her. And ohhh the parallels… Leaving him… Just food for thought.

Selkie Chil & marine researcher Marcille

The reverse of that where Chil’s the selkie, Marcille’s fascination for him has the reverse angle, almost like admiration too. Crying she’d be like "who’s this mysterious guy, why’s he look kinda ethereal(selkie fairy blablabla)?" and investigates meanwhile he doesn’t want anyone to see him transforming and such so he’s like "leave me aloneeeeeee!!" Selkie chil? secretive man who just wants to chill gets grabbed by the most enthusiastic fairytale-obsessed girl out there. She WILL almost drown trying to say hi. C’mon mister mythical let’s have a storybook romance <3 Jumping in da water and he has to rescue her and immediately gains 100 grey hairs. She gets her storybook ‘saved by the merman’ moment but at what cost. "WHAT ARE YOU DOINGGG" screaming, she gets scolded very much but it all goes in one ear out the other tbh. Selkie Chilchuck is even better with his secretiveness... How do you get around the fact you’re a seal? Iunno I’ve never been a seal Obsessed with the implications of his family in this. Except if his wife and daughters were humans and so his work travels are instead selkie shenanigans going out at sea for months on ends, I imagine they’d be selkies too… Did they get separated? Die? Is Chilchuck’s cowl in this one Flertom’s fur? :(   Once more mentioning sea shanties Chilchuck btw, Roll the Old Chariot comes to mind… Ooough Song of the Sea from the movie that he sung to his daughters <33 I’m fine

With the researcher angle actually being pushed there are interesting plots and scenes you could think of obvi, but uh we kind of went off on the fisherman Chil Marcille selkie AU instead haha. It’d be cute if she ends up teaching him how to live on land in the end. Dresses him up like a funky lil guy. I went with tallman Chil when drawing it and selkie Marcille’s more elf-like, and for selkie Chil I’d imagine it’s the reverse where she’s tallman-like and he still looks like a halfling… Sea-related AUs are my weak spot <33

No matter how you turn it, Marcille is the instigator lol. Selkie Marcille: this little man… I want to know more about this human! Selkie Chilchuck = tries to avoid everything but this Marcille keeps chasing him! It’s her job to, Chilchuck minds his business!! He sees a sliver of something weird out at night? Not his job nope keep your nose out of that it’ll only bring you trouble. It’d have to really itch him at him for him to crack I think… Honestly he’d make a great lovecraftian horror protagonist lol. We love a girl with no chill and her nose in everyone’s business

Shout to to @dayundying, @cabinette, @soappox and @lucky-fydraws!! These people were there for the brainstorming and the writing of the scripture…

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Day 5 : genderbend

Only doing this did I realize just how androgynous both of their features are. Listen we got gal pals with Marcille getting carried away and oblivious & overtly touchy feely as always, gay rivalry but they still gossip together like true coworkers united in haterism (I was going to draw Marcille holding him at first but forgot lmao), and Chilchuck openly holding back murderous intent. In short nothing changes much but it’s fun to picture. Braiding hair is already a love language of theirs, if she could do it to him it’d slap…

My genderbent names for them are Marcel & Cherchick (Chick is apparently an actual name, a diminutive of Charles?? Incredible and very convenient) I have a whole marchil AU plotline for them genderbent actually... It’ll be long so I’ll put it in a reblog addition from my sideblog

You can tell what order I did these in because time and steam ran out on me lol. My pencil is also walking out on me my lines look so crusty, sobbing…

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This is gonna be long and also contains story spoilers for canon so no looking if you haven’t finished the manga! I don’t think I’ll ever actually write this so I might as well share the concept

Young Meijack falls down a crevace that goes deep into a dungeon. Dungeon diving rogue & locksmith turned housewife in a failing marriage Cher has to go get her because no one else will and she doesn’t have the funds to hire anyone capable, "probably already dead and eaten" everyone says with condolences. Cher finds someone to keep Flertom and Puckpatti for her in a panic, calling in a favor from another acquainted half-foot family. She heads into the dungeon, alone. In it she finds an elven mage researching the dungeon by himself on the first few floors. They decide to travel together because Chil bluffs that she can knows her way down to the 6th floor where it’s said the crevace Mei fell down to most likely leads. Cher knows she can use the help and from their encounter Marcel saw that half-foot senses are very useful, and she does seem to know her way around. Thus the tribulations of a two-people party adventure starts, they are a MESS.

Also Cher hides about her family, since an adventurer with kids is suspicious and she doesn’t want Marcel to get closer, fear of strangers and for him to find out she lied about knowing her way. Eventually Marcel reveals he’s an half-elf and it gives Cher pause, she doesn’t know what it’d be like to not have a community. Marcel never had a Falin so magic academy was pretty lonely too, this is a Laios party never meets au after all, he never met any classmate that wasn’t idolizing… Unlike Marcille, Marcel is pretty much entirely friendless because of it, mostly only has his magical research in his life.

But they do get to the 6th floor, where it turns out princess Yaad from Kui’s prototype designs resides and safely caught Meijack, because the dungeon lord stole her away maybe? I don’t want it to be the same golden kingdom plot so I’m still figuring out the dungeon lord situation. Marcel is so "aaaah storybook princess novel plot aaaa ✨!!" and it’s there that a big decision happens where Marcille wants to push further by himself, to discover more about dungeons and ancient magic and help the princess, and Cher obvi is like fuck no i’m out— except i care now SCREAM???? And Marcel agrees to wait for Cher to go further but they do go back up to get Mei back safely first… Except that as soon as they head for the surface the dungeon lord gets them.

Shit gets bleak and hopeless. They have a convo where it’s finally revealed what Marcille truly studies, keys to immortality(ooh that’d be a good name for a marchil fic), and he’s like "Wouldn’t you want your daughter to live?? For as long as possible? Wouldn’t you want this whole thing to have been avoidable if only she couldn’t die so easily??" and it actually sways her a bit in the moment, but she manages to reign him in from rushing into certain death for knowledge that might amount to nothing useful. Anyways story ends when they get back out having escaped the dungeon and successfully gotten Yaad out? Or maybe not and she accepts her fate. Anyways so Marcille is like aaa omg i have so much material to write books about! While Chil is like aaaaa, we’re all safe……..

Oh yeah for those worried I’m not think that adultery happens lol… It’s the reverse situation as in canon essentially where, like in the genderbend mirror extra Cher stops working because "her family is important to her" so she becomes a housewife for her kids, and her husband works away, so he works too much, feels distant, she feels left behind, unlove and worn down from the housework humdrum. They break it off after the adventure… Marcel & Cherchick have moments of progressively more intense romantic tension but nothing actually happens except maybe talks about it bc they are both repression royalty, king and queen of not talking about their vulnerable feelings even.