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[spellslots]

I hate to break the bad news to you, Lulu, but you're already kinda dead. Undead.

[It's the same thing, at the end of the day, except for how it only makes all this more complicated. He's not sure how any of this will work. The shield cut the bonds that was keeping the Hunger together, but he isn't sure if that means he's trapped on that plane with them, or if he's just... dead. If Lucretia died along with them, the spell would've been dropped.

And then there's Kravitz. Surely he won't leave Taako to just float in that stupid ghost lake.]

[umbrastaff]

See? Then it would be easy. If you're dead I'm coming after you, just shrugging out of this body and going to the Astral Plane with Barry. We're gonna chill with your boyfriend.

[She nods, like it's all decided and not at all frightening the hell out of her.]

Heroes who save the world deserve a bit of leeway.

[spellslots]

[In the world's most petulant voice:] He's not my boyfriend.

[Taako isn't really sure what they are, and it's weird to consider everything that happened between them in those few hours before the world ended, because it doesn't feel like it happened to the version of him that's curled up in bed with Lup, right now.

And it's easier to focus on that, on whatever label he wants to put on his relationship with Kravitz than on literally anything else right now.]

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[Okay, now she has to laugh, hugging him a bit tighter - the sisterly crushing amount of tighter. Laughing was good.

Laughing took the edge off.]

Ooh, really? Isn't he your darling dearest deadest?

[Teasing was a coping mechanism, too. Plus he kind of owed her after all the Barry teasing.]

[spellslots]

[Usually this is the point where he'd make a show of trying to shove her off, but he - can't, so he happily accepts being crushed.]

I'm filing for like, a sibling divorce. Is that a thing?

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Nope. You're stuck with me.

[She lets go a little bit so she doesn't actually squish him and then pokes the tip of his nose.]

You just gotta deal with it. I mean, how many people do I know that dates Death? One! It's like a family thing now. Very necromantic.

[spellslots]

It's a family thing and I'm still more fucking goth than you, so you can suck on that.

[If he can't argue the point, which he doesn't even want to anyway, he might as well roll with it.]

You think they need a cook in the astral plane? Maybe the Raven Queen needs like, her own personal fucking chef.

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You just had to show me up, huh?

[She makes a show of rolling her eyes really heavily - however, when Taako mentions cooking the the Astral Plane, Lup beams.]

Oh shit, that's a great idea. I mean, even if they don't have to eat over there maybe they'll enjoy the finest fucking food on any side of the planes.

[spellslots]

Just cause they don't have to doesn't mean they can't, Kravitz had more than a few glasses of wine on our date. I think he was a little nervous.

[Says Taako, who almost finished an entire bottle of the stuff before Kravitz even showed up.]

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Awww Taako, that's adorable.

[Death is a dork, apparently.]

I can't wait to meet him. [Beat.] ...wow that sounds kinda suicidal. Or teenage drama goth. 'Can't wait to meet death.'

[spellslots]

You called him ghost rider.

[When they met, which was a very good moment and in retrospect, one that he wishes he'd savored more as it happened.

But he hadn't known he was going to die. Suspected it, sure, but that's not the same as looking back.]

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Oh fuuuuck that's such a good name. Though technically I should call you that.

[Winkwonk.]

[spellslots]

[Now he's contractually obliged to shove her, just a little.]

There's been no riding of any kind, thanks.

[He's a respectable elf.

Except not really.]

[umbrastaff]

[She snorts again, shaking her head and reaching to flick one of his ears.]

Riiiiight.

[She gasps suddenly and slaps her hand against his chest (gently) in excitement.]

Fuck, the boner jokes I'm gonna make to him! It will be amazing.

[spellslots]

Nope, no way, if anyone's making boner jokes it's me. I'm the one fucking a skeleton.

[It's only a fair trade. If he has to deal with the fact he's dating a ghost skeleton then he gets to be the one making boner jokers.]

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Oooh shit, you said it now! You fucked Death!

[Lup laughs so hard that she wheezes, but she puts her hand around his and squeezes a little bit.

Go forth, dear brother, and fuck the skelly man.]

[spellslots]

God. I fucking hate you.

[Mostly he just regrets his word choice, namely that he didn't put a will be or something along those lines in there.]

At least he's not a nerd.

[umbrastaff]

Mhhmh, that's why you're in bed with me at shit-oh-clock. So much hate.

[She stretches out a bit and aims to warm her feet on his leg.]

You just said we was one! Death, being nervous about a date. Biggest nerd alert I've ever heard!

[You can't beat her nerd-loving logic, Taako.]

[spellslots]

It's called hate cuddling, read a book.

[That's also why he lets her use him as a foot warmer, even though she's a goddamn icicle.]

He was going on a date with the world's hottest wizard chef, being nervous about that doesn't make him a nerd.

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Hate you too, Koko

[Such a good brother. And excuse you, her feet are not icicles!]

I'd be worried too if I was going on a date with the worlds biggest liar. You're only the world's greatest chef. Hot wizard is my deal.

[spellslots]

[It shouldn't hit a nerve, but it does, and his voice goes quiet.]

No shit, bubbale.

[Of course she's the hot one, she didn't give up her beauty in a trap Lucretia sent them into.]

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[She knows she hit something, and she reaches out to cup his cheek.]

Don't. You're fucking smashing, Taako. Miles above any human.

[spellslots]

That's never gonna fucking change, I can old and wrinkly and I'll still be the hottest piece around.

[But it still hurts, not the hit to his vanity, but the fact he doesn't look so similar to Lup.

He wonders if he would've made the sacrifice, had he known what it really meant.]

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Old man Taako. Wear a fake beard and seduce all the young apprentices to do your laundry.

[She can't joke this away, but damn if she's not gonna try.]

...besides, I'm gonna be a lich. You keep your skin.

[They were always going to be different, now.]

[spellslots]

[That's the problem with covering everything with a joke, it's easier to ignore the real problem and slip up, because he's not going to get old, and she's stuck as a lich and everything is kind of shit, really.]

You know Barry's gonna figure that shit out, right? He's gonna leave you that way.