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sometimes family isn’t two kids and a mom and a dad.
sometimes family is one (1) boy detective, the grim reaper who secretly is a massive dork, a cynical elf wizard who pretends he’s not soft for his whole family, a functional 30 year old man, the 30 year old’s dog army, an elderly beach-living dwarf who runs a summer camp, the beach dwarf’s son and daughter, a gnome pilot, a distressed and exhausted leader of a nonprofit on the moon, a grim reaper who wears blue jeans, his grim reaper wife with a penchant for fire spells, a dragonborn rogue who likes doing flips, her half orc wife who likes doing flips, the actual goddess of death, the actual goddess of fate, a random dude who worked on the moon and fired the 30 year old and the beach dwarf and the elf wizard out of a cannon, and two to three cats owned by the grim reaper dork and the elf wizard.
sometimes garfield shows up.
Lup Taaco’s full name is Chalupa. Yes this is 100% real and no I don’t make the rules.
continuing on my "Lup and Barry get married every cycle and the ensuing weddings encompass a very wide range of tones" bullshit: consider, if you will, a cycle where they mean to get married early on, they really do. but the hunt for the Light is just so intense, and the time flies by so fast, that they still haven't done it by the time the end is closing in...
and in the final fight for the Light, a little under a month out from the Hunger's arrival, Lup is grievously wounded. she lies in Barry's arms, bleeding out, and with her dying breath, she whispers her final wish:
"reanimate my corpse and put her in a nice dress for the wedding"
and who is Barry to turn down a dying wish from his wife, let alone a dying wish that's that fucking funny, so Barry loyally throws some wedding plans and some necromancy spells together so that Zombie Lup can attend the ceremony. her soul doesn't reside in her body anymore because no one was willing to burn the spell slots on True Resurrection (it's only a month out from resets, come on), but she's very well-behaved as Barry very sincerely declares his eternal love and wiggles this cycle's ring onto her finger.
Taako hates it so much. the energy in the studio is incredibly uncomfortable. Lucretia takes a bunch of photographs of every moment so that Lup can enjoy it later upon respawn. most of the crew eventually looks back and recognizes this instance as the start of the slippery slope that lead to lichdom, but Lup and Barry refuse to acknowledge how fucking weird it was. they will treasure those pictures forever
Honestly Griffin McElroy and the boys' acting has totally destroyed me with this latest episode. The implications of the end scenes are so messed up and I really hope we see them come into play later on, but they also give us a lot of insight into what's happened in the other arcs. Taako was already messed up from believing he had killed all those people in the last episode of his cooking show, but Barry's death would've made his guilt weigh down so much more. When he was running away from the ruins of his show, all he would've been thinking about was how much bad luck and death he brought to the world. To him Barry's death was impersonal as he didn't remember him, but the sight of a man falling to his death in front of him was the first coherent memory, the only one that was real in this world and not the filled in ones from Lucretia. So the deaths of all those people from his cooking would've made him remember that man falling to his death in front of him, and the weight of his still warm wand in his hand, the smoking tip pointed at the figure dropping away from him with a pained smile on his face. Lucretia may have thought she was setting Taako up with a happy life of stardom, but the whole time he was weighed down with the guilt of murdering a stranger for some unknown reason. And when he saw Barry in the first arc, there would've been a sensation of fear and guilt weighing on him, despite him not knowing why. Fisher would've blurred the face of the man he killed in order to block his old memories, but the sight of Barry's face still dredged up horror, fear and longing. Longing for a man he once saw as a brother, but who he now associates with the feeling of metaphorical blood on his hands and an empty place next to him. And Merle, every time he saw Davenport in the Bureau, would hear a soft choking echo of a man desperately asking who Merle was. Who he was. Davenport's very utterance of his own name initially brings a swell of emotion that blocks off Merle's airways, ears ringing with a desperate cry of "I'm Davenport!" But Fisher's power quiet end the whispers every time, and Merle is left with a hollow feeling that once crept up on him every time he sat at his beach at dusk, mind tricking him into seeing six figures dancing along the shore, chasing one another with happy shrieks as they hadn't done in so long. Merle doesn't feel guilt like Taako did. Does. But he feels a hollow sensation in his chest where it used to be filled to the brim with joy and love. Worst of all was Magnus, who knew what Lucretia had done before his mind was wiped. Each time he saw the Director, there would be an initial sense of betrayal, a world less scream of despair billowing up inside him, begging her to stop! Didn't she know what would happen? It would all end, they wouldn't be together anymore, Lucretia don't let us go, don't leave me alone Lucretia p l e a s e. The sight of the voidfish, beautiful and ethereal, would soothe the turmoil of emotions inside him, bringing him a sense of warmth and comfort. If only for a little while. Magnus was a happy sort of guy, but there were days when he felt like his skin didn't fit, that the creaks in his bones shouldn't be there. That his time with Julia, his beloved wife, didn't seem real, none of this did. And he would look into the sky with longing, feeling a sensation of the ground beneath him gently rocking, a cool breeze ruffling his hair as the heavens spread out beneath him. And each one felt sorrow when they saw the harsh lines at the corner of the Director's mouth (she should be smiling, she should be happy, we have to protect her), and crinkles at the corners of her tired eyes (little bookworm, so strong and clever, she needs some rest, she always does). But they also felt overwhelming joy when she smiled and laughed, her tired and old visage melting away to reveal a fresh-faced girl who loved to explore the work around her (our journal keeper, our friend, our little Lucretia). But then the power of the voidfish would crash over them, and they would absently smile back at the woman who loved them more than anything in the world, who had to hold herself back from cracking goofs and hugging them tightly. Who gazed into their aging faces and only found emptiness looking back.
The cycle of emotions I went through as Lup sat Taako down to talk to him was crazy. Like liches was the first thing I thought of, but then I got excited at the thought of maybe Lup was asking him to be her best man at her and Barry's wedding. Then when she asked for Taako's help my mind flashed to his mastery of transmutation magic she could use to aid her in getting pregnant through the cycles and that's why she was hesitant to put forward the notion as it would've been highly dangerous and unknown if it could actually work. And then she revealed liches and I felt true fear wash over me as I realised that we are nearing Lup's death. This show will be the end of me I swear.
Imagine after the Hunger has been banished and the world saved, everyone simultaneously agreed that they need time away from it all. The world will never know what they did, and they're fine with that. The boys just want some time by themselves to remember what they were once like, and how to blend their past selves with their current selves. There's lots of things they couldn't remember that they could do, and a lot of loved ones they forgot and they need that time to just take it all in and accept it. There's an end scene where, in remembrance of the fantastic beach episode we just had, the entire crew (Lup included because I need to have my girl back alive), as well as team sweet flips and Ango, just go to a remote beach for a while. There they can reconnect and forgive one another, and be with their loved ones. Lup and Barry can finally be together after so many years, and Lucretia can finally chat with the boys like the best friends they are. At the end of the day, Taako sits out in the waves on his board, and teaches Angus to surf. It's peaceful and tranquil, and everyone is whole and happy. (And they all end up living right next to each other in a town they founded for the BoB members to integrate back into society. Familiar faces like Ren (who decided to travel after being freed from the bubble) and Lucas (who is forgiven by Lucretia) even show up and settle down. And the tres horny boys settle down in their house alongside Taako's Kravitz, and their adopted son Angus. All is well.)
lilygabriel replied to your post “With all the amazing hype about Lup being trans (bless you Griffin),...”
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What if she fed her old name to the voidfish once she found out what it could do?
That would be a hella interesting concept. The thing is that there's no one left to know her birth name aside from her and Taako since their home world is kind of destroyed. There's literally no one left to know her original name unless she told the red robe crew, but with her and Taako's secretive nature that seems unlikely until later in the story when they're all close and comfortable with one another.
It would be an interesting concept if Lup was a little relieved when their world was destroyed as there was no one to remind her of who she once was. The crew seems like they're going to become like a family, so I bet there was no more reminders of her birth as a male, and therefore Lup can happily live out the rest of her life as a girl elf unquestioned by anyone.
With all the amazing hype about Lup being trans (bless you Griffin), I’ve seen a few people question what Lup’s birth name was prior to her transition.
The only way I want to ever know that information is through a scene where Lup and Taako grab every offending piece of evidence with her old name on it, any other objects that tied her to her unfortunate birth as a male that makes her uncomfortable, as well as a giant sign with her old name on it and just set it all ablaze.
Like the only way I wanna know about the name Lup left behind when she truly became who she was is in a giant bonfire as the twins dance around shouting her true name and setting off magic missiles that spell out her name in giant glittering letters in the night sky.
That is all I want out of that scenario.
With all the amazing hype about Lup being trans (bless you Griffin), I've seen a few people question what Lup's birth name was prior to her transition. The only way I want to ever know that information is through a scene where Lup and Taako grab every offending piece of evidence with her old name on it, any other objects that tied her to her unfortunate birth as a male that makes her uncomfortable, as well as a giant sign with her old name on it and just set it all ablaze. Like the only way I wanna know about the name Lup left behind when she truly became who she was is in a giant bonfire as the twins dance around shouting her true name and setting off magic missiles that spell out her name in giant glittering letters in the night sky. That is all I want out of that scenario.