#thistle dm

[yourfave-isqueer]

Thistle from Dungeon Meshi is trans and aroace!

(Requested by anon)

[pusong-mangga]

old thistle attempt i never shared

[only-wonder]

commission for @dogboy777 :)

[entomologistt]

I’m an anime only but I really like Thistle and idk why, he’s one of those characters to me that theres just a magnetic pull… I would read the manga but I’m watching it w my boyfriend and i think it’ll be cool if i just waited… (i was a little disappointed that we didnt see him much ｡•́︿•̀｡)

imsoexcitedtoseehimagainiwanthimback ‼️‼️

[pusong-mangga]

never getting over how strongly the fantasy aging disparity between thistle and delgal reads as a metaphor for a predatory relationship. he's nothing but your sweet helpless baby boy until he isn't. the realization is creeping but it never really settles. it gets weirder and more uncomfortable as the years go by and yet he keeps asking for more. he asks you for the impossible, and you will give it to him, because you belong to him. it would never occur to you to say no because this is how you've always been - just the two of you against a heartless, terrifying world, and you are his rock, and he is your everything. he isn't evil. he's only dangerous if you misbehave. he just needs you. he's the only one who does.

[pusong-mangga]

actually actuallyyy thistle getting devoured by that lion was a game changer. worldview altering. at some point you think "that kid was violated by his brother's god" and have to stop and sit down and absorb it all. the fact that everything that led up to that moment was more or less good intentions, from the party from yaad from thistle imprisoning the god of desire to protect his loved ones. lion aside there were no malicious actors here. if anything it was self-violation made manifest are you seeing this shit

[pusong-mangga]

historians in my podcasts repeatedly asserting that medieval conceptions of childhood were vastly different in that teenagers as young as 14 were already given adult responsibilities (especially if they were royalty) if not considered legal adults depending on the time period and this is just feeding my headcanon that yaad and thistle don't see themselves as children

[pusong-mangga]

these comics elaborating on how lifespan differences are perceived in-universe are really interesting when you apply them to thistle's family situation. since it's been established that long-lived peoples tend to infantilize the short-lived, and this is a norm that persists to the current day, this would also hold implications for how long-lived peoples regarded these relationships in thistle and delgal's time

if we're going by the average 200-year lifespan of modern elves and assuming that hasn't changed much in the last 1000 years, then the melinis existed around 5 generations prior to the present, and certainly that would imply a more "medieval" perspective on these issues, where even an elf as young as thistle would still be considered a senior to tallmen more developmentally advanced than him

it's likely that, with how adultified thistle was, he was legitimately considered an adult (at least relative to tallmen) simply because he was an elf - he saw himself as such, the tallmen around him saw him as such, and where this gets interesting is how long-lived races would perceive his abuse, because i'm willing to bet they would also have seen it (and probably would still see it) less as person-to-person abuse so much as a case of a kid being raised by wolves (in terms of both "primitiveness" and lifespan disparity)