ungarmax:

Concept: Magnus gets the
idea to train service dogs from watching his friends struggle with
PTSD after destroying the Hunger.

Sure, the world is saved
and everything is at peace and the entire IPRE crew gets happy
endings.  But the events of the past year, past ten years, past one
hundred years don’t just go away
because you’re at peace.  In real life, it’s when you get out of the
shitty, surviving day-to-day situations that you realize you haven’t
been coping, just…managing.  It’s then that your survival
mechanisms keep going because you’ve needed them for so long, but
there’s nothing to survive.

It’s
been implied that Taako has trouble with nightmares within the
podcast, so imagine him finally settling down, opening up his magic
school, reunited with his sister and brother-in-law and in a nice,
stable relationship with a sweet boyfriend…but he still has
nightmares.  Maybe they’re even worse now, since he can remember the
stolen century.

Not
to mention, I think he and Lup will have this sort of borderline
co-dependent relationship for a while,
particularly on Taako’s part.  Lup…well, it’s hard to say she was
with Taako, exactly,
but she wasn’t without him.  And she never lost
him.  It’s also canon that Taako hates being alone, most likely
because he knows he isn’t supposed to be.

So
Taako is living his life, making public appearances, eating up the
attention as he is wont to do, and then at night, he’s got these
nightmares.  While I imagine that Kravitz, Lup, and Barry aren’t the
only reapers, I do
imagine that they keep odd hours and there are times when they are
all busy.  So now he has sleepless, lonely nights, spent worrying
about his family.

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