I will never not be emotional about how far Roman and Virgil‘s relationship has developed over the course of Sanders Sides. Not even necessarily from a shipping point of view: in terms of narrative I love how they’re classic binary opposites (light/dark, introvert/extrovert, optimist/pessimist), yet they still manage to find areas of shared interest (Disney, music, Nico), as well as the fact that that improving their relationships to each other made them better in general. You‘d find it difficult to talk about Roman’s character development without bringing up Virgil, just like it’d be tricky to talk about Virgil’s character development without bringing up Roman.
Examples:
Virgil went from targeting Roman’s insecurities
To reassuring him, death-glaring at people who try to upset him, and just generally having his back because he saw him sad and vulnerable in FWSA and realised that Roman + Sad = The Worst Thing Ever.
Not to mention how Roman used to loudly bemoan about Virgil’s presence in videos, making it clear again and again that he didn’t like him being there.
But as their relationship grew, this became less and less common, until instead Roman started expressing happiness when Virgil showed up in videos, even smiling and perking up when he mentioned him in the Five Year Anniversary video.
They’re so sun and moon coded I needed to draw these two 😭😭 their names are Thunder Meadow and Royal Note! I might do the other sides later but I’m not sure yet…we’ll see! Feel free to draw these two designs as well if you want!