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stillpartofthisworld · 6 years

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and death shall have dominion-TAZ

Part 1

AO3

iii. Revival

When a battle has been fought, there are always bodies.

The Day of Story and Song may have ended with a triumphant victory but in the night that proceeds there are those who suddenly breathe another's name. They look around, frantic to find their lover, their brother, their comrade. Before dawn there are those you can see on the battlefield, clutching another in their arms as they wail, as they cry softly into their chest, as they kiss them goodbye.

Most bodies are burnt; a custom for those fallen in battle.

Angus’s body is not.

When he wakes up he's in a dark room, lit only by the night sky that was only just beginning to lighten. The roof was partially gone, he noted, most likely due to an attack by the Hunger. His hands immediately go to his chest and stomach, searching for his wound. It's there but at the same time it's not; his sweater vest and shirt are burnt and stained with blood yet his torso is whole, save for the scar tissue that now wraps around most of his middle.

There is also the issue that his heart does not beat.

Angus takes a breath, trying for calm composure as he stands and takes a look around. His glasses hang from what's left of his shirt but his vision is clearer than it ever was before death, the dark room being cast with an eerie red glow that illuminates everything in his line of sight. (Darkvision? Must be.).

It takes him a moment to realize that he's in a morgue.

A makeshift one, staffed by none and kept cool by various Rays of Frost cast around the room. He doesn't feel the cold and it occurs to him that it's because he's the same temperature as the room itself, his corpse already having gone through algor mortis. The bodies that lay around him are few, about two dozen Bureau members that died in the midst of the confusion and battle. He sees Johann, most of his body covered in a white sheet and a broken violin on his chest. The bard has a smile frozen on his face, and the boy wonders what his last thoughts were before spotting a rift open up to his right.

Once again, the reaper steps out, his ghoulish form quickly forming skin and expression as he lays eyes on Angus. “Glad to see you're up and moving so quickly,” He says with a sympathetic smile. It's all Angus could do to smile back. “Thank you, sir. I feel fine.”

A lie, of course, but Kravitz just nods a bit absentmindedly as he takes in his surroundings. “My Queen...well, Our Queen is letting us off the hook for a while as the Astral Plane straightens out. What you do is up to you, but-”

“Angus?”

He's interrupted by a gasp. They both turn to the exit and see Lucretia standing by the only doorway into the room. Her hands are wrapped in bandages and she's leaning on her staff, body heavy with exhaustion. Her eyes, however, are shiny and wide as she takes in the two standing in a small sea of corpses and she launches herself at him, wrapping her arms around his little body. He freezes for a moment, her body heat like a hot brand on his skin but he hugs back. “Nice to see you too, ma'am,” he says and she pulls back, taking in his scarred stomach and cold hands. Her face shifts into an expression he can't decipher and she shoots a look at Kravitz, who has enough grace to look uncomfortable.

The exhaustion takes hold again, and she ends the reunion with a “Let's get you cleaned up,” before ushering them out of the makeshift morgue. The moon base is quiet and eerily so, the only regular sounds coming from the hangar as cannons fire and receive cannonballs.

They walk across the quad and towards the dorms. The building has, oddly enough, survived the apocalypse relatively unscathed, and it's apparently one of the only buildings that still has plumbing. She takes them in from the back door and leads them to an empty dorm floor and somehow produces a simple set of clothes out of nowhere, handing them to Angus. “They're resting on the ground floor,” she says before ruffling his curls again. “Come find us when you're done.”. She glances at Kravitz, who hesitates but follows her as she turns and walks back down the hall.

And now, Angus is alone.

The oddest thing about his body is the absence of blood.

He discovers this as he’s drying himself off. He spent most of the shower in relative discomfort, the hot water feeling as if it was burning through his dead flesh before ebbing away as he reached a human body temperature. (He wondered how Kravitz put up with it, the pain that came with holding Taako.)

He turns off the shower and exits, grabbing a towel and trying not to stare at his exposed stomach. He has new scars as well; a pale streak along his calf, a dark splash on his forearm, a slit on his neck. He finds them oddly easier to look at, these injuries. He's inspecting a scar on his right ankle, bending over to take a closer look before he feels his left leg give out from under him, slipping on the wet tiles.

And then he's face down on the floor. He feels fine; the coldness of the tiles are just a small discomfort, and he stands up with ease, wiping himself dry from the excess moisture that had clung to the tiles during his shower. He folds the towel neatly, placing it on a rung. He slips into the t-shirt (“Fantasy Costco!” It reads in giant red and blue font. He wonders if Garfield got out alright.) and sweatpants the Director had provided for him, pausing to check out his reflection. The mirror is fogged and blurry, only reflecting the shape of a boy in a white graphic tee. There's something on his forehead, a dark shape that looks like a wayward curl. He runs a hand through his hair, smoothing his hair down like his grandfather always told him to. He's bringing down his hands when he sees it, splayed across the soft inside of his palm.

It's nothing.

A void has opened across his hand.

It's in the shape of a scrape, the type one may endure if they, perhaps, had slipped and fallen onto a tiled floor. The skin around the wound is fine, but the wound itself is just black nothingness on his hand, a void where skin meets flesh and bone.

He closes his hand.

The cabinet under the sink contains a simple first-aid kit, and from it he gets a roll of gauze. Once, twice he wraps it around his palm, tying it up neatly and placing it back where it belongs before exiting the bathroom. Again, a temperature shift; he shivers against the cool air as he feels his body giving up the heat it so recently obtained. He's barefoot, both shoes and socks dirty and bloodied beyond repair and so he feels the coolness of the ground beneath his feet (It's the ground that should be above him, he thinks suddenly. He should be dead.) He takes the stairs one at a time, hesitating at each landing as he nears the ground floor. He knows that this would not change: his hair would still be ruffled, hugs would still be bone-crushing, snide remarks would still sting in that good way that remarks from a loved one sometimes do. This would not change, and he was happy about this, grateful for their near-idiotic nonchalance and acceptance of the odd and weird and downright messed up.

He reaches the ground floor. It's a lounge area, the common room for all the dormitory residents. It's relatively large, big enough to hold a modest party of 50 drunk people. It only holds ten now; Kravitz, Lucretia, and Davenport all look up from the large dining table as he enters the room. They look tired, unbearably so; Lucretia looks like she's about to faint from exhaustion anytime now, and the gnome has eyebags darker than the Hunger itself. Only Kravitz seems to have any sort of energy left, and he uses it to smile wanly at the new reaper, gesturing for him to sit down.

The rest are all asleep; Carey and Killan, all wrapped up in each other, only take up one plush armchair in the corner of the room. Magnus has monopolized a whole couch for himself, snoring lightly with Steven balanced on his chest. Merle is on the ground beside him, one soulwood hand still clutching the Xtreme Teen Bible and the other in Magnus's grip.

Taako is wrapped in a robe.

That's what it looks like at first, but as the robes shift a little he notices their form, wisps with mass and volume that curl around the wizards prone body. The top of the robe, where the head was to be, shifts and turns to look straight at him as if it felt his eyes on it.

Lich, his soul whispers, and for some reason the thought is disgusting to him. It's disgusting, they're disgusting, and it's all he can do to clench his fists and look away from the red robe that is now floating in front of him silently.

“Hey, kid,” a feminine voice comes out of the robe. “Still sorry about your macarons.”

“It's okay, ma'am!” The pleasant tone is forced and harsh in his ears, but if the lich had made a note of it, he didn't know. “I made some more after the incident. They tasted much better after I added in the sugar!”

“Did you now?” If the smoke that was her soul could smile then it would be, a weak pulse of magic flowing from her nonexistent body into his own. It feels like happiness and relief, and Angus feels himself relax just a fraction in front of her, this abomination that had saved his world.

There's shuffling behind her.

“Lup?”

Taako’s eyes open a fraction. The red robe turns quickly and spreads its essence around him, a mimicry of hands placed upon his chest and shoulders.

“Yeah, bro?”

The words are nonchalant, casual, and yet the elf still bolts upright and clutches at her robes, squeezing them once, twice before taking in the rest of the room. His gaze drifts over Angus for a split second before snapping back and staring at him with a look of confusion on his face. “Angus?” He swings his legs over the couch and peers at him, at his pale skin and simple clothing. “Didn't you die? Or was last night just a mindfuck like the last ten years of my life?”

(The Director flinches at that last comment and stares down at her folded hands that lay neatly on the table. Neither her captain or the reaper offer any consolation, but neither do they acknowledge Taako's remark. It's the closest thing to a passive stance they can take on this matter. She is grateful for it.)

“Um,” Angus looks down and shuffles his bare feet. “I did die. A little.For like, a few hours.”

“I got that, boychik. So how are you back?” The boy looks at him and then at Kravitz hesitantly, not sure what to tell him. It only takes his mentor a few seconds to put two and two together and he looks at Kravitz, who for once looks straight at someone in the room instead of shifting his gaze to the side. He blinks, once, twice before ... this?”

Angus looks at the floor, and then straight at Taako as he lies.

“Yes.”

He sees him visibly relax before getting up from the couch and stretching. “Well then, cha’boy’s rested long enough and I need a fuckin’ bath, so if you’ll excuse me-”

“Taako, wait-”

Kravitz stands and tries to move toward him, but is caught up in a flurry of red motion and magic. “Not so fast, Skeletor.” Lup says, her red hood mere centimeters from Death’s face. “Don’t we have business to take care of?” He hesitates, glancing towards the door Taako scurried out of and back to the lich in front of him before sighing. “Let's take this...outside.”

They both disappear into thin air, and Angus finds himself much too tired to be worried about them. He crawls onto the now vacant couch and curls up into himself, emptying his mind and filling his ears with the idle yet tense conversation between the Wordless One and The Lonely Journal Keeper that devolves into a one-sided yelling match that still devolves into a grown woman sobbing quietly onto a rosewood table and the sound of small feet quickly walking out of the room. He knows he should comfort her and he does, getting up and putting his small arms around her neck and letting her hold him like a mother would a child, trying not to focus on her warmth or the fact that he isn't a child anymore, he's just a soul trapped in a body and there's a hole in his hand.

He falls asleep in her arms, his dreams filled with the sea and ravens.

He wakes up and he’s alone.

There’s darkness all around him and there's something entangling his body. For a second he thinks he's back on the battlefield, fighting with a wand that breaks in his hand (Spellotape is cheap as shit) before he's rammed with a pillar of pure evil, his eyes seeing nothing but shades of black and red as the Hunger gouges out his stomach and sucks out his HP before moving on to another target, leaving him to die on the ground, oh God he's dying, he's dying and there's blood everywhere and the pain won't stop, the blood it won't stop please I need help anyone can anyone save me please save me take the pain away please kill me help me please I need, I need I need I need

A light.

It comes out of the corner of his eyes and it blinds him for a moment. He squints and he can see movement, quick and panicked, a large shadow racing towards him and he screams, arms splayed out in a pitiful attempt to stop his attacker. Arms wrap around his torso and he screams again, legs flailing and catching the unknown assailant in the lower stomach but they're unfazed, holding him tighter to his body and saying something, shouting it into his ear in order to be heard over Angus’s screams that it's Magnus, it's Magnus calm down Angus you're safe now it's safe, you're safe and it takes several minutes for him to understand what's being said to him, another five to actually manage his breathing until he stops screaming, stops hyperventilating and just stops breathing in general, all the while in Magnus's embrace. The man still doesn't let go of Angus after his panic subsides, rubbing his back and humming a melody that has undertones of static and loss. As he relaxes further into his embrace, Angus begins to deduce:

He is in a bedroom. It's a single dorm room, which means he's on the Moon. He must have been carried as he slept.

The heaviness entangling his body was the thick furry blanket that was placed on top of him while he slept. He used to adore blankets like these, so perfect for winter nights and late reading under the covers. He's not sure what to make of them now.

The light was from a doorway which leads into a brightly lit hall. The light is presently being blocked by two figures; one tall with hair falling delicately around their shoulders and entwining around their elfin ears, the other short and stubby with an arm that didn't look like a regular arm. When he sees them they vanish.

He had been screaming, when Magnus had come.

“Sir?” Angus asks tentatively, his voice raspy from screaming. His throat, miraculously, doesn't hurt, any ripped vocal chords probably just fading out of existence like the skin on his hand that he still had bandaged. Magnus doesn't respond, just holds him tighter to the point where, if he had been a breathing boy, said breath would have been knocked out of him.

“Sir? Magnus?” Magnus tenses when he says his name and pulls away, squinting in the dim light to see Angus's face. He looks older, now, the weight of a century’s worth of memories on his shoulders. He looks sad, so very sad and tired and it occurs to Angus that he might have woken him up from sleep. He's uncomfortable with this fact. He's never screamed in his nightmares before.

“I-I'm fine now, sir. Sorry for the noise. Please, go back to sleep.”

“You were dead.”

Magnus’s voice is soft and cracked at the edges. A recent memory bubbles up; him watching his own body being cradled and cried upon by a hero from another reality.

“Yeah.”

“You were dead in my arms. I held you as we went back to the moon.”

He’s not sure how to respond to this, instead sinking deeper into the fighter’s embrace. He’s warm, comfortably so, and he can hear the steady thump-thump-thump of his still-beating heart against his head and it’s nice, so very nice but he knows he shouldn’t inconvenience Magnus for too long, knows how annoying having a child cling to you must be.

“I’m fine, now sir, you can go back to sleep. Sorry for screaming.”

Magnus sighs and it feels like a sob wracking through his body, holding Angus to his chest as he falls back onto the bed. “Guess I’ll sleep here, then,” He says and Angus stutters, struggling a bit in his embrace. “R-really? Y-You don’t have to d-do that for me , sir, I-”

“Shut up, Django,” Magnus holds him closer, cradling the undead child in his arms. Angus, to his credit, shuts up and closes his eyes, relaxing slightly with each heartbeat that wasn’t his. The last thing he hears before he falls is Magnus’s voice, uncharacteristically quiet.

I’m sorry.

Beautiful tapestry.

Thank you.

But this strand…

A hand brushes a thread. It runs short yet vibrant, a brilliant cobalt twisting and turning through various threads and lives before-

It’s turned.

So it has.

It’s the colour of ravens, of darkness. Death.

Poor child.

It is as Fate ordains it.

It is as Death desires it.

The thread is erratic, sweeping through swathes of fabric to wrap around certain threads, only to cut them off. It disappears from parts of the tapestry all together, reappearing at different places. The thread twists around itself, convoluted and strained as it frays and unwinds until it’s small enough to miss, running weakly along a straight path. The tapestry has not been finished.

How tragic.

How beautiful.

Fate can be changed.

Yet Death cannot.

Fate and Death have met are meeting will meet.

#the adventure zone podcast #taz fic #the adventure zone fic #layla writes #magnus burnsides #angus mcdonald #taako and angus #taako the wizard #taako and kravitz #kravitz #lup taaco #barry bluejeans #lucretia #the raven queen #istus

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lillianvalnala · 7 years

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TAZ Finale stuff

all of my thoughts from throughout the episode are gonna be here so HEAVY SPOILERS! also its super fucking long cuz this episode was amazing

-because thats the sex number!

-im listening to the ad reads and stuff thats usually in the middle since its at the beginnings just bc im nervous and its gonna make me cry cuz i just. love griffin

-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA OKAY HERE WE GO ITS STARTING AND IM STRESS

-hunger is a lorge boi

-”alright buddy, dance for me” I LOVE DAVENPORT

-is it john

-ITS JOHN

-OH NO JOHN I ACTUALLY FEEL BAD FOR HIM

-really taako

-i fucking love these dorks so much

-YOUR FINAL BATTLE FUCK

-L E T S R O L L I N I T A T I V E

-beautiful owl song

-Mathias is Hedwig

-beautiful bean damage

-cut things very good

-this fucking badass sword i love it

-MAGNUS WANTS TO BE WITH HIS BOYS

-hachi machi thats a lot of damage

-i wonder how many times they’ve said boy in this entire series

-merle like. put razor blades in candy and gave it to john

-magnus is cool and im in love with him

-SIX ATTACKS IN ONE ROUND I LOVE FIGHTERS MAGNUS IS AWESOME AS HELL

-my current mood is griffin’s “fuck off” when travis says 92

-bye john

-wait what ok maybe not bye john

-whAT th e fck is happening griffin

-GRIFFIN THE SWORD WHAT ARE YOU DOING G R I F F I N

-WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

-THIS MUSIC IS AMAZING I LOVE IT

-orbs orbs orbs orbs

-OH MY G O D WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON

-the final john, john the destroyer of worlds

-OKAY THAT WAS SCARY HES NOT DEAD

-travis calling them his boys makes me happy

-god someone’s gonna die this episode but HEY it won’t matter because theyre on the ship and thats how the ship works

-taako is scared aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

-ABRACA-FUCK YOU AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I JUST GOT REALLY FUCKING EXCITED OH MY G O D

-take that orbs

-hit that blue boy magnus

-take that blue orb

-taako not you too god damn it

-god damn bosses and their bullshit im so scared

-naptime!

-oh no mom

-what is happening what

-pan!!! my boy!!!!!

-THANKS PAN YOU AMAZING GOD BOY

-oh s h i t

-bringing in a character from another series jesus christ

-LIGHT HIM THE FUCK UP JOAQUIN

-HELL YEAH I LOVE JOAQUIN

-I LOVE THIS

-clint are you serious right now god damn it

-GARFIELD WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

-call griffin in do it you cowards

-garfield doesnt look like anything they just cant tell

-garfield pulls out a gun

-oh not a gun a fucking grenade

-R O S W E L L IM SO HAPPY MY FAVORITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEYRE HERE IM GONNA CRY

-i fucking love roswell i still love them im absolutely in love

-oh my GOD taako i love him hes amazing

-a time paradox get fucked

-i love these goobers

-SUMMON VOIDFISH!!!!!!!!!!!1 YES!!!! F I SH E R S

-travis got so happy!!! oh my gosh!!! he was so concerned about them last episode and now he knows they’re safe and aaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-i love the voidfishes they are amazing

-im so proud of these space jellies

-take that orbs

-honestly this music is beautiful i love it

-o h n o the engine

-john goes AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

-”im not goin fuckin anywhere” I LOVE THIS

-holy shit griffin

-jesus christ dont make me feel bad for john this is gonna make me cry its so peaceful and nice like merle is the only friend john had and he wanted to spend his last moments with his only friend

-haha it looks lit

-my mom i love her

-oh my god are you serious griffin fucking mcelroy

-im half way through and ive cried once so i think we’re doing good

-istus!!!! oh my god!!!!!!! thank you goddess mom!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-he wants to help lup!!!!! he cares about his sister so much!!!!!! goals!!!!!!!!

-ANGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 YOU GO KIDDO I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-HURLEY AND SALONE AND KLARG AND OH MY GO D YES FUCK IT UP GUYS!!!

-YOU’RE GOING TO BE AMAZING

-AAAAAAAAAAAAA IM SO HAPPY G E R Y L

-I LOVE THIS SO MUCH

-IM IN LOVE WITH THIS EPISODE

-scuttle buddy :D

-train train train train train

-o shit the planes

-its griffin, himself, as a character

-oH MY GOD I WAS RIGHT I WAS JUST JOKING ARE YOU KIDDING ME

-its spirited away, like the movie

-jeffandrew... jeffandrew...

-blupjeans hell yeah

-Im so proud of these kids

-ANGO MY SWEET BABY SON JUST HIS EXISTENCE MAKES ME TEAR UP I LOVE HIM SO MUCH

-this is sweet i love this

-MAYOR CASSIDY AWWWWWW

-this is really beautiful i love it

-awww ango is the top student im so proud of my son i love him

-davenport!!! my other dad!!! im proud of him too and im so happy for him!!!!!!

-Joyfully yous, Davenport

-lup and barry are working with taako’s bf and i love it thanks raven mom

-BACK SOON OH MY GOD STOP

-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA LUP HAS A BODY AGAIN

-“im about to smooch your fucking brains out, babe”

-good luck getting the fuckin bracers off

-pringles!!!!!!! i love him what a good boy

-i love my actual mom Lucretia

-the day of story and song

-twins cooking together my #aesthetic lup is roasting taako over his cooking

-these two are goals and i love them i love elf twins so much

-”what part of that sounds like i was joking”

-i love justin and taako so much they’re my faves

-taako is the best boy

-everyone is in house taako and wears taako t-shirts

-ren my daughter im proud of her

-”i should mention my boyfriend is death...”

-barold

-i want taako to cook for me

-awwwwwwwwwwwww krav and taako are so cute

-MY BOY! MY SON! THE LIGHT OF MY LIFE! HE’S TALLER NOW AND IM PROUD OF HIM!

-aww ango is so cute and i love him my sweet son he’s still the world’s greatest detective!

-TAAKO CALLED HIM LITTLE MAN THATS WHAT I CALL TUCKER THAT MAKES ME SO HAPPY

-mavis and mookie!!! i love them kids!!!!!!!!! this is so cute!!!!

-merle taught kiddos and got closer to his kids that makes me so happy

-merle doesnt hear much from taako or magnus thats like, sad

-i love how many characters came back

-governor merle highchurch

-he wants to be earl merle highchurch

-merlegartia ville

-i love mookie he’s so cute

-”you’re his hero you know” OKAY THANKS FOR RIPPING MY HEART OUT THAT WAS CUTE

-UNCLE TAAKO AND UNCLE MAGNUS AND AUNT LUP AND AUNT LUCRETIA AND UNCLE BARRY AND DAV

-pun’kin thats adorable

-AW THATS SO CUTE I LOVE THIS MERLE LOVES HIS KIDS SO MUCH

-wedding wedding wedDING WEDDING WEDDING WEDDING W E D D I N G L E A S BI A N S

-this is so sweet im so happy i love this so much

-ango cries at weddings thats so sweet

-i love these characters!!! so much!!!

-subtle magnus. so very subtle

-right hand man magnus is my favorite i love

-magnus has a school too and DOG TRAINER YAY

-HE TRAINS SERVICE DOGS!! I LOVE

-HE NAMED HIS DOG JOHANN IM CRYING IM ACTUALLY CRYING RIGHT NOW

-okay griffin how about go fuck yourself?

-i love the few seconds of silence after griffin asks “how does magnus die”

-oh my lord im crying harder now this is such fucking bullshit what the hell guys

-god dont bring grown up angus into this shit what the fuck griffin

-im actually sobbing over this oh my lord

-travis is clearly crying you can hear it in his voice

-OH NO DO NOT BRING JULIA INTO THIS

-BITCH DO N O T

-god i dont like hearing travis cry

-im actually like sobbing over this

-oh my god the music

-oh my lor d st o p it hurts its so cute i love magnus so much i love him and julia and the dogs and i love travis so sos os os os o much

-THE MOST BEAUTIFUL ELF IM LIKE 100% NOT OKAY RIGHT NOW THIS HURTS SO BAD

-carey my sweet girl i love her

-”im gonna streak my fuckin eyeliner” “give me a hug lizard girl” “dont fuckin call me that. i’m a proud dragonborn”

-i love the lesbians i love everyone in this god damn podcast

-fisher :D

-love them voidfish

-aw they all cried that warms my heart

-honestly that was so beautiful??????

-travis hasnt urinated in three years confirmed

-so thats it. thats the end. im glad it ended how it did, i really liked that.

#cj chats #taz spoilers #the adventure zone

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esmeraldasdream · 7 years

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TAZ SPOILERS (and live reaction)

thank you @vassilian for introducing me to the adventure zone <3

My reaction to the episode is under the read more to avoid spoiling the finale for anyone

oh god,oh godohgodohgod

fuuucccckkkk, what are you waiting for??? NOT YET???

Dance for me, that’s nice

fuuck this is nerve-racking

oh god, he’s fucking laughing

TIDLE WAVE????

they’re trough???

fucking vibrate??

JOHN oh god what’s happening???? it’s not him???

ready to fight???

“JUST ONE GUY??"FUUUCKKK

i stole your cousins shoes??? wait when was this??? wait why’s is magnus wearing stolen shoes??

shit!! arm blades???

“been there done that” DON’T MAKE IT 69 TIMES YOU FUCKER

fuck that’s great music

what is this pause??

THREE???!!!

thank god for merle, oh god why is this so hard

aaaw, mathias

i love that sword

omg the attack power is fucking huge

swipes his normal arm??

three???!! fuck c’mon

nooo, 27 points of damage????

“good to be appreciated” :’D

fuck it’s chasing them

these fucking attack points

“i’m not a magic flying fighter” :’D “well you have the shoes!” xD

i need more nat20′s

EXPLODES OUTWARDS?? FUCK

what’s happening?? what

“he stagers only for him to stand up and smiles”????

fuck this music is great and horrible

‘looming over you’???!! FUCK

SHIT THIS IS A GREAT DESCRIPTION GRIFFIN BUT PLEASE STOP

FUCK

WHY IS HE SCREAMING AT THEM

WHAT’S HAPPENING

FUCK

“well shit” yeah my thoughts exactly

33 POINTS OF DAMAGE????

FUCK HE’S DEAD??? OK, unconscious but still!!!

STOP SCREAMING AT THEM

WHAT ARE THESE ORBS????

I’M SCREAMING

“i’m Taako, from tv”

DON’T FUCKING SAY THAT

“abracka fuck you” :’D

no one’s dead yet, though mangus??merle?? is unconscious

“that one misses, weird” “yeah.. weird”

one orb down, but what does it mean???

well at least he’s still blinded

thank god for small mercies

a third time??? nooo

is it really only taako left??? FUCK

lucreita, “snaake!” :’D

she just screams, oh god

fuck you john

wait when did taako ‘die’

wait whats happening

PAN

“come do some holy shit” :’D

love the music

aaawww, pan

I’M CRYING

THE ROYAL BEAR ;___; (RIGHT?)

TROF!! (TROPH??)

JOAQUIN!!! FUCK YES

AAAAW Joaquin is a sweetheart

what was that question???

GARFIELD????!

i love clint

FUCKING GRENADES?!

“free samples” :’D

they turn grey??? GO GARFIELD

“i’ll put it on you taaaaab!” :’D

Rosswell!!!!

JOHN’S AFRAID?? HELL YEH

FUUCK

who’s taako calling

OH HE FUCKING CALLS HIMSELF TO HELP THEM!!

37 POINTS OF DAMAGE?! HELL YEAH

“you’re now double Blind” xD

what’s happening??

griffin sounds so done with everything :’D

VOIDFISH!!!!

FISHER!!! JR!!!!!

I’M FUCKING CRYING

FISHER AND MAGNUS!!!!

death metal :’D

THIS IS FUCKING AWESOME

POWERBEAR!!! FUCK YES

FUUCK I’M CRYING AGAIN

FUCK Magnus is fucking cute

nooo

NOoO

DON’T FUCKING HURT DAVENPAORT AND LUCREITA!!!

DON’T DESTROY THE SHIP!!!

FUCK YOU JOHN!!

Noooo

what was that laugh

“well, bye” :’D i fucking love Taako

‘peeled put of the portal’??

DON’T FUCKING HURT TAAKO

i love the tres horny boys so fucking much

oooh, cool music

they’re holding down eachother

THEY’RE CREATING NEW BONDS

FUUUUCCCK I’M BAWLING

“flashes of the past” FUCK

is it really the end of john??

standing on a beach??? what’s happening???

JOHN!!

“he’s human again” !!!!

“you got it buddy” FUCK

“last sliver of sunlight is gone, and so is john” NO

oh god

oooh god

GO LUCREITA, I BELIVE IN YOU

oh no, oooohhhh nooooo

I LOVE YOU LUCREITA PLEASE DON’T STOP

wait waht’s happening

WHAT HAPPENING TO DAVENPORT????

A PORTAL HOME

but what about everyone else???

“a crash”???? what?????

nooo

istus!!!!

I FUCKING LOVE THE TRES HORNY BOYS

TAAKO I FUCKING LOVE YOU, he loves his sister so fucking much

GO LUP!!! and barry of course

ANGUS!!!

omg the battle wagon!!

KLARG!!!!!

“they seem to have got it” he fucking jumps back trough the portal

the music’s cool

“you’re going to be amazing” ;__;

HELL YEAH

GARYLD!!! THE BICORN!!!

FUCK YEAH

I FUCKING LOVE THE TRES HORNY BOYS

TRANSFORMS????

WAIT WHAT’S HAPPENING???

FUCK YOU GRIFFIN AND YOUR FUCKING CLIFFHANGERS

crawling on his back??

first to wake up??

soft red carpet??

SCUTTLE BUDDY!!! IT FUCKING MISSED YOU ;--;

why are they at the rockport limited????

oh lucreita there’s with them!!

white?? what’s going on?? circles??

planes of existents???

what’s happening??

why doesn’t griffin make a character voice?? what’s happening

omg merle :’D

‘jeffandrew’ xD

“hi, i’m Taako from tv” :’D I FUCKING love taako

the light of creation isn’t supposed to be there??

wait whats jafasta???

they won?!

what’s happening???

about halfway trough, fuck

this is such awesome world building

THEY RETURNED!!!

LUP AND BARRY!!

LUCREITA!! SHE’S A SWEETHEART!

BARRY AND LUP !!!

OMFG I LOVE LUP SO MUCH

ANGUS!!!!

“is it over, sirs?” fuuuuckkkk

FUCK I LOVE ANGUS SO FUCKING MUCH!!

go lucas!

ANGUS!! fuck i love everyone so much

“he makes so many friends” ;--;

“a gift of a normal life” fuuck, why are you killing me griffin???

“joyfully yrs. Davenport” ;--;

KRAVITZ!!!

LUP AND BARRY

“back soon” ;--;

FUCK BARRY GOT LUP HER BODY!!!!

FUCK I LOVE HIM SO MUCH!!!

“i’m about to smooch your fucking brains out” fuuuucccckkkk

PRINGLES!!

bureau of benevolence

“true legacy of the day of story and song” ;--;

thisis an beautiful picture

LUP!! AND TAAKO!!! IN THE KITCHEN TOGHETER !!! TAAKO’S COOKING!!

“no, fuck your offer” i love griffin!

he’s teaching at the shcool???

oh joaqin didn’t get to keep his powers??

glamour springs?? FUCK

FULL PARDON!!! FUCK YES!!

REN!!! HELL YEAH

JOB APPLICATION!!!! I LOVE EVERYONE SO FUCKING MUCH!!

REN FUCKING DESIGNED A FUCKING SCHOOL???

yeah, just pull out a diamond from your bag, no big deal

“i should mention my boyfriend is death, and he stays over from time to time” THEYRE STILL TOGETHER

HE PROMISED KRAVITZ TO GO ON A VACATION!!!! FUCK YES

I FUCKING LOVE LUP

KRAVITZ!!

ANGUS!! he’s taller!!!

HE FUCKING BEAMS AT TAAKO!!!!

HE’S BEEN SENDING LETTERS TO TAAKO!!!!

omg angus still a lil sassy boy

“my thanks haven’t been enough”?!?!

THEY HUG

HE KNOWS ABOUT THE SILVERWARE

“STILL WORLDS GREATEST DETECTIVE”!!!!!

wait what’s happening?? why is it a big day??

mavis and mookie!!!!

“i cast zo-nah” omfg :’D

he started a comapny???

TRAVELLING WITH MAVIS???!!!! ;--; (and mookie)

lord artemis sterling?? what does he want??

“govenor merle highchurch”???!!!!!

“i don’t wanna be govenor, i wanna have the title of earl” “you wanna be ‘earl merle’?” “yes, earl merle highchurch” :’D

“i’ll build you a bar” :’D

i love mookie xD griffin does so many great voices

“you’re his hero, you know”

uncle-mangus and uncle-taako ;---;

because i know how hard you try ;--;

A WEDDING????

WHO’S WEDDING???

about us???

WHOMS WEDDING???

KILLIAN!!!!

THE ROSEWOOD RING!!!

“puts down a large book” fuck i love angus

WHO’S WEDDING IS THIS???

LUP AND BARRY!!!

TAAKO AND KRAVITZ! they hold hands!!!! FUCK I’M SCREAMING!!

is it Careys and killians wedding??

HE TRAINS SERVICE DOGS??!!!

JOHAN THE DOG!! FUCK I LOVE MANGUS

“hammer and tails, a dog’s school” aaawww

HOW DOES MANGUS DIE????

FUCK YOU GRIFFIN!!!!!

he dies peacefully of old age, you can’t fucking do this griffin!!!

noooo, poor merle and taako

FUCK

AND ANGUS, FUCK I’M BAWLING

“they’re all ready to say goodbye” NO

Kravitz, not in his reaper form

he helps mangus!!!!

“i think this one takes” “let’s hope so, don’t want to be more trouble for you”

wooden cottage??? is that what i think it is???

“as much time as you need”

two dogs! aw

JULIA!!!!

“i- i just stare at her” “i can’t not look at her”

“you lived so much longer than i thought”

THEY’RE RUNNING TOWARDS EACHOTHER!!!

“i tried to make you proud” nooo, don’t do this to me

“the beautiful elf” aww

“when magnus rushes in” FUCK YOU GRIFFIN

“lizard girl”

Carey and killian step out

they ran towards each other ;---;

happiest day of your live, and happier days were to come ;--;

that was the ending you earned, fuuck

FISHER!!!

JR AND FISHER!!!

they start drifting further away together

looking for new stories to tell

fuck this music is beautiful

“can we play again? can we play again? can we play again?” YES

“travis go to the emergency room right now” fuck i love them so much

fuck

#taz spoilers #taz #almost 3 hours of notes #not gonna be anything good #just me screaming #i'm still crying #I LOVED THIS SO MUCH #i need to relisten to the stolen #* stolen centure #i meant to write that instead of just stolen :'D

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epilogue (magnus/avi)

TAZ post-canon, 6k.

The Bureau closes. Magnus moves in. Eventually, Magnus moves on.

[Read on Ao3]

Two weeks after the Bureau finds the last relic and the subsequent shitstorm blows over, the Director announces that the moon base will be closing. “The Bureau no longer needs the space,” she says, and sighs, looking tired. “The Bureau no longer needs to carry on operations, here or anywhere.”

Merle is one of the first off the moon, on his way to Neverwinter and a family that Magnus has only met twice. He packs his things, keeps his Stone of Far Speech around his neck, and promises to visit Magnus once he’s settled in.

“I should be promising to visit you,” Magnus says, because Merle is settled, has somewhere to go once he’s planetside. He has people waiting for him. Magnus doesn’t.

Merle just smiles like he understands what Magnus isn’t saying. He might, that old bastard. “I’m sure I’ll come see you,” he says, and then he says the rest of his goodbyes, and then he’s gone.

After that it’s an endless parade of bubbles off the moon and trying to keep track of who’s going where. Johann gets a mobile tank for the Voidfish and heads down to the coast, says something about recording folk songs and smiles as he goes. Carey, Killian, and Noelle all leave together, talking about finding families. The Fantasy Costco closes its doors without so much as a word from Garfield. It even hurts saying goodbye to Brad, even though Magnus barely knows the guy.

Taako and Angus leave together. They’re nearly the last to go, but it’s still the hardest goodbye of them all. Angus cries when he hugs Magnus, just before he gets in the cannonball.

“Hey, no, Ango, we’ll be in touch,” Magnus says, trying to pass off the tremor in his voice as a laugh and not something inside him breaking apart. “I’ll visit you at whatever super-smart school you end up at. I’ll teach all your fancy friends how to carve wood.”

Angus sniffles loudly. “I promise I’ll make fancy friends so you can teach them,” he says, and backs away to wipe at his eyes. “I’ll make sure.”

“I know you will,” Magnus says, and straightens up.

“I’m not gonna cry,” Taako warns him, before Magnus is fully turned to face him. He’s watching them, arms folded across his chest, not quite meeting Magnus’s eyes. “So don’t get your hopes up about that.”

“But you’re still hugging me,” Magnus announces, and wastes no time in grabbing Taako and pulling him into the tightest embrace possible.

“I think this only counts as you hugging me,” Taako mutters, but he winds his arms around Magnus’s waist. “It’s going to be weird without you snoring all night.”

“It’s gonna be weird when you’re not poking around in the kitchen at two in the morning.” Magnus props his chin more firmly on Taako’s shoulder. “I’ll visit you guys, once you’re settled in.”

“Yeah, you will. We’ll track you down if you don’t, and I’m moving in with the literal grim reaper.” Taako pulls back just enough to arch an eyebrow; Magnus decides that he won’t point out that Taako’s eyes are red-rimmed now. “You can’t hide from the grim reaper.”

“Wouldn’t dream of it,” Magnus answers. And he never wants to let go but he takes a step back anyways, and another, and another until he’s standing by Avi at the controls.

Angus waves goodbye, and Taako grins one last time, and they climb into the cannonball. Magnus closes his eyes so he doesn’t have to watch them leave.

“Mark,” Avi says, and flips a switch. Magnus can hear the launch, the boom, the sound of the hatch sliding closed. He still doesn’t open his eyes until Avi says, half-hesitant, “I would’ve thought you’d be planetside by now.

“I don’t know where I’d go,” Magnus says. He doesn’t bother keeping his voice light; Avi can definitely see the tears on his cheeks. When he finally opens his eyes, Avi is looking at him sympathetically, and Magnus forces a half-smile. “Kind of a side effect of living full-time on the moon, right?”

“Right.” Avi tilts his head, looking thoughtful. “Did you know I own a house?”

“Do you?”

“Yeah, it gets claustrophobic up here sometimes. All the same people, all the time, nowhere to get away.” He shrugs. “I needed somewhere that I could go if it ever got too much. It’s not too far from neverwinter.”

“Huh,” Magnus says. He might be misreading the situation, but this doesn’t sound like casual chatting. “Does it ever get lonely?”

Avi slants a smile at him. “It won’t once you move in. Assuming you’d want to.”

He’d be near Merle. He wouldn’t be far from Taako, either, not too far to visit. And he’d be with Avi, someone he knows, likes, trusts. He’s not going to get a better offer than this.

“Yeah,” Magnus says, and watches Avi’s smile widen. “I want to.”

Avi’s house is massive. Like, Magnus is amazed that Avi could stand to live there by himself with all these empty rooms. Like, does Avi secretly have a giant family fortune that Magnus doesn’t know about. Like, is Avi secretly in the mafia, because this is a little ridiculous.

Avi laughs when Magnus asks him about the mafia. “Nah, it’s just that this isn’t prime real estate. Everyone wants to live in Neverwinter, not a few miles away. And besides, this way I have plenty of space.”

Plenty of space is an understatement. Magnus was expecting a couch to crash on, or maybe a spare bedroom if he was lucky. Avi gives him a bedroom, an entire room to use as a closet, and a room that he offers up as a workshop, in case the pocket workshop doesn’t have enough room.

“Are you sure you’re not secretly rich?” Magnus demands, looking at Avi’s massive, fancy kitchen. Taako would love it here, although that’s not a thought Magnus is willing to entertain for longer than it takes to flit in and out of his head. Taako’s not here, Avi is. Does Avi cook? That might a question worth knowing the answer to.

“I’m not rich,” Avi promises, bringing Magnus back into the moment. “I just needed somewhere for me. And now for you, too.”

Something guilty settles in Magnus’s stomach. Avi got a big house to get away from people, and suddenly Magnus is there taking up a third of the rooms. “Thank you for letting me move in,” he starts, a little uncertainly.

“Thank you for moving in,” Avi answers breezily. “It was nice having this place as a getaway, but I wouldn’t want to be here alone permanently.”

“You wouldn’t?”

“Nah. This was never home, the moon was. We’ll just have to find a way to make this home now.”

Magnus has had a lot of homes throughout his life, shared with a handful of different people. This is no Raven’s Roost, and it’s no private room on the moon. But it’s Avi. That counts for a lot.

“We’ll make it home,” he echoes, and Avi smiles and helps him unpack.

Avi doesn’t just cook. He cooks well.

“Oh, thank the gods, I can barely make a peanut butter sandwich,” Magnus admits, and Avi laughs so hard he almost falls over. Magnus laughs, too, but mostly he watches Avi laugh.

“So,” Merle says, and does this thing with his eyebrow that Magnus has never seen him do before. “Avi.”

“...Avi,” Magnus repeats, trying to put the same deliberate emphasis on the name.

Magnus has kept in touch, writing letters and using his Stone of Far Speech, but Avi wanted to renovate a couple of the rooms and Magnus needed the time to get used to being home again anyways. This is the first time they’ve had guests over in the last month. Taako and Merle had jumped on the invitation over for dinner about as soon as Magnus was done offering, and then Merle had materialized two hours early to help Magnus cook, “because Taako will give us shit if it’s anything other than perfect.” Magnus is counting the minutes until Avi gets back with the rest of their groceries and throws them out of the kitchen so he can make an actually-perfect dinner, but he knows that he can keep Merle busy chopping vegetables. That’s pretty hard to fuck up.

Merle narrows his eyes at Magnus. “Don’t play dumb.”

“I’m not playing dumb.”

“Then don’t be dumb.”

Magnus points his carrot-chopping knife at Merle. “That’s hypocrisy.”

“Maybe,” Merle allows. “But come on. Avi.” He does that eyebrow thing again, except with more emphasis and a lot more panache.

“Merle, you’re scaring me. Use your words.”

Merle sighs. “Are you guys dating or something?”

Magnus blinks. “No?”

“You sure about that?”

“Am I- yes, I’m fully sure that I’m single right now, thanks.”

Merle lifts his hands in surrender. “All right, I’m just saying, you guys moved in awfully quick. It’s okay if you are.”

“I’m sure it is,” Magnus says, and chops a carrot a little more viciously than he intended. “No, Avi just kindly let me move in. Because he’s my friend.”

“Oh,” Merle says, and then with a truly obnoxious level of shit-eating knowingness, “ohhhhh.”

“Don’t you ‘oh’ me, old man.”

“I’m not ‘oh’ing anybody, I’m just saying oh. Can’t a guy say oh in the peace of someone else’s kitchen?”

“No, absolutely not.” The telltale heavy creak of the front door echoes through the house, and Magnus sets his knife down. “Avi, tell Merle to get out of the kitchen.”

“Merle, get out of our kitchen,” Avi calls. The door slams shut behind him. “Why is Merle in our kitchen?”

“He didn’t believe me when I said you could cook, so he wanted to get dinner started.”

“Dude, really?” Avi appears in the doorway, arms loaded with groceries, looking affronted. “I make a mean beef stew. What are you guys doing?”

“Prep work. I’m cutting carrots, Merle’s cutting celery.”

Avi looks warily between their cutting boards as he sets the groceries on the counter. “All right, that doesn’t look terrible.”

“Ha!” Merle grins smugly at Magnus. “And you thought I couldn’t do it.”

“Oh, sorry, I meant Magnus’s looks pretty good,” Avi says without missing a beat. “The celery looks like shit.”

“You look like shit,” Merle mumbles.

Magnus rolls his eyes. He means to drag Merle out of the kitchen by any means necessary, but somewhere in the eye-roll his eyes land on Avi, and then he can’t look away. “Did you find anything good in town?”

“Wine, beef, all that good shit.” Avi grins. “We’re about to throw the best dinner party that the Neverwinter suburbs have ever seen.”

“Hell yeah, we are!” Magnus reaches a hand out, and Avi high-fives him obligingly. Magnus can’t help but grin back at him.

Merle clears his throat. “You gonna give me a house tour, or do I only get to see the kitchen?”

“Just the kitchen,” Magnus says, but he turns and ignores the knowing look that Merle is giving him. “Come on, I’ll show you around.”

By the time they make their way through every room and back to the kitchen Taako is already there, leaning on the counter and watching Avi cook intently. Kravitz is also there, one hand resting on the small of Taako’s back. He notices them first. “Hello again, Magnus. Merle.”

“Hey, Krav,” Magnus says, and tries not to snicker at the way Taako straightens up so fast that Magnus gets whiplash from looking at him.

Taako glares at him. “Oh, I see, the boyfriend gets a hello and I don’t?”

“I didn’t say hello to the boyfriend,” Merle says.

“And I’m not saying hello to you,” Taako mutters, but he saunters over towards Magnus. “So are you gonna show me around too, or do I just have to imagine your house?”

“I missed you too,” Magnus mutters, before he can stop himself. It’s more sincere than he means it to be.

Taako doesn’t soften, per se, but he juts his chin out. “That wasn’t a real answer, Mags.”

“Ooh, Mags,” Avi chimes in, flashing Magnus a particularly shit-eating grin over his shoulder. “Can I call you Mags now?”

“Absolutely not.”

“Call him Maggie,” Taako finishes. Avi gives him a thumbs-up, but before Magnus can protest Taako grabs him by the elbow. “House tour, come on, let’s start upstairs, very far away from the kitchen.”

Magnus looks over at Kravitz. “Did you want a tour too?”

“You can show me later, if you’d like.”

“He’s giving us time to catch up,” Taako stage-whispers. “He thinks he’s being sweet.”

“I think you’re being intentionally difficult, darling,” Kravitz says dryly. “Go, I can talk with Merle.”

“I didn’t volunteer for that,” Merle says indignantly.

“Mmm, that’s too bad, we’re leaving!” Taako yanks on Magnus’s elbow so hard that he stumbles. “Come on, where are your stairs?”

“Why do we need to go upstairs?”

Taako gives Magnus a withering look. “So we can talk. Come on.” He finds the stairs easily and leads Magnus up. “Which room’s yours?”

“Second on the left.”

Taako drags Magnus in and kicks the door shut behind him. He turns to survey magnus, hands on hips. “So.”

“Taako, what the fuck?”

Taako lifts one eyebrow, in a weirdly deliberate move. Magnus has enough time to think oh, gods before Taako says, “Avi, really?”

Magnus groans. “Not you too!”

“No, hey, I’m just saying, I didn’t think he was your type, but you’ve been living together for a month so he must be doing something right.”

“I’m not- we’re not-” Magnus lifts both of his hands, palms out. “Slow down.”

“Consider me slowed.” Taako tilts his head. “What’s grinding your gears, Mango?”

If they’re having this conversation, Magnus isn’t going to be standing up for it, so he plops down on the edge of his bed. Taako sits next to him and looks at him expectantly. Magnus sighs. “I moved in with Avi because I didn’t know where else to go.”

“Bullshit, we would’ve put you up in our spare bedroom.”

“No, I mean-” Magnus bites back another sigh. “You left the moon and you went to your house that you bought with your boyfriend, and Merle went to his house on the beach with his kids. And both of those are great for you guys, because you had people who could help you settle in. I wanted to settle in too.”

Taako sighs and drops his forehead to Magnus’s shoulder. “And that’s why it took a month for you to invite us over,” he guesses. “You’re not great at being alone.”

“I’m fucking terrible at it,” Magnus says candidly. “But it helps that Avi’s here, so it’s not like I’m alone-alone.”

“And we’re back to the important part, which is-” Taako sits back upright and looks at Magnus seriously. “You guys aren’t together?”

“We aren’t.”

“Is this about…” Taako’s eyes flick deliberately to Magnus’s left hand and back.

Magnus grimaces. “I mean, kind of?”

“Makes sense,” Taako says. Magnus knows he doesn’t really get it, because he’s said as much before, but he appreciates that Taako’s trying. “So what’s it like living with Avi? Lots of booze?”

“I mean, we have a lot of booze in the house,” Magnus says, because holy shit, they have a lot of booze in the house. “But it’s not like we get drunk together every night.”

“What, only on alternating Thursdays?”

“Yeah, something like that.” Magnus grins. “I dunno, it’s just… nice. He and I are getting a reputation in town for fixing things. I fix the wood, he fixes the metal, and together we can solve, like, eighty percent of furniture breakages in Neverwinter.”

“I’ll break something so I have an excuse to visit you,” Taako promises.

“Oh, gods, please don’t do that,” Magnus says. Taako’s grin widens. “No, Taako, seriously, don’t break things, you don’t have to do that, just come visit, leave your furniture in one piece-”

“I’m going to break so much shit,” Taako says giddily. “Show me your workshop, I get the feeling that I’m going to spend a lot of time in there soon.”

“No, don’t break things,” Magnus moans, but he gets to his feet and pulls Taako to his anyways. “Don’t break things, Taako.”

“I’ll do what I damn well please if it means I can visit my best friend,” Taako says haughtily, and Magnus’s heart stops for a second. Taako doesn’t normally do casual affection, not so openly, and Magnus wants to say something in response to that, but Taako doesn’t even pause before he marches out of the bedroom. “Come on, tour guide, show me where you live. I showed you mine, now you have to show me yours.”

“Yeah,” Magnus says, too emotionally winded to think of anything else to say. “Yeah, let’s go.”

It’s not until the next afternoon - because of course dinner turned into talking turned into Merle passing out on the couch and Taako half-asleep on Magnus’s shoulder, and then they had to cook breakfast and it was a whole fucking thing - that Avi says, casually, “So Kravitz thinks we’re dating.”

Magnus groans and pauses the movie they’re watching on Fantasy Netflix. “Seriously? The grim reaper is asking about our relationship?”

“He’s your friend,” Avi points out. “So technically it’s your fault.”

“I did nothing wrong,” Magnus says. “I don’t know why they’re asking.”

It’s not that Magnus doesn’t understand the line of questioning, because he does. Of course he does. He moves in with a guy, they run the world’s most casual joint business, they throw a miniature dinner party together. And Avi is quickly climbing up the list of Magnus’s favorite people, which is impressive because he was pretty high on the list to begin with. He’s clever, and he laughs at Magnus’s jokes, and he always points out other people’s dogs when they’re in town together and Magnus doesn’t notice them at first. There are worse fates. He just can’t.

Avi doesn’t call him on his blatant lie, which he appreciates. “Because they’re nosy fucks,” he snorts, and shifts a little bit on the couch.

“Yeah, but they’re our favorite nosy fucks,” Magnus says, and waits for the corner of Avi’s mouth to tip into a smile like he knows it will. And then, because he apparently likes ruining the nice things like Avi’s smile, he says, “I can tell them to stop, if you want.”

Avi’s smile vanishes, as expected, and he gives Magnus a searching look. “Do you want them to stop?”

“Nah, they’re just being dicks.” Magnus pauses. “I mean, it’s not- you’re great, and all, but I’m not…”

“You’re not?”

Magnus shrugs helplessly. He told Avi about- about before, once, when he was more than a little drunk and couldn’t remember where he kept his wedding ring. Avi hadn’t treated him differently afterwards, other than making him extra breakfast the next day, and that could’ve just been a hangover thing. Magnus likes to think it was just a hangover thing.

“It’s,” Magnus starts, and then, “things,” and then he can’t think of anything else to say, so he finishes with another “I’m just not.”

“Not ready,” Avi guesses.

And Magnus doesn’t know what he’s not ready for, whether it’s the thought of dating again or dating Avi specifically, but he’s definitely not ready for this conversation.

“I think so,” he says.

“Makes sense,” Avi says, and reaches over to wrestle the remote out of Magnus’s hands. Magnus lets him, and Avi hits play and sprawls against Magnus’s shoulder. “It’s okay, though. If you’re not ready.”

Magnus swallows. “I’ll let you know if I ever am,” he says, and he can barely force the words out of a suddenly-raw throat. He hears Avi’s breath catch and turns away, just enough that he can’t see a reaction. He needs the deniability, the chance to pretend he doesn’t know what he’s just promised. He needs things to stay the same for now.

The next big change is actually Taako’s fault, and definitely not Magnus’s at all. Or, well, it’s something that Magnus has thought about, but not that he was going to do anything about. Except then-

“Your problem is that your house is too big,” Taako says, not for the first time. “You gotta fill that thing up.”

“By buying more clothes,” Magnus says flatly. “That’s your angle for getting me to go shopping with you?”

“I don’t know why I need an angle to begin with, but that’s as good of one as any. Your house is too big, and if you’re not going to fill it up by adopting half a dozen dogs or building furniture for every room, then why not buy more clothes?”

Magnus almost drops his Stone of Far Speech. “I have to go right now, immediately.”

“To buy clothes?”

“No! To see if Avi wants a dog.” Magnus cups a hand over the stone. He knows Avi’s home but not which room he’s in, so he picks a direction at random and shouts, “Avi!”

“What’s up?” Avi calls back.

Magnus starts down that hallway. “Do you like dogs?”

There’s a beat of silence, and then Avi leans out of the door to his bedroom, looking bemused. “Do I like dogs?”

“If you’re doing this, I’m leaving,” Taako announces, muffled by Magnus’s hand.

“All right, bye, Taako,” Magnus says quickly. “Avi?”

“Bye, Taako,” Avi says, but he arches an eyebrow at Magnus. “Is this a general opinion question?”

“Well,” Magnus says. “Sort of. What is your opinion on owning a dog?”

“One dog?”

“We can start with one, yeah.”

Avi blinks. “Wow, okay, many dogs. Lots of dogs?”

“Enough dogs.”

“I need a number, Magnus.”

“We can start with one,” Magnus repeats. “Everything after one is negotiable.”

“Is the first one not negotiable?”

“Well, it is, it’s your house.”

“Our house,” Avi says, like he always does.

Magnus ignores him, like he always does, because there’s a level of something in owning a house together that scares him. “You can pick the dog,” he says plaintively. “But I mean, this place is huge, and it’d be nice, right? Having a dog.”

“I’ve never had a dog before, I don’t know how to train one.”

“I’ll show you. I’ll train you and the dog!”

Avi sighs, but he’s smiling. “Yeah, all right. Let’s get a dog.”

“Yes!” Magnus bounds down the hallway and picks Avi up, swinging him around in a circle. “We’re gonna get a dog, we’re gonna get a-”

“Magnus, oh my gods,” Avi says into his shoulder. “We can get a dog, please put me down.”

Magnus sets Avi down immediately, face growing hot. “Yup, sorry, sorry, I just- got a little excited, sorry about that.”

“It’s fine,” Avi laughs. He pushes his hair back with one hand and looks up at Magnus, and he smiles. He smiles like there’s no one he’d rather be looking at.

Magnus might not be ready yet, for whatever they’re moving towards here, but he thinks he can at least admit to himself that he wants to be. If that’s not progress, then he doesn’t know what is.

“We can go to the shelter tomorrow,” Magnus decides, bouncing on the balls of his feet. “I haven’t been yet, I don’t know what our options are, but we should talk about things like how much space it’ll need and how old and-”

“Whoa, hold on.” Avi leans forward and rests his hands on Magnus’s shoulders. “First of all, the answer to how much space is infinite space, nobody lives within a mile of us. Second of all, why are we waiting until tomorrow?”

“Avi,” Magnus says, very seriously, “you’re my hero. You are the greatest housemate in the entire world. Or on the moon.”

“All I said was I’d adopt a dog with you.”

“That’s all you needed to say.”

Avi snorts. “You’re easy to please, huh?”

“I’m the easiest to please! I’m gonna go find a room for the dog’s things.”

“What things?”

“All the clothes I’m going to buy from Fantasy Petsmart, for one.”

Avi looks horrified. “Are we going to be those people? We’re going to be those dog owners?”

“Yep,” Magnus says, because they absolutely are. “I’m gonna spoil the shit out of this dog, I can’t wait to meet it.”

The dog knocks over Angus the first time he comes over.

“Bartholomew, no!” Magnus yells, but it’s too late. The dog is already licking at Angus’s face, and Angus is making weird noises that might be scared, might be laughing. “Get off Ango, come on.”

“He seems nice,” Angus says, a little uncertainly, but he pushes the dog off himself firmly. “And… friendly?”

“He’s real friendly,” Magnus agrees as the dog trots over to his side. “Also, welcome home from school, don’t go in the kitchen.”

“I already warned him,” Kravitz says, offering Angus a hand and pulling him to his feet. “Who else is coming?”

“Merle, Killian and Noelle, maybe Johann. Carey’s busy with something, but she said Killian’s going to bring your present.”

Angus goes pink. “I- I don’t need any presents, really. it’s enough that you’re throwing me a homecoming party, and that Taako and Avi are cooking-”

“Are you going to tell Carey no?”

“No,” Angus admits. “And sir?”

“Yeah, Ango?”

“Why is your dog named Bartholomew?”

“It was named Henley when I was here two weeks ago.” Kravitz frowns. “You still haven’t picked a name?”

“We’re working on it,” Magnus says, and then raises his voice. “I have a good feeling about Bartholomew, though.”

As expected, Avi pokes his head out of the kitchen just enough to glare at Magnus. “We’re not naming our fucking dog Bartholomew.”

“Olaf?”

“No way.” Avi’s eyes slide over to Angus, and he grins. “Hey, Ango, welcome home. Dinner’s gonna be in twenty, so until then just tell Magnus all of his dog names are bad.”

“Okay, sir,” Angus chirps. Avi flashes him a thumbs-up and retreats to the kitchen.

“That’s bullshit!” Magnus protests. “What if I have a good name idea?”

“You suggested Bartholomew,” Kravitz says tonelessly, as if that’s argument enough. It probably is.

“What about Garlic?”

Angus and Kravitz shake their heads in unison.

“Elvis.”

Another head shake. Magnus sighs. “Kalamazoo.”

Angus wrinkles his nose. “Sir, I think even you know that’s a stinker.”

“Aw, come on, we can call him Kal for short!”

“The judge has spoken,” Kravitz intones somberly. Angus grins. “Try again, Magnus.”

It becomes their post-dinner game: Name That Dog. Most everyone is a little tipsy, and by the third round of the game not even Angus is taking it seriously anymore. Magnus’s only consolation is that everyone hates Avi’s name ideas just as much as they hate his.

“Okay, okay,” Killian says, leaning forward, staring at the dog intently. “Adonis.”

“Adonis?” Taako repeats. “Nah, this is a dog, we’re not naming him Adonis.”

“It’s not your dog,” Avi starts.

“I’m also vetoing Adonis,” Magnus says quickly. Avi and Killian both glare at him, but he shrugs. “Noelle, your turn.”

Noelle’s servos whir as she tilts her head to one side, studying the dog carefully. “Bartimaeus?”

“Too serious,” Avi says. Magnus nods his agreement. “Johann?”

“Sebastian,” Johann says.

“I tried Sebastian a few days ago,” Magnus admits. “Avi said no. Kravitz?”

“Spot,” Kravitz says, completely deadpan.

“Krav, my man,” Magnus says. “For the third time. Dude. This dog doesn’t have spots.”

“Oh, damn,” Kravitz says, and looks down at Angus. “Think you can do better than Spot?”

“Ramanujan,” Angus suggests. “He did some math stuff, I think he was pretty neat.”

“Dogs can’t do math,” Avi says apologetically. “It’d feel like we’re giving him a standard he can’t live up to.”

Angus nods in understanding. “So should I pick a famous dog next time?”

“If you can think of one, sure.” Magnus turns to Taako. “Your turn.”

“Martini,” Taako says.

“For the dog or for you?”

Taako rolls his eyes. “For the dog. You can call him Marty.”

“What’s the point in nicknaming a dog,” Merle says in exasperation. “Just name it Will and get it over with.”

“No to both of those,” Avi says. “What about Silas?”

“Ooh, I like Silas,” Noelle says.

Magnus looks at the dog and tries to imagine a label over his head that says “Silas.” He can’t do it. “What about Stardust?”

“Star,” Avi suggests.

Taako groans. “Why’re you naming the dog after a star when we all lived on the gods-damn moon?”

Magnus looks at the dog. The dog looks back at him. He does look like a moon dog.

“Oh my god,” Avi murmurs. When Magnus turns to him he’s staring at the dog like he’s seen the holy grail, and he turns to face Magnus, looking awestruck. “Moon?”

“Luna,” Magnus says.

“Luna,” Avi agrees, and they both look at the dog. At Luna. “Welcome to the family, Luna.”

Magnus does his absolute best not to stop breathing at the word “family.” He doesn’t really succeed, but Avi doesn’t seem to notice, so he’ll count it as a win.

“Can I still call him Will?” Merle asks after a second, and doesn’t bother complaining when Johann throws a handful of popcorn at him.

Magnus is up first the next morning. For the first time since they moved in, every single room is full, and gods damn it, Magnus is going to make breakfast for his friends. And not burn the house down in the process.

The kitchen is sun-warm, bright in the morning light, and Magnus hums something to himself as he starts finding ingredients. Julia taught him to make pancakes once, or at least tried very hard. He wasn’t great at it, but he’d ended up with a batch that was at least edible. And between living with Avi and Taako he can at least guess at what things not to do, probably.

Julia would like Avi, he thinks, not for the first time, but this time doesn’t hollow out his chest or make him want to lie down and cry. This time it’s just the truth. Julia would like Avi, if nothing else because he’s the reason Magnus knows anything about cooking. “He succeeded where I failed,” she’d say, with a laugh. He lets himself hear it, lets the memory of her voice echo in his head as he measures out the flour. He misses her, but she’d be happy for him. For this.

“Are you cooking?” Avi says behind him.

Magnus smiles down at the bowl of ingredients. “I might be.”

“Do you know what you’re doing?”

“I definitely sort of do.”

“Mmmhm,” Avi says. “How about I help make sure you definitely actually do?”

“That would probably be a good idea.” Magnus turns around and offers the bowl of flour and baking powder, which Avi takes and sets on the counter behind him. “Do you know how to make pancakes?”

Avi snorts. “Oh, do I know how to make pancakes. That’s cute, Burnsides.”

“I’m just making sure I haven’t discovered a secret glaring gap in your cooking knowledge.”

“Do you know how to make pancakes?”

“I used to,” Magnus says. He considers telling Avi about Julia trying to teach him, but he decides not to. Maybe sometime later. He wants to, though. He wants Avi to know about her. He’d like to say he doesn’t know what that means, but he knows. He’s known for a while.

Avi’s quiet in the kitchen, carefully precise, measures everything out. He shows Magnus what to do, and when Magnus gets things right he can feel Avi’s quiet delight. The pancake batter is ready in a matter of minutes.

“We’re gonna need more than just this,” Magnus says, looking down at their first massive bowl of batter. “Killian alone can eat half of this.”

“Does Kravitz eat?”

“I think he… can?” Magnus makes a face. “I don’t know, he eats when Taako cooks, but that might just be because it’s Taako.”

“We’ll make a couple more batches,” Avi decides. “You wanna do the honors?”

“I would love to.” Magnus picks up a measuring cup and scoops up enough batter to fill it. “Here’s to old friends.”

“Old friends,” Avi agrees. Magnus can feel him smiling as he pours the first pancake on the griddle. “We should have people over more often.”

“Mm, yeah, or we could just get more dogs.” Magnus turns around in time to see Avi laugh, nearly doubling over with the bowl of pancake batter still in his hands. “Avi, don’t drop that!”

“It’s fine,” Avi laughs, still trying to catch his breath. The batter is sliding around dangerously in the bowl.

“No, you’re gonna drop it, I can’t let you.” Magnus reaches for the bowl just as Avi stumbles forward, still giggling. His hands land on top of Avi’s, the bowl of batter balanced between them.

Avi grins up at Magnus, eyes bright. “What’re you gonna do to stop me?”

Magnus can’t breathe, but he smiles anyways. “I’m ready to find out,” he says, and leans in.

Avi meets him in the middle and kisses him. It’s awkward, with the bowl between them, but Avi more than makes up for it with enthusiasm, pushing Magnus until they stumble back against the counter together. Magnus lifts a hand to twine his fingers into Avi’s hair, pull him up closer.

After a second Avi pulls away, and Magnus loosens his grip, letting his fingers run through Avi’s hair. Avi presses his forehead against Magnus’s and huffs out, “Fuck this fucking bowl.”

“Counter,” Magnus says, a little frantically. Avi maneuvers the bowl so it’s in one hand and reaches behind Magnus to set it on the counter, pressing the length of his body up against Magnus’s in the process. Magnus gasps, and he can see the flicker of a smirk on Avi’s face before Avi leans in and kisses him again, more insistently this time. Both of Avi’s hands trail down Magnus’s biceps, and Magnus settles his free hand on Avi’s waist and lets the world fade to the two of them.

And then.

Magnus pulls back after a couple minutes. Avi tries to follow him back, whining softly when he loses contact, but Magnus frowns. “Do you smell that?”

Avi sniffs the air and his eyes widen. “The pancake.”

“Our only pancake!” Magnus turns to look at the griddle , where the only pancake sitting on it is now smoldering and blackened. “Aw, man.”

“We should probably do something about that,” Avi muses. Magnus is about to agree when one of Avi’s hands skates up his arm, feather-light, and all of Magnus’s thoughts fly out of his head. Avi quirks an eyebrow at him. “So we should talk about this.”

“We should,” Magnus agrees. “But we should probably make pancakes first, because people will be waking up soon, and I’d rather have this talk without the risk of being overheard.”

Avi sighs and looks away. “I hate it when you’re right,” he mutters.

“But,” Magnus says, feeling brave, and Avi’s eyes snap to his. “I know we have more to talk about and that’s important, but my first impression is a yes.”

Avi smiles hopefully.

“Yeah,” Magnus says, and he’s not sure what else to say. Instead he moves a hand to Avi’s face, sweeps a thumb across Avi’s cheekbone, waits.

“Magnus,” Avi starts, but before he can say anything else, there’s a bark. A loud one. When Magnus turns, Luna is staring at the both of them - or, probably more accurately, at the still-burning pancake behind them.

“Fuck, we really should clean that up,” Avi sighs. “Or else Luna’s just going to keep barking.”

“We adopted a really bratty dog,” Magnus says, just to see Avi’s eyes crinkle at the corners. “It wouldn’t be home without him, though.”

“Yeah,” Avi says, so warm that Magnus feels like he’s melting. “He makes our home a home.”

It’s another couple of minutes before they get around to throwing away the burnt pancake. Luna is the only one who really minds.

#taz #taz fic #magvi #magnus x avi #thank you tam for naming the dog #ficcage

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one last taz liveblog :’)

before i even start up the episode, i just wanna say that i love all of you guys so much. like i said in my last liveblog, i've only been in this fandom since march but its quickly become one of my favorite stories of all time and i'm so happy i'm getting to experience it with all of you. i'm so excited my hands are shaking. let's do this

griffin i love you so much

holy shit i'm so fuckin pumped

"dance for me" HOLY SHIT THIS IS AWESOME

OH FUCK IT'S JOHN, JOHN DIDN'T DIE, HOLY FUCK

magnus i love you so much holy shit

TAAKO NOW IS NOT THE TIME

"I AM CURRENTLY WEARING THE SHOES" PFFFFF

"DO YOUR WORST PAL" YEEEAH GO MERLE!

I AM SO FUCKIN HYPED OH MY GOD YES YES YES

gotta love the owl continuing motif on merle

i take it john doesn't have much ac then

shadow john holy shit

REALLY FUCKIN GLAD MERLE HEALED EVERYBODY BEFORE THIS

what the fuck is storm sphere

“HURTY BOY”

this is fuckin dope man

god damn they're really pulling out the stops on this

they are rinsing this motherfucker holy shit

GOD DAMN TRAVIS ROLLING HOT TODAY

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST MAGNUS

i doubt griffin thought to make john that beefy lol

holy shit holy shit holy shit

GRIFFIN WHAT THE FUCK

HOLY SHIT THE MUSIC SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

"WELL, SHIT" YEP THAT JUST ABOUT COVERS IT

i cannot remember how much hp the boys each have and i am so worried for all of them even though merle healed them all

PLEASE DON'T KILL MERLE, PLEASE NO, MERLE NO NO NO

JUSTIN YOU ARE FUCKIN KILLING ME RIGHT NOW WITH TAAKO'S STUTTERING, MY HEART, I'M CRYING

ABRACAFUCK YOU

MERLE PLEASE DON'T FUCKING DIE, PLEASE MERLE

thank you istus for the chance lance holy fuck

"you've solved my goading puzzle" oh maggie

this is giving me such god of hyperdeath vibes holy shit

TAAKO GOD DAMMIT PLEASE DON'T FUCKING DIE

FUCKING NO, NO, NO, HOLY SHIT NO, WHAT THE FUCKING HELL

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

OH MY GOD GRIFFIN PLEASE TELL ME YOU PLANNED FOR THIS

"OH HOLY SHIT I'M IN TROUBLE" FUCKING HELL MERLE I LOVE YOU

MERLE I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

SO THE BONDS ARE EXTRA LIVES AND ATTACKS :D

"OH SHIT" ME TOO, GRIFFIN ME TOO

shit, guess i'm gonna have to get on the next max fun drive so i can listen to taz nights

this is so fucking weird and i love it

whatcha gonna do taako

JOAQUIN YEEEEEEEEEEAH

THIS IS SO FUCKING METAL OH MY GOD

JUSTICE RAINS FROM ABOVE!!!!!

WAIT HOLY FUCK I JUST GOT THAT THE ORBS ARE GOD-TRASHING, HOLY SHIT

what are you playing at here merle

merle what the shit

GARFIELD THE MOTHERFUCKING DEALS WARLOCK

griffin doing his best not to describe garfield is the best damn thing

"MAGIC BOWLING BALL BAG" MERLE

i love this oh my god

MAGNUS YOU SUMMONED A BIRD

HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS EVEN WORK WHAT THE HELL

I STILL HAVE ANOTHER HOUR AND A HALF TO LISTEN TO, FUCK

okay who else thought he was gonna summon angus for like two seconds

"much like the best science on earth" pfff

clint what the fuck are you doing

WAS THAT MEANT TO BE THE ISTUS BALL????? WHAT THE HELL

justin losing his shit is the best thing ever

FISHER!!! JR.!!! :D

HOW THE FUCK ARE THEY MENT TO ATTACK IT

DEATH METAL OH MY GOD

OH MY GOD THIS IS SO GOOD

I'M GONNA CRY ; _ ;

magnus i love you so much

welp, looks like that's the end of the summons :/

"HERE'S THE SCENE" OH BOY, HERE WE GO

ARMS OUTSTRETCHED YES YES YES YES YES

THIS IS SO FUCKING AMAZING OH MY GOD HOLY SHIT OH MY GOD

oh fuck we're in parlay aren't we

"YOU GOT IT BUDDY" I'M SOBBING

please let lucretia be okay, please please please

WHAT? DAVENPORT WHAT?

YES EVERYONE GETS OUT

IF LUCRETIA DIES I'M FUCKING OUT

THIS IS IT, THIS IS THE "YOU'RE GOING TO BE AMAZING" MOMENT

justin is going to murder me emotionally for the fourth fucking episode in a row, i'm calling it now

YAY ANGO IS OKAY

THIS IS SO GREAT

TAAKO OH MY GOD HOW

I'M CRYING THIS IS SO GOOD HOLY FUCK

"you feel something crawling on your back" it's your sins

SCUTTLE BUDDY :D

wait... oh fuck... is this the astral plane??? did they all die???

YAY LUCRETIA'S OKAY

oh shit this is all the planes! they're all okay!!!

wait what the shit

merle i love you

WAIT IS THIS GRIFFIN? THIS IS GRIFFIN IN META

taako you shit head ilu

off topic but... does this mean jenkins's garden is okay???

magnus now is not the time to question the big clock-maker dude, man this is some deist shit

"like josta" this is breaking my mind

"i'm getting a migraine" me too taako

y'all idiots oh my god ilu so much

ANGO ; u ;

i am so fucking happy oh my god... i'm just crying this is so good, i'm...

i am crying so much, this is the happiest god damn ending possible and i am so fucking happy

this is the most hopeful ending i've ever heard in my life and i'm just smiling my face off

taako oh my god i love this you beautiful bastard

REN YES I LOVE THIS

justin i love you so much

FUCK YEAH JUSTICE, YES!!!

i'm crying, i'm legit crying, i'm so happy for my wizard son ; _ ;

"i should mention, my boyfriend is death" TAAKO DO YOU JUST RANDOMLY BRING THAT UP ALL THE TIME NOW???

"i promised krav we'd take a vay-cay" welp, i know what i'm writing about in my next fic

taako do not goof on this baby boy r/n, don't you do it

ango ; _ ;

aw, merle and his kids are so cute :')

oh my god this is so cute, he's a travelling salesmen for pan and adventuring, i love this

i relate to merle leaving his stone of farspeech on silent so much

god damn do i have to become a sponsor, i need to listen to the beach episode so bad

oh merle please don’t fuck this up

merle i love you so much holy fuck

"MERLEGARITAVILLE" I'M FUCKING DYING

ALL THE IPRE FAMILY ARE UNCLES AND AUNTS AWWW

"i love you too baby" merle ; _ ;

WAIT WHAT, WHAT WEDDING? DID GRIFFIN MENTION THAT THIS WAS A WEDDING AND I MISSED IT??? WHOSE WEDDING?????

SWEET FLIPS WEDDING AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

merle you shit head ilu

yay magnus time

maggie you dumbass

I'M CRYING FOREVER THESE TWO ARE SO PERFECT

they're all a bunch of teachers i'm crying

MAGNUS IS A DOG TRAINER OH MY GOD

HE NAMED A DOG AFTER JOHANN I'M SCREAMING

"HAMMER AND TAILS: A DOG SCHOOL" magnus is so terrible at naming things and i love it

FUCK YOU GRIFFIN MCELROY, FUCK OFF RIGHT NOW, I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING AND I AM NOT EMOTIONALLY READY FOR THIS REUNION

that little tremor in travis's voice, i'm crying so much

alright, i am... i am distraught

this music is killing me ; _ ;

"magnus rushes in" i can't... i'm crying so much, and... fuck, there's still eight minutes left and i don't know if i can handle any of them

THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL, I'M CRYING EVEN MORE NOW

THE FUCKIN NO DOGS ON THE BEACH MUSIC... KILL ME

I'M SO HAPPY

AWWW THIS IS SO CUTE, FISHER AND IT'S BABY

glad to know all the boys cried too :')

in conclusion:

i am so god damn happy right now, i... this was everything i hoped it would be and more. i just want to say thank you so much to the mcelroys for creating such an amazing, wonderful journey and making it end on such a satisfying and happy and hopeful note. i am just emotionally exhausted in the best way possible and i'm gonna spend the next few hours just going through the taz tag and celebrating with everybody. i love this story so much, and while i’m sad that its reached it’s end i’m so glad it ended so perfectly :’)

#taz #the adventure zone #taz spoilers #i am so fucking happy i'm crying #everything is good and happy and wonderful and i am at peace

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