(psst if you sent me a message and i havent responded its bc im keeping it to remind myself that yeah, people are actually interested in and want to see more of that silly fic :0c )
(so dont think im just ignoring you! i just, need motivation sometimes so im hanging onto it for a lil boost ^^; )
i love this part of @ladies-lords-nonbinaryroyalty’s deceit fic so much, I can 100% see Patton actually saying this to a panicking snake, its beautiful and i had to draw it
i probably shouldve mentioned i just didnt post part 2 right away was bc i didnt want to fight with formatting again just yet, not bc it wasnt finished
and so there may or may not be a part three, but if there is it will be a while bc that one actually is still in the works
(also part one is here)
Patton was back.
He stood in the kitchen, quietly cooking up some eggs. His demeanor held none of his usual boundless energy, but at least he wasn't on the floor sobbing this time.
Logan stepped briskly out of the dark, looking like he was trying very hard to be patient. "Patton, please, Virgil has already talked to you about this. You cannot keep coming in here, what if Deceit finds you?"
Patton cast him a halfhearted grin, and Logan noted with some relief that he had not yet sprouted scales. However, even in the low light it was clear the skin on his face was starting to turn blue and waxy. "Well then he'll get to enjoy a nice breakfast with us!"
"I seriously doubt that would be enjoyable for anyone involved. Besides, given his different anatomy we have no idea if he even eats the same--"
"Way ahead of you, teach," Patton said, flipping the pan in his hand--and stumbling back as he abruptly remembered that you can't actually do that if the pan has something in it. Half-cooked splattered across the stove, the counter, the floor...
"...well that, didn't go eggactly how I planned."
Logan pinched the bridge of his nose and let out a long sigh. He snapped his fingers and the mess was gone.
"Patton," he said. Patton shrunk back a bit, still managing to hold a sheepish grin. "What are you doing here. There's nothing to be gained here, you know this."
"Well," he shrugged. "Maybe there, is something to be gained."
"Oh really. Like what."
"Like-- I don't know, I just think that maybe some good could come from it! ..Virgil told me last time that I have to try to actually make things happen instead of just lying to myself, but-- sometimes its hard! And sometimes its nice to just.. come back and.. believe those things again."
"No, I will not have you coming here, by yourself, so you can live some, fantasy." He punctuated the word "fantasy" with a flip of the wrist, as though such a frivilous idea requires visible dismissal. "Besides, didn't you say lying is wrong? You made your stance quite clear on that."
"With some exceptions!" Patton corrected with a grin as he put the pan back on the stove, fresh, raw eggs already in it to replaced the ones he'd flung. His left eye started to catch the light oddly. "And y'know I really do think we can get Deceit to come around!"
Logan sighed as the other Side resumed cooking. Or trying to, at least. He did not seem to notice that the stove had been turned off when Logan disappeared the mess earlier. "You're lying to yourself, Patton. No one else even wants him around; its doubtful even he wants to be around. Why would you bother?"
Patton clicked his tongue and waved a disapproving spatula at him. "That's where you're wrong, kiddo. I want him around, and I know he does too."
Logan's patience was starting to wear thin. "Oh, really," he huffed. "Well what makes you think that then?"
"Because if he didn't, he wouldn't go through all this trouble for me."
Logan stopped short, staring at Patton. The moral side grinned cheekily back at him.
"Wh-what trouble, what do you mean, what trouble is he going through?"
Patton flicked his head with a grimace of mock-secondhand embarrassment. "Y'know... for someone who's whole thing is lying, you're not very good at it."
Logan quite strongly resembled a deer caught in headlights as the color drained from his face. "I-- I don't know what you mean."
"Oh come on. I'm not just a pretty face. I can see what you've been doing." Patton's left cheek had completely parted into scales by this point. Great. Apparently Deceit's influence either turned him into an absolute wreck or made him confident and cheeky. Logan wasn't sure which was worse.
"I talked to Virgil about it the next day and he had no idea what I was talking about. So it was a little weird to find all my knitting supplies in my room, since he wouldn't've known to come back and get them.
"Also--" He held up a finger at Logan, who was beginning to sweat. "Don't think I didn't notice that one of those friendship bracelets were missing."
He snapped his fingers at Logan, who automatically held his wrist in his other hand to hide his watch as he felt it change back into a knitted strip of green and yellow.
Patton laughed with delight. "See, I knew you'd come around!"
"No, no, I definitely don't like you coming here. Youre becoming entirely too confident, it needs to stop."
Patton seemed too caught up in his excitement and triumph over being right to form words, and instead only grinned and made, some, odd gesture that was probably meant to be air punches or fingerguns but ended up being an awkward combination of the two.
"Seriously though, you do need to leave, this much exposure to this part of the mind palace is not healthy."
"Oh well all right," Patton pouted. "But onl--oh, whoops." He interrupted himself by accidentally smacking the pan handle. He took a second to make sure it was fine and that he actually had room this time before continuing. "But only if you come by for breakfast sometime!" he said, pointing at the other Side as though to ensure he understood the seriousness of the request.
Logan sighed, rubbing his forehead. "Yes, fine, just, please leave, I cannot handle you like this."
Patton laughed as he started to sink. "Alright kiddo, seeya tomorrow!"
"Wh-- tomorrow? No I didn't agree to--"
He spluttered to a halt and stared in exasperation at the now-empty spot on the floor.
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hi i dont usually write fic and wasnt even gonna post but @strickenwithclairvoyancy talked me into it (ps shes a cool and rad pal go check her blog out)
characters: patton, deceit, virgil kinda
has sympathetic deceit?? i think?? “reclusive asshole who does not know how to emotions or friendship and pls just leave maybe” deceit
((oh this is part 1 btw. part 2 will be up.. uh…. at some point, probably))
Logan’s Room: Sanders Sides Theory (I really love this y’all)
Headcanon that Logan’s room is actually SUPER messy and cluttered, with books and papers strewn all about, a word-of-the-day calendar he’s written too much on to the point of inefficiency, and several unfinished projects that he’d long since abandoned for new ones. There’s a laptop on his desk with a ridiculous number of tabs open, many of which are research-based or random wikipedia searches from late night curiosity, one tab is playing a podcast, and another’s playing quiet classical background music.
The others are confused/surprised/amused by the absolute mess, and maybe laugh a bit or poke some fun at him for it. He’s really embarrassed, of course, scrambling to clean things up, and had tried to talk Thomas and the other Sides out of visiting in the first place… But once they do, all of the Sides get super interested in various subjects (in keeping with how the other rooms intensify the effects of their corresponding Side):
Roman would start enthusiastically researching the history of theatre, pulling poetry anthologies off the overflowing bookshelves, and reading up on acting technique studies by Stanislavsky, Alexander, Chekov, etc.
Virgil would be really into learning about psychology/mental health and finding coping mechanisms to practice. He’d learn about himself to figure out how he affects Thomas and what he can do to be more helpful.
And Patton would focus on how to help animals, planning out volunteer time at shelters and helping out with adoptions (raising awareness, making adoption pages, organizing food drives, starting fundraisers for better care of animals in pounds, etc.)
What if Thomas goes there because he cant remember something very important he learned not too long ago afterall Logan’s room probably retains every fact Thomas ever learned and they realise he can’t remember that fact because of the mess.
That’s possible! Or he’s been neglecting Logan too much and he feels useless so he retreats to his room. (He’s been getting that way recently, afraid and defensive when any other side shows intelligence at all, usually saying that he needs to re-evaluate his purpose). So maybe they have to go after him there and somehow get him to see that he’s more than just facts and raw knowledge. Because he is. He just pretends that’s all he is because he’s scared to be anything else.
Idk there are a LOT of possibilities and I’m so excited for Logan’s arc when it happens!
I also love the idea of it being a complete mess but somehow Logan can find literally anything? Like oh the notes from two weeks ago are in this pile give me a sec. that kind of thing
“LOGANS ROOM IS A MESS” IS A REALLY GOOD HEADCANON…… I LOVE THIS…..
also myself and @ladies-lords-nonbinaryroyalty have an addition:
Anyway, Logan-Is-Insecure-About-His-Usefulness-Angst (my favourite kind of angst) aside, it’s still like… clear that every other side has a sort of admiration for Logan. Patton looks up to him as being cool and smart (please see: “WHY DONT WE TALK MORE,” the sherlock holmes bit, patton fangirl screaming at Logan’s rap), Virgil sees him as more objective and grounded than the others and is clearly devastated when Logan doesn’t side with him (see: the defeatist comment, Virge being horrified and angry when Logan leaves in Moving On), and Roman doesn’t actually understand why this geek is cool but does recognise and envy the fact that he’s liked; he’s popular.
So actually getting a chance to see Logan as, uh, not as put-together as he would like to be could be rEALLY GOOD CONTENT AND ALSO MY JAM……………
(not to mention the fact that Logan’s Room Is A Mess Because There’s Too Much Stuff could easily be directly related to Logan Trying Very Hard To Be Useful By Knowing All The Things so theres that as well,,,)
one of my friends recently got me into Sanders Sides and um, I’m, very into it,
I was literally hollering at the Lying episode and then started thinking about how he’s always been around just, keeping everyone from mentioning him anD THEN I THOUGHT ABOUT ANXIETY AND HAD, SOME FEELINGS
I ran across @novaedream’s art of this idea today and I WAS INSPIRED,,,
There’s a couple places in the Horror Games video where Thomas’s nervous rambling sounded like Deceit’s and Roman’s voices so now Deceit gets to come too! He’s gotta show up when you’re trying to convince yourself you aren’t scared!!
(shoutouts to this amazing logan headcanon also b/c logic is clearly the first thing to go in moments of terror)
theres a lot of folks who want a Deceit redemption arc like virgil got which, I mean, I WOULD BE INTO THAT, but honestly I also love the idea of Deceit becoming part of the group as this like, hilariously ineffectual villain. Like Team Rocket. Like how Bowser goes go-karting with Mario while still trying to be his sworn enemy. Just Thomas doing things and Patton brings Deceit along because “come on guys, he’s still one of us!” and Deceit’s trying real hard to be sinister and everyone is just “oh, you~”, like he’s not gonna stop lying but also nobody can take his Opposite Day schtick seriously
Also psychology-wise it makes sense; once you recognise the lies you tell yourself, they don’t go away, but it’s easier and easier to recognise them for what they are and they hold way less power over you.
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