[image description: a drawing of Taako, sitting on a stool under a spotlight in front of a black background. He’s a fat, dark-complexioned elf with chin-length blonde hair. He’s wearing a patched, dark blue wizard hat with a matching cape, a three-quarter-sleeve light blue blouse, a short pink skirt and ripped dark blue leggings, and brown boots. A folded purple umbrella is leaning against his stool. He’s gesturing to himself, smiling as he says, “Uhh…it’s me? I’m Taako? Y’know, from TV?”]
there is no evidence suggesting that merle hates kids. i mean, he made an adventurers’ camp for kids.
which makes his hatred for angus so much more fucking weird.
There is actually a reason for this! They answered this question in the second ttazz. This is a part of the transcript for the episode:
“Justin: Uh, Dad, why does Merle not like Angus? {39:07}
Clint: Oh – um, actually that was a very legitimate character choice, ‘cause I’ve always kinda played Magnus— I mean played Merle as—
Griffin: [crosstalk] Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Clint: [crosstalk] See, I do it too.
Justin: [crosstalk] Fuck you guys still, to the moon.
Clint: See, I do it too. As a character who was really kind of insecure about his place on the team. He was never much of a team guy, and saw anybody that joined the party with distrust. If you look back, even Killian coming on, anybody that came on—
Griffin: Wow, I never—fuck, man.
Clint: I made the- I made the choice that Merle would always feel so insecure that, you know—what do they need him for? He’s a failed cleric, he’s short, [someone hitting their knee?] 90% of the spells he casts are failures, so anytime anybody came along with any level of competency, he saw that character as a threat to his position in the group.”
I bolded the more relevant parts but the transcript itself is made by tazscripts. I hope this helps!
If Lup hadn’t been in the umbra staff when Lucretia did what she did then that would mean Taako possibly running into a totally unknown woman who looks exactly the fuck like him with a similar speech pattern and the same childhood and the same last name imagine what a Trip that would be
He’s so deeply unsettled that he tries to fantasy sue her for brand infringement
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