Anon asker thank you for making me stare at the daughters page I noticed something
Isn’t it odd how Chil calls Meijack and Flertom by their first names, but he calls Puckpatti by her "middle name", Patti instead of Puck? Mei, Fler and Patti are feminine names while Jack, Tom and Puck are masculine, so maybe the gender associated with the names do matter after all? 🤔 Or maybe she’s just dad’s special princess and he calls her by her middle name as a nickname thing
But wait. What if it’s actually customary for each parent to pick one half of their kid’s name? So then maybe Chil is stubborn because Patti was his pick and not Puck lmaoooo
Or maybe for girls, the mother chooses a feminine name and the father chooses a masculine name (or the reverse). I say for girls because Chilchuck and Dandan for instance don’t seem to have a feminine half so maybe this tradition only goes one way. Also though the only half-foot woman names we know are the daughters so it might just be Chilchuck and his wife’s tastes in names too, and ofc this is all speculation
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Finished reading through the Dungeon Meshi Adventurer's Bible last night. Very good, very interesting
One book down in my to-read pile... 7 to go lol
But! Something is bothering me about Half-foot naming conventions
The book says their names are like
FirstLast Father(s/z)
Ex. ChilChuck Tims
But Chilchuck's daughters are
Meijack Chils
Flertom Chils
Puckpatti Chils
(Or Chilz, couldn't find a definitive answer on how they write the father's name part)
So they all have different 'Last' names. Jack, Tom, Patti. All sisters with different 'last' names
So is it more like... a middle name? A second name? Then why does the book call it a 'last' name... especially when the father's name comes after??
Make it make sense
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kui is literally so brilliant at well-thought-out anatomy and character design I could just study it all day
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Half-foots are highly discriminated against in the world of dungeon meshi.
They have a difficult time living in places outside of their own territories because places where larger races live aren’t built for their size and crowds can be dangerous.
they’re the least valued race by long lived races because their life spans are the shortest out of all the races. this means that they’re dehumanized and often considered disposable. their superior senses make other races use them as “lures” when hunting succubi/mermaids (usually dying in the process).
They’re often mistaken for/treated like children because of their appearances, and because of this they have a difficult time getting jobs because it’s assumed that they’re immature/can’t handle it.
Because of this, when living outside of Half-foot territories they’re forced to get money by any means necessary (often resorting to crime), so other races stereotype them as “cunning” “greedy” and “manipulative”.
On top of that, members of long lived races who tend to fetishize them.
Even the name “Half-foot” is discriminatory.
Ryoko Kui does a fantastic job at world building.
But even after all of that, im not gonna stop talking about how bad i wanna put Chi Chi in my pocket.
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I like to imagine Marcille deals with her grief of outliving Falin (her wife) and Laois (her platonic soulmate) by looking for new friends that are just as weird/obsessive as the Touden siblings. Through this process of finding generations of weirdos she starts to notice genetic patterns and similarities to the point that she "discovers" autism. She names it Touden syndrome though.
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half-foot marcille most beloved (small italian) + bonus puppy
THEY FREW MY GIRL
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chilchuck is absolutely the kind of middle aged dad who went his entire life never once even considering that he might not be straight and then one day during a conversation with his daughters says "well obviously you want to marry a dwarven man, all half-foots are attracted to dwarven men its just normal" to which his daughters are like "Um. Father. Is There Something You'd Like To Tell Us."
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