Headcanons for a sides role swap were they switch what they were made for
An au world in which locking Roman up resulted in their traits being swapped around
Logan felt something he never did before after being the one encouraging Roman’s lock up. Guilt. That sent him into a spiral of learning about emotions and understanding how actions resulted in different emotions. Logan become obsessed with feelings and understand them. Partly out of guilt for what locking up Roman had done to Patton.
The new Feelings / Heart Side
Curious little thing
Likes feeling extreme things (even bad things)
Gets in dangerous situations just to feel the trill of fear
Mixture of Toddler and Adult. He’s a big boy!
If he’s out of little space he feels numb and claims to have a headache (resulting in him being snappy)
Littlespace age range 2-5 (leans towards the 5 side)
Causes Thomas to have mood swings (oops)
Still has his power to read minds if he’s touching them. But, uses it to read thoughts to study how they are feeling. A sad person is crying, touch hand to read the thoughts that are making them sad.
Patton ended up becoming Anxiety unable to cope with the guilt of what they had done to Roman. He was so afraid they had ruined Thomas that he couldn’t cope. He slowly struggled with seeing anything but the bad things that could happen. He just wanted the remaining sides and Thomas to be safe. So he started worrying about every little thing that could hurt them. Babied by the others.
The new Anxiety Side
Sad Cinnamon Bun
Needs lots of hugs
Acts like a scared toddler more than an adult
Littlespace age range 2-3
Rarely out of little space, when Patton is big he’s a worry wart more than normal and depress.
Sweetest lil, but very needy, with lots of love to give
Loves helping caretakers, always afraid caretakers will get mad, has terrible social anxiety, very clingy.
Always has red rings around his eyes
Causes Thomas to worry and be nervous a lot
Uses his power to tell what other people feel by touching them. This tends to help calm him down when he’s scared someone hates him or is angry
Virgil realize he was the one who was going to have to step up and help get Thomas functioning (Since he had fallen into a depression) So he started acting like the missing Self esteem / Ego side. Encouraging them to do things, he helped Patton go from less of a worry scared to a caution protector.
The new Ego / Self Esteem Side
The leader, really stepped up to help everyone.
Great caretaker
Regresses when he just can’t handle it anymore. his age range is 3-5
Still has bad thoughts but has learned that he can’t let negative feelings hold him back.
Sometimes forgets to take care of himself
Hates Roman with a passion (He did so much work to help everyone and Roman keeps trying to ruin it!)
Uses his powers to tell what a person fears to help comfort them and overcome or protect them from their fears
Deceit on the other hand threw himself in learning anything he could. He and VIrgil actually put their differences aside for the best of Thomas. He took on the Logic side trait. With this he was able to reason Pattons fears down to something more reasonable as well as help Thomas listen to Virgil.
The new Logic side
The coleader never had a falling out with the other sides
Great caretaker like Virgil
Is able to reason Patton out of a panic attack.
Willingly regress alone, doesn’t have to. Just enjoys it, he regress back to 6 and has a stuffed dog named “Rowan” Totally not because it reminds him of his old best friend
The one who is the nicest to Roman tries to help Roman get adjusted.
Roman and Deceit’s relationship is like Virgil’s and Patton’s before everyone accepted Virgil. Roman is viewed as the bad guy by everyone, but Deceit who refers to him as his “fallen angel” (Like how Patton in canon calls Virgil his dark strange son)
It hurts Deceit when Roman calls him a liar
He uses his enhanced shapeshifting to make Patton laugh, Logan to study the animal or thing in a safer way, and to help Thomas to practice taking to strangers and such.
Poor little Roman broke in lock up. At first he had given up and let the demons and nightmares win each battle accepting the pain to feel something. But, then there was a sparkle of hope. (Unknown to him this was a result of Virgil and Deceit’s work) and he realize things could be different he could save himself. That’s how he became self preservation. When he broke free from his chains he came back as a proud Disney villain. Who wants revenge.
The new Self Preservation Side
Anger ball of fire
Classic Disney Villain
That voice in your head that says you suck and no one can love you
So much anger in such a small short boy
Wears a Queen like outfit because everyone knows queens are evil
Stuck at the age of 6, little age is very unstable though one second he’s acting like a 6 year old the next he’s a cranky 2 year old
His little age range is 1-6,
Spends most his time on par to a 6 year old or 1 year old.
Rips the heads off of stuffed animal, throws toys, breaks things in fits. Then gets really sad when he finds out one of his favorite toys are broken
Being locked up hasn’t had much affect on his powers besides giving him less control. His imagination abilities are slightly out of his control now so sometimes it comes to bite him in the butt.
Of course he’s using his powers to make him seem like a cooler villain (appearing in green smoke and so on) Also makes things that he claims will help Thomas be better.
Despite coming off as evil and pointing out Thomas’ many flaws. He does want the best for Thomas and just wants to make him into a better person. It wasn’t his fault that he got locked up. It was other people. He doesn’t want Thomas to ever change for another person again.
Hates it when Thomas is trying to think of others, because being selfish is better
Will go gentle on Deceit because he can’t hurt Dee even if they all hurt him
Other Stuff to Mention
For the first 2 years during Roman’s lock up everything was chaotic and Thomas suffered terrible depression. His grades didn’t get better when Roman was locked up but rather worse. He also lost all his friends
Then there was a spark of hope and he started on working on himself, as well as going to therapy.
Virgil and Deceit are very close, acting as the leaders of the group. They are also the two main caretakers.
Roman hates the other sides with a burning passion and even has a distaste for Thomas. But, he despise other humans from the bottom of his heart
One day when Thomas moved out of his parents his new therapist suggested he made a video diary and thats when the sides start appearing to him
Roman will have a habit of telling Thomas how he’s a terrible person but if he listened to him Roman could make it all better.
However the other sides are always able to get Thomas to feel good about himself
This will be called Out of the Toy Box and I love this way more than I thought I would