lup: hey babe how do i look
barry: beautiful and perfect and amazing
lup: thanks babe i love you
taako: hey babe how do i look
kravitz: your blouse is just a bit too dark for the rest of your outfit, so you should change it to something more pastel. also, with that skirt you might want higher heels – this would be a good excuse to wear those boots we got last week. while you do that, i’ll go change my shirt so we aren’t completely clashing.
taako: thanks babe i love you
[later, on their double date]
taako: lup what the fuck are those cargo pants
lup: i don’t want to hear it. we’re at a trashy bar and you two look like you just stepped off the runway.
kravitz: all the world’s a stage, lup
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I didn’t even realize how annoyed I was at the general way women in comedy shows are portrayed until TAZ didn’t do the thing and I realized how amazing it was.
The thing is: when you have a group of funny male characters and one or two women, and the women are always super mature and emotionally together and much too responsible and reasonable to engage in shenanigans. Basically the perpetually annoyed straight man for the jokers to butt up against.
And then TAZ introduced Lup, and immediately she was petty, and smug, and egotistical, and FUCKING HILARIOUS, and it felt like taking a breath of air when I didn’t even realize I’d been underwater. She’s allowed to be every bit as ridiculous and self-obsessed as her brother, and they just trust that we’ll love her the same way we love Taako, faults and all – they never feel like they’re apologizing for putting a girl in with all this silliness, not once! And, like, they joke about a “competent woman” – she is HIGHLY competent! And very moral! And capable of tremendous love and sweetness!
And she ALSO wants her fucking fifteen dollars back, GREG GRIMALDIS.
and she also wants
her fucking fifteen dollars
back greg grimaldis
^Haiku^bot^0.4. Sometimes I do stupid things (but I have improved with syllables!). Beep-boop!
Kat told me about the theory that Angus is Lup and Barry’s child and I gotta say as there’s nothing I can recall that definitively disproves this, I dig it. Yeah it’s cute as shit but mostly because of the possibility that dear sweet precious Ango was created via mad science and/or black magic.
#taz#Lucretia walks into Lup and Barry’s room#there’s a large pentagram on the floor and they’re in the middle of an eldritch ritual#some real Fullmetal Alchemist shit#Lucretia: what are you two doing??#Lup probably: we’re having a baby!#Lucretia: …well this isn’t the worst thing I could’ve stumbled across
outcasts, but never alone
I’ve been relistening to old TAZ episodes and I had a realization.
“Taako. Taako it’s me. It’s *･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*”
For the longest time I thought Taako heard “It’s me. It’s Lup.” when he first put on his band of telepathic thought and her name was censored out….
But then I remembered: “I was so careful” “I let you keep your names”
“Taako. Taako it’s me. It’s *･゜ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:* Trust. Barry.”
AND: Angus and Taako could read LUP when it got fire blasted on the wall.
So… I think that means Lup way saying“Taako. It’s Me.”
”It’s your sister.”
And that hurts so much more for some reason.
During the days after Here There Be Gerblins, Lup absolutely refuses to be let go of by her brother under any circumstances. However, due to her limited power in this situation, this manifests as the Umbrastaff falling over and rolling in Taako’s direction whenever he tries to set it down. Taako, presently in his Simple Idiot Wizard phase, fails to recognize that this is Not Typical Spellcasting Focus Behavior.
During the boys first night at the Bureau, the Umbrastaff won’t stop falling against the ladder to his bunk no matter how he sets it back up again and eventually, when he reaches down to fix it yet again, it turns and hooks around his wrist not letting him go. His reaction is simply, “Oh hey little buddy, wanna sleep with ol’ Taako do you? Hey I can’t blame you, who wouldn’t!” and pulls it up into bed with him and sleeps with the Umbrastaff like it’s a teddy bear.
It takes days before Lup lets Taako put her down and several weeks before she lets him out of sight when he’s not holding her. She almost panics when they ask for the boys weapons upon boarding the Rockport Limited and was never happier that she made her magic-absorbing superwand an inconspicuous umbrella than she was at that moment.
Everyone else just sort of accepts that Taako now has a magic umbrella that he has to hang on the towel rack when he takes a shower so it doesn’t constantly knock against the door of the bathroom for the entire time he’s in there. The best guess anyone has is there’s some charm on it that tied the Umbrastaff to it’s owner and a bit of that charm transferred over to Taako. (Lucretia secretly wonders if Lup had it charmed to find Taako if she perished, or if she charmed it to return to her and with Lup not present, the Umbrastaff thought Taako was close enough. Either way Lucretia is glad some part of Lup found Taako again after all these years, even if it’s not under the most desireable circumstances, unaware of the true extent to which she is correct.)
just moving along like everyone else 