Justin creating Taako as a character who grew up alone and who thus has some anxiety over not having anyone to rely on could be interpreted as Justin exploring his own feelings of loneliness and abandonment over his brothers leaving him behind in their home town. This is one of the central points of Taako’s character and Griffin gets a lot of grief, mostly jokingly, over hijacking Taako’s backstory and giving him a sibling who’d been there for him the entire time. But this could also be interpreted as Griffin telling his brother ‘you’re not alone, you’ve never been alone, we’re here for you and we have your back’.
I had a dream set during the Gerblins arc where Magnus kept trying to make awkward small talk and ask the others about themselves.
Taako was annoyed by it and sarcastically said “okay guys, how about we just stop the whole adventure and get to know each other better?”
Merle looked off into the distance and said “there used to be so much time for that.”
And the others were like “what” and Merle was like “what” and they shook it off and never mentioned it again.
And now because of that dream I have a headcanon that Merle “forgot his own last name, twice” Hitower Highchurch has a memory that’s already so full of holes and folds and blank spots that occasionally one of those holes works the other way around and he briefly has a thought like “this is worse than that mushroom planet” or “didn’t Magnus always used to wear red?” pass through his mind, only to immediately be forgotten again.
On rare occasions while the thought is in his head he’ll make an odd comment that others brush off and forget just as quickly.
And yes, he once called Taako Lup by mistake. Taako didn’t react and it didn’t stir any memories but later he looked down and realized he’d been clutching the handle of the Umbra Staff so tightly that the tiny raised pattern at the top had left a deep indentation in his hand.
I was re-listening to the Gerblins arc and at one point Merle says (to two people he’s supposed to have just recently met) “Can we talk? I feel like I don’t know you guys […] I just feel like we’ve grown apart.”
And obviously it was just goofing as is the case for 90% of the things that are foreshadowing in retrospect but that’s all I needed headcanon locked the fuck down.
Im 78% sure that when N03113 mentions liched Merle joked about being good friends with some liches
Merle’s brain: uselessly shouting vital information
The first time Merle actually tries preaching to someone and he fails so bad that by the end of it he’s trying to convert them by telling them god’s going to run them over with a train
i keep forgetting that kravitz was a villain during crystal kingdom. the concept is so fucking funny to me. he’s too gay for this? he’s so incredibly gay that he lost the biggest bounty he’s ever hunted? like. this boy has a shitty accent. he’s a fucking nerd. his fatal flaw is literally that he’s too gay. he falls in love with the elf he’s supposed to be hunting. and he’s the most lawful good character on the show! it’s so easy to forget that at one point he chased the boys around with a scythe. i’m sorry, krav, you were never cut out for villiany, you’re just too fucking gay.
bureau of balance employees who have never interacted with tres horny boys: wow.. the reclaimers are so cool…. the saviors of our organization
bureau employees who are forced to interact with thb on more than a monthly basis: taako broke into my office the other day and emptied all my staplers and sat on my filing cabinet throwing individual staples at me for five hours
fav thing about reading the tags on this post: people making their own callouts
There’s something really beautiful about the way Griffin set up the planar system – about where he put us. Bear with me here as I try to articulate it, because—
See, the story takes place on the Prime Material Plane. This plane has magic, because there’s a Plane of Magic that influences the Prime Material Plane. This plane has divine power coursing through it, because there’s a Plane of Gods that influences the Prime Material Plane. It’s got elemental powers in nature and stuff, because there’s an Elemental Plane sending out its energy into the void between planes, influencing the Prime Material Plane. You get the gist.
The Prime Material Plane is at the center, it’s the focus, and so in a way the point of the Plane of Magic is to provide magic, to be magical, to send its magical energy down to the Prime Material. The point of the Elemental Plane is to provide… strength to the elemental forces on the Prime Material, or whatever it is DnD has to say about elemental stuff. The Plane of Gods has actual people living there who are cognizant of the whole system, and from what we’re given to understand, their point is also to influence, by divine intervention, the Prime Material Plane.
I’m sure the gods have their own lives going on in their plane, just as I’m sure the elemental spirits have their own stuff happening and the beings of pure magic or whatever there is on the Plane of Magic have lives of their own. It’s even quite plausible that, other than the gods, they’re generally unaware of the Prime Material Plane – that these elemental beings live their rich and complex lives without ever once being aware that their existence, that the bonds of elemental energy that they create just by being, is what’s powering the elemental forces on the Prime Material Plane.
And that brings us to our plane. Because Griffin put us in there, our world with its elevators and internet, with its complete lack of magic missiles or gods that grant you blossoming wooden arms. Our plane is the Plane of Reason, which is the plane of rational thought and creativity. Our influence, our contribution, is the power of the mind: logic and imagination.
It’s implied (or stated? I don’t remember for sure) that most of the impressive technological advancements we see in the show are from the Millers, who got their ideas from watching our world. It’s implied, too, that just as the existence and influence of the Plane of Magic is what makes it possible to do magic on the Prime Material, the influence of the Plane of Reason is what makes it possible for people on the Prime Material to use logic and imagination.
So what that boils down to is this: The purpose of our world, the whole point of our world, is creation. Our ability to make technological marvels and incredible works of art, our ability to constantly be thinking up new things – that’s what makes us special, that’s our distinguishing feature, that’s what we contribute. We imagine, we invent, we bring ever more new wonders into the world. Every single thing we make, from rocket ships to symphonies to the jokes we come up with to tell our friends – that’s what we’re here to do. That’s the gift we bear, and it’s on a level with magic and nature and the gods themselves. We’re here to create.
imagine: magnus giving an Anime Protagonist Speech and the bad guy is like rolling their eyes bc yeah this seems like something he would do but in reality he’s buying time as merle and taako rob the dude blind and then knock them out from behind before the three of them bolt
the most important thing to know about the candlenights in tacoma show is that after clint said he wanted to summon gundren rockseeker, griffin and justin just sat completely silent and motionless for, like, a minute with these expressions:
just moving along like everyone else 