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1. Comment with your character.
2. Receive comments from others.
3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Suffer as we have suffered over your CR.
1. Comment with your character.
2. Receive comments from others.
3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Suffer as we have suffered over your CR.
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from the start, beau liked taako. the fact that his world is at all similar to hers helped, and getting to talk magic was great. she also respects a dude that has a portable tank just following him around. he's got a good sense of humor and he's just fucking weird, too, which beau vibes with in general.
the thing that really endeared her to him though was week one, when they were both drunk as fuck after never have I ever, and basically just... hung out for a bit? and taako mentioned his sister, and beau basically saw a little bit of something deeper there. most of their conversations were surface level, but beau genuinely enjoyed talking with him and tossing dumb jokes back and forth. she started stealing some of his words and phrases, too.
and then, sunday, the post-ogata execution. the distraction of hot or not while she was high on painkillers is something that she really, really appreciated. ogata was so much, and she'd had so many emotional conversations at that point that having something stupid and silly to focus on helped her get past the worst of it. plus, the fact that he came to check on her at all, despite everything... taako was a friend, at this point.
HUAISANG'S TRIAL, THOUGH - week three, when beau was losing her shit over huaisang being accused, taako stood up for her. of all the people in the camp other than magnus, taako got what it means to be so fiercely loyal to someone that you'd put yourself up for suspicion just to defend them. he said something, and then after, talking to her and confirming that yeah, he would've done the same for magnus - it made her feel a little less alone. a little less crazy for feeling the way she was feeling.
you know, it's funny going back through some of these threads because they were both into the murder scene pretty hard at this point and they're both just kind of... talking around it? taako being like "it's putting the rules of this game ahead of the people you care about, don't get hung up on winning or losing" and beau just agreeing with him because both of them knew it wasn't going to matter in the long run...
huaisang's execution was a super messy traumatic thing for beau in general but... not once did she want taako to lose. obviously she was gutted over huaisang getting stabbed to death with a pen but - she genuinely likes taako and thought of him as a friend even at this point, and I think her thought in the moment was she didn't even want huaisang to win. I think her reasoning was she could take it if she lost one important person, but she knew taako was important to several people in the camp and taking him away from them would've fucked those people up. beau's convinced huaisang is really only important to her, and following her whole arc this game, well. it was just one more sacrifice she ended up having to make. it would've been a mess if huaisang had won. and it wouldn't have made her feel any better, either. there was no winning with that fight.
taako and magnus offering her the healing gem even after all of that was a kindness she still doesn't think she deserved very much.
so week four comes along and beau points real, real hard at magnus for murder, and taako just MAKES HER SWEAT. that thread was so fucking funny, he like straight up just called her a murderer to her face, and beau's just like christ, all of china is going to know my Crimes, taako's gonna sell me out!! and then instead the next day taako invites all of the maf to a meeting and completely reverses all of their moods.
she's said it icly and we've all talked about it oocly several times, but taako really did save her life that week, I think.
taako quickly became beau's stabilizing point. they didn't become besties or anything but they did get closer, and they did vibe completely on the same wavelength. both of them thinking that they'd given so much already, that they deserved to not have to lose anything else, especially with the whole kara vs magnus being voted for thing. I don't think the rest of the mafia felt exactly the same way that they did about how that went, so it was a relief for beau to be able to scream about it and have someone agree wholeheartedly. sometimes you want to be selfish, and sometimes you want to not have to say "I know I'm an asshole, but this is how I feel" - and taako gave her that outlet. it got her through the worst of the last week of murder.
beau still is sort of uncertain on how much taako cares, but she knows he does at least a little. he's her friend, and she loves him, and she's going to help him beat the hunger. and also maybe date his sister, listen.