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Teaser for Ep 12: The Great Imagination Adventure

Remus can't sleep. Virgil can't make him sleep. But he can keep him company. And sometimes that's enough.

Characters: Brotherly Remus & Virgil

Words: 978

Warnings: mentions of dissociation/unreality

Notes: Have a fun little bit that doesn’t quite fit anymore in the episode with the change in POV but was too good not to share <3

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Remus blinked tired, heavy eyes, pinching the soft skin on the inside of his elbow. The sharp pain helped a little, but not by much. He was still exhausted.

His hands were a little shaky as he dug a finger into an exposed patch of dirt, sending a tiny spark of awareness into the soil. There wasn't much there, dead leaf matter, some uninteresting rocks, good, healthy soil. He sent a little more power out, and found something that sparked his interest.

A spore. Some kind of mushroom, from a species that Remus was unfamiliar with. Frowning a bit, he poked at it, focusing around it.

It wasn't dangerous, that much was certain, and it was not parasitic, so it wouldn't hurt the forest around it. It didn't seem to need anything to flourish in this environment. It was new, carried over from the mother colony by the wind or by animals. All it needed was time to grow.

Remus looked around. It probably wasn't the best idea to do this little trick with how tired he was, but now that the curiosity had sunk in, he found he really, really wanted to know what this strange little mushroom would grow into.

He held out his hand, summoning some of his power and forming it into a small, sheer bubble, glowing the same sickly green as the glow in the dark stars Thomas had once stuck to his ceiling. Carefully, he manipulated the bubble until it encased the spore.

“Whatcha doing?”

Remus bit back a yelp, whirling around and crushing his bubble in the process. “Virgil!” he hissed. “You fucking asshole, why would you sneak up on me like that?”

“I assumed you saw me,” Virgil said, looking confused. “You looked right at me, trash panda.”

Remus swallowed hard.

He didn't remember seeing Virgil just now.

Was Virgil even real? Or did he fall asleep accidentally, and start dreaming again?

“Rem?” Virgil said, suddenly much closer than before. When had he gotten closer? “You feeling okay, dude?”

“I’m fine,”  Remus said quickly. He couldn’t just ask Virgil if he was real—if he wasn’t, wouldn’t he just lie?

And if he was real, he’d start asking why Remus didn't know that he was real.

“Uh huh. So it's like that, huh?” Virgil asked enigmatically. Remus gave him a side eye as he sat on the ground next to Remus.

“What were you doing?” he asked abruptly. When Remus looked confused, he twiddled his fingers, gesturing at the ground. “You were doing a trick, right?”

“Oh!” Remus looked back at the dirt. “Just a timelapse bubble.”

“Of what?”

“Mushroom. Didn't recognize it, wanted to see what it looked like.”

Virgil waited. “Well, go on,” he prompted. “Let’s see what it looks like.”

Remus blinked. “Since when do you care about fungus?”

“Just grow the damn mushroom, trash panda,” Virgil said, playfully exasperated, nudging Remus with his shoe.

Bewildered, Remus called another bubble, successfully capturing the spore within it without interruption. He concentrated, breathing out once before he began spinning his finger clockwise around the bubble.

At first, nothing happened for a few moments. Then the ground began to shift slightly, until the tip of a moonlight pale cap began to emerge from the dirt.

Remus felt Virgil move a little closer as he kept concentrating, kept spinning time inside the bubble. The mushroom was soon joined by a smaller cap, emerging from the same thin stalk. The two heads continued to grow, the stalks and caps becoming thicker and wider as they matured. The mushroom actually gave off a faint light, not enough to illuminate the area around it, but enough to draw both sides complete attention in the darkness.

“Pretty,” Virgil murmured. Remus frowned, turning his finger one last time.

His tenacity was rewarded, as the mushroom suddenly bloomed, sending out a cage-like skirt from the underside of their cap in a shocking shade of yellow, so bright it illuminated both sides faces as they gasped in surprise and delight.

Remus quickly ended the trick, eager to keep the mushroom from decaying. It was so pretty and bright.

“Okay, that was cool,” Virgil said, his voice hushed. Remus grinned at him. “Curiosity sated?”

“Yep,” Remus said, his jaw cracking on a giant yawn.

“You can go back to sleep if you want,” Virgil said. Remus shook his head, even though the motion made him a little dizzy.

“Don't wanna,” he said, only slightly slurred, closing his eyes for just a moment. Virgil sighed.

“Alright.” There was a slight rustle of movement, and then a soft, heavy weight fell over Remus’s shoulders. He wrenched his eyes open, staring down at the purple plaid fabric covering his arms. He looked back at Virgil, who suddenly looked a lot skinnier in just a long sleeved black shirt.

“Don't want you to get cold,” he said in response to Remus's unasked question. Remus shrugged, slipping his arms into the warm, warm sleeves, inhaling the scent of ozone and hot air that always clung around Virgil.

Logan said that it was unlikely that any of his waking dreams would affect all five of his senses—that if he checked, one of them would tell him if the thing he was experiencing was fake.

The thing that might be Virgil looked and sounded like him. It had given him it’s hoodie, and Remus ran his fingers along the cuffs. It certainly felt and smelled real.

He didn't think that he could get away with licking Virgil to make sure he tasted real. He was just going to have to go on faith.

Well, if this Virgil was a hallucination, at least it was being nice about it. He mentally shrugged, scooting over on the ground until he could bump against Virgil’s shoulder.

This maybe-hallucination felt safe. And that was really all Remus needed at the moment.

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so i was reading the series and had a question - if it’s not a spoiler, i’d like to know: during Accepting Logic, was Logic’s room ‘correcting’ flaws the characters perceived in themselves, or traits the Subconscious decided were flaws?

A little bit of both, the Room was attempting to make the Core sides more efficient than they currently were, so it targeted the things that they disliked or found wanting in themselves. Remus has always been told that he is too easily distracted from what needed to be done, so the Room took away his distractions and forced him to focus about all else. Virgil was too emotional to contribute to the conversation in a way that aided Thomas, so the Room suppressed his emotions and allowed him to be honest about things he’d been keeping close to the chest. As for Janus...let’s say there’s a reason the Room took his voice but left his mind. ;) 

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Sanders Sides (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders & Deceit | Janus Sanders, Deceit | Janus Sanders & Logic | Logan Sanders, Anxiety | Virgil Sanders & Deceit | Janus Sanders, Anxiety | Virgil Sanders & Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders, Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders & Logic | Logan Sanders Characters: Deceit | Janus Sanders, Logic | Logan Sanders, Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders, Anxiety | Virgil Sanders Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Light/Dark Side Switch, Emotional Repression, Intrusive Thoughts, Fear of Abandonment, Rejection Sensitivity, Perfectionist tendencies, Obsession, Hints of Past Trauma Series: Part 9 of The Other Side of the Mirror Summary:

Sometimes, Logan can be a bit robotic.

The Core Sides show him that it's okay.

(Episode 9, Arc 2)

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/3 Fandom: Sanders Sides (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders & Deceit | Janus Sanders, Deceit | Janus Sanders & Logic | Logan Sanders, Anxiety | Virgil Sanders & Deceit | Janus Sanders, Anxiety | Virgil Sanders & Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders, Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders & Logic | Logan Sanders Characters: Deceit | Janus Sanders, Logic | Logan Sanders, Dark Creativity | Remus "The Duke" Sanders, Anxiety | Virgil Sanders Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Light/Dark Side Switch, Emotional Repression, Intrusive Thoughts, Fear of Abandonment, Rejection Sensitivity Series: Part 9 of The Other Side of the Mirror Summary:

Sometimes, Logan can be a bit robotic.

The Core Sides show him that it's okay.

(Episode 9, Arc 2)

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How excited do Janus, Remus, and Virgil get about Halloween?

Excellent Question! And an answer days late, but Halloween isn’t so much a date, as it is a state of being, imo. 

Remus goes all out. He decorates the Mindscape. He gets hyped up on sugar. He goes hard on costumes. EXCEPT. He changes his mind every 3.4 hours. So all his costumes end up like 3/4 finished, and eventually he has to just pick one and make the best of it.  He can never decide if he wants to be just spooky or legit scary, oscillating between goofy and gore. 

Janus’s favorite part of halloween is that Remus finally has to pick a costume, and he doesn’t have to hear about the pros and cons about each costume for a whole 24 hours. But Janus does enjoy dressing up, but more importantly, he likes designing and making his own halloween themed treats. Like, monster cupcakes, jello brains, finger cookies, the whole thing. Holliday sanctioned stress baking. His actual favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. (He gets to cook AND everyone is obligated to actually eat. Janus’s life goal is to make all the sides eat 3 square meals a day)

Virgil is probably the least fond of Halloween. He’ll dress up, but doesn’t put a whole lot of effort into his costumes. As courage/instinct, Halloween puts him under a lot of stress, with horror movies, haunted houses, people wearing masks, the razor candy myth, etc. He doesn’t like to admit all that though, so he puts up a decent facade. He will learn to love it more later though... ;)

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Mirror Remus Mood Board ~ The Other Side of the Mirror

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