Taako installs a fancy combination bird feeder and fountain near the side of his house. If he and Lup have to move from a reasonable city apartment to a suburb lacking in decent scenic views, he at least wants something nice to look at when he’s working at home. Nature being good for the brain chemicals or whatever.
Taako’s already accounted for the size and scope of the fountain setup—from what Lucretia’s nerd books say, the local bird population consists of larger carrion eaters, mainly ravens. Big birds mean big fountain base, minimal interference, and a wider variety of food. With a little help from Mags, the hard part is already out of the way. The battery powered food bank distributes on a twice daily timer. All he has to do is get the fountain hooked up to a water source and it’s good to go. No biggie.
What Taako has not accounted for is waking up the day after the feeder is installed, just to glance out of his window and see a whole ass man crouched out on the lawn with the rest of the flock.
accidentally left y'all hanging in suspense with this one oops
ID: First image is of Taako, an elven man with a slight build, freckles, and curly hair up in a bun. He is wearing a sweatershirt that says, “college” on the front and holds a mug in his hand. He yawns in the first panel and then stares out a window. The second image is of Kravitz, a half elven man with long locs, facial hair, and a slight build. He is wearing a button up shirt, slacks, and simple shoes. He is couching beside a tall, elaborate bird feeder and fountain. The fountain is surrounded by feeding ravens. One raven in particular is standing on Kravitz’s leg, as he appears to be talking to it. The thrid image shows Kravitz glancing to the side, and then eyes widening in suprise. The bottom panels show a confused Taako staring at Kravitz from within his house. The last panel is of Kravitz turning to runaway, (a small caption saying “shit” right by his head.) In the background Taako reacted by leaning on the window pane and yelling. End ID
quick doodle because i’ve been thinking about these two today
[ID: Sketch of Taako and Kravitz, seen in profile from the bust up. They are turned towards each other, faces held close together as they embrace. Taako wraps his arms around Kravitz’s neck. Kravitz touches Taako’s cheek. They look into each others’ eyes and smile. /ID]
fuck it. balance youtuber au because i’ve been thinking about it
(modern au with no magic but still elves/dwarves/etc)
the twins have a joint channel but they post things together as often as they make videos on their own. they do vlogs, story times, and challenge videos both together and not, but do stuff with fashion/makeup together. taako does cooking on his own and lup does chemistry experiments that involve fire more often than not. if someone says they like the twins’ videos it’s a wild card as to what they watch them for, but everyone ends up liking all of their content because who can hate the twins? they have a lot of “annoying influencer” energy but are actually really nice to fans/people in general and donate a lot of their Youtube Money to charities and stuff (all of the ipre does this too because fuck rich people except for them)
magnus’ channel is mostly woodworking/construction projects. he does occasional story times and in every one he’s carving and/or painting a wooden duck. he does vlogs too and half of them are him buying more woodworking stuff (idk shit about it so idk what he’d get lol) and the other half have a part where he sees someone walking a dog and him going to meet them. almost every video includes/mentions julia and people make “magnus talking about julia” compilations bc he loves his wife and talks about her all the time. he’s very positive in general and everyone loves how he’s a human golden retriever
merle’s channel is 99% gardening, 1% collating with the others. he made one joke along the lines of plant fucking and it was not serious at all but his subscribers/followers made into such a big joke that he makes at least one joke per video except for when his kids are in the video, which is when he makes it suuuper educational and fun and wholesome. mookie tries to eat the plants and play with the soil and mavis tells her dad about what she’s learned about biology in school. also he puts “(emotional)” and “(not clickbait)” at the end of video titles randomly despite knowing what they mean
barry’s channel is science-centric (yes he collabs with lup frequently) but about more feilds of science. sometimes he goes on rants about theoretical physics like a madman a la bdg’s unraveled series and sometimes he makes videos titled “making the volcano kitchen experiment but the size of a kiddie pool (emotional).” he also has a series about paranormal activity/cryptids, stuff like “why ghosts should be and are real” and “my top five favorite pieces of bigfoot evidence” and like i said this is a no magic au but he once was asked in a q&a about what he’d do if he was a lich and gave a surprisingly detailed response? people were really confused but intrigued?? did barry invent magic???
lucretia 100% has an art channel, but she also writes prose and poetry in her free time and sometimes reads them for videos. she posts speedpaints of her work (digital and traditional) with her telling her process/inspiration or doing story times as the background audio. she had a period of time where she started writing a whole novel in her spare time (basically the balance story but different characters) and all her videos were her making concept art. her fans loved it and boosted it to the point where it actually got published, so now she’s a best selling author with a seven book series. now she keeps making videos of her concept art for other book ideas (the other arcs) with her infodumping about the characters/plot/etc
davenport doesn’t actually have a channel, but has been in the background of all the others’ videos to the point where he’s treated like a cryptid and has a small fanbase of his own. he’s mostly in merle’s videos (because they’re dating) and magnus’ vlogs (because magnus Loves His Friends) but he’s been in at least a handful of everyone’s videos. he makes a twitter and instantly gets thousands of followers. he tweets the most random shit at the most random times and half of them become memes. people find out he’s a professor at the college the rest of them met at and everyone looses it
kravitz is in a similar position as davenport, but he was convinced to start a channel. he mostly does stuff involving antiques because he collects them, so he does haul videos of what he bought or thrifted and videos of him restoring them as he looks up how old they were and what random shit they were used for and stuff. people make compilations of him getting off topic and going on a tangent about taako then realizing he just rambled for ten minutes and getting flustered. he also plays a handful of classical instruments and makes occasional collabs with lup + barry
despite having completely different channels they’re all friends??? people didn’t know at first but they found out through davenport and kravitz “this one guy who i think is dating taako but i’m not sure and idk his name” showing up in everyone’s videos. from then on they started collabing more often and it’s really fun to see them outside of their element. lup once almost burnt down magnus’ workshop while making a chemistry video with him. taako tried to teach kravitz how to make macaroons (keyword: tried) and kravitz talked about this new antique shop he found the whole time. barry went on and on and on about biology while gardening with merle, who tried to follow along but failed and ended up making fun of all the scientific names for plants
they call themselves the red robes after the main characters in lucretia’s novel (they’re not similar to the characters but there’s seven of them and six youtubers + one davenport)
they once did a big group collab where the twins dressed everyone up in high fashion outfits and lucretia painted a big portrait of all of them. it was very wholesome but also had a lot of lup and taako arguing over what accessory fits who and “no this person should do their hair like this!” and at one point magnus and kravitz just dipped to go play cards and talk about dogs
speaking of wholesome angus has a channel of his own which is mostly booktube with him getting halfway through a mystery novel, predicting the ending, and being 100% correct. he’s done videos with the others and is kinda associated with them but not totally, and is often lovingly referred to as the nephew to the rest of them
killian and carey don’t have a channel but are in the bg of magnus’ videos often. they were referred to as “magnus’ lesbian friends” until they got popular on instagram and became an internet power couple. johann has a small channel and a soundcloud he plays violin on and did one (1) collab with lup and it made him blow up overnight. avi has a semi-popular twitter and is mostly known as johann’s bf. sloane and hurley have a channel about drag racing/cars in general and don’t show their faces and go by the raven and ram
i was trying to think of who’d have a gaming channel and it’s 100% graham, who casually mentions that he’s friends with Pro Wrestler Jess The Beheader
lucas has a science focused channel similar to barry’s where he tries to be educational and ends up being annoying/kind of wrong about it. barry has a mini series called “lucas miller is a bitch here’s why” and it’s him disproving lucas’ theories with a deadpan expression and generally being better at science than him
remember when i said taako and lup have influencer energy despite being nice? yeah, lydia and edward are like that but they’re actually annoying. they have a popular makeup/fashion channel and lup and taako have gotten into slight drama with them over how the wonderland twins have been rude to them and the how the red robe twins are “jealous.” the internet is divided over who likes which pair of twins better
lup learns that greg fucking grimauldis (who the twins knew in high school) has a popular twitter/insta platform and tweets the “i am to collect” speech out of nowhere from everyone’s pov. taako tweets the video he took of him telling her and her immediately going “no fucking way that ASSHOLE is getting away with what he did to me” and opening twitter. it becomes a meme and he pays her back and changes his social media handles to “gregfuckinggrimauldis”
i can’t think of anything else because i don’t know enough about youtube but yeah.
it appears the extended nap solved my computers lil problem, sorry for the dodgy quality (i really wanted to get this out on time: its still the 1st somewhere right?)
Hello hi it’s been 800 years since I’ve posted but I still love TAZ, especially balance, so when TAZ Imbalance started my hand slipped at this incredible moment.
I also couldn’t help referencing Justin’s expression because how could you not? It’s so great getting to actuallt watch them play
My other socials are:
@ Artist_Justine on Twitter and @ ArtistJustineSchneider on IG ✌ I suck at posting there too but oh, shoot, the wind is picking up byyyeee…
[Start I.D. A shaded sketch of Kravitz from the knees up. He standing with a slight lean to one side, and he has his hands in his pockets. He looking down and smiling to himself. He is wearing a fancy outfit; a white shirt with a tie, with dark pants and a long dark overcoat buttoned in the middle. The sides of the coat are fanned out a little behind him dramatically. End I.D.]
“Well, this is going to be easier than I thought.”
wow remember how dramatic Kravitz was when he first showed up
