#creativitwin angst

[bitchnuggettt]

you ever think about the creativitwin dynamic as it was introduced in Remus' debut? Like, how in order for Remus to have his moment in the spotlight, he had to knock Roman out first?

Roman wasn't even aware of Remus' tamperings the night prior, he practically had to beg to be in the loop about why everyone was so moody at the start of that video. I always assumed he was either busy at the time, or more likely that he was just asleep in the mind palace (subconscious) while Remus was being an active terror that night.

The first time we see them both fully awake and side-by-side is right after Roman wakes up at the end, and from that point forward they're allowed to be on screen at the same time without one of them being dormant or hidden.

This may be a bit of a stretch, but it was almost like there was only ever ONE slot open to accommodate a "single" creativity at a time before Thomas was made aware of Remus' existence. Maybe that was the first time in the longest that Thomas fully "allowed" both of them to even be awake at the same time.

There's already a LOT of angst potential in there being a sleeping beauty-esque quality to the role of creativity where only one twin can be awake/totally aware at a time with very little overlap. I can picture one twin sitting by the other as they doze, lamenting that they can never truly collaborate or even speak to each other properly because they have to take turns being awake.

I picture them only ever being able to communicate through letters to one another that they dicover when they're awake + Remus moving stuff around in Roman's room and/or the imagination…..

But I also think of Janus

There's a possibility that when Virgil left, Janus was well and truly alone.

He might not have even fully had Remus as a real companion after that, since Roman was likely awake and burning the candle at both ends all the time, considering that he canonically has a horrible/turbulent sleeping schedule.

I imagine Janus longing for Virgil's return and only ever having the company of someone who was unconscious more often than not, stuck in a magical sort of fairytale slumber that he would only ever stir from occasionally, and how lonely that must have been…

anyway yeah i hurt my own feelings thinking about it lmao, had to share with the class

[sasi-prompts]

Roman surprises himself by leaping to Janus' defense.

“Yeesh. Lay off him, Remus! You know how hard a summons is to ignore!”

“No, I don’t!”

Roman’s mouth abruptly snaps shut.

[sweetea-rosey]

Virgil: You're lucky you have Remus. He is the dark side of Creativity so that you don't have to balance it out

Roman: .... haha.... yeah... that's how it works.....

Later when Roman's trying to sleep:

Remus, whispering in his ear: Here's a thousand reasons as to why you're not good enough

Roman: Last night it was just 500...

Remus: Yeah, but you fucked up a lot, today

Why do you think Roman hates the dark?

[noblest-roman-of-them-all]

You don’t have to be strong all the time.

Content warning: Mentions of abusive relationship, implications of child abuse. I decided to use the prompt list to work on one of my au’s.

Roman dropped face first across the foot of Logan's bed. Logan carefully place his book mark on the page, so it would dig too deeply into the spine, then set the book aside and moved to sit beside Roman. He ran his fingers through the other’s hair before massaging between his shoulders.

"I can't- I don't know what to do anymore, Lo," Roman muttered without moving. "He's scared to go to sleep, but he won't talk to me. He won't- He's never done this before. I don't know what to do. I don't know how to help him. I'm trying so hard to be brave and strong for him, but this is killing me."

"Maybe you don't have to be," Logan answered softly. "Maybe...you don't have to be strong all the time. I understand why you feel like you should. Remus tried very hard to protect you when you were kids, and you tried very hard to protect him from that relationship. You've told me about how brave Remus always seemed, but you have also told me about those times when he wasn't. When neither of you felt you could be strong.

“That's not a bad thing, Roman. And...being upset and allowing him to see you upset isn't weakness. Very often we are told, in bad situations, to be ‘strong’ or ‘brave’, that we shouldn't cry or be upset, but that can be so very detrimental to our health. Remus...may never be the same as he was before. He will heal and, with time, feel better. But the difficult truth is that he may not the same as he was and part of healing might to be to grieve the person he was before the abuse. And you may need to do the same. And it may be that he needs to see you grieving so that he knows it's okay for him to do so. Whether you realize it or not, you two feed off of each other's energy quite a lot. You're both trying to be 'brave' and 'strong' for each other when...you may just need to sit and cry with each other. And you may need to do so more than once. Crying will never be weakness, Ro. It's how we heal." Logan bent and kissed Roman's cheek. “Virgil and I are here to support you however you need.”

"Thanks, Lo," Roman croaked.

Logan smiled and ruffled his hair. "You're welcome."  

[ambersky0319]

Here's an idea: Remus being the brother who lies about hating Roman, but Roman meaning it. And he feels his heart sink when Deceit one day angerly storms up to him, crying, and blaming him for Remus ducking out bc he couldn't handle the fact his brother truly hated him. And Roman noticing that he himself was losing color and motivation and creativity because his brother was gone, probably for good

Technically didn’t do the entire prompt? But this was such a fantastic idea! I really, really loved it. I cried when I read the ask originally, that was new to me. I hope you enjoy!

Warnings : Unsympathetic Roman I guess? But like, an unintentional unsympathetic? So idk if it’s actually unsympathetic? Lmk if I should add anything else!

Masterpost

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Deceit’s hands shook as his eyes slipped over the note for the fifth time, and he clenched the paper tighter. He wasn’t sure if he was trembling from anger or sadness. Perhaps a mix of both, as it felt like someone had stabbed him in the back with a serrated knife and was twisting it ever so slowly. By the stars, he was furious as his gaze was forced to one sentence in particular.

He hates me.

The note was written in mostly a dark green, but that line in particular was a bright and stunning red. And it set a fire raging in Deceit’s heart that when he read it, there was no lie. Those three measly words alone were the thing that made Remus want to leave. They made Remus duck out to a point that not even Thomas would be able to find him. Deceit knew, because he’d tried to sense even a speck of Remus’s presence anywhere in the mind palace.

Nothing.

He took a deep breath, but it did nothing to help him and instead a sob tore through his being, and he covered his mouth quickly. Before Deceit even realized, he was up and storming out of the dark commons in search of a certain prince.

He didn’t say anything to Logan, or Virgil, or even Patton when they called out for him when he passed. He didn’t answer their questions. Instead, he walked right up to Roman, who was sitting perched atop the couch with a notebook, trying to come up with ideas. Roman barely had any time to look up before a fist collided with his jaw and he fell from his perch.

“What the fuck?!” Roman screeched, wincing as pain flooded his mouth and he looked up. Deceit’s chest was heaving, and the tears only pooled down his cheeks faster.

“Remus is gone because of you, you dipshit!”

Silence fell upon the whole mind palace. The others looked at one another, unsure if they should get involved. Roman furrowed his brow.

“What?”

“You heard me!” Deceit thrust the note at Roman, before crossing his arms and trying to get his breathing under control. “He’s gone, and if I’m right, there’s no way of getting him back. I hope you’re happy with yourself, Creativity.”

Roman looked over the note, and he paled. But when he looked up, Deceit had already sunk out without another word to anyone.

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[rose-coloured-prince]

forest by twenty-one pilots but its King Creativity and the rap bit is right before/ as he is splitting??? 

[sasi-prompts]

prompt submission:

Remus looked around the room, seemingly unimpressed by all the grandeur. "What a waste. I can see why Thomas was so... disappointed in you."

The words were meant to hurt. If they were from anyone else, they would have. But the sweet irony only made Roman smile. "Disappointed in me? He gave you away."

Roman has never seen Remus' expression crumple before.

It's salt in the wound, for both of them. One was born to be cherished, and the other was born to be discarded.

The encounter happens right after Roman's latest brainstorming session with Logan goes sour. Thomas rejects almost every one of his proposals and leaves Roman feeling inept and desperate for approval.

Remus loiters in Roman's room hoping for some entertainment. After all, Roman reeks of disappointment and anger and he's always fun to annoy in this state.

He kicks at all of Roman's discarded ideas. They litter the floor now, most of them overflowing from the trash bin that Remus likes to pick through when Roman's away. He starts teasing him over his "pissy" mood, telling Roman he's definitely living up to his namesake, and it escalates from there.

Roman normally wouldn't rise to the bait, at least not with so much vitriol, but he's feeling particularly sore after Thomas and Logan's recent rejection of his contributions. He lashes out because he's afraid of being replaced, so he has to deny Remus' importance in order to uphold his own.

He regrets it the moment he says it, but Remus' jovial expression is already closing off to him and shuddering into something much darker and hurt. He scurries off before Roman can even get a word of apology out, and he spends the rest of the evening trying and failing to find him.

He goes into Remus' room as a last resort, but Remus is still in hiding, and when Remus hides, he will almost never be found unless he wants to be. He still has access to the random pockets of "nothingness" that lead to the Subconscious. It used to be his domain, after all. He knows it better than anyone else.

Roman resigns himself to checking all of the ceiling vents and closets for the rest of the afternoon, but right as he starts to leave Remus' room, he trips over one of his projects.

It looks.....familiar.

Because it is. He picks it up, resisting the urge to don gloves as he does so, inspects the object/idea from all angles and freezes.

This is Roman's idea, rewritten and remixed. It was one of the few unrefined project ideas he had scrapped before it could even be presented to Logan or Thomas.

He thought it had potential but he just couldn't get it to work for the life of him, there was always something missing.

And here it is, no longer a crumpled up ball of paper in Roman's trash can. It's been carefully unwrapped and tended to, not given up on the way Remus was, and tucked away in a random messy corner in Remus' disaster of a room, already halfway to refinement.

It's good, loathe as Roman is to admit it, it's not a solution he would have thought of in a million years but already he's buzzing with a hundred different ways to "yes-and" it and frantically pulling his own notebook and pen out to scribe as many of the ideas down as he can.

Remus returns to the safety of his own room after spending hours sulking in the sewers of the imagination, only to discover Roman on the dingy floor of REMUS' room of all places, motioning him over hurriedly to look over the new schematics of an idea that is now just as much Remus' as it is Roman's.

When the next brainstorming session comes around, they present it together.

[sweetea-rosey]

Roman: Stop copying me!

Remus: You're copying me!

Logan, rolling his eyes: You're both basically the same person, of course you're similar

Both: WE'RE NOT

They're getting fed up with the parallels