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Most TAZ villains: had something of a tragic and/or heroic past, were controlled into villainous roles by the Grand Relic or their own desire for the Relics
Jenkins: DIDN’T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE GRAND RELIC, RUNNING A LONG GAME OF SERIAL MURDER AND THEFT, IN IT FOR THE MONEY

Stolen Century plots I kinda wanna write but probs never will

questbedhead:

– Barry introduces the locals to necromancy, accidentally becomes a cult leader

– Lup and Davenport get addicted to street racing, everyone gently tries to remind them that using the Light of Creation to soup up their wheels is really, really irresponsible CAPTAIN!??!

– Fischer eats some important manuals and now they have to deal with malfunctioning machinery with no goddamned clue how it works

– The crew gets split up and hopelessly lost in a labyrinth. As they find they’re way out they have some Nice Bonding Moments – Lup and Merle talk about faith and hope; Dav, Magnus and Barry talk about duty and devotion; Lucretia and Taako find some weird mushrooms and get fucked up

– A rich and powerful monarch has the light, but is willing to trade it for (insert IPRE member)’s hand in marriage.

– One or both of the twins get turned into a vampire and spends the cycle lowkey trying to eat everyone.

– Davenport gets kidnapped and held for ransom and the whole crew rushes to save him, only to discover he was perfectly capable of rescuing himself. The kidnappers had squirreled him away in a library and he decided it might be nice just to take a break and do some reading.

– Someone challenges the crew to a battle of intellect for the Light and Taako almost blows it when they ask him a math question

– Barry gets hit with a mild but annoying curse that can only be broken by ‘true loves kiss’. It ends with Merle kissing him platonically on the cheek, because of course the whole crew loves each other!! Meanwhile Taako is fuming because he cast that spell so Lup would kiss him and they’d finally admit they liked each other godAMN IT MERLE YOU WHERE IN ON THIS WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN???

– They come across an entire world of intelligent plant people. Merle’s delight is directly proportionate to everyone else’s suffering. 

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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