[open] we tried to bury it and rise above

[spellslots]

who: taako/taaquito and you
what: catch-all + an open prompt for AU shenanigans
when: latter half of June
where: all around!!
warnings: violence/threats of sexual violence in the thread with smokedout

Comments

[spellslots]

Worse, he got married.

[It's not a good thing to be told, now, but it still feels important in a way that Taako could only understand once he remembered how much he loved Magnus.

He... wishes he could've met Jules, that they all could've.]

[umbrastaff]

Oh shit I owe Merle like, a million gold.

[It's sweet, though. Magnus all grown up with a spouse and probably a shitton of dogs.]

I can't believe our boys are all domestic.

[spellslots]

[Taako hums, somewhere between amused and thoughtful, as he focuses on the braid for a moment.]

You know, it was always kinda weird how easy it felt, around them. Cause I didn't trust any fucking asshole, but they wormed their way in a second time. Makes sense now, I already knew them, even if I couldn't remember it.

[umbrastaff]

Not even Fisher could fully take away those bonds, huh?

[She knows full well how hard it was for them to trust anyone before the IPRE, and if Taako thought he grew up alone, that lack of trust must have been even worse.

Yet two of their precious family had reunited with him anyway and built some kind of friendship once more. It makes Lup have more hope for the future.]

How come you guys found eachother again, anyway?

[spellslots]

Pretty sure Lucretia brought us back together. We helped her collect the relics, cause we could handle them without going fucknuts crazy, we just didn't know that we were responsible for them.

[This is a difficult thing, something he still hasn't decided how to feel about. He was lost and alone, for years, and joing the Bureau gave him something almost like a home again, but there's still a part of him that feels used and lied to, in a way that he wouldn't have, if Lucretia had left him to his life.]

[umbrastaff]

At least... that's something.

[Something redeemable for all she had messed up. It's so alien to think of Lucretia doing a thing like this, and Lup wonders just where they had gone wrong to push her friend this far.

To make her take everyone away.

It was just ironic that she needed their help again, anyway.]

What kind of relics are they? I mean, you told me a bit about mine...

[spellslots]

[Taako spreads his hand, casting minor illusion to create images of each of their relics.]

Your gauntlet, my transmuter's stone, the oculus - that's Davenport's, it makes any illusion real, gaia sash - pretty sure you can guess that one, bulwark staff is Luce's, Barry made the animus bell that uh, it knocks a person's soul outta their body, and the temporal chalice was Magnus, it can rewrite time, kinda fucked up if you think too hard about it.

[umbrastaff]

[Barry that's a creepy-ass relic thing.]

Wow. I mean... shit, those sound like some powerful things. We made them?

[spellslots]

We went to this world with an Arcaneum, they studied and made magical items, that's where we learned how to do this shit. It's where you made the umbra staff and I made a sweet fucking glaive. No idea where that went to.

[It's not like he ever saw it at the Bureau, did Lucretia hide it?]

[umbrastaff]

[She shakes her head a little at that, fond.]

Of course you did. What did it do? Fuck, what does the umbra staff do?

[spellslots]

It's got some shit in it that lets me keep a spell slot if a spell misses, puh-retty sweet.

[It also has like a +2 or something to his modifier but whatever.]

Yours looks stupid and eats the wands of wizards we beat up.

[Taako's been carrying the thing around for 18 months but he'll still tell Lup it looks stupid.]

[umbrastaff]

That is pretty damn sweet... but hey, mine doesn't look stupid! It's practical and takes trophies!

[There's no accounting for taste, it seems.]

Be nice to it or I'm taking it back.

[spellslots]

[He nearly makes a joke about prying it out of his cold dead hands, but it sticks somewhere in his chest.

That's how he got it from her, after all.]

When I get my glaive back from wherever the fuck it went, you can have your clown umbrella.

[umbrastaff]

[All this shit they had gone through the last hours, and now they were arguing over the coolness of her banging umbra staff. It was easier than dwelling on things, no matter how sour it tasted.

At least for a while.]

You can be all badass with your glaive thing, but do you even know how to use weapons like that? You're gonna poke an eye out.

[spellslots]

[This is how he does shit like this; finding a stupid distraction as quickly as possible, after a difficult conversation.]

It's a magic glaive, I'm not actually stabbing anyone with it, jeez.

[umbrastaff]

[Reasons they worked so well together. Lup isn't as burningly angry any more, but she still has to go out and burn off the extra emotions later.

For now, though, she's more interested in bullshit.]

Then why make it a glaive!?

[Really, Taako.]

[spellslots]

Uh, because it looks sick, duh.

[This shouldn't be a difficult concept to understand.]

[umbrastaff]

Don't come crying to me when you hurt yourself on it, or accidentally stab Magnus.

[Magnus-stabbing seemed the most likely, to be honest.]

[spellslots]

As if he'd even notice.

[He has like 150 hit points, a little stab from Taako isn't going to do much.]

[umbrastaff]

[She snorts at that and leans her head against his shoulder.]

Big muscle-beast Magnus, running from whatever the hell we're fighting, full of arrows and daggers and fuck knows what. Then you accidentally stab him and he cries.

Do you want that on your conscience?

[spellslots]

Oh, puh-lease, that dude cries at the drop of a hat, I'm not gonna feel guilty about it.

[He doesn't even know the meaning of the word.]

[umbrastaff]

Oh gods yes. [Lup rolls her eyes.] Remember the puppy planet?