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[spellslots]

oh

he's a human

[That's an "oh" of realization.]

all of us were a lot older you know, when lucretia took away the ipre and some of the memories of our world we lost a lot

magnus didnt have as much to lose. he was barely into this 20s when we left so there wasnt as much there to fuck with

[He lost the cycles, but that was just time and experience. Magnus was just reset, but the rest of them lost more.

He also doesn't miss Cisco's offer for karaoke, but he's kind of distracted with that realization]

[franciscoramon]

[ Taako's surprise at this revelation is not something that translates, precisely, into text. To Cisco it reads merely like a patient explanation, to a human who is (after all) from a world with only humans, and thus unused to comparing himself to elves and dwarves and other such creatures with longer lifespans. He knows that Lucretia was a part of the crew and human, too, but then she had never lost her memory. And Barry might have been human to start, but hadn't he become a lich? Probably a whole different situation, there. So Magnus would have been the only one of them who was a human at the time that their memories were erased. ]

i guess that makes sense.
if he's younger, there was less erase, and he'd also be better at adapting to a new life in a new place.

[ He knows that youth is supposed to come with a certain degree of resilience, though whether or not that's actually true is hard to say. After all, Cisco's only a little bit into his 20s, himself. This might be one of those things he won't know until he gets there, himself. ]

i'm sure you will still end up being friends
even if you don't restore his memories
i'm sure there's still some part of him that recognizes you.

[spellslots]

all he lost from before the journey is is specific details about our world. like the two suns and shit. nothing about his life

[So, yeah, less to erase. He basically just reverted to a more immature version of himself, but he grew out of that again, with Julia.]

we probably will

when we met again for the first time it was super easy to fall into step with them again even if it didnt make any sense WHY i gave a fuck about those two dipshits

[franciscoramon]

your world had two suns? i never knew that.

think about it this way: you get to reuse all your best jokes.

and you never know. he might choose to remember.
i would, if it were me.

[ Cisco knows that he and Magnus are probably very different types of people, but he thinks that most people would want to know, if a part of their life was missing. No matter what warnings Lup and Lucretia and Taako might manage to get across. ]

[spellslots]

two suns and a purple sky

[He doesn't really talk about home much, because it's gone, and unlike Lup he doesn't have any hope of getting it back.]

even better, i get to reuse HIS jokes. he wont have a clue

[He's not sure what to say about that last part, it feels too risky to put any hope on this, that Magnus will want to remember.]

[franciscoramon]

sounds beautiful.

[ If circumstances were different, Cisco would have already bombarded Taako with a hundred questions about the planet he'd originally come from. But... considering what had happened to it, well. It had seemed like a bad idea. ]

taako, you are positively DEVIOUS.

[spellslots]

it was

[And that's about where he'll leave that particular thread, tonight is shitty enough without delving into "our planet was destroyed" territory.]

fuck yeah i am. id say i could resuse barry and merle's jokes too but they arent good at jokes. at least magnus is funny sometimes

[franciscoramon]

you're welcome to steal any of mine that you remember.

[ Cisco is setting himself up, saying that, and he fully knows it. ]

[spellslots]

[HE SURE HAS.]

oh

oh no

have you been trying to make jokes the whole time we've been friends???

oh boy

this is awkward, huh

[franciscoramon]

HA! but you see the joke is on YOU!

little did you know our whole friendship has been one huge elaborate long-form performance art joke.

bet you didn't see that coming.

[ Okay... the actual humor in that may be somewhat obscure but Cisco is trying. ]

[spellslots]

cisco

im too drunk for this

[franciscoramon]

right.
my bad.
i was just kidding - obvs our friendship isn't a joke.

i did hear a good one the other day tho

[spellslots]

okay super because tehre were a LOT of words there

i have a feeling im gonna hear the joke regardless of what i say next

hit me

[franciscoramon]

what's the difference between a dapper guy on a bicycle and a frumpy dude on a unicycle?

a tire

:D

[ It's terrible, and he fully knows it. ]

[spellslots]

[It takes Taako at least a minute to find an appropriate response, but finally:]

[franciscoramon]

[ That prompts an actual, out-loud laugh from Cisco. ]

you're very welcome

[spellslots]

im feeding that joke to fisher

[franciscoramon]

...that's fair.

[spellslots]

id still have to know it but at least i could spare the rest of the world

this is my heroic fuckign sacrifice

[franciscoramon]

😂

truly inspiring stuff

your selflessness shall not be in vain

[spellslots]

this is the joke version of taking an arrow for someone

for the world

i mean i guess im gonna have to save it ANYWAY might as well throw this in

[franciscoramon]

might as well, indeed.

so does this mean i should tell you all the other excruciatingly bad jokes i know so you can purge the world of them all at once?

text; @lightemup

[spellslots]

ohh nooo taako dropped his phone in the water he says to stop texting him forever bye

[franciscoramon]

wow, what timing, how convenient........

SUSPICIOUSLY convenient............

[spellslots]

i dont know why that would be convienet i haev no idea what your conversation was about ebcause i was no in it