Okay, if you call him Mango? That definitely means you've thought of it. [He's going to follow this stupid line of thought because it'll distract him from the fact that "*static*'s not alone" just came out of Magnus's mouth.] How dare you even consider juicing him.
He's like 7. He's not even ripe yet.
[Context clues and the reprieve of a dumb goof are enough to let Taako wrap his mind around what Magnus must have said, and he turns away, grabbing a pie tin from the cabinets. It's as he suspected. Somehow or another, the Director or someone else has a second Voidfish. They fed Lup's memory, her entire being into it, and erased her from history like the Bureau had done to Magic Brian and Boyland and Captain Captain Bane and Phandalin. He'd been fine with all of that because it hadn't been him and they'd been dead. But this? Her? Lup?
Lup was a lich. She wasn't dead and she wasn't-- She wasn't just anyone. She was important to Taako and that made her erasure inexcusable. He'd thought he'd been alone his entire life and it'd made him hard and calloused and even malicious at times when it suited him because he had to do what it took to take care of himself. But if she'd been there the entire time, how different was he supposed to be?
Taako sets the pie tin on the counter and sighs.]
Name's gone, but I figured it out, yeah. So? Who has it? The voidfish's baby and you remembering all this? Is this because you're dead? Because I'll fucking kill you if you're dead.
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He's like 7. He's not even ripe yet.
[Context clues and the reprieve of a dumb goof are enough to let Taako wrap his mind around what Magnus must have said, and he turns away, grabbing a pie tin from the cabinets. It's as he suspected. Somehow or another, the Director or someone else has a second Voidfish. They fed Lup's memory, her entire being into it, and erased her from history like the Bureau had done to Magic Brian and Boyland and Captain Captain Bane and Phandalin. He'd been fine with all of that because it hadn't been him and they'd been dead. But this? Her? Lup?
Lup was a lich. She wasn't dead and she wasn't-- She wasn't just anyone. She was important to Taako and that made her erasure inexcusable. He'd thought he'd been alone his entire life and it'd made him hard and calloused and even malicious at times when it suited him because he had to do what it took to take care of himself. But if she'd been there the entire time, how different was he supposed to be?
Taako sets the pie tin on the counter and sighs.]
Name's gone, but I figured it out, yeah. So? Who has it? The voidfish's baby and you remembering all this? Is this because you're dead? Because I'll fucking kill you if you're dead.