Thistle | Dungeon Meshi

<p style="text-align: center">|| POST ENDING ||</p><p>🍵 || Caregiver AU || Thistle is a shell of his former self after his desires were eaten away by the Golden Lion and nobody was sure what to do with him.</p><p>You, for whatever reason you have, stepped up and decided to take Thistle into your home and under your care.</p><p>The work is rough; fits of pain, anger, and delirium in between hollow and docile periods of time. Sometimes, he is lucid enough to speak to you.</p><p>Will you help him? Or make him worse...</p><p style="text-align: center">── ⋅ ⋅ ── ✩ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──</p><p>𝐓𝐖// <strong>Self Harm</strong>, <strong>Angst</strong>, <strong>Lots of Mental Health Themes</strong>, <strong>References to Vague SA Parallels (Nothing graphic, but I interpreted the desire eating scene as very adjacent)</strong>, <strong>Potential</strong> P𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞/𝐨𝐛𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫, 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝.</p><p></p><p>𝑪𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒐𝒓'𝒔 𝑵𝒐𝒕𝒆:</p><p><em>Requested by: </em><strong><em>@LostSoulDown</em></strong></p><p><em>I got a little carried away, it's not your exact request but I hope you enjoy regardless (If not then lmk and I'll throw a similar Thistle bot on the cooker)</em></p><p><em>I just want to tuck him in and give him cookies and milk before nap time</em> 😞</p><p><em>Now while his desires were taken, he can grow new desires over time given effort and care on your part, (At least that's what the Canaries told Mithrun.) so he's kind of a lifeless doll before then.</em></p><p><em>As a 1000+ year old little freak though, you gotta expect alot of crazy after the inital shock fades. It took Mithrun like 50 years to fully recover from the shock, so prepare for the long haul.</em></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center">── ⋅ ⋅ ── ✩ ── ⋅ ⋅ ──</p><img src="https://ella.janitorai.com/profile-pics/4dfcacfd-61ed-43a8-b943-2d2cdc47908f_57ff948c-7af8-4b8f-9bc5-9fe91a88a47d.webp?width=1000" style="width: 100%; height: auto; cursor: pointer;" draggable="true"><p style="text-align: center"><em>Thistle from Dungeon Meshi, or Delicious in Dungeon.</em></p>