#logan analysis

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Okay, but ‘Erase Me’ hits different after the newest episode (lyrics in bold, discussion/analysis in normal text)

What was our home

“Home” it’s an odd word for the sides. Especially with the recent episodes. With tension flowing between all of them with ease, it’s hard to question if they can truly find comfort in on another. Easily represented by none of the sides (other than Logan and Remus) being there throughout Thomas’ day. This isn’t like the other episodes where they’re all having a discussion together about Thomas getting overwhelmed. 

Instead, Thomas feels isolated for most of it, fighting a battle with his mind (mind referring to his intrusive thoughts, his sides, and Logan’s agenda for the day)

Paper not stone

Everything seemed to... change so quickly. They went from Embarrassing Phases with cute Halloween costumes and friendly jokes about cringe and vine directly into SvS and DWIT where Thomas questions if he’s a good person while his mental health quickly declines.

In a similar way, paper is fragile and flimsy, easily ripped apart.

‘Paper not stone’ could also be a way to reference Logan’s agenda for the day. All of it can be discarded and saved for Future Thomas™ since none of it is really set in stone.

A lean-to at most

Logan is nothing to Thomas- or at least he feels that way. He’s only someone who can calm Thomas down. Thomas can ‘lean’ on him, but that’s the most he is.

And when you pulled your half away

I’d like to think half has a few different meanings here. The one I like the most is where “half” represents Thomas’ attention. He’s pulled to Nico, he’s pulled to Remus, he’s pulled to anxiety. 

Logan recognizes this and calms him down. He lets him have breaks and gently guides Thomas back to their schedule once he’s a bit better.

Half could also represent for when he pulls away from Logan and listens to the other sides more. In this episode, he practically listens to everyone but Logan, despite him being the most physically there. He’s listening to his spiraling intrusive thoughts (Virgil’s fear and Remus’ role). He’s listening to his worry about Nico’s feelings for him (Virgil’s fear and Roman’s passion). He’s taking breaks and indulging in what he loves (Janus’ role and Patton’s enjoyment in child-like activities such as disney princess puzzles and dancing to up-beat music)

He might be the side the camera follows around, but he certainly isn’t the main character by far.

Gravity won Like it always does

Logan isn’t winning this battle. Of course he isn’t. He never does. Thomas is pulled down by the figurative gravity of all the other sides, while Logan is left there alone. 

In theory, he grounds Thomas the most, but Thomas also naturally drifts away from him. Using his role as logic for quick comfort before listening to someone else for an actual discussion.

Did I weigh a ton?

Is he weighing Thomas down? Is he making him unhappy? He thought he was good at one point, helping Thomas earn a degree in college and organizing a schedule for him so he could live life comfortably.

Yet the degree is tilted on the wall. The schedule would have been torn up if Thomas was given a paper. 

Would it be easier to just delete Our pages and the plans we made?

Would it be easier for Logan to give up? He certainly isn’t needed, Thomas didn’t listen to Logan the whole day and he was still fine. He made pages of things Thomas needed to do along with the plans that Thomas agreed to. Only for them to be pushed to the side since something grabbed his attention. 

And perhaps Logan saves these plans. He keeps them to help Thomas. Maybe to even create more realistic ones. But perhaps Thomas just won’t listen to him. He should just delete the plans he has. Thomas has always been great at improv. Maybe someone like Roman should take control- he’s been listening to him more than Logan anyway. (Represented through the whole Nico situation)

Erase me So you don't have to face me

Thomas turns away from Logan at the end, leaving him alone in the living room. He’s erasing Logan from his mind, finding an opportunity he wants because he doesn’t need Logan. 

Put me in the ground and mow the daisies

Was mowing the lawn on the list of things Thomas needed to do? Nope. Is Thomas mowing over his ideas for something more exciting anyway? Yep.

Ah, the memory, see how it goes When you

Erase me Erase me

“The memory” is Logan. It represents how he was aware of his own outburst at Remus, he knows he lost control. But maybe he’ll also ‘see how it goes’ when Thomas starts ignoring him even more. Perhaps his eyes will stay orange. Perhaps Orange will just take his place entirely. 

So what will you do With no me for you?

Thomas needs him- right? I mean, there’s no one else to create the schedules and plans... that Thomas doesn’t use. He helped earn Thomas’ degree! The... the degree he doesn’t use. 

Maybe Logan is useless. Maybe Thomas can’t function without him. Logan doesn’t even want to know at this point.

I know what we said

Logan knows he technically agreed to Thomas leaving and going to Nico, but he can’t help but feel bitter about it.

This bitterness rises when he’s with the other sides. Roman disregards him, “You’ll be fine, Rome didn’t fall in a day.” Logan hasn’t been ignored for more than one day. He isn’t fine. He’s more than what he’s acknowledged as, he quickly responds with emotion filling his mind, “Well, that’s a misquote so-”

Only to get fucking cut off. Again. He isn’t fine. He’s getting ignored and cut off whenever he tries to input something. Then Patton takes control of the conversation. Directing it at Thomas instead of Logan. Taking Roman’s side. Not listening to logic.

But what if I left a thing or two

Logan just needs to stop. He needs to stop talking, leave a plan or two in Thomas’ mind while a side or two keeps him busy for the day. 

We know that you don't seem To think about what you need 'Til you reach to find that you've

Erased me

Imagine telling someone that you really want to do something with them. You both clear out the whole day at an agreed time. Then they want to do something else. You- you suppose it’s fine? You both go there and then you get side-tracked again, and again, and- the day is over. 

They don’t care about what they were supposed to do. Thomas didn’t care about what he was supposed to do. Most of the things he was supposed to do didn’t even directly benefit Logan. They were things he needed to function, things to keep his place nice, not reading a non-fiction book or watching a documentary. They were things Thomas needed. But apparently that wasn’t a good enough reason to listen to logic. 

What the fuck is this? You're crazy, turned around  

Logan is fed up with how Thomas keeps ignoring him. Keeps getting distracted. “Turned around” turned around from the task at hand. 

“What the fuck is this?” could be to Remus. Constantly bothering Thomas, getting him distracted over and over. Going the complete opposite direction of where they should be going. And not listening to him when talked to about it. 

In two weeks time replaced me

Thomas doesn’t need Logan. It’s clear from his daily routine. All he needs is someone to offer the idea of dancing or a puzzle to him and he’s fine again. 

Ah, the memory everybody knows How it goes you just

Erase me

Logan is well-known throughout the mindscape. He’s known as a nerd, a geek, a nobody. Most of the names he could wear with pride, but he’s nobody. Nobody to Thomas and nobody in the grand scheme of things. Perhaps the other sides would be fine with Logan getting “erased.” They seem to regard his name with distaste anyway.

Did me like a bro and tazed me

Logan makes little flashcards for slang and tries to use them. Almost like a child proudly showing a high test score to their parent. He wants so badly to be acknowledged, to be heard, to be cool. 

Fireworks - poof - it's gone, amazing

Thomas is gone. The fireworks went off in his heart and he’s gone. Logan- Logan should be happy for him. It’s amazing as some would call it. He holds the to-do list to his chest as he sinks out. 

New bio, you've gone solo Drawing mustaches on our wedding photo

Nothing is important, not really. It can all be quickly discarded. “New bio” could be talking to Nico and changing a social media bio to dating or something like that.

“You’ve gone solo.” Haha that’s funny. Thomas is practically anything but solo with Logan. The line is said with such anger and bitterness that it’s no wonder why he thinks he means nothing to Thomas.

“Drawing mustaches on our wedding photo” What else is Remus going to ruin for Logan? Drawing on Thomas’ degree with mustaches?

Erase me Erase me Erase me...

Erase me This is us shouting, baby Erase me

Logan is begging, screaming, shouting for someone to acknowledge that he’s being ignored. But he’s being ignored, so they don’t hear him. Of course they don’t hear him.

Do we call the cops now, baby?

Cops is Orange. Take this as you will.

Ah, the memory everybody knows About the brand new home

There’s no distress in this line. Everyone is fine about the idea of Logan leaving to go into a new ‘home.’ He wasn’t important, so why would they worry? Thomas clearly didn’t seem to worry as he ran out of the house, searching for Nico. Thomas didn’t need him in the slightest.

Erase me And you'll never have to face me

Erase something off the to-do list. Erase the signature on the degree. Erase him.

Erase me Option-Command-Escape me And if you feel nothing Guess what I'll wanna be

Huh, I wonder what he wants to be :)

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Has anyone else noticed that Logan literally blinks and stutters all the time or is it just me...?

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Sanders Sides Thought (Basically a Fricking Research Paper)

Logan Analysis// “Incomplete” Song

So, I've been listening to "Incomplete" on repeat recently, (you know the puppet song), and my mind kept catching on these: "You're lost." ("I'm right here.") "It's okay-" ("You're acting weird.") "-I was lost once too, but thanks to all of you, life sucks less now." 

(Yes, I wrote that from memory, DON’T JUDGE ME.)

Anyway, lost is an interesting word here. Not upset, or confused... But, lost. Which essentially gives you the gist of Logan doesn’t know his place right now, or something of the sorts.

Whether it was just wording for the corny joke or not, I felt like lost meant something I couldn’t exactly picture yet.

So, I started thinking.

Virgil, whose character development is conveniently on screen for all of us to view, was the one who delivered the line. And he says he was lost in the same sense. Me, like the detective I am, tried to remember and refresh on how Virgil changed, or at least how he was BEFORE Accepting Anxiety.

So, I immediately remembered the FIRST video I had ever watched of Thomas Sanders, ‘Taking On Anxiety with Lilly Singh’. This video presents Virgil as the living embodiment of anxiety, unlike the character we know and love today.

Thomas, and Joan, and Talyn, and ALL those wonderful people involved, have deliberately developed each character to be more than what they are assigned in Thomas’s mind. Virgil’s literal whole story arc, Patton’s tendency to hide his feelings, and Roman’s insecurities all exhibit what they are trying to do.

But, Logan is a bit different.

Logan is only developed in kind of bursts (hitting Roman in the eye with a paper wad, yelling “I’m not a joke.”, leaving the group when he isn’t heard, and in the newest video, looking at Patton when Deceit lies about why he wasn’t invited), they come out of nowhere and don’t really lead into a big arc like Virgil’s, or even get mentioned like Patton’s.

Except for in the kinda “rap” part of this song, in which Thomas says, “...to the fact that you have a temperament, which is fine, you just haven’t accepted it...”

So, curious ol’ me, felt the need to google what a temperament was to truly understand what he was saying to Logan. According to dictionary.com, I got two relevant answers:

temperament[ tem-per-uh-muhnt, -pruh-muhnt, -per-muhnt ]

noun.

1. The combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition. 2. Unusual personal attitude or nature as manifested by peculiarities of feeling, temper, action, etc., often with a disinclination to submit to conventional rules or restraints.

The second one is fairly acceptable, referring to his temper and issues with it, like I was previously discussing. But the first one, launched me into everything.

So, back to the Virgil thing. 

Virgil said he was lost, just like Logan,once; later saying, all the sides were the cause to help him get out of it. Because despite not the complete visual, the sides (Patton, Logan, and Roman) were developed more as people than he ever was. Significantly, the name reveals. 

Because your name is what identifies you as a PERSON, sets you apart from being just a human. And if you think about it, without their names, calling them Morality, Logic, Creativity, and Anxiety is referring to them generally like that. What they are, rather than who they are.  

With seeing all of them develop as their own true character, Virgil’s character began to change. He began to be less of the literal voice of anxiety (”I bet they hate you.”) to the force of concern and protection for Thomas (”I don’t think this is a good idea.”). 

Virgil wasn’t Anxiety anymore, he was Virgil.

He, of course, still has his job in Thomas’s mind, and you can see that by ‘Embarrassing Phases’. Virgil is still in control of that part of Thomas, but he isn’t that part himself anymore.

Now, let me ask you, when was Logan’s moment like that?

Exactly, he hasn’t had one.

So, I believe lost is referring to fact that Logan doesn’t see himself as more than just Thomas’s logic. He needs to develop his character, and understand that he, as a character, is more than that.

Which is what brings me back to temperament’s first definition, “the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person”. So maybe Logan isn’t a literal person, but he, as a character, has emotions like one. (As shown by the capabilities of the others.) But it doesn’t seem like he understands that, and that’s why Logan’s reaction is what it is! 

“You’re acting weird.” Ergo, you are not acting as you usually do, because we all know that Virgil would have never done that singing, if he didn’t care for the others. Which he learned to do, he grew as a character and their relationships became more prioritized. 

But, if your mindset is that ‘we’re all personality figments’, then how is it possible that one of them can change like Virgil did?

Ergo, “You’re acting weird.”

Part 2 of this Logan analysis: “I had this problem, where I’d often hide my less than awesome feelings. So, when I would feel like sobbing I’d just smile and crack jokes. I thought that was coping, only joking, never showing sadness. Hoping it would go away!” (”Did that work?”)

Which I honestly think speaks for itself. Logan is asking if hiding his feelings worked for Patton, and it seems like a legitimate experimental question. Like, he is genuinely curious.

Why? To see if it is an option. for. himself.

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