#chimera laios

[butcher-my-name]

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Favourite Monster from the Dungeon Tournament 2025, Round 3

Chimera Laios

Treasure insects

Voting ended onAug 25, 2025

Masterpost

[citricacidprince]

Thinking about a Dungeon Meshi swap AU where Laios is eaten instead of Falin

I think everything is relatively the same in the terms of party members. Chilchuck would stay, not for Falin, but for Laios cause he and the blond are actually close and he wouldn’t say it out loud but he’s worried about him and no I won’t take criticism. Marcille would stay, definitely for Falin but she’s worried about that weird guy in her own way. Namari would still leave and wish Falin the best. The only difference is that Shuro would definitely come this time if it was Falin who asked, however he’d probably tell her to go on ahead without him so he can get a bigger team to help and meet her down there. Senshi, of course, still joins the group.

There are a lot of little things that would change but I have such a specific scene in my brain that won’t leave.

In the swap version of the scene where Chimera Falin fucks everyone up and then run off, Falin watches as her now monsterfied and wounded brother flee, tears in her eyes as she attempts to stop herself from crying but can’t. Marcille, immediately assuming that she’s crying about Laios, tries to comfort her by saying they’re going to find a way to revert this, even if at the time she’s just saying an empty promise to make Falin feel better since she has no clue on how to fix Laios either.

But that’s not why Falin is crying.

During the fight she watched her brother very closely, the way he moved, the way he analyzed each person who came close, the way his eyes softened and he gently smiled when he recognized her for just a moment before turning back into a beast. A gut wrenching realization ran through her head the more she watched him and it got even louder when he fled.

She realized that when her brother appeared as that chimera, that monster, his yellow eyes shined bright in the dark and his toothy grin could be seen for miles, and the grin barely faded even during the battle.

Falin has never seen her brother so unapologetically happy in her entire life.

It was like he was made to be a monster.

She wondered if it would be cruel to turn him human again, a horrid thought that she might be ripping him away from what was assumedly his dream come true. Who gave her the right to ruin her brothers happiness when she knows Laios would do everything in his power to make sure his little sister was happy.

She quickly shook away the thought. She had to save her brother. She had to.

But no matter how much deeper they traveled that small persistent thought stayed in her brain, trying to make her doubt the rescue and convince her that, while he wouldn’t tell her outright, Laios would grow to despise her for turning him back a tallman when being a monster was so freeing and easy.

Falin knows in her heart that her brother could never hate her and it was just her stressed and anxious thoughts getting the best of her, but it doesn’t stop those fears from manifesting in her nightmares.

Ignore me I’m running on 2 hours of sleep and I’m loosing my mind slightly

[fizzfangzz]

been getting really into contrapuntal poetry lately

(easier-to-read format under the cut!! 👇)

the brother

as a child i would wish to be a monster. wind beneath my wings, claws sharp enough to tear a gash in the fabric of the sky. a monster. something strong, something that would allow me to carry you out of this wretched place; and now i've got that, and it occurs to me that most gifts come with a price.

the sister

i was alone, except with you. to be loved, a thing i'd almost never been: a dream of mine but more than that; lifting the burden of a little bit of the fury in my heart. i wanted to free myself from that heavy blanket called kindness, to finally be the thing they said i was so many years ago. yes. to shed my layers and fly free with the sun glinting off my crimson scales. and now i've got that, and it occurs to me that most gifts come with a price.

both siblings (chimera)

as a child i was alone, except with you. i would wish to be loved, to be a thing i'd never been: a monster. a dream of mine but more than that; wind beneath my wings, lifting the burden of a little bit of the fury in my heart. i wanted claws sharp enough to free myself from that heavy blanket called kindness, to tear a gash in the fabric of the sky. to finally be the thing they said i was so many years ago. 

a monster.

yes. something strong, something that would allow me to shed my layers and carry you out of this wretched place; fly free with the sun glinting off my crimson scales. and now i've got that, and it occurs to me that most gifts come with a price.

[1alchemistart]

🔥🔥🔥THE CHIMERA SIBLINGS🔥🔥🔥

[taniqetil]

I bet a lot of people had this idea too but I just HAD TO draw it omitted the bl**d because honestly I cannot draw it very well and we all know the reason why I wanted to draw this in the first place (BOOBA)

[khyann]

I just got thinking something.

We obviously know Falin is at most loved at least appreciated by the rest of the party, both because she is a natural caretaker as the party's healer but also because of her gentle personality, so of course most of the party is ready to go back to the dungeon asap in order to save her.

We also know in an alternate universe Falin fails to convince the others to go back into the dungeon to save Laios cuz everyone finds him off putting.

But now imagine if Falin does manage to convince the others to go back and save Laios. How many times through the journey do you think, when fighting a monster, they realize how much bigger a disadvantage they have now than they were when they had Laios?

How many times do they struggle coming up with strategies to fight the monsters cuz they lost the one person who knows them like the back of his hand and understands their behavior and instincts giving the party the upper hand?

How many times do they run into something they know Laios has mentioned before because of fucking course he is gonna ramble about every monster under the sun and are trying so hard to remember any useful information he might have babbled about at some point?

How long would it take them to realize maybe Laios played a role in the party beyond just being the leader that simply can't be replicated?

And then. Just as they are starting to accept Laios and his strange personality... he is turned into a chimera. And what's worse, he looks happier like this, his body disfigured into a hybrid of human and a red dragon. And he looks happy like this

[freakinthefridge]

hey kabru laios refuses to do his job until you come pet his feathers yeah no he’s really making a fuss you better go find him