I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma’s cats staying with me.
- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.
- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.
- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I’m sleeping and injured.
That’s love. 🐈⬛🐈❤️
cats are so very unclear on what is wrong with us but they want to help
Last time I had a really bad migraine my cat curled herself round my head and purred sympathetically, and actually stayed there through two of her normal mealtimes. It wasn’t until I was able to stagger to the kitchen and grab a protein bar for myself that she gave a very small, polite miaow to the effect of “while you’re up… could you get something for me too?”
So this is just my take, but the key to understanding Kabru Dungeon Meshi is understanding that the Touden’s party was one of the top parties in the dungeon.
You eventually learn the mission they were on when they encountered the red dragon, and it involved going as far into the dungeon as anybody had gone before. Their party lineup was two top-level mages, Marcille and Falin (okay, Marcille’s practical magic skills are kind of questionable, but we’re told that Falin was extremely talented within her areas of specialty) Two excellent fighters: Shuro and Namari, and Chilchuck, who considering that he runs the guild, is likely one of the most experienced half-foot trapsmiths working on the island. Laios is party leader, and while he’s not the greatest fighter, he’s quite good, and his obsessive knowledge of monsters means that he can guide the others. You see how Laois’s knowledge helps the party already, now imagine if they had a support caster, a dwarf whose almost certainly a much better fighter than Senshi, and another tallman who is almost certainly a much better fighter than Laois all working on that knowledge.
So with that in mind, lets revisit Kabru and his obsession. Kabru knows people, and can read them very well. He’s also got a wider perspective on the nature and danger of dungeons due to his backstory. Kabru isn’t here to get rich delving the dungeon, he’s here to Solve A Problem. He’s a relatively recent arrival to the island, that or his mismatched skillset means that he and his party are much slower to progress through it than the Touden’s party. Either way, he spots the Touden party as The Party To Watch when it comes to conquering the dungeon. Laois, as party leader, is obviously of particular concern.
So, Kabru turns all his insight onto Laois and he gets…nothing. Laois cares about money from a pragmatic standpoint, but isn’t especially concerned with it. He’s easily conned. He’s not driven by hatred, greed, or ambition. There’s some curiosity there, but it’s not the driving curiosity of an obsessive academic, Laois is an enthusiastic hobbyist who has figured out how to make his particular interest into a valuable skillset.
Kabru is looking for the protagonist of an epic fantasy tale, and he finds…just a guy. A guy who didn’t feel at home anywhere, and found a place and a life where he was welcome and valued. A guy whose skillset and companions puts him first in a race he doesn’t even know he’s running. And if you’re Kabru, that’s infuriating and fascinating in equal measure.
Hope it’s ok to add. Like OP said, Kabru sees highly skilled, standoffish, near-unapproachable champions of the dungeon. He expects their leader to have certain qualities that command authority, respect, or maybe even fear. Laois isn’t just the leader of highly skilled individuals, he is a figure which transcends cultural and racial differences. Kabru is expecting a party-wide dynamic which is streamlined and instilled by Laios.
But Laios doesn’t garner respect, awe, or fear- his party listens to him because he establishes a strong sense of trust through observation and acknowledging their input. Laios isn’t a facilitator of objectives, he’s a companion. His leading style is the opposite of detached, he has a relationship of mutual trust with every individual in his party. The party doesn’t rely on this trust when they are on the surface or in the higher floors. From Kabru’s perspective, he probably suspects that Laios (and maybe Falin) is blackmailing his party members. Because he hasn’t seen the group in action, Kabru doesn’t know that Laios shines brightest in high stress situations. All he sees is a party of the best people around being led by A Guy that they don’t even seem to like that much (if the expressions of disgust are anything to go off of)
Kabru has never seen why these super-capable individuals follow Laios as a leader because Laios only leads when necessary. Which makes sense because Chilchuck, Marcille, Namari, Shuro, Senshi, and of course a traumatized 17 year old, wouldn’t listen to the commands of someone who is always authoritative
Shoutout to the radish guy in Spirited Away for deciding to go all the way up to the top floor just to make sure Chihiro was safe when presumably he had other shit to do and could just have easily decided this little girl’s safety was Not His Problem.
So, since you guys do not have access to my notifications, I’d like to inform you what’s been happening on this post.
A couple days ago or so, two people made somewhat horny reblogs of this, thirsting for the radish spirit. Seeing an opportunity for mischief, I reblogged their reblogs in the hopes that they would be immortalized for their desire to wrap their legs around that radish man while pulling on his roots like the reins of a horse.
And it worked splendidly! Dozens of people have been reblogging it all weekend, and some of them, god bless their souls, some are continuing to add normal additions after the horny ones as if nothing happened. Just a little nugget of horniness for the radish man amidst otherwise innocuous praise for his kindness and generosity. Did some people only skin the post and miss the horny bits? Probably. Did others just decide to purposely ignore those bits and continue on? Also possible.
What matters is this: all of China now knows some of you want to fuck the radish man.
This might be one of my favourite scenes of anything ever cause it’s so blindly obvious how connected they are after the drift!!!! The way they carry this speech - it doesn’t sound at all like two separate people with separate thoughts, this is ONE thought, ONE message and it is bouncing between them speaking so effortlessly. It’s so different to how they talk together earlier on in the film - they don’t cut each other off or argue or talk over each other, the sentences flow between the both of them like they’re one person. It’s honestly amazing to hear two people sound so incredibly connected
“Move you fascist” is the greatest line. The most little guy.
