Sept 5 2023 (10,300 words)
Gen, no ships
Rating: General Audiences
Spoilers: Chapters 94 & 96
Content Warnings: Ableism, mental health issues, mentions of cousins marrying.
Summary: Mithrun's older brother Malthus is woken in the middle of the night when an alarm goes off, alerting him to a problem with some of his family's property. Realizing that Mithrun is near the source of the alarm, he calls him up... And learns [SPOILERS]! While that's shocking enough, it turns out equally tectonic changes have occurred within Mithrun...
July 11 2023 (15,317 words)
Kabru's Landlord/Kabru (Not a ship, they don't stay together)
Rating: Explicit
Spoilers: Vague references to the end of the manga. No longer canon compliant (got some things wrong about the manga ending!)
Content Warnings: Fantasy racism, m/m sex, older man/younger man pairing. The sex is 100% consensual, if anything Kabru's the one being kind of an asshole, taking advantage of his landlord's crush.
Summary: Kabru's party members assume he must have some love-sick girl that cleans his room, does his laundry (and who knows what else!), but actually it's just his landlord. Even though Kabru doesn't pay him for the extra work, and tells him not to bother, he takes care of Kabru anyway. What is the relationship between Kabru and his landlord? A character study of Kabru, told through the eyes of his landlord.
Dec 23 2024 (11,527 words)
Kabru/Mithrun Christmas AU
Rating: Teen and up
Spoilers: None
Content Warnings: Brief description of a stab wound, mentions of alcoholism.
Summary: What if Kabru didn't believe in Santa Claus, and Mithrun was a very different type of elf?
March 7 2023 (4 chapters, 49,447 words) Updated: Nov 25 2023
Kabru/Mithrun modern college AU, still set in the Dungeon Meshi fantasy world
Rating: Mature, will eventually have Explicit chapters.
Spoilers: Includes content from all parts of the manga, the extra materials, etc.
Content Warnings: Fantasy racism, ableism, drug use, mental health issues.
Summary: When a delirious and desperate Mithrun posts on a dating app to find someone that can help him sleep, Kabru gets involved, thinking it's a cruel joke at the expense of one of his classmates. But Mithrun's insomnia is real, and as a person and a medical student, Kabru feels compelled to help him no matter how strange and off putting the elven art student turns out to be. They have a lot in common, Mithrun is a war veteran, Kabru is a war orphan, but can they really help each other when they're also so different?