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TAAKO

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@fromTV

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Pâtissier

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"You've got Taako. I'm too busy to take your call right now, leave a message."

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Comments

[franciscoramon]

barry thought it would keep her safer if she didn't know.
i mean he wasn't 100% off base. if the wrong people found out you knew who the flash was under the mask, bad stuff happened.
but she put the pieces together eventually and was pretty pissed. can't really blame her.

[ Which is really just to confirm that what Taako had read in those comic books is probably pretty close to the truth. ]

he is.
always kinda liked that about him tho.

[ Honesty has always been a quality Cisco liked, but after years of Dr. Wells with his effortless manipulation and unceasing deceit? Yeah, Cisco is inclined to like bad liars. Including Taako. ]

i guess i never really stopped to think about how complicated it all is...

[spellslots]

It's charming in its own way.

[Eddie's whole earnestness thing is... sure, charming, but it's also something that Taako finds so baffling.]

A lotta shit doesn't seem weird when you're living it. Like, look at me.

[He's a wizard elf who spent 100 years on a spaceship doing some weird groundhog day shit.

That's weird.]

[franciscoramon]

yeah. just a matter of perspective i guess.
some of it's gotta just be culture shock i mean didn't you say the last guy you dated before eddie tried to kill you or something?
bc to me that's way way way weirder.

and i really gotta emphasize tho that the vast majority of complicated romantic situations on earth involve 0% time travel and comas and superpowers.

[spellslots]

He's the grim reaper, that's his job!

Are you telling me that all those romcoms I've been watching aren't a typical Earth experience?

[He's messing with Cisco.]

[franciscoramon]

like.................. with a scythe?

okay but which ones have you been watching?
i need to know how horrified i should be by this statement.

[spellslots]

With a scythe and a skeleton body and a super creepy black cloak (it's not that creepy, but I pretend to make him feel cool).

[Poor Kravitz.]

Listen, I won't be judged for the shit I watch when I'm two thirds of the way through a bottle of wine and eating icing straight out of the bowl.

[franciscoramon]

i can never tell when you're joking and when you're being serious
you really dated the grim reaper? there IS a grim reaper, in your world?

who said anything about judging?
we've all been there with the wine and the icing
i just want to know how whack your ideas about earth romance are
take my word for it, people don't actually end up running after each other in airports all that often

[spellslots]

Totally serious, he works for the Raven Queen who does the whole death thing. I mean he's not like, exactly the grim reaper, his usual deal is escaped souls and necromancers who fuck around with undeath. He doesn't come hold everyone's hand to get over to the astral plane.

My ideas of Earth romance are whack as hell, if Eddie ever dumps me I'm gonna go stand outside his window with a boombox.

For reals though, the best shit I've watched so far was Romeo + Juliet. Loved that.

[franciscoramon]

okay well that actually sounds like a super important job.
like basically law enforcement for undead stuff.
maybe eddie's kinda your type after all.

yeah pretty sure that move has never ever worked in real life

solid choice. mercutio is a total hottie in that

1/2

[spellslots]

Fuck

[THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING]

[spellslots]

I can't fucking believe myself

[His type is lawful?? At least Kravtiz is lawful neutral unlike Eddie, but still.]

What the fuck

[He needs a moment.]

[franciscoramon]

[ Is it bad that Cisco is laughing? He is absolutely laughing. ]

hey come on now, weren't you just lecturing me the other day about how it's okay to have preferences or whatever

besides there's way way worse types to have
you could be into snotty rich pricks
or bullies with daddy issues
or jocks so dumb they can barely string a sentence together

[spellslots]

I'm like a combination of all of those don't be a dick!!!

[No it's okay he's laughing too.]

[franciscoramon]

oh so you're admitting you have daddy issues? 📝

[ He has to tease a LITTLE. ]

i'm just kidding
i know you aren't any of those things because you don't hate me
i'm like a living litmus test baby

[spellslots]

I never even knew my dad but like, the fact you focused on that of all the options says a lot, huh? 📝

[take that.]

That's real sweet of you, pumpkin.

[But he is definitely a bully and definitely kind of stupid.]

[franciscoramon]

well it made sense to focus on it, jocks are incapable of shutting up about sports and you don't dress like a guy who's ever been rich
(believe me, that's a compliment)

not being sweet, it's just a fact
i'm like catnip for dudes who want to feel superior to somebody
like a canary in the coal mine of who is a douche and who isn't
so i can tell

[spellslots]

Sure sure sure, whatever you say, my man.

And I mean I get what you're going for but like, I love feeling superior to people!

[Taako...........]

You're just pretty rad so, kinda hard to do.

[franciscoramon]

how do i keep ending up in these situations where i feel like if i deny it you're just gonna say i'm protesting too much?

[ Cisco laughs reading this text and is shaking his head slightly as he types his reply ]

okay lemme amend that: "who want to feel superior to somebody for super shitty reasons like 'he has long hair / his name's weird / he's shitty at basketball'"

[ And maybe he's just going to be a little bit or a lot pleased that Taako thinks he's rad. ]

[spellslots]

That's just how I roll, sweetheart. You can't win.

Oh, cool, I get it. I only feel superior to people for great reasons, for sure. Like being real hot and great at cooking and magic and fucking everything, really?

[He's playing up the ego for laughs now.]

[franciscoramon]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

exactly! crucial difference.

[ He can tell that Taako's joking, but the fact that he CAN joke about his ego really does prove Cisco's point. He doesn't take himself so damn seriously; there's a pretty large gap between feeling yourself and just making other people feel shitty for the sake of it. ]

hey so speaking of being great at magic, i actually had a question for you.

[ It's not party-related but the conversation had meandered away from there and there's no time like the present. ]

[spellslots]

[Shrug emojis are a good start.]

Hit me.

[franciscoramon]

[ Cisco knows there's a good chance Taako figure out pretty quickly this isn't just a totally random hypothetical, but he's actually in a really good mood and feels like that would be okay. ]

you said there's all different types of magic and people specialize in different things, and yours is transmutation
are there any kinds of magic-users who just focus on manipulating energy itself
or who could maybe channel that energy? like... physically?

[spellslots]

If you boil it down that's still kinda transmutation, you know? We can shape energy and change it to our whims or whatever you want to call it, there's a reason time shit falls under transmutation. It's not just about changing the properties of physical items.

["Time shit" is the technical term, of course.]

Channeling it might fall more under conjuration, cause that's turning raw magical energy into physical things.

[franciscoramon]

[ Time shit absolutely counts as a precise technical term. And it makes sense that transmutation isn't just turning a rock into a cabbage or whatever, since Taako had said he could do magic stuff to people's dreams. ]

right, got it
i mean... sort of got it. got it as much as i'm gonna.

[ Speculating about where his powers would even be classified on a magical spectrum is probably just going to end up more frustrating than rewarding. ]

so you got any idea what you're gonna get eddie as a present?

[spellslots]

Feel free ask not in hypotheticals when you're ready

[Despite the fact Taako will happily tell someone he's stupid, he's not, really. It's just that he doesn't give a shit most of the time.

But he gives a shit about Cisco, he's just not going to pressure him with questions.]

And also: fuck

Didn't we just do a gift thing? Why are there always gift things?