Turns out he grew up dreaming of going to art school, and it’s still his passion and he’s convinced it’s who he is at heart, and he feels like he’s being stifled in the trades. He doesn’t even like math

we went through some of my charcoal portraits because he was curious and he got so wistful and soft and we had a big long conversation where I told him he’s still an artist- it’s who he is. It’s the way he looks at things, and he’ll never lose that. He told me never to think of money when picking a career and told me to keep doing what I’m passionate about no matter what.

Ah good point!! I’ll have to go back and listen to that part again, thank you for reminding me!

Hmm I’m still uncertain how much Lup would know though, would she be aware removing that memory was Lucretia’s deliberate doing? She seemed to just react to the immediate danger of Lucretia’s plan instead of the shit Lucretia had already done.

It’s 1 am and I don’t have the ep up to check so like I might be wrong but I don’t remember any of the characters directly stating in front of Lup that Lucretia took that memory from Taako? Like it was basically stated in that scene before the fight, but we also had implied that Lup wasn’t fully aware of everything going on outside of her umbrella sphere