[LOVED Design] Falin Touden’s different forms (Delicious in Dungeon

First form - Initially, to me, as a normal person Falin almost embodies just a look of warmth and kindness. She’s dressed modestly (which seems a tad rare for women in anime / manga, in my experience) and just has a very inviting and relaxed vibe to her, which conceals her fairly adept skills in magic. She’s almost always squinting due to nearsightedness, which adds some charm to her. She’s nice, a good friend and sister.

Second form - All of what I said about her first form goes out the window. She’s now a 36 feet long (head to tail) and 19 feet tall dragon-human chimera. Having been revived using dragon meat, the dragon’s soul overpowered her own. While still retaining her human upper half, she takes on an entirely new, scarily threatening feeling to her, now covered in red scales and white feathers. Her body language is completely different, far more hostile, although there’s bits of her still in there outside of combat. She’s more monster than human, with the brutality to back it up. It takes making her fall asleep and choking her out to kill her in this form. This form also fixed her nearsightedness.

Third form - Falin then has her dragon half cut away and eaten, effectively destroying it via digestion, and is revived with her soul now overpowering the dragon’s. She’s back, but not without changes. She retains her fixed eyesight, as well as 2/3 of her body being feathered, and now has fangs. She’s back to normal mentally, but she’s forever changed from her experience as a chimera, leaving a physical record of how the story and the party’s journey affected her.

(All of the art credit goes to the creator of Delicious in Dungeon, Ryoko Kui.)

u/amaya-aurora — 1 month ago