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[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Seaworthiest Ship in the Dungeon Tournament 2025, Round 3 Part 2

Izutsumi by herself

Farinsha

Voting ended onMar 1, 2025

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[ambrosiagourmet]

Screw it......... Daydream hour Farinsha edits for your Tuesday evening

[spinnerprincess]

Trellis (Dungeon Meshi, Falin/Rin, 424 words)

Femslash February Prompt for 2/11: Vines

If I'm writing Falin/Rin there's about a 80% chance it's in some degree inspired by Meanwhile the World Goes On by @ambrosiagourmet. Like this one.

Falin has never been clingy.

She yearns, always, for the freedom to stand on her own. Sometimes the freedom is simply to go where she pleases. Other times, it's to be herself. Often, the size of her cage has lain somewhere in between.

Until it was cramped, for some time, into a mage's harsh set of rules that permitted neither in the least.

It's only recently, after that experience, that she's learning to embrace it. To accept herself as she is, unattached and free to wander, like dandelion fluff or songbirds in the wind. What connections she keeps are those she selects, cultivates, and grows with care.

There is a loneliness in her freedom. Only recently has she learned to accept that, too.

But she finds companions anyway, as long as they're willing to drift away from her when the time comes. Adventuring partners. Brothers. Old, beloved friends.

And new ones.

Rin is one of them. She smells like basil today, and some muskier plant that Falin can't identify, even after changing into her plainer nightclothes. Her hair is still slightly damp against Falin's feathers after rinsing the pollen from it. It's late at night, and Falin has woken, slightly, to find Rin's hand grasping her inner thigh.

Her limbs are tangled, reaching, crawling their way through Falin's, winding around her shoulders, her ankles, or her waist. Falin has seen vines in the apothecary garden that seek their way ever upward, stretching tendril by tendril over stakes and trellises set by the apprentices. She has also seen them pluck the vines gently off, encouraging to grow this way or that way, and the vines accept their guidance.

In the waking world, Rin doesn't appear clingy. And where it counts, she's very good at letting go. But she clings - she clings, just long enough for you to know she doesn't want you to. She clings when you allow it, she clings to grudges and feelings and memories, and she clings in her sleep, where there is no one to scold her.

Falin knows she can tug herself free of the vines Rin has grown across her body. But since she's free to go whenever she wants, she finds it no burden to stay. She can stand on her own, and when she stands near Rin, she can allow Rin to lean against her, borrowing her strength. She never thought she could be that for someone else.

Falin exhales. Rin burrows into her chest, unaware. The cicadas in the summer night lull Falin back to sleep.

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Seaworthiest Ship in the Dungeon Tournament 2026, Round 3 Part 2

Farinsha

Farcille

Voting ended onFeb 22

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[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Seaworthiest Ship in the Dungeon Tournament 2026, Round 2 Part 4

Rincille

Farinsha

Voting ended onFeb 18

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[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Nominating these from last time~

Patty-Squared (Pattadol x Puckpatti) #PattySweep let's goooo

Izujack / Izutsumei (Izutsumi x Meijack)

Farinsha (Falin x Rin)

And some new nominations!

Flamela x Cithis

Falin x Asivia

Meijack x the gnome tavern waitress

Yuri Chilaios (fem!Laios x fem!Chilchuck)

Yuri Laicille / Laimar (fem!Laios x Marcille)

Thank you for the wonderful edits!

[dungeon-meshi-tournament]

Seaworthiest Ship in the Dungeon Tournament, Round 1 Part 5

Kabrin

Farinsha

Voting ended onFeb 17, 2025

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[ambrosiagourmet]

When she returned to the person in the water, Rin could see that her face was pink from the sun, and her arms were dotted with bug bites, and thought – she’s still handsome, though, isn’t she? And then, unceremoniously, Rin fell off the side of her bed and woke up. — When Falin Touden comes to Rin looking for relief from reoccurring nightmares, it is not just a surprise, but an injury; helping her asks more from Rin than she would ever normally offer up to a half-stranger. She takes solace in the assumption – the hope – that it will be the last time they have anything to do with one another. The fragile connection between them is not so easily broken, however, when even her dreams seem to pull her back towards Falin. As Rin begins to embrace the reality of life without someone else’s vision to follow, she must also face the fact that it is a connection she cares about a great deal – far more than she knows how to admit.

I am so so so excited to finally be able to share my fic for the Dungeon Meshi Big Bang hosted by @dunmeshbigbang!

Meanwhile the World Goes On is a 30k word Rin/Falin post-canon story about trauma, unexpected connections, taking care of people, gardening, the messy work of recovery, and trying to get used to a new job while realizing you might have the hots for your old-crush's-new-boss'-sister.

This has truly been a labor of love, born of many, many hours spent thinking about what life after the end of the manga might look like for Rin. It was also born of my deep-seated belief that Rin deserves to kiss women, and that Falin just might be up to the task.

To anyone else out there who might agree – I hope you enjoy the meal. It's an absolute joy to finally be able to share it with you.