dunamancy teacher, boyfriend, life-long friend

Essek: Maybe. But let that be an extension of my trust in you and your friends. I expect hopefully the same trust in return.

Caleb: It is fairly established, I would like to think. We are “friends”, now?

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Go senshi go!!

- he is 112 years old

- he’s considered feminine for a dwarf in dungeon meshi canon

- he spent most of his life living off of the ecology of the dungeon (monster food) after (insert ptsd inducing backstory) happened when he was just a youngin

- he doesn’t have kids and I genuinely think he’d be a bad parent because of how oblivious he can be at times, but he would try his hardest to keep them well fed

- he assumes that all halflings are children because they are small

- he doesn’t wash his beard and this makes it hard for magic to be cast on him

- he hates magic and sees it as a shortcut to getting things done the hard and right way

- he explains EVERYTHING he does when cooking so that those around him can learn from him

- he would make a great teacher of some kind of dungeon survival skills class

- he has a mithril cooking knife

- he turned a perfectly good mithril shield into a large wok he takes everywhere

- the fact that he is hot without his helmet is initially treated as a gag because of how silly he looks with it on

- he can be very careless outside of his obsession with cooking monsters (ignoring directions from his party members and not taking proper care of his supplies) (so real. adhd representation. not caring about anything but your hyperfocus. I understand king)

- one time he gave the birds and the bees talk to Chilchuck because he thought Chilchuck was a child (he’s literally just a young looking 29 year old halfling with three children) (eventually he realizes that Chilchuck as a halfling is essentially middle aged and they get closer bc he gets over his prejudices)(chilshi shoutout)

- he deeply believes in only taking what you need and giving back what you can. Don’t over harvest. Don’t destroy an ecosystem for your own gain. The ecology of the dungeon is important for everyone.

- again his hyperfixation is cooking monsters and he is in canon the best monster food chef in the world

- (MANGA SPOILERS) he tells a character who was (spoiler spoiler spoiler) and is left feeling like the scraps of food left behind on the plate that vegetable scraps can always be used to grow something new and should never be thrown away 🩵

VOTE SENSHI!

Also shoutout to chilshi everyone get more chilshi pilled right now

More senshi facts:

- Dungeon Meshi was written by a woman (Ryoko Kui my queen)

- he teaches Izutsumi that you can’t just do whatever you want all the time if you want to live the life you actually want

- a lot of people think that he essentially adopts Izutsumi post canon (adopts is kind of the best term for it. Like shes 17 and he acts as a carer/mentor to her) (these are comics by Ryoko Kui in a modern AU) (I do still think that he’d be a mid father but thats mostly just… babies, and I think since shes nearly an adult he’d make a fantastic mentor for her) (but also thats my own opinion I’m sure some people headcanon that he’d be an excellent father)

- when Senshi looks into a magic mirror he sees his current grown up self with the group of miners he became a family with who all died in the dungeon. And it makes me sad…

- he gets the panty shots in the series… thats feminism

- look at how he looked when the changeling turned him into a halfling LOOK AT HOW CUTE HE IS

- he made a portable slime dryer to dry out all of the dungeon monster slimes. You can make them into noodles.

- he befriends a kelpie (who is actually long conning senshi into trusting them so they can kill him) and he names the kelpie Anne after the horse his old mining party had to kill to survive

- (anime spoilers) he believed for most of his life that he had committed cannibalism of one of his old mining party after one of them killed the other in self defense. He has carried a lot of guilt and shame around this belief, but he knew that he needed to eat to survive. Through the power of changelings and friendship he discovers that the meat he ate was not dwarf but actually hippogriff, and a huge weight is taken off of his shoulders

- he acts as a caretaker to the dungeon (specifically the third floor). While most adventurers simply come to the dungeon to loot and kill and adventure, he lives there and cleans the upper floors regularly. Taking out the chamber pots to use as fertilizer on the golems he grows vegetables like carrots and cabbage on.

In conclusion: Senshi of Izganda

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when will my husband return from the war (hiatus)

Thanks to one of Aeor’s outrageous spells, Essek has been turned into three tiny little versions of himself.

Caleb had a very strange day. Good night.

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