A gift for @thelamejames, created by @rockindragonz!
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Strings of Fate
The thing about red strings was that Taako’s had always been connected to something, but it was mostly limp. Except when it wasn't… There would be flashes where he would feel a tug on his pinky finger, never very strong, but always there, but it would disappear within an hour or so, as if his soulmate was jumping between planes or something. He tried talking to Sazed about it, but, as with most things toward the end, he just blew Taako off and ignored him. So Taako never brought it up.
Being around the two idiots he called friends now didn’t really give him much of an opportunity to search or bring it up. Right after the blew up Phandalin was the first time he felt it after joining the BoB. It was stronger this time, oddly so, and it seemed to pull him straight down towards an area just past the large black circle that once was the small town. For a moment, Taako thought that maybe his soulmate had been in that town they had just incinerated and he would never get to meet them, but he shook his head of that thought and kept moving forward, as one does.
The next time Taako got a blip on the red string radar was months down the line when they were in the orb flying back to the moon base. He felt a near painful pull back towards the ground and had half a mind to try and turn this thing around, but as quick as it was there, it was gone. He’d missed his chance, and this was his best one yet.
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When it happened again, they were on their way to Lucas’ lab. The pulling was painful, as if fate was trying desperately to get them to meet again. When they stepped foot into the crystalline laboratory, the string started pulling in seemingly random directions. Towards the wall, towards the ceiling, and at one point towards a huge crystal monster. At which point Taako thought ‘fuck no’ and proceeded to kick it’s ass, no matter how painful it might be to be possibly killing his soulmate. When they finally confronted the monster they had been chasing, Taako had an epiphany. The man announced himself as a grim reaper for the Raven Queen herself and it all slid into place. Fate didn’t work cross-planar, that’s why blips would pop up occasionally when he would come top-side.
He stared the reaper down in disbelief, and the reaper, Kraavitz, stared back, then at his pinky, then back. While he was distracted, Magnus brought his ax down in a wide swing, to which Taako’s only reaction was to cast the spell he’d been readying: evard’s black tentacles. Magnus and Kraavitz got caught up in them, and as soon as Taako realized that, he dismissed the spell and walked calmly forward.
“You know, I was going to threaten you with being the star of my tent porn,” Taako said, hand on his hip and a smirk playing at his lips
“I-this is unprecedented,” Kraavitz said, suddenly non-accented. Taako snorted. Unprecedented was an understatement.
“Hey, uh, Taako? What’s up buddy?” Magnus said, looking between Taako and Kraavitz. In response, Taako held up his right pinky finger and wiggled it, then pointed at the reaper in front of him. “Oh. Oh!” Magnus started bouncing excitedly up and down as he holstered his ax and began to squeal in the most un-Magnus-like fashion they had ever seen.
[ID: A drawing of Aubrey and Dani against a pink square background. Aubrey is a black woman wearing a v-necked black t-shirt, brown trousers, a sleeveless denim jacket and black socks, with hair dyed in a red to yellow gradients in tight curls. She is wearing red lipstick, eyeliner and gold eyeshadow and has multiple ear piercings and a nose piercing. Dani is a white, heavily freckled woman wearing a purple jumper with white stripes, blue jeans and yellow socks, with long wavy blond hair, her brown roots showing. They both have an array of mostly plain badges, Aubrey has one with the bisexual flag, Dani one with the lesbian flag. Aubrey is sitting down, grinning, blushing and speaking enthusiastically. Dani is leaning against her chest, looking up at her fondly. END ID]
A gift for @wolfbutterfly42, created by @thelamejames!
infodumping is actually something that can be so romantic
[ID: An image of magnus sitting cross legged in front of a watercolour flower background, eyes closed, hands on lap and a soft smile on his face. He looks peaceful and calm. He is wearing pinky blue bottoms covered in white hearts and has various magical and natural scars on his chest and face, including top surgery scars. He has light brown skin and short, wavy brown hair. END ID]
A gift for @herowise, created by @thelamejames!
scars are like little souvenirs from a hotel gift shop, reminding you of where you’ve been scars- fashion week
[ID: A digital drawing of Taako and Kravitz. Taako is an olive skinned blue eyed elf with long blonde hair that fades to blue at the tips. He’s wearing a lavender coat with purple gloves and carrying a bright pink umbrella over his shoulder. He has his shoulder over Kravitz and is winking at him smugly, saying “Gotta stick close to ya and make sure you dont undo the threads of fate again!”. Kravitz is a dark skinned human with dreadlocks pulled back in a ponytail. He is wearing a dark red coat with golden buttons and darker red gloves. Both of his eyes are closed and he is smiling back nervously at Taako. He replies, “Sorry…”. The background starts dark blue at the bottom and fades to light blue at the top. At the top of the image there are strings of glowing yellow lights. END ID]
A gift for @thelamejames, created by @tiny-elf-peppa!
Roleswap!AU where Taako is a consort of Istus and is sent to keep an eye on a troublesome adventuring party whose very existence manages to fiddle with the threads of fate. He grows attached to a young human bard named Kravitz.
