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i don’t think the serpent really said that
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Janus: THIS! IS NOT! THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENS!
Second Chance
Summary: Human AU Virgil has a conversation with his adoptive father after a getting into a fight at school.
Characters/Pairings: Romantic Moceit, paternal Anxceit and Moxiety
Notes: This is an AU that popped fully-formed into my head and I have tons of background info about it if anyone’s curious. All the Moceit feels right now, amirite?
Warnings: Mentions of homophobia, references to homophobic slurs, mentions of violence (schoolyard fight), mentions of injuries (minor), mentions of blood, self-deprecating thoughts, abandonment issues. Let me know if I missed anything I need to warn for!
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A soft knock on Virgil’s door made him flinch, but he sighed, reaching up and pulling his headphones off his head. Time to face the music. “Come in,” he mumbled.
The door creaked open, and his dad’s fiance poked his head in. “Virgil,” he said softly. “Can I come in?”
“Already said you could.” Virgil shifted and reached up to brush his hair out of his face, wincing when his fingers bumped his bruised right eye.
“So you did.” Janus stepped into the bedroom and closed the door softly behind himself. Virgil swallowed, anxiety ratcheting up a little, and Janus paused, giving him a look that Virgil knew all too well. The one that said ‘I just read you like an open book.’ “Do you want me to leave it open?” he asked.
Virgil shrugged. “Don’t care,” he said, but the thought of being locked in with Janus–with anyone–still frightened him. He just sort of hated that Janus knew that, and knew without having to ask.
Janus raised his eyebrows, hand still lingering on the knob. “Second chance?” he offered.
Virgil sighed and slumped. “Maybe a little bit open?”
Janus nodded and opened the door about a foot. It was enough that Virgil could hear his dad (Patton? Should I be calling him Patton again? Or maybe–oh God please no–maybe Mr. Sanders?) in the kitchen, busy with dinner preparations. The sounds would have been comforting and familiar, if it hadn’t been for the notable absence of the usual string of singing, whistling, or talking to himself Patton usually engaged in. He swallowed again, wishing he could bury his face in his arms, but along with his eye, his lip was split and swollen, and while the nurse had claimed his nose to be unbroken, it still felt pretty awful. He’d stuffed two wads of toilet paper into his nostrils to stem the flow of blood, and he realized he hadn’t taken them out yet. He did so now, crumpling the blood-soaked tissue in his fist.
“You here to yell at me?” he mumbled, as Janus moved to settle into Virgil’s desk chair across from the bed.
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I love the “second chance” rule! Definitely something to keep in mind.
have some fluffy analogical to cope with the latest episode
after everything, you’re still here
Pairing: Platonic Creativitwins Word Count: 1272 Content: hurt/comfort, takes place immediately after Putting Others First (spoilers!), remus making some remus-y jokes, brothers supporting each other
Roman is rarely quiet, especially after discussions with the other sides. There’s a curtain up between the two sides of their shared room ( they’ve tried creating a wall or a new room, but nothing ever sticks – they both end up back here every time ), but when he returns, Remus can usually hear him humming to himself, or occasionally grumbling about some comment one of the others made in good fun, or otherwise chuckling quietly to himself.
This time, Remus senses him return, hears the whoosh of him sinking in, but beyond that, there is only silence from Roman’s side of the curtain, and that feels like cause for concern. His brother is many things, but quiet has never been one of them. He pauses where he was scratching lewd drawings into the wooden planks of the underside of his top bunk, sitting up on the futon and looking towards the curtain. “…Princey?” he calls, listening closely for any noise.
Nothing, though after a moment there is a faint thump and then a sliding noise – Roman leaning back against the wall and then sliding down it. Remus stands and approaches the curtain, pulling it aside slightly so he can poke his head around.
He finds his brother sitting with his back against the wall, just under the window that looks into his side of the Imagination, beyond which the weather is uncharacteristically depressing, the sky gray and drizzling rain over the normally bright landscape. Roman’s face is pressed into his hands, his knees pulled up to his chest and his shoulders trembling.
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We are still so young, Still learning, Always
Obligatory follow up to the newest episode because my Roceit heart is shattered
Sanders Sides Headcanons: on their names and the origins of side-projecting
Buckle up, folks, this is gonna be a long one.
So,
Janus, am I right?
I had always thought his name would follow Dark Side conventions and be from Roman culture. Virgil is a Roman philosopher. Remus is a Roman pseudohistorical figure. And now, Janus: the Roman two-faced god, who looks into the future (foresight, self-preservation) and also the past (using past experiences as fuel for insecurities).
However, I also noticed that both Remus and Janus end on an -us, but Virgil's still the odd name out. I thought that Deceit's name would be Roman, but not similar to the other Dark Sides', to reflect how the Others are supposed to twisted mirror versions of Light Sides.
But upon the revelation of Janus, I now posit a new theory:
The reason Virgil is the odd name out is because he's not meant to fit in with either the Light or Dark Sides.
Virgil is a Neutral Side. And even though Thomas probably won't reveal any other Sides after Orange (which I headcanon as Wrath or Revenge), any other Side who is based on pure emotions or primal instincts will be too.
Just think about it. Both the Light and Dark Sides we know so far are based on higher cognitive functions: analysing data and drawing conclusions (Logic), distinguishing right from wrong and nostalgia (Morality), creating and fantasizing, as well as appreciation of beauty (Creativity), the ability to lie and manipulate your circumnstances (Deceit). The only possible exception could be Dark Creativity, mostly because intrusive thoughts do have a more impulsive, violent, primal nature; but they're still constructed scenarios based on morality and (violent) processed knowledge of the outside world, so as annoying and yucky as they might be, they're still part of a high cognitive process.
Not the case of Anxiety. He explains his function as fight-or-flight and vigilance. They're all tied to fear, one of the most primal emotions all living beings have, tied directly with survival. Fear is often irrational and distracting (challenges Logic), muddles your perspective (unables Morality), blocks your creative flow and hijacks your fantasies (blocks Creativity). Virgil couldn't feel at ease around the Light Sides because he thought he would always hinder them in some way.
But extreme fear and overvigilance also hinders your ability to lie and only fuels intrusive thoughts, so Virgil wouldn't feel at ease with the Dark Sides either. Therefore, even if Virgil can align with the Light Sides, he himself is neutral in nature: he's the most primal, and arguably the most powerful. He belongs to a separate group, if indeed he isn't the only one of his kind because Thomas's anxiety was strong enough to manifest itself into a humanoid persona while all other 'primals' were absorbed into other Sides.
For all of these reasons, Virgil has a different name than any other Sides. Because he considered himself a Dark Side at first, his name is from Roman culture like the others'. But because he wasn't exactly like Janus or Remus, his name still differed from theirs.
Now, on to my other theory:
While the jury is still out on whether the Sides are figments of Thomas's imagination or if they're really manifested into the real world, they're rounded enough to be considered people of their own, so either Thomas has a really good imagination, or the Sides do exist. We don't know if others can see a person's Sides,
But based on world culture and mythology, Thomas is probably not the only one in the planet who can project Sides.
Anthropomorphic personifications of concepts and feelings have always existed. In Greek mythology, many daemones represented something: Morpheus was dreams, Niké was victory, etc. In the present day, these personifications keep popping up: the Charas from Shugo Chara! are pretty much chibified Sides, for example.
But why does the form of Sides differ so much from story to story? Why are there personifications who work on their own, like daemones, while others advise humans, like Charas?
Because Side-projecting is not just a way to make the abstract accesible; in the Sanders Sides universe, it's an actual superpower that varies on the person.
Let's go to Nordic mythology. Odin had two ravens, called Huginn and Munnin. They were his watchers over the nine worlds, who reported back to him about everything that happenned outside. They were, in a way, his assistants.
Huginn and Munnin means Thought and Memory.
These ravens were probably Odin's Sides, manifested as birds.
There're probably even earlier examples of Side-projection in world mythology, but my hypothesis is:
Could it be that, in the Sanders Sides universe, the stories of gods manifesting abstract concept were true, or at least based on true events?
And if so, does this mean Sanders Sides's Thomas has this power?
@thatsthat24 sorry if this is a bunch of hooey to you, but I'd like your opinion. To everyone else, what do you think? Am I just overthinking, or is this valid?
Siblings am I right
“Which one of you is the original creativity, then?”
They both went silent. For a moment - a very brief moment, a flicker of eye contact so quick it almost didn’t happen - they seemed to communicate something beyond words, their expressions pinched so similarly that beyond all differences, it was easy to tell they were twins. Finally, the one in green lifted his eyes.
“If you shatter a mirror,” he said lowly, and his voice turned their spines cold, “which shard is the original?”
This is so clever and chilling well done!
@coconut-cluster I hope you don’t mind, but this was stuck in my head and I needed to do a piece on it.
Okay, but that moment in the episode where Roman was asking if he really is Thomas’ hero. And of course Thomas says yes but Roman looks over to Janus.
And Janus nods.
But Roman takes the nod wrong and thinks that Janus is lying to him.
And so he thinks that Thomas is lying.
And Roman’s reaction to that just absoutley broke my heart.
(He looks and sounded like he was close to tears here, poor baby)
(Also here you can see the moment Janus realized Roman took his nod wrong)
SCREAMING
Roman: Ok so treating Virgil as a villain was wrong, therefor I shouldn’t treat Deceit like that
Roman: *ends up getting accused of being selfish for agreeing with Deceit*
Roman: Ok so I shouldn’t trust Deceit
Roman: *treats Deceit like a villain and gets treated badly in return*
Roman: *CONFUSED SCREAMING*
See here's the thing! There's no winning!
But also Roman's view is very black and white and he needs to work on that hhhhh
He absolutely does, but can you blame him? He's been brought up to be the "good" twin, and he's expected to do the right thing all the time. The point is, SOMEONE HELP HIM.
PLEASE
(this makes me feel like the next ep it's gonna be prinxiety vs the other sides)
That’s what I was thinking! Would be poetic: Roman & Virgil against the rest, especially considering how their relationship started out
Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. He is usually depicted as having two faces, since he looks to the future and to the past.
this one goes out to everyone (including me) who thought his name was janice
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First Words, and Then Some
Requested by @figurative-siren-song, Soulmate AU with Anxceit, the soulmark is the first words your soulmate says to you, with selective mute Deceit. I’ve never written a character as selective mute before, so I hope I did alright, and I am open to respectful and polite critiques.
Also I ended up picturing this in @sleepy-sides‘ art style. It’s a lot easier to pinpoint these now that I’ve talked about it some!!
“What’ll it be today?”
Dee’s throat closed up at those words. Yes, it could be a relatively common phrase, especially with how much he frequents cafes and coffee shops, but this phrase meant something to Dee. The rest of his life rode on this phrase.
And yet, every time it was uttered, he couldn’t seem to reply. It was just… so daunting. So Dee would try to sign, and if the person manning the register didn’t know sign, he’s type it out on his phone or do his best to point.
It didn’t help that this barista was cute, too. All coherence and cognition left Dee’s brain. Today would be a pointing day.
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With the whole Corona thing going on lately, the sides feel like spreading some important information and reassurance!!! 😷💕 Stay safe, my friends!
Also special thanks to @vigilantvirgil for helping with the texts! She’s so great at getting the characters right! 💖💖💖
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly - I always hear this song and think of Remus and so we have child!Remus angst!