my headcanon is that since lup and taako were kinda on their own from a very young age that they dont know who’s the older twin and they both insist they are the older twin
okay but Barry walks in and smooches Taako on the cheek and everyone’s like ‘uuuuuhhh thats not lup’ and hes just like ‘yeah i know but taako needs affection too’
And Magnus puts his hands on his hips and says “Well, Barry, did you bring enough kisses for everyone?”
I feel like this person really understands Magnus
I feel like @rabdoidal should make this into a comic.
hear me out: the day of story and song was a giant fucking smackdown between two incredibly powerful bards.
on one hand, we have john. a self-professed motivation speaker who, using only his words, convinced his reality that existence was pointless and peace could only come through destruction. john’s instrument was his voice and through it, he created an entity that destroyed countless hundreds of realities in a fruitless search for satisfaction.
on the other, we have johann. the greatest violinist in the world. an incredibly gifted musician who works for the bureau of balance, who believes so much in the ideals of the director – that the world is worth protecting, worth saving – that he gives over his creations to a jellyfish that deletes it from existence. even though one of johann’s greatest fears is being erased, he recognizes that life is precious, that it’s worth living, and serves the bureau until he dies.
one bard loves existence, and one hates it. one sacrifices his life’s work to preserve it; the other is sucked into his own creation to destroy it.
during the day of story and song, these two ideals clash: destruction versus hope. obliteration versus life. the hunger has descended. darkness surrounds every living being in our plane and the planes beyond. our heroes make their final stand under the weight of hundreds of universes.
johann is killed at the hands of this other bard. but he’s remembered. thanks to the people he inspired – to magnus, to lucretia – johann is not forgotten.
and he’s so powerful, he’s so fucking good at what he does, that his final statement, his expression of love and hope and choosing joy and choosing life is broadcasted everywhere. his bardic inspiration touches every single corner of reality. he gives them the hope and courage they need to look destruction in the eye and say “no”. he gives them the strength to fight back.
and with johann’s song in their hearts, the hunger is destroyed.
so obviously it’s always shitty when any of the ipre die but i wonder if there weren’t also certain combinations of people being dead that are just… 200% more awful
there’s a cycle where magnus and lup both die. and it’s like the energy has gone out of the entire group. taako always gets quieter and sharper when lup dies, but without magnus to rattle around the ship and distract everyone, his furious silence is deafening. barry doesn’t leave his room at all, and without lup or magnus to remind her there’s a world outside her journals, lucretia doesn’t either.
there’s one cycle where merle and davenport both die about halfway through and there’s just this horrible feeling of pseudo parental loss. barry takes it especially hard; he lost his father before he can remember and he just lost two more. the twins too – the others notice them getting even closer; they’re often joined at the hip, but now they’re rarely in different rooms.
or, magnus and lucretia die and the other five feel, suddenly, very old. the two of them are the “little siblings” of the crew. magnus is so big and lucretia so smart that it’s easy to forget they have twenty and twenty-two year old bodies respectively. even with the extra years they’ve been given, they’re still so young.
davenport and lucretia die and suddenly everyone’s twice as reckless. taako and merle die and the crew finds themselves humorless; it seems like there’s no one to laugh with or at. merle and barry die and the crew never realized how much of the good nature on the ship stemmed directly from them until then
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