Laios Touden

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**Laios Touden** (ライオス トーデン, *Raiosu Tōden*?) is one of the main protagonists and the leader of the his adventuring party.

## Appearance

Laios is a Tall-man with short blond hair and light gold eyes and average height. His outfit while dungeon-crawling is a set of silver plate armour that reaches his mid-thighs with a belt around his waist. He also wears a pair of silver gauntlets, a white shirt under his armor, silver knee guards, and simple brown boots.

### Gallery

Headshot of Laios.Laios and Falin at ages 13 and 10.
## Personality

Laios is a very strong fighter and the leader of the party. He often uses the knowledge gained from cooking monsters to develop techniques to defeat them, and is a quick thinker who comes up with full plans on the fly. He is a very calm and gentle person but gets very excited when he talks about monsters, which bothers most of the people around him. He tends to speak very quickly when excited.[*citation needed*]

Despite his deep knowledge and passion for monsters and proficiency in combat, he often falters outside of these situations due to an absence of self preservation or common sense towards his objectives.[*citation needed*]

Laios tends to lack tact and social skills when dealing with others, often saying everything that comes to his mind to the point where it causes frustration and confusion in others. Despite this, he is extremely friendly and accepting towards others, being quick to forge friendships with other groups and even orcs, and becomes excited at the prospect of others seeing him as their friend.[*citation needed*]

## Abilities

Laios is skilled in swordsmanship, knows simple magic, and is very knowledgeable when it comes to monsters. Despite Laios being a versatile leader, he has extremely poor people skills that hold him back. He can come across as inconsiderate due to being unable to pick up on social cues.

He's able to do an amazing impression of a dog, which is very effective when threatening monsters.

Ever since his childhood, Laios has been drawing monsters from his *The Dungeon Gourmet Guide* over and over, because of this he's become quite talented when it comes to drawing monsters.

## Relationships

### Falin Touden

Falin is Laios' younger sister, and seemingly the person he cares most about. His quest revolves around getting her back, no matter what it takes. Laios and Falin were raised together by their parents in a village in the North. As children, they seemed to be very close. However, Falin was ostracized due to her magical talent, which frustrated Laios to the point of leaving the village alone as a teenager. Laios feels guilt over leaving Falin behind, stating that it hurts his chest to think about her having to eat alone. After getting a job that required him to travel to the island containing the Lunatic Magician's dungeon, he decided to quickly visit Falin at the Magic Academy. During this visit, she ran away from the school to go to the Island with Laios. On their arrival they began work as protection for gold strippers in the dungeon. Up until the manga's events, they spent most of their time within the dungeon. Laios and Falin are both considered strange by other characters, likely due to their respective fascinations with monsters and biology. They both also tend to not get along with other people very well, likely leading to their strengthened bond.

### Marcille

Marcille was introduced to Laios by Falin, four years after she dropped out of the Magic Academy to adventure with him. Initially, she was very hostile towards Laios, assuming he took Falin away from the academy by force. After being revived from a death caused by a slime, Marcille and Laios made a mutual agreement to explore the dungeon together because of similar interests (Marcille's fascination with ancient magic and dungeons, and Laios' fascination with monsters). Marcille is initially distraught by Laios' monster-eating obsession, and continues to make it clear that eating monsters upsets her. However, her disgust and outbursts grow less severe as they continue to adventure, stating that she is willing to do anything to save Falin. Despite Laios never meaning to hurt Marcille, his dense nature leads him to putting her in stressful situations on occasion without much consideration to her feelings. They share a love and respect for Falin, with their end goal of getting her back being nearly identical. They are usually quite friendly with each other as well, Marcille even praising Laios when he grows adept at healing magic.[*citation needed*]

### Chilchuck

Chilchuck is one of the original members of Laios' party, in charge of picking locks and locating and disarming traps. Laios appears to respect Chilchuck's skills, viewing him as a professional in this regard and reminding other members of their party of the pressure on Chilchuck to keep the rest of them alive. Laios enjoys talking to Chilchuck, and they share a common interest in alcohol. Laios was very obviously surprised and shocked when Chilchuck was revealed to be 29 years old.

### Senshi

Senshi joins Laios' party due to his fondness for eating monsters. Laios is fascinated by Senshi's cooking wisdom, with their conversations usually revolving around preparing monster meals. Senshi seems to be the only other person who respects the act of eating monsters as Laios does, never once ridiculing Laios and rather working with him to make new cooking discoveries.

### Namari

Namari is a former member of Laios' adventuring party. Although they have had disputes in the past about weapons, Laios admires and respects Namari's expertise. Laios holds no ill feelings to Namari for leaving the party.[*citation needed*]

### Shuro

Shuro is a former member of Laios' party. Although Laios thinks highly of him and considers him a friend, Shuro finds his oblivious nature to be troublesome and difficult to deal with.

### Kensuke

Kensuke is a mollusk-like monster that lives in the sword Laios found while fighting Living Armor. Laios immediately takes a liking to the monster on finding it, hiding it from discovery by Marcille and the rest of the party. He recognizes it's usefulness after noticing its response to the presence of Treasure Insects and alerting him to danger, where after he joyfully gives it the name Kensuke. However, during their second fight against the Red Dragon Kensuke leaps out of laios' grasp in self-preservation, leading to the group to scramble to find another weapon and almost killing them. Despite his compassion for the monster, as soon as Falin expressed interest in eating monsters Laios didn't hesitate to propose eating Kensuke.

### Izutsumi

Izutsumi, also known as Asebi, was previously one of Shuro's servants but is currently a member of Laios' party. She does not like to eat monsters and does not have a good relationship with the members, principally Laios. Laios tries his best to be nice to her and doesn't hate her despite her lack of cooperation. Laios also expresses interest in her status as a beastkin, finding relief in her humanity after her transformation.

### Laios' Parents

Laios holds animosity towards his parents, likely due to the treatment him and Falin received as children. According to a nightmare he experiences, his parents have high expectations of him, and do not approve of his living of exploring and challenging dungeons. Laios believed his father to be negligent towards him and Falin, their father rarely spoke to them or told them anything. In Daydream Hour 3, it is stated that Laios keeps his appearance tidy in order to distance himself from his father. Laios' mother is sickly and emotionally fragile, Laios isn't comfortable around her either.

## Trivia

* His favorite foods are dairy products, especially cheesecake.
* His least favorite type of foods are cephalopods.
* Laios does an excellent impression of a dog, noted first by his sister and then by the rest of his party.
	+ The names of the dogs he has owned are: Anowtrid (アノートリド, *Anōtorido*?), Fucci (フッチ, *Fucchi*?), Nussa, Muimui, Dustrag and Boff. Anowtrid and Nussa were the pets his father owned and named.
* According to Falin, Laios looks like his father when he grows his hair out.
	+ Due to Laios' animosity towards him, he usually keeps it cut short along with a clean shave.
* During Laios' dream, he mentions that he hasn't seen his parents in over 10 years.
* When trying to sleep, instead of counting sheep, Laios appears to count satyrs/fauns.
* Both he and his sister were engaged in the past but had their respective engagements annulled.
* Laios' age is unknown for the earlier portion of the series. When Chilchuck said he would turn 29 later in the year, Laios referred to him as "Mister Chilchuck" (チルチャックさん, *Chiruchakku-san*?), implying that Chilchuck is older than him.
	+ In Daydream Hour 2, it is stated that he is approximately three years older than his sister Falin. As she is in her early twenties, this would put him in his early or mid-twenties.
	+ It is later revealed that Laios is 26 years old.
* In Laios and Falin's village, they often had to deal with nomads who lived in the mountains near their home. They describe these nomads as savage and unreasonable, and the village would have to kill them if they got too close to the village.[*citation needed*]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer's Bible*, p. 6
2. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 26
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 42, p. 2
4. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 51
5. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 1
6. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 38
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 *Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer's Bible*, p. 4
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 38, p. 20
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 17, p. 22
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 40, p. 17
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 *Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer's Bible*, p. 5
12. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 52
13. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 57, p. 10
14. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 57, p. 4
15. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 57, p. 9
16. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 57, p. 20
17. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 57, p. 23
18. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 57, p. 21
19. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 57, p. 22
20. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 1, p. 14
21. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 1, p. 16
22. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 4, p. 24
23. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 44, p. 26
24. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 44, p. 21
25. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 65, p. 34
26. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 5, p. 3
27. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 5, p. 11
28. ↑ 28.0 28.1 *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 1, p. 8
29. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 19, p. 13
30. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 35, p. 19
31. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 7, p. 23
32. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 10, p. 23
33. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 10, p. 24
34. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon World Guide: The Adventurer's Bible*, p. 8-9
35. ↑ 35.0 35.1 *Daydream Hour 3* by Ryoko Kui
36. ↑ *Daydream Hour Extra* by Ryoko Kui
37. ↑ *Daydream Hour 2* by Ryoko Kui, p. 24
38. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 42, p. 3
39. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 42, p. 5
40. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 56, p. 2
41. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 13, p. 28
42. ↑ *Daydream Hour 2* by Ryoko Kui
43. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 22, p. 16
44. ↑ *Delicious in Dungeon* Manga: Chapter 51, p. 3