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its-your-mind · 1 year

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ah yes. the twins. from the dnd show. yeah the guy and the girl. yeah of elvish descent but left their family early. right. relied on each other for everything and always knew where they were in relation to each other. joined up with some loveable doofuses to save the world several times. yeah one of them died and it really fucked up the other one and they blamed a member of their party for it. being separated was Not Good for them. uh huh yeah one of them eventually became an emissary of the raven queen. why the fuck are you talking about mexican food now. what does that have to do with this.

#I had a revelation this evening can you tell #taz #critical role #taz balance #the adventure zone #vox machina #taako and lup #vex and vax #the twins

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vampratx · 9 months

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they are very special to me

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elvencantation · 5 months

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listening to justin talk about taako’s childhood/early adulthood during the temporal chalice rewind and him saying that taako has just like- been alone pretty much since he was twelve, he didn’t have anyone watching his back. and im remembering griffin introducing lup. i don’t remember specifics but i remember him telling us how taako begins to remember that he wasn’t alone, that she was there with him the whole time and 🥺😭

ALSO I WANT TO KNOW THE BOYS’ AND CLINT’S REACTIONS TO THE DESCRIPTIONS OF STATIC AND THE REVEAL OF THE STOLEN CENTURY

#taz balance #taz #the adventure zone #taz the eleventh hour #blue listens #taz relisten #taako and lup #taz balance spoilers #i guess

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thesnakethatmarches · 1 year

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I’ve already seen a couple posts about it but

These moments in Taako’s memories? These ones right here? Paired with the look in his eyes each time Lup is mentioned this book?

The awareness of absence but the unknown of what it could be. The feeling of loneliness that feels like it hurts more than it should, but why would it?

Taako knows loneliness, Taako has been alone from his very first concrete memory, but within that loneliness something is missing, something that is just eluding him.

((Also in almost every memory in this sequence, near or around the area the static inhabits is a flame or a fire of some kind :)))

#taz graphic novel #taz gn spoilers #taz #taz gn #taz 11th hour #11th hour #taz taako #taako adventurezone #taako and lup #lup adventurezone #lup taz #the adventure zone #the mcelroys

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wizardbracket · 1 year

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Round 1: Match 4 of 64

Why they deserve to be the ultimate wizard according to YOU:

Lup:

“She specializes in evocation, specifically fire, and she's super rad. She turns herself into a lich and builds a magic-consuming umbrella.”

Taako:

“Um. He's Taako? Y'know... from TV? ”

“Specializes in transmutation, which he used in his traveling cooking show Sizzle It Up with Taako.”

“He said abracafuckyou once that was funny.”

#wizardbracket #the adventure zone #lup #lup taaco #taako #taako taaco #taako and lup

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star-dragon-art · 2 years

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finished TAZ Balance recently

#taako #taako and lup #lup taaco #taz #the zone cast #the adventure zone #digital art #clip studio paint #fanart #dnd #dungeons and dragons

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yaboi-julien · 2 years

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(Based on this post by @questbedhead)

Full image description below cut!

Image Description: A long form comic including three pages, all set in a dingy necromancy store and illustrated in a cartoony, fully-colored and shaded style.

In the first panel, a hooded figure sits behind a desk with his back to us.

In the second panel, we see part of his face which has a big sly smile on it as he looks over his shoulder. Behind him, a door opens with the ring of a small silver bell.

In the next panel he spins around in his chair and says: “Welcome to Blood-Bath and beyond, your home for necromantic wares! Anything I can help you find--”

Next: “...Today?” he finishes, seemingly dumbfounded. In the middle of the frame are three new people. Barry Bluejeans is in the middle, he is a white middle aged chubby man with brown and grey hair, stubble, and wearing a white shirt, brown coat and glasses. To the left is Taako, a dark skinned elf with straight choppy dark brown hair died lavender at the bottom, wearing a large purple wizards hat, a purple cape with gold stars, a frilled shirt and high-wasted pants. To the right is Lup, a dark skin elven woman with a face identical to Taako’s but with longer curly dark brown hair died red at the tips, and wearing a wine red wide-brimmed hat and wine red dress. The twins each are resting an arm on one of Barry’s shoulders, framing him.

In the next frame, Barry has a finger resting on his chin as he says “Uh... yes, I’m looking for a spell book with level 12 or higher spells.”

Next is a close-up of the shopkeeper’s eye, squinting forwards with a thought bubble that says: “Level 12?”

Next is the same close-up of the shopkeeper’s eye, only this time it is wide and looking up past Barry.

Next is a frame of just Taako and Lup, with Barry just slightly out of frame. Taako covers his hand as if to whisper something to Lup as they both look judgmentally in the direction of the shopkeeper. A speech bubble comes from offscreen as the shopkeeper says “Right away, sir.”

Starting the second page is a frame of the shopkeeper dropping a large book onto the table in front of him. The book looks to be stitched together from skin, with a large green eye-shaped jewel on the front cover and small fangs on the spine.

Next, Barry has picked up the book and is looking at it with a smile of curiosity as he says “Oh, neat!” The twins both peer over his shoulder as the shopkeeper looks at the three startled.

Next is a close up of Barry’s hand sliding a collection of very different looking coins across the table, including some golden hoops, a silver perforated coin with a dragon emblem, a pale blue coin, a canadian loonie, and a thin gold bar with line markings on it (it’s not a loss easter egg don’t worry about it)

The next panel is shot from over the shopkeeper’s shoulder. Barry excitedly shows an interested but calm Lup something in the book as Taako rolls a bunch of teeth around in one hand, bored. The shopkeeper thinks: “Who is this guy?!”

Next is a panel showing half of the shopkeeper’s face, the border of the panel cutting him off vertically as he stares forwards intently.

The next panel is exactly the same, except he has narrowed his eye, the pupil now glowing, as the words “true sight” are spelled above him

In the next panel, Barry is shot from the neck up, looking excitedly at something offscreen.

Next is the form of Barry’s red robe litch form, shot from the exact same position as the previous panel. He glows a faint red, the inside of his hood empty and black save for two glowing white eyes.

Starting the next page the shopkeeper recoils in surprise, his thought bubble reading: “A litch!” In the foreground, Barry and the twins are starting to leave, Taako dropping the coins Barry had paid for the book with into a small bag.

Next the shopkeeper lunges forwards with urgency, shouting “WAIT!”

Next, “Who are you?!” he shouts at the trio. Barry is looking over his shoulder at the shopkeeper, and Lup had put her arm over his shoulder.

Next is a very close shot of the bottom of Barry’s face, his mouth in a null position.

Next is the same close up shot of the bottom of Barry’s face, only this time he has a large sly smile on his face.

Next is a medium shot of Barry, he has a big gentle smile on his face, his eyes closed and one hand up in a polite wave as he says “Name’s Barry Bluejeans!”

In the final panel, the shopkeeper lays passed out over his desk, a small cartoon of a round ghost floating away from his body as the door in the back of the room closes. A small creature sits on his desk, eating the chocolate gelt which had been swapped out for the real coins.

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jocasta-nightstrider · 7 months

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Um. Them <3

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tragicsibsshowdown · 1 year

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mosscaps · 1 year

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HER HER HER HER HER HER HER HER SHE SHE SHE SHE SHE SHE SHE

#i yelled aloud #taz gn spoilers #eleventh hour #taz gn #taako and lup

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variksel · 1 year

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ME WHEN SIBLINGS WHO LOVE EACHOTHER TO THE MOON AND BACK ME WHEN SIBLINGS WHO WOULD DIE FOR EACHOTHER BUT WOULD NEVER SAY I LOVE YOU DIRECTLY ME WHEN SIBLINGS HUG AFTER A BATTLE ME WHEN SIBLINGS FIGHT AND BICKER ME WHEN SIBLINGS ARE BEST FRIENDS AND ENEMIES AND CODEPENDENT AND DISTANT AND FAMILY!!!!

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mystical-hotdogz · 9 months

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Twin Time!

Colored versions on my Patreon!

#digital aritst #digital art #commissions are open #lgbtq characters #dungeons and dragons characters #the adventure zone #the adventure zone balance #dnd character #taz taako #taz lup #taako and lup #taz #taz balance

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in-this-crystal-kingdom · 2 years

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Hey um I think I would be totally normal and calm if in the TAZ novel after Taako remembers where the Umbra Staff comes from his hands shake and he drops it and takes a step back because yeah how can you not have that reaction upon realizing the corpse you robbed for your signature item was your fucking twin sister.

#taz #the adventure zone #justin mcelroy #travis mcelroy #griffin mcelroy #clint mcelroy #dungeons and dragons #taz balance #taz spoilers #taako and lup #taz taako #taz lup

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fuckin-flip-wizard · 1 year

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Something something transgenderism being contagious lmao

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thesevenofbirds · 2 years

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if you’re still taking prompts I’d love to see the balance twins comforting each other after redirecting from one of their firsts deaths during the stolen century arc

I knew you’d be back… but I buried your body, Taako.

And then? Then I lived ten. Months. Without seeing you, or hearing your voice.

I had to survive nearly a year, with half of myself amputated and rotting in the ground.

[image ID-] Taako and Lup, twins from The Adventure Zone Balance, sit together on a bed of pillows inside the Starblaster. Taako is embracing Lup tightly as she is weeping, and she holds herself and leans into him. Both are medium-tone skinned elves with dark curly hair. Taako has the ends of his hair bleached, and has numerous tattoos of plants, a bird, a gem, and a moon.

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barry-j-blupjeans · 2 years

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41 with lup and taako? :)

41. “I feel like I can’t breathe.”

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When Lup woke up, it was dark. Not pitch black, but unsettling dark all the same. The ground below her was firm, with a slight give, and velvety, sort of scratchy against her arms.

Lup shut her eyes. She counted to ten in her head. The texture against her hands wasn't bad but she didn't want to be feeling it. It sent a sick feeling into her stomach, which bubbled up and threatened to come out as a sob in her throat. She counted backward from ten. And then into the negatives. And then back up to zero again.

"Lup?" someone said nearby. Lup kept her eyes squeezed shut. "Are you awake?"

"Where are we?" Lup asked. She started up to ten again, in Elvish this time.

"Living room, I think," the voice said. "Let me turn on the light."

There was a flash of light that got through her eyelids. Lup screwed her face up, not ready to open them yet. The texture beneath her fingers was driving chills up her arm. Someone grunted and then touched her shoulder.

"Lup?" the voice- Taako, she knew Taako's voice- said. Taako could see her. That was a good sign. Taako could touch her. A great sign, even. "Are you... how- how can I help you?"

"I feel like I can't breathe," Lup whispered.

"Hey," Taako said. Something shifted by her head. A warm hand ran through Lup's hair. "Breathe in as I count to four. Ready?" He didn't wait for a response. Lup wasn't sure if she could give one. Instead, she just inhaled as Taako counted up. And then exhaled as he started back from zero and made his way up to four again. They followed the pattern a few more times before Lup had to interrupt with,

"Where am I?"

"Living room," Taako reminded.

"No," Lup said. "Am I on the floor or-"

"Couch," Taako said. "On a blanket, technically."

She sat up, eyes still shut, drawing her hands into her chest. The velvet feeling against her vanished as she did so. Lup let out a shaky exhale.

"Get rid of the blanket," she said. "Please."

"'Course," Taako said. There was a slight shuffle, where Taako's half of the couch lifted up like he had stood. Something soft fell on the floor behind them. Taako's hand caught hers, intertwining their fingers. "S'gone."

Lup peeked an eye open, squinting. She was facing the door that went into the kitchen. There was a potted plant nearby that held a poorly maintained succulent. The tall backed leather chair Magnus had forced upon Taako was settled in the corner. And Taako himself was at her side, sort of awkwardly crouching between the couch and the floor. She opened the other eye, too.

"You good?" he asked, squeezing her hand.

"I wanna burn that fucking blanket," Lup said. If Taako was upset about that at all, he didn't show it.

"Lucretia gave it to me, so burn away," he said. He paused for a second, seeming to hesitate. "For real though, is... are you okay?"

Lup settled herself back into the couch now that the blanket was gone. Taako lifted himself up next to her. They were close enough that their thighs smushed together, their hands still connected. Lup sighed.

"Reminded me of the umbrastaff," she said, quietly. Taako's ear twitched. "And it was dark so I thought..."

"Yikes," Taako said. Lup let out a wet chuckle, using a free hand to rub at her face. "Yeah, we can deffo burn that. You gotta pay for the new one, though."

"For sure," Lup said. And then, "I'm- my bad, Taako."

"For what?"

"For-" she gestured vaguely with her free hand. "I don't know! I thought I was getting better at shit and this is just like, a whole step back. So I guess I'm sorry for doing that on your couch? It's a pretty good couch, though. I really like it."

"You don't have to be sorry for that, doofus," Taako said, nudging her shoulder with his. "If I let you get away with that, then you're gonna start making me apologize for like, panic baking in your kitchen. And you know cha'boy isn't gonna apologize for panic baking. Even if I use all your almond flour."

"I'm not gonna make you apologize for panic baking," Lup said. "That's how you cope."

"And I'm not gonna accept you apologizing for being traumatized on my couch," Taako said. "Them's the breaks, Lup."

"Thank you, then," Lup said, rolling her eyes.

"Now that I'll accept," Taako said. "Are you gonna sleep more or should we go burn that shitty blanket? 'Cus I'm in the mood for s'mores and if we're burning shit then we might as well."

"I could go for a s'more," Lup said.

#lup #taako #taako and lup #taz #taz balance #mine #asks #boatwizard2 #ask to tag #ise cube writing

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