Anything (personality traits, interests, quirks, backstories, whatever) yet about the botb au that you wanna share?
oh!! lets see uhhh
i havent decided on a band name yet but honestly @ineffabledepression calling them Disasters is pretty funny and good, so it might be something like that lol!
their motif is black lace-up boots that they decorate themselves with white marker - Dee’s have eyes all over them, Remus doodled random creatures and stuff on his, and Virgil’s are covered in song lyrics and a couple well-placed spiders
(Roman’s, after they convince him to actually wear them, have roses and thorns)
Roman+Patton+Logan and Dee+Remus+Virgil are the major friend groups, but Patton has known Dee since second grade because their parents are friends, and he’s been friends with Virgil since seventh grade, when Virgil moved to their middle school.
(Additionally: Remus and Roman have known Logan and Patton since kindergarten; the rest of the crew met Dee in third or fourth grade, depending on their classes because he was in the “gifted” class with Logan and Roman; and Virgil met Roman and Logan in ninth grade because they had a couple classes together. V didn’t mind Logan, but he and Roman got into arguments about anything and everything for quite a while)
Roman is a theater kid and cheerleader, and he’s reasonably popular, but he’s made fun of behind his back quite a bit and tends to stick with Logan and Patton as friends.
Patton doesn’t do a ton around the school, but he volunteers a lot outside of it!! Animal shelters, soup kitchens, you name it, community service is a passion of his!
Logan is on a competitive STEM team, and teen court, and chess club (regional champion babeyy). he also gets made fun of quite a bit, though usually to his face. he says he doesn’t care, and honestly that’s partially truthful - but it does bother him to be taken as a joke by his peers despite his achievements.
Dee is also on teen court, but he detests the great majority of the student body and tries to avoid other students as much as possible, so that’s about all he does besides the band. He is, however, friends with Logan, Patton, and Roman, although he’d never say that out loud.
(He very much enjoys spending time around Logan, because he’s interesting to talk to and understands all of Dee’s smart lil references and his dry comments are actually kind of funny- but it’s not a crush or anything. Dee just likes hanging out with him and feels a rush of endorphins when he makes Logan laugh and thinks he has nice hair and stuff. totally platonic.)
Remus started an art club that, at this point, also functions as group therapy, because he has a very weird way of weedling deep-seeded troubles out of people via his wacky art projects. Roman joined once to try and support his brother and left halfway through because the amount of emotional vulnerability in the room scared the living daylights out of him. He’d never related to Logan so much
Virgil doesn’t really do any school activities, just plays drums in the band, but he likes to write in his free time. It started because his therapist suggested journaling and eventually he just started writing down random stories whenever he got stressed out or overwhelmed.
(That’s one of the first things he and Roman get along about - Roman compliments the doodles on the front of journal and asks what he writes about. Virgil conveniently leaves out the anxiety aspect of it all but gives a few mumbles about this mystery story he started, and Roman actually asks more about it, like he’s interested - it’s one of their first completely civil conversations, no arguing or insults or anything)
Obviously Roman can sing (he’s gotten the lead in the school musicals like eighty billion times), Virgil knows this before Dee brings him to practice, but he’s still a little shook at how well Roman’s voice fits with their sound. just shook. not like enamored or anything
the band absolutely makes Roman get a new outfit to fit their aesthetic more when they perform
(speaking of outfits, yknow those black flat brim hats? Dee totally wears one of those)
(and Virgil wears beanies because i said so)
((thank you and goodnight))
