#taco ii1

[pluto-batteryacid]

she brain is still loadimg <3

[circusclowne]

redraw!

[sketchi23]

[1-h4d-53x-w1th-urmom]

What if 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 taco and 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 mepad 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝓮𝓭 all over each other???

[dailypickleii]

Why do you shio Paco? Is there any reason or do you just find them cute? (Im on the ladder)

wowww i haven't touched this place in a while. maybe i should try doing this again to try and get me out of art block because i am SUFFERINGGG

anyway i USUALLY ship paco in an ii1 way. so, very childish and sweet and innocent stuff. taco being comfortable and vulnerable (still hiding of course, but she's allowed to express a sillier version of herself which is still a real side of her) and pickle being young and crushing on his best friend. it's like puppy love to me :)

i also really love the idea of post-canon paco. not that i believe it will happen, but i like to think about pickle and taco making up one day in the future and trying again as friends. and loversssss because they're more mature now and they know what they want

there's a lot of tragedy you can find in paco but that's honestly not often my domain (i have friends who adore the sadder side of it though, and i like that about it too!). i just tend to prefer drawing them cute and happy and with everything resolved, even if i haven't come to a conclusion as to HOW they'd resolve things lol

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it's either very clever, very funny, or both, that they had balloon being very obviously manipulative (and bad at it) at the forefront, and then taco being very covertly manipulative (and good at it) in the background

[sloppypears-ash-sg]

What a cool Final 5 (II Remake)

Wow, what a cool Final 5 - I hope they're all healthy and safe - oh wait.

This is an edit of the picture to show how these guys are currently doing - hope they're alright now.

[oscconfessions]

ii1 au where taco strings along suitcase instead of pickle and after the reveal suitcase is all like "holy baggage claim... TWO tacos :3"

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[mr-payjay]

big taco analysis ramble i did at like 3 in the morning last night

it's hard to know if Taco cares about Pickle or not because the letters are "instructions" which possibly implies they're cold. reaching for the portal and wanting a second chance could mean she wants to have another chance to win. repeating the same thing she did in s1 with Mic now could mean she just tries to repeatedly manipulate people over and over. it's difficult! because she is so. so. sooooooo closed off. she has lied so many times to so many people including herself to the point she has absolutely no fucking clue who she is other than "bad". she has aspd too so she doesn't feel much remorse. but at the same time she still cares. but!! that goes against her Badness. which she believes in. she "knows" she is bad, she's always believed she's a bad person and that's the only consistent trait she believes in. so she tries to avoid thinking about Pickle.

the closest she's ever gotten to loving herself was around mine your own business. because she started to care about Mic and hadn't realized it yet. but she didn't want Mic to Leave her. "I could stand to be a bit more open." she was actually trying to change her behavior this time, to ensure Mic stayed, even if it was subconscious (likely on purpose, in a way. trying to avoid Thinking about it because she doesn't like caring about people so she ignores those feelings and once again LIES to herself!!!!).

see what's so weird is that. at a first glance. it just seems like Taco is repeating the cycle. she teams up with a partner, she exerts control over them in some way or another, she befriends them to get their trust, and then eventually it fails. but the way she handled Pickle and Mic is. so so different.

with Pickle, her whole thing was advertising herself! she was trying to show themselves as a cute duo by being sweet friends with him, being silly and stupid for the audience, and controlling him very subtly mostly by heavily helping with certain challenges to keep him in the game or manipulating the audience rather than him. the big thing was Fake Friendship. and in the end, Taco left him. as she was planning to all along. it was a very self centered plan where Pickle was a sidekick to her that she used as a way to get further in, then dropped the moment she didn't need him anymore. doesn't mean she doesn't care about him though. but that's for later (if i can figure out how to word it).

now, with Microphone, her situation was completely the opposite in many ways. she COULDNT advertise herself! she put herself out there as much as possible in ii1 but in ii2 her entire existence is in hiding. she is not falsely befriending Mic to please an audience, but rather gaining her trust to use her as a puppet in a show she is no longer able to participate in. the way she controls Mic is much more aggressive than with Pickle. she's quite an angry person, it seems. anyway as you know, she tries to demand Mic do certain things (even if she is uncomfortable with them) and will reprimand her if she refuses to follow her plans. she kind of assumes everyone is stupider than her, including Mic at first. when Microphone manipulates Balloon using a better strategy than Taco had set up, she's impressed! she always expects that she's the smartest person in the room, Tricking everyone around her. this is part of why she sees herself as Bad while also being Superior. smarter and sneakier and cut out for manipulation.

anyway as time goes on she grows to actually trust Mic and see her as almost an equal, to the point she is willing to budge on things she would've never even considered changing before (such as being more open, actually listening to Mic's ideas, etc). she still struggles a lot with overstepping boundaries, such as in hatching the plan where she promises Microphone she won't physically hurt anybody and then immediately breaks that promise as they get on the ship because it's "necessary". it's not something Mic would understand, she thinks. she is just trying to get Mic further into the game. Taco doesn't seem to see Mic's discomfort either because she's very self centered, even if it is FOR Mic. Taco is trying to get Mic some praise and appreciation and a chance to win now. and that's what changes, that's what's odd. before this, she didn't actually care if Mic was getting Praised by the other contestants or not. she was manipulating and controlling her as best as she could, on her own. she didn't really care as long as she could get further in. and i would have a different view on this IF she didn't start talking about how good it must feel for Mic. because you could say it's so that the contestants wouldn't vote out Mic. but Taco didn't actually say anything about that. she was hoping Mic would be happy. she made sure the mission went as well as possible so that Microphone was clapped for and so Taco could, at the same time, feel good about herself for doing everything right and getting everything done Properly. her plan was Better than Mic's. it did everything right. they were both on the right path and now Mic was going to be happy and thank her for being oh-so-smart and would listen to her even more from now on. naturally that did not happen. Taco Wants to win. she wants the prize so, so badly. but in s1, she wanted to win alone. in s2, she wanted to win *with* Microphone.

[checked her for npd at this point and found it to be positive]

Microphone is someone who could actually be Taco's friend, someone who Maybe, would Listen to her Genuinely, and Want her around for once. Microphone wanted her to be more open and so she said she would be. she's far off from being vulnerable with anyone just yet but her heart aches for it. she's so lonely.

and especially because she deceives people so often, Taco ALWAYS feels like people love the mask but not her. when Microphone leaves her, it's like. impostor syndrome. she thinks that she's been deceiving herself all along into thinking she's Not a bad person. when clearly she is. because the only person she shared some of her Real Personality with, now hates her. so she must've been wrong to think she could ever be good, that she could ever be better than this, that someone could ever care about her. she's destined to be bad and she's going to accept that.

[unluckyoscthoughts]

redraws for taco and the cherries oh BOY

honestly for the cherries i didnt wanna changemuch but taco good lord its not drastic but its more noticeable when u like think abt it for more than 5 seconds

why are we as a fandom drawing taco as a very clean, put together lady when realistically shes been out in the forest for at LEAST a year [a hotel isnt built quickly, unless oj bought one that was just there] girl realistically would be a bit dirty, maybe having a few scratches on her skin and her clothes being a bit dirty

its taco so i doubt she'd be FILTHY but she wouldnt be super clean either

oh and her hair lost poofiness but thats just cuz it fit better, her younger/ii1 self keeps the fluff cuz it makes her look cuter and ''innocent''

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Sorry for bothering u but can i request some tacobulb and soapcase? Both ships are really underrated

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decided to make a taco humie :) (click image for better quality!)

[sloppypears-ash-sg]

II1 Final Five but EI

Salt, Taco, Paper, Pickle, and OJ!

About the same... except roles are swapped.

[sloppypears-ash-sg]

Nuh-uh (Pickle and Taco)

II1 vs. II2.

(Taco cries sour cream in my AU lol)

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Speaking of blueberry, I find it weird how ae Brought him back with this whole villain arc just for him to get out the next episode. That's a waste of a rejoin.

i know right???????? ugh it feels like ae came together and thought "okay. we had taco to be our evil girlboss slaygirl for ii1 and 2. we need another one of those." and so they took the 'nothingest' character of their ii3 cast (i.e. the first to be eliminated) and just superimposed the ghost of taco past onto him

[mr-payjay]

what do you think were the seeds that planted the payjay is real tree? (Either for you irl or for the characters whichever you think is more interesting)

for the characters: paper fell first, oj fell harder. ahhh i hate that trope but it's true in their case. paper had a crush on him a bit before he asked to join their alliance (developed during double digit desert) and oj fell in love once paper apologized for not giving him his orange juice that morning after oj got jealous of him trying to help out taco. he felt reassured paper wouldn't leave him, especially after he didn't fight back against oj's outburst but instead was kind and gentle with him. not that oj *should* get angry with him, but... oj is generally an angry person. and it's nice to have someone that won't hate him for it.

for me: haha i just thought of a random ship to have fun with :) i was bored and decided to dream up scenarios for ships i already decently liked and landed on paper and oj. thought about them watching TV in their room together. and i fell in deep deep love forever. i was hyperfixated on them before i even watched ii1 in fact! payjay is a special interest now though, im pretty sure. and ii1 is very beloved to me.