pc: magnus

[chaoticlootral]

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[ruffboi]

No, I didn't mean -

[He goes red, too! God!]

Not that part! The rest of it!

[chaoticlootral]

What do you want to know then?

[Taako's really gonna make him drag it out of him like a bad tooth, huh.]

Yours sounded better. I mean, murder, sure, but also McDonald's and bear powers? Mine just sorta sucked, and I found out I was someone's, like, forth boyfriend.

[ruffboi]

[Yeah, and Magnus just isn't really willing to do that. Even though he feels like he deserves to know, and needs to know?

But he can't really make himself try to force Taako to talk about it. In part because he knows that if Taako decides to, he can make that blow up in his face.]

Oof! Sounds rough. Is that asshole here? I could punch him.

[His heart's not really into the punching threat, though.]

[chaoticlootral]

[He'll cough it up eventually, he always spills these things. He's actually a much worse secret keeper than Magnus is? But he has to get to it on his own. He could tell Magnus was sorta fishing for some death deets there and he resents it.

At the "asshole" question he pauses, tilting his head while he thinks it over.]

Um. Not exactly. There's, uuuuuuh, his 15-year-old self, which really brings up a whole other host of issues.

[ruffboi]

Oh! Him?

[He says this so skeptically. Woof. Getting judged for your love life by Magnus.]

Yeah, that dude was in my game, too. Kind of short! And got murdered. Didn't know short guys who get murdered was your type!

[He's trying to blow past it, because yes, he would really like the deets? And kind of resents Taako openly joking about it but refusing to tell him? And yet. Just going to focus on this hot goss instead.]

[chaoticlootral]

Shut up, I didn't ask for a straight opinion on the whole deal. I was under a lot of stress at the time, and sometimes your brain under pressure makes, like, insane decisions! Six foot and over only from now on. Fuck!

[He was short and got murdered in Taako's game too so! Apparently it is his type.]

Just a fling anyway. Like, um, at summer camp.

[ruffboi]

Yeah, I get it. Well, if it helps, I've been telling that little dude a lot of stuff about his time in Reap! Last time we talked I mentioned the big wedding. Maybe it was a wedding for his five boyfriends!

[chaoticlootral]

He said-- [Starting to crack himself up? With his own fucking joke?] He said he's only met one blonde in his life! And I was like, what? That's insane? Do you not meet people? Have you never had friends? Do you not go outside? Crazy! Who doesn't know any blonde people?

[ruffboi]

What a little nerd!

[Laughing, too, like he's forgotten he's still upset.]

So. The people here from your game - are they okay? What do we think about 'em?

[chaoticlootral]

Eh, they're okay.

[That's Taako code for they are now some of his very best friends? Sad? Magnus would probably know this though.]

[ruffboi]

[Yes, he does. He mainly just wanted to know if someone who had it in for Taako was like. Still here. But he knows that Taako means he trusts them.]

Got it. From my game, it's just Akira, and he doesn't remember. But he's a good kid.

[chaoticlootral]

And, uh, me. Who also doesn't remember.

[Awkward.]

I didn't know anyone there. Which was almost better, y'know? I'm not saying-- I'm [why does he sound he like has a gun to his head when he's trying to say something even slightly sincere.] It's good that you're here.

[ruffboi]

[Yikes. Something very bad happened in Thot, huh?]

I wouldn't want to not know anybody. It's not like I want my friends in danger, but I needed you there.

[chaoticlootral]

Don't get sappy in Week 0, bubale.

[Embarrassing for everyone!]

[ruffboi]

Yeah, well. Too bad. I'm sappy.

[And you were sappy first, you dick!]

[chaoticlootral]

Well knock it off.

[He doesn't want him sappy going into! the bad news portion of this episode.]

And you're not wrong. It's not like I did great on my own. But it doesn't matter now, because I'm here, right? And I can fix it from here.

[ruffboi]

[Okay. Good. He can handle that, even though Taako admitted to nothing.]

We can fix it.

[chaoticlootral]

Don't get too confident. Powers that be love that ironic shit to bite you in the ass!

[But he does feel a bit better! Anyway, he admitted nothing, and explained even less. So. That's great.]

Um - if you need some peeps to back you up, they're Dick, Wuxian, Escha and Tonbo, by the way. I told them you were chill.

[ruffboi]

Got it. I've met most of them by now.

[Yes, he admitted and explained nothing, but he was a teensey bit vulnerable, so it's fine.]

And I'm plenty confident.

[chaoticlootral]

Yeah-- seems like almost everyone from the others, uh, are super confident. Kind of a weird theme.

[ruffboi]

Yeah, well, they're all probably confident for dumbshit reasons, but I'm confident for great reasons.

[Shrugging.]

Seems like for most of us, we won, in the end. But you guys, not so much?

[chaoticlootral]

Did you win though? I mean, you're still here . . .

[He. He doesn't answer the question.]

[ruffboi]

Good point! Very good point! Yeah, it was more like - they let us go home?

[However.]

[chaoticlootral]

And yet.

[Gestures to Magnus. Who's standing in front of him?]

Maybe this is the, um, All Stars series.

[ruffboi]

Ooh. Think we're fan favorites?

[Though if they are. . .]

That means there must also be some All Star shit-stirrers around.