idk if anyone else felt this way, but in the Shapeshifter ep of Dungeon Meshi, it’s treated like a joke that all the copies of Laios are super obviously not him, but isn’t it kind of fucked up that Laios’s closest companions don’t seem to view him as… whole?
None of his companions had an accurate view of him as a person! One of the copies was a stupid, drooling mess! And on top of this, they all believed that because Laios struggles with social cues he wouldn’t be observant to them as people. They just… fundamentally don’t understand him.
I think the really accurate copies of the rest of the party was drawn from Laios’s mind. His powers of observation and analytics are his strength, but that’s not the same as being good with social cues.
Anyway. It made me really sad. I know his party cares about him, but it’s so isolating to know your friends don’t know you.
You’d be correct on the most accurate versions being from Laios, mostly he just missed the details of their outfits.
That’s what I thought!
I really like how this page goes into more detail about why the copies have the appearances they do. The Laios copies aren’t quite as bad the anime makes them look, but they are still obviously Not Laios.
