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i thought all the stuff with dead people was necromancy?

[ Oh no, how can one colon and one parenthesis be so sad? ]

maybe it'll be easier to learn the second time? like remembering something rather than going through it brand new?

nah its like

shit its like mega transmutation

turn a dead thing into a not dead thing

resurrection is also a healer thing not a necromancer thing, that's undead shit, you know?

it has been, before i remembered it was kinda weird how good i was at magic bceause im kinda stupid

i guess that makes sense

[ It doesn't, but if Cisco didn't really get the arbitrary differences between schools of magic when Taako explained them stone cold sober, he doubts that he'll get them if Taako tries to explain more now. ]

be a useful thing to know how to do, as long as it wouldn't make the person an evil zombie or break the world or whatever.

[ If those are the side effects, it's just not worth it. ]

hey, you're not stupid!

there's a difference between not being an academically-inclined dude and being stupid.

that couple slobbering all over each other at the bar? stupid.
you? not stupid.

Edited 2017-07-17 08:37 (UTC)

no zombies! but it only works on the recently dead i cant just like bring back a skeleton, that'd be fucking wild

shhhh, listen. im just living my truth. i do a LOT of stupid shit

like a worrying amount

how recently? just out of curiosity
i mean is it basically just magic cpr?

alright alright
if you insist
as long as you promise this is a proud owning-it thing and not a low self-esteem thing in a disguise

10 days but it takes 8 hours to prep but i can do that any time

i've never had low self esteem in my life

so way way more than just cpr, got it.

true.
i kind of like that about you.
i mean i'd still like you if you suddenly had low self-esteem but
i like that you like the way you are.

[ He doesn't need to be drunk to get sappy, welcome to being friends with Cisco Ramon. ]

that's good because i think i fucked up like at least one friendship this week so it would be shitty if you didn't like me either

[wait fuck he didn't mean to say that]

????
what happened, taako?

i told lup what lucretia did to my memories

shes really mad

like really really mad

[ Well, shit. ]

none of that's your fault.
she was going to find out one way or another.
better to just tell her than to hide it and for her to find out some awful way.

[ None of which changes the fact that Lup is angry (rightfully so), or makes the situation any better for anyone involved. ]

i know it's still messed up
i'm just saying YOU didn't mess it up

i had to make a fucking decision and of course i chose lup, i always will but i dunno if she's ever gonna forgive lucretia or if luce is ever gonna forgive me for fucking this up

i don't know. you guys have been through a lot together, right?
maybe they just need a little time.

and look i know it's not my business but lucretia better not give you any shit for being honest about what was done to you
she just better not.

[ Cisco confines himself to just saying that, and leaving it there. Taako's upset because he made Lup mad at Lucretia, probably not a good idea to pile on by also acting too mad at Lucretia. But, well, Cisco's feeling just a little bit protective. ]

its like

i feel shitty for her cause it was just us and we were cool and now lup is here and its not cool and im always gonna choose lup but thats gotta suck, right? to be the third person

[Taako isn't great at his own feelings, but he's perceptive when it comes to other people's.]

yeah.
but i feel like if you're gonna be the third person, being third person to two people who are as close as you and lup is like, the best of possibilities
it's not personal. lucretia's gotta know that.

i'm sure things'll be cool again.
you're all here now and alive and remember all of each other, and everything else is just backstory, right?

[ Pretty optimistic take, there, Cisco. ]

or the worst cause there's never any fucking chance of coming first

its not backstory

none of this has happened for them yet. if id kept my mouth shut we couldve kept pretending i was from some future cycle and everything was chill

yeah, maybe.

but that wouldn't be fair to you, would it? keeping all that in?
i've talked to both of them and they're both pretty sharp, and also they both know you super well. you wouldn't've been able to keep it going indefinitely.

ugh

[That's it, that's the text.

Which roughly translates to Taako knowing that Cisco is right but admitting it would take too many words.]

im realy drunk

i lost track of how many shots after the tenth

more than ten shots is officially too many.

[ If it were someone else he'd ask the obvious question, but he's got a feeling that 'are you okay' is gonna seem like a complicated one to Taako for a few reasons, so he substitutes: ]

you need anything?

nah im good for at least 5 more

i need a second house where i can go when shit is weird at the apartment

[That's not something Cisco can help with, unfortunately.]

please don't give yourself alcohol poisoning, taako.

[ Cisco knows that saying that may just make Taako even more determined to prove him wrong, but... he doesn't know what else TO say. ]

shit, man, i didn't even think about that.
that's gotta be one tense ambiance over there.

its cool were cool

it suuuuucks. i know i could crash at eddies or whatever but then he'd do that thing he does where hes like nice and concerned and gentle and shit and i cant do that right now

what's that?
i think... yep, just got a vision!
a real certified metahuman vision, of future taako tomorrow morning, muttering to himself about "I only wish that past Taako had had a glass or two of water along with his shots. And maybe like a slice of bread or something."

[ He's pretty sure Taako is not in the mood to be amused, but it's Cisco's best coping technique. He might not get why having Eddie fuss over him and be gentle to him would be a bad option, but he is not going to pry open that particular can of worms tonight. ]

dude, you know i'd offer to let you crash at my place if my place were not also, in fact, eddie's place.
if it's really that bad maybe you can crash with bryn or clark or something?

or we can devise a cunning and overcomplicated plan to trap lucretia and lup in a room together and we don't let them out until they've talked it out and hugged.

Edited 2017-07-17 10:09 (UTC)

im turning this napkin into a lsice of bread if i diethats on you

[The vision thing was kind of funny though.]

i know that might seem liek the worlds greatest idea but lup and anger are not good combos, at all, ever.

hey how fuckingn weird is it living with a dude yuve got a crush on?

[Great subject change. Nailed it.]

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