Ask & Answer!

In the little Angus verse, you mentioned before they live in Taako’s grandfather’s house, which is a tree. How do you feel about a literal family tree, with magic figures in the roots to represent the members? How would you feel about Angus “meeting” some dead family? (I’m also thinking that adopting a kid works much like an adult bris when the guy is already circumsized, there’s a drop of blood and a prayer (or a spell in this case) because adoption is super valid and also magic)

[AN: Wow, I did not know I still had submits as a thing…]

I am now officially in love with calling this Li’l Angus Verse. It’s gonna be tagged with that if I get any other prompts on the idea.

Ahem.

We see Grampa Tostaada’s literal tree house in Over the River and Through the Woods, which is part of the When We Were Us series over on AO3 [Series here, actual story over here]. Though in Faerun, Grampa Tostaada and Grunkle Taako didn’t have golden-haired twins for Grunkle Taako’s kids to swindle.

[Insert bad business practices leading it to be abandoned here…]

Taako is legally a blood relative of the Faerun Tostaada in the same way that Merle has Rockseeker blood. Same horseshit, different family. So he’s legally able to take up the old Sellsnow farm and rename it Casa de Taako.

Since it is a very old tree, it’s more or less been grown over generations to house several families at once. It’ll do that again in good time.

Lup and Barold have their own suites which they have decorated according to their whims. AKA- flame themed denim.

With three actual Reapers in the house, any remaining ghosts would be guided to the afterlife, no problem. Angus doesn’t have to worry about spectral visits in the dead of the night.

Faerun adoption policies probably would involve a small blood - or DNA - ceremony. Leave it to Barold to come up with some kind of bloodless bonding ritual that could include a definite non-relative into the ‘bloodline’. I mean, the man invented a liching ceremony that didn’t involve any sacrifice of any living being, so… I’d bet money he could do that.

…actually, now that I think about it, with three reapers in the family and Lup’s interdimensional travel belts, Ango probably could meet the family. The original family.

But that would fuck with my whole “no family name” headcannon, so nah. Not going there.

Thanks for the question. It may birth some new plot kittens.