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Female Laios

• She might have tried to leave the village but couldn't, or might be trying to build a family that can protect Falin.
• She might be less interested in or knowledgeable about monsters, since her parents might not have given her the Dungeon Gourmet Guide.

Female Shuro

• People around her might take Laios' harassment more seriously.
• Maizuru might be more overprotective of her.

Male Marcille

• He might have a better research environment outside elven territory.

Male Falin

• He might be less protective of Laios, since they're both men.
• He might have gotten dragged into Marcille's shady research, since he's no longer a baby girl.

Female Chilchuck

• She might face more pressure from herself, her family, or society to put family before work.

Female Senshi

• She might be more willing to interact with others, or might be easier for others to accept.

Female Kabru

• She might be even better at approaching and manipulating people, especially men.
• As for her being able to sit next to Laios, maybe only because he was depressed after Falin and friends had left him.

First of all, I want to make it clear that I’m not saying Falcille is impossible. Well, personally, I think it’s more likely that neither of them was in love with anyone at any point during the story, though.

Still, as far as Falin is concerned, if she had romantic feelings for anyone, I think Marcille is probably the most likely candidate. But I’m not convinced the reverse is true, and even if Marcille did have romantic feelings for Falin, I don’t think it’s because she’s gay.

One of the reasons is that Marcille’s succubus wore masculine clothing. They definitely have a very androgynous look. But Marcille is pretty traditional when it comes to how clothing is gendered, and she doesn’t seem to like Falin wearing masculine clothing. So I think Marcille’s succubus was probably a male elf.

For that reason, I think Marcille is straight, or at least bisexual but leaning straight. I think she’s just not into overly masculine men, like a lot of women in real life.

The bath scene is often brought up as evidence that Marcille and Falin are in love, but honestly, I just saw Marcille as being overprotective of her “little friend.” I thought she was blushing simply because she was in the bath. And there are actually scenes where she blushes toward Laios and Kabru too.

Not just Marcille, but there are quite a few scenes where characters blush, and I don’t think there’s usually any deeper meaning to it.

Of course, people are free to have whatever fanon they want. I just felt like pointing this out.

I’m not saying cultural differences had nothing to do with it. But Laios couldn’t even adjust to school or the army—environments that were probably much more familiar to him than the culture of Shuro’s homeland.

If these issues and the conflict with Shuro weren’t unique to Laios personally but were mainly a cultural issue, then we should also consider people who share a similar cultural background with him.

Suppose Falin, Marcille, Rin, or Doni—who are from the Northern Continent and presumably share a cultural background closer to Laios’s—had shown as much interest in Shuro as Laios did. Would they really have caused Shuro that much trouble?

Likewise, if Maizuru or Hien—who presumably share the same cultural background as Shuro—had been in Shuro’s position, would they have had the same problems with Laios?

I don’t think so. To me, the conflict has much more to do with their innate traits and the environments they grew up in. Maybe Benichidori also wouldn’t have been able to handle Laios very well, though.

Chilchuck and Namari, who were party members alongside them, presumably come from a cultural background closer to Laios’s than Shuro’s, yet they seem to find Laios even more of a weirdo than Shuro does. And despite the communication issues both Laios and Shuro have, they aren’t fundamentally disliked because they’re both good people.

As for Marcille, she seems to be the only character who gets somewhat frustrated with Shuro. Even then, I don’t think she actually dislikes him. Just like when she got angry at Laios for taking Falin to the island, she’s basically just being childish and sulky about the possibility of Falin going to Shuro’s homeland with him. Marcille has no right to stop Falin—an adult—from leaving her of her own free will, and neither Laios nor Shuro did anything wrong in that regard.

Marcille is way better at communicating than Laios or Shuro, but she’s still immature because she struggles to respect her best friend’s autonomy.

Laios is immature because he doesn’t make enough of an effort to understand other people’s feelings, while Shuro is immature because he doesn’t clearly express his own feelings.

I hope people don’t reduce these immature aspects of the characters to simply liking or disliking them. I think it’s more interesting to see them as areas where the characters still have room to grow, and that’s part of what makes their story so fun to watch unfold.