#Justin plays Taako (even pre-Stolen Century IIRC?) as having loved Lup SO MUCH

[madqueenalanna]

okay i'm doing a taz balance relisten and i know griffin didn't have so much planned out at the first arc but in retrospective it's SOOOO good. i'm most of the way through "gerblins" btw

taako being the only one perceptive enough to notice the skeleton outside the vault and taking a moment before telling his comrades about it. merle trying to grasp the umbrella and being thrown backwards "as if it has rejected you". taako being able to claim it. merle sensing that it contains Every school of magic within in (such an impossible-sounding feat!) bc it was crafted by such a powerful arcanist. the skeleton looking up at taako when he takes the umbrella, as if to give consent, before crumbling into dust

it's just. knowing that was lup's body, knowing lup is in the umbrella, in retrospect it just fits so nicely into the way their rolls went. it called out to taako, and taako answered, bc he didn't know it but that was his twin in there, his other half, the person he loves most in the world who was stolen from him