#jocasta taz

[jocasta-nightstrider]

You ever think about how Kravitz Nightstrider, The Grim Reaper and Hunter of The Risen Dead, and his paramour Jocasta Nightstrider, once one of the Seven Saviours of the Universe turned Fate-Defying Warrior, sound like they would be such cool fucking characters.

And then you listen to the series and they're both absolute fucking dorks who use dumb stupid fake accents that they're both really into for the other person and they bicker about doing the dishes and they have a fluffy little pomeranian together and they fell in love over tentacle hentai and drunk pottery class and have been happily together for over 10 years as of the sequel. And they're one of the best fictional couples in existence also

[somelazyassartist]

Is Jocasta Nightstrider Taako from Tv????

by which i mean is Jocasta and Taako is the same character?? This whole time i was under the impression Jocasta was a completely separate character?? who is Jocasta????

Howdy!! Jocasta Nightstrider and "Taako Taaco" are the same character but at very different points in their life!! "Taako" is who we see them as throughout Balance and the following 9 years after Story and Song that the liveshows happen throughout. However during the sequel, The Zone of Adventure: Imbalance (a 3-part miniseries that takes place 10 years after Story and Song), "Taako" goes through a really severe identity crisis and generally is having a Really Bad Time in regards to the overwhelming social isolation and stripping of his personhood that comes with Everybody in Every Universe Everywhere treating him as some godly savior and not as a real person.

There's a lot of development that happens but basically his response is to go through an extremely trans-coded character arc where he reclaims his life and body as his own to choose what to do with instead of continuing to let other people's expectations for him force him to be somebody that he doesn't like being. He starts back from zero, letting go of his wizarding days and starting a clean slate as a Ranger. He changes his name (now going by Jocasta Nightstrider), voice (taking up a faux-Shakespearean accent), how he dresses (donning a shimmery purple cloak), and sets off into the world as a completely changed individual to go adventure again, hoping to help those in need and do good in the world in a way that he wouldn't have ever been able to when he was chained down by his old identity.

So yeah! They're the same person, "Taako" is basically Jocasta's deadname, and Jo's just a much happier and healthier version of themself :] I think it was handled really wonderfully and Jocasta's my absolute favorite iteration of the character, their journey of reinventing themself and healing from their past trauma came at a time I really needed it so it's a character and story that I'm particularly attached to, if you couldn't tell haha.

If you wanted to watch it (it's very short, only 3 episodes), it was just recently uploaded to all the podcast sites alongside where the rest of The Adventure Zone airs as a direct continuation, but I personally think the best way to watch it is from their YouTube channel where it was originally uploaded 2 years ago, it has video and it's really entertaining to actually see everyone playing their characters with each other! (Edit: here's the link :])

[fuckin-flip-wizard]

I wanna do something bigger with this concept eventually but I was relistening to The Planet's Suite and thought the 7 songs might fit the 7 Birds, so I did just a little sketch while I was playing it just for fun :]

[jocasta-nightstrider]

IMBALANCE PODCAST VERSION REAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

next taz campaign is a shorter mini-series called taz ootraspace (ultraspace? they keep saying it like ootraspace) using the marvel multiverse rpg. it will be based on/ a follow-up to a comic that they wrote about babysitters, dm'd by clint and with special guests kate welch and gabe hicks!

after this week they will be putting up taz imbalance (ETA: NOT DADLANDS, MY BAD), two hootenannies (the third one and the show from nycc), and then this campaign begins 11/30.

[yourbelgianthings]

travis: we’ve never had a ranger on the show before besides jocasta nightstrider

zoox in the corner: 😭

[junepegbert]

had to ask the ever important question “what if jocasta was out on a rainy day?”

[mkzmerryfriend]

Hey quick question, why did Taako choose to name his alter ego the same as Oedipus’s mother/wife?

[ethersierra]

"other than jocasta nightstrider i don't think we've had a ranger on TAZ before"

does zoox anthellae mean nothing to you....

[twistedeveryway]

finally catching up on taz vs dracula and I can't believe there was a fucking Jocasta Nightstrider namedrop

[liltaz-asatreat]

OH MY GOD GUYS

There's a cooking show in Faerûn called the Great Faerûnian Bake Off, and after Story and Song, among all the other information that got put on blast, some of the recipes the crew had from home and other places they visited on their journey got put on blast too. So some of the foods the contestants are tasked to make since then are foods that you would find on one of those other worlds

Except, they fuck them up like how apparently no one knew how to peel an avocado or knew what a fucking s'more was

Taako takes full offense to how they're butchering the recipes and getting things wrong, so he decides he's going to infiltrate as a contestant or something, idk, I should mention at this point, I don't know anything about the Great British Bake Off except that it's a British cooking show where apparently someone peeled an avocado with a knife like a potato and that one post about how they gentrified s'mores to the point where it wasn't even passable of being an actual s'more. Anyway, he infiltrates the show, and the thing they have to make is one of his own recipes, so obviously he kicks ass, and he corrects everyone on everything, and the judges are like, you're wrong, also, how would you even know all this, who the fuck are you, Jocasta Nightstrider? And then Taako rips off his cloak and mustache, and everyone loses their God damn mind because it's Taako, you know, from TV? On their own not a TV show because TV hasn't been invented yet in that plane, and idk how to end this post, I need to go to bed, but this idea came at me full throttle and i NEEDED to get this out there because it was too funny to keep inside my sleep deprived brain fjfkahflshdlajdl

You're welcome

[jocasta-nightstrider]

I MANAGED TO FINISH THIS LITERALLY JUST IN TIME BUT!!!! HAPPY 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO THE ZONE OF ADVENTURE: IMBALANCE!!!!!!!!! EVERYONE GO WATCH IT IT'S SO GOOD!!!!! (Click for better quality)

Prints of this (35% off until December 1st) | please reblog if you like, thank you!

[somelazyassartist]

you could draw the first faggy guy that comes to mind. fagging it up, mayhaps?

I was so so tempted to draw Edward but. Jocasta my favorite fictional fag forever and ever 💜💜💜💜💜💜

(sorry I. Still have a bit of a cold and drawing is hard right now lol)

[fuckin-flip-wizard]

Collection of quotes that hm. Don't Seem Very Cisgender To Me

And that's just dialogue (and the only ones I can remember where to cite them from, I probably missed some) that's not even counting actions and above-the-game stuff about him lmao

[lemon-juice-thief]

anyway justin you’ve hurt me with this. as a classics student you’ve hurt me (affectionate)

[barry-j-blupjeans]

i didn't wanna add to the last post but please just imagine with me,,, taako, as Jocasta Nightstrider, has just been taking random jobs for a while, n it's been going pretty great! then he sees a posting with the exact wording of "this is the last job you'll ever need to take" and he figures, well, this turned out pretty well last time, so why not. meets up w them, a few pretty high-level wizards, not nearly as high level as taako Jocasta of course. and he's like "alright, what's the sitch"

and the wizards are like

"we are going to kill taako. y'know? from the fish song?"

and taako is losing it but jocasta is very cool, very collect, is like "sure hell yeah" because of COURSE taako isn't gonna fucking tell them. so he's with them for MONTHS plotting out his own death and setting up where and when this will take place. going through all their failsafes. giving weird, cryptic but helpful advice about taako's current life, and then framing it as "oh I heard it in story and song duh"

"I don't remember taako being in relations with three reapers-"

"well, you musta missed it bc I heard it clear as day!"

and it all just... comes together at the dramatic scene where they "corner" taako. and they're like "we have to wait, jocasta said they'd be here and they really want to kill taako"

and taako pulls up his hood and does his funny little voice like

"you FOOLS. i AM and always HAVE BEEN jocasta nightstrider!"

and then he kills them, yknow, for the bit

[sanvitheartificer]

i do very much want to write the “outsider perspective Jocasta Nightstrider” fic where Taako Jocasta Nightstrider joins a, like, third level adventuring party as a ranger. There’s a betting pool about whether it’s actually Taako -- at least one party member is absolutely convinced that he is, and at least one party member is absolutely convinced that he isn’t. On the one hand, Taako’s historically terrible at maintaining ANY kind of secret identity, but on the other hand, Taako commits to the bit, and he appreciates a good betting pool. He has a gruesome backstory. He’s given Jocasta some face scars, since, as someone very kindly pointed out on my other imbalance post, no magic means no disguise self, so may as well lean in to the hideous-ness, right? but it’s still fashionable, obvi. sometimes he fakes being bloodied or fainting. Taako absolutely gets bored of a fight as some point and just nukes it from orbit with a ninth level spell, and invents an extremely buckwild story about what happened there. Maybe parts of it turn out to be true. He disappears literally every night, even when they’re deep in the cave of the evil dragon or whatever, to go watch some fantasy soaps with Kravitz and eat Thai. He does NOT invite any of this new party along. At some point he pretends both Garyl and Dupree are his animal companions. At some point the party runs into someone Taako knows who is not in on the bit, which is an extremely confusing few minutes for all involved. Taako refuses to admit anything. I’d say Angus but he’d figure it out instantly and probably play along so, like, Barry, maybe? Barry could be extremely funny.

In the end Taako’s revealed not by anything obvious but by some inane little detail. I’m thinking like, Cloak of the fucking Manta Ray level bullshit. which is of course at an emotionally fragile moment for the party and FUCK Taako didn’t mean to start caring about ANYONE ELSE but he does. kind of. maybe like these loser babies. he obliterates the big bad in like one hit, losing his bet with Kravitz. (Listen, i don’t know why Kravitz knows about the magic this time, but he does for some reason, idk). The one person who vehemently didn’t think it was Taako is still in denial. their alternative explanation are very fun though taako enjoys encouraging them even more now.