I saw seven birds

And maybe that’s relevant somehow.

Lyrics are from November by Sparkbird!

[Image description: watercolor art of the Seven Birds from The Adventure Zone, all with solemnly frowning expressions. Magnus, a pale-skinned human, stands at the center, holding the Temporal Chalice. He's flanked by Davenport, a light-skinned gnome with graying hair, and Merle, a brown-skinned dwarf who's holding a white chess piece.

Behind them is Lucretia, a woman with dark brown skin who's holding the Bulwark Staff with her eyes closed, and Taako, an elf with light brown skin who's holding the Umbra Staff. He's facing away from Lucretia, but his eyes are pointed towards her.

Barry and Lup float behind the others in lich form, with text above the group reading: "not only is it thicker, blood is stickier than water". End ID.]

[Plain text: "And maybe that's relevant somehow." End description.]

Not to be in my Taz Balance feels but..

Sometimes Taako, before Accident during his show, would totally zone out while cooking and ends up preparing the table for seven people, but he doesn't remember why,,,, sometimes he'd encounter a new animal or a beautiful plant and muse about how they would have loved this,, but who were they??

Sometimes Merle would get bored and start shuffling a deck of cards, only to split it and realizing that no one was coming to play, and what were even the rules for this game? (bc he and davenport would come up with new games, with wild rules just to fuck around with the rest of the crew) Merle once bought a beautiful pastel blue journal bc he thought that she (she? Which she?) would appreciate the craftsmanship,, he got really confused while wrapping it into a godawful wrapping paper,, who was he gonna give this? (later the journal would find its way to Lucretia, not without a crude joke about plants, a badly drawn dog and a motivational quote, she sobbed when she saw it, but only after sending the three to their next mission)

Magnus always carved ducks, he didn't know why or how he learned he just knew how to. Sometimes he would finish a particularly good duck and smile, then he'd stand up, Intending to give it to... To whom? Nobody really wanted the ducks, except for kids usually. Sometimes he would wonder the forest, looking for some good wood, when he'd suddenly think, I need to go back I was supposed to stay on the.. On the what? No wait that doesn't make sense, he's not supposed to be anywhere and no one is gonna be annoyed bc he forgot he it was his turn to wait... To wait for what though? sometimes he read a book and called out for an explanation but the man? Person? Didn't answer and Mangus who did you call out for? You're alone (months, years later he'd pick up a book from his friends Taakos collection and get an explanation,, but the feeling of rightness but not quite, expecting someone warmer and someone more patient to explain it to him,, it didn't help when Taakos first instinct was to say "don't ask me idiot do I look like a nerd ask,.." and then he stopped only to shake his head bc who else could Magnus ask if he was the only wizard here)

The trio doesn't know why or how but finally, when they met, finally someone understood that the days were somehow not hot enough, that they were always just a bit too chilly

Was thinking of TAZ Balance headcanons for funnsies the other day and was thinking about if any of them were good singers and thought “you know, Davenport seems like he could be an opera guy” completely having forgotten that Davenport literally canonically sings opera at one point

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Something something the Seven Birds

First part of my taz balance inspired coat is done. Next challenge - the embroidery

I don't really use appliqué very often, so I'm happy that it turned out so well.

Found Family Tournament Round 1 Part 17 Group 84

Propaganda and further pictures under the cut

Seven Birds: Taako, Magnus, Merle, Lup, Lucretia, Davenport, Barry

Boys from the Dwarf: Arnold Rimmer, David Lister, Kryten and The Cat

Submissions are still open!

Seven Birds:

they literally spent a hundred years becoming a family and lucretia tried her best to protect the but they could only save the world after all of them had been reunited and they LOVE each other they deserve to win this whole thing

Boys from the Dwarf:

Listen. These guys actually canonically have nobody else, the entire rest of the crew of this spaceship died in a nuclear incident which TECHNICALLY was Rimmer's fault. Forced family. Lister is the last human alive, Rimmer is technically a ghost kept alive by technology, Kryten is a robot and Cat is a cat. They live on this massive spaceship yet still choose to spend all their time together, it has been like 30 years at this point. I cannot stress to you how they had the option to leave and go elsewhere in this ship the size of a city at any given time yet chose to stick together after 30 years. Every opportunity any of them has had to get off this godforsaken ship, they have turned down. They would do anything for eachother but also would leave eachother on a random planet without hesitation (and actually have done). They are best buddies, they even have a handsign/handshake.

They’re an unlikely crew but ultimately they’re all each other has. Dave wakes up from stasis as the last human alive and to keep him sane the ship’s computer brought his dead bunk mate back as a hologram. They don’t usually get along but after being all each other has they ultimately need each other and do care about each other. They’re just hard assess about it. Also on board is a humanoid being called The Cat, who is from a species that evolved from a cat that was smuggled on board the ship before the accident that killed the crew. He’s usually self-centred but even after finding his own species again he ultimately decides his home is with the boys from the dwarf. And then there’s Kryten, a service mechanoid with an over-active guilt chip that they rescued from a crashed ship along the way. They’re dysfunctional and complete opposites to each other in many ways, but they are always together in every parallel universe they come across. And even when they do separate to try to do their own thing, ultimately they always come back to each other. They’ll act like they all dislike each other at times, but ultimately if trouble threatens one of them then the rest will band together. Also their dynamic together is just extremely funny.

Y'know the Brian David Gilbert skit "How to Make Jorts"? Barry has actually lived through that. It started with him just wanting to make some jorts for the Seven Birds' Beach Year, but after accidentally bleeding on them and trying to magic the blood away, he brought the pants to life. It was the first ever recorded experience of Jecromancy (Jean Necromancy).

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Submitted by @zsweber-studios

Random VAT7K adventure zone thing

"I saw seven birds" but it's team radical + Donella and Cyrus

-The twins: Donella and Cyrus. I see them as siblings so this would be an interesting idea

-The lover: Hugo because that would foreshadow his eventual turn due to his love for Varian and his new friends.

-The protector: Varian. I see him as trying to protect others as much as possible due to his own trauma even to his own detriment.

-The lonely journal keeper: Ulla. Cause you know she's litteraly stuck in a library all alone.

-The Peacekeeper: Nuru. I see her role in the group is to keep the boys from killing each other, and getting the boys out of trouble.

-The wordless one: Yong doesn't really fit that bit I have an idea that Yong learns that Hugo is working with Donella and Cyrus before anyone else and out of respect for Hugo, and thinking he'll come clean when he's ready, Yong keeps it a secret therefore making him wordless.

BALANCE

I don’t have a ton of time at the moment as I’m working on other things but this is one of those pictures that I’ve put together inch by inch over a long time.  I’ve tried to do a big Balance picture before but it never quite works out.  Still this is something!  

if carey doesnt give lucretia an afro in the stolen century i'll consider it a personal hate crime

seven gym leaders

lup and taako are fire and water type, respectively, defeating either awards the wizard badge. magnus is fighting type, defeating him awards the fist badge. merle is grass type, defeating him awards the pan badge. lucretia is ice type, defeating her awards the snow badge. barry is ghost type, defeating him awards the necro badge. davenport is flying type, defeating him awards the sky badge.

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Lucas Miller deffo shot up in his bed, like three weeks after Story and song, shaken to the core with the realization that Taako, Magnus and MERLE, were astrophysicist and had more scientific knowledge that he will ever gain

Lup is the best character ever devised and everything about her is my favorite part

will we as a society ever surpass the reveal that davenport was the seventh bird