[ He starts to launch into some crack about how maybe Magnus should remember that in his missing century he was actually Taako's biggest fan ever and did everything he ever asked, before that mini-bomb gets dropped. The question doesn't exactly take him by surprise - Taako's not stupid, he knows this is the heavily landmined territory of Mr. Sadman McDeadwife and he's going to want to know. ]

Oh, nah, all that shit is real. All this other stuff is just the surprise prequel you didn't ask for, like Wolverine. You know how the Fish works [sort of], it can only take things out of your head, not make up a decade wholecloth and implant it.

[Don't worry man, turns out THB imploded their lives just fine on their own, no fakes needed.]