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This is a catch-all post for contacting Magnus in
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I don't have family, Magnus, liches or otherwise.
[Not one he remembers. Not one that counted. He's been alone his entire life as far as he remembers and that's the whole problem.
It's only as far as he remembers and it's obvious that he doesn't remember a whole fucking lot anymore. The huge gaps in his memory, the dissonance between him and literally everyone he knows, the whole existence of Lup, it's all one big glaring sign that points to him missing a lot. To someone having stolen a lot from him.
Someone has stolen everything from him and there's only one person who has a voidfish.
He pulls his finger back and takes a breath, trying to steady himself. It's too easy to get angry right now, and since he can't focus that anger at anyone who actually deserves it, Magnus has to take the brunt and that's not entirely fair.]
But whatever, fine. They're both liches, Barry isn't flattened into glass, cool cool cool. So? Who took our memories then and how did you find this second voidfish to drink its baby juice?
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Maybe not. [His voice is calm, quiet, even. It's not a tone he uses often.] Maybe not, but you have me and Merle, and we're not leaving you for anything.
[He clears his throat after that and gives Taako some space. He's similarly restless, arms folded, as he leans against the nearest counter.]
Let me back up on that, 'cause I don't actually know how you guys found the second voidfish. I told Fisher-- uh, I told the Voidfish I'd find its baby, and then I had to fight my way out of the Fantasy Costco in my real body, and then I tracked you guys down to one of the other buildings. Lucretia was standing there talking to you about the history we forgot and Barry slipped me some juice, and then we started to remember.
Lucretia had it, that's what I know. It was part of her plan to... try to 'fix' what we'd done.
[He lets out a big breath all at once. He knows Taako isn't going to be happy to have that confirmed, but he wasn't happy back then either.]
This is the part where I'm not sure how much you'll remember. If I explain this really badly, you won't get anything out of it but static. And if I explain it in a way that makes you want to remember, then you'll hurt yourself like I did. It's just-- it's shitty. This whole situation is shitty, and I won't deny Lucretia basically put us there and what she did was fucking awful-- but she's not the enemy.
She's not the reason the world was ending.
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Besides, there's something far more important that Magnus has just revealed.
"Lucretia had it."
It's like a knife that's been poised over his gut just slammed itself to the hilt into him.
I won't deny Lucretia basically put us there and what she did was fucking awful-- but she's not the enemy.
The Director. The woman he'd actually, against all his instincts, chosen to trust. To follow. To listen to. To believe in.
He'd suspected for awhile now, but having it confirmed is like having his world shattered around him. Lucretia knew about Lup, knew about Taako, knew about whatever it was that he and Mags and Merle had gone through enough to write it down and feed it to a second Voidfish. She'd know him when he walked up, had pretended to get to know him, had pretended to--
Taako grits his teeth, fingers gripping the edge of the counter. He'd been a fucking idiot to trust her and believe that her mission, her Bureau, was a way for him to atone for all the shit he'd done in Glamour Springs. He was a moron to think that it could call that place home.
She's not the reason the world was ending, Magnus says and Taako narrows his eyes, scoffing.]
Yeah, sure. Not the reason why the whole world is ending; just the reason why apparently mine did.
[She's the reason why he can't remember what Magnus and Kravitz and Lup apparently all know. She's the reason why he thinks he doesn't have a family. She's the reason why he didn't know how Lup was. She's the reason they're having this stupid conversation in the first place. The reason he feels utterly alone when he's got so many people around him who know him on a level that he doesn't know them.]
I don't need to know anything else.
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Taako's isolating himself like he always does, and--
-- and Magnus does something stupid, probably. He crosses the distance between them quickly and tries to swallow his smaller friend up in a big warm hug, aiming to hold Taako's head against his shoulder. When he was sobbing, absolutely inconsolable, someone else's big warm arms held Magnus like this. Mags smells like wood and leather and sword polish, and that's not as good as freshly-baking cookies, but it's better than the taste of bitter betrayal.
And all he says is:]
I know.
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He isn't paying attention to Magnus until he feels arms surround him. At first, he freezes, unsure of what exactly is even happening to him. Taako doesn't get hugs. He rarely lets anyone touch him with such intimacy with the exception of Kravitz, and so he's left not knowing what to do for the second time in as many minutes. There's a moment - the shortest, smallest of moments - when he starts to relax, wanting comfort from someone who understands how much he's lost and how hurt he is. The smell of a woodshop is weirdly familiar and calming and he almost, almost lets himself indulge in this. Magnus is warm and solid and here, and they've been through a lot in the past year.
But then the moment ends and Taako scrambles, pushing at Magnus's chest and arms like a trapped feral cat without claws. He twists and ducks, doing whatever he can to get away, knowing that he's probably messing up his hair something awful, but he can at least use that as a distraction later. Right now? He needs to get away. This is too much for him. He can't accept this yet.]
Ugh, get off me - you're stiflingly hot and smell like a coat rack at a hoedown!
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It'd probably be weird if I started smelling like flowers and cookies-- [like you, he means] -- but I wouldn't mind.
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[He's free and Taako takes a few generous steps away, smoothing out his clothes and his hair. He...has a lot to think about honestly. A lot that hurts in places that he thought were long since over being hurt. He needs to think and be alone, but...he also needs to be somewhere. He needs to be with someone he isn't allowed to remember yet.]
So, y'know, fair warning on that one. Consider yourself served.