(closed) back at it again at fantasy krispy kreme

[spellslots]

who: ipre squad
what: shenanigans, mostly soulmate shenanigans
when: september
where: ya mom's bed
warnings: #drama, also smooches and ~references~ to boning i guess


[It doesn't really matter that much, who drinks the potion first, the end result is the same: six white threads, the colour of bonds, stretching out between them. There are three that go nowhere in particular, for Merle, Davenport, and Barry, but the other three have definite ends.

Maybe there are others, too. I'm not your dad.]

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[spellslots]

[The goal for today is a new macaron filling he wants to try out, with a herbal extract that tastes a little like lavender.

He's been watching the thread connected to Lup move as she does, and it's - it's nice, to have something visible between them, even if it's unnecessary. It's only unfortunate he can't use it to tug her off the countertop.]

No one here's selling shit powerful enough to be a real bond, it must just be tuning into what we've already got, right?

[Taako is not the smartest of their little group, but he spent long enough listening to Barry go on about bonds and the light of creation that he's fairly confident this isn't like that.]

[umbrastaff]

[Lup hands him the eggs from where she's sitting, picking one up to look it over.]

Save the yolks for me, Koko. I'll make some lemon curd for the breakfast toast or key lime pie.

[Here, catch!]

...and I mean, obviously it isn't a bond-bond. Just... our bonds. It's kind of cute, really.

[She touches her red one again, and then eyes Taako's.]

Huh, you have one more aside from your red one. Who's that?

[Joaquin, the Genji main. (That does McCree and Pharah jokes. MAKE UP YOUR MIND DUDE.)]

[spellslots]

You better get me an extra bowl for those.

[Taako catches the egg easily, familiar with this particular game.

He gives a nod for her assessment of the bonds, then laughs at her question.]

That'd be Joaquin, you remember that sandwich in Tesseralia that I fucking like, zoned out over cause it was so good? Turns out that formed a bond to some kid in the plane of logic, he taught me how to make tacos.

[Which they've had plenty of times in the Quarantine, but apparently the act of being taught gave him extra power.]

[umbrastaff]

[She didn't doubt his egg catching abilities, already hunting for an extra bowl as he caught it.

Glancing up as she finds a good one, Lup's eyes widen a little bit and she ends up smiling again.]

Fuck, Taako, how many planes are you gonna stick your grubby little hands in?

[Astral plane with Kravitz, Ethereal plane, and now this one too?]

...but yeah, I remember that. I still can't believe there's such a fucking delicious thing named after you.

[spellslots]

[After he cracks the first egg, Taako reaches out a free hand to wiggle his fingers at her.]

All of 'em, if I've got any say in it.

[Maybe, even if he is dead, Kravitz will take him on ghost adventures.]

Hey, I mean, maybe I'm named after the delicious thing? Not like mom and dad could tell us.

[It's said easily, it's been a long time since he's cared about not having parents.]

[umbrastaff]

[She raises the bowl to catch the yolks.]

Careful in the Plane of Fire, you'll get blisters.

[People die in all sorts of planes, Krav can probably take him on a big journey. See the City of Doors in the middle of all planes and get a kick out of the giant floating Lady of Pain guarding it.]

That would have to have meant that they had to have seen the plane of logic, since you told me tacos doesn't exist in Abeir-Toril.

[She wonders, sometimes, about their parents. If their aunt was really their aunt. It doesn't matter, though. They're not even a memory.]

[spellslots]

I can handle the heat.

[That was a bad pun.]

Maybe they secretly invented them? I don't fucking know, this joke got away from me.

[He gestures at her lazily with half an egg shell, before reaching over to tip the next yolk into the bowl.]

[umbrastaff]

[She snorts and rolls her eyes at that pun.]

Gasp, the great Taako Taaco lost the thread of a joke!

[Lup smiles and holds up the bowl for the next yolk.]

You know you gotta teach me how to make them, too.

[spellslots]

[Without missing a beat, he casts mage hand so it can flip her the bird. He needs his actual hands for cooking.]

If you think I'm gonna give up my secrets that easily you've got another thing coming, bubbale. You better start bribing.

[umbrastaff]

Offer one: dishes for a week.

[It was time for negotiations!]

[spellslots]

We're both wizards.

[If she isn't an unseen servant for dishes what's the point of magic.]

[umbrastaff]

Spellslots, Taako.

[Eye roll.]

[spellslots]

We have seriously gotta get you leveled up, let's go fight some shit in the forest next week.

[As much as he enjoys being the More Powerful Wizard, it'd be good to make sure Lup can protect herself.]

[umbrastaff]

Hey, I'm about to be super fucking powerful!

[Y'know, lichness.]

But until then, fuck yeah.

[spellslots]

Doesn't count 'til you actually do it.

[He made his peace with the lich thing a long time ago, but sometimes worry still curls in his chest.]

[umbrastaff]

Fair.

[Shrug.]

Just how fucking powerful are you right now?

[spellslots]

I got feeblemind and power word stun under my belt, so like - pretty fucking powerful.

[Those are some nasty-ass spells.]

[umbrastaff]

[Things that makes Lup excited: this.]

Oooh shit, I definitely want to see you fuck something up with those!

[spellslots]

Find me someone I can fuck up without like, the cops getting on my dick, and you got yourself a goddamn show.

[He hasn't done a murder for six months??? What a dry spell.]

[umbrastaff]

Monsters. In the forest.

[No people murders unless they attack you first, you weird kinkster.]

Or the Dodger guy.

[spellslots]

Monsters don't count and you know it.

[It's different???]

I haven't seen that dickweed for like two months and I'm fucking happy leaving it that way.

[umbrastaff]

Well you gotta wait for some true ass-shits to show up, then.

[Taako why are you like this.]

I still want to rip his balls out through his ears.

[spellslots]

I'd pay actual money for Jerkins to show up here.

[Who Lup doesn't know, but - still. God it's fun to wreck Jenkin's shit.]

He'll get what's coming to him eventually. Doesn't need to be us.

[The further they are from Dodger, the better, no matter how much they'd like revenge.]

[umbrastaff]

I know, don't worry. I'm not gonna go after him or anything.

[She catches the last egg yolks and puts the bowl down to hand him the almond meal.]

This place seems unusually calm for what we're used to, though. Kind of like the beach planet but with less beach and more people.

[spellslots]

[A little tension drains from his shoulders with that reassurance, and he accepts the almond meal easily, getting back to this whole cooking thing.]

Listen, I get where you're coming from, but I'm fucking exhausted.

[There's no Light to track down, no tasks to complete, no Hunger to prepare for, but he's been through the emotional wringer in this place and it's hard to compare it to beach planet, when that's the case.]