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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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[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?

[franciscoramon]

[ He'd walked right into this one and doesn't have anyone to blame. Once again, the fact that Taako doesn't insist is what helps Cisco to just spit it out - or in this case type it out. ]

it's hypothetically possible i can do more than just get visions.
i met someone here from my future and she said there's other stuff, too, and it has to do with manipulating multidimensional energy.

[ Also he may have already done so once before, but, well, baby steps. ]

you're not wrong, there are a LOT of gift giving holidays here

[spellslots]

Huh.

I can kinda see magic, you know? Like everthing's got an energy and if I pull it in the right way with a spell, it'll do what I want. But I dunno if that applies to how your shit works.

What're you getting him? Cause I'm fresh out of ideas and I guess I'm spending the next few days figuring it out.

[franciscoramon]

i don't really know, either
she didn't realize i didn't know yet and then she wouldn't tell me any more cuz timelines
but i figured maybe there was a connection between what you can do and what maybe i can do

i'm actually getting him a cat. well, a kitten.
he keeps saying he thinks yuri's cat gets lonely during the day when we're all gone, and a couple days ago a stray that followed me back to our place and i fed it because i felt bad and it was still there the next morning
it's at the vet right now, i took it for its shots or whatever and they said they'd keep an eye on it til next week

[spellslots]

If you wanna learn a couple easy spells to see if it helps you focus your own shit, I accept payment in the form of coffee, booze, or diamonds.

[Cisco wouldn't get the full Wizard Apprentice treatment that Eddie is getting, but a few spells, even just the basics of them, might help.]

How am I supposed to compete with a real live animal? What the hell, dude 🔪🔪🔪

[franciscoramon]

for real?
maybe just one, to see if it kickstarts anything meta-ish.
i'm more than happy to pay in booze.

[ Whoops, Cisco hadn't actually stopped to think that maybe the kitten was going a bit overboard. It had just seemed so perfect at the time - he needed a gift for Eddie, the kitten needed a home, and Cisco knew he would be able to benefit from its adorable presence, too. He hadn't considered that it might seem like too much. Which... is par for the course, for him. He somehow always ends up doing too much. ]

................ok you got me there
it's not like i planned this! it followed me home! blame fate!
i bet if you made him something he'd love that. you know, like, not from a store or whatever, you put time into it, blah blah.

[spellslots]

Prestidigiation is like the easiest cantrip and transmutation magic, let's give it a shot.

I'm an emissary of fate! I can't blame the god I work for!! [what] He would love that, he's such a sap.

[franciscoramon]

wow, say that five times fast.
okay, let's do it.
now, here's my question: scotch, vodka, gin, tequila, what's your poison?

...do you mean that... metaphorically?

not arguing with you on that one.
plus anything you make him is never gonna scratch up his furniture or leave hair on all his clothes, so, there you go.

[spellslots]

I've been saying it since I was like, fifteen, I could do it. Vodka is never turned down in the Taaco household.

Nah I work for Istus, goddess of Fate, it was this whole thing.

I'm gonna summon some kinda hellspawn to run around his house out of fucking spite now.

[No he's not.]

[franciscoramon]

vodka it is.

okay for real how many careers have you HAD at this point
and also, how?
and also, WHAT?

please don't, i've been crashing up in the attic room for a little bit now and one of my favorite things bout the place is it's hellspawn-free

[spellslots]

The Istus deal is more of a side gig, like we just keep doing what we do cause most of the time we're fixing shit and that's her domain, you know? Making sure nature takes its course or whatever.

That Yuri kid is for sure some kinda demon, just saying.

[franciscoramon]

ok the fact that you had a side hustle isn't what's tripping me up
it's that your side hustle involved working for a goddess. like.... a real one?
that's not just a title or something in the organization you worked for, for like, a normal mortal person?

he's a teenager.

[ Which is to say, Cisco agrees. ]

[spellslots]

Gods are real back home, that's kinda how clerics work. Meeting them usually isn't like, super common but it's us, ya know?

[They're special cases.]

I was not that bad as a teenager.

[franciscoramon]

that's wicked cool and a little bit terrifying.

[ It's... going to take Cisco a while to wrap his brain around that one. Multiverse, sure. Magic, he'd been skeptical, until he'd seen it with his own eyes. But gods and all of that? That's kind of a whole other ball game. ]

okay true
but eddie seems to really like him, and historically speaking he's a pretty good judge of character
so i doubt he's actually evil or anything like that