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#I’ll also post Logan and Janus in it too next post!
dystopiagnome · 2 years
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Giving 11 flowers to his fiancée because the 12th always goes to his lover, what a guy.
Doodle based on the previous past lovers thing
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muppetable · 1 year
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The Importance of Wardrobe in Sanders Sides
Sanders Sides is a great show, discussing how deep the characters are even as just facets of one person’s personality. One way this is done is by use of wardrobe.
Let’s look at the basic gist of the characters, in order of their first appearance. At first, C!Thomas. He doesn’t really use wardrobe to express his own character. Mainly he just wears whatever shirt is at the top of his laundry pile. This does change later, but we’ll get into that.
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Logan is the first side to appear. He wears a black shirt and a blue tie, along with square glasses. He is the teacher character from Thomas’s vines, and dresses as such. This is because he represents logic, as clear as it is.
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Next to appear is Roman. He wears Thomas’s slightly messy prince outfit, also from vines. Out of all of Thomas’s vine characters, the Prince is one of the most creative ideas, including several original lyrics to parody Disney songs, so it only makes sense.
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Then Patton appears. As the dad character from Thomas’s vines, he has a cardigan tied around his neck, a blue shirt, and glasses.
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Virgil takes a bit longer to show up, but when he does he has slight black eyeshadow and a thrifted black hoodie. He is the only one to have his hair styled different from the others until Remus, having messy bangs going over his eyes rather than slicked to the side like the rest of the Light Sides. He played a villain character against Prince in a few vines, reminiscent of his villain arc for the first season.
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What’s really interesting is the eyeshadow. In Accepting Anxiety 2/2, each Side progressively wears darker black eyeshadow. This shows that this is only a trait of Virgil and his room. (Tumblr is already lagging because of how long this is getting, so I’m only putting an image of Roman here.)
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From this point on, Virgil’s eyeshadow is much darker. Then the costume change happens, at the beginning of s2.
Roman is the first to change, now wearing a more put together costume. His emblem is a shield and castle, representing his need to defend Thomas from harm and possibly the mind palace as well.
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Logan and Patton don’t change too much- Logan has a slightly different tie and his own logo, while Patton wears a cat hoodie and also has his logo.
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Virgil admits he likes Thomas’s purple hair, and adds purple patches to his hoodie. His emblem is a storm cloud, mirroring his gloomy nature and sudden panic.
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After that, Janus is the next side to appear. But we aren’t talking about his design- yet. Remember how at the start of this post, C!Thomas doesn’t have a unique style until later? This is when that comes into play. I’ll explain this in a reblog because I’ve hit the max for images.
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The Official Sanders Sides Emergancy Sleepover
Patton decides that with the recent tensions in the mindscape after their last video, the best course of action would be to host a sleepover.
Somehow, it didn't end in a complete disaster, despite the two gatecrashers, Roman's inability to cook, Logan's complete cluelessness and Virgil's incredibly long list of doubts.
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| Ao3 | The art in this fic posted separately |
warnings: Remus typical level of weirdness, Sexual innuendos, Some slightly gory imagery
pairings: Roceit, background Anaroceit, everyone is friends <3
Word Count: 6777
Notes:
I wrote the last 1500 words of this while I was half asleep at 3am, I can't be blamed for anything that happens.
Remy broke down the door and forced themself into the story, also I'll be using they/them pronouns for Remy, why? I have absolutely no idea, it just kinda felt like what I was supposed to do. I literally don't know.
There's some art some ways into this fic, I can't even be bothered to work out exactly how far in, but all you gotta know is that credit for the picrew in the art goes to @korruptbrekker on Tumblr, I did not make that myself because I am big dumb and big stupid, so thank you so much, my heart was dead set on having a picrew in the art, so you saved me, lol.
Also, another note, I know this was originally from like- August- that's just how long I take to write stuff, sue me.
“Emergency Sanders Sides sleepover in the commons! Now!” Patton practically screeched, stomping his foot to put even more emphasis on the ‘now’ part. Virgil, who had been happily curled up under the blanket playing some cute game on his nintendo switch on their armchair jumped so much he fell right off of the chair.
“Jesus Christ Patton!” Virgil huffed, standing up and trying to untangle himself from the blanket, “What the hell was that for?”
“We’re having a sleepover,” Patton said way too cheerfully, “Tensions have been really high recently-”
“And who’s fault is that?” Virgil muttered.
“Yes yes I know, I’m sorry Virgil, And you know I’ve been trying to do better, and since Janus-”
Virgil grimaced and Patton winced, he knew Virgil wasn’t too happy with Janus’ recent acceptance.
“Since Janus might be coming to join us up here soon, I figured we ought to do a group bonding activity!” Patton said, ending with a smile that was way too forced for Patton to really be fully confident in the idea.
“And you think a… sleepover will help?” Virgil asked, raising an eyebrow, “...sorry for seeming doubtful but- how? Don’t we live together anyway? And besides couldn’t all of us sleeping in close quarters make the tension situation worse? What with my uh- tenuous relationship with sleep, Roman’s sleepwalking and Deceit- uh- Janus’ himselfness, don’t you think it could just serve to make it all worse?”
“Now kiddo, I know it’s your job to look at the possibilities,” Patton tried to reason, Virgil scowled, “But just consider that it could also help make things better! We’ll be bonding, we can spend some time with Janus that isn’t just- spent arguing, and it’ll make things better kiddo,”
“But what if it doesn’t ?” Virgil protested, he knew he was being irrational at this point, but- “They’re dangerous, Patton, I keep trying to tell you- I was one of them- Patton- if this all goes wrong I-”
“Calm down Scaramore,” Roman said, appearing from the stairs, seconds later a hand was placed on his shoulder, Virgil jerked away, before feeling guilty about it, he took a deep breath, “I’m… kinda with Virgil on this one though, padre, are you sure it’s a good idea? Also- text the group chat next time, instead of just yelling,”
“Guys please! I’ve thought this out, ok? We’re going to bake cookies and make a pillow fort together here and watch movies all night. It'll be fun, just give it a chance, ok?” 
“ Fine .” Virgil said, crossing his arms, “But if this goes wrong, don’t say I didn’t warn you,”
“I’m gonna send out a ping on the chat to meet in the common room,” Roman said with a sigh, “I’ll… try to be civil with Janus.”
“I’ve… been meaning to speak to you about that,” Patton said softly, “Just- if you get a chance, kiddo, maybe you can apologise for laughing at him?”
“Yeah I- I’ve had a lot of time to think about it,” Roman huffed, “I’ll try and find a good moment,”
“Thanks, kiddo,”
“I, for one, think a sleepover might be a beneficial idea,” Logan said as he walked down the stairs, Patton seemed to droop in relief.
“Thanks Logan,” Patton sighed, thankful for the support of the smartest side there, at least.
“Yes, from the small amount of research I had the chance to do upon hearing your call, sleepovers are a very good way to strengthen social bonds, and are very often portrayed in media as a fun way to improve relations between peers, it will also be a good exercise to get us all used to having Janus around in a domestic setting rather than simply in the videos,”
“Nerd,” Virgil huffed, pressing the blanket to his face, “Fine, I guess I don’t have the option to back out of this?” 
“Absolutely not!” Patton said, tone way too cheery.
“I don’t apologise for taking so long,” Janus’ voice sounded from the entrance of the dark sides’ mindscape, he began to… limp? Towards them, “I came upon a few issues when attempting to leave,”
“Uh- you’ve got a little something on your leg there, kiddo…?” Patton said, Virgil noticed that Remus was clinging to Janus’ leg with what looked like a vice grip, the deceitful side seemed disgruntled at best.
“Yes, fortunately he refused to let go after he saw the message on my phone, So I didn’t struggle at all to climb the stairs,”
“Remus!” Roman cried out, “What are you doing here!”
“Awe come on Ro! You weren’t planning to leave me out of your sleepover, were you?” 
“You weren’t invited,” Virgil hissed at him and Remus slumped off of Janus’ leg (he quickly stepped away, inspecting his leg to make sure Remus hadn’t gotten any of his gunk on his trousers) putting a hand to his heart with a massively exaggerated look of offence.
“Virgil! I can’t believe you would say such a thing! Of course I’m invited, Daddy-o said it was a sides sleepover after all, and I’m a side!” 
Patton grimaced, before taking a deep breath and plastering that smile back on his face, “N-now kiddos, um- since Remus is here, we should try to be welcoming, ok? What’s one extra addition, huh?”
Virgil ground his teeth, but didn’t say anything.
“So… what exactly are we doing?” Janus asked, raising an eyebrow.
“We’re having a sleepover!” Patton grinned, before explaining everything he’d already explained to Virgil to Janus too, who nodded slowly.
“Alright, so a sleepover, what exactly do we do first, then?” Janus asked.
“I propose we all submit an activity and then we may all vote on what we do first?” Logan proposed, “And then continue to go from there,”
“Truth or dare!” Remus yelled, while at the same time Roman yelled “Makeovers!” 
Both twins turned to glare at each other. Logan flipped over a large portable whiteboard and wrote ‘sleepover ideas’ along the top in big capital letters, before writing both ideas underneath it.
“Baking!” Patton smiled, “So we can have sweets to eat!”
Logan nodded and added the idea, looking between Virgil and Janus to see if either of them would pipe up, neither did.
“I propose we hold a friendly debate,” Logan said, writing down his own ideas. To be honest, he wasn’t sure if that was a normal sleepover activity (it wasn’t) but he hadn’t had enough time to research what people did at sleepovers. He wrote it back on the board and turned to the others, “Janus, Virgil? Anything to add?”
“Shouldn’t the first thing we do be getting the room sleepover ready or whatever? LIke- setting up pillows and blankets and shit so it’s all comfortable before we get into the stupid games?”
“I wasn't going to say card games,” Janus said, “But I actually disagree with Virgil.”
“Yeah same here actually, that’s a real good idea, kiddo,” Patton nodded.
“That does seem like a logical first activity,” Logan nodded, before writing Janus’ card game suggestion down on the board, “Perhaps, if everyone else is in agreement, we should ready the room first, and then decide between these activities?”
“Sounds good to me!” Roman smiled, Remus jumped up.
“Can I-”
“No,” Virgil said, “Whatever you’re about to suggest, no,”
“But I was just gonna-”
“No,”
“Virgil,” Patton chided gently, “Let’s hear him out, ok kiddo?”
Virgil slumped in his chair, arms crossed, he pulled his hood up. 
“I was just gonna ask if I could put up those awesome halloween fairy lights we have downstairs,” Remus said with a pout.
“That actually sounds like a great idea!” Patton said, trying to hide his worry about the fact that it was Remus’ idea, Virgil sunk further into the hoodie as Remus cheered and ran for the door, only to be caught by the scruff of his costume by Janus.
“Remember to get the ones in the living room, not the other ones, you don’t know exactly what I’m talking about,” Janus told him, before letting him go.
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Virgil- begrudgingly- contributed a couple of blankets and pillows to the area downstairs and Roman and Logan shifted the furniture around so there was a large clear space in front of the TV (with the coffee table shoved in front of it to house snacks and such) where they planned to sleep. The sofas and chairs that usually made up their living room set up surrounded the clear floor space and the dining room table had moved so that it was pushed up against the back of one of the sofas. Fairy lights with the bulbs shaped like various cartoon halloween monsters hung around the space and Roman had draped thin coloured sheets over the usually bright lamps. It was still daytime right now, so the room was bathed in natural light, but once the sun set they had ensured that the whole area would be bathed in a lovely colourful glow. 
Once they were done, Virgil opted to grab his weighted blanket- which he’d brought from his room knowing he’d need it, and curl up on the armchair he’d been sitting on before just as Logan once again returned to the whiteboard.
“Alright, everyone cast your votes, don’t vote for your own,” Logan said, placing his vote next to Janus’ card games suggestion (It was the only one he either understood the premise of or found appealing) before handing the pen to the closest side (Who happened to be Remus) and moving away to sit on one of the chairs. Remus added a vote to Roman’s suggestion before throwing it at his twin, who somehow caught the fast moving projectile before it hit him in the forehead.
“Hey Roman, add my vote for Truth or Dare,” Patton called from the kitchen, he was getting stuff out to bake, “I’ll bake while we play!”
Roman nodded and added two votes for Remus’ suggestion, before handing off the pen to Janus, who quickly drew a line next to Patton’s suggestion.
“Virgil, would you like me to add a tally for you?” Janus asked, voice sweet and Virgil was almost slammed back into the past, back when they were friends, instead he yanked himself forcefully back to the present, he grunted.
“Just- truth or dare,” He huffed. He didn’t really want to do any of their suggestions, and he hated that Remus’ was the best of the bunch, “As long as we make rules and follow them,”
“Of course, kiddo!” Patton nodded, “Um, So, dares can be refused if it makes the dare-ee uncomfortable,”
“Boooring,” Remus whined, rolling over, “There's no fun if people don’t do any of the dares!”
“Alright, only refusing dares if you really really can’t do it,” Patton compromised, Remus still looked upset, “And- maybe we could set up a penalty for refusing dares?”
“Like being hit over the head with my morningstar!” Remus yelled.
“No-”
“OR having to eat a rat-”
“Remus-”
“Or losing a finger!”
“Remus!” Patton yelled, “None of those- I was… thinking something more like… we could make a really gross combination of drinkable liquids? So if someone refuses a dare they have to drink some?”
Virgil could’ve sworn he saw anime stars in Remus’ eyes.
“That sounds perfect! Can I help you make it?” Remus asked with a big grin that almost brought tears to Virgil’s eyes.
“Sure!” Patton smiled, Remus practically bolted over to the kitchen.
“See Pattycake, I think you’ve got a ruthless side to you yet!” Remus grinned, pushing up his sleeves. Patton just chuckled nervously as he opened the fridge, quietly talking to Remus as they created some horrible concoction.
“Any more rules we should take note of?” Logan asked.
“No dares that’ll result in injury,” Virgil piped up, “And no destroying things that can’t be replaced,”
“A person is allowed to refuse a truth with the same penalty as a dare,” Janus said quietly. Logan quickly sectioned off some of the whiteboard and wrote down these four rules.
“If that is all, who shall begin the game?” Logan asked.
“I’ll start!” Remus cried from the kitchen, “Patton you keep mixing that over there I’ll be riiiight back! JanJan, truth or dare!”
“Dare,” Janus said without hesitation, Virgil shrugged, he was Deceit after all, anyone expecting him to pick truth was stupid. 
“Hmm,” Remus tapped a finger to his chin, “We’ll start off easy, no wearing your hat for the rest of the evening.”
Janus let out a noise of what could only be mortification as if Remus had just asked him to strip naked. Virgil hid a cackle in his blanket as Janus aimed a middle finger at Remus while taking off his hat and letting it disappear. He shot a glare at Roman, who was gawking at his unruly curly hair. Remus cackled before rushing back to the kitchen.
“Roman truth or dare?” Janus asked with narrowed eyes.
“...Dare?” Roman practically asked, slightly worried for his safety.
“Since Remus started this ‘easy’, genderswap yourself,” Janus said with a smirk, “Clothes also have to change,”
He didn’t anticipate the fact that Roman would actually very much enjoy this dare, he spun around, his regular prince outfit transforming in a show of glitter into a long red skirt, fit with a corset and poofy shoulders, it didn’t hurt that he in a feminine form filled out the outfit quite well. Janus thought for a second that that dare may have harmed himself more than Roman, because apparently Roman was attractive even as a woman. Well, Janus could ignore the bi crisis currently raging in his brain for now, because Roman had moved on to daring Logan.
Janus decided he was going to go and help Patton with his baking in between his turns.
“I dare you to swap clothes with Patton,” Roman told Logan, who groaned, before informing Patton that he was swapping their clothes and clicking his fingers, now burdened with a cat hoodie around his shoulders, he sighed.
“This is so impractical,” Logan sighed mournfully, lifting one of the sleeves hanging around his neck
“This is so stiff!” Patton called, “How do you wear this!”
“It’s practical and sophisticated,” Logan huffed, “Virgil, truth or dare?”
“Dare,”
“You all are so boring ,” Roman groaned, “No truths!”
“You literally picked dare,” Virgil rolled his eyes, as he watched Logan scroll through his phone, reading quickly, “Logan are you looking up dares?”
“I am new to this game, it will take me a while to get used to it,” Logan says by ways of answer, “Let Roman post whatever he wants on your tumblr,”
“What the fuck! No!” Virgil yelled, Roman smiled at him sweetly.
“You want some of this stuff then, my sweet Virgin?” Remus asked, carrying a blender full of awful smelling yellowish sludgy liquid into the room and placing it on the coffee table, Virgil gagged and held out his phone to Roman. Who took it all while snickering at Remus' nickname 
“How long does he have?” Virgil asked sadly.
“Until either he finishes or the game ends,” Logan decided. Virgil groaned, burying his face in the blanket and trying to suffocate himself for a moment, before Logan spoke again, “From my understanding, it’s your turn to ask someone, Virgil,”
“Patton?” Virgil called with his face still buried in the blanket, “Truth or dare?”
“Um,” Patton said, looking over at Virgil, they stared at each other for a moment, “I feel like I’m going to regret this but- dare…?”
“Eat a spoonful of Roman’s extra hot hot sauce,” Virgil said with an evil smirk. Roman audibly gasped.
“Ok kiddo…” Patton said slowly, heading towards the fridge, “Since I might be out of commission for a while afterwards I’ll ask now, Remus, truth or dare?”
“Truth, because you’re all wimps and I wanna get into the juicy stuff!” Remus grinned, making a gesture that made just about everyone uncomfortable.
“Give everyone here a compliment,” Patton said with a sweet smile as he poured a spoonful of the sauce and stuck it in his mouth. Almost immediately he was coughing and fanning his face as his cheeks went red. Janus poured him a glass of milk and patted him awkwardly on the shoulder as he tried to recover.
“Oh my god you are all so boring ,” Remus huffed, “Pattycake, you’re not so bad when you’re not being a goodie-two-shoes, Roman you have big tits as a woman, Dork you look like you could break my spine into three pieces even wearing a cat hoodie and that’s cool,”
“I- what?” Logan asked, confused, Remus took no notice. Roman looked practically violated, covering his chest with an arm. 
“Jan, you’ve got really big tits as a man,”
“I what ?” Janus asked, sounding worryingly calm.
“Look up ‘snitties’ on tumblr,” Remus said waving him off before continuing, “Virgin, you’re really fun to jumpscare because you do this cute little squeak and it’s absolutely precious,”
“How can someone make a wholesome truth into… that,” Logan said, stunned. 
“I’m sure I want to look that up,” Janus said, glancing back at Patton, who was still recovering from the last dare.
“Don’t,” Virgil said, “I’ve had the displeasure of Remus showing me when he found it, you don’t want to see it, also that nickname is not sticking,”
“It’s like a massive tumblr post dedicated to your massive ti-”
“Alright time to move on, who are you asking Remus!” Virgil cut in loudly. 
“Janus truth or dare!” Remus called, Virgil smacked his forehead into the armrest. Unfortunately it was soft.
“I’m not going to like this,” Janus said, “Am I,”
“No-pe!” Remus grinned, “Unless you wanna choose the truth?”
“I would love to, just say the dare already,”
“Read the tumblr post I just sent you out loud to the group,” Remus said with a wide grin as he scrolled through his phone, “Make sure you show off the pictures too,”
“This is going to be horrible, isn’t it,” Logan said quietly.
“Quite,” Roman agreed. Virgil buried himself in the blankets.
It took ten minutes for Janus to read through the entire Snitties post on tumblr, and by the end he was trying to resist the urge to crack his skull open on the wall and Roman was trying not to pass out from the amount of blood rushing to his face- which was flaming red with blush. Remus was cackling like the menace he was.
“Virgil,” Janus said weakly, “Truth or dare?”
“Dare,” Virgil said from inside the blanket.
“Sit on Roman’s lap for the rest of the game,” Janus said, waving him off.
“Are you guys actually trying to kill me?” Roman squeaked, “Why me? Why am I the target of this unprovoked assault?”
“Shut up and sit down so I can sit on you Princey,” Virgil huffed, “I like this no more than you do,”
With a lot of effort (in terms of the dress) Roman managed to sit himself comfortably on the floor so that Virgil could sit in his lap, still wrapped in his blanket because he feared that he might just burst into tears and/or have a panic attack without it, Virgil ended up sitting on Roman’s lap. He wouldn’t admit it, but their position was actually rather comfortable.
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After about an hour, Virgil found himself in a ‘e-girl gamer kitten’ outfit (Remus’ description, it consisted of cat-ear headphones, short shorts and knee high cat socks with garters and fishnets, at least he still had his blanket to snuggle in) Roman had gained a tiara and earrings too, Deceit was now in an 1800s victorian ball gown and wearing Kyoshi Warrior makeup on the human side of his face, Logan was wearing cat facepaint and had been the first to drink some of Remus and Patton’s goop when he’d been dared to talk about his feelings. Virgil had also had a drink of the mixture when he’d been asked which of the sides he would rather kiss, and Janus and Roman had practically made out when Janus had been dared to answer the same question more physically (by the same person, Patton) and Virgil wasn’t jealous at all. 
Remus had ended up coming out as aromantic after being asked his stance on having a romantic partner, which the group had readily accepted, on a similar note, he had dared Patton to be his queerplatonic partner (Patton had drank some of the goop and told Remus he would think about it).
Remus had also been the main reason about half of the blender of goop was gone- he kept daring people to do things like eating dead rats or dissecting eyeballs and not many of the sides wanted to do those things (Logan had promised to dissect some things with him later, though). Patton had ended up being dared by Virgil to not touch the floor until the game ended, so Janus and Remus had been periodically passing him cushions so he could still get around the kitchen to bake his sweets. 
Logan had taken a photo of Virgil and Roman on Virgil’s phone (Per Roman’s request near the end of the game) and Roman had completed his earlier dare of posting on Virgil’s Tumblr and the fact that the post ended up getting over five hundred notes before the game had even ended was absolutely mortifying. 
Otherwise, Virgil had managed to avoid being emotionally vulnerable and avoid the worst of the dares, so he counted that as a win. Hey, and they were all laughing by the end of it, which was a pretty big win, it almost felt like they were all finally getting along.
Quickly, while everyone was destracted and still calming down from the game, Virgil opened Tumblr to see what atrocity Roman had posted.
"Oh my god," Virgil mumbled at he stared at the picture in front of him.
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"Why the fuck does it look like an Instagram post?" Virgil yelled, before opening Instagram, only to see that Roman had posted it there too, "You dick!"
Roman just laughed.
“So!” Logan called everyone to attention, successfully distracting them from the Tumblr mishap, they'd already cleaned up the mess and gotten back into their regular outfits, so now the sleepover could continue, “Now that that ordeal is over and everything is back in order, we can remove that from the board and decide what to do next.”
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After truth or dare, Roman had ended up insisting on painting everyone’s nails while they held a Dance Dance Revolution tournament (Remus ended up winning, somehow he and Janus were the best at the game). Despite protesting at first, Virgil was quite happy with his sparkly purple nails, Roman had told him that he knew he’d like it. The only side who’d avoided the nail painting was Janus- you couldn’t paint nails when the person refused to take off gloves, after all. 
“Shall we change into more comfortable attire?” Roman asked during a lull in the atmosphere after they awarded Remus with an interesting looking crown for winning DDR. Patton had once again retreated to the kitchen to prepare some food for dinner and the conversation had died out a little bit. Roman obviously felt awkward around his brother and Virgil didn’t exactly want to talk to Janus or Remus. Logan was busy looking up ideas for more sleepover activities on his phone, so he wasn’t exactly open to conversation at the moment. Virgil was quite happy for Roman breaking the growing uncomfortable silence.
“I agree with this idea, getting into pyjamas or more comfortable attire may make it easier for all of us to relax, seeing as the atmosphere created by the game seems to have… soured, slightly,” Logan agreed, putting his phone away.
“Are we getting into onesies?” Patton asked, popping in from the kitchen.
“I believe we aren’t,” Janus confirmed, “Fortunately, though, I do not own a onesie,”
“I sleep in the buff!” Remus contributed, Virgil winced, he really didn’t want to see that.
“Well, if you plan to stay for the night, we must ask that you wear something we deem appropriate,” Logan told him firmly, “Otherwise, you must sleep elsewhere,”
Virgil shot Logan a thankful glance, the logical side nodded. 
“Fine,” Remus huffed, plopping down next to Roman in a pair of ghastly ripped up sweatpants and a green crop-top hoodie that read ‘intrusive THOT’ across the chest. He collapsed into his brother, who yelped and shoved him off. Remus picked up a pillow and whacked Roman over the head with it, Roman jumped up with a grin that startled Virgil a little bit, hitting Remus back with another pillow, and thus a pillow fight began. 
Patton joined in pretty quickly, giggling like a child as he picked up a cushion and jumped into the flurry of soft blows. Logan was dragged into it too, at some point, and eventually Virgil got involved after Remus whacked him in the face with a pillow and he couldn’t help but retaliate after that.
While the pillow fight was going strong though, Roman took the opportunity of the destruction to sneak away, heading quietly to the kitchen, where Janus had taken over the cooking when Patton had first gotten involved.
“Hey, um, Janus?” Roman asked as he came up behind the side, maybe right now wouldn’t be the best time to have a serious conversation, with the sounds of the others laughing and yelling in the background, nonetheless Janus turned, setting the tray he had just taken from the oven down on a cooling rack and removing the large oven gloves (patterned with pink and blue hearts, stars and butterflies, a design that just screamed Patton) to reveal that he was still wearing his yellow gloves underneath.
“Hello, Roman,” Janus said, leaning on the counter, “I’m totally not busy right now,”
“Ah- sorry, I just… wanted to talk to you while the others were… occupied,” Roman said, glancing back over at the others, still fighting, he shuffled his feet awkwardly, Janus raised an eyebrow at him, letting him know to continue, “I um- I’ve been thinking a lot since- um- yeah- and I just, I wanted to apologise… you know for… laughing at your name and being incredibly un-prince like towards you otherwise as well,”
“I don’t accept your apology,” Janus said, a hint of a smile on his lips, Roman relaxed minutely, “And besides, it’s not like I have anything to apologise to you for as well, I don’t think I deserved that at all after everything else I did to you too,”
“I… well-” Roman huffed, “Consider it even, then,”
“Alright,” Janus nodded, before smirking, “I suppose I also should apologise for the eh- kissing- earlier,”
“It was a dare, Pretty Little Liar,” Roman waved him off, though he knew he was blushing, he was pretty intrigued to note that Janus was also blushing.
“Would you like to help me finish the dinner preparations?” Janus asked instead of continuing down that road, gesturing to the array of food that still needed to be cooked before they could set up the mini buffet that Patton had planned.
“Um- I’ll gladly assist but… I am banned from a reason, you know,” Roman said, gesturing to a piece of paper taped to the fridge which showed their cooking schedule, Patton, Logan and Virgil alternated days they would cook, and underneath a thick header underlined three times that read ‘BANNED’ was Roman’s name.
Janus laughed, “What on earth could you do to get banned from the kitchen?”
“I almost blew up the house trying to make a mug brownie…” Roman said, looking away, “And got the entire kitchen covered in glitter and goopy sugary goop when I tried to make a confetti cake… I also lit the stove on fire by accident while trying to cook bacon-”
“Alright alright, surely you’ll do fine with instruction?” Janus   asked, waving him over.
“That’s a lie, but sure go off,” Roman rolled his eyes.
“Patton let Remus help him earlier, did he not?” Janus asked, smirking at Roman, “And he is of course, way better than you are, I see every issue with enlisting your help,”
Roman snorted at that one, but shook his head, “You know what, fine, I’ll help with dinner, but if there's a fire I’m not taking the blame you Bananaconda!”
“I completely despise that nickname,” Janus said with a small smile, before they got to work. 
Somehow, with Janus’ instruction, Roman managed not to start a fire or even make too much of a mess. The others had been adequately surprised to learn this as Roman and Janus set out the fully edible (and only slightly burnt) food on the table for everyone to pick at as the night went on.
—-
“Thanks for roping me into cooking,” Roman said, as he slid onto the sofa next to Janus with his plate of food, Virgil squinted at them from his chair across the room, “I had fun,”
“I despise that,” Janus said, shooting him a half smile, Roman beamed back. Virgil glanced around- at Patton and then Logan- Patton just shrugged with a smile, he just seemed happy that they were getting along but something had changed.
“I’m not eating the food if Princey had a hand in making it,” Virgil huffed, Roman gasped, raising a hand to his forehead dramatically.
“I’m wounded! Wounded by my beloved stormcloud!” Roman cried, Janus hid a chuckle by shoving a fork full of food into his mouth.
“Look, I’m just going by past experiences, your food hasn’t exactly been edible before,” Virgil said, rolling his eyes, Roman squeaked in annoyance.
“There’s every need to worry, Virgil,” Janus said, “I neither helped nor supervised, everything is inedible, I assure you,”
“Thanks, liar,” Virgil huffed, before glancing around at the others again. Remus was quite happily drinking the remaining blender sludge from the truth or dare game, while Logan and Patton were both starting to fill their plates with actual food which… did look good, despite his suspicions. Virgil stamped down the ugly feeling he got when he looked over at Janus- who was now laughing openly at something Roman had said- and stood up to get food himself. 
Not long after that their energy had lulled into quiet discussions happening around the room. Remus had opted to collapse on top of his brother, successfully inserting himself into Roman and Janus’ conversation, whatever they were talking about and Patton and Logan were quietly discussing something whilst they sorted through the vast selection of DVDs they had stored in the corner of the living room and Virgil had once again returned to his chair, armed with a pillow and his weighted blanket once again. He had summoned his phone and was trying to reply to the onslaught of Tumblr asks he’d gotten in response to Roman’s post. 
Being the only one not currently engaged in a conversation though, meant that Virgil was the first to notice the intruder almost break the door to the subconscious off of it’s hinges. 
“Heyyy-” They said, successfully grabbing the attention of everyone in the room, they looked around at the setup before gasping in offence, “OMGoodness! I cannot believe you guys! How could you host a sleep over without inviting me ?”
“Perhaps because the goal of a sleepover is to… not sleep?” Roman basically asked, “And that kinda uh- goes against your function, Remy?”
“Hey Remy!” Patton called with a wave, “You’re welcome to stay! We’re just about to start movies!”
Remy ignored both of them, the ice in their starbucks cup (who knows where they got Starbucks in the mindscape, we don’t question their methods) rattling as they pointed it accusingly at Virgil.
“Virge! Gurl I swear I haven’t seen you in like for-ever! How have you been, bestie?”
“Uhm- sleep deprived?” Virgil answered, Remy burst out laughing.
“I knew you’d miss me!” They grinned, before muttering quietly, “They always come back in the end,”
Virgil just rolled his eyes, “God you’re insufferable, just- come and sit down if you’re joining us,”
“Oh well of course, if you’re offering!” Remy smirked, and before Virgil could protest Remy had sauntered over and suddenly the extra space on Virgil’s armchair had been stolen from him and so had half of his blanket. 
“If you’re going to put your legs on my lap at least have the decency to take off your shoes,” Virgil hissed to Remy before going back to watching Janus and Roman coversate from across the room. Remy rolled their eyes before snapping their shoes away, leaving their rainbow socks on show. 
“Alright kiddos!” Patton called, getting everyone’s attention, “Time to decide on the first movie we’re going to watch!”
“Something with songs!” Roman called out immediately.
“How about a musical?” Janus asked, “I completely despise them.”
“Ok but consider,” Roman said, “Disney.”
“What about…” Patton thought for a second, before picking up a case, “A Disney distributed musical?”
“Hamilton!” Roman cried happily, throwing his arms in the air.
“That’s an absolutely horrible choice,” Janus nodded in agreement.
“Awesome! Any objections?” Patton asked.
“Hamilton is adequate,” Logan said.
Remus shrugged, “As long as we get to watch something interesting later!”
“I don’t even want to know what you’d consider interesting,” Virgil grumbled.
“I could give you nightmares about it if you want!” Remy said, all too cheerily, “Me and Re collaborate on them quite often, actually!”
“Do you want me to avoid you for another two weeks?” Virgil hissed elbowing them under the blankets. Remy pouted.
“No,” They muttered, before shifting all of their weight onto Virgil, who groaned.
“Just start the film already.” Virgil huffed.
—-
As the film played, Virgil couldn’t help but watch as Janus and Roman sang the songs together- some of the others joining in too just for fun- somehow they did it seamlessly without even discussing who would sing each part, first Roman as Hamilton while Janus played Burr, and then Janus as Hamilton while Roman played Eliza. 
“Looks like your man’s being stolen, gurl,” Remy whispered to Virgil and Janus kissed Roman’s hand, mimicking Alexander and Eliza onscreen. They had actually stood up to dance along with the cast to ‘Helpless’ and Patton couldn’t help but start giggling as he filled in Angelica’s lines for them. Virgil grumbled something unintelligible in reply.
“Looks like you’re Angelica in this situation, huh Virge,” Remy whispered in his ear, sentence punctuated by Remus’ belly laughs as Patton tried to get through the line about Angelica wanting to form a harem. 
“Fuck you,” Virgil said, putting his hand over Remy’s face and shoving them away. 
Roman managed to manipulate them all into watching Frozen next, much to Remus’ dismay. Logan begrudgingly gave in and quietly sang along to Elsa’s parts while Roman sang Anna’s after what seemed like a fair amount of coaxing, bribery and possible blackmail. in the build up to ‘Love is an Open Door’ Roman offered a hand to pull Virgil up.
“Sing with me?” Roman asked, leaving the offer of his hand there, Virgil just stared at it, “Oh come on Virge! We sound so good together on this one!”
“He’d love to!” Remy grinned, picking up Virgil’s hand and placing it in Roman’s, allowing Roman the chance to pull him up. Virgil gave Remy the middle finger as the song started, the other side just did it right back.
After the annoyance and the feeling of not wanting to sing in front of everyone had died down, Virgil found that it was actually really fun to sing with Roman, letting himself fall into the rhythm of it as Roman harmonised with him while they danced in circles over the small cleared space inbetween everyone. Patton clapped and cheered for them when the song was over and Virgil collapsed back onto the chair, bad mood from before all but evaporated. He didn’t even care that he’d mostly fallen on top of Remy, it was the payback they most definitely deserved for one reason or another.
Of course, Remus made his obligatory ‘Kristoff fucks the reindeer’ comment during Fixer Upper, successfully interrupting the fun Patton, Roman and Remy were having singing it together- though they managed to get back on track pretty quickly- though Patton had stepped down from singing to instead chase Remus around the house armed with a pillow. 
“Did we ever finish that Frozen rewrite that we started during the episode?” Logan asked after the film was over, “Because I may have to remind Thomas of that particular idea if not, I must check my records later.”
“The rewrite! Gosh that feels like only yesterday despite it happening like what- two years ago?” Roman sighed wistfully, “We should definitely dig that back up sometime!”
—-
For the next film, Patton (after finally catching him) begrudgingly let Remus choose with Janus’ guidance (just so he wouldn’t choose something so gorey or sexual that the rest of them couldn’t watch it) and they’d ended up settling on some horror film that Virgil was decidedly not watching. He had summoned his headphones and covered his head with the blanket at the earliest opportunity presented to him. He was glad for it when he heard Patton screech even through the noise cancelling. 
Somehow, halfway through what sounded like a pretty gruesome horror film, Remy fell asleep, so Virgil took the excuse that had fallen into his lap (literally) and swaddled them up in some spare blankets and carried them upstairs so that the others wouldn’t wake them up with the screaming. 
—-
They managed to get to about half past three in the morning before Logan began insisting that they should start heading to sleep, so they’d decided to pack it in after this film ended (thankfully something more light hearted after that horror film, Virgil didn’t want worse nightmares than usual, thank you very much).
So, as promised, after the film had wrapped up, everyone started getting ready for bed. Roman summoned sleeping bags and yet more blankets and pillows for everyone, as if they needed them and soon everyone started winding down. 
At some point during this process, Remy returned, aviators askew and Virgil’s blanket wrapped around their shoulders. Without saying a word they grabbed the closest sleeping bag and got in it before flopping down onto the ground incredibly ungracefully, once again dead asleep in seconds.
“Virgilll,” Roman whined from his sleeping bag on the ground, Virgil was just in the process of zipping up his own bag on the other side of the room, “C’mereee- I wanna cuddle,”
VIrgil just rolled his eyes at the way Roman was making grabby hands in his vague direction and shuffled over to where Roman was lying. Sleeping next to Roman wouldn’t hurt, right?
“Goodnight kiddos!” Patton called.
“Goodnight, Patton,” Janus said from somewhere past Roman, “I don’t apologise for the spiders in that film, by the way, I forgot they featured so heavily, and I also hope all of you have nightmares and sleep terribly,”
“Thanks Jan!” Remus called from somewhere near Patton, taking the lie at full sincerity.
“Thanks, Janus,” Patton said, accepting the truth he could gather from the statement. 
“Goodnight all,” Roman said, Virgil kicked him, though it didn’t have much impact with the sleeping bags.
“Everyone just shut up and go to sleep already,” Virgil groaned.
Finally, after an even more long-winded chain of goodnights that Virgil thought was possible (he was sure they were doing it to spite him). Everyone went quiet.
—-
“Hey guys, whaddyou all think about forming an orgy right here right now,”
“Re, shut the fuck up and sleep before I sew your mouth closed with silly string.” 
“Sounds like fun! Lets make it a date, huh Virgey?”
“Both of you shut up!” 
“Some of us aren’t trying to sleep here, you know,”
“If I hear another word out of any of you kiddos I will not be making pancakes in the morning,” 
That shut everyone up pretty quick, no-one wanted to miss out on Patton’s breakfast pancakes. 
—-
Somehow, when he woke up the next afternoon ( all of them- excluding Logan who had an immaculate sleep cycle- had slept all through the morning) Virgil found that he had ended up sandwiched between Roman and Janus in his sleep. He was almost 100% certain that Janus had been on the other side of them both when they first went to sleep.
How odd.
Well, Virgil thought as he let himself relax between them, it could be worse.
He heard the click of a camera mixed in with coos and giggles that sounded suspiciously like Remus and Remy. 
Virgil had jinxed himself. It got worse. 
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Creased Hoodies (Chapter 11: The Return) [Folds in Time Universe]
Fandom: Sander Sides
Relationships: Logan/Virgil, Janus/Patton (background), Remus & Roman  (background)
Characters:
Main: Logan, Virgil
Appear: Patton, Roman
Mentioned: Janus, Remus
Summary: Virgil just wanted to go on his planned summer research trip to do an anthropological study in 2005 America. However, when he is taken off course by an unknown enemy, he ends up stranded in the summer of 2018 with no way to get back the the 44rd century. Luckily, 2018 happens to be where a certain illegal time agency is based, and he might have an in with one of its agents.
This is the intermission for the story Folds in Paper. It takes place between Folds in Paper Book 1 and Book 2. It also takes place after the first 5 chapter of “Messages for a Hacker” which are side stories in the universe. Check all of this and more out on my Folds in Time Master Post.
Chapter Summary: Patton returns home to a very awkward 
Notes: Time travel AU
This is a fic I’ve been writing on study breaks that you have probably all already seen at this point. I’ve slightly edited it for wording and grammar, but not for content from my previous posts. Feel free to send in asks to direct it because I’m not 100% sure where this is going and you can help decide if you feel so inclined! You can see the process I went through to build this at this link.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10
The breakfast table was silent the next morning. Though, if one could call it a breakfast table when Logan was only drinking a cup of tea, Roman was chewing on a slice of unbuttered, untoasted bread, and Virgil was squirreled away in Logan’s bedroom either still asleep or avoiding them both was debatable.
“…Look,” Roman said.
“We aren’t talking about it.”
“How was I supposed to know the two of you were getting it on?!” Roman said, talking about it. “Put a sock on the door next time or something. It’s common courtesy!”
“We weren’t having sex,” Logan hissed. Roman opened his mouth. “Shut up and learn the ‘common courtesy’ of knocking.” He pointed a spoon at his roommate threateningly.
Yet, still, because it was Roman, the other man opened his mouth once more. Luckily, before he could say anything else on the matter, there was a loud crack from the living room.
“I’m going to need a towel please!” Patton called.
“I’ve got it,” Roman said, jumping into motion and sprinting towards the bathroom. Logan meanwhile, stood and headed towards the living room.
“Why are you wet?” Logan asked immediately upon taking in the sight of his roommate. His very, very soaked roommate. He was dripping water like he’d just crawled out of a pond.
“There was an ocean in the church,” Patton replied, seeming unconcerned by the fact that he was getting their carpet wet.
“What?” Logan asked.
Patton pushed his sopping wet hair out of his eyes. “The time distortions were a lot more intense than the ones we’ve seen before,” he said. He held out a small innocuous appearing device whose only mechanism seemed to be a small switch. “Be careful with that. It’s unstable, and we might have damaged it getting out.” Patton winced and removed his timepiece from his wrist. “Actually, speaking of that… this might need a checkup too.”
“Were there issues with the tech?” Logan asked, reaching for both devices.
“…No,” Patton said, looking a bit sheepish. “We may have… had to turn off all of the safety protocols.”
“You what?!” Logan asked, snatching away the timepiece and clutching it to his chest. “Patton, I just made this for you!”
“And you did a really good job!” was Patton’s reply, “but we didn’t want to drown in a church.”
“It was a completely new design!”
“And it’s really good,” Patton said with a smile, “and clearly reliable. We didn’t blow up!”
Logan took a slow breath. “I’ll make sure it wasn’t damaged.”
“Thanks Lo!”
Roman entered the living room then, bright blue towel in hand. “I have returned bearing gifts!” he proclaimed.
“My hero,” Patton said with a laugh. He took the towel and used it to wipe off his face and then start to dry his hair.
“So, an ocean in a church?” Logan asked.
Patton nodded. “I’ll have to thank Virgil for suggesting the inflatable raft,” he said. “Though I think he might have cheated on that suggestion.” He paused then as he finished running the towel through his hair, face growing slightly more serious. “I saw Remus,” he told them.
Roman froze instantly. “You did?”
“Uh huh,” Patton replied. “He was with Janus, but I figured I shouldn’t say anything about you to him since that trip was way out of sync. I’m sorry.”
“Yeah, no, of course,” Roman said. “That makes sense. That’s fine. How was he?”
“He seemed good,” Patton said. He flashed Roman a smile. “Happy. Not exactly what I expected though. He’s quite the character. I can tell he and Janus are good friends.”
“Oh,” Roman said. “That’s… that’s good.”
Patton’s face screwed up slightly. “He did flirt with me though, so that was weird.”
“He what?!” Roman screeched.
“It wasn’t particularly innocent flirting either,” Patton said with a grimace.
Roman took a moment to process this information before pulling a face that one would expect to see on a small child trying a lemon for the first time. “That’s disgusting! That’s like… that’s like my brother flirting with my brother. Gross and wrong!”
“It was… it was weird,” Patton confirmed.
“What did he even say?” Roman asked.
“Mostly it was comments about my…” he made a motion with his head that Roman apparently was able to decipher.
“He talked about your butt?!”
“Well,” Patton said, “he didn’t exactly use that word.”
“That sounds about right for Remus,” Virgil said, poking his head into the living room.
“Oh, so you’ve finally decided to join the land of the living, Emo?” Roman asked, turning to him.
“Shut up,” both Logan and Virgil said at the same time.
Of course, he did not. “You know, Pat-Pat, speaking of posteriors…”
“One more word out of you and I will murder you,” Virgil threatened. Roman did not look afraid, quite the opposite.
“Uh,” Patton said, looking between them. “What’s going on?”
“I’ll tell you latter,” Roman promised with a wink.
“You will not,” Logan said. “Keep your gossiping tendencies under control.”
“Well, wait,” Patton said with a pout. “Now I want to know.”
“You go take a shower,” Logan ordered.
Patton and Roman shared a look that was already giving Logan a migraine. He had no doubts Patton would have the whole story along with a good number of embellishments by dinner.
“Yes boss,” Patton said with a cheeky grin.
Logan rolled his eyes as his roommate turned towards the bathroom, the towel still on his shoulders. He was dry enough that he wasn’t dripping everywhere anymore, and he made sure to slip off his waterlogged shoes and socks so as to not track water to the bathroom.
“Put everything in the biohazard hamper,” Logan called after him.
“I know!” he called back.
“And you,” Logan said, tuning to Roman, “clean up all of the water he got on the carpet in the off chance there are any pathogens in it.”
“Why me?” Roman whined.
“Because you’ve annoyed me,” Logan said, “and I need to insure these two devices do not explode.”
“Ugh, fiiiine,” Roman said, dipping back into the hall.
Virgil glanced over at Logan once Roman had gone, his expression the picture of awkwardness. “Uh,” he said. “Hey.”
“Hi,” Logan said.
“…Are those things really at risk of exploding right now?” he asked.
Logan glanced at him. “Technically they are always at least slightly at risk of exploding, but admittedly the chance is further from 0 than I would like it to be at this moment.”
“Great,” Virgil said. “One more thing to be anxious about.”
“You don’t need to be anxious about it, Virgil,” Logan said.
“Uh, I think I do need to be anxious about the maybe bomb in your hands,” Virgil said, throwing a suspicious look towards the devices.
“That’s not what I meant,” Logan said.
“I know,” Virgil sighed.
“We are two mutually consenting adults,” Logan pointed out. “There isn’t any shame to it.”
“Can we please talk about our very embarrassingly interrupted kiss after you’ve dealt with the explosives?”
“Very well,” Logan agreed. He walked to the other side of the room to grab a statis chamber from a cabinet drawer.
“What’s that?” Virgil asked as the cube shaped device popped up.
“It’s a stasis cube,” Logan said as he placed the two devices into it and activated it. It lit up yellow. “It will allow them to cool down completely from their earlier use in a safe environment. Once they’re more stable, it will be less dangerous to work with them.”
“If it just takes 5 seconds to deal with them, why are you making Roman clean up?” Virgil asked amused.
“Like I said,” Logan said. “He annoyed me. Speaking of,” he glanced into the hallway where Roman currently was. “How do you feel about leaving before he gets back? Patton will clean himself up and probably take a nap immediately after, so we have time. We could get coffee in peace.”
Virgil smiled at him. “Sure,” he said. “Escape the apartment for coffee part two.”
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edupunkn00b · 2 years
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French Kiss: Tale of the Revolution, Ch. 10: Rue Sans Paroles
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J'suis trop fragile Pour me débrouiller sans toi J'ai dansé dans le noir Abaissé mes paupières Pour ne plus t'apercevoir Ça a eu l'air de te plaire I'm too fragile To get by without you I danced in the dark Lowered my eyelids To no longer notice you It seemed to please you - Danser Dans Le Noir by BARON.E
23 June 1789
“Thank you, Patton. I expect to return well before nightfall,” Logan began, clasping the ordinarily bouncy young man’s shoulder. When Logan and Janus had struggled to get the new wheel attached to their carriage, Patton had run right out from the still-closed café to help. But Logan’s somber tone had been infectious and the talkative little server also grew quiet as they worked.
Janus didn’t hear the rest of their conversation when he went back into de Foy. “Rémy?” He leaned over the edge of the bar, looking for the proprietor, checking to see if he’d slipped down to the root cellar through the little door set into the floorboards. He jumped back when Rémy pushed through the swinging door from the tiny kitchen.
“For the road,” he said, passing over a corked glass bottle and a small but heavy bundle wrapped in a tea towel. “And make sure Logan eats,” Rémy leaned close, voice quiet. They both eyed the door. “He’s not looking well.”
“You noticed too?” Rémy made a face and Janus nodded with a heavy sigh. “Of course you noticed. I will,” Janus promised, nodding once. The recent change in Logan had been marked. Throughout the past week, he’d been quiet… subdued. He was ordinarily very healthy and while his energy didn’t manifest in the same ways as Patton’s near-manic bubbliness, Logan was typically up every morning by dawn and active until midnight, eyes steady and bright, observing, recording, and analyzing everything around him. Janus felt a mix of worry and relief that he hadn't been the only one who’d noticed the change in his friend.
“If he grows more ill, don’t let him ride out when it’s time for me to return.” Janus gripped Rémy’s arm and met his eyes. “With the Estates General meeting, there’s a twice-daily post out to the palace. Just send word and I’ll return another way.”
The door opened and Logan stepped through. “Ready if you are,” he said, smiling weakly at Janus. Rémy patted Janus’ shoulder, nodding. “Safe travels,” he said, waving to both men, then retreated back to the kitchen. “Send Patton in when you go.”
“Rémy prepared a little something for us,” Janus said, holding up the packet and the bottle with a grin as he followed Logan out the door. “It smells good.” He leaned close to Logan and whispered near his ear. “To tell you the truth, I think he’s just happy we won’t distract his server all day,” he joked, winking.
Logan huffed out a tiny chuckle and nodded. “Quite likely,” he said, a taste of his usual dry humor peeking through. “Patton,” he called and pointed back at the café. “Rémy needs you inside.”
He gave a little shrug, “I was wondering how much longer it would be before he pulled me back in to help him start the day.” Patton hurried back toward the café, then spoke to Logan over his shoulder. “And you can count on me, Logan!”
Nodding solemnly, Logan climbed up into the driver’s perch and offered a hand to Janus. He passed him their little bounty from Rémy, then clambered up. Janus jerked his head toward the now-closed door of the café. “Have you assigned him a secret mission?” he asked with a crooked smile.
Instead of laughing, Logan nodded his head. “Of a sort. Something to keep him occupied so he won’t attempt to invent ways to be useful until I return.” He clicked his tongue, urging the horses forward before he added. “Rémy still hasn’t quite forgiven me for the time Patton made me ink in the café’s stock pot.”
Janus chuckled. Patton’s fingertips had been stained for days. The pot had fared far worse. “It’s good ink, at least,” he said, hoping to pull a smile from his friend.
“Yes, it is,” he agreed.
They rode in silence through the quiet streets, the early morning light giving even the dirty puddles in the gutters a soft glow. Without the horses and the hawkers and the people bustling about, Paris was quite beautiful. It was only when she was fully awake that the city's overcrowding and simmering anger overwhelmed the senses.
“How are you feeling this morning, Lo?” Janus finally asked the question that sat behind his teeth since he’d first laid eyes on his friend, waking to find him slowly shaving in a dented tin mirror. He hoped that now that they were underway, with the pressure for Logan to hide his ill health, lest it delay the trip, removed, Logan might be honest if he was getting sick.
“Perfectly fine,” he said, unsmiling. He nodded, lifting his eyes from the road and looking around at the quiet storefronts as they passed through the last business district before the Seine. “It is a lovely morning.” Janus raised an eyebrow and Logan looked away. “Perhaps a bit of a headache. I hope you can forgive me if I am an inadequate conversationalist today.”
“Lo, of course. I am not concerned with your ability to entertain me. Merely with your health and happiness.” Janus squeezed Logan’s knee and the other man’s sharp intake of breath drew his attention. “If you’re in pain, I should drive and you can go lay down in the compartment. Or should I simply leave you in peace?” Janus tried to meet his eyes but they’d reached the ramp up to the bridge and Logan's gaze was straight ahead, concentrating on the path ahead.
“I will be without your company for several days,” he finally said. “I may not be talkative, but I would much rather sit with you and listen than hide from a headache by myself.” Logan finally turned and met Janus’ eyes with a small smile. “Tell me, what are your thoughts of the Jacobins?”
Janus grinned. He couldn’t resist ranting about the new political party capturing all the attention in the streets of Paris and Logan knew it. “I simply do not understand how the Jacobins can possibly think that liberty, equality, and brotherhood somehow can still include slavery! It’s as though there’s no-one at the helm!” He shifted in his seat to better face his friend as he launched into a passionate critique of the party. "Have you seen their latest treatise? It's as thought it was written by the American hypocrites themselves!"
Logan sat back with a tiny smile and alternated between watching the road and his friend rant about the missing moral compass in the increasingly popular group. He kept his smile until the spikes at the gates of Versailles were in view and Janus retreated to the compartment to change.
~~~
“Sir Henri Juriste for His Royal Highness Remus,” Logan announced in a clear voice after he stepped down from the driver’s perch. Janus peered through a small gap in the velvet drapes covering the tiny window in the door. The guards nodded and waved him forward, and Logan opened the carriage door, offering a hand to Janus to help him down. Janus’ hand shook and Logan smiled up at him.
“You can do this, Janus,” he murmured quietly, and gave his hand a little squeeze. “And we’ll see you in just a few days.”
Janus nodded and took a slow breath, then allowed Logan to lead him down out of the passenger compartment. The steward stood a few feet away, waiting for him. “Right this way, Sir,” he said before turning sharply and moving rapidly toward the entrance. Janus flashed Logan one last smile, then turned and followed the steward into the palace.
A little more than an hour into the ride back home, Logan guided his horses as far to one side of the road as the carriage would fit to allow a wagon heading toward Versailles to pass. He waved and nodded to the driver, then nodded again with a little smile at the blonde-haired chatterbox sitting in the back, waving his arms and telling the story of the day his boss confused salt for sugar in his coffee, but refused to acknowledge the mistake.
“And then Rémy drank the whole thing!” Patton’s laughter danced and faded down the road as the distance grew between their vehicles and Logan shook his head, a bittersweet smile lingering on his face as he made the long journey back home to Paris alone.
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Back at the palace, the steward wordlessly strode with precise, fast steps down the winding corridors to the music room. When they reached the tall double doors, he knocked twice, then opened the left. “Sir?” He stood in front of Janus as they entered the room, then stepped to one side with a stiff bow. “Sir Henri Juriste has arrived.”
“Mon Sir Henri,” Remus reached the doorway in two steps and extended his hand, palm up, toward Janus with a low bow. Janus imagined the steward stiffened next to him, but when he looked, his expression was neutral, watching the space between them as though waiting for further instructions.
Remus’ gaze was fixed on Janus, his smile broadening with a little shoulder shimmy when he laid gloved fingers in his. The prince lowered his head to kiss the back of his hand, eyes locked on Janus’. Only after he straightened and led Janus further into the music room did Remus nod to the steward, dismissing him.
Before the door had even closed, Remus pulled Janus close, one arm around his waist, the other crossing his back, one strong hand cradling the back of his head. “You’re here, mon douceur, ” he murmured, looking down at him, gaze dancing between his lips and his eyes.
“Your douceur is here,” Janus whispered, already reaching up to pull Remus down into a kiss. And right now, that was who he was. He wasn’t Sir Henri Juriste, low-level noble who caught the eye of royalty at a ball. He wasn’t Janus Robespierre, revolutionary and schemer dead set on changing France by whatever means necessary.
As their lips met, he was simply Remus’ sweet, his douceur. And that’s all he wanted to be.
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bonker-bananas · 2 years
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welcome to: ladybug has an au but keeps forgetting to post about it! part 1!
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this is the original designs for an au i am tentatively calling overalls!au
(for reasons that will be explained later)
(also bonus amity sketch and little comic w/janus, patton, and virgil, if you can read it)
it is a high school au, with the main focus on intruality, but qpr
i have since updated a couple designs, but none of them are really final yet
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up first is remus’ scrapped design
i do actually like it, but it wasn’t really what i was going for, so i might use it for something else
i also just never actually finished it, soooo yeah
he uses he/they/it pronouns?? i think?? i genuinely cannot remember
no no wait it uses he/she/it that’s right
she’s trans and ace! either gay or pan too prob
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next is logan’s design, which i am actually really happy with!
i love this one a lot, probably won’t change it too much
he and patton are old friends in this au, and very close
i’d really love to explore his friendship with remus too, tho!
logan uses he/him pronouns and also some space related neopronouns i haven’t figured out yet
he is trans and i have no clue what else. mayyyybe ace? def gay tho
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patton but old design!
i have a new one but i am not super satisfied with it, will probably find one somewhere inbetween the two i like
okay okay this au is probably gonna be Big Projection Times bc um i like patton and relate to him too much
patton and logan go way back, but patton probably meets remus in middle school?? maybe??
i think the whole gang meets then, so yeah
but yeah him and remus in qpr is the big focus of this au and will probably be the ones drawn the most (tho i do rlly love logan’s dynamic with them and logan and virgil’s designs)
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speaking of which, virgil! another design i adore!
they are short and cute and i love them
mayyyybe him an logan are together?? or just closer than the others
actually you know what would be hilarious? if virgil and logan are in a qpr too!!
okay yes it’s canon now
virgil is enby(they/them pronouns), gay, mayybe demiro, and ace
sheesh at this point like everyone is ace
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hey look, it’s roman, the token allosexual!!
he’s aro tho don’t worry (and bi)
also, this is maybe scrapped bc i like the outfit but he just looks like my best friend in this picture so
i’ll probably just change his hairstyle, maybe make it longer
roman is remus’ twin still, and good friends with everyone but especially janus
um, he/him pronouns?? or maybe he/they?
and finally, janus! who i, um, maybe don’t have a design for??
i have not actually drawn him yet, so yeah
i think, before middle school, he was remus’ best friend, and then during middle school, they started growing apart, and now in high school he is roman's best friend and he and remus still talk and stuff, but they’re not super close
remus is, um, not quite ready to let go, we’ll say it that way
i mean, she just wishes they were still close and interested in the same things, that’s all
(not me projecting onto remus too, no way)
oh also remus is in orchestra with patton and janus is in band(with maybe roman)
i might find a way to work emile and remy into this too but we’ll see i guess
oh and please let me know if you can’t read my writing, i can absolutely tell you what they say if you need it, it’s not super important tho
my handwriting is atrocious
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logically-asexual · 2 years
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I can tell I've rotted in your brain
summary:
another take on Logan becoming a Dark Side because Thomas just doesn't want him anymore. this one narrates the process through which is Logan is slowly pushed away until he has to leave. Janus and Remus are nice to him throughout (with tiny subtle hints of Loceit).
personally, I don't think Logan is or will become the Orange Side in canon, but that the Orange Side is a whole other guy. still I wanted to write this to explore that possibility and also indulge in the Angst.
note: this work is completely written!
warnings: Logan becomes the Orange Side, so this involves lots of anger and arguments and insults between all the characters. Logan has kind of a Panic Attack and he is restrained against his will. There are threats of violence and physical fighting.
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The first time Logan was in the Dark Side of Thomas’ mind wasn’t very surprising. Thomas didn’t actually want him there, really, the occurrence was caused by a short – although intense – disagreement.
It happened a few months after Thomas had graduated from college. Logan and him had been arguing for weeks, completely unable to reach agreements on any decision Thomas tried making. A better way to express it would be that Logan wanted Thomas to make decisions, any at all, but Thomas just wouldn’t. He had simple questions: “What kind of job should we start looking for?” “Do we want to stay in the same city?” “What short and long-term goals could we begin setting for our future?” But Thomas wouldn’t listen. He had no objectives, no plans, no schedule, and Logan was getting tired.
After those weeks of having the same argument and not reaching a satisfying conclusion, they began having arguments about every inconsequential nuisance, as well. Their last big argument started with a Vine. Thomas and his friends had tried to prepare it and film it for hours, but they couldn’t work out how to make the video shorter, since it was 2 seconds too long. Thomas grew tense, and as the sun set he decided to figure it out himself with the footage they already had. Logan argued with him about how they had to stop wasting so much time and how Thomas should instead prepare for a job interview he had in two days. It was a very short discussion.
“Done!” had yelled Thomas. “Guys, look! What do you think?”
Morality and Creativity replied with positive affirmations, happy with the result, and excited to post the finished Vine the next day.
“What about you, Logic?”
Logan looked at Thomas’ phone screen for the few seconds the video lasted, then simply stated, “I think it’s late, and that you should go to sleep already if you don’t want tomorrow to be a waste of time, too.”
The other two Sides turned to look awkwardly to the side, trying to avoid Logan’s accusation. Logan knew he was too harsh, but he had been asking Thomas to prepare for the interview the entire week; he was tired of repeating himself.
“Fine.” Thomas cut the silence. “Don’t worry, I’m going to bed right now and I’ll make the new post later tomorrow.”
“After you’ve gotten ready for the interview the next day, I assume?”
“Oh my gosh, yes! We know about the interview! You remind us every day, he knows already!” said Roman, with a voice too loud for after 10 pm.
“I only want Thomas to do well.” Logan turned to Thomas again. “You have to come prepared for this kind of opportunity to be successful, instead of focusing on delivering more inconsequential social media content.”
“Come on, teach!” Patton interjected. “He’s just having fun! Give him a break.”
“A break?” Logan couldn’t believe it. “I think he’s had enough breaks. He can’t keep up like this if he wants to become a professional engineer, which is what you want, right, Thomas?”
“I, uh… I guess?”
“You guess?” Logan was baffled.
“I don’t know! Okay? I just... I need time to figure it out.”
Everyone became silent at Thomas’ confession. The three of them looked at him, but he avoided making eye contact with anyone as he spoke.
“N– Nothing. Nevermind.” Thomas sighed. “I’m going to bed.”
With that, the three Sides had no option but to sink down to their respective rooms. Except Logan didn’t sink up in his.
Instead, Logan found himself in the Dark Sides’ space. Years later Logan could still remember his first impression of the place: a poorly lit living room, surrounded by cobwebs, trash, and– why were there so many knives on the floor? Logan heard someone clear his throat and looked up from the stained carpet to find Deceit, whose hand was still slightly lifted from having summoned him. After making eye contact, Deceit greeted him and began walking towards him, and then around him to stand behind Logan’s back.
“Good evening, Logan,” he said, “it’s nice to have you here.”
“I don’t think you mean that,” Logan replied.
“Well…” Deceit rested his hands on Logan’s shoulders, “it would be nicer if your visit was under different circumstances. Sadly, I needed to bring you here because Anxiety wanted to have… a little chat… with you.”
And, shit, Logan knew Thomas had felt stressed out, but he didn’t think they were messing with Anxiety. That was a problem. Logan felt Deceit’s hands stop rubbing his shoulders and let go of him, but when he tried to escape, he noticed his own hands were cuffed to the rail of the stairs behind him. He looked towards Deceit, who was now sitting on the couch, seemingly ready to enjoy the show.
The events that followed were all blurry in Logan’s memory, mostly due to the place’s impact on his ability to think properly. Anxiety was angry with him because of Thomas’ bad mood. Apparently, they all blamed Logic for putting too much pressure on Thomas, causing Thomas to become anxious, making Anxiety unable to sleep through the day or night, which made Thomas’ restlessness even worse. Even though Logan was just trying to help and it was the others that wouldn’t let him do his job and forced him to keep insisting.
It took a while, a few threats, and some knives thrown to the walls, but in the end Anxiety was able to intimidate Logan into apologizing for everything and promising he wouldn’t be so overbearing in the future. Once he was done with him, Logan was left alone and exhausted sitting on the floor, leaning on the rail he was still stuck to. Deceit had been sitting on the couch across from him reading, pretending to ignore what was going on, but Logan had heard him chuckle a couple of times at his responses to Anxiety’s questioning.
“Okay,” Logan tried to catch Deceit’s attention, “I learned the lesson. I would like to go now.”
“Oh, sweetie, you’re staying here.” He didn’t even look up from his book.
“What?”
“Twenty-four hours.”
“What?!”
“And they say you’re the articulate one…”
Logan pretended not to be hurt. Deceit rolled his eyes, then smiled calmly and went towards him. “You’re going to stay right here,” he kneeled down in front of Logan, “and be real quiet for one day. Do you understand?”
“But th–”
“But Thomas has to prepare for the interview!” Deceit completed with a mocking tone. “Yeah, I’ve never heard that one before.” He reached behind Logan and freed him from the rail, only to tie Logan’s wrists together in front of him. At least that was a more comfortable position. Sort of. Then, still leaning over him, Deceit whispered. “I decided to let you help him get dressed and be there during the interrogation, but until then you’re going to stay put, alright?”
Deceit’s intense gaze left no room for argument, so Logan just nodded.
“Wonderful.” Deceit stood up smiling and walked away, singing over his shoulder “Goodnight!”
Logan still wasn’t sure what his opinion was about that day. On one hand, thanks to this Logan would later find that the Dark Side of the mind was actually not a bad place to be in, especially when Thomas was dealing with emotional turmoil that Logic couldn’t really help with. Deceit was in charge of bringing him there a few times, and eventually Logan began going on his own. On the other hand, that failed job interview might have been the last straw for Thomas’ engineering career to disappear from existence, and with it most of Logan’s value within Thomas’ mind.
The years after that were uncomfortable for Logan, since Thomas was still not making decisions for his future, nor even trying to think about what he wanted. Logan did want him to be happy, and if the way he was acting before required the extreme measures that Deceit and Anxiety had taken, he agreed that changing it was for the best.
So that was exactly what Logan did. He carefully adjusted his goals to what he assumed Thomas really wanted, which was hard to tell when it came to the long term, but if for now Thomas wanted to have fun with social media then he would help him with that. Sometimes it felt like it wasn’t enough, that Logic should be able to do more, to contribute more. However, it was easier to push those thoughts back and focus on reality, the real opportunities they could take, the real achievements that were in Thomas’ reach. Mostly, Logan learned to stay quiet.
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anxiouslyfred · 2 years
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Janus’s Cafe
Here’s my gift for @threecrowsinatrenchcoat​ as part of the @sanderssidesgiftxchange​
Summary: Janus didn't expect to make friends through the cafe when he opened it, but then again he never expected the regulars to be as wildly different as they are either. Now he's got employees he never intended to hire, and a first aid kit ever within grabbing reach.
Word Count: 3359 Also posted on AO3
Warnings: Injuries, Blood mention,
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The cafe had been something of a passion project as Janus got it running and profitable. He'd studied business alongside the psychology of self-care and set about making his cafe the perfect retreat for people to relax in.
He'd never expected to make friends by running it, or have two of them basically decide to be employees, almost without actually asking. Still the jumble of characters that not only made themselves regulars but also friends was a group Janus was loath to lose now he'd gotten to know them all.
“I know I stepped away to serve a customer but I doubt even you can be interested by tax returns, Logan.” Janus remarked, coming back to the table he always claimed near the counter if paperwork needed doing. Instead of empty as he'd left it, one of his regular customers was now sat by his laptop checking the form Janus had been filling out.
Logan glanced up at him before returning to the form. “I'm more interested in correcting the errors you've made while distracted. I seldom find cafes such an ideal location to work and would prefer you don't have to lose it due to incorrect taxes. Why don't you focus on serving and the other aspects of running your cafe while I get these forms ready for you to file?” His tone made the suggestion basically an order.
Mildly affronted and fairly disbelieving of what was being done, Janus challenged it, “Because I know you well enough to expect there'll be a discussion of payment as soon as a quiet period arrives and I'd prefer not to have an unexpected outlay to amend those for.”
“Here are the normal rates I charge for freelance work and as I took the task on rather than being requested to aid, you can have a 15% discount on them.” Logan pulled up a page on screen, opened from his own email account before turning it for Janus to see. “If it's preferable to you, I'll include that while going through these and that will be the rate you are charged for any future assistance too.”
“Most accountants don't just take on clients without being sought out, you know.” He had to state, eyebrow raised challengingly as Logan finally met his gaze.
Logan just smirked and nodded, “And most people who preach about the importance of self-care know the importance of asking for help and accepting it when offered.”
“Touche. Tell me when you're done as I believe there are people for me to serve now.” He turned back to the counter, but kept an eye over on the table for the afternoon, occasionally bringing over drink refills. Since Logan was technically doing work for him it was the least he could do.
Honestly, it was doubtful that Janus wouldn't have asked Logan for assistance at some point while balancing the taxes and costs of running his cafe, but having his customer and friend basically decide to have him as a client was mildly surprising.
The cafe had grown very busy as people came in for their lunches. Janus had just had to go and put a few things on to cook for orders people had made before serving the next customer. “Who's ne- … Patton, why are you behind the counter?” He broke off calling for the next customer at the realisation there was already somebody stood there.
“There was a queue building up and you've been really stressed today so I decided to help out Kiddo.” Patton cheerfully replied, while making the drink that had just been ordered.
Janus swatted at Patton's hands to take over making the drink, hissing, “I'm not letting you work behind the counter unless you're actually employed.”
That didn't have the impact he'd hoped for when Patton chuckled, turning back to ask for the next order with the comment, “Well if you're offering me the job then I'm more than happy to take it.”
“That's not – Okay you're staying after the cafe is closed tonight so we can actually discuss this. Deciding to help out is not the right way to get a job and Please tell me that's not how you got employed as the veterinary receptionist?” Janus tried arguing again but didn't want to have a full argument while there was a queue of customers. With a sigh he gave in and decided to at least try getting Patton to talk about this properly later.
“Of course not, Jan, I applied and got interviewed for that.” Patton passed the next drink order to him as he spoke only to get properly shooed away from the counter finally.
“Good to know, now go back to your coffee and let me serve the customers. You aren't an employee yet.”
Janus had been resolute when opening the cafe that he didn't need to employ anyone and could fit in taking time for himself around running the cafe. He had definitely been overruled in regards to that, but at least his regulars turned employees seemed to be taking care of themselves the best out of his friends. Looking after his regulars was more important than the costs despite what a couple of them believed. That had been why he refused to let anyone out of his employ work in the shop usually.
“Potions maker! Energy brew please!” There had been a lull in customers that Janus had used to have a coffee for himself when Remus barged in, coming to lean almost the entire way over the counter. There was a cut over his cheek and his eye definitely looked like it would be showing a black eye in a matter of hours.
“You're bleeding and are more interested in getting coffee than first aid?” Janus tried to sound scolding but really was already too used to Remus's antics for this new development to really surprise him. He bent to find the first aid kit he'd placed under the counter in case of emergencies.
Remus however just waved off the concern, “It's just a scratch. Now give me bean juice!”
“I've got the first aid kit and you're gonna sit still while I tend that wound or you'll be on decaf for the next month.” He rounded the counter, kit in hand, and pushed Remus over to the comfier chairs with his free hand.
Patton had come in a while earlier to have a drink and read but now jumped up, moving to the counter. “Kiddo, want me to tend the counter while you help Remus?”
“Thank you Patton.” Janus nodded, but focused on pushing Remus into a seat and getting a better look at the wounds.
“But Duke Coffington, I wanna drink the energy juice! The bleeding's almost stopped.” Remus protested, constantly trying to stand although it didn't take any effort beyond a hand on his shoulder to get him down again.
Janus rolled his eyes, pulling out an antiseptic wipe to clean the cut, “I don't care. You will look after yourself or wait for your drink while I look after you instead. Also you're the one that tries to be a duke, pick some other singer to get nickname inspiration from.” He could only assume Remus was trying to make a play on the name of the jazz artist Duke Ellington since there was no other reason to connect that title to him.
It was rare for Janus to bend the rules on paying for items, but especially with his friends he was ever ready to waver them in favour of them taking a freaking break. It seemed none of his regular customers understood how to take care of themselves or take proper breaks from the things they stressed over.
“Virgil, everyday this week your eyeshadow has seemed more and more to be just part of your skin, have you perchance heard of this wonderful activity called sleeping?” Janus had heard the order that had been placed but made no move to make it or input it into the till. Instead he scrutinised Virgil's face, expression carefully neutral.
His reply was a groan and a shrug. “No time to sleep. I've got 4 major projects that have to be finished this week and nothing is going right on them.”
“Probably because you're too tired to properly work on them. Come now, take a nap on one of the sofas and I'll bring your order over when you wake up.” Previous attempts to make Virgil take his health seriously was all that stopped Janus from trying to coax him into a nap. Only Patton seemed to be able to manage that, but suggesting it and trying to withhold coffee sometimes worked.
The tired glare thrown at him showed that wasn't enough today. “Just give me a coffee so I can get at least one of them finished before getting screamed at by another client.” Virgil growled out.
Pursing his lips and narrowing his eyes slightly Janus decided that Virgil's health was more important than the minimal profit to the cafe. “One time offer, I'll give you a chamomile tea and cranberry jam scone for free if you only work while eating them and take a nap immediately after finishing them. I will be watching and ready to confiscate your laptop if you lie.”
“Unless I get lucky and Remus comes in to distract you before then.” The counter was immediately thrown back, somehow most of the regulars were convinced Janus liked Remus more than the rest of them.
“Bold of you to believe I can't focus on multiple things at once. I do run this cafe after all.” He stated, moving to get the scone set on a plate.
Virgil groaned again at that, flinging his hands a little, accepting the deal in the grumpiest way Janus had ever seen. “Ugh, Fine! I'll take the free treats and then have a nap! Happy now?”
“Spectacularly.”
There had never been an intention for any themed evenings, or poetry readings to be arranged in Janus's cafe. He'd barely considered occasionally having live music, only deciding to because he enjoyed listening to it and relished in the excuse to do it. That never meant that Roman wasn't a law unto himself, just like his twin was and had quickly found the best corner for performances to be done in the cafe to recite from.
Once Roman had decided on that it became an unfortunately frequent occurrence for someone to approach Janus at the counter frowning as the current lady approaching was. “Sir, I admire that you're giving amateurs the chance to practise performing in your cafe, but can you request they at least perform solo scenes or have a friend take the other role? This guy reciting half the lines to a scene leaving the others a complete blank is really distracting when I just want to have a warm drink.”
Janus closed his eyes and took a deep breath before replying, pasting on a calming smile. “Thank you for pointing out that Roman's arrived. We've had a rush of customers so I hadn't noticed. I'll speak to him.”
He sighed as he stepped away from the counter, gesturing he'll only be a minute to the next customer. There Roman stood in his corner, a script in hand.
“You're walking a lonely road,
Not something many would goad.
Are you going to your abode?”
He paused, tilting his head and moving as if listening to the reply.
“You'll know how?
By sign or street or cow?
Why aren't you there now?”
Janus waited for a moment after the line was finished, expecting some action to interrupt before he could stop the scene. When none came he stepped close enough to pull the script away, “Wonderful to see you again Roman, but as I've said before, this is not your rehearsal space.”
“Janus, my delightful barista, I'm sure you can't fault me for wanting to introduce the people to such wonderful works of artistry as this!” Roman greeted him with open arms, before turning to present his corner for rehearsing.
“I can when nobody has a clue what conversation you're meant to be performing is given you're skipping half the lines.” He chided, crossing his arms over the confiscated script.
Roman's hand came to cover his heart in affront. “They aren't for me to perform and I've not seen Patton or Logan to ask for help. Perhaps you, my dear, could-”
Janus cut off the suggestion before it could be finished, waving to the front of the cafe. “If it hasn't escaped your attention, I am running a cafe and need to serve my customers. Find some poetry to recite if you must remain performing, otherwise sit and take a break.”
“But I need to be prepared for my audition.” Roman pouted at him, trying to take his script back.
“From what I've just seen, you already are, Darling. Now place your behind on a seat and stop making people wonder what your lines are from.” Compliments always were the easiest way to convince Roman to conclude a performance and it was true that he'd been barely looking at the script before Janus came over.
“I'll come and order my treats for the day first. My apologies for any disturbance, Janus.” He was mollified but still pouting slightly. He cheered up a bit when Janus added whipped cream to the top without asking.
Yes, Janus had an unusual mix of regular customers turned into friends, and he was likely to indulge them to some degree in their eccentricities. He was really just thankful that with the exception of Remus they'd all learnt the basics of serving for the instances he had to drop everything to perform first aid. Also that Virgil and Roman refused every time he'd offered to include them as part time employees, pointing out the most they ever covered for was an hour or two a month.
“Janus! Our Hero! The only one who can get the Duke to accept help! I'm taking over the counter!” Roman storming into the cafe like a tornado didn't usually include leaping the counter, nor pushing Janus to leave it.
The lack of the mentioned friend in the cafe did only get a confused reaction, and a worried look around the cafe. “Roman, what? He's not even here.”
“Outside, beside my car. He was staggering when I passed him. I've got a kit prepared for bigger injuries than yours in my car so here's my keys. Just get my brother to listen.” Roman just continued shooing him away, pulling keys from a pocket and pushing them at Janus as well.
There wasn't a moment to think when Roman came barging in saying things like that only to shove Janus towards the door of the cafe. He could only grab his own first aid kit and pray this wouldn't be the day he had to insist on calling an ambulance.
Thankfully Remus was still sitting where Roman had said when Janus got there, although it looked like more of his shirt was tied around his legs than still part of the original garment. “I'm not sure if I should be grateful that your injury has kept you sat there or concerned that it's serious enough to do so.”
“There's my favourite pair of eyes. Your brown eye looks like a volcano's lava today. Look at me so I can see if you've got lightning happening in your grey one.” Remus's words slurred and one of his hands tried to make Janus meet his gaze.
It was too easy to pull the hand away as he knelt to look at the legs still profusely bleeding. “No, Currently you can close your eyes and brace yourself while I clean this cut. What the hell did you do to get your legs sliced so much?” He took a moment to get the first aid kit from Roman's car, now understanding why a bigger kit would be useful and grabbing a water bottle at the same time.
“Climbing railings. I wanted to torment those bullies Logan's working with. Give them nightmares.” The pride in describing the mischief he'd been trying to do wasn't missed, but Janus was mostly focused for the moment on using his handkerchief to clean the cuts, rinsing it with water often. He'd already untied the scraps of Remus's shirt from his left leg and cut away the fabric of his jeans that was trying to fall over them.
“Well I'm sure the blood trail coming away from there has probably done that. When did you destroy your shirt to tie around these?” Janus had to ask, wondering if Remus could have lost too much blood and needed a transfusion. The wounds had begun bleeding more heavily the instant he'd removed the shirt scraps that had been tied around them.
There was a pause as Remus tried to remember the detail and Janus got bandages wrapped around his left leg and moved to start tending to the injuries on the right. “After I'd rounded to the front of the building. I didn't want you to get suspected of murder or something because I needed your loving touch for my pains.”
Janus let out a heavy breath, frowning up at him before refocusing on tending the injuries. “As thrilled as I am to hear you actually are seeking out first aid now, I must ask that in the future you avoid getting so injured. It really isn't good for you.” It wasn't a surprise that Janus was the one Remus sought first aid from. The first time Janus had tried using soap to clean Remus's wounds he'd seen how badly Remus took just the suggestion and found alternatives to use from then on. He was well aware that most people wouldn't do that, even among their friends after Logan's lecture on injury care one afternoon.
“But it's fun, and you ignore it when I say I could drown in your voice but give me attention if I'm walking wounded.” Remus huffed, pouting and fidgeting so Janus couldn't properly clean his wounds.
“Legs still.” He instructed, gripping lightly to ensure that was followed, and humming a little as he cleaned the next scratch. “So if I took you on a date would that get you to stop treating your life as expendable?” He wondered. It wasn't something he'd have suggested usually but Remus was an infinite adventure to know and oddly sweet in his gestures . Aside from that the other had been flirting basically from the first time he'd joined Roman in visiting the cafe so what attraction Janus had ignored given the man was a customer was definitely reciprocated, if masochistically so.
“Yes! Tomorrow night we can have dinner together! What gardens should I break into to steal you flowers?” All movement in Remus's body seemed to get diverted to his head with how still he went while nodding wildly.
Janus leaned back for a moment, reaching for more bandages and looking up at him consideringly. “I don't trust you not to get into a fight doing that. Why not Roman's neighbours and we'll ask him to keep an eye that you don't make your injuries worse overnight?” The neighbours had been mentioned a couple of times by either twin as aggravating at best, homophobes two steps from assaulting someone at worst, so losing some flowers or having a destroyed garden wasn't really something Janus minded scheduling for them.
“I get to destroy the pretentious git's gardens? Of fucking course we can do that!” With the way Remus moved then Janus was fairly sure Remus had been about to jump up to declare his brother an accomplice needing to help plan their attack before remembering the half finished bandages on his legs.
Deciding to remain seated, Remus rambled on about how their date would be and other things they could do together as Janus finished bandaging the wounds. He'd have to wait and see if his worry over Remus turning up with injuries could actually be reduced, but dating him was guaranteed to be an adventure, even more than running his cafe was.
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moxiety-my-love · 3 years
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My thoughts while watching the new Sanders Asides video
Intro: ooh, there's some warnings, so we know this is gonna be a spicy one
0:19- WTF WAS THAT ASIDES LOGO MAGI THING?? I LOVE IT.
0:26- remus' theme, very exciting
0:49- i'm glad to know that thomas is just as awkward as i am when texting lol. also, HE'S TEXTING NICO!!
0:52- logan!! the boy!! also, i think this is the first time we've seen one of the sides rise up in thomas' bedroom? not super exciting, but i thought it was interesting.
1:06- i absolutely would have laughed at '69' as well. sorry, logan.
1:33- i also have a 5am and 2pm version of myself, dw thomas.
1:43- rolling out of bed that way is SO damn satisfying. couldn't relate more.
2:14- logan, you're so cute. i love how he gets so excited about his schedule.
3:54- why is thomas turning old?? remus, what did that trap do?
4:00- it's nico! in real life! not cartoon!
4:12- oh, and ancient thomas is here too. that's fun.
4:18- how long has it been since remus has made a video appearance? since the first asides video, which was probably over a year ago? remus stans are quaking rn.
4:45- i just noticed the carrot emoji next to nico's name in thomas' phone and that is such a tiny detail and reference but it's so cute
5:31- remus, you bastard. also, a pin in the food feels kind of simultaneously evil but also below your standards.
5:59- KCUM
6:18- remus there are so many people in this fandom that you turn on, it's so not okay. also, i'm so here for the sexual innuendos.
6:35- it doesn't even surprise me that logan would ruin the updog joke
7:21- roomba on the loose, what crimes will it commit?
7:51- i like how the picture frames went blank; it's a nice detail. reminds me of when hermione's parents' pictures went blank in deathly hallows part two.
8:12- SHAPES AND COLOURS
8:49- roomba has committed a murder
9:22- ROOMBA HAS COMMITTED A LEGITIMATE MURDER
9:34- remus is allergic to soap confirmed
9:44- ok ok. i have a theory. one of the times that thomas' phone buzzes, he's going to pick it up thinking it's a chore alarm, but it's actually going to be nico.
10:04- pirate remus!!
10:11- patton would love the bratwurst pun
11:37- okay i'm here for the rube goldburg traps, but come on, remus. all that was way too much work to freak out thomas. just prank phone call the guy and that would be enough to send him into a panic.
11:56- being that he was in the closet for many years, thomas definitely knows that closets aren't sentient, logan.
12:19- is that supposed to be remus shapeshifting as nico? am i crazy?
14:16- okay so it wasn't nico. it was some random murderer. also, remus has a knife kink confirmed?
15:08- lovely singing
15:18- REMUS, YOU SAUCY BOY. intrulogical shippers are shaking right now.
16:05- can confirm, emergency ketchup does not seem like a necessity.
16:10- solanum lycopersicum!!
17:57- so he was shapeshifting as nico! i think this is the first side to do this other than janus.
18:55- what the fuscia?
19:02- vibey music
19:14- i just had a visceral reaction to logan saying "shake what your mama gave ya"
20:00- okay so i don't think remus was actually shapeshifting, he just created a fake nico as far as i can tell.
20:59- lol the butt scratching. reminds me of a dog.
21:15- wtf. tongue lollipop?
21:24- cruncy bug
21:55- ignoring dummies for dummies. are nerds in blue ties bothering you? iconic.
22:12- WHAT DID I JUST WITNESS? orange eyes obviously have to symbolize the orange side, right? and since logan was angry, maybe this adds fuel to the flame of the idea that the orange side is rage/anger?
22:21- checking your breath before answering a phone call is absolutely something i would do
22:42- nico! the boy is calling! he's so cute. also, i love the reference to the "Mr." thing they did in the last video.
23:50- logan is sad boy :( but go thomas! go get your man!
24:02- what? that's it? what a place to end off at!
24:45- it wouldn't be a sanders sides video without a hello fresh ad
25:05- i love that he has their number saved omg
26:19- bye thomas!
26:27- patton's here!!
26:34- and roman!!
26:43- and virgil! my FAVOURITE boy!
26:50- oh, logan. you deserve all the influence.
2720- ooh, virgil? some resentment?
27:55- thomas is officially in his feels
28:08- janus is here too! which makes this the first video to include all the sides, if i'm not mistaken. also, what's with the mysterious music?
28:21- the orange eyes again! damn!
Final Thoughts:
As always, I'll bey opinion. Nico and Thomas are so cute, and I'm happy we got to see more of them together. I was also excited to see that we got all of the sides in one video, finally, though I'm still waiting for some onscreen interaction between Janus and Remus. The ending was super ominous, so I'm curious as to what's in store for the future. And as you all could tell, I was clearly very interested in the possibility of being introduced to the orange side. I can't wait to see everyone's theories and such.
As always, I'll be tagging spoilers for 7 days after the posting of this video, and I hope you all will too! I'll be using the tags "ts spoilers" and "sanders sides spoilers" respectively.
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romanapologist · 3 years
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montreal - roman hurt/comfort
pairing: this was written to all be platonic prinxiety, but can definitely be interpreted romantically !
warnings: unconventional self harm, non-graphic descriptions of wounds/injury
summary: a post-POF roman hurt/comfort fic in january 2021? yes <3
word count: 3.2k
notes: large portions of this were salvaged from one (1) night last summer at 4am when i was having a . time. the rest has been mainly recently written before i go to bed, with some extra bits added during my history classes B)) also shout out to [REDACTED]. u may not read this but if u do, i hope u know who u are & ilu
Virgil had been trying to calm himself down for the better part of an hour, as soon as they got back from the wedding fiasco; and he was doing a relatively okay job. Considering the circumstances, at least. Or so he thought, when he registered a spike in Thomas’s anxiety. This only served to make Virgil more anxious, because he had thought he had been doing well—until, he realized it wasn’t anxiety, not exactly, not fully—and it wasn’t coming from him.
Once he'd figured that out, it wasn't hard to trace the feeling to the imagination. He paused at the door. If this was where the strongest negative emotions were coming from, he already knew which side this was about. And could he really be surprised? Roman had wanted that callback for so long. Even at the court case, even when Roman gave Thomas his sentence, Virgil knew it killed him. And Virgil didn't do anything. Because he was so fucking scared of Thomas being bad, or of Janus winning, or something, and now whatever was going on was his fault, and--
And now was not the time for these thoughts. He breathed in. He opened the door.
Immediately, he was coughing out soot, heat burned his cheeks, his eyes blurred with protective tears forming against the smoke. It was hard to see, let alone process, what was happening. Then, he caught sight of the Dragon Witch. And he caught sight of—
“Roman!” Virgil choked on the yell, coughing again.
Obviously Roman couldn’t hear him from the distance, especially considering the brutal roar of the creature. Adrenaline kicked in, and as Virgil began to sprint towards the prince, he took in the entirety of the scene with alarm. Roman was...fighting, sure, except that Virgil had seen him fight before, and this... wasn’t right. Roman bested manticore-chimeras like it was a breeze, he HAD bested the Dragon Witch herself in every form she took, “just for training.” He always moved like he was in a ballet, not a battle, like it was more for show than challenge, and now...
Virgil watched Roman fall to a hard swish of the creature’s tail, and stay there. He almost expected the Dragon Witch to take mercy, or at least, to accept an early victory. But he watched her rear back, raise a taloned hand, the magma-red in her throat glowing brighter and brighter—just as Virgil got close enough to let fight win over flight.
Virgil crashed into Roman; they rolled just far enough that the swipe of claws only ripped the edge of Virgil’s jacket.
Immediate danger out of the way, Virgil clenched his eyes tight, trying to do it how Logan taught him. He found something that didn’t make sense--the grass. The grass was dry, therefore it should have been burning, but it wasn’t. He took that foothold to dispel all the fantastical elements of the scene, Dragon Witch and all her carnage blinking from existence. The new calm of the scene was jarring.
That just left a great big field, Virgil, and one absolute dumbass.
"What the fuck, Princey?!"
Virgil’s voice was distorted with stress, and Roman stared up at him wide-eyed, unsure—even terrified in a way that hurt. Virgil quickly pushed himself up so he wasn't pinning the other. Roman tried to copy this movement, only to groan, start coughing, and fall back again.
“Shit, I—“ Virgil looked at his hands and found red on them, looked at Roman and saw the color painting his chest. “I thought I dispelled all the imaginary stuff, why—?“
“Left brain sides can only dispel so much of what right brain sides feel,” Roman said, voice rough and thin and upsettingly casual, “Since they feel so real to me, you can’t get rid of them.”
“They feel…? Christ, ok, you need a medical kit, uhm—“ Virgil closed his eyes again; he was notoriously shitty at summoning things, and he had to concentrate for this—
“That’s ok; I’ve got it,” Roman said, letting out a quiet hiss as he propped himself up on one arm, and summoned the medical kit with the other, “You can go now.”
Virgil gaped at him in disbelief. When Roman attempted to stand up, and Virgil could no longer deny he wasn’t joking, he exclaimed, “Like Hell am I going, idiot!”
Roman just stared at him, and Virgil cursed under his breath. “Ok ok, let’s just... we should do this in the bathroom, uhm—“
Virgil awkwardly clambered over to Roman again, taking his hand, so he could blink them over together. He knew it would probably be more comfortable for Roman to sink in and out, but considering Virgil wasn’t practiced at that, he wasn’t going to risk screwing it up.
They apparated into the bathtub, and Virgil scrambled up, taking the med kit from Roman's hands.
Ok, ok, now Virgil just had to remember that one time Logan lectured them all on “Side Safety.” He took a shaky breath and washed his hands quickly, before turning back to Roman. He allowed himself to fully assess the prince this time and… Jesus. He was slumped against the back of the tub, having given up his attempts at composure while he thought Virgil wasn’t looking. His litany of scrapes, cuts, bruising, his shallow breathing, and--most of all--the wet, red patch slowly growing on his shirt, sparked renewed panic in Virgil.
“Ok, fuck, ok--let’s do this,” Virgil said, mostly to himself, as he knelt down by Roman to undo his already tattered shirt and take a wet towel to his chest. He had to suck in a breath at the sight of the jagged wound, a nauseous feeling catching up to him.
“You’ve already done a lot, you know,” Roman insisted. “You can--”
“If you tell me to go, Princey, I swear I’ll make these wounds worse myself,” he said, not meaning it in the slightest, which he would assume Roman knew--but the way Roman flinched and shut his mouth told a different story. “Shit, I didn’t mean that. Of course I didn’t mean that!”
Roman glanced away, and Virgil reached to cup his cheek, an instinct he didn’t know he had. Luckily, he caught himself in time to retract his hand. They both avoided eye contact for a second; Virgil cleared his throat; and he reached for the bottle of hydrogen peroxide before pausing. He vaguely recalled Logan mentioning how strong alcohols would only cause more harm, and they should just stick to mild soap instead. He gave the cut a longer look-over—it was certainly not a pretty sight, but probably not as bad as it looked. It was large, but not too deep. Plus, as sides, it would heal itself without needing anything like stitches or professional medical work. The past scars littering Roman’s body were proof of that. Actually--had he always had this many scars? Virgil squinted. How often did he do this?
Virgil finished cleansing and bandaging the wound to the best of his ability, with little talk beyond the occasional, soft “sorry” at Roman’s winces. When he had finished, he gave Roman his hoodie (an action the Prince was too tired to take much notice of), since summoning a new shirt seemed like a waste of whatever energy he had left.
“Ok, Princey, all done. Uhm, are you—how, how are you?” Virgil mentally kicked himself.
A small, bitter smile tugged at Roman’s lips for just a moment. He opened his mouth and then closed it, and finally shrugged. “Thank you for your help.”
It hurt, Virgil realized. Roman’s quiet voice, where near-shouting was his usual speech. His unkempt hair sticking to his forehead, where it was usually styled to be very lightly and intentionally ruffled. The bags beneath his eyes where there was usually concealer. All of it hurt.
Virgil sucked in a breath. “Look, I’m sorry if I’m being annoying, but I hope you know there’s absolutely no way I’m leaving yet.”
“Virgil,” Roman almost said it as a whine, which was closer to his usual style, so Virgil considered it progress.
“Roman,” Virgil deadpanned back.
Roman huffed. “Maybe I need space to really explore my feelings, and you’re actually being a terrible friend right now,” he argued.
“Uh-huh, well being a terrible friend is always my favorite, so,” Virgil leaned down, fumbling slightly as he picked Roman up bridal style, “We’re gonna get you to bed, and you can explore your feelings by sleeping.”
“Great, now you’re damsel-in-distressing me,” Roman said sarcastically, but he leaned his head into Virgil’s chest as he did so, which kind of ruined his point.
“Yeah, yeah. Act more like Megara next time, and maybe it’ll be different.”
•••
Roman groaned upon waking up. His whole body ached, but mainly it was focused around a sharper pain in his chest. He let his eyes flutter open, only to find Virgil staring at him from his desk.
“Ah,” Roman uttered, a jumble of memories from the past few hours returning. They felt foggy and mildly icky, but mainly the pain in them was the numb kind of pain, the tired kind. Really, it was indistinguishable from the dull ache of his bruises and cuts.
“Yeah,” Virgil said, as though he understood, even though he couldn’t possibly. “Uh, wanna talk about it?”
It was clear Virgil felt awkward asking the question. It was unclear whether that was due to his tendency to be embarrassed by everything he said, or—far more likely—that he wanted to stop babying a stupid prince, and just go about his business.
Roman sat up, suppressing a wince as best he could. “Do you want to hear about it?���
“Of course I do.” Virgil said it without an ounce of hesitation. Roman’s breath caught.
“Oh.” Roman shifted slightly over, and Virgil took a seat by him on the bed. “Okay. Uhm. I don’t know, I just—I messed up.” What else was new?
“...What did you mess up?” Virgil asked, with an inkling of suspicion, like he knew what this was about. But it wasn’t that; it wasn’t the callback—that was over and done and dead. Roman had created so many fantasies, so many crazy scenarios where they could somehow still make it in that stupid movie, and it had always filled him with hope or crushing pain or something, but as of this afternoon? He didn’t even care. It didn’t matter.
So, Roman ignored the question, and instead commented, “Janus got accepted.”
“What the fuck.”
Roman observed Virgil’s stricken expression like an unsettling kind of mirror of himself when—
My name is Janus.
“Yeah,” Roman sighed, “I didn’t take it so well either.”
Virgil looked at him for a long moment, seeming to go through several series of emotions, before he was able to ask, “...What happened?”
Roman inhaled sharply. “I was wrong about being wrong about the wedding. Patton was also wrong; Janus was right, and then Patton was right because he wasn’t a total asshole to Janus, and I’m evil; Thomas hates me; whatever, you get it.”
He thought he would break down, saying it, but he felt oddly… fine. He sat, staring at the same spot as he was before, absentmindedly annoyed at the way his bandages itched. The normalcy of the situation almost made it worse. This sucked. This wasn’t even bad.This was the worst he had ever felt.
“Oook,” Virgil said, clearly not knowing where to start, “I—you—what do you mean: Thomas hates you?”
“Thought that one was self-explanatory.”
“He can’t hate you,” Virgil said with a laughable amount of conviction. “You’re still his… y’know.. goals. Desires. Hopes. Whatever. Just because this one didn’t go… perfectly, doesn’t mean you won’t keep—“ he struggled to find the phrasing for a moment— “...fighting, uh, valiantly for Thomas’s dreams!” he attempted at the encouragement with a weak smile.
Roman just shook his head. “No. I don’t know what he wants.”
Virgil’s smile dropped into confusion. “But… you are his wants.”
“That’s kind of the problem.”
Virgil seemed at a loss, and Roman felt like an asshole. Here he was trying to help him, and Roman couldn’t even be bothered to put on a smile to dismiss him from the duty.
“Please go,” Roman attempted weakly when he couldn’t find a more convincing argument in himself. He was meant to be an actor, but he knew he couldn’t hide the fact that he wanted him to stay, of course he did, so badly. He hoped Virgil would just quit with the chivalry and go despite that.
Virgil sighed deeply and pinched the bridge of his nose. “Shit, I'm going about this all wrong.”
Roman knew it probably wasn’t really him Virgil was mad at, but it was hard not to shrink away anyway.
“Look, Roman—“ Virgil turned to him, looked at him seriously, took his hands in his— “To be honest? I don’t care what happened. I don’t care who was right or wrong—I mean, we all know I’ve been in the wrong more than my fair share. It doesn’t change how I feel about you.”
Roman didn’t miss the ambiguity of the end statement. “But… look, you don’t get it. When you mess up, you’re still you. You’re still...,” Roman gestured vaguely, which upset his bandages, and when he looked down at himself, he took note of the black/purple hoodie he was wearing. He melted slightly. This was exactly the point he was trying to make, “You’re still... y’know. Important.”
“Wh—? Of course you’re important, Ro. You’re creativity—“
“Thomas has two of those.”
Virgil looked at him like he was stupid. “Right, as if you’re anything like Remus.”
Roman’s lip quivered at that, and he had to look away, which was so stupid. And suddenly he felt all of the embarrassment at once—of this situation, of everything that had happened before, of the way he was about to cry, in front of Virgil, after he said that, which must look so—
“Roman?”
A hand was on his cheek, softly turning his face towards Virgil’s, though Roman still refused to meet his eyes.
Virgil cursed to himself under his breath. “Shit, this is exactly what I was trying not to say.” He sighed, and Roman hesitantly looked up at him. “Look. Even if you weren’t creativity, if you weren’t hopes or dreams or any of it—if you were a completely pointless side, which you aren’t, but if you were—I wouldn’t care. What I care about is that you’re... Roman. That you bother me until I sing Disney with you, that when you put your heart into something, you do it to a stupid amount, that you make Thomas take trashy buzzfeed soulmate quizzes when he’s stressed, and that you fucking try so hard for everything, even when I’m being a little bitch about it,” he paused. With the hand on Roman’s cheek, he traced the line of a scar down his jaw. It was one of the ones Roman usually made sure to put an illusion over, he noted offhandedly. “I care, because you’re my best friend.”
“Don’t say that,” Roman choked out. He couldn’t handle it if it was a lie, and part of him couldn’t manage hearing it as anything but exactly that. “Just—just—“
“Oh, Princey..”
Virgil held him as he broke. Roman didn’t know how long they sat like that as he let everything wash over him for a final time, let it all truly sink in at long last. He took heaving, messy sobs, no doubt ruining Virgil’s shirt in the process—he was quiet, though. He shook silently, save a couple choked breaths, in the other’s arms--that was a habit he had taught himself long ago.
When Roman had tired himself out, when all that was left was the pain in chest, (which was also suddenly duller—he was healing fast, even for a side—) he pulled back from the embrace. Virgil didn’t move by much, kept them so their fingers were laced together, as they sat staring at each other.
“Uhm. Thanks,” Roman gave a shaky smile, “You really—uh... I... I said some stupid stuff, huh?”
Virgil hesitated before he spoke, as if he knew he shouldn’t ask this right now, but needed to anyway. “...Roman, why’d you go to the Imagination?”
Roman felt ice stab at his chest upon the question. He didn’t want to do this. They had already talked about so much that he shouldn’t have gotten into; this was meant to be the part where they either parted or watched a stupid movie. And this, out of everything, was the conversation he most needed to avoid.
“Uh—I mean, to let off steam?” Roman gave a laugh as best he could. “Obviously, it didn’t go to plan—“
“Didn’t it?”
Roman’s face fell immediately. He struggled to come up with an answer, and even if he had had one, he didn’t think the sound would come out. This was enough of an answer in itself
“Shit,” Virgil breathed. Roman couldn’t help but be mildly annoyed by his surprise—clearly he had already known, he didn’t have to make it a big deal now.
“I… Princey—Roman…” Virgil looked him up and down, and Roman wanted to curl up and hide. “...how many times?”
“Not many,” Roman mumbled. Virgil must have known he was pushing the subject too far, because he just frowned and said,
“OK. I mean...it’s not OK, obviously, but you already know that, I just—“ he sighed. “Just… can you talk to me? Instead? Please? When you feel like… that.”
“Yeah, that sounds good,” Roman responded hastily, wanting an out from this topic.
Virgil gave him a look. “I’m serious. I mean—look, you don’t even have to talk about it if you don’t want. Just, come to me first, yeah?”
Roman’s face burned; he was embarrassed; he wanted to shrug this whole thing off, or roll his eyes, or maybe scream in annoyance. But the rational part of him knew Virgil was right. “OK,” he agreed softly, “...Thanks. For everything.”
Virgil looked surprised, and then flustered, and then waved off the earnest reply. “I mean, it wasn’t--I didn’t--it’s not like I did anything really--”
“You did.”
Virgil’s face softened. “Yeah, well... you’d’ve done the same for me. You... have done the same for me.”
Roman smiled gently at him. “By the way, Virge--” He hesitated. He was about to sound like a real dumbass if Virgil had only been saying this stuff for comfort’s sake. But making a fool of himself was becoming a theme for him anyway, so he continued, “You’re my best friend too.”
I love you.
In the same beats Roman thought it, Virgil squeezed his hand lightly 3 times. A breath passed between them. An understanding. That Roman couldn’t say it out loud, and Virgil wouldn’t.
Instead, Virgil fell back across the bed, bringing Roman with him in the motion. Roman let out a startled gasp and elbowed him lightly. “Hey! I’m injured, that could have been a fatal impact for me!” he whined.
Virgil snorted. “Yeah, yeah, OK. So, do you wanna watch a stupid movie, or what?”
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sanderssideswriting · 3 years
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ship: prinxiety, background intrulogical
genre: fluff
warnings: swearing, like one sexual innuendo, very breif mention of murder (as a joke, this is fluff after all) 
summary: Radio AU where Virgil runs the 11-1 am radio on his college and every night someone calls to complain about his music selections and request disney, and Virgil never plays disney.
Virgil sat in his swivel chair and put on the headphones “sup bitches I’m back and this time with like three monsters because finals are a bitch and sleep can suck my dick. The first song of the night is Lotta True Crime by Peneople Scott. Why? Because I say it is that’s why.” Virgil put the song on and worked on his final project as the songs played.
The phone rang and Virgil groaned and checked the number. This dick again. He picked up and put it on air since people seemed to love listening to him and disney guy argue. 
“listen asshole if you want to listen to Disney so fucking badly then apply for a spot and stop calling me.”
there’s a laugh “how about you just play some disney then? if you do I’ll stop calling. Because your music taste sucks.”
Virgil rolls his eyes “bitch apply for an opening and have a disney hour. And let me listen to my music, because not everyone loves fucking disney.” 
“Well many people do so why not play one song.”
Virgil snorts “first no, and second if I had to I’d make everyone regret it and play let it go.”
“Let it go is great!”
“bye bye Princey, stop calling”
Virgil hung up “and since Princey called you know what we’re playing? MCR because I know he hates it. So this one’s for you princey, up next after this ad because this place needs money. By the way if you’re not a broke bitch donate because this job is like kinda decent and I like making you all listen to the music I like. Blood by MCR is up next” Virgil played the ad and leaned back in his chair.
“Why do you take his calls if you know he’ll just be annoying?” Janus asks in class.
Virgil shrugs “since it started I get more listeners which is good for the station.”
“I think it’s funny, cause you two have cute pet names for each other, princey and emo nightmare” Remus says.
Virgil elbows him “they’re not pet names.”
“they are,” Janus says, moving so Virgil couldn’t elbow him.
Roman waits to dial the number, he had to admit he sort of enjoyed his and emo nightmare’s conversations, who refused to reveal his name or grade.
At first they’d been annoying and he’d genuinely complained about all the emo music and asking to play disney but it’d soon become a nightly ritual, that had very quickly ruined Roman’s sleep schedule.
He dialed the number “seriously, why all the emo music, emo nightmare?”
“you just answered your own question princey, why the obsession with disney songs princey? See? Sounds fucking stupid.”
Roman sighs dramatically “you wound me emo nightmare. But seriously what’ll it take to get you to play ONE disney song?”
“a hundred grand, that’s how much the station needs to keep running, do that and I’ll play ONE disney song.”
“four.”
“Three songs and a hundred and fifty grand, fifty grand per song. final offer. and I get to pick the songs.’
Roman nods “deal,”
“oh and, you have until the end of finals to get the money donated, and I’ll make the gofundme, not you.”
That’s like a month and a half away Roman thinks I’ll have enough time. “sure thing emo nightmare.”
Roman’s emo hung up. He smiles like an idiot.
“Why not ask him out? it’s clear you’re fond of him” Roman’s roommate Logan says from his side of the room.
“ask out a guy I don’t even know the name of? yeah sure” Roman snorts.
“what? Scared you’ll be rejected? I cannot believe I’m saying this, but Roman I am getting more dick then you have been ever since you started talking to your radio boy.” Logan says in an even tone.
Roman pretends to gag “you don’t need to tell me how much you and my brother have done it Logan, you two being together is enough for me to want to bleach my eyes.”
“you’re no better whenever you’re going out with someone, or even hooked up with a slightly above average guy.”
Remus barged in “Loooo I need help studying.”
Roman stood up “that’s my queue to leave.”
Remus watches Roman go “so what where you two talking about?”
“oh you know, he’s still calling the campus radio station to ask for disney songs” Logan says.
“Wait, Roman is Princey?” Remus asks, he starts laughing
“Yes? You didn’t know?”
Remus cackles “no! oh this is great! My best friend Virgil does the 11 to 1 radio, he’s Emo Nightmare and Roman is his Princey”
“We could set them up, Roam is so lovesick, I swear he’s head over heels for him and he hasn’t even met Virgil” Logan says.
Remus gasps “this is why I love you! Of course we’re going to set them up.”
Logan and Remus came up with a plan, they’d invite Roman and Virgil to a study session and then never showed up, leaving Virgil and Roman to wait.
Virgil puts on his headphones and starts loudly playing panic at the disco and reading over his shitty notes.
Someone taps him on the shoulder “hey can you turn the emo shit down, I’m trying to study and it’s really loud.”
Virgil turns it down a bit “that good?”
he nods “yeah, where you also ghosted for a study session?”
“Yeah I was, my best friend and his nerdy boyfriend where supposed to help me study, they probably forgot all about me.” Virgil says.
“Logan And Remus? Remus is my brother and Logan’s my roommate” Roman says.
“Yeah, well since we’re both here we could study together if you want” please say no please say no.
“Sounds good!” Roman says.
Fuck.
Virgil and Roman studied for awhile and Virgil very slowly started warming up to Roman. “ah shit I have to go, see you round I guess” Virgil says packing up his stuff, he wanted to have some alone time before his shift.
“ok Bye Virgil,” Roman says packing up, he had to go do his own thing, which would probably end up becoming a quick nap before his emo nightmare started his turn being the radio host.
Virgil sat in the chair “what up bitches, so far the goal has 10k, so no disney tonight, or ever because this is on a time crunch and 150k is a fuck ton of money for broke college students. And now onto Fuck you by Lily Allen. Why? Because she’s underrated and because I said so.” Virgil played the song.
Virgil got the call around 12:30 “you’re calling later then usual princey, and no, no disney tonight.”
“Oh I was just about to ask. And also I was asking how to find the gofundme.”
“It’s on the UCLA radio website, can’t miss it. Now let me do my fucking job” Virgil hung up and played MCR as was tradition.
What he didn’t know was Roman recorded the phone call and posted it everywhere he could anonymously and waited.
Virgil checked the go fund me in the morning “it has fifty k already?! What the fuck? Princey what did you do?”
Virgil waited for the nightly call “Hey what the fuck how is the goal at sixty k? How the fuck princey?”
He laughed “I asked the internet for help, I think most of it’s from tiktok, you’re going to have to play disney emo nightmare”
“fuck you princey and your stupid obsession with disney.”
“you have an obsession with my chemical romance and Brendon Urie”
“name three other artists I play on here then bitch.”
“Mother Mother, Lily Allen and as of late Derivakat” Roman says without hesitation.
Virgil was speechless for a second, then hung up. “fucking bitch, you guys know what time it is” he played Teenagers.
A week and a half passed and the funds had slowly been going up, and Virgil and Roman’s calls continued nightly as usual.
Virgil and Roman met up a few times to study for finals, sometimes with Remus and Logan, sometimes without.
the goal just barely missed the end of finals. Virgil smirked “No disney today, or ever because you people missed the goal byyyyy” Virgil checked the go fund me “three thousand dollars. I’d say better luck next time but there won’t be a next time.” he chuckled. The phone rang and Virgil picked up, knowing it was Princey.
“oooh too late princey no disney songs during my shift.”
“you might want to check the gofundme one last time my dear emo nightmare.”
Virgil refreshes the page “first of all, I’m not yours bitch second- what the fuck, how?” the goal had been met.
Roman laughs “play the disney emo. Play. The fucking. Disney.”
Virgil could tell he was gonna gloat so he hung up.
Virgil grumbles and gets the disney queued “ok fine the goal was met, so time for my suffering, I have queued Fixer Upper from Frozen because it’s a shitty song with a shitty message. Make a man out of you because I like Mulan and for everyone’s inconvenience I have How Far I’ll Go so have fun with that stuck in your head.”
Roman was a bit insulted when Emo nightmare hung up on him, so he called him back once the songs had ended “wasn’t so hard was it?”
“for you maybe, it was for me,” Virgil hung up and blocked the number.
Over the Summer both Virgil and Roman found themselves missing their talks. Roman so much so he applied for one of the newly opened spots for the next semester from 2-5 pm.
Virgil drove onto campus at 4, putting on campus radio and was met with disney. the song ended and the new host spoke “and I hope everyone liked that, up now is a short commercial break.”
Virgil nearly swerved off the road and pulled over and called the station.
Roman picked up. “Hey what the actual FUCK?” Virgil says as soon as he does.
Roman laughs “oh how the tables have turned Emo Nightmare”
“I hate you, I fucking hate you what the actual fuck princey”
he laughed more “You yourself said that working here is nice, and there was an opening, so I took it. You should be happy, I mean now I won’t brother you about playing disney.”
Virgil frowned “yeah yeah, whatever princey have fun with that.”
“oh I will emo nightmare, I absolutely will.” Roman hung up feeling happy in a way he hadn’t felt all summer.
Virgil unpacked his stuff in his new dorm, he was a little pissed but also excited. Maybe he and princey would finally meet face to face. Why am I excited about that? I hate him, at the least he annoyed me every day for months, but he did raise a bunch of money. Even if his disney obessed ass is super annoying.
Roman walked in at 6 “hey Virgil, I’m guessing you’re going to be my roommate?”
Virgil looked up from his laptop “I guess, don’t take my monsters from the fridge and we’ll be golden, or blast disney 24/7″
Roman chuckled “what do you have against disney?”
“Micky Mouse killed my parents in front of me after I said that Merida was my favorite princess.” Virgil said dryly.
Roman chuckled “that’s why I dedicated my life to the mouse.”
“That’s why I swore to get my revenge on the mouse.”
“I won’t blast disney 24/7 but you can’t blast your emo music.” Roman says
Virgil snorted “dude I have the worst anxiety I don’t even own a speaker. so you don’t blast your music, I won’t blast mine and we’ll be fine.”
“Deal,”
Roman called that night like always and Virgil was ready “aww Princey, did you miss me that much?”
“not really, but I’m still trying to get you to willingly play a disney song.”
Virgil rolled his eyes “you know what, it’s a new year, time for a new leaf, I’ll humor you princey and play a disney song.”
“wait really?”
Virgil queued up Mad At Disney “no.” he hung up and the song started.
Virgil and Roman went back to their usual routine of lowkey flirting with each other during Virgil’s shift, and sometimes during Roman’s.
They where getting along well as roomates but hadn’t figured out that they where each other’s Princey and emo nightmare.
Somehow he and Princey had gotten into an argument about if Cruella would be a good or bad movie. Roman had hope it would be, Virgil wasn’t so convinced.
“Princey, she is a completely evil character, she can’t be redeemable, she shouldn’t be. She wanted to make puppies into a coat, that’s fucked up. There’s no black and white she’s bad and that’s that.”
“Maybe if you gave the movie a chance!”
“fuck no! did you not hear what I just fucking said?”
“then how about we see it then we can see who’s right?”
“fine, I’m free at three this Satuday.” Virgil said, way too caught up in the moment.
“same, see you then emo nightmare, I’ll be by the doors waiting.”
“fine, but I’m going to be right.”
“then it’s a date!”
“I guess it is!” Virgil hung up.
he didn’t realize he’d said yes to going out on a date with a guy he didn’t even know until the next day.
The whole campus was freaking out about it since the station had blown up quite a bit because of Virgil and Roman’s nightly arguments. 
Roman left early, he’d dressed up a bit, and had a disney shirt with a little crown logo on it, it wasn’t that obvious but he figured it’d be telling enough.
Virgil put on a bit more eyeliner then usual and fishnets under his ripped jeans but that was about it, he chose to be petty and waited until about 3:20 to go to the doors where Roman wait waiting.
Virgil walked passed him at first. Roman saw him “emo nightmare?”
Virgil stopped “are you fucking kidding me?” he got a few glares from parents. “You’re princey? my fucking roommate?”
“I did not plan that, but yeah I am, and you’re my emo nightmare.”
Virgil rolled his eyes “still not yours princey, come on the movies about to start.”
They exited the movie and Virgil grinned “I fucking told you it’d be bad, I told you!”
“yeah yeah, you did it was bad. Want to get some coffee?”
“sure, I’ll pay,” Virgil said casually.
Roman grinned “I’ll win you over one day my emo nightmare.”
“stop begging me to play disney music and maybe you will.”
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Tally Marks
Based on this post which I would highly recommend looking at first because I will not be providing you the context
Word Count: 1850
Rating: Teen (for exactly 1 innuendo)
Pairing: none
Warning: none
~~~START~~~
As the logical Side, Logan was, well, logical.
That being said, he was really not sure what the logical explanation for this would be.
For months now — perhaps even years — tally marks had been appearing in Logan’s hands, arms, and sometimes even his face. Due to the manner in which the tally marks appear, Logan was pretty sure he was the one making them, but he couldn’t remember ever doing it. It reminded him of the Silence in Doctor Who, but the Silence weren’t real — and even if they were, he certainly wouldn’t be encountering them inside Thomas’s mind. Still, the marks remained unexplained.
<(^.^)>
Logan was awoken by a knocking at his door. It was the middle of the night, and while he was irritated at the interruption of his sleep cycle, he understood that sometimes Patton or Roman had nightmares, and as the logical Side, he was the logical choice to dispel any lingering fear.
He did not find Patton or Roman on the other side of his door.
“Logic,” the unknown Side wheezed. He was shaking as badly as Patton usually did after a nightmare, hunched in on himself and clutching a black hoodie around himself tightly.
Without even thinking about it, Logan pulled out a pen and made a mark on his hand.
“Did you have a nightmare?” Logan asked, making the decision to act as though he had found Patton behind the door. He could learn more about this new Side once he’d calmed down.
The Side nodded, lifting his head for the first time and allowing Logan a glance at a pair of mismatched eyes and tear tracks of eyeshadow running down his face.
“Would it help you to tell me about it?” Logan asked.
“T-Thomas,” the Side gasped, barely managing to get the one word out. “Thomas was- he was in the middle-” the Side did a full body shutter which seemed to cause more tears to stream down his face. “He was lost in th-the middle of a-a city and he couldn’t h-hear me, a-and he got h-hurt.”
Logan nodded. He wasn’t entirely sure of the identity of the Side, but Patton’s nightmares often centered around having an inability to help Thomas — or worse, be a hindrance to him — so Logan could assume that this Side was meant to protect Thomas in some way from the imagined situation. Roman’s nightmares — as creativity — featured many more monstered and imagined things.
“Thomas is not lost,” Logan assured the Side. “He is at home. He is safe. His doors are locked. And when he needs you, he will hear you.”
The Side sobbed again before launching himself into Logan’s arms.
Physical affection did not come naturally to Logan, but living with Patton and Roman certainly gave him plenty of time to study it and gain hands-on experience. He wrapped one arm securely around the Side’s back, and allowed his free hand to card slowly through the Side’s hair — this usually calmed Roman down, Patton on the other hand preferred two-armed hugs, as tightly as Logan could manage. The Side seemed content with Roman’s method as Logan felt him slowly but surely relax under his ministrations.
“Thanks, Logic,” the Side pulled away after a few minutes, looking infinitely calmer than when Logan had opened the door.
“Of course,” Logan acknowledged. “Though I don’t believe we’ve met before.”
“I know you don’t,” the other Side chuckled sadly. Logan did not get it. “My name is Anxiety. I’ll see ya later, teach.”
Anxiety turned and left down the hallway. Logan watched him for a moment, considering how the Side’s function as Anxiety probably left him vulnerable to many nightmares.
When Logan finally closed the door and turned to head back to bed, he’d completely forgotten why he’d opened the door in the first place.
Perhaps he had heard a noise coming from the hall? Yes, that was probably it; he’d heard a noise and thought it might be Patton or Roman with another nightmare.
He didn’t notice the tally mark until the next morning. By then, he’d forgotten about getting up in the middle of the night.
^(^.^)^
“Oh Logan!” An unfamiliar — but distinctly Thomas-like — voice called from behind the logical Side.
Logan turned to find a Side with snake scales covering half of his face holding a bowler hat in his hands and staring at Logan questioningly from farther down the hall.
“Can I help you?” Logan asked, adding another tally mark.
“What do you think about bowler hats?” The Side asked, lifting the hat a little in emphasis.
“Bowler hats — also known as derby hats — originated in the mid nineteenth century as a way to protect gamekeepers in England from overhead tree branches,” Logan recited tonelessly.
“Yes, but what do you think of bowler hats?” The Side stressed.
“Bowler hats were particularly popular in early twentieth century pop culture and thus are an effective accessory to make an outfit seem more old-fashioned.”
The Side chuckled.
“You’re very bad at fashion advice,” he said. “But I think I’ll keep the hat.”
The Side placed the hat on his head and stared at Logan expectantly. A bowler hat is a perfectly respectable style of hat. Logan told the Side as much; the Side only laughed a bit more.
“You are an absolute delight, Logan, but I suppose you’re my only option, after all, you won’t remember this later.”
Logan stared down the empty hallway towards his room. That was odd, he was trying to get to the kitchen. He turned around and continued on.
The common space was empty, but Logan expected as much. Patton was out helping Thomas with an issue, Roman would be in his room for hours yet, working on the script for Thomas’ next video and there weren’t any other Sides in the mindscape.
Logan decided on a sandwich for lunch, and resolved to make a couple extra for Patton and Roman. He was just getting the Crofters out when an unfamiliar — but distinctly Thomas-like — voice suddenly spoke behind him, nearly causing him to drop the precious jam.
“What do you think about the name ‘Janus’?”
Logan set the jam down on the counter before turning around. To his surprise, there was another Side standing behind him, one with snake-like features covering half his face, and a bowler hat resting on his head.
“Who are you?” Logan asked. Another mark. “I wasn’t aware that there were any other Sides.”
“I’m shocked,” the Side smirked. “I’m thinking of going by the name ‘Janus’, but I wanted your opinion first.”
“Have we met before?” Logan asked, unsure why an unfamiliar Side would want his opinion.
“No.”
The Side’s tone and smirk gave Logan the distinct feeling that he was being made fun of, but he couldn’t even begin to fathom how.
“Well, Janus is a Roman god, often attributed to beginnings, gateways, doorways, transitions, passages, frames, time, duality, and endings, so if you feel that any of those things describe your function then I suppose it would be an appropriate name.”
The Side nodded thoughtfully. “Yes, I think Janus would be a perfect name, thank you Logan.”
Logan finished making sandwiches, and while he had not thought the task had taken him too long, he was surprised to find that making the three sandwiches had taken him half an hour. He shook the doubts out of his head, sometimes he got lost in thought, it wasn’t uncommon. He left one sandwich in the kitchen with a note for Patton, and took the other two with him upstairs for himself and Roman.
<(^.^<)
“~Loooogaaaaan~”
A tally mark.
An empty room
Green.
Tally.
A mustache.
Tally.
“Logan, you never pay attention to me!”
“I am unsure who you are.”
Tally.
An empty room.
Logan was feeling untethered. He’d been trying to work in the common room for over two hours, but he had nothing to show for it. No work done, no notes written, no memory of what he’d even been thinking for all this time.
The only thing he did have was sixty-four more tally marks than he’d had earlier; his arms were covered with the lines.
Sixty-five.
Strange.
“What if Thomas just straight up set his apartment on fire?”
Logan’s gaze snapped up from his arm to find an unfamiliar Side. The Side rivaled Roman in terms of “extra”-ness, he had a curly mustache, a white streak in his hair, and a green tulle sash. But the real concern was the unhinged and manic look in his eyes when Logan met his gaze.
Tally mark.
“Excuse me?”
“Begone, thot!” Roman yelled from the stairs, charging at the Side with his katana drawn.
“No fun,” the Side pouted, sinking out right before the katana reached him.
“Oh, Roman,” Logan startled at the sudden appearance of the creative Side. “I didn’t hear you come in. Forgive me, I have been… unfocused today.”
“No worries, specs!” Roman responded jovially, though his cheer seemed slightly forced. “I have just the thing to help!”
Roman vanished his katana — which he had had drawn for some reason — and replaced it with a box. He was holding out the board game Stratego for Logan’s consideration.
Roman was right. The task really did help Logan focus, and he didn’t find himself drifting at any point during the game.
By the time Logan and Roman had each won one round of Stratego each, Patton had joined them and insisted on playing Trivial Pursuit next. No new marks appeared during their games.
(>^.^)>
“Logic!” A voice called.
Logan turned around to find a strange Side in a black hoodie with dark eyeshadow smeared under his eyes nervously hovering about halfway down the hall. Tally.
“Can I help you?” Logan asked, thoroughly confused by the presence of a new Side.
“No, I-” the Side hesitated for a moment. “Just, are you okay?”
“Of course I am,” Logan said, a little taken aback. “Why wouldn’t I be?”
“Just… after Remus I thought maybe…” the Side looked around nervously. “Never mind. I’m glad you’re okay.”
Logan stared at the empty hall, he’d thought he heard something… but no, just an empty hall.
Once inside his room, Logan pulled out the notebook he kept track of the tally marks in.
Hmm, seventy today. He didn’t remember seeing the seventieth one earlier, it must have shown up between when he’d left Patton and Roman in the common room and when he’d reached his bedroom. He recorded the number in his notebook along with the day’s date, then set about washing the marks off before bed.
Seventy wasn’t the most he’d ever had in one day, but it was certainly more than usual. He wondered if it had anything to do with his lack of focus earlier…
^(^.^)v
Remus was waiting for Virgil in his room.
“No fair, emo!” He pouted. “I had him at sixty-nine! You did that on purpose!”
“Oops,” Virgil deadpanned, unsympathetically.
Remus sank back to his own room where continued pouting for about an hour, before resolving to try and get Logan up to four-twenty the next day.
~~~END~~~
I found the beginning of this in my WIPs yesterday and finished it today. I completely forgot about starting it the first time, but now I’m completely in love
In case it wasn’t obvious, as soon as Logan can’t see the Dark Side anymore, he completely forgets about the interaction, including any interaction that involved another Light Side (like Roman)
General Taglist: @royalty-of-all-things-snuggly @pixelated-pineapple
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Janus in Intrusive Thoughts
What if Janus was there during Intrusive Thoughts? Pairing: Janus x Remus
Word count: 1427
Warnings: Innuendos, Suggestive Themes
Notes: I don't know what this is. It was just fun. I had the urge to write this. Not to be taken too seriously. Also posted on my AO3. Let me know if I've missed anything.
Janus stretched his multiple limbs in the background. They were all distracted with dear Remus’ appearance, they didn’t even notice he was there. Which was perfectly fine with him. He was just there to watch the drama unfold anyways.
He lounged in a chair in the background, that he summoned, and sipped his wine. He didn’t have a particular desired outcome from this, despite having prompted Remus to reveal himself to Thomas (although he did have exasperatedly explain he did not mean to go in the nude). It was fun to be included in his little cameo in Remus’ song intro though. Every time he looked over to Roman on the ground, he couldn’t help but snort. Ah, sibling dynamics. So, Janus was literally just sitting there, commenting and reacting to Remus’ shenanigans, not even bothering to try and seem inconspicuous. They were literally too distracted to notice.
Then, he perked up when Logan mentioned the only way it would be faking it was if Thomas were to actually do something and then lie about it. Which prompted Remus to say,
“Oo, how fun. You know who could help us with that?” Remus said with a little shoulder wiggle. Janus’ theme song played during that. Janus rolled his eyes. Well, he didn’t need further prompting. As Thomas started to protest, Janus suddenly appeared next to Remus.
“Oh dear, if you wanted my company you simply needed to say so. ” Everyone balked. Thomas held his head and groaned. Virgil glared at him. Patton looked around in concern. Roman mumbled something, and Logan simply looked annoyed.
Remus gave him an unhinged smile. Janus pointedly did not look.
“You aren’t even part of this.” Virgil sneered. Janus simply shrugged.
“Oh I know, I’m just here. Not really going to participate unless needed.”
Virgil looked at him suspiciously. Remus clapped his hands excitedly.
"Oo, Dark side buddy! Now I have someone to actively innuendo while I’m here!”
Janus sighed, already starting to regret this, but not moving. Partly due to pride. They all seemed to just keep looking back and forth between Remus and Janus in surprise.
“What, no comment Dee-Dee?”
“When have I ever said you could call me that?”
“You haven’t said that I couldn’t!”
Janus simply hmmed and pretended to check his nails, as though he weren’t wearing gloves. Because he was just like that.
Patton hesitated,
“Uh…do we continue?”
Thomas sighed. Virgil kept darting his eyes between the dark duo and Thomas. Remus simply smiled and leaned his chin onto Janus shoulder, Janus pretended not to react. Remus wiggled a bit against him. Janus sighed. He was not blushing from everyone watching. If anyone were to ask, he would blame Remus. Blaming Remus was always a good plan. It didn’t hurt that Remus usually didn’t mind.
Thomas twisted up his face, seeming unsure how to react to the two of them, especially with how Remus was being with Janus.
They somehow tried to continue, as Thomas and Virgil had deigned this important to resolve. It was clear everyone else’s attention was divided though, at the atmosphere had drastically changed from the moment Janus appeared, despite him not doing anything for the current conflict.
“I’m sorry, this is very distracting. Can we get him out of here?” Virgil asked, gesturing at Deceit.
Janus rolled his eyes and waved his hand, obscuring his appearance.
The others blinked at his sudden seeming disappearance.
Remus snorted.
“Oh, Dee-Dee. That’s not gonna help. Don’t think I’ll stop touching you just cause they can’t see you anymore.” To which Remus wrapped his arms around Janus, looking like he was hugging air. He moved his hands lower, like he was about to imitate a physical innuendo, but Janus reappeared and pushed his arms away.
“That’sss unnecesssary.” Janus turned completely towards Remus as he said that so the others in the room wouldn’t see his returning blush. Remus simply smiled and laughed again.
Somehow, they jumped back into things. Patton barreled back into it as though to keep from another distraction to come about before they could help Thomas. Remus returned to his spot against Janus. He continued his shenanigans almost as though he wasn’t practically leaning on Janus. Janus was, more subtly reacting to the drama unfolding around him. Virgil pointedly glanced at Janus when he asked about if Thomas was lying, despite Janus not saying anything on the matter. Janus almost wasn’t sure why he wasn’t doing more. It totally wasn’t because of the distraction of Remus’ warm body pressed up against him. No, of course not at all.
Remus had definitely calmed down since Janus showed up as well. Even when Remus went through other transformations, he was still touching Janus in some way. It didn’t really make sense with what they were trying to do, but whatever. Janus knew fully well he could leave at any time. He was only there to watch this unfold, after all. Totally.
Janus pointedly sighed and stepped away, not looking as Remus started to undress before Logan clarified his wording, having known where Remus would go with that.
He hmmed when Remus revealed his name, tempted to say something about a lack of drama in withholding his name, if he hadn’t just witnessed all the crazy stuff Remus had been doing that episode, like an entire song intro that was so totally extra. Fitting for a creativity.
Janus sighed when Remus screamed to distract them as they got closer to a resolution. At one point, not long after, Remus leaned in, not even bothering to keep his lips from touching Janus’ ear as he whispered,
“Watch this.” Right before he disappeared, only to jump out before Logan could stop them with,
“Nails on a chalkboard!”
Janus didn’t jump and then snort. Nope. Things started to calm down eventually. Boring. As it seemed some of them were about to sink out, Janus prepared to as well.
“Well, that all certainly seemed exciting,” Janus started. Remus snorted.
“Oh, exciting?” Remus stepped over, to where Roman would have room to get up now. “You haven’t seen exciting yet. You know I could do more,” He said with another shoulder wiggle and suggestive eyebrows.
Janus waved a hand at that.
“Oh please, that’s unnecessary. You don’t want to draw this out too much, there’s a sense of good tension. Some creativities are good with that. So, I think I shall take my leave, it’s a good moment for it, before all the mushy stuff."
Remus pouted at him. “Aww, we didn’t even get to make out in front of everyone though! Voyeurism, you know?”
Janus suddenly sunk out at that, into his room. His face was burning as he glared at nothing, fists at his side. A few moments later,
“Oh Jaaaaanuus~”Janus sighed as he felt Remus sidle up to him again. He touched him way more this time, and Janus felt the weird slide of Remus’ tentacles against him as well, starting to prod and play with Janus’ clothes.
“Remus,” Janus said simply.
“Were you impressed~ with my introduction~?” Remus asked.“
In case you couldn’t tell, I don’t often say if I’m impressed by something,” Janus said. Remus growled and pushed himself even closer. Janus couldn’t withhold his shiver, sure the other was smirking.
“Aw, Jan~” He faux whined, then leaned in to say into his ear, “You know that whole thing got me really riled~ up.” He wiggled against Janus again. Janus feigned a sigh and smiled as he said,
“Like that really takes much.” He turned around and they both grinned at each other.
“You get on from mischief just as much as me,” Remus said.
“I will say nothing on the first part of that statement.”
“Mhmm.”
“Are you satisfied? Even though they think they beat you?”
“Oh, I don’t know about satisfied. I just found myself driven towards my snaky even more.”
Janus rolled his eyes again, but he was still smiling.
“You see me all the time.”
“Hm, so? Today was still fun, you must admit.”
“Hm perhaps. Even though they thought they ‘won’?”
“Eh,” Remus shrugged. “I was more for chaos, which still happened, so I don’t really care.” Remus grabbed Janus’ hand and dragged him toward the bed.
“But now I need to get this excitement out of my system, who better than with the chaotic side.”
“Chaotic? I don’t know if I can agree to that.”
“Mm, you’re more of a reserved chaos.”
“Hmm, I suppose.”
and with that Remus pushed Janus onto the bed, their strange banter continuing.
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Creased Hoodies (Chapter 5: Escape From French Toast) [Folds in Time Universe]
Fandom: Sander Sides
Relationships: Logan/Virgil, Janus/Patton (background), Remus & Roman  (background)
Characters:
Main: Logan, Virgil
Appear: Patton, Roman
Mentioned: Janus, Remus
Summary: Virgil just wanted to go on his planned summer research trip to do an anthropological study in 2005 America. However, when he is taken off course by an unknown enemy, he ends up stranded in the summer of 2018 with no way to get back the the 44rd century. Luckily, 2018 happens to be where a certain illegal time agency is based, and he might have an in with one of its agents.
This is the intermission for the story Folds in Paper. It takes place between Folds in Paper Book 1 and Book 2. It also takes place after the first 5 chapter of “Messages for a Hacker” which are side stories in the universe. Check all of this and more out on my Folds in Time Master Post.
Chapter Summary: Logan and Virgil are not morning people. Patton and Roman are.
Notes: Time travel AU
This is a fic I’ve been writing on study breaks that you have probably all already seen at this point. I’ve slightly edited it for wording and grammar, but not for content from my previous posts. Feel free to send in asks to direct it because I’m not 100% sure where this is going and you can help decide if you feel so inclined! You can see the process I went through to build this at this link.
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
Logan was woken up earlier than he would have liked the next morning by chaos in the kitchen. He’d stayed up late on his laptop running through various programs he’d designed to track time related metrics. So far, he’d run the programs to scan the last 48 hours and had synthesized all of the data, putting it into an Excel document for easy viewing.
At some point he didn’t recall, he’d fallen asleep on the couch. (He’d given up his bed to Virgil.) Of course, both of his roommates tended to rise with the sun and were incapable of being quiet ever, so Logan had gotten a maximum of 3 hours of sleep depending on when he’d actually lost consciousness.
Logan glared at Patton as he shuffled into the kitchen to get a cup of tea, but the other man didn’t notice. He was too busy trying to figure out the right flavor profile for making asiago cheese bread into palatable French toast.
Roman was hovering over him making loud, likely inane suggestions while also vehemently defending his bakery choices. Patton was agreeing wholeheartedly with everything he said and adding his own ridiculous suggestions about how to make the French toast edible while blatantly not following any of his own or Roman’s suggestions.
Logan pushed past Roman to get to the tea shelf without a word.
“Uh oh, he’s grumpy,” Roman said.
“I have not even said a word,” Logan replied, swatting him away as he began picking at Logan’s sweatshirt to remove a few fabric pills near the shoulder.
“Exactly,” Roman replied. “You didn’t sleep last night.”
“I did,” Logan replied.
“And for how long?”
Logan did not respond.
“You know, sleeping can be very helpful for your mental and physical health.”
“So can you keeping your mouth shut,” Logan grumbled back.
“I’ll have you know people love when I talk. You are just being a grouchy old nerd. Isn’t that right, Patton?”
Patton hummed. “Yes, your voice is great, sweetie,” he replied.
“See,” Roman said. “Two against one.”
“Two against two actually, a voice even more tired sounding that Logan’s spoke up from the door to the kitchen, “and since you’re the subject of the vote, your opinion’s too biased to count. So, Logan wins.”
Virgil was standing in the doorway looking as though he’d never heard of the concept of mornings and did not like the new information he was being given on them right now. He was leaning against the doorframe as though at any moment he might slump over and fall back asleep while still standing. The yellow bottom of the slightly too wide nightshirt Patton had given him the night before stuck out from the black hoodie he’d came in.
Roman was sputtering. “Excuse me?!” he squawked.
Virgil made a show of wincing. “My point exactly,” he muttered.
“You’re rude!” Roman exclaimed. He turned to Patton. “Patton, he’s being rude to me!”
“You woke me up,” Virgil hissed. He pulled up the hood of the hoodie and pulled on the strings to tighten it around his face.
“It’s 7am!”
Virgil grumbled something that sounded more like an animal growling than any words.
Patton and Logan shared a look. Patton frowned scoldingly at Logan’s amused smirk as though he wasn’t also finding this argument amusing.
“Well,” Patton interrupted the two’s quickly developing staring contest. “I’m making French toast for breakfast, Virgil, but it’ll be a few minutes yet. I’m sure Logan has something to show you on his computer since he was working on stuff so late last night.”
Logan did not actually have much to show for his efforts yet. It was all just numbers at the moment, but the look in Patton’s eyes said, ‘We’re separating the children.’ Logan half wanted to shrug him off and see where this went as the look on Roman’s face was amusing, but then Logan looked at the tea bags in his hands, the disaster in the making that was the French toast ingredients, and the man tiredly rubbing his eyes.
“Of course,” Logan said evenly. “We will just be in the living room.” He walked over and shoved Virgil gently through the door. “Go get dressed,” he said under his breath.
“Wha?” Virgil asked with a squint.
“We’re fleeing the morning people.”
Virgil just gave him a confused look.
“Unless, of course, you want to be forced to eat French toast made from asiago cheese bread.”
Virgil’s expression darkened and he nodded before turning towards Logan’s bedroom. Logan had grabbed nightclothes and an outfit for the morning for himself before Virgil had gone to bed the night before (not that he’d actually changed into the nightclothes). He grabbed the outfit for today and quickly changed in the bathroom.
Virgil was already fully dressed and waiting in the living room by the time he’d finished. He’d changed into one of Logan’s grey hoodies. It was an older thing that Logan rarely wore, but it seemed to fit him. It had the vibes of a very tired college professor going to work on his research in a coffee shop on the weekends. He was also wearing blue jeans from an unknown source (they had appeared in the laundry one day and no one in the apartment claimed them) that were just a touch too large and thus held up by a belt.
Virgil raised an eyebrow at him without saying a word. Logan gestured with his head towards the front door. He grabbed his keys and wallet from the table near the entrance, being careful not to let the keys clang together and make noise.
He swiftly unlocked and opened the door before gesturing Virgil through. Virgil made less noise than Logan had thought possible as he walked outside of the apartment, but then again, Logan’s own experiences with sneaking out of anywhere were with one or two of the loudest people that had ever existed.
“Where exactly are we going?” Virgil asked once the door had closed behind Logan.
“We’re going to get coffee,” Logan said.
“And we can’t just tell your roommates about that?” Virgil asked.
“I’m not allowed to drink anything more caffeinated than tea since the hamster incident of 2011.”
Virgil’s lips quirked up into a half smile. “Do I even want to know?”
Logan hummed. “Did you notice the hamster cage in our apartment with seemingly no hamster?” he asked.
“…Yes?”
“Once a few years ago, I did not sleep for 72 hours and my caffeine addled brain accidently invented a device that turns things invisible,” Logan told him. “It’s temporary on plants and inanimate objects, but it’s seemingly permanent on animals or perhaps just on rodents. We haven’t tested it on any other animals.”
“W-what?” Virgil sputtered.
“To be fair, I thought I was making the rocks and flowers I’d tested the device on first travel through time. It was a bit of confirmation bias on my part as I was attempted to invent time travel and I did not properly observe the experiment before moving on in my testing.”
“How do you accidently invent an invisibility ray or whatever when trying to invent time travel?”
“It’s a spray,” Logan told him, “and I missed a negative sign.” They’d been walking side by side but needed to make a sharp left turn to get to their destination, and Logan found himself grabbing Virgil’s upper arm in order to guide him.
“Uh,” Virgil said which is when Logan realized it might be odd for a practical stranger to grab someone like that. “Er, where is the coffee shop?”
It’s just a couple of blocks north,” Logan answered, letting him go after they finished the turn and flashing him a small smile. Virgil smiled back. The concept of invisible hamsters seemed to have left his mind. “It’s a smaller place, but gets fewer actual college students, not that it matters since it’s summer break for them.”
“So, do you frequently perform coffee acquiring heists?” Virgil asked.
“Sometimes I drink tea there,” Logan replied, “but yes. How else am I meant to get my work done?”
Virgil laughed. “That’s probably not healthy. I don’t disagree, but it’s probably not healthy.”
Logan found himself chuckling as well as he led him down the path to the shop. “You’re probably correct,” he said, “but they have very good coffee.”
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Part 6
Folds in Time Universe Master Post
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Summary: The sides do a Secret Santa... fluff and mild chaos ensue
Pairings: Platonic DRLAMP, Dukeceit/Demus, Logicality, Prinxiety
Warnings: A little bit of self-deprecating thoughts at the beginning, and some Remus being Remus
Genre: Fluff fluff fluff!
Credit:
@multi-fandoms-posts - Thanks for the suggestion! I took some creative liberties but this is based on a suggestion they gave me.
@voltsm - Thanks for the encouragement! This person is an INCREDIBLE artist, I highly recommend looking at their amazing amazing blog!
A/N: This is the first Sanders Sides one shot I've written in a while, but I think it turned out well! Please don't repost on different websites, but reblogs are greatly appreciated!
Remus paced his room, growling in frustration. His mind wandered back to the conversation all the sides had earlier.
"Let's do a Secret Santa!" Patton had said, looking like he was going to burst from excitement.
Roman nodded enthusiastically. "That's a great idea, padre!"
"I'm up for it if you guys are," Virgil replied with a shrug.
"I do believe that doing a Secret Santa could be beneficial to our mental and emotional health," said Logan, pushing up his glasses.
All of them looked at Janus and Remus, catching both of them off guard.
"You'd really be okay with us joining?" Remus asked.
"Of course! We are famILY, after all!" Patton responded happily. Remus looked at Janus, who simply shrugged.
"I think the Secret Santa is an awful idea and wouldn't like to participate," Janus said with a small smirk.
"Why not!" Remus happily agreed.
Yet here he was now, flopping on his bed, and ironically out of ideas. He summoned something to eat, and wasn't sure if it was deodorant, a sandwich, or some ungodly abomination of both. At this point he didn't care.
He stared at the faint strip of paper labeled "Janus." Each of them had grabbed a paper from Janus's hat, and Remus had been pretty excited when he got the name of his best friend. Until he couldn't figure out what to get him.
"I'm CREATIVITY, and I've been his friend the longest! I should know what to get him!" he angrily muttered to himself. "Who am I kidding... I'm just intrusive thoughts."
"Hey Rem-" Roman said, rising up in his brother's room. He instantly stopped when he saw the poorly disguised bags under Remus's eyes. "...you okay?"
"Not really," Remus mumbled into his blankets, "why'd you come?"
Roman paused for a second. "Wellll I was having some trouble coming up with a gift for the person I got, so I was wondering if you could help. However, it looks like your having some trouble too."
Remus looked up at Roman, noticing the bags he had under his eyes as well.
"Creative block," they both muttered at the same time.
Remus laughed for the first time in days. "Wow, even the creativity gets it," he said with a teasing smirk.
"I think you mean creativities. We are both creativity, after all!" Roman happily replied. He began ranting about something he was trying to make, but Remus didn't hear a word.
Both creativity, he thought as he began to smile again, he thinks we're both creativity?
"Rem? Remus?" Roman asked.
"Oh, sorry! What'd you say? Remus asked, snapping out of his thoughts.
"What should I get Virgil?" Roman asked again.
"Virgil?"
"Yeah, Gerard Gay isn't the best at dropping hints at what he wants."
"Hm... what do you know he likes? Put yourself in his shoes. Or his-"
"MUSIC HE LIKES MUSIC!" Roman quickly interrupted. "He likes listening to music!"
Remus laughed a loud, full, laugh, making Roman smile and laugh a little as well. "If you were Virgil, what would you want?"
Roman pondered the question for a couple minutes, then suddenly shot up with an idea. "OH! I KNOW WHAT TO GET HIM! Thanks Remus!"
"No problem Roman, just remember to-" Remus began, then looked at Roman who narrowed his eyes in suspicion, "toooooo... wish him a Merry Christmas!"
"Nice save," Roman chuckled, making Remus beam. "Do you want some help figuring out what to give who you have?"
Remus sighed, mumbling a tired "I don't know," into his pillows.
"Hm... well just remember what you told me," Roman said, "what would you want if you were them?" Remus opened his mouth with a mischevious smirk, to which Roman added, "rule of thumb, if you wouldn't want Patton to get mad or pass out, don't give it as a gift." Remus immediately shut his mouth.
Remus sighed and groaned into his pillow, exhausted from having no ideas.
"Let's see... you can make things, summon things-" Roman started.
"Wait, summon things, like animals?" Remus asked.
"Of course! If you wanted to, that is. Although I'd suggest not making it lethal," Roman replied with a smile.
Remus grinned. "Thanks Ro, I think I have an idea!"
"That's great! Let me know if you'd like any help!"
"Thanks!"
Remus smiled to himself as Roman left, carefully working on his idea for Janus. He was certain it would be amazing.
~CHRISTMAS DAY~
"CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS!" Patton excitedly shouted, waking everyone up in the process.
Patton had insisted on a sleepover on Christmas Eve, and none of them had the heart to deny the request.
Virgil yawned, failing to hide the small smile on his face as he noticed Roman stretch, hair messily falling down on his face.
"Nice bedhead Princey," Virgil teased.
Roman playfully glared, clutching his heart as if in agony.
"Why, Emo Nightmare, must you wound me like this? How could you DARE insist that, I, PRINCE Roman, have a-" he tilted his head back dramatically, causing him to see his reflection in a mirror and let out a very un-prince like squawk.
"I'll make the hot cocoa and then we can do the Secret Santa!" Patton exclaimed, rushing to the kitchen.
"I can assist you Patton," Logan offered, putting on his glasses.
"Thanks Logie!" Patton replied, making Logan blush at the nickname.
Remus and Janus slowly woke up as well, both a little excited although hesitant admit it.
"Well, this is not how I wanted to be woken up," Janus mumbled to himself with a soft smile on his face, oblivious to a blushing Remus looking at him. When he looked back and saw Remus staring at him, a faint blush spread behind his scales.
"Hey Janus, there's chaos and I didn't cause it!" Remus said, turning away to hide his blush.
"I'm not surprised, and I don't think you'll add to the chaos as soon as you can-" Janus began, only to see Remus already gone and probably eating something inedible.
After the chaos had died down (Roman brushed his hair and they dragged back Remus from eating Christmas lights), it was finally time for the Secret Santa to begin.
"Me first!" Patton said, rushing to grab the gift he had gotten. As soon as he found it he ran back to put it in Logan's lap. "This is my Secret Santa gift to you!"
"Do... do they know what a SECRET Santa is supposed to be?" Janus whispered to Remus who was sitting next to him, raising an eyebrow.
After taking a moment to collect himself, Logan carefully unwrapped the gift. Inside were multiple sci-fi series that he had been looking for.
"I knew you had been looking for those books, so I got them for you!" Patton exclaimed, voice nearly shaking from excitement.
For a moment, Logan was stunned into silence. However, he quickly recovered and replied with "t-thank you Patton, I deeply appreciate the thought put into this. I look forward to reading them."
Patton quietly peeped a quick "you're welcome," butterflies in his chest from the touched look on Logan's face. Logan suddenly turned back around, handing a small wrapped gift to Patton. "It's not the best, but I hope it's satisfactory."
Patton quickly looked up, momentarily caught up in the euphoria of gifts. He tore into the present to find a small, blue, crotche cat with a tiny heart on it's ear.
"Aww, Logan!!! This is purrrr-fect!"
Logan tried to roll his eyes at the pun, but couldn't keep a small laugh from escaping.
"Me next!" Roman sang dramatically, heading over to Virgil with a carefully wrapped gift and taking a seat next to him.
Virgil carefully opened his gift, slowly taking off the tape and removing the wrapping paper. Roman bounced up and down next to him, both in nervousness and excitement.
After what felt like forever to Roman, Virgil pulled out a dark purple set of headphones, with a black thorn pattern carved into them.
"Woah Princey... did you MAKE these?" Virgil asked, completely in shock at the care put into the headphones he held.
"Yep!" Roman responded giddily. "It took a lot of time, but I figured it out! The thorns were a last minute touch though. Oh! And they also block out other sounds, you had mentioned that your current headphones didn't do that a while ago."
Virgil, one of the most reserved sides, looked like he was on the verge of tears. "Thanks... I didn't realize you cared that much Roman," he said quietly, hiding his blushing face in his sleeves and gently leaning against him.
Roman gave him a soft, genuine smile as Virgil leaned against his arm. "Of course Stormcloud!"
"This is your present... it's awful compared to the headphones though..." Virgil mumbled, shyly taking his head out of his hands and giving Roman a shiny red bag with lots of tissue paper.
Roman being Roman, he quickly (and messily) opened up the gift, squealing when he pulled out a thin but elegant red crown. "It's a CROWN, put it on me, put it on me, put it on me!"
Virgil hesitantly put it Roman, who squealed impossibly louder after turning around and seeing his reflection in the mirror. "I love it!!!"
Roman hugged Virgil tightly, and after the initial shock, Virgil relaxed into the hug. To Roman's surprise, he stayed leaning against him even when the hug had ended. He didn't mind.
"Since it isn't obvious who your gift is from now, here's yours Remus," Janus said, handing a rather large bag to Remus.
Remus immediately tore into the bag, clawing his way in through the side instead of taking out the tissue paper. He gasped in astonishment when he pulled out a long, intricate sword, identical to the one of his logo.
"Woahhhh..." he whispered under his breath, admiring the sword. He looked up at Janus, a huge grin on his face. "Thanks!!"
Janus smiled, secretly relieved that Remus did enjoy his gift.
"I have your gift... I just didn't really have a way to wrap it," Remus said, a hint of nervousness in his voice. "So, uh, hold out your hands and close your eyes."
"Remus, is this something appropriate?"
"Yep!"
Janus raised an eyebrow but did as Remus had asked. A second later, he heard a collective gasp from around the room, followed by something placed in his hand.
"You can open your eyes now."
Janus slowly opened his eyes, shocked to find a small, yellow snake that fit in the palm of his hand. His eyes widened, and for a brief second his face shone like the universe had been placed in his eyes.
"You like it?" Remus asked.
Janus nodded vigorously, at a loss for words but as absolutely adoring the snake that slithered in his hand.
After opening the rest of the gifts, all the sides stayed together for a Christmas movie night. Patton was asleep on a dreaming Logan, and Virgil was asleep against a sleepy Roman who wrapped his arms around him.
"Hey, Janus?" Remus asked, yawning.
Janus looked over.
"Did... did you really like my gift?"
Janus smiled a true, genuine smile, reserved oy for Remus, and kissed Remus's forehead softly, making them both blush. "I loved it."
As Remus soon fell asleep against Janus, the slimey snake boi only had one thought.
Rigging the Secret Santa was definitely worth it.
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((Hooooo boy, it’s been much too long since we did a recap! I’ll do a few, since i got more than one ask about it, and I don’t want any of these to be too god-awful long ^^’))
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(The Main Story)
You check in on Ian and Annie, and they seem to be doing fine! Annie is even learning her companion’s names~! (2) (3) 
Logan and Patton reach Ian’s bar, where Remus and Dee are also waiting for them!
Remus and Dee insist on joining the party, claiming that Roman is expecting them.
(Ian confesses that he called Patton’s parents, worried that Patton was going to go missing, but promises to tell them it was a false alarm before they freak out.)
Ian tells them that Jasper is actually a werewolf, and Logan remembers that he had bitten Roman!! Roman is now a werewolf!
They rush out to return to the Drow Colony, realizing the Full Moon will already be up by the time they get back, and Virgil is in incredible danger!!
(As they leave, Ian secretly passes Patton an important note, making him promise to give it to Virgil without reading it)
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Logan explains more about what turning into a werewolf does to a person (1) (2) (3)
TL;DR, Lycanthropy causes you to change alignment into the beast that bit you: Being a Werewolf turns you Evil!
(He mentions something called Defecting, but doesn’t elaborate...)
Logan doesn’t how to reverse the curse, or even where to learn how, but he’s not going to let that stop him! (2) (3) (4)
What is a Blood Curse, anyway? (2) (3) (4)
Logan explains that you can successfully fight off the transformation, but if you fail, the more you fought = the less control you will have over your Beast. (And, it is harder to fight on a Full Moon!)
They arrive back at the Colony, and warn Virgil’s Mother of what’s happening before leaving to find Roman and Virgil
She tells them that both of them wandered into the woods separately not too long ago: Virgil had gone hunting, and Roman tried to spy on him, but ended up getting lost. Virgil went back to find him, when he came back home to find him missing.
(They leave Annie at the Manor for her safety, though she is reluctant to stay)
At the same time, Virgil is attacked by Jasper and his pack, and goaded into a fight!!
(He asks you to tell Roman that “he’s sorry”)
You look for Roman, and find him mid-transformation!! 
Despite the pain, he still seems to be looking for Virgil... 
(You deliver Virgil’s message, and his reaction is a bit severe! It seems we’re missing a little context here...) (2) 
You tell Virgil the others are on their way, and he is happy they are alive, but tells you to send them back to safety! (He doesn’t want them fighting for him)
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You ask Logan what he meant by “Defecting,” and he explains that it is rumored that one can manipulate the Blood Curse to adopt their alignment instead of the other way around, though there’s no evidence that this is possible...
And, of course, Roman did exactly that! He is now a Werebear! (2) (3)
You still seem to be able to communicate with him, though he can’t really answer you... 
You check on Annie, and she’s fled into the woods!! She wants to join the fight!
You warn Ilharess Faer'va that she snuck out, and she sends her familiar, Commander D’allya, and First Archer Grey to retrieve her and Virgil!
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By the time Logan and company reach the battle it has already ended, and Annie is already there, holding a dying Virgil!!
(Roman and Jasper are nowhere in sight, but the two are surrounded by the corpses of bloodied and charred wolves...)
A Young Hag is sneaking up on them from a distance, but gets incapacitated by Annie’s screaming!
Logan and Janus work together to keep her at bay while Remus and Patton rush to heal Virgil!
Remus’s Healing Hands isn’t enough to revive him, so Patton channels an ability he hasn’t used in a long time, though he doubts it will work...
Thankfully, though, he is successful!
Virgil wakes up, kills the Young Hag, and then insists on handling the situation on his own; He tells the others to go back to the Manor, and wait for him and Roman there.
They all argue with him, until D’allya and Grey show up (having killed the other Hag hatchling) and convince him he’d be useless in a fight anyway, and Annie needs him right now.
Reluctantly, Virgil lets the rest of the party go on without him, taking a terrified Annie back to the Manor to rest...
Remus insists that he, Virgil, and Janus will have a talk when they get back! Virgil and Janus do not like this.
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As they walk, Virgil tells you how the fight went down.
When they arrive at the Manor, Virgil greets his Mother warmly, and takes Annie to the bathhouse to relax.
Ilharess Faer'va asks Virgil if he wants her to bar their new visitors from his room, and he doesn’t give her a concrete answer...
(She knows he might try to avoid talking to them, and would rather he got some rest and let her keep them away then let him stay up running and hiding from them)
As they enter the pool, you notice Virgil has dyed his hair black again, and his teeth and sclera are also black now!
Virgil confesses that he has been avoiding Roman ever since their fight, and has spent almost no time with him over the past two days...
Virgil coaxes Annie into talking about Logan, Roman, and Patton, judging how much she likes them, and trying to keep her mind off of what she just witnessed.
(She confesses that Patton has been oddly sad for the last few days and hiding it, and Virgil thinks he should confront him about that later....)
Virgil suggests they do a candle ritual for her Mother, and Annie is excited to try it!
(Drow believe that if you sing to a lit candle while thinking of someone, they will hear you!)
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You check up on Roman, and he’s exhausted and injured, but it seems he’s defeated Jasper... 
(and eaten a lot of him, ew)
...But, something is watching him from the distance! He starts to threaten it, quickly on guard.
You keep watching to see what attacks him, and the Blightmother Green Hag sneaks out of the woodwork, intent on killing Roman!
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(In Other News…)
You tell Janus about Virgil’s new spells, and he spills the beans about something called an Insignia...? (2) (3)
Now that Annie is in the party, the game is translating what she says in text asks!
Virgil is not going to be happy about what happened the one time he actually let himself pass out rest (1) (2)
You find out that Annie can talk to animals!
You learn that Luresongs (like elves and nereids can sing) are extra effective against Lycans!
Apparently, Janus and Remus can communicate telepathically?? (2)
You figure out you can check on people’s health bars!
Virgil stresses out about how his Mom wants to have a ‘talk’ with Roman (2) (3) (4)
You check up on Patton’s monthly issue, and he seems to be mostly alright now!
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