#why does that sort of pairing always make for such entertaining disaster?!

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Heyo, happy new year! I had commented on your Luca fanart the other day; I just finished The Unbroken, and had a great time with it! It was something that had sort of been on my periphery for some time, even before I read TLT, as a couple people I followed had done fanart of it. Though to be fair, I think it could have been more accurately named "Touraine and Luca make increasingly bad decisions for a few hundred pages," because every time I thought the disaster had peaked, one of them would find a way to outdo themselves, and it was spectacular xd. I've already checked out the second one from the library, we'll have to get to that soon!

OH MY GOD that’s wonderful and I 100% agree with the title :D

I was listening to the audiobooks last week and I remember getting to the night after the festival and thinking ‘ah so we now leave the fun part and get to the fucking up and then making everything progressively worse part’ but I TOTALLY forgot how bad all of that was :D

Well! I do wish you the best of luck with the faithless as it is… well I don’t think as catastrophical as the unbroken but maybe that’s just because the bar is so low after the first book :) and please do come back to let me know what you thought of it (and the end)

OH I have been working on touraine btw you might enjoy that so here you go

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i was going to make a little chart abt the polycule bc adding toilet is interesting but i have very specific thoughts on it, and then remembered i’d have to go off anon to add any images so i just type my thoughts instead

anyway i personally don’t see taco or mic having any romantic interest in toilet. i think it could potentially develop in the future (esp with taco), but i like the idea of him having a more platonic relationship with them in the beginning while being in a romantic relationship with mepad

my main thought is that taco just really deserves people who love her. it’s already shown that not only does mepad genuinely care about her, but he trusts that she can do better and has had a positive influence on her so far. pair that with fixing her relationship with mic and there’s the perfect opportunity for feelings to develop on all sides. i think mic and mepad could originally bond over being friends with taco and being glad that she’s doing better, and over time becoming friends with each other as well

the way their relationship develops in my mind is this: taco initially falls for mic and gets into a relationship with her, feelings for mepad are there she’s just a bit oblivious and unaware of them. thinking she would’ve been so distracted by getting their relationship sorted that it just kinda got pushed aside for the moment. once she realizes it she talks it out with mic and ends up dating both of them, and mic later grows interested in mepad and then they’re all dating. haven’t thought too much on toilet but he’d probably join later down the line

also here’s a few lil hcs in relation to this polycule:

- this has given me a lot of time to consider all of their sexualities and romantic orientations so here’s what i’ve got: pansexual demiromantic mic (which is why i think she wouldn’t be immediately interested in mepad or toilet), disaster bisexual taco, asexual biromantic mepad, ??? toilet (he doesn’t know and neither do i)

- mic teasing taco turns into mic and mepad teasing taco. they’re both so entertained and endeared by her weird little habits but it’s all lighthearted

- cuddle piles. that’s it

- taco never has to worry about feeling alone ever again bc there’s always someone hanging around her unless she manages to find a new hiding spot

- they are all various flavors of neurodivergent and end up sharing a lot of similar traits because of it. i think both toilet and taco are really sensitive to sound, and mic is the one that introduces taco to stim toys. from that point on taco always has something in her hands to mess with

- half the time they can all just hang out in the same room doing their own things without speaking, just enjoying knowing there’s other people in the room if they need them. and just bc they aren’t talking doesn’t mean it’s silent, someone’s either making some sort of idle noise (usually taco humming, i like to think it’s a form of stimming for her) or there’s quiet music playing (they definitely have a group playlist with music they all like)

i hope you enjoy this incredibly long rant as much as i enjoyed typing it

Hello again anon!!!^^ I do not have a nickname for you yet, because polycule anon while relevant would not be my best work. I'll keep thinking!!!! >:) thank you for sending this in!!!! I did enjoy reading it very much!!!!! :D

Agreed, I think Toilet would be with just Mepad initially, eventually with Taco, and I think he and Mic could be the beat of friends. They're both loud folks who love Taco and Mepad a whole lot :3.

YEA!!!!! YES YES YES!!!!! THIS!!!!!! SHE DOES DESERVE PEOPLE WHO LOVE HER YOURE SO SO SO RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I love how you have their relationship develop!!!!!!! Please consider Mepad acting as wingman for Taco when she's trying to flirt with Mic, and then Mic acting as wingman for Taco when she's trying to flirt with Mepad hehehe <3!!!

ONTO THE MIGHTY POLYCULE HCS!!!!!!!

-your sexuality hcs are so lovellllyyyyy!!!!!!^^ I can see all of those!!!! Esp not even Toilet knowing his own sexuality that is so real. I tend to default to calling Taco a lesbian despite my love for Tacopad, because I am a lesbian Taco kin, but usually I make Mepad's gender queer enough that it doesn't matter lmao. I am a he/they Mepad truther!!!!

YESSSSS WE HAVE SEEN MEPAD BE SNARKY HE WOULD TEASE!!!!!! Taco would go hide behind Toilet when she's getting double-teased because Toilet never teases her and that's why he's her favorite /j.

Cuddle pile indeed!!!!!! Mepad is big because he needs to snuggle all his partners at once.

YEAH THEY ARE NEURODIVERGENCY EVERYWHERE IN THAT POLYCULE!!!! Give that Taco a stim toy this instant!!!!! Taco probably has a lot she'd be sensitive to after living in the woods for so long- sound is definitely one of them!!!!!

Yes!!!! Parallel play the best way to spend time with people for real!!!!!!!!!!!! They could spend so many sweet afternoons in the same room just chilling and being relaxed together <3 also Taco humming stim real actually