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Chionophobia

What's Done Is Done (It Feels so Bad)

Communication

Five Times Taco is Hungry and One Time She's Full

Late Nights, (2), (3)

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Hmm... okay, but it's toxic yuri because I say so.

Knife can fix her. Or, rather, Knife can rage and rant at her and pull out and pick at all of her mistakes and insecurities while Taco does the exact same thing right back. Taco can make Knife worse. Taco does make Knife worse, but someone who brings out the worst in him while not really giving him consequences for his behaviour beyond the same insulting that they both do to each other anyway is... refreshing. Knife isn't as cruel as he used to be, but getting to let loose every once and a while doesn't hurt.

Knife's idea of a romantic visit is going to check if Taco is alive in her forest home once and week or so, flipping her off when he sees her, and telling her she looks like shit. Taco flips him off right back and tells him he looks worse. Then they talk shit for hours. Taco also finds it very romantic.

Taco bites Knife a bunch. They're affectionate and angry and all over him and he loves to hate to love them. Which means Knife wears long sleeves even during seasonally inappropriate times, which Taco will endlessly make fun of him for, and call him sweaty a lot during the hotter months.

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I believe I've discussed it before, so I apologise if you've seen that and I'm just retreading old ground, but I think of Taco as having quite the food hoarding issue. She stashed and stored a lot of food when she was living out in the woods, and needed enough to get herself through the winter when it's much harder to live off of the land, yeah? I'd imagine she shoves a lot of it into her hammerspace, since I usually think it has the same anti-spoiling properties as her toppings and shell do. But I also think she'd have certain stashes hidden around the forest, just in case. She'd get anxious if she stashed it all away and didn't keep any on her, where she could keep track of it, though.

This would, I think, extend to a protectiveness over the food she does have. Like, once she's back with the group, eating meals with everyone can be a challenge. She eats faster than she should, because she's worry it'll disappear or someone will take it from her. The others would probably learn fairly quickly to keep their hands away from Taco's plate, and not to try to take it back once it's handed to her. She will get upset and anxious very quickly if you do, and will move to protect her food if she thinks she has to.

Speaking of when she's back with the group- she doesn't eat enough. Sometimes it's because she's taking food from her own meals to stow away for later, even if there's already extra food being saved, she just has to make sure. Just in case. She gets anxious if she's not allowed to stow some of it away, even if it's a food that's really meant to be eaten right away.

Look at this thing

So handsome

* he broke the bowtie collar in this photo and the 2nd one we bought is probably broken too

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Oh you better bet I have headcanons about this. I wrote an entire fic about one of them. I really like this topic!

I like to think, combined with habits gained from her season 1 performance, Taco develops some more feral/protective tendencies during her time in the woods. If an animal growls at her, she will growl back, and eventually she's the one who will growl first. She'll puff up her lettuce to look bigger if she thinks something (or someone) is planning to try to harm her. She'll shift her tomatoes around just so, so they can look convincingly enough like a pair of eyes on the back of her head. These habits don't really go away, when she does finally live around other objects.

This is a bit of the opposite, but after she's moved out of the woods and into a building for the first time, it's actually rather unpleasant for her. There's a curve, certainly. The lights are too bright and loud and on even when it's supposed to be dark. She doesn't know how to use a single appliance. A bed is too open and unprotected, she can't sleep if she's not fully hidden from predators. I wouldn't be surprised if she actively goes back to being in the woods, when all of the new aspects of indoor living get to be too much for her. She will go sleep in a nice dark hole where she's covered and safe from danger.

And for the opposite of her sleeping in a hole, I think she'd like to hang out in treetops and other high-up places. Sure, there's the risk of her falling, but she's reasonably good at landing on her feet, and it's much easier to stay covered up and safe in the treetops. Most people and animals tend to forget to look up, not just around, and she'd blend in very well up there. She'd even have birds for company.

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Yes!! Chapter three is out party!! Hooray!!

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Ok so taco adorable but look at them!!! Hehehe they’re so cute

Also the start of taco dragging tall people around lmao

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Bow and Marsh were really cute this episode too! I like seeing them more affectionate before... ah... y'know...

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Piano would be interesting, given the only way Taco would know how to play is if Mephone coded her to be able to, at least at this point. She is a fan of classical music, so I can see it being something she'd want to learn. Or Mephone deciding that since she's fancy and british that she should know how to play the piano. Either way, I am in full support of her serenading Mic.

Speaking of her serenading Mic, Taco is not very good at verbalising her feelings, and music is a fairly common alternate form of emotional expression. I wonder if it's something that could help her, expressing herself through carefully curated songs. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Mic did the same thing, so it could be a pretty good way of communicating for them, honestly.

She does sing, though! Boy does she sing. I'm not even talking about Taco's Tirade specifically, I just think she'd sing to herself a fair amount. Something to fill the constant, echoing silence of solitude in the woods! I think Mic hears it one (1) time during their alliance when she's trying to get some advice from Taco, and compliments her on her voice. Taco gets flustered and does not sing in front of Mic again, nor to herself for a while (because of embarrassment but eventually also her mental health declining), but does start up quietly again after the season 2 finale. Mic listens to her a lot <3.

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I wonder if, given the Hello Kitty wallpaper that he gets so upset is revealed,, that he might be one of those trans guys that can go a bit, hm, too far? in rejecting stereotypically feminine things in order to seem more masculine, regardless of how much he actually likes for dislikes it. Men can like Hello Kitty, 4s, it's okay. She's a diva.

I can't be convinced that Knife wasn't always Mephone4s' favourite contestants. Their arcs have too many parallels and they both enjoy the old act of gratuitous-yet-comical violence too much for 4s to not sit down inside of MeLife, get himself a bag of popcorn, and enjoy watching Knife being a 'jerk.' He's quite happy he could have a good talk with Knife in the finale, I think, despite the circumstances.

He doesn't make the Terminator references on purpose. They're a core part of his programming. He can't not make Terminator references, he would not function without them. Terminator references are the load-bearing coconut png of his code.

THE FAC T. THAT TACO . OF ALL PEOPLE. TTAAACO. FELT SAFE ENOUGH AROUND PICKLE TO CAVE AND BREAK DOWN CRYING IN FRONT OF HIM WITH LITTLE TO NO PRESSURE. OR MAYBE A MIX OF THAT AND JUST GENERALLY HAVING THE EMOTIONAL STABILITY OF GOLD LEAF PAPER AT THAT POINT . ohhh it hurts it HUUUURTS. and you know i dont know if she would have done this around mic. she trusts mic so much but her closeness to mic is PART OF WHY SHE CANT ACT LIKE THIS IN FRONT OF HER . IT HUUUURTS

AND PICKLE. PICKLEEEE. NOT BEING ABLE TO COMPREHEND A WORLD WHERE PEOPLE DON'T LIKE HIM FOR WHAT HE'S GOOD FOR . NOT PUTTING TWO AND TWO TOGETHER THAT TACO SAYING THEY WERE NEVER FRIENDS WAS A BOLD-FACED LIE AS HE FINDS MORE AND MORE EVIDENCE POINTING TOWARDS IT. MISSING HER AND HATING HER AT THE SAME TIME BUT STAYING WHILE SHE'S AT HER LOWEST BECAUSE HE KNOWS HE'D WANT SOMEONE TO STAY FOR HIM. BECAUSE HE KNOWS WHAT ITS LIKE TO LOSE SOMEONE WHO MEANS SO MUCH TO YOU . EVEN IF HE'S NOT TRULY GONE .

god i wonder if she's jealous actually. that pickle's dead friend is someone he can hang out with in the manor whenever he wants but her dead friend is someone stuck being a desecrated corpse in a secret attic. Do you think on a particularly bad day she might lash out at him about it .Oh my god I need to stop yapping

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The latter, yes! She was already a very short shove away from a breakdown, but whether it would be a shove into an external breakdown that would provide emotional relief, or a shove deep, deep down where she still keeps other emotions that she can't handle, would depend on the person and what they said! And Pickle is, well, Pickle, and he gave her something relatively open. Besides, I don't think Taco ever really felt unsafe, of all things, around Pickle? So nervous she thinks she might fall apart, nauseous, angry, bitter, regretful, endlessly sad, etc.? Absolutely. But like Pickle was going to hurt her? I doubt it. She's not good with feelings, but she has a pretty good understanding of the people around her, as seen by her manipulations. I think she'd know Pickle enough to know he wouldn't physically harm her, even if he yelled at her and was angry. I don't think she has that same faith in a lot of other people. You definitely meant emotionally safe but that part is important too. Emotionally, well, she couldn't hold it together, anyway.

An important distinction between Mic and Pickle (And Mepad, though he is less relevant in this discussion by virtue of currently being deceased) in their relationships with Taco is that, if you think about, Mic hasn't really seen Taco having an outburst. Taco's gotten angry at her, and while she's been around (s2, 13, minecart scene), but she's always been fairly... in-control of herself, around Mic. She wasn't around for Truth or Flare, nor was she around for the season 1 finale, that Taco described herself as her 'unravelling.' She was there when Taco started sobbing about Mepad's death, but she was only crying on her knees for a short moment. Her apology to, as well, Mic was a vulnerable scene, not to discount that at all, but Taco was more in control of herself and her feelings at that time. It wasn't an outburst because she couldn't handle her emotions, if I'm making sense. Pickle has already seen and been on the receiving end of one of those moments where Taco's emotions get so big and overwhelming that she can't handle them, anymore, so despite things, it might be a bit easier for her to fall apart and relinquish the tight emotional control she exerts on herself, in front of Pickle, since he's seen her lose it before.

And, she's trying to be more mature and good and better for Mic. As much as Mic wants emotional honesty, Taco trying to better herself partially if not mostly because of the fear that Mic will leave her if she doesn't successfully become a better person risks pushing Taco towards not expressing herself to Mic, because she wants to come off as better and good and kind and okay.

I have gotten through... half of your ask. Perhaps I'm blabbering on a bit.

Oh, yeah, Pickle has serious self-esteem issues and I'm so glad the new remaster episode validated me right before I posted. It was always there and Taco just made it worse! Mephone made him to be stupid and kind of suck at everything, combined with self-worth issues... Not cool, dude. I imagine Pickle as the sort of guy to make a lot of self-deprecating jokes, which are probably a subconscious cry for help.

He does! He does know how terrible it feels! And Taco tucked him in after he had a horrible, exhausting crying session and missing Knife even though he's still there are being so, so lonely without him. He wants to stay with her through it! And, as I will never stop screeching about, Pickle is a kind person! He's been mad at Taco, don't get me wrong, but I don't think he wishes active harm on her! And he wouldn't wish grief on anyone.

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Hi uh, ah, Sunny Rainbow? You're gonna have to explain this one to me, I apologise, I'm not great at reading emoji combinations. Welcome, and thank you for sending in your request!!^^

I like them! :] I think they're intriguing, I like the relationships they've formed so far, and I'm looking forward to seeing where their story goes! They have a very nice design, and voice, and I think they are a cute little fella. There is not a malicious bone in that little corn body, I think.

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Estrogen could fix her. I'm serious. A common effect of taking estrogen is lowered aggression, which would probably be really beneficial for Taco. I mean, transitioning on its own would likely do wonders for her mood, mental health, and general demeanour, but the benefits of hrt should not go without mention.

Mepad ends up at the first person she really opens up to, yeah? I wonder if, somewhere in their conversations, Mepad would bring up the idea that maybe Taco is transfem (since, as I've said somewhere before, she has the introspection skills of a brick wall). The rest of that evening would be spent with Taco using Mepad's search engine to take a few dozen 'am I trans?' quizzes on the internet.

Since I know you're a fan of Jax from the Amazing Digital Circus, perhaps you'd like to consider a parallel scene in which Taco's cute little bowtie is moved to the upper corner of her shell, to make it a cute little bow, instead? She can be a lovely, wonderful, cute little Taco!