Zipping through the halls, Patton was on the prowl. He had a triscadecatarian to catch!
Logan was behind the curtains. A kind of obvious hiding spot perhaps, but he had a plan. Meanwhile, Virgil hid under the couch, waiting.
"AHA!" Patton cried, spotting Logan's feet and ankles. He threw the curtain back and got ready for a chase. But instead of running away, Logan lunged towards him! "Eep!"
Running away, Patton ran all through the house, looking for a place to hide while Logan was hot on his heels. He ran through the kitchen, and then back towards the front door.
Just then, Janus appeared in front of him. He wagged his finger.
"My my, seems like we have an old man trying to escape from the inevitable..."
Patton grinned nervously, in a 'please have mercy' type way.
Smiling with playful intent, Janus grabbed him. Logan caught up, breathing heavily with a smile, glad Patton was caught.
"Well, Logic?" Janus hummed. "Should we get him, and risk consequences from Daddy?"
A snort was heard from offscreen, and Janus rolled his eyes.
Logan had a similar mischievous grin. "I think it's worth it!"
Without any more warning, Patton was pinned to the floor, Janus holding his wrists above his head while Logan tickled him. It was quite a while since he'd last been tickled so the others were surprised to hear how he reacted to it. As soon as Logan touched his armpits, Patton howled with laughter.
Finally, Janus had enough of spectating and came to join in. He scratched at Patton's ribs, and scribbled his hips. All while Logan wiggled his fingers all along the bottoms of his feet.
Aw man this is super tough. In all honesty, I think both of them are utterly completely in love with the other’s love.
Virgil’s laugh is so joyous and so carefree, just the opposite of how he portrays himself. Patton just falls in love with Virgil all over again every time he hears it and that’s why he makes sure to hear that laugh every single day.
Patton’s laugh is exactly how you would think it would be. It’s purely childish, carefree, belly laughs with the occasional ear-splitting shriek. His face always goes all red and scrunchy. It’s so much more adorable than you expect, even after years of tickle fights and giggle fits.
2. Who is ticklish in unusual places and where would that be?
Patton has some adorably ticklish ears. But, to make it weirder, his right ear is soooooo much more ticklish. It’s not often that Virgil gets the chance to properly tickle them as much as they deserve but he makes sure to treasures the moments he can. There’s no greater joy than taking a fluffy feather and curling around his right ear while whispering teases into his other ear. Seeing them slowly glow bright red, is worth tickling them alone but of course the frantic giggling and wimpy “stop!”s and “it tickles!” also makes it worth tickling them every chance Virgil can get. When he’s bored/anxious, they’re the perfect distraction and fidgeting thing.
3. Who gets cheer-up tickles?
To put a spin on this, Virgil always gets the cheer-up tickles but Patton also gets a weird moment of calm when tickling Virgil. To cheer-up Patton, you need to let him tickle you. When they’re both stressed or upset, they will curl up in their pjs under the bed blankets and Patton will slowly start to tickle Virgil. They’ll spoon and gentle tracing around his tummy will slowly turn into digging scribbles as he pins his arms down and holds his top up. For Virgil, letting himself laugh and relax into Patton’s firm cuddle is so grounding and distracting. For Patton, focusing on the tickles and knowing that no matter what Virgil will love him and he can always make Virgil laugh and look over him.
4. Who takes advantage of the other one getting their arms stuck while taking off their shirt?
Patton is the ultimate tickle monster and will deliberately look for every single opportunity to give some tickles to his grumpy emo storm cloud! Virgil is useless in the morning and just fumbles around until things work. It’s not unusual for Patton to take pity and help him put his jumpers on. But, of course, his help comes with the fact of life that he will scribble down his sides as he pulls the jumper down. Oh and look this jumper is tightly stuck so it’s taking awhile. Oh please stand still Virge, I’ve just got to get it unstuck from the exact middle of your armpits. Lots of teasing which is really unfair as Virgil’s brain as yet to load and he’s forced to just stand there and try not to fall. He can’t even try to fight back, he’s just got to stand there and make sure his knees don’t melt.
5. How did they discover each other’s ticklishness?
I don’t know why this sudden image came to me but! I can just imagine Patton cleaning the house after a good baking session and he pulled out a feather duster. He was practically glowing as he realised he must look like a 1950s housewife. Patton dances around the living room while twirling this feather duster. Virgil walks in and he jokingly swats him with the duster. Now, Virgil was wearing a thick jumper as per usual. There was no way it could possibly tickle. But yet his mind just panicked. He is the epitome of flight and fight. His brain convinces him that Patton somehow discovered his greatest secret and he must fight back. So he grabs the duster and quickly shoves it under Patton’s top to which Patton then immediately buckles and starts squealing. Virgil ends up tickling the snot out of his boyfriend.
Afterwards, Patton asks just what on earth sparked that moment of playfulness and Virgil instinctually answers that he thought Patton would tickle him first. Which of course results a duster being shoved up his jumper in revenge.
6. Who can’t take tickle bites?
Patton but not really for the reasons to be expected. He can take tickle bites but his ultimate weakness is raspberries. And he knows for a fact that if Virgil is doing tickle bites then raspberries are coming. The instant Virgil puts his mouth on him, he screaming and wiggling even faster. So Virgil uses tickle bites as anticipation for raspberries which makes them absolutely unbearable for Patton.
7. Who has to be tickle-forced out of bed in the morning?
As mentioned earlier, Virgil is useless in the morning but Patton wants them both to wake up at the same time just like in all the love films and books. It becomes a game between them. Patton will wake up and still see his darling boyfriend dead to the world in his arms and he will gently tickle up and down his sides. “Oh, just how I love waking up to these summer mornings with my darling boyfriend, who’s definitely awake and enjoying the morning with me. You can tell he’s awake and ready for the beautiful day awaiting us because he’s just giggling at the thought of enjoying today!”.
8. Who gives up in a tickle fight?
Surprisingly Patton. Patton enjoys tickles with absolutely no shame, maybe some embarrassment and blushing but he will “oh no!” become suddenly weak and helpless and so forced to sit there and just enjoy those tingly tickles. Sometimes, even he he is fighting back, he will deliberately stop for a second to just enjoy Virgil’s giggles as he wrecks his tickle monster boyfriend. He just wants to enjoy the open joy Virgil is feeling. If Patton has one ultimate weakness, it would be Virgil. He’d take all the tickles in the world to see Virgil having fun and messing about.
9. Who is in danger of getting hurt when attacking the other?
Virgil is the most danger when tickling Patton. Patton always wants to enjoy his tickles and so he tries with all of his might and strength to enjoy them and sit still. But, he’s not very strong. Virgil will think Patton is just lying there and will focus on his tickling and then suddenly it becomes too much and Patton kicks out violently with no warning. Virgil has had quite a few bruises from Patton to which Patton almost cries over hurting him.
10. Who always provokes the other into tickling them and how?
Hmm, a bit of both. Virgil knows that tickling someone is a great stress release for Patton and so he will go through subtle hints like “oh my foot is super itchy” or “could you give me a massage” to some outright storming into his room with his shirt pulled up and his tummy proudly showing to the world. There have been times where Virgil thinks that Patton is more stressed than he is but Patton will never turn down a blushing Virgil asking for tickles.
For Patton, he thinks he’s super subtle but he’s really not. He’s the one to wear an outfit to ‘hint’ at tickles. Virgil will be eating his bowl of cereal, slowing waking up, and Patton will walk in with short shorts, a crop top and knee high socks with ‘tickle me’ written across the soles. Subtle, obviously. It’s through this that Patton actually realises that he loves knee high socks and he loves that tracing over them makes things so much more ticklish! Soft tickles don’t really work for him for him on bare soles but the soft tickles over the fluffy socks really get him!
(oh god guys I’m doing this it’s been sitting in my docs for like a week while I tried to get up more motivation because for some reason my brain decided my first tfic should actually be a series of tifics???
This is Patton’s part and I’m trying to get myself into the mood to write Roman’s part, but after that I have like zero ideas for Logan and Virgil but anyway here you go guys, my first terrible tfic aaaaaaaa)
tagging @oliviaischillin1204 because she’s my torture/inspiration
In addition to occasionally appearing to Thomas when he told a few white lies, Deceit had taken to popping up on the other sides when they told lies he thought were worth exposing. Even better – Thomas and the other sides wanted the truth? He would see to it that all of their truths were set free like birds from cages.
Starting with Patton and his penchant for lying about his feelings.
It started, as many things do with Patton, with cookies. Roman, deciding he deserved a sweet treat after all of his morning adventuring, went straight for the cookie jar while Patton made sandwiches with help (okay, he was basically only getting things from the fridge, but still) from Virgil. Before Logan, sitting at the table, could even begin to scold him for ruining his appetite, Roman had stuck his hand into the jar only for a look of confusion to pass over his face.
“What thievery is this? Wasn’t the jar at least half-full yesterday? Now it’s completely empty!” Roman exclaimed, pulling his cookie-less hand out of the jar and waving it in the air with his usual dramatics. Virgil shrugged, but Logan rose an eyebrow.
“Patton, have you been partaking in those “second cookies” again? Having that much sugar is unhealthy.” He stated, causing Patton to turn from his sandwich-making with a surprised expression.
“A second cookie is nice once in a while, Lo, but I haven’t had any recently. You guys are more than sweet enough for me.” Patton exclaimed happily.
“Liar.” Suddenly Deceit was standing just behind Patton, picking at some of the sandwich fillings as yet untouched, nonchalantly eyeing the peppy side with a smirk. Patton and Roman jumped, while Virgil practically threw himself across the room to get away from the suddenly close snake. He scowled at the new figure.
“What are you taking about, Deceit? No one needs you here –“ the purple side snarked. Deceit blinked at him with mock-innocence, before turning his attention toward Patton.
“Well, in light of deciding that lying isn’t good, I thought I’d show you just how prevalent lying is for us. Patton, care to share?” Patton got over his surprise and smiled.
“Share what? The sandwiches? I made them for everyone, silly, take your pick!” Patton moved closer to Deceit and the sandwiches, gesturing for the snake side to view them. Deceit placed a gloved hand on Patton’s shoulder, leaning around him to see Roman, about to speak when he realized Patton was scrunching his shoulders a bit. He squeezed Patton’s shoulder, making the other let out a kind of yipping noise, before pulling away with a hum.
“Well. I guess I am needed here, after all.” And with that, the well-dressed side was gone, and everyone else was left to wonder why he had even appeared…except for Patton, who was busy blushing at the noise he’d made and quickly stepped out.
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The next time Deceit appeared, it was right behind Patton while the others were listening to Roman’s ideas for the new series for Thomas.
“That’s a great idea, kiddo, I love it” Patton responded to Roman’s idea to expand their one horror game video into a series of playthroughs for The Evil Within 2.
“Are you sure about that?” Deceit whispered in Patton’s ear, the air blowing into it quite tickly. Patton scrunched his neck and shoulders up with a squeal, startling the others and alerting them to Deceit’s presence. The snake side smirked at the others and disappeared as quickly as he came. Patton managed to reassure the others that he was fine, just surprised, and left it at that.
But it didn’t stop there. It seemed Deceit was always there every time Patton told the littlest untruth to the others. Just things to make sure he didn’t hurt their feelings, honest! Showing a little more interest in Logan’s schedule than he really had, trying to assuage Virgil’s fears, reassuring them when he wasn’t feeling his best…Deceit just kept showing up, and the things he was doing kept escalating.
“There’s nothing to worry about ki – eeeehee!” Spidering in between his shoulder blades.
“Huh? Oh, of course I heard, Lo – ooooh gohosh!” Fingers jabbing into his underarms.
“I’m fine. AhHA!” A few squeezes to his sides.
The others were getting concerned, but Deceit only smirked and Patton only blushed and avoided their questions. Until finally enough was enough.
Alone in his room, feeling down but not quite knowing why, Patton took a steadying breath.
“I’m feeling really good today!” This time Deceit merely appeared in front of him, an eyebrow raised.
“Really? That’s the best lie I’ve ever heard from you, Patton.” Patton chose not to reply, wringing his hands a bit and looking down so he couldn’t see Deceit’s face at his next words.
“Deceit…I want you stop doing that thing you’ve been doing recently. I don’t like it.” He said hesitantly, feeling nervous and a bit giddy. He peeked up at Deceit to see a glint in his eyes and a smile on his face, and felt his own lips twitch upwards a bit in response.
“What, you mean tickling you? Does it tickle too much?” Deceit asked, stepping closer.
“Ye – no! Uh…” Patton gasped, head lifting as he backed away. The little game of cat and mouse ending abruptly when Patton’s knees met the bed and his balance was thrown off. Deceit took advantage of the situation and pushed Patton to sit on the bed before crouching at his feet. Patton kicked his feet away slightly, giddiness overtaking any other emotion and a nervous, inexplainable smile taking over his face.
“Wh – what are you -? AH!” Patton gave a squeal as Deceit took hold of one of his ankles, wasting no time in removing his slipper and sock. Deceit grinned up at the fatherly side, wiggling the fingers of his free hand inches from his bare sole. Patton pulled at his trapped foot and scrunched his toes, tittering nervously with his hands in front of his mouth.
“You see, Patton, I think you’re lying to me. I think you’re not very ticklish. Let’s prove that theory, hmm?” The side smirked and let his fingers touch down on Patton’s arches, nails skittering over the wrinkles in his scrunched foot quickly but delicately.
“Ihihi’m noohohohot! Stopihihit!” Patton broke into giggles immediately, kicking his free leg and pulling at his trapped one. He shrieked as Deceit found a particularly sensitive spot on his arches just above his heel, pressing his arms against his stomach and falling backwards onto the bed, almost causing Deceit to lose his grip on the other’s foot.
“EEEEE! Plehehehehehehease!” Patton begged.
“Hm? Please tickle you more? Why Patton, I’d hate to.” Deceit said sweetly, letting his other sets of arms grow out to grab Patton’s other foot. He stripped that one of it’s slipper and sock as well, pulling back Patton’s toes and tickling underneath them while the other foot continued to have its sensitive arch played with.
“NOHOHOHOHOOOOO DEEEHEHEHEHEHE! IT TIHIHIHIHIHICKLEHEHEHES!!!” Patton rolled on the bed, squirming and trying to scrunch his toes and kick his legs while laughing uncontrollably. His face was red and he felt like he was on the verge of mirthful tears but…he felt better. It was far less embarrassing to be tickle attacked by Deceit in private, and let him actually feel what he had been too overwhelmed to before – joy. Letting himself go like this was, dare he say, nice. But it seemed almost as soon as he began enjoying the feeling, it stopped.
“Does it? That was all you had to say, my dear!” Deceit exclaimed, releasing his feet and drawing his extra arms back into himself. He came to lay next to Patton as he panted and wheezed the last of his giggles out. As he calmed, Patton turned his head toward Deceit and opened his eyes to see the other watching him nonchalantly, hands holding up his head.
“Consider that a little lesson in lying. Did you like it?” Deceit purred. Patton flushed again and before he could stop himself –
“No!” He exclaimed, hands going up to cover his red face. He didn’t see the grin spread on Deceit’s face, but he certainly felt the hands that shot under his exposed arms, making him pin his arms – and subsequently, Deceit’s hands – down with a shriek.
“Now now, what did we just discuss? I think another lesson is in order…” Deceit trailed off as his fingers gently wiggled in Patton’s trapped underarms, starting his laughter up anew.
Day 7: Monster Claws - (ler Reader, lee Light Sides)
(A/N: Happy Sfw Tickletober! I hope you enjoy my contribution.
Note: This is a platonic fic!
(Y/P = your pronouns - ex. he/she/they)
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It all started when a new person came out of Thomas' imagination. After a couple weeks of the sides getting to know (Y/P), it turned out (Y/P) (was/were) quite the rascal!
"Oh booooyyyys!" You called out to the mindscape. It was in a playful but deadly enough tone to send shivers down everyone's spine.
For Halloween, you'd glued a pair of monster claws to your fingers, wiggling them at the men on the couch. One by one, their faces flushed and looks of fear flashed in their eyes. You went for Virgil first, since he'd be the least likely to catch afterwards.
Nabbing him around the ankle, you smirked as he toppled over.
"The safe word is blueberry," you said, being sure to offer him a way out.
He nodded, understanding.
Scratching the monster claws along his soles, you waited to reap your reward.
Virgil screamed in laughter.
He thrashed and kicked so much you had to climb onto his legs to keep them still. Facing his feet, your claws tapped along his soles. You dragged them up his arches, making him squeal.
"AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!" He cried. "BLUEBERRY!! HYHYHYYY!"
You stopped and took something out of your pocket. As Virgil lay on the ground, catching his breath and holding his feet, you tossed him his own pair of monster claws.
Then you ran to find more victims!
On top of the fridge, there sat Patton. It takes some effort to climb the cabinet, but you manage to get to him. He giggles and blushes into his hands.
You smile, and tell him the safe word.
Then you lightly scratch from his ankles down to his soles.
He lasts eight whole seconds, which is three seconds longer than Virgil's time.
You stroke his hair as he calms down, and give him his own costume puppy paws.
Then you're off again!
You find Roman in the closet, between his ballgown and red crop top outfits. He squeaks, seeing you with the monster claws.
"There's no escape, Princey!" You tease, skittering your claws along his waist.
"Eheheheeheeheheeee!"
He's tough, and holds on for quite some time.
That's when Virgil finds him. He lifts a foot and drags his monster claws up Roman's soles and between his toes.
"EHEHEHEHEHEEEE!" Roman shrieks and shakes his head. "I'LL NEVER GIVE UP!!"
From the corner of your eye, you see a black blur rush past you. Logan! He was under the bed the whole time!
You leap on him and tackle him to the ground.
"HA-HA!" You laugh in triumph.
He attempts to fight back, scratching his fingers along your sides.
"HEY!!" You cry. It doesn't distract you for long, though.
Smiling, you tickle his own sides with your monster claws.
"EHEHEEEHEHEEHEHEHEEE!" Logan laughed and kicked from under you. "UNFAIR!!! EHEHEEHEEEHEEHEHEEEE!!"
"Oh, it's perfectly fair!"
Meanwhile, Virgil was tapping along Roman's neck with his claws, making him squeal in a rather unmanly way. Then he blew a raspberry in the middle of his tummy.
"EHEEHEHEE! BLUEBERRY!" Roman cried, tapping out.
He lasted 28 whole seconds! You wonder if Logan can beat his time.
You poise your claws over Logan's neck.
"EEK! NAHAAT THERE!!" He cried, turtling and smiling adorably.
This would be fun!
You prepared your claws, wiggling them slightly.
Just then, you felt a tap on your shoulder. It was Virgil.
"Can we help?"
"May we help," Logan corrected. Virgil snarled playfully.
"Oh, I'm sorry! MAY we help you take down this nerd, one unbearably ticklish spot at a time...?"
Logan squeaked and struggled more.
You smile at Virgil. "You certainly can!"
He grabbed one ankle and skittered his claws over his sole. Roman crouched down beside Logan's other foot, grabbing the ankle and using his fingers to tickle all along his sole. Logan fell into cute, squeaky laughter.
Patton came along, waving his fluffy puppy paws at you. You invite him to get Logan too. So he tickles Logan with his fluffy paws, wiggling them along his tummy and sides. Logan shrieked and wiggled wildly. Patton giggled at how cute he was. He occasionally wiggled his paws along his spine, and wiggled a finger in his belly button. The fluff clearly affected him more, his face turning red.
To make things worse, you skittered your claws over his neck. Logan couldn't take it!
"BLUE-" he was cut off by his own laughter. You all took that as the signal to stop. Looking at your stopwatch, you saw Logan's time.
"30 seconds! Congrats, Logan, you are the tickle champion!"
Logan just lay there, breathing hard and giggling as he recovered. The others smiled and told him how well he'd done.
After catching his breath, Logan got up, straightening out his clothes and dusting himself off.
"What's my prize...?"
"You get to decide what game we play next!" You say with a slight giggle.
Logan's expression turned from calmly humble to playful and dark. The look he gave would send a chill down anyone's spine.
"Well... since you insist..." he said, grinning. "There's a little tickle monster here who's been terrorizing us all day. I think it's time (Y/P) got (Y/P) just desserts!"
Now it's your turn to squeak and run!
They gave you a ten second head start. And then the chase was on!
Summary: Soulmate au where writing on your skin shows up on your soulmate’s as well.
Note: Tickle fic warning! Also, I’m well aware that this idea has been done many times before but I’ve wasted hours struggling to think of something for this prompt honestly haha! Really not that happy with this but here ya go! Soulmate LAMP, but not explicitly romantic or platonic! Lee Patton and Virgil. Ler Roman.
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Patton had yet to meet his soulmates despite being able to have outright communication with them. It was pretty common that when people could write on their skin to talk to their soulmates, they immediately exchanged names and addresses. Most people met their soulmates when the writing ability manifested at 18 years old. Patton had exchanged names and addresses with most of them only to find out that they were fairly spread out among the country. Virgil refused to give his address saying that he was just too anxious (well his actual excuse was in case of them tried to kidnap him but even he recognised that that sounded very paranoid).
But that didn’t stop him from feeling connected to them. He knew that Roman typically woke up first while Logan and Virgil were both night owls and so may respond first as they had yet to sleep. He knew that Roman was very upset and jealous when Virgil said he was the tallest by far. Patton knew that they were all fascinated by the fact that he described himself as covered in freckles.
He looked forward to that small tingle of a ballpoint pen every day, always on edge waiting for someone to scribble down a note or someone wanting to talk.
But it was at midday, when he was baking some cookies and trying to time them so they would be cool to have with his lunch, that he learned another fact.
Roman was ticklish.
His eyes bulged as he felt that familiar tingle curling around his belly button. He hurriedly placed the bowl of dough on the counter before wrapping his arms around his middle. He had instantly burst into frantic giggles. Pulling up his jumper, he saw the same red glittery gel pen instead drawing wobbly flower petals with his belly button as the middle.
“Ohohohohehe hehehehe oh Romahahaheeh eheehe” Patton tried to uncap his own pen but Logan had beat him to it. A blue ball point pen quickly scribbled out along his arm: Please stop! I’m in the library!
Patton’s own wobbly writing joined his: Roman please I’m too ticklish!
Virgil merely ticked next to Logan’s statement. The tickles didn’t stop though. Now there was a bumble bee next to the flower with it’s own dashed trail going across the tummy and along their sides. After drawing a quick smiley sun, a scratchy writing formed along their ribs:
Not Roman, thank you very much! Better brother here, nice to know that I can tickle all of you at once. But I’ll let you go... right about nooooooooooow!
Patton spent a few seconds to catch his breath before smiling. Roman didn't talk much about his brother but there had been many times when that same scratchy writing would interrupt a conversation. A quickly drawn dick here and green scribbles over what they had written. But Roman assured them that he did the exact same to him.
Sorry for that! I keep suggesting we just free him into the wild already. Nice to know I’m not the only ticklish one though!
Yeah it tickled loads! Patton wrote back but turned to continue his baking.
Aww, you’re all so pathetic, Virgil scrawled himself but Patton intentionally waited a few moments. Just like he thought Virgil quickly wrote that sounds really harsh, the tone does not come across. I mean it’ s funny that you’re all ticklish.
Yeah right! I bet you are ticklish! Roman scribbled and Patton didn't even twig what that meant. Next thing he knew, he was squealing while clutching his sides. Red glittery swirls were twirling around his sides.
They tried not to tickle each other much, just sticking to writing on their arms. Obviously, they now all occasionally teased each other by tickling once a snarky mark was made. The next big time was when Patton was working in his coffee shop. The uniform was long sleeved so to give privacy to soulmate writing and no one really writes on their hands as it’s just too obvious. Meaning Patton completely missed Logan and Roman’s bickering. Which actually means that Patton immediately burst into frantic giggles when he felt that same pen tip drawing lazily over his stomach.
But there was people waiting! His co-workers were busy with their own tasks and he was stuck on the till. One person gave him a knowing smile but there was a hunched hoodie clad guy who was outright grimacing at him.
Or so he thought...
“H-hello. How can I hihihe how can I hehelp?” Patton didn't bother to hide his smile. It was probably pretty obvious his soulmates decided right now to tickle him.
“Um.... I... heh, whihite coffee!” The guy almost yelled out with his face shining bright red and his arms firmly clasped around his stomach.
“Aha, are you okay?” Patton gritted out. His gut dropping at the thought of something serious happening while he was stuck giggling away to himself.
“Sorry! I’m fihine fine! Uh, my soulmahates ahaha are being asses!” He ended up almost squealing. He had yet to even look up at him properly. But Patton was now trying to commit him to memory.
“Wait! Ahare you my soulmate? They hehe they’re drawing on eeeehe your tummy? Like zig zaggy?”
“Wha…” The man looked up now. They both lifted up their shirts just enough to see the exact same glittery pen now drawing frantic zig zags. Patton could also see on the man’s arm that Logan had wrote on their arm that Patton was at work so pack it in Roman!
Thankfully the tickling stopped soon after Logan’s writing. After taking a few deep breaths, he convinced his manager to have his break now so he could sit with his newly found soulmate.
I feel like this one was suuuuuper rambly but I’m on a roll haha!
1. Who has the cutest tickle laugh?
Roman but only by one spot. Both of them have adorable laughs but Roman has one spot. A very specific scribble between his toes gets a shrieky high pitched laughter. It’s amazing to Patton. Both of them had no idea his voice could get anywhere near that high. Patton once recorded it to send to his actor friends so they can see the highest Roman can get. When they discovered it, Roman demanded he tickles him again to figure just what on earth is that laugh! His face blooms a bright red and his laugh is more like a series of shrieks rather than a laugh. Patton was genuinely stunned to the point where he stopped tickling the first time they discovered it.
2. Who is ticklish in unusual places and where would that be?
Roman. It’s not a traditional weird tickle spot but more like a normal tickle spot that ticklish in a weird way! Through Patton’s tickle monster ways, they’ve found out Roman’s absolute worse spot, his armpits, gets bigger the more it’s tickled. If a tickling session is just starting then it’s literally only his pits. But the longer you tickle then it stretches to down by his ribs and back towards his back. If you tickled those spots before getting the pits then they’re only a little ticklish but it’s almost like the incredible ticklishness of his pits spreads. Patton can drive him to tears by tickling his back near his pits just from his alone. They don’t do it often because that is his worst spot but Patton loves seeing the panic when Roman realises what’s happening.
3. Who gets cheer-up tickles?
I mentioned in the moxiety one that Patton gets cheered up from tickling someone else. It’s nice to focus on something and know that it’s spreading joy to that person. But Roman is way too stubborn and proud to ever just sit there and take it! Instead, Roman will see that Patton needs some cheering up and he will sit him down on their bed. He’ll grab Patton’s foot and let Patton grab his foot. Then they tickle each other as gently or harshly as needed. Sometimes Patton just needs to let out his frustration and really goes all out on the tickling and teases. It’s especially hard if he asks Roman for light tickles when he doing that. Roman is in hysterics while trying with all his mighty incredibly strength to focus on giving some gentle tickles. Patton gets distracted by tickling someone but also experiences some joy himself. And if Roman has some fun too then that’s just a bonus.
4. Who takes advantage of the other one getting their arms stuck while taking off their shirt?
Patton cannot explain this at all... but somehow, there’s a particular way that Roman tickles his tummy that makes his knees go weak! Patton likes tickling and gets into lee moods but somehow whatever Roman does, is something he absolutely craves and needs in his life! It’s like soft creeping tickles but it tickles just as much as harder tickles! It can render him speechless and he’s not even that ticklish on his tummy! And so, he tries to get stuck in his clothes as often as he can without raising suspicion. Which means he went 15 days straight of getting stuck in his top and wandering around with his little tummy vulnerable to any and all tickles.
5. How did they discover each other’s ticklishness?
I feel like it would be an accident during their first ever date. Roman is pulling out all the stops. Roses, full tux, candle lit dinner and of course a kiss to the back of Patton’s hand. Over the dinner table, Roman knows it would come off too strong to just hold his hand (as if he hadn’t come on strong already) so he holds his hand under the guise of reading palms. Like the romantic himbo he is. Patton tries to let himself be wooed by Roman but it just tickles too much! He flat out tells Roman.
Now, that raises a problem. Roman instantly become obsessed with how cute that was! Patton is ticklish?! Oh he must have the cutest laugh! Oh I wonder if he blushes! All kinds of sappy thoughts. But the problem comes from the fact he planned for a dramatic event to happen after they leave the restaurant. He planned for the imagination to create a monster to slay so he could impress Patton. But now all he can think about is tickles. So guess who summoned a tickle monster outside of the restaurant and got both of them tickled to tears.
Patton loved everything about the date even if it didn’t go to plan and now he insists on tickle fights every anniversary.
6. Who can’t take tickle bites?
Roman just can’t do it! The closeness, the soft tickles mixed with hard teethy nibbles, the chance for raspberries, just all of it! There’s a reason why he can’t wonder around the flat shirtless after a workout as Patton was latch on to him like an barnacle. He’ll be pouring himself a drink and next thing he knows he’s falling to the floor because Patton is nibbling up and down his sides.
7. Who has to be tickle-forced out of bed in the morning?
I think it’s both! I feel like, while they both don’t really like waking up early, they are both used to waking up early and are quite bright eyed in the morning. Roman has to get up early to practise and go do theatre and Patton likes being able to have a nice breakfast of pancakes and he wants the time to do that. But! It’s now a competition. They both try to set their alarms earlier every single day (only by 5 mins because they do like sleep) so they can be the one to tickle the other awake. But they’re both super obvious about it. Roman will set an alarm with the hugest grin ever while Patton outright giggles and wiggles as he sets his alarm. Both of them want the joy of waking the other and hearing their sleepy husky giggles.
They both know if they looked at each other’s phone then they could figure out to set their alarm earlier and win the game. But that’s cheating! It’s all a game! Maybe Roman wants a lie in and so 8am in early enough, but maybe he had theatre tomorrow so maybe an alarm for 7am is better? They go to bed excited for the next morning and wake up the next morning with laughter.
8. Who gives up in a tickle fight?
Both of them can be incredibly stubborn and determined to win a tickle fight but Patton is waaay less competitive compared to Roman. They’ll both put up a brave fight but if it becomes apparent that Roman wants to win then he’ll happily sit back and enjoy his reckoning. Roman sometimes gets too wrapped up in winning to enjoy the tickles and the playfulness so sometimes he’ll immediately go after a death spot even if Patton goes for a normal spot to make a longer tickle fight.
9. Who is in danger of getting hurt when attacking the other?
Roman is strong. Like super strong. But he’s also aware of this. He knows to keep his flailing limbs to himself and mostly just wiggles around and tries to escape. But Patton. I love the idea of Patton being so much stronger than anyone, including him, realises. He’s done baking for years. He’s got those baking muscles of mixing tough doughs and whipping cream by hand. Patton wiggles around a lot and while he does try to never push the tickler away but there are times he tries to gently push Roman away. Only to end up smacking Roman’s chest and even leaving a red imprint of his hand. He’s always super embarrassed and ashamed he hit Roman but Roman meanwhile is bluescreening because he’s got a strong boyfriend. Secret hidden muscle Pat...
10. Who always provokes the other into tickling them and how?
As seen in question 4, the master of provoking tickles is Patton. But that doesn’t mean Roman doesn’t have his moments of wearing those tank tops with the really low sides, so his sides and pits are vulnerable. But Patton will make a huge deal of their size difference. I imagine Patton as really short and petite while Roman is average height but just really built up. So Patton, like the delicate twink boyfriend he is, will fall into his muscly boyfriend’s lap and swing his arms around Roman’s neck. His pits nice and vulnerable. Then he’ll press their feet together and slightly tickle Roman with his feet to provoke. Oh no, he has no chance against tickles from his bigger strong boyfriend!
(by the way, Patton absolutely plays up their height difference when also wrecking Roman. “Oh no, really? You can’t fight back against me? The tiny eeny weeny Pat is really tickling the big powerful Roman to tears?”. Patton just likes having a big strong boyfriend!)
Summary: Patton had a tradition with every arrival of new side, but then that means that he’s never taken part and that’s just unacceptable!
Note: Tickle fic alert! This is written as purely platonic, as there’s mentions of baby sides and therefore I am not going to romantise children! Ler everyone and Lee Patton. Also, I hope you lot are all proud of me for getting this far haha!
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“Wait, so you’re telling me that the mindscape used to just be an empty room?” Virgil exclaimed, finally sitting up from his hunched over ball.
“Well there was no creativity yet so!” Patton shrugged off with a smile.
Moments such as these were unfortunately rare. Typically, someone was always bickering with someone else. So to have an afternoon where they were all sitting in the commons room with a quiet conversation flowing between all of them, was something that should always be treasured.
“Was that the first thing you did then?” Virgil asked.
“Well yeah! It felt wrong to just work in a plain white room so I wanted to fix it as quickly as possible. I would’ve done it immediately but then Patton’s tickle monster ways erupted before I could start.” Roman groaned, remembering that his first memory of Patton was him tickling the snot out of him to get him to slow down. Well, him and Remus at the time.
“Really? He did that to you too! The first time I met him he also tickled the crap out of me,” Virgil awkwardly huffed now getting sucked into his phone again. “I was told it was traditional!”
“Yes, me too!” Deceit butted in, “Logan?”
“Yes, I was a bit disorientated when I first appeared and Patton, being the child he was, thought that tickling me would help ground me.”
“Hah, I’ve always been the best tickle monster!” Patton simply laughed off.
“Oh no my dear Patton! That’s not how you worded it!”
“Yeah! It was all ‘tradition’! A way to ‘welcome’ us to the family!” Remus finished off.
“Yeah that sounds like Patton,” Virgil chuckled not sensing the Creativities’ thought process.
“But this is unacceptable.” Logan thankfully caught on quick and causally made his way round the sofa to where Patton was sitting, “because that means there’s one side who has never been welcomed to the family.” Roman grinned before slowly leaning on top of Patton to fully trap him into the corner of the sofa. Virgil sat up and used his bangs to hide his evil smirk. Logan and Deceit steepled their hands under their chins like identical villains.
Remus being Remus, ran up to the sofa to catapult himself into Patton’s lap.
Patton at this point was reduced to a giggly ball desperately muttering ‘no’ under his breath. His peaceful smile growing bigger and bigger.
“Well, welcome to the family Patton. We have this... tradition,” Roman theatrically announced. Logan finally wiggled past his defences and held Patton’s arms above his head.
“No no no no! Roman!” Patton shrieked.
“But we have to! You’ve got to be the dad of the group! And... you just can’t be until you fully welcomed!” Roman shook his head. “Boys. On three...”
“WAIT!”
“3...”
“You can’t all gang up on me!”
“2...”
“Ro- Virgil! Janus! Logan? You wouldn't do this to your favourite dad would ya?”
“...Well you heard him Pat! Until you’re welcomed, you’re not the dad yet!” Virgil shrugged before diving in.
Patton high pitched squeal could be heard from space. He didn’t bother to try and fight it. Slumping in the seat, he threw his head back to relish in the bellowing laughter. Logan was whispering his monotone teases into his ear, knowing that he couldn’t afford to release Patton’s arms. “Oh you wouldn't say no to tradition would you? I know how much you love me saying one particular word during moments like these right?” Logan smirked, his monotone voice coming to life with a teasing lilt.
“HAHAHAAHAHAAAAA!” Patton cried out, helpless against Virgil spidering up his socked feet, tracing the patterned socks, matched with Roman squeezing his hips whenever Virgil reached a less tickly bit. They weren't even looking at each other! But yet they clearly knew his ticklishness way better than he did.
“Yes that one particular word isn't it. Tickle. Why do you like me saying that word again?” Logan pressed closer so he could nose away at Patton’s ears. Something that wouldn’t tickle normally but Patton still flinched and giggled.
“HAHAHAAHAA! LO! LOHOHOHAHAAHAHA! YOHOU SUCKAHAHAHAAAAAA!” Patton tried to buck away but the second the word suck was said, Remus and Deceit finally launched. Remus whipped his polo shirt up to dig into the cutest most ticklish tummy in the mindscape. Deceit finally made use of Logan keeping Patton’s arms and awkwardly reached over Remus to scratch one finger to the middle of his armpit.
“Tickle... Did you forget? Hmm, I think I remember why it’s so flustering to hear me say tickle. Something to do with the serious side saying something so childish and fun. And that’s true. Even the word tickle, the way the syllables bounce sounds like something fun. Tickle tickle tickle....”
“Wait wait wait!” Roman suddenly lurched up, holding his fist up. It took a few moments for the others to finally pull away from tickling the snot out of the self proclaimed tickle monster.
“Logan, you were first! How did Patton end up tickling you?” Roman asked, mischief dancing throughout him. Patton didn’t dare relax. Clearly Roman had an idea. His laughter never died out, giggles keeping him squirming gently in his seat.
“Well... I was sat on the floor so he got my neck as that was the one place that was most vulnerable...” Logan trailed off as he mimicked the pristine memory of that day. Two hands wiggling into each side. Absolutely gentle, barely touching.
“EEEEE! HEH!” Patton whipped his head back but that did nothing. Leaning forward, Remus blocked him with a proud grin. Trapped to sit there and just take the tiny little tickles.
“We came next. If I remember right, he got our armpits!” Roman exclaimed before wildly scribbling his armpits.
“HAHAAHA! No! WAIT! HAHAHA! HAH! RO-! I CAHAHAN’T DO ALL HAHAHAHAHAAAA!”
“No no no. You’ve got it all wrong. First he got our armpits but then, remember, he latched on to our tummy! He just tickled and tickled our tummy until we suffocated!” Remus, completely lying so he could tickle Patton too. But Patton was too distracted to even correct him and honestly... it wouldn’t surprise him if he had done that.
“I was quickly after! I believe that he sat me and down and trapped my feet like this,” Deceit pushed Virgil away and sat on Patton’s ankles. Raising his hands similar to Roman’s own grand gestures and whipped his socks off. Like Roman though, Patton was quick to tickle the snot out of him so similarly he dove in with full vigour.
Before Virgil could recite his piece, Patton bucked frantically one more time before crying out their safe word. Instantly all of them stopped and climbed off of him.
“Hahh heheh ha... thanks guys!” Patton blushed and snuggled into Roman’s side all over again.
“You were not at all obvious in your lee mood,” Deceit laughed. Patton had been sitting with them all day, smiling and clutching his tummy like the clothes themselves were tickling him.
“Welcome to the family dad!” Virgil joked but his lack of eye contact clearly showed that it rang that bit more true than jokey.
And that sentiment was absolutely true. The other sides sat back down, all replaying their own memories of the dad character tickling them to calm them down, or distract them or even just a friendly greeting. Dark sides or light sides, all had their first memory of a boy in light blue giggling happily as he wiggled his pudgy fingers at them.
BONUS:
“Logic? Are you okay?” Patton carefully crouched down so he was sat next to the brand new side.
“What do you mean you don’t know what you are!” Logic clutched his hair, frustration refusing to be shaken. He knew he was over reacting. But the want... need to categorise overwhelming him. Arguably, by naming himself he did have a category but it just didn’t fit! Logic and Patton. That doesn’t fit!
“Hey silly! It’s okay!” Patton smiled and jokingly starting tickling Logic’s neck, hoping to at least snap him out of it. But hearing the childish carefree giggles, he quickly started to tickle both sides. “Aw are you ticklish!”
“Wahahahait! Wait!” Logan squealed but simply leaned forward as if that would stop Patton from tickling under his chin.
At this point, Patton already knew that Logic was going to be an amazing friend. He was serious and wanted to help thing mixed with his happy laughter, Patton already knew that Logic was going to be his best friend forever
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“Woah hey! You okay?” Patton asked with a concerned frown tugging his face. Creativity had simply stopped. His eyes flickering around like he could physically see the ideas swarming around his head.
“Do you need help?” Logan had asked, keeping a respectful distance while Patton was now holding the new side’s hand.
“Yes! I’m fine! Sorry about that! I guess I can’t decide on a name for now, but I shall find the most absolutely perfectest one in time! Right now this place needs a makeover!” Creativity quickly shrugged it off but Logan could see his eyes flickering crazily again at the mere thought of another creative decision.
“Right mister! You will rest unless you want a visit from the tickle monster!” Patton laughed already but didn't wait until he shoved his hands underneath Creativity’s arms.
“HAHAHAAHAAA! BUT HAHAHA I’VEHEHHEAHAHAAAA!” Creativity almost collapsed in half. Logan was about to tell Patton not to crowd him but seeing the genuine carefree expression of the new side made him stop. He shrugged before joining in. Creativity finally crumbled once his felt Logan’s clunky scribbling fingers poking at his sides.
“It’s law I’m afraid! New sides get tickles... I’m sorry I don’t make the rules here kiddo,” Patton taunted, not realising this idea of tradition would soon ring true.
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Deceit felt awkward. He knew exactly what he wanted to say but it was like someone else controlled his mouth. Forcing words into sentences without him even realising sometimes. The three sides all kept looking at him, puzzling out anything that left his mouth. He shied away from them feeling his lip wobbling dangerously. “Hey it’s okay. I’m sorry we don't really know what you’re trying to tell us. I’m Patton. This Logan or Thomas’ Logic and Romulus or Thomas’ Creativity. I, heh, don’t quite know what I am yet!”
“I think he’s most likely Lying! Everything you’ve told us has been a lie so far! So you must be Lying.” Logan snapped his fingers, pointing in excitement at cracking a puzzle.
“No!” Deceit almost didn’t notice he said anything at all. His voice betrayed the fact that he was almost near tears.
“Hey! Don’t worry! Whatever you are, welcome to the Thomasphere!” Patton cooed before guiding him to sit down. Logan already had a glint in his eyes while Creativity looked on in amused disbelief.
“Really Patton? What about us not overcrowding him?” Romulus huffed but made no move to stop him once he started scribbling frantically against his soles. Deceit immediately fell back, his arms wrapped round his tummy as he burst out joyful deep laughter.
“It’s tradition now! Everyone needs some good cheer up tickles!”
“Hahahaha! HA!” Deceit lurched forward before his laughter went silent once Logan and Romulus took to tickling all over his tummy, pushing his arms away like they were nothing.
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Virgil had been around for ages, clinging to the corners and shadows before the light blue clad one found him. He had heard about this one. This one was so strong that he ripped a person in half or so he heard. The very last one who he wanted to find him. He was definitely going to hurt him! “Hi, I’m Thomas’ morality! Or you can call me Patton! What are y-”
“I’m Thomas’ anxiety. I’m something bad. So don’t waste your time,” Virgil spat out, hunching his shoulders like he was a cat trying to seem bigger than he was. His spider’s legs kept curled around him though. Patton recoiled at the tone before taking a moment to think about what he said.
“Okay, well hello Anxiety! Now we’ve got a tradition around here, to welcome you to the mindscape!” Patton smiled, hoping that this wouldn’t backfire and Anxiety wouldn’t hurt him. He crept his one hand forward and Anxiety frowned before grabbing his hand in response. Patton smiled wider.
He flipped his hand quickly and started tracing all the different lines across his palm. A little tickling so not to spook him but also to fully welcome him into the family.
Obvious answer but Patton. Janus is the most devilish fiendish most evil person out there yet he just melts into a puddle when he hears Patton’s laughs. His proper belting out bellowing laughs where he even tears up. He’ll throw his head back, all bushy, and all he can do is just lightly kick his feet while squeaking out loud peals of laughter. He doesn’t even realise that he’s melting at Patton’s laugh. He’ll have the dopiest smile with heart eyes. Everyone who walks in when he’s like that knows just to leave him be (but Roman has pushed his luck once and did take a picture of the lovesick smile).
2. Who is ticklish in unusual places and where would that be?
Janus’ small of his back. Patton had one day been massaging him after a long hard day of work and pressed some kisses to the small of his back only to startle Janus awake with a squeal! There’s not even any scales to make it more sensitive, his back isn’t that bad of a tickle spot but for some reason this just really gets to him. It’s really really ticklish but at the same time it gets too much almost instantly so Patton doesn’t target it often. At most, he’ll wake him up by pressing many tingly kisses all round the small of his back.
3. Who gets cheer-up tickles?
Patton gets them most often but they have a very special routine for when Janus needs some cheer up tickles. They’ll plan out an entire day. They wake up as late as they both please with pancakes for breakfast/lunch and then it’s a long peaceful bath together. All of this already has some tickles spread throughout but then they’ll have an entire tickle session. Blankets everywhere with some tickle tools thrown all over the room, they can to let out some energy by an all out tickle gladiator fight. Afterwards they’ll beg one of the others (usually Virgil as he can’t deal with Janus’ whining and Patton’s puppy eyes) to bring them water bottles and snacks. They do pedicures and massages and just loads of relaxing about the place. They end the night with slow gentle tickles to fall asleep to. Neither would ever say so, but they both look forward to those days so much.
4. Who takes advantage of the other one getting their arms stuck while taking off their shirt?
Patton does! He just can’t help it! The first time, he genuinely didn’t mean to tickle, he just literally wanted to count his scales. There’s no many on his tummy and back so it’s just so tempting to count them. When his shirt is up is literally the perfect time to count! Now it’s a daily task for Janus to run around the room while getting changed so he doesn’t have to be obliterated with tickles. But this does have a drawback for Patton as Janus now makes a big deal about trying to count all of his tummy freckles. Which he, unlike Janus, has loads of.
5. How did they discover each other’s ticklishness?
I feel like it would probably by some doofy way they found out. I don’t know where this came from, but I love the idea of Janus trying, for once in his life, to be romantic and he literally sweeps Patton off his feet. But of course Janus is not very strong and he so he ends up struggling a lot as he tries to carry Patton to their room. Meaning he spends the entire messing up with his grip under his knees which sends Patton squealing. Janus would’ve tickled him more, but he was literally about to drop him and so demanded his stayed still while still trying to get a grip under his knees.
Discovering Janus’ ticklishness I feel like would be the whole deal. Patton is a big tickle monster and so he must know if his boyfriend has The Weakness! So one morning, Janus wakes up to feeling some wiggling fingers pressing into his side. Luckily, he’s got a lot of self control and was mostly more confused than tickly. But then it becomes a thing every morning and night, Patton will try and test his ticklishness when he thinks Janus isn’t paying attention. It all comes to a conclusion when Patton goes after his feet which, for a snake, is extremely ticklish and he ends up giggling before he’s even aware it’s Patton tickling him.
6. Who can’t take tickle bites?
Janus but that’s only because of his scales, or so he says. He’ll never admit that Patton makes a fantastic tickle monster. But there’s nothing worse than already being pinned down by a marshmallow personified while you’re giggling like a madman, but then he bends down and decides to give your incredibly sensitive scales some ‘nom noms’. There’s nothing worse.
7. Who has to be tickle-forced out of bed in the morning?
Weirdly, both. It usually just depends on who wakes up first but a lot of the time they both set an alarm and get up the same time. But to ‘help wake each other up’ they’ll end up having a sleepy tickle fight before they even opened their eyes. Janus will feel a poke to his tummy and instinctually he starts poking along Patton’s sides. There’s been times where they’ve pinned the other down and are hovering over them as they tease and tickle the snot of them, all while never having opened their eyes. It’s getting to the point where they joke that they’ll tickle each other when they’re both asleep.
8. Who gives up in a tickle fight?
Janus. Don’t get him wrong, he puts up a hell of a fight. But in the end, his lee side always seems to get the better of him and he ends up wanting to just lay back and enjoy some playful tickles from his cutie of a boyfriend. He doesn’t even know why, it’s not often he ends up in a lee mood but for some reason it always shows up during a vicious tickle war. Patton is also aware of this and will always just try and time out the lee mood. He’ll take as many tickles as needed, he knows that Janus will give up for his own dose of tickles at some point!
9. Who is in danger of getting hurt when attacking the other?
Janus is but really it’s all his own fault. There’s been so many times where he transforms into a snake and sneaks into Patton’s onesie or cardigan so he can give some good ol snakey tickles. Some snoot snuzzles, tongue flickering and some very light nibbles. But, of course, you feel a strange tickly sensation on your tummy without knowing it’s your snake boyfriend, you immediately slam your arms down. Some there’s been a good few times when Janus gets some bruises. There was one specific time where Janus instinctually transformed back into a human while hiding away in his onesie. Patton was immediately weighed down and they both fell to the floor tangled up in the same onesie. They both had bruises from that day.
10. Who always provokes the other into tickling them and how?
While Patton is a huge tickle monster, he’s also a huge ticklee! He just needs some tickles in his life! Everything from sitting his bare feet in Janus’ lap, giggling at literally everything anyone does, lifting up really really high to storming into Janus’ room with his arms in the air demanding some tickles. Janus has become finely attuned to when Patton would like some tickles. To the point, he can tell just from his walking whether he’s about to demand tickles (he can’t. From Patton’s perspective, he just sometimes randomly viciously attacks him with tickles. And he absolutely does not mind).
