[He wants to be mad at her. Wants to snap back something like 'what are you, our ever-absent mother' or something equally pissy, but that's not actually going to fix anyone's anything. It's nice, in a way, to know someone worries this publicly. That even when she wants to help her friends, she keeps coming back around.]
look even im not bitter enough to just go lie in a ditch and scream into the mud alright im not alone and im not out i have other friends yknow
[After being made to wait, Lup's not particularly in the best of moods, but at least he's replying now and not just waiting her out overnight. She knows he's safe, so Lup's attention can focus a little more on her friend instead of her brother.]
doubt it but whatevs, glad you're not monster chow or lost running around the caves will you actually be home tomorrow or what???
yeah probably but who knows maybe im just having a grand ol time actually scratch that i am having a good time actually so its whatever go have your girl party with the woman who ruined my life its fine
[Is he even capable of not being bitter all the fucking time? Probably not!]
[The list of things that Lup should do: Apologize. Explain calmly that Lucretia is their friend. Remind Taako that she hasn't even done anything worth being mad at for yet. Reassure him that his feelings are justified and Lup is still on his side of this.
The list of things that Lup does do: Make absolutely everything worse.]
yeah you sound real convincing there babe i call bullshit but yknow whatever floats your sad little boat go have fun being lonely or whatever
[well, neither of them are at all capable of just letting things go without trying to have the last word, so this is the nightmare scenario.]
[Oh great, the Hell Hour has begun, in which the most catty parts of the twins are turned on each other and the positive feedback loop of sass is fueled into a tornado.]
do you somehow think there arent a bunch of people here that fucking adore me babe im taako from tv ive got people lining up to be my friend for miles got a dude to carry me halfway across the city with nothing but my face im golden babe meanwhile youre blowin up my stone like i cant do anything by myself
oh honey you say that like drake isnt the most gullible man in this place basically had him eating out of my palm from day one too please tell me that isnt high up on your list of accomplishments i dont wanna feel even worse for you sorry but you gotta try harder to impress me babe
if you think the best thing i can do is charm a man into touching me youve got another thing coming honey got this place wrapped around my finger ive had people fawning over me since day one got at least 5 of em that owe me bigtime i have e v e r y t h i n g you are like a little baby
p funny how i never see you hanging out with anyone else considering youre so damn popular oh hey btw i totally forgot i snapped a good pic of you earlier hold on
oh MY god my own sister betraying me like this???????? honestly how dare
ill have you know im in the arms of a gorgeous dude right now and what do you have sadness thats what
[It's not his best, but at this point, he really just wants to go back to cuddling in Kravitz' arms, and right now he's propped up to answer his phone.]
taako come on this is getting stupid stop making shit up and just come home where i know ur safe dingus you can cuddle with your imaginary dude pillow here bro
[Taako knows, as he types, that the sentence he's about to send will have consequences. But honestly he cannot bring himself to give a single fuck. This has been the most emotionally exhausting day of his life, his boyfriend nearly got him to cry earlier, and now he wants to be with him in bed and not think about anything for as long as he possibly can.
So he just. Does it.]
OH MY GOD IM WITH MY BOYFRIEND OKAY
[And with that, turns his phone off, smacks it down on the bedside table, and rolls back towards Kravitz, tucking his head under the reaper's chin and blocking out the world for the next however many hours he damn well feels like.]
[It takes Lup at least three times to read through that message before it's meaning really hits.
Taako has a boyfriend?!
Lup immediately drops the whole pretext of texting and tries to call her brother instead, cursing in Elvish when it goes straight to voicemail. Poor Lucretia is forced to listen to Lup try to call him three more times before she's sending her twin a flurry of pointless texts, all capped and full of too many exclamation points and question marks. It takes her awhile to finally accept that he's turned off his phone and is cutting her off for the rest of the night, but even then, Lup is too keyed up to sleep.
Whenever Taako finally drags himself back to the apartment the next day, Lup is there ready for him, perched on his bed instead of her own, long legs hanging down off the edge. If he even thinks about trying to run, she will fucking tackle him.]
[He takes his sweet time to rise the next morning, stays with Kravitz late, parts only because he has to, eventually, maybe. He's halfway back to the apartment before he even turns his phone on and sees all the text messages.
Well. That sure was a nice night to cap off his life. Sure glad he made it this far.
He slips into their room as quietly as possible, but when he sees her, he gives up all pretenses and just shuts the door loud enough to get her attention, giving her a little two-fingered salute.]
[Lup doesn't even go for the rope ladder hanging off the side of Taako's bed when he steps into the room, instead just leaping straight off of the side of the bed to the floor. She lands and shoots straight for her brother, bringing a hand up to poke him hard straight in his chest. There's no chastising him for making her wait or for turning his phone off after that unexpected but entirely too big revelation the night before.
She just levels a look at him and firmly states:] You. Talk. Now.
[He does everything he can to mask the actual fear on his face, but he's pretty sure some of it shows through. Haha. Oh, god, she's gonna skewer him. He puts his hands up, tilting his head a bit forward to address her.]
In my defense. He totally just showed up yesterday. And I would've told you, uh, really soon.
Lup, we had a big fuckin' emotional conversation like a week ago, how much time do you think I have to wallow in my own bullshit? Honestly, I wasn't thinking about it, I don't know--
[Okay, so maybe he was thinking more of Kravitz after that Stepford thing, considering this place saw fit to give him a fake boyfriend that looked and acted just like him, but like, that's. Nope. Not gonna say that shit.]
You went off to like, hang out with Lucretia or whatever, I didn't wanna sit here, get off my ass!
[Taako, do you really want her answer to that question?]
I'm guessing twenty-four sev. [a beat] Just throwin' an estimate out there.
[Lup steps back to give Taako at least a little more room now that he's sort of speaking, but that doesn't mean she's at all letting up on this conversation. She wants the details and she's going to get them.
She holds up a finger towards him at that.] Nu-uh. This isn't about me. This is all about you hiding your boyfriend from your sister! Does he even know about me? Do I even get to meet him? What the fuck kind of dude does he have to be to make you domestic? Gods, I can't believe you didn't tell me any of this shit! What's the point of being a twin if you don't lay down the mad deets for me, dingus?!
[Okay, no, he didn't but. Hhhhh. He puts a hand over his face, dragging it down his cheeks.]
Look, it's-- I would've introduced you if you didn't run off for girl time or whatever, and-- I don't know! He wasn't my boyfriend before this!
[His face looks perfectly composed, maybe because of the disguise spell, but Lup can see his ears are absolutely red, even as he's trying to calm himself down.]
And no, he doesn't know, because I didn't remember you, dingus.
[One more breath. Hhhh. Fine, okay, let's just. Breathe.]
His name's Kravitz, okay? And he might be kind of the grim reaper and partially the reason Merle's missing half his arm but it's fine.
Like you saying that you had a boyfriend wouldn't have had me putting a big ol' pause on girl time! Stop using Luc as an excuse! [Cause yeah, that had definitely been the start of that catty fight of theirs, but Lup would have dropped the act a lot sooner if there had been a boyfriend to meet.
Especially if talking about said boyfriend is enough to make her brother's ears go red.] Holy shit, you are seriously into this dude, aren't you?
Wait. [And that finger that had been wagging at Taako quickly turns into an open palm, held up in a 'holy shit, give me a minute' gesture. A strange look crosses the woman's face as she takes all of this in. And boy, that sure is a shitload of information to be given all at once. There's so many places for her to focus on, so many pieces to pick apart and dissect, but even the part about her brother dating the grim reaper falls away under a single fact.]
Hold up. Back it up a little. [her hand falls back to her side] Did you say his name was Kravitz? Tall dude, fancy suit, giant douchebag?
[He tries to rush to his own defense again, especially when Lup tries to call him out on really liking him, which-- okay, they are using a title now. He is his boyfriend, and even thinking that gives a little extra thrum to his heart, somewhere between excitement and utter anxiety. Taako was a lot of things, but committed was hardly one, and he still finds himself forgetting how Lup knows all his tells, how his secrets aren't good currency to a person who knows his silver tongue.
Fuuuuuuck. She's gonna drag his ass for 20 fuckin' years.
But she speaks again, and he raises an eyebrow, mind beginning to turn, because if she recognizes the name oh man what did she do.]
I mean, wouldn't say he's worse than us, but uh. Yeah.
[He can't stop the grin creeping onto his face as he waits for her to talk again, biting his lip to try and stop the spread of it as it goes.]
That strange look to pass over Lup's face breaks the second that Taako's expression shifts to straight up anticipation. She just can't hold in her laughter anymore, the tension in the room suddenly snapping under the weight of this fucking hilarious revelation. What are the odds that she'd approach Taako's boyfriend out of all the newcomers to Hadriel?]
You ass, [she gives him a weak punch to the shoulder, laughing too hard to put any real power behind it.] You didn't even listen to my message from yesterday, did you? [The first one, she means. Not the 500 ones preceding their hurried text messages last night.] I ran into him! He tried to tell me I looked like you, but he was so damn smug about it, I told him he was a dick for saying all elves looked the same and that I didn't have a clue who Taa-ko the elf was.
[He intends to say words in response to what she says, but he can't even get one through before the laughter bursts out of him, loud and heaving through his chest. Holy shit. Oh my god. He fumbles his phone out of his pocket and finds the message, playing it hurriedly, but he's still laughing so he probably misses half of it anyway.]
Holy shit, Lup, we haven't pulled that con in years, oh my god, this is classic. This is the best thing you could've possibly done. Oh my god. I bet he tried to cover it up and was just terrible.
[Taako couldn't have planned something better for their first meeting even if he tried. Kravitz is going to scream when he finds out Lup is actually his sister. Lord, he can see it now.]
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look even im not bitter enough to just go lie in a ditch and scream into the mud alright
im not alone and im not out
i have other friends yknow
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doubt it
but whatevs, glad you're not monster chow or lost running around the caves
will you actually be home tomorrow or what???
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but who knows maybe im just having a grand ol time
actually scratch that i am having a good time actually
so
its whatever go have your girl party with the woman who ruined my life its fine
[Is he even capable of not being bitter all the fucking time? Probably not!]
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The list of things that Lup does do: Make absolutely everything worse.]
yeah you sound real convincing there babe
i call bullshit
but yknow whatever floats your sad little boat
go have fun being lonely or whatever
[well, neither of them are at all capable of just letting things go without trying to have the last word, so this is the nightmare scenario.]
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do you somehow think there arent a bunch of people here that fucking adore me
babe
im taako
from tv
ive got people lining up to be my friend for miles
got a dude to carry me halfway across the city with nothing but my face
im golden babe
meanwhile youre blowin up my stone like i cant do anything by myself
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you say that like drake isnt the most gullible man in this place
basically had him eating out of my palm from day one too
please tell me that isnt high up on your list of accomplishments
i dont wanna feel even worse for you
sorry but you gotta try harder to impress me babe
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got this place wrapped around my finger
ive had people fawning over me since day one
got at least 5 of em that owe me bigtime
i have
e v e r y t h i n g
you are like a little baby
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oh hey btw i totally forgot i snapped a good pic of you earlier
hold on
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its SO your better side so i thought youd want it :) :)
you can send it to all those Big Fans fawning all over you
show them your true salt
**self
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MY god
my own sister
betraying me like this????????
honestly
how
dare
ill have you know im in the arms of a gorgeous dude right now
and what do you have
sadness
thats what
[It's not his best, but at this point, he really just wants to go back to cuddling in Kravitz' arms, and right now he's propped up to answer his phone.]
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taako come on this is getting stupid
stop making shit up and just come home where i know ur safe dingus
you can cuddle with your imaginary dude pillow here bro
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So he just. Does it.]
OH MY GOD IM WITH MY BOYFRIEND OKAY
[And with that, turns his phone off, smacks it down on the bedside table, and rolls back towards Kravitz, tucking his head under the reaper's chin and blocking out the world for the next however many hours he damn well feels like.]
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Taako has a boyfriend?!
Lup immediately drops the whole pretext of texting and tries to call her brother instead, cursing in Elvish when it goes straight to voicemail. Poor Lucretia is forced to listen to Lup try to call him three more times before she's sending her twin a flurry of pointless texts, all capped and full of too many exclamation points and question marks. It takes her awhile to finally accept that he's turned off his phone and is cutting her off for the rest of the night, but even then, Lup is too keyed up to sleep.
Whenever Taako finally drags himself back to the apartment the next day, Lup is there ready for him, perched on his bed instead of her own, long legs hanging down off the edge. If he even thinks about trying to run, she will fucking tackle him.]
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Well. That sure was a nice night to cap off his life. Sure glad he made it this far.
He slips into their room as quietly as possible, but when he sees her, he gives up all pretenses and just shuts the door loud enough to get her attention, giving her a little two-fingered salute.]
Whwwwwwhat's up?
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She just levels a look at him and firmly states:] You. Talk. Now.
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In my defense. He totally just showed up yesterday. And I would've told you, uh, really soon.
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He only just showed up yesterday? Interesting. [She takes half a step forward.] Tell me more, Taako.
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I mean, we've gone on like, three or four dates, it's-- honestly, he wasn't in the city before yesterday. Really.
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From three or four dates to your boyfriend, huh? Must be someone real special. Which makes a gal wonder why this hasn't come up like, ever.
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[Okay, so maybe he was thinking more of Kravitz after that Stepford thing, considering this place saw fit to give him a fake boyfriend that looked and acted just like him, but like, that's. Nope. Not gonna say that shit.]
You went off to like, hang out with Lucretia or whatever, I didn't wanna sit here, get off my ass!
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I'm guessing twenty-four sev. [a beat] Just throwin' an estimate out there.
[Lup steps back to give Taako at least a little more room now that he's sort of speaking, but that doesn't mean she's at all letting up on this conversation. She wants the details and she's going to get them.
She holds up a finger towards him at that.] Nu-uh. This isn't about me. This is all about you hiding your boyfriend from your sister! Does he even know about me? Do I even get to meet him? What the fuck kind of dude does he have to be to make you domestic? Gods, I can't believe you didn't tell me any of this shit! What's the point of being a twin if you don't lay down the mad deets for me, dingus?!
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Look, it's-- I would've introduced you if you didn't run off for girl time or whatever, and-- I don't know! He wasn't my boyfriend before this!
[His face looks perfectly composed, maybe because of the disguise spell, but Lup can see his ears are absolutely red, even as he's trying to calm himself down.]
And no, he doesn't know, because I didn't remember you, dingus.
[One more breath. Hhhh. Fine, okay, let's just. Breathe.]
His name's Kravitz, okay? And he might be kind of the grim reaper and partially the reason Merle's missing half his arm but it's fine.
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Especially if talking about said boyfriend is enough to make her brother's ears go red.] Holy shit, you are seriously into this dude, aren't you?
Wait. [And that finger that had been wagging at Taako quickly turns into an open palm, held up in a 'holy shit, give me a minute' gesture. A strange look crosses the woman's face as she takes all of this in. And boy, that sure is a shitload of information to be given all at once. There's so many places for her to focus on, so many pieces to pick apart and dissect, but even the part about her brother dating the grim reaper falls away under a single fact.]
Hold up. Back it up a little. [her hand falls back to her side] Did you say his name was Kravitz? Tall dude, fancy suit, giant douchebag?
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Fuuuuuuck. She's gonna drag his ass for 20 fuckin' years.
But she speaks again, and he raises an eyebrow, mind beginning to turn, because if she recognizes the name oh man what did she do.]
I mean, wouldn't say he's worse than us, but uh. Yeah.
[He can't stop the grin creeping onto his face as he waits for her to talk again, biting his lip to try and stop the spread of it as it goes.]
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That strange look to pass over Lup's face breaks the second that Taako's expression shifts to straight up anticipation. She just can't hold in her laughter anymore, the tension in the room suddenly snapping under the weight of this fucking hilarious revelation. What are the odds that she'd approach Taako's boyfriend out of all the newcomers to Hadriel?]
You ass, [she gives him a weak punch to the shoulder, laughing too hard to put any real power behind it.] You didn't even listen to my message from yesterday, did you? [The first one, she means. Not the 500 ones preceding their hurried text messages last night.] I ran into him! He tried to tell me I looked like you, but he was so damn smug about it, I told him he was a dick for saying all elves looked the same and that I didn't have a clue who Taa-ko the elf was.
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Holy shit, Lup, we haven't pulled that con in years, oh my god, this is classic. This is the best thing you could've possibly done. Oh my god. I bet he tried to cover it up and was just terrible.
[Taako couldn't have planned something better for their first meeting even if he tried. Kravitz is going to scream when he finds out Lup is actually his sister. Lord, he can see it now.]
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