Every day this week you get a new side with a new bookshelf of books I think would be in their personal libraries!
Today we have Roman! ❤️📕❤️
(This is only a fraction of the books, I know there could be hundreds more that could work, please let me know what you think he’d put on his bookshelf!)
Is it possible to hcs for Leander comforting a brown skin reader (gn) after their mother unknowingly and 'teasingly' makes a snide remark about it and the reader is suddenly insecure again, even though they were just starting to get comfortable in their skin but it all came crumbling down again.
Whenever you feel like it ofc, Thank you ❤️
Hi hi! Here ya go <3
They/Them for reader
Leander
🗡It was supposed to be a simple dinner at your childhood home. You’d introduce Leander to your parents, have a casual conversation about this and that, stay a little longer and leave.
🗡It was going well at first; your parents seemed to adore him and welcome him with open arms.
🗡 "I never thought you'd get a boyfriend," your mother said, causing you to chuckle nervously.
🗡 "Your child is the best partner I could ask for," Leander chirped in. "Honestly, I'm incredibly lucky to have them in my life."
🗡 "I always thought they'd be single forever," your mother added, causing you to blush with embarrassment. "They'd be so incredibly pretty if they were lighter," she continued, giving you a smile before she turned to Leander. "We always told them to stay out of the sun, and I even got them bleaching creams, but they never used them. What a shame…"
🗡 You felt a mix of emotions at your mother's words—a combination of frustration and hurt. "Mom, can we please not talk about this right now?" You said, trying to change the subject.
"Oh, come on, I was just joking. You know how much I love you and want the best for you," she replied, reaching out to give you a hug.
🗡 Leander sensed your discomfort and gently squeezed your hand, offering you a reassuring smile.
🗡 When you returned home though, Leander didn't fail to notice the tension in your shoulders and asked if you wanted to talk about what happened.
"I'm fine, really," you replied, forcing a smile to reassure him.
Leander knew you better than that and could see through you. He stepped closer to you, placing a gentle hand on your shoulder.
"Come on now, you know better than to try and fool me." he said, his voice filled with genuine concern.
"I promise it's nothing."
Leander sighed softly, knowing you well enough to understand when you were putting up walls. "Just remember, I'm always here for you," he said reassuringly before giving you a comforting squeeze on the shoulder and stepping back, giving you space.
🗡 However, as time went on, Leander noticed that your smile didn't quite reach your eyes and that you were becoming more withdrawn and distant, started avoiding certain topics of conversation and making eye contact with him. He observed how you'd cover up more and even caught you looking at different kinds of cream, and Leander was no fool.
🗡 "I'm not going to push you to talk about it," he said softly, "but just know that I'm here whenever you're ready."
🗡 That's when you broke down and finally opened up about your childhood, the painful memories that you had been keeping hidden for so long—-all the ruthless comments about your skin said directly to your face, the constant comparisons to others that made you feel inadequate, the emotional scars that still haunted you, and how they had affected your self-esteem and confidence.
🗡 Leander listened attentively, his heart breaking with every word you spoke. He had suspected something like this, but hearing it confirmed and seeing the pain in your eyes was gut-wrenching.
He remained quiet for a while, allowing you to let out everything you had kept bottled up for so long. Once you finished, he took a step closer and wrapped his arms around you, pulling you into a tight embrace.
🗡 "Oh, love, I had no idea... I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that. It's not right, none of it."
🗡 "You are beautiful, you know that, right? Skin tone doesn't define your worth or beauty. You are perfect just the way you are. Perfect in every way, every inch of you, inside and out. You are perfect for me. "
🗡 "Don't ever let those ignorant comments and comparisons from others make you doubt yourself. And if your mom... or anyone else, tries to say something like that again, you tell me. I won't stand for anyone making you feel less than worthy because of something as shallow as skin tone."
I'm bored but I don't wanna go to sleep so here's some more autistic sides. (Some of them are me projecting) (some of these are regular headcanons)
Virgil:
Special interests are mcr and horror movies
Used to mask around the light sides until one of them was like "dude we're all autistic no one cares." He still does it subconsciously but not as much as before.
MUST have his headphones within reach at all times.
Hates feeling warm, his room is 65⁰ on cool.
Has a purple lava lamp, hes always watching Remus when he comes over to make sure he doesn't try shit.
Logan:
When he's angry, he tries to rationalize his feelings, feels invalidated by said rationalizing, gets even angrier.
Crofters on toast is a same food for him, he eats it for breakfast every morning
Plans everything out, gets upset when plans change last second
Has a fidget cube to stim with
Patton
NEEDS soft things to calm down, his room is full of stuffies
Speaking of, him and Virgil has a jack skellington build a bear and Patton has a Sally one. (Let them be friends!)
Stims by baking! So many sweets around the house
Picky eater gang💪💪 he can try new stuff but it has to be on HIS terms, yk?
Remus
Chews EVERYTHING, he has chewlery but that doesn't stop him from eating table legs. Regularly chews pens until they explode
Rabies pride Remus. (This isn't even a headcanon at this point.)
Also jumps as a stim! Generally big stims
Hyperfixated on JTHM, regularly talks about the JTHM-> gay cartoons pipeline. Also probably about the 9/11 -> Twilight pipeline.
Janus
Like Logan, he gets upset when plans are changed last second.
Gloves help his sensory issues
Probably hyperfixated on phycology at one point, helped Patton with his plushie video.
Sometimes is the "allistic translator" for the others
Roman
Spinterest is Disney (obviously) but I also see him really enjoying Greek drama. Maybe has a book club with Logan/Janus (when they make up)
Also loves Minecraft, helps him destress.
Probably the reason Thomas got diagnosed at some point
Sings/flaps hands/rocks himself to stim.
Helps Patton bake (LET THEM BE FRIENDS AGAIN) his favorite thing to bake are cupcakes because he likes decorating them.
Janus being suave and charismatic can be a cool interpretation, but I’ll always be more in favour of him being an easily flustered mess.
Like... Imagine this guy who has seventy nine different plans for every occasion, tries to be ten steps ahead of everyone at all times, and almost seems to be reading people’s minds with how clever he is... But if you want to dismantle his elaborate plans you can just tell him that he looks cute in his hat and he doesn’t know where to go from here.
He spends so much time crafting his image and that entire clever villanous persona, but if you tell him the cape is very nice, he’d probably want to twirl to show it off and be happy that someone has noticed.
SVSr would never happen if Roman just winked at him back at some point.
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(Is it the result of him not being used to hearing nice things about himself? Well, that depends how much angst you usually want in your Janus-related headcanons.)
the first thing Virgil did this decade was burn his tongue trying to take his anxiety meds with chocolate fondue instead of, you know, water. he absolutely managed it and insists it was worth it. this is definitely not based on personal experience guys stop asking me if i took my meds with chocolate fond
As the ego, Romans whole shtick is dependent on the beliefs of people around him about him
He needs concrete guidelines to work with or he gets overwhelmed
(This comes from Snap by TheAsexualofSpades on ao3; please don’t make me try to link it on mobile as the app will explode.)
As the most likely id, Remus doesn’t really need to cooperate with the others, but as Intrusive Thought he probably does
Like the usual train of thought with the dark sides (their jobs have a physical impact or sense), Remus could function as a drain pipe for repression
If we assume, as is likely, that Janus and Remus together function as most of Thomas’s trauma processing, then we can assume Remus is capable of collecting and working with (I’d assume he plays with them in the Imagination or his room) the other Sides’s repressed experiences and returning them as various modified intrusive thoughts to assist in the relevant side getting their shit together
And then, to mirror Roman a bit as we do love that here, Remus’s classic line “there’s no rhyme or reason to what I do, I just do”
As he functions as base instinct and the manifestation intrusive thought, the line is pretty obvious, but it also fits the less chaotic job
We generally assume Virgil has anxiety and Remus has intrusive thoughts, and many expand on that to various degrees
If we assume Remus not only has intrusive thoughts, but also that his behavior is modified by whatever thought is strongest (which is usually the case in canon and fanon anyway)
Then how is anyone supposed to predict The Duke when his behavior is directly affected by “human” (and human) variables?
Basically, if we all follow some pretty low-impact headcannons both of the twins depend on other people but one chose law and the other chose chaos