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Enough of the trope where memory loss undoes the damage or the corruption or whatever. More content where removing memories just removes the context.
The tragedy of needing to grieve and not knowing what or who you lost or why. The angst of having trauma and being denied the awareness that it's trauma. The suspense of being different somehow and left to wonder how and when. The tension of knowing that something is off and you can't find where it hurts. The Adventure Zone gets it. Kingdom Hearts gets it.
There is an aching inside you and you don't know how it got there.
#i think about xion or the stolen century and need to lay down. i'm so normal about them.#tropes#narrative tropes#memory loss#tragedy#angst#the adventure zone#taz balance#the stolen century#kingdom hearts#xion#writing#musings#hall of fame
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Tres horny boys in a beach cycle my beloved
Edit: Part 2 here!
#the adventure zone balance#taz balance#taz#taako#taako adventurezone#magnus burnsides#merle highchurch#taz fanart#my art#WOAH your mom lets you have two different taako designs!!!???#the stolen century#ipre#i specific stolen century cause these are my stolen century specific designs#mayhaps make a part two if there's a demand... hehe
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I am kinda obsessed with the specific kinds of angst that can be generated from stolen century death
Lup opening her eyes at the start of a new cycle to find Taako by her side blinking in confusion because he didnt even hear the power word kill coming a week into the last cycle. Taako who didnt even realize he was gone until he was back but Lup is looking at him like hes a ghost
Magnus taking a bite from a monster throwing himself in the way of Taako and managing to kill it before he collapsed and bled out in Taako's arms
Years of narrow escape where it's just merle and one person he managed to heal in time holed up in the ship because it's not safe out at night and the days here are terribly short, the way he and Lucretia would leave the other's spots at the table untouched until they were back
Davenport who is responsible for all of them and most of them are So Young and hes so tired of burying them
Idk man it's just a really facinating type of grief
#the adventure zone#taako#magnus burnsides#merle highchurch#taz lup#the stolen century#tw death#taz balance#taz davenport
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I've been listening through TAZ: Balance and I have Blupjeans brainrot.... I'm still figuring out designs these were just some doodles while I was on the phone ✨
#taz#taz balance#taz: balance#lup#barry bluejeans#taz lup#taz barry#fanart#taz balance spoilers#the adventure zone#blupjeans#i love them ur honor#unsure about lups colors.... and i might want barry to have darker hair#i was trying to go off of the graphic novel designs (taako for lup obvs) but.#the stolen century#my art
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#taz#taz balance#the adventure zone#magnus burnsides#the stolen century#by me#i thought i was strong#i thought i could do it#i made it 68 and a half episodes#johnchurch nearly got me a couple times#but god FUCKING damn it i forgot about magnus dying#;-;#but also the narrative parallels here????#can we talk about it??????#not all exits are made equal#etc etc
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Some people out here pretending Blupjeans was one sided Bluejeans Pining™️ until Legato but Griffin said Lup’s moment of realization was SOON AFTER HIS, coming to her in CYCLE 17!!!! MY GIRL IS 30 YEARS DEEP in this fantastic and beautiful love by the time they walk up on that stage
IT REACHED INEVITABILITY
#blupjeans#lup#lup taaco#taz#the adventure zone#taz spoilers#the adventure zone spoilers#stolen century#the stolen century#ace don’t look#taz balance#the adventure zone balance#taz balance spoilers#the adventure zone balance spoilers#tis i
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barry bluejeans is great 'cause like he's an undead abomination of his own creation, he's a skilled wizard, he was trapped in a time loop for 100 years, he loves blood, he goes for the kill without remorse when he needs to, he's a pain in at least one god's ass, he took nearly 50 years to fall in love, he helped start a devastating war, he's an alien, and also he was validated as correct by an omniscient being who could see the whole of his life stretched before him when he said "i am literally Just Some Guy"
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my fav thing abt the first ep of The Stolen Century is Griffin is absolutely shitting himself into oblivion about adding a whole vital person to the life of his brother’s thoughtfully constructed character and meanwhile Lup says 3 words and Justin is like
#the stolen century#lup adventurezone#taako adventurezone#the adventure zone#taz#griffin mcelroy#justin mcelroy#the mcelroys
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Some costume designs for each arc.
#taz#taz balance#the adventure zone#the adventure zone balance#Taako#taako taaco#taako from tv#taz taako#here there be gerblins#murder on the rockport limited#petals to the metal#crystal kingdom#the eleventh hour#the suffering game#story and song#the stolen century#mcelroys#the mcelroys#my art#digital art#artists on tumblr
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"Our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives, and with each moment we spend with those people."
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I discovered Audacity was free and decided to make a TAZ: Balance edit! More information under the cut.
Song: Experience - Ludovico Einaudi
Quotes (in order of which they appear in the audio):
“One day I made the decision to… stop championing other people's heroism and to take the direction of my life into my own hands.” - Lunar Interlude III, Rest and Relaxation
“This is just for a little bit, I’m gonna stop this, what we’ve done to this world.” - The Stolen Century 7
“And, I lost dear, dear friends because of that decision, but it was the only one to make.” - Lunar Interlude III, Rest and Relaxation
“I’m gonna find you a place where you can be happy again, it’s just for a little while, and then, you’ll remember, I promise.” - The Stolen Century 7
“Magnus Burnsides” - Here There be Gerblins 1
“T-A-A-K-O” - Here There be Gerblins 1
“Merle Highchurch” - Here There be Gerblins 1
“Barry Bluejeans” - Lunar Interlude V, Reunion Tour 1
“I’m Davenport” - The Stolen Century 7
“Blasted the letters L U P into the wall.” - Lunar Interlude III, Rest and Relaxation
“I pull out the Umbra Staff and I point it at Lucretia” - Story and Song, Finale 1
“You fucking took everything from me” - Story and Song, Finale 1
“Oh shit! Is it today?” - The Stolen Century 6
“It’s today.” - The Stolen Century 6
“I did this one already. I did this world and kind of… crushed it.” - The Stolen Century 1
“I’m begging you, let me finish this and we can talk about it.” - Story and Song, Finale 1
“Are you my friend?” - The Stolen Century 4
“To have friendship, Merle, it requires you to...[sighs] love someone.” - The Stolen Century 4
“Our capacity for love increases with each person we cross paths with throughout our lives, and with each moment we spend with those people.” - The Stolen Century 5
“I said: I love you, Jules.” -The Eleventh Hour 8
“You are my heart.” - The Stolen Century 6
“I - I love you dad.” - Story and Song, Finale 3
“I love you too, baby.” - Story and Song, Finale 3
“And these things, Merle, friendship and love and happiness, they’re- they’re all so… small.” - The Stolen Century 4
“But I’ve been living a hundred years with me and one year with millions of people.” - The Stolen Century 7
“Honestly; do whatever you want. I don’t care anymore.” - Story and Song, Finale 1
“Everybody else that I ever met, aside from the six of you, were dust.” - The Stolen Century 7
“Dead…got turned into ash.” - Lunar Interlude V, Reunion Tour 1
“They were just talking dust.” - The Stolen Century 7
“I have nothing, and I don’t give a shit. The world is ending, and I. Don't. Care.” - Story and Song, Finale 1
“But the one thing we do have, is the thing that people in love rarely ever have enough of. And it’s time.” - The Stolen Century 5
“You found her! Maybe not how you expected to, but when you weren’t looking you found her.” - Story and Song, Finale 1
“Who?” - The Stolen Century 7
“I wonder which one would be worse to take from you: the person that you loved or the person that you… hate.” - The Suffering Game 5
“They are beings of pure, concentrated evil.” - The Suffering Game 1
“And they’ve all been evil?” - The Suffering Game 1
“Invariably.” - The Suffering Game 1
“Lup, they don't trust me.” - The Eleventh Hour 9
“The light is a sickeningly powerful energy source. Any items powered by that energy are going to be...devastating.” - The Stolen Century 7
“This is it!” - The Stolen Century 7
“Lup made us promise that we would never again put a world in danger just to thwart The Hunger's plans. And that is exactly, exactly, what we did to this world!” - Story and Song, Finale 1
“Did we make the right decision?” - The Stolen Century 7
“Sometimes there aren’t right decisions. Sometimes there’s just decisions.” - The Stolen Century 7
“Kind of seems like I've got you right here.” - The Stolen Century 4
“And the devastation it wreaks is immeasurable.” - The Stolen Century 7
“What if you didn’t have to worry and you could just cut out the bullshit and do good recklessly?” - The Eleventh Hour 7
“Merle...will you sit with me? Just...just for a moment?” - Story and Song, Finale 3
“...You got it, buddy.” - Story and Song, Finale 3
“And suddenly thousands of bonds are threaded between the three of you.” - Story and Song, Finale 3
“I know we don’t say this enough, but… Thank you.” - The Stolen Century 7
“I saw seven birds: The Twins.” - The Crystal Kingdom 11
“You ready bro?” - The Stolen Century 7
“Hell yeah!” - The Stolen Century 7
“The Lover.” - The Crystal Kingdom 11
“It’s only been twe— Um… Twenty-one years…” - The Stolen Century 3
“The Protector.” - The Crystal Kingdom 7
“Magnus rushes in.” - Story and Song, Finale 3
“The Lonely Journal Keeper.” - The Crystal Kingdom 7
“I’m gonna save us all, I - I promise.” - Story and Song, Finale 1
“The Peacemaker.” - The Crystal Kingdom 7
“I find joy whatever I do.” - The Stolen Century 4
“And The Wordless One.” - The Crystal Kingdom 7
“Have we not… earned a little wrath?” - The Stolen Century 6
“You got all the time in the world, my man.” - The Stolen Century 3
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lockscreens of the ipre crew from the stolen century based on maureen's prophecy (top to bottom: merle, magnus, barry, lup, taako, lucretia, davenport)
#use your voice flower hero#flower chatter#lockscreens#aesthetic lockscreens#taz balance#the adventure zone#the stolen century#ipre#merle highchurch#magnus burnsides#taako#taako taaco#lup taaco#taz lucretia#barry bluejeans#taz davenport
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misquoted from a tumblr post that i cannot for the life of me find but ya know. you can’t go a hundred years without being a little transgender… right?
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I feel like we don’t talk enough about the fact that taako canonically stole a bunch of inspirational quotes from celebrities from his homeworld (who had all at this point been consumed by the Hunger) and thus inspired So Many Art Students to get their shit together. Specifically thinking about that one guy who was like “I gotta change some things. About ME.” and then we never hear from them again. I hope all those art students are thriving.
#taz#the adventure zone#taz balance#taako taaco#taako adventurezone#taz balance spoilers#the stolen century#taz spoilers
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taako taaco can be soo I walk a lonely road the only one that I have ever known but he's not walking alone and he's walked more roads than he'll ever know and-
#taako taaco#lup taaco#the adventure zone#taz#taz balance#justin mcelroy#griffin mcelroy#the stolen century#the mcelroy family#the mcelroys#lup and taako
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as controversial as it was for griffin to change systems from 5e for stolen century, you gotta admit that its makes pretty damn good narrative sense that they'd use a different system to tell the story when they're not in The D&D World
#by me#taz#the adventure zone#taz balance#the stolen century#i really really hope they allude to this a bit in the graphic novel#very curious to see what they do with griffins character for it
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