Okay but Morality!Logan, Anxiety!Roman, Logic!Patton, Creative!Virgil. Not because of ships, but because HOW THE HECK WOULD THOMAS FUNCTION WITH THIS LINE UP
OH MY GOD MY DUDE I DONT EVEN KNOW
hon est l y ive been thinking about the final combo off and on since i posted this version this morning and im still not sure how they would work
but i am going to ramble about them anyway because this is apparently what i do now
in order of easiest to HOW THE HELL WOULD THAT EVEN WORK-est
okay this one is actually a pretty easy transition, Virgil has a lot of similarities to Roman already (he has the second most costume like outfit, which he designed himself, has similar Disney related interests etc tec) and you can argue anxious thoughts and coming up with worst case scenarios are a form of misdirected creativity
all Creativity!Virgil’s ideas would strive to be ‘edgy’
he’d probably be really into stuff like redoing classic fairy tails with a dark twist, (probably have the opposite problem to Creaivity!Logan - story ideas are really character driven and dialogue heavy but. plot? consistency? he does not like to work hard.)
draws a lot of tim burton esq art. Hand writes all his plans with Calligraphy.
happiest version of himself tbh
(probably writes long Harry Potter analysis posts on tumblr about how Dumbledore was a MANipuLAtIVE ABUSER YOU GUYS. lives for the angst)
okay idk if you have seen The Good Place but Morality!Logan is essentially Chidi
has read every book by every moral philosopher and tries to use the teachings to make the most moral choice every time there’s an issue BUT half the time they all contradict each other and he is. frustrated.
can argue himself into, and out of, pretty much any decision. once created a copy of himself to debate with and it lasted for d a y s before logic!patton made him stop
acknowledges his emotions are there but keeps a very firm grip on them -prefers to say i am the master of the emotions over saying i am the emotions
of course that means if something totally unexpected happens which he wasn’t prepared for it leaves him pretty emotionally wrecked and he needs help from pat and vrigel to get under control again
actually works really well with logic!patton they have the least antagonistic brainVHeart relationship
so cannon Patton actually is often the voice of reason (especially in the early videos) but tends to let things play out and only confirm/help the others after they’ve already come to the right conclusion (im thinking about am i original? and accepting anxiety in particular) and i think he would be similar as logic, he’d try to get guide everyone to the right idea without explicitly telling them what to do
he wouldn’t feel the need to reaffirm he’s the smartest one in the room, its just known.
but then like real patton he runs the risk of being talked over or ignored
he def be thing kind of teacher who will never just come out and tell you the right answer - hes all ‘well what do you think you should do next’ ‘ why do you think it says that’ etc etc
i think with Logic!patton we’d get more emphasis on the other stuff that logan represents - like his curiosity and wonder about how the world works
gets SUper excited about learning new stuff and will happily babble about it to anyone who will listen
Monday its obscure Tudor dance ceremonies, Tuesday its transpiration in trees, by Tuesday evening he’s decided they’re all learning Australian sign language and no ones sure how that transition happend.
HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE BEING THE EGO AND THE ANXIETY??
Im sorry! but its true. hear me out. when the canon sides visited anxiety’s room all their own anxieties start coming out and they’re all based on their own traits - Patton worries about his family (’why would you think it doesnt look good? do you have self esteem issues??’ ‘I JUST DONT WANNA LOOSE ANY OF YOU’), Logan looses a grip on his explanations, starts ambling and worrying Thomas wont understand what he’s trying to convey (’sorry - for that little tangent’ YERTS DOTSON) and Roman, worries about himself and how he’s being perceived (im not feeling like my fabulous self, ‘WAS THAT GOOD DID I DO GOOD???’) its all directed inwards (which makes sense given he’s the ego and god side note - these videos are so clever?? i love them)
so if he IS anxiety its very much your classic internal intrusive ‘WHAT IF EVERYTHING YOU DO IS JUST WORTHLESS’, ‘you dont deserve to be here with all these Good People’, ‘everything you create is boring and trashy’ etc etc real nasty stuff
but now its not just aimed at roman - its aimed at Thomas. He is now Thomas’ Anxiety after all
so either he is stuffed in an enormous hoodie being a weeping self hating mess, beyond what Virgil ever was orrr he fully embraces his job and becomes a cane twirling, probably cape wearing, villain who does bad things but looks good doing it
Tl:dr - creativity!Roman is a Disney Prince, Anxiety!Roman is a Disney Villian
Villains always get the best songs.
SO getting back to ‘how would Thomas function’ we haaave… a somewhat emotionally repressed boy with a crippling anxiety disorder combined with indecisiveness and a need to distract himself through combination angsty creative outlets and 3 am wikipedia binges.
I feel like he would have a tumblr XD