[Hey, Taako managed to survive. Only because he prefaced it with the warning he was extremely gay, but still. Humming while he thinks.]

Close, uh, sure. Only because they've managed to cling onto me like stubborn barnacles on the ship of my fame and refuse to be cleaved off.

[Once he's got the chicken back, pushing garlic cloves and a knife over to Wei Wuxian ] Mince that. They don't do magic-- well. Merle can, supposedly, he's just very bad at it all the time. And they aren't allowed to cook, I'm the cook. They'd just mess it up. I've tried to teach Magnus a little, I mean, he's not totally useless, just like you said. Heavy-handed.