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
based on my hopes and dreams/past precedent/best jokes, here’s my guess for what taz graduation will include
PLAY WITH ME, WONT YOU?
[image description: a bingo card titled Taz: Graduation.
Row 1: The real prize was the family we found along the way; giant cat; secret sister trapped in an object; jesse and james but a little to the left; older badass lady in charge of organization
Row 2: clint mcelroy, embezzling janitor; competent woman; kiss your dad(’s character) square on the lips; clint doesn’t know the rules; b-list celebrity references
Row 3: the music slaps; elevators; free space; longer than expected; travis cheats on his rolls
Row 4: halloween ep includes vampires; trio of misfits; gay; character who is flame themed and magic; goofs turned into feels
Row 5: surprise! bad guy not so bad; surprise! it’s secretly sci-fi; bad (VERY GOOD) accents; Justin names his character something dumb; sky high is referenced by name
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To be fair OP, I think we can already mark off ‘the music slaps’
“[Playing Taako] has made me understand a little bit better how taxing it can be when your sexuality is politicized, rather than just your own thing. When who you…and who you want to love…becomes polarizing, it’s very stressful. Being Taako became a lot more complicated once Taako was a canonically gay character, and I’m sure that is true ten-thousandfold for people for whom that’s their actual life.”
Holy shit this though.
Also this:
“I asked Justin how he felt about the positive attention he and his family have received for espousing inclusivity in their work. ‘If I’m being honest, it makes me uncomfortable. I always feel like I’m doing the bare minimum we should be doing as people. When people talk about kindness, it messes me up a little bit because I feel like I’m just treating people the way I was taught to treat people. It’s weird to me that that’s so much of a unicorn, that it’s worth noting.’”
I said it in the past, I’ll say it again now and forever. Clint raised them RIGHT.
I’m a bad cleric player and don’t remember offhand which spells are verbal and which require contact but I enjoy the idea that whenever Merle heals someone he bops them lightly on the head with the Extreme Teen Bible.
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
So Kravitz got this assignment. Figured it’d be easy- 23 year old shopkeeper, shoulda checked in to the astral plain two years ago, but has been running around the continent with a pack of low-level adventurer’s instead. Very rude. Should make for easy pickings, though. He could use a quick one. It’s date night.
But then. Then he actually finds her and, whoops. This isn’t necromancy. Reincarnated isn’t the same as undead. It’s still not exactly Kosher with the Queen’s rules, but. It wasn’t even her idea. Not her choice. She’s got a little kid. She’s also got like six really big kids, all of whom are very anxious to defend her, both verbally and physically.
So he makes them an offer. Quick card game for her soul- a game he’s very much intending to throw. He’s not gonna separate a mom from her kids, he’s not a monster…. But he is an emissary, and while it’d be quicker to just let them off with a warning, he’s gotta make sure his own Mom gets her due respect. Just a quick formality, then he can get home to his boy.
Except.
Except.
Every. Single. One of these fuckers are trying to help her cheat. And that’s fine, he’s literally trying to lose, but it’s really fucking hard to pretend he doesn’t notice.
The young Monk, who was so stoic and eloquent presenting her friend’s case, has devolved into a weird sorority girl persona as she tries desperately to distract him from the little blue tiefling slipping aces under the table. The tielfing, who is giving him a very pouty death glare, is having trouble helping because her not-undead friend’s too busy trying to Mage Hand their wizard’s familiar over Kravitz’s shoulder to take the damn cards.
The wizard’s stare is blank and he’s waving his hand like he expects someone to be there beside him but the only one close is a half orc who’s crouched down like he’s about to make a break for it. Kravitz can smell ozone. He really want’s to tell the guy that reapers can teleport, drop that spell before you hurt your own damn party, but his mouth feels weird and tacky and by his fucking god, what did that cow man put in this tea??
This is why he stopped eating Normal People Food in the first place, Taako has fucking ruined him. Taako is gonna fucking murder him if he comes home high off his ass on date night. That Aasimar standing in the back, menacingly sharpening her big ass sword, might actually manage to murder him if he accidentally wins this card game because he’s too distracted by this band of fucking hooligans. He’s not even gonna get a chance to pet the familiar.
It is a goddess damned miracle he manages to lose the game and make it home in time. When he get’s back to the Astral plane he marches right up to Vax'ildan and tell him this is the absolute last time he’s dealing with a reincarnation case.
[Image ID: A doodle of the Mighty Nein and Kravitz, sitting around a wooden table, doing exactly as described above. Kravitz is looking over his shoulder at the viewer like he’s on the office. End ID.]
i’m finally re-listening to the adventure zone and the fantastic line “the railsplitter passes through the tree like a baseball bat passing through a ghost” finally made me realize that griffin mcelroy is the next douglas adams
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