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tss-whumper · 7 months

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my whump intro!

hey, gang!! i'm annie, you might know me from my main blog (@prodigal-explorer). this is my side blog, and it's a place for all things sanders sides whump! whump isn't a very big thing in this fandom, but i really love it and i think this fandom has so much whump potential.

to clear things up for anyone confused, whump is basically a genre of fanfic/headcanons/content where characters (they are called whumpees) are being hurt either by other characters (they are called whumpers) or by natural elements such as sickness and weather. sometimes, there are characters who help whumpees feel better, or protect them from whumpers (they are called caretakers). whump is sort of like hurt/comfort, but there's not always the guarantee of comfort. whether or not there's comfort is up to personal preference! when it comes to whump, pretty much any kind of pain/injury/hurt is on the table, so when engaging with it, it's important to read tags carefully, just for your own safety!

with this blog, the characters from sanders sides will be playing whumpees, whumpers, and caretakers in an assortment of ways! characters will not always be named. sometimes it will just be (side a) or (side b), or it will just be labeled as "whumper" or "whumpee" if i don't really have a sanders sides character in mind for the scenario.

more info about my page and what i will and won't write below! (warning: i don't censor any of my words, so proceed with caution if that bothers you. some of the content i mention is very sensitive.)

whump themes/ideas/characters/tropes i LOVE writing:

whumpee!roman

whumpee!logan

caretaker!janus

caretaker!remus

caretaker!virgil

whumper!patton

emotional/verbal abuse

physical abuse

familial abuse

religious trauma

pet whump

whumpee turned caretaker

caretaker turned whumpee

caretaker turned whumper

small whumper and large whumpee

medieval whump

canonverse whump

non-canonverse whump

ropes/chains

stress positions

inhumane punishments (especially when they have significant meanings in the story)

sunshine character who is secretly the whumper

whumpers who genuinely think they're doing the right thing

whumpees who are bad people

caretakers who don't know how to be a caretaker/bad caretaker

unreliable narrator

eating disorders

humiliation

age gaps (as long as they're painted in a bad light)

whumpees of marginalized communities (poc, lgbtq+ besides gay cis white men, disabled, fat, jewish, etc.) because there is NOT ENOUGH OF THAT IN THE WHUMP COMMUNITY. i get it's tricky territory and you have to be careful with it, but why are little white guys the only ones getting rescued and taken care of?

descriptive fics

multi-chapter fics

one-shots

drabbles

bullet fics

songfics

scriptfics

whump themes/ideas/characters/tropes i WILL write:

blood/gore

whumpee turned whumper

whumper turned whumpee

suicidal thoughts/ideation

sa/noncon

prostitution

boxboy (though i don't have much experience, so i will be learning as i go!)

whumpee!virgil

whumpee!janus

whumpee!remus

caretaker!roman

caretaker!logan

whumper!virgil

whumper!remus

whumper!janus

whumper!logan

lady whump (it's not my favorite but i'll do it)

delusions

sick whump

emento

wilderness whump

child whump

children whumping children

whump with remy/sleep, c!thomas, and emile picani (i'll write them as any role, whumpee/whumper/caretaker)

whumpee x caretaker (as long as it's not codependent)

toxic whumpee x whumper (where it's clear that the relationship is not a good one)

whumpee x whumpee

courtroom scenes

major character death

unhappy endings

happy endings

bittersweet endings

whump themes/ideas/characters/tropes i WILL NOT write:

whumpee!patton

caretaker!patton

whumper!roman

tiny whump (just not my thing)

fem side x masc side (especially when the whumpee is the fem side)

any whump involving thomas sanders (like the real person) or any of his friends.

anything relating to bodily waste

detailed descriptions of needles (it just freaks me out lol)

feel free to send in an ask requesting anything you want me to write or react to, as long as it's not in the "will not write" category. if you don't see what you want listed anywhere, just assume that i will write it! there isn't a lot that i don't do, but i will not negotiate with the boundaries i have, so please don't try to convince me!

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beauty-and-passion · 8 months

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Fanders Sides Season 3: The Asides

Hello dears,

after the introductory post about FSS3 and before starting with the actual episodes, I wanted to write a short post about the Asides too.

As you all know, recently Mr. Sanders moved a few episodes here and there: random stuff became part of the Asides, while ATHD, FWSA and WTIT became main series episodes. Why did it take him so long to realize they were following the plot more than other videos? No idea.

But even though Mr. Sanders seems to find it a bit difficult to distinguish between main series episodes and Asides, the fandom on the other hand seems to know pretty well what the difference is and your suggestions in the survey have been AMAZING.

This is why I wanted to write this post: to expand on some of your best ideas. But also to offer you this post as a starting point. If you have even more ideas/thoughts/concepts for other possible Asides episodes, feel free to add them with a message or a reblog. We can go on forever with great suggestions.

Once again, I applied the same three rules I talked about in the introductory post:

to write something in the real of human/editing possibilities

it should be an idea that can be developed in a 20-minute-long video

no ships

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The promised rap battle

During Am I ORIGINAL?, Logan had the best rap battle of all time and in the end, he said Patton would be the next one he would “fight”.

So this Aside will be the match Logan wanted. He will crush Patton with great verses, amazing flow and sick burns.

Patton, on the other hand, won’t take any offense at all and reply with puns. Just. So. Many. Puns.

Will Logan still win? Will the puns be enough to defeat him? Will he start using the power of puns too? Will this battle turn into a huge battle of puns? Will Patton have fun regardless of the result?

You decide on the answers to all of these questions, except for the last one. Because we all know Patton would enjoy some quality time with Logan.

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The very normal vlog

This episode is a very normal vlog in which Thomas talks about very normal stuff happening in his life and the Core Sides comments/offers suggestions as always.

So Logan says Thomas should've remembered that doing X thing wasn't great. Thomas replies that it was an infinitesimal mistake.

Patton compliments Thomas with a pun. Thomas replies with another pun.

Roman tells Thomas they should strive for greater things. Thomas says that they should start by improving their acting skills.

Virgil reminds Thomas that trying new things can be challenging and he can fail. Thomas says that it won't be as bad as Virgil's make-up.

Virgil is caught off guard by this, but before he can comment, Thomas ends the episode and sends them all away. Only after the Sides disappeared, he said goodbye to his viewers and turned off the camera, only then he reveal himself as Janus.

Janus stretches, snaps his fingers and says he's still the best liar of all time, before leaving.

The episode ends with Thomas, who is still sleeping in his bed. He suddenly jolts up: "Oh my gosh", he yells, "I need to do a video!”

Bam, start intro.

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The troll

An April fools episode titled “Am I the ASSHOLE???” and the whole video is over dramatic and makes fun of tropes, also is poorly shot.

This is the original post of @dillydallydove from which this person took the idea. And it's hilarious, I love it.

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The most serious argument ever

A prequel episode set when Virgil was still one of the Dark Sides and centered on an argument they have.

You can choose whatever topic you want, but it should be the stupidest argument ever. And the dark boys should all act as if it’s the most important topic in the world, nothing is more important than this topic and nothing is more important than proving the others are ALL wrong.

Follows shenanigans, Janus pretending to mediate only to say something and add more fuel to the chaos, Virgil trying to prove his point with extra convoluted thoughts, Remus throwing stuff around only to add more chaos, Orange sending death threats.

Bonus points if they manage to set something on fire without matches.

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Grocery shopping

Thomas going grocery shopping with his Sides.

Logan is in charge: he wants to put just healthy food in the cart.

Patton begs Logan for at least one single pack of cookies ("Thomas needs them, as a treat!").

Roman checks for the most aesthetically pleasing packages and the ones with the most promises, no matter how far-fetched they are ("Logan, this shampoo will make Thomas' hair fluent and shiny! And this cereal mix will make him taller! We must buy them!").

Virgil disappears for entire minutes, then comes back with a full emergency kit, a new alarm system, pepper spray and a blanket. When Logan asks him why, he replies that the safety stuff it's necessary, while the blanket is for him because it will help him stay calm, once Thomas starts handling this stuff.

Remus runs all over the grocery store, then comes back with different stuff: the first time with the biggest zucchini and carrots he can find, then with sticks and poles. Then, with all the different brands of condoms he can find. Then with lubricants. He says Thomas needs them and drops everything in the cart.

Janus pretends to help Logan, but also sneaks stuff behind other stuff: shorter boxes behind taller ones, chocolate chips under a bag of vegetables and so on. When Logan finds out, Janus picks a bottle of wine and puts it on the conveyor belt. Logan sighs and lets everything go.

Thomas, who went to the grocery store to buy one bag of apples, comes back home with a bag of carrots, a bag of zucchini, 2 boxes of cookies, 3 new shampoos, a pack of condoms, a new emergency kit, two cereal boxes, a blanket and a bottle of wine. And no apples.

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The game night

The episode has the structure of a game show, in which every Side has to answer questions about the other Sides, in order to win an amazing prize.

Logan tries to use his intuition, but it doesn't always work.

Patton replies with kind, good, nice answers and everyone feels bad about telling him he's wrong, so he somehow wins.

Roman has no idea, so he drops the first thing that pops into his mind and fails miserably.

Virgil mumbles something, then says he doesn't know/it's stupid/he doesn't want to reply. Somehow, ends up second after Patton.

Janus straight out lies about everything and somehow he's right. But everyone refuses to acknowledge he's right.

Remus throws the most sexual ideas and argues about who has the longest dick. Somehow, he ends up being just one step above Roman. No one understands how, Roman first.

In the end, the amazing price was the last piece of pizza.

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The "Sides' daily schedule" series

This can be a series of seven videos, in which every Side takes his time to tell us what they do during a normal day of their life.

Logan shows a perfectly organized schedule, down to the second. His routine includes cleaning, organizing, planning, working, writing, reading and a relaxing hobby: chemical reactions.

Remus sneaks in to be his lab assistant. The video ends up with them blowing up something.

Patton's schedule is more relaxed, made of sunshine, happiness, hours spent remembering the past, sad hours, more sad hours - but then Patton gets better, he gets out of his room and meets his friends. And plans a nice time for all of them.

The evening ends with Logan emptying a whole fire extinguisher on the barbecue, because somehow Patton set it on fire.

Roman starts his day by being his most marvelous self, removes his night-time beauty mask, makes his daycare routine, strikes poses, talks about how great he is, goes around slaying monsters and dueling... all in the morning. Then, he sits and the desk and works non-stop for 20 hours straight. Then, he gets up still with his marvelous self, says he has not been “very productive” and goes on a trip to slay more monsters and flirt with beautiful men in distress.

In the end, Remus has to stop him from working even more, by hitting him on the head. He throws Roman on his bed, throws the sheets on him but, before leaving, he never forgets to carefully put on Roman his night-time beauty mask.

Remus' video alternates between him starting to say something, to huge censored parts. Around half of the video, he loudly protests, because he's censored, even when he doesn't say anything sexual. His day includes pissing out Roman, messing with Logan's chemical stuff, obediently sitting and listening to Janus reading him a book, throwing stuff in a volcano, jumping in a river with piranha and 20 different sexual positions all censored.

Virgil's video shows him doing something peacefully, only to suddenly stop, look directly at the viewers and ask them questions. Like: he's peacefully knitting, then he stops, lifts his head and asks: did you turn the stove off? Is it still off? Or is it on? Is your house burning down? Will it burn down before you go to bed? Will you die in your bed?

The questions stop, to show us more of Virgil’s day and his different ways to relax. Some are heavy blankets and knitting, others are push-ups, running like a madman for hours, sleeping like a log, watching horror movies and doing make-up while listening to emo/rock music.

Janus' schedule is weird. The scene before he's walking, then it abruptly cuts to him knitting, then to him halfway into an explanation of a specific part of a book, to him explaining what he will eat. It looks like a series of scenes randomly put together.

Only in the end, we will find out he did it on purpose, because he has no intention of telling what he actually does. So he tells the viewers to have fun with what they have (which is basically nothing), while putting on a beauty mask, a glass of wine in his hand and relaxes into a bathtub.

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The "Dressing like each other" series

This can easily end up in another series of videos, in which every Side raids the closet of one Side and they all dress up like him.

Logan's closet should include tons of shirts and lab coats, so they would all dress up like teachers or lab technicians. Roman hates it, Remus loves to dress as a mad scientist.

Patton's closet should include bright colors, funny hats, animal prints everywhere. Either they would dress up as animal lovers or as stereotypical fathers from the 50s. Janus searches everywhere for something that's not bright-colored. In the end, he fights Virgil for the only two gray clothes.

Roman's closet should include rich, embroidered dresses with beautiful details on every piece of fabric. They would end up dressed as members of the court or royalty, with matching, fabulous makeup. Virgil complains and calls it "extra and preppy", only to end up being fabulous.

Virgil's closet should include black, emo, laced dresses for everyone. Also, guyliner and leather/laced matching accessories. Roman complains and calls it "dark and gloomy", only to end up being fabulous.

Janus' closet should include black and yellow dresses, fancy hats, polished shoes and fancy accessories like golden pocket watches, handkerchiefs with embroidered initials and so on. Logan appreciates the formality, Roman the nice details. Virgil calls it "even more extra" and ends up being quite fabulous. (Janus refuses to acknowledge it)

Remus' closet should include the most insane, batshit stuff, possibly put together in the weirdest way. They could end up dressed entirely in fishnet clothes, rainbow clothes, silly costumes or the most baroque, heavy costume ever known to mankind. Also, a shit ton of accessories, wigs, makeup and everything you can think of. Somehow, Janus is the only one who manages to find a coordinated set.

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And now, it's up to you!

Do you have more ideas for the Asides? Share them! The weirdest, the strangest, the better! :D

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the-ultimate-nobody · 2 months

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Ordem Paranormal x Sanders Sides that literally no one asked for

Let's get y'all up to speed. "Paranormal Order" (Or Ordem Paranormal) is a RPG tabletop game that has horror and puzzle-solving genre. Not much fighting but depends on the campaign. I won't info-dump here since that's not what I'm going through.

In OP, there are these things called elements/entities of the paranormal/whatever the occultist uses. And me, a categorizing nerd, I have placed each of the sides with one of the elements with explanations.

There are Five elements; Blood, Knowledge, Chaos, Death, and Fear.

Let's get the two obvious out of the way:

Patton: Blood

(*Dead stares at the camera*) This element is literally "Feelings". The blood that flows within the "Other Side". This entity is pleased by any intensity of feelings that it comes across... Come on, my guy, it makes sense. (As such as life, these things are like pokemon weakness/strength. Blood surpasses Knowledge)

Logan: Knowledge

(*continues dead stares at the camera*) "To know everything is to lose everything." A quote from the official book/wiki. Same with Patton, this doesn't really need an explanation. This entity is about discovering and learning about everything. Funny that; Knowledge overrides Chaos

And now the 2nd easiest

Remus: Chaos

(*Continues to dead stare*) Remus fits this entity to a T. It's unpredictability, the unfiltered energy that he gives off, and the unexplained nonsense he sometimes say out. Chaos is kinda built different, since it doesn't follow its own logic. Sometimes, Remus will help (in his own way) or sometimes he'll see how the shit goes out for his entertainment. Who knows. Only Remus does. Chaos shouts over Death

Our beloved Anxeity, Deceit, and pure, heroic Light Creativity... the three hardest I have to think about in terms of OP entities.

Virgil: Death

Don't let the word scare you. This Entity is about Time, mostly. It runs in the OP so everything in existence has a place to end. Every story has an ending and this entity is there to see. It. Through. The reason I put Virgil in Death is purely because the others don't show anything like it? Someone can research and try to connect the dots that my brain is trying to connect. Death in OP already has a black/gray color scheme. Death overpowers Blood

Roman: Death

Roman was originally put with Remus into Chaos, but the more I think about it, the more Death seems to fit him a bit more. Roman doesn't have the chaotic energy that either has. But, according to the wiki, Death entity revolves things around itself. Telling things that there's a limit and there's more things to do. Kinda reminds me of that one video, yeah? Death ignores Blood

Janus: Blood and/or Knowledge

You thought I would put Janus in Fear? Nah, Janus is a wild card, same with the other two above. In OP, you can switch elements but kinda have to stick with one. I'm stuck between the two entities for Janus, without making him into a monster. Blood, sure, emotions but it's where he kinda need it and Knowledge (Ignoring that Knowledge entity is known for being yellow) the vibe of it fits the darn snake. I'll let yall do your research if you've read this far. Janus is so hard to categorize without his literal reason of existence.

BONUS:

(c!)Thomas Sanders: Fear

Purely, because, Fear is the entity that powers all the other elements. Without it, the "Other Side" won't function. But no person can get Fear and continue being sane. For all I know, putting Fear in him would make him a monster so the protagonists of the campaign have a reason to gain victory.

Poor lil Sides, what happens if you have to kill Thomas yourselves? Hm? What a tasty idea...

(If anyone in the Ordem Paranormal fandom seein' this, uh, shut up)

#gods nobody stfu #sanders sides #thomas sanders #ordem paranormal #nobody talks #I did this for Alice in Borderlands but that's not as tasty thought as ordem paranormal #where LITRLY ALL OF MY FAVE CHARACTERS DIE #LOOK #IF YOU LIKE THIS KINDA OF SHENIGANS #THE HORROR AND THE OCCULTISM THING #ORDEM PARANORMAL IS YOUR GUY #But you gotta know that it's in protaguses #gods I have no auto correct #but still give it a shot

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thomasxsides · 1 year

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For Thomas and Janus: What are your favorite relaxing activities to do together? And how do y'all feel about PDA?

Bonus question for Thomas. What's the easiest way to fluster the snek boy?

"We enjoy wine and movie nights at least once a week. That's definitely a favorite." "Sometimes Thomas will convince me that we should dance together. I suppose I don't mind that. ♥ As for PDA, I find it completely abysmal. Disgusting. Atrocious. Wouldn't dream of it."

"I like PDA. A little. Some hand-holding and little kisses. But nothing too gross. I don't want to make the people around us uncomfortable. And the easiest way to fluster Janus is telling him how pretty his scales look in the sunlight or fresh after a shed."

*embarrassed grumbles and hisses*

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tolf-masterposts · 1 year

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Thomas Sanders/ Sanders Sides/ Roleslaying With Roman Posts

Posts are sorted by category which are sorted oldest to newest

Headcanons

Games I Think the Sides Would Play // Autistic!Remus headcanons // Remus likes glitter // Remus got one of Roman’s plushies to drop kick it // Found family dynamic with Creativitwins and Karrot Kings // My favorite Sanders Sides headcanons // Remus has done the cartoon running through walls // 30 Random Remus Sanders headcanons // Found/Chosen Family C!Thomas & Creativitwins headcanons //

Rant/Rambles

Remus isn’t Intrusive Thoughts // I <3 Sanders Sides // First Sanders Sides AU I ever saw //

Fanfiction

The Ghost and the Reaper // As the World Caves In (Demus Angst one-shot) //

AUs

Best TSS AU // Sanders Sides Steven Universe AU // Darkside Afton Family AU //

Remus Sanders <3

Remus end card // Remus incorrect quote // Remus canonically cannot wear a bow tie correctly // Remus Sanders gives me vocal stims whenever he speaks // Remus definitely destroyed his air fryer // I want to toss Remus Sanders into a washing machine and watch him spin // Remu Sandy :) // Remus listens to Junie & TheHutFriends // I am a Remus Sanders defender // Was going to make an April Fools joke about being Anti-Remus Sanders // Remus would unironically listen to You’re Mine // Will Remus become real if I say his name three times? //

Other

Remus and Janus are husbands // “Doc” Janus // All the sides fusing = Thomas // Roman should have a villain arc // Roman’s hat should be the Pikachu hat from CLBG // Sanders Sides x Hunger Games Sim // Happy April 13th // The sides are back after a long hiatus // Picani’s office details // Sanders Sides has got me in a chokehold // Fanders is Sanders but with an “f” // Full Sanders Sides Recap // The dudes are back!!! <3 // Patton has “canonically” committed vehicular manslaughter // Remus is the only side Janus is nice to // Forbidden Fruit detail I love // Sanders Sides logo font // Remus and Roman are Sodikken Hansel and Gretel coded // I want to make a Sanders Sides rp blog // If Karrot Kings ends up being tragic I’m suing //

Crossfandom

Working on a Sanders Sides x FNaF AU // Remus Sanders and Suction Cup Man would be besties // Autism headcanons // Sanders Sides and FNaF reference in CRK // All Stay Strong: The Transcript Files //

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iclaimedtobethebetterbard · 2 years

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it seemed the better way - chapter 6

Fandom: Sanders Sides Characters: Janus, Romulus, Patton, Logan, c!Thomas mentions Rating: General audiences Relationships: Platonic everyone Warnings: Arguing, crying Word count: 3221 Note: Ty to @anxious-logic for betaing!!

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Chapter 6

“Okay, mister.” Thomas’s dad stepped into the bedroom and sat beside Thomas on the bed, where Thomas had been glumly kicking his feet for the last ten minutes. “Ready to talk about it?”

“I guess,” Thomas mumbled.

“Okay. Do you know why you’re in time out?”

“Because stupid Katie said my awesome drawing was scary and told the stupid teacher,” Romulus grumbled.

“You made Thomas rip her drawing!” Patton countered, still sounding horrified.

“She shouldn’t have said mean things about his!” Romulus argued.

“But it was scary,” Patton said. “It had blood and everything.”

“Yeah, it was supposed to! It looked cool!” Romulus crossed his arms.

“Can you two be quiet for one second?” Janus asked. “Let Thomas talk, or we’ll just make it worse.”

Thomas fidgeted with his hands. “I guess,” he said in a small voice, looking away.

“Why?” his dad pressed.

“Katie said my drawing was bad, so I ripped her paper,” Thomas admitted.

“That’s right. And do you understand why that wasn’t okay?”

“Yes,” Patton said.

“No,” Romulus countered.

“Sort of,” Logan put in.

“No!” Romulus repeated.

Janus sighed and rose up, out of the Mindscape and up into Thomas’s room.

“Yeah,” Thomas said, Janus nudging him to ignore the confusion coming from the other three’s clashing opinions. “And I’m really sorry,” he added at Janus’s prompting, turning big eyes and a sad expression on his dad.

Romulus popped up next to Janus. “He is not sorry!”

“Shh!” Janus said, hurriedly pushing Romulus away from Thomas. “I know that,” he explained. “I’m just getting him out of time out. He’s got to say the things Dad wants him to. It’s like a story. Okay?”

Romulus huffed. “Fine.”

“I’m glad to hear that,” Thomas’s dad said. “And did you tell Katie you were sorry?”

“Yes,” Thomas said. He’d had to, before they’d been picked up by their respective parents.

“Good,” Dad said. “Maybe you can make her a nice drawing to help make it right.”

“Okay,” Thomas agreed. “Can I be done with time out now?”

Thomas’s dad searched his face. Janus focused hard on getting Thomas to project just the right amount of innocence, sincerity, and regret.

“Okay, buddy,” his dad agreed at last. “I’m glad we had this talk. Let’s make sure nothing like this happens in the future, okay?”

“Okay!” Thomas hopped to his feet.

“There.” Janus dusted his hands off proudly and sank back into the Mindscape. “I fixed it!” he announced.

Patton frowned, but didn’t say anything.

Janus didn’t have a chance to ask what that was about, because Romulus sank down in a flurry of excitement, babbling about ideas for what to draw for Katie.

“Okay, I’ve got it!” Romulus announced after a few minutes’ rambling. He pulled up a chair at the kitchen table, kneeling on it and scattering crayons across the table. He picked one up and began drawing in midair; the streaks of color materialized at his will and hung there as if on an invisible canvas. “So,” he explained as he went, “so, I think he should still be mad at her and not want to be friends, because she was mean about my cool idea. But everybody wants us to make a drawing for her, or whatever.”

“To show he’s sorry,” Patton put in.

“Sure. Whatever.” Romulus didn’t seem particularly concerned with this, barreling on. “So I think he should make a fun drawing and give it to her, but it doesn’t have to be, like, full of stuff she likes or anything. Because I don’t care about her. I’m thinking—” He frowned, scribbling a few doodles in the air and then crossing them out in big slashing X’s. “Aliens!” he announced after a minute. “Aliens stealing flowers to make an alien garden!” He laughed and flapped his hands, delighted by his own idea, and Janus let out a snicker of his own at the concept.

“Great!” Romulus said, climbing to his feet and waving away both the air drawings and the crayons. “Okay. I’ll go plan that out, and then I’ll have him draw it. See you all later!” He waved with both hands and turned towards the hallway to head to his room.

“Romulus! Wait.” Patton ran after him, catching him by the arm.

“What?” Romulus asked, not seeming pleased to be interrupted, but giving Patton his attention anyway and hopping back and forth from one foot to the other.

“Um, what if the aliens didn’t steal the flowers?” Patton asked, sounding both apologetic and insistent.

Romulus blinked. “Why not?”

“Well—well, stealing is bad,” Patton explained. “And mean. And mean is also bad. So I think maybe if the aliens don’t steal, that would be better.”

“But it’s part of the drawing,” Romulus said. He waved his hands, conjuring up an image in the air between them. “See? They’re using their alien beams to get the flowers. It’s not as cool otherwise.”

“But maybe—maybe they could use the beams to plant flowers?” Patton said.

“Why?” Romulus pressed. “Why’s it matter?”

“Well—well, I just thought, since—since that time I had you change the dinosaurs art to not have dead stuff in it, and then the teacher said it was really creative and cool, but then today you drew the vampire with lots of blood and that got a lot of trouble for Thomas—um, I just thought that maybe, we should have Thomas draw less bad stuff and more good stuff. Like how grownups will like it.”

“Grownups are boring!” Romulus sounded greatly offended, which Janus felt he was perfectly justified in. “How come you think my ideas are bad? Ideas are my job! You don’t need to make ideas. You have other jobs.”

“I don’t think your ideas are bad!” Patton backtracked hastily, eyes widening with alarm.

Janus frowned. “It’s definitely what it sounded like you were saying to me,” he cut in sharply.

“No!” Patton said quickly. “No, no, I just—” He bit his lip. “I think it might be better to do it a little differently,” he said.

“Well, I think Romulus is right and you should stop trying to do his job for him,” Janus snapped.

“I—no, I—Logan,” Patton said helplessly.

Logan looked up from the book he was reading on the couch, where he had been pointedly ignoring them all. “What?”

“What do you think?” Patton begged.

“Hm.” Logan adjusted his glasses. “Romulus is correct that ideas are his job. But it is also true that good and bad are part of your job, Patton. So I think the real question is, do ideas and art Thomas makes count as part of good and bad?”

“No!” Romulus said. “They’re mine!”

“They’re not real things,” Janus put in. “Good and bad is for real things. This has nothing to do with Patton.”

“Well—the grownups treat Thomas’s ideas like they’re real things,” Patton argued. “They do! So—so I feel like we should all think about what’s good and what’s bad, at least a little, about all the things we have Thomas do.” He twisted the strings of his hoodie anxiously in his hands. “I’m not—not trying to take your stuff, Romulus. Or do your job. Or anything. I’m just trying to help. I—I’m sorry.”

Romulus sniffed haughtily. “Well, I shall never forgive you in a million gazillion years.” He glanced mischievously at Patton, whose eyes had gone round and shiny at this and whose mouth had turned down in a devastated little pout.

That was no good. Romulus wanted Patton to play along to get to the dramatic resolution, and Patton clearly didn’t understand that he wasn’t being serious.

“Unless?” Janus prompted quickly.

“Oh.” Romulus grinned. “Unless you make me cookies.”

Patton’s mouth fell open in a little o of surprise. “I can do that!”

“I know,” Romulus said, “that’s what makes it so brilliant of me.” He grinned. “And I can let Thomas make the drawing?”

Patton hesitated uncomfortably. “…Yes,” he agreed at last. “Okay. I mean. I guess that would be… fine.” He grimaced.

“Great!” Romulus grabbed Patton’s hand and tugged him towards the kitchen. “Cookies! Cookies cookies cookies!”

Patton perked up, following eagerly. They soon vanished into the pantry, pulling out all manner of ingredients.

Janus drew in a long breath and let it all out in a big sigh of relief. That had very nearly been a disaster. It was a good thing he’d handled it so well.

It had been exhausting, though. And right after helping Thomas lie just enough to get out of trouble, too. He deserved a nap at this point.

Yes, that was a good idea. A nap. He’d worked very hard, and Patton and Romulus had made up and were making cookies, which should keep both of them happy and busy for some time, and anyway Logan was alright at helping calm things down if anything happened. Janus could take a nap without worrying that yet another argument would start up without him.

Janus nodded to himself and headed to his room, grabbing his weighted snake plushie and transforming his clothes into soft pajamas with a thought. He curled up in his nest of soft, heavy blankets and closed his eyes, soothing quiet seeping into his brain.

***

The quiet of Janus’s sleep was broken abruptly by noises. Loud noises. Angry, screaming voices. Romulus’s screaming voice.

Janus dragged his eyes open, squinting against the light and rubbing the crud from their corners. Still clumsy with sleep, he clambered from his bed and fumbled to transform back to his daytime clothes, stifling a yawn. Weighted snake plushie draped around his neck, he headed towards the sound of the shouts.

“—you promised, you said it was okay and that you wouldn’t change it! You said!” Romulus was shouting at the top of his lungs.

Janus clamped his hands over his ears and stepped into the living room. Romulus was standing on a chair, waving his arms and shouting, and Patton was curled in a ball on the floor before him, his hood pulled over his face and his head buried in his arms.

“What’s going on?” Janus asked, half-shouting to make himself heard.

“Patton made Thomas change it!” Romulus shrieked, red in the face and angry tears glistening in his eyes. “After he said!”

“I didn’t!” Patton hiccuped from inside his curled bundle of limbs. “I promise I didn’t!”

“He’s lying!” Romulus insisted. “Right, Janus?”

Janus blepped, tasting the air, and frowned. “Noo,” he admitted slowly. “He’s… telling the truth. Sort of.” He walked over and nudged Patton with his toe. “But I think not all of it.”

Patton curled up tighter. “I didn’t do it on purpose,” he said at last in a small voice.

Janus raised his eyebrows. “But you think it’s because of you.”

“Maybe? I don’t know,” Patton deflected. “Maybe Thomas just changed his mind! Maybe he thought nice aliens would be better!”

“My aliens were so cool!” Romulus stamped his foot. “Stop saying they weren’t nice!”

“That’s not what I’m saying!” Patton at last peeked out from behind his arms. “I’m just saying, all your ideas used to be so fun and good, and now they always have some scary bad stuff in them! And I miss when everything was so much fun!”

“Maybe you just got boringer,” Romulus muttered mutinously, still standing on the chair but no longer shouting.

Taking advantage of the silence, Janus spared a quick thought to check in on Thomas and assess the situation a little further. His human was sprawled on his belly on the floor of his room, coloring a crayon drawing of aliens—who were using their spaceship beams to plant flowers instead of take them.

Well, that just reeked of Patton’s influence. Even if he maybe hadn’t meant it.

Bringing his attention back to the Mindscape, Janus frowned at Patton. “Didn’t you say you weren’t going to do Romulus’s job for him?”

“It was an accident!” Patton insisted. “I didn’t lie!” He made a face, like he had a bad taste in his mouth.

Well, that put a bad taste in Janus’s everything. “Hey,” he snapped. “I lie.” There was no need for Patton to act that way about something that was literally his whole reason for existing, thank you very much.

“Maybe you shouldn’t,” Patton said under his breath, looking away.

Janus blinked, shocked that Patton would go so far as to actually give voice to such an idea. “What do you mean?”

Patton was silent, continuing to look away. Romulus watched, wide-eyed and entirely distracted from his own upset of a moment ago, focused on Janus’s face.

“Patton,” Janus snapped, and Patton flinched. “What do you mean?”

“You’re not going to like it,” Patton said, crossing his arms.

“I’m not going to like your face,” Janus retorted, his grasp on his temper growing less secure by the second. “Isn’t not saying something the same as lying about it?”

“No! Well—sometimes—but—” Patton wrung his hands. “I don’t want to fight!”

“You have been fighting with Romulus for the last seven minutes,” Logan put in from across the room. “Very loudly. It is hard to read in these conditions.”

“That’s not helping, Logan!” Patton snapped. “And he started it!”

“Oh, because Thomas doing things your way when you said you’d leave it alone totally wasn’t part of it at all,” Janus pointed out.

“Yeah!” Romulus backed him up.

“I said that wasn’t on purpose!” Patton let out a sharp, frustrated breath. “I just—” He took another breath, visibly trying to calm himself down, and spoke in a somewhat nicer tone. “Janus—don’t you ever think maybe you should—stop?”

“Stop what?”

“Well—making Thomas lie, for a start,” Patton said, almost apologetically.

“Oh, yes, all the time. Quitting is my favorite. I’d love to,” Janus said in his most sarcastic voice, trying to figure out if Patton was serious.

Patton blinked. “Really?”

“No. Obviously not. Why would I do that? Lying is my job.”

“Well—because it’s bad,” Patton explained hesitantly. “The grownups all say.”

Janus, who was of the opinion that they had been over this in the past and did not need to revisit an idea so silly, just crossed his arms. “No.”

“Don’t you want to at least talk about it?” Patton wheedled.

“No.”

Patton frowned. “But it’s a problem! Romulus wouldn’t be doing any of this if you didn’t encourage him so much! And it’s not just him, either. You keep getting Thomas in trouble!”

“No I don’t?” Janus felt this was very unfair. “I get him out of trouble. I keep him safe. Sometimes lying is the thing that keeps him safest! Like—like that time he drew the lightning stuff. If he’d told Mom what that was supposed to be, he’d have been in so much trouble. But all he had to do was say it wasn’t, and then everything was okay!”

Patton shook his head. “But it’s wrong. He learned that at church. The drawing was bad, and lying was bad. And you keep telling Romulus that the bad stuff he thinks of is good, when it’s not. Thomas has got to be good, he’s got to, and you keep making him be bad instead!”

“My ideas are good!” Romulus snapped, incensed again.

“Not all the time,” Patton insisted. “And you aren’t trying to only have good ones. You used to have so many good ones!”

“Hey,” Logan put in.

“Well, you’re just—you’re just wrong,” Janus told Patton. “We’re both Sides just as much as you are! We’re parts of Thomas just the same, and we have jobs to take care of him. You can’t just say our jobs are bad. I mean, if we’re bad for Thomas, why would he even have us?”

“Yeah!” Romulus echoed.

Patton’s eyes went wide with horror behind his glasses, and he clapped both hands over his mouth. “Oh, no,” he choked out, his eyes brimming with tears.

“Hey,” Logan said, more insistently.

Patton ignored him. “No—no, that can’t—he can’t—I have to be able to make Thomas good enough! I have to. He can’t just be bad. He can’t!” The tears spilled over, running down his round cheeks, and his shoulders curled in around himself on a sob.

Janus and Romulus shared a panicked look. “I—Patton, it’s okay,” Romulus said, sounding guilty. He climbed down from the chair and put an awkward hand on Patton’s shoulder; Patton, still sobbing, keeled forward and buried his face in Romulus’s shirt, wrapping his arms around him.

“Patton—hey, don’t cry—” Romulus said helplessly, resting his chin on top of Patton’s head. “It’s just a dumb drawing. It’s—it’s not that big of a deal. He can make the aliens plant the flowers, I don’t care—Patton, don’t cry, please—I’m sorry—”

“No!” Janus snapped. “You didn’t do anything wrong. I don’t care what he says. Don’t be sorry.”

“Janus, he’s crying!” Romulus gave Janus a horrified look.

“Well—” Janus struggled for a second. “Well, but that’s—about something else… I think…”

“Hey!” Logan shouted.

All three of the other Sides looked over at him, Patton startled out of his tears into silence.

“Do I have your attention now?” Logan demanded.

“Yes,” Romulus said. Janus nodded. Patton sniffled and wiped his nose on the back of his hand.

“Good.” Logan crossed his arms. “Patton. You are upset because you worry about Thomas doing bad things. Janus, you are upset because Patton said Thomas lying is a bad thing. Romulus, you are upset because the drawing got changed a very tiny bit. Is that right?”

“It was a big change!” Romulus protested.

“The drawing looks almost exactly the same as you planned it,” Logan countered. “The meaning is what changed. Inside Thomas’s head. The drawing is pretty much the same.”

”Well—well, the meaning is still part of it,” Romulus mumbled.

“But the drawing is literally almost the same as you planned at first. Correct?”

“I guess.” Romulus looked away.

“Good. So your idea for the art is still there and is being created. And the rest of what I said is also correct? About Janus and Patton?”

Janus nodded once.

“I think so,” Patton said, his voice still a little trembly. “I just—it’s so scary, all the stuff that can happen if Thomas is too bad, and—”

Logan held up a hand. “Stop, please. You are thinking too much about the things that scare you and that is making it worse. Also I don’t want to hear about it. It has nothing to do with me.” He frowned for a moment. “I think,” he said at last, “that for this, since Thomas changed his mind about what the drawing means, it is not lying to say that the aliens are planting flowers. Right?”

“Right,” Patton said slowly.

“Good. So you don’t need to argue with Janus about it anymore. And you can all be quiet. And I can read again. Right?” Logan looked at the three of them expectantly.

“Okay,” Patton agreed.

“Sure,” Romulus said.

Janus frowned. “Fine.” He turned on his heel and headed to his room, turning over the things Patton had said about lying, a smolder of anger banking itself up inside him.

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tranquil-space-ninja · 4 years

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I Wish (Prinxiety)

This goes out to everyone craving some Prinxiety like I am.

TW: mild panic, spoilers for the latest Asides, mention of a bad breakup

Part 2 here!

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“One more chance at happiness..... squandered.” Roman sighed, his expression going dark. “It’s probably for the best.” Virgil looked at Thomas, who was watching the cute guy walk away, then at Roman. He knew he needed to do something. Things hadn’t been great since the last episode, and this was the first time he had seen Roman truly excited about something in months. Virgil felt his breath quicken and his mind race, but he pushed his body toward Thomas and shoved him right towards the cutie.

And they began to talk. Virgil began to take deep breaths, zoning out a bit. Then he heard the cute guy speak.

“...My. Gosh. You should have just said hi!” Virgil and Roman froze.

“O-oh, yeah?” Thomas stuttered.

“Yeaah... I had writers block anyway.” Virgil smiled to himself as Thomas and the cutie, who’s name was apparently Nico Florres, continued their conversation. Now he could focus on his breathing. There was a lot of nervous laughter. Then, Nico smiled, picked up the Karrot King bag, and said, “Well, let’s not waste this one.” Roman’s eyes lit up and a wide, excited grin spread across his blushing face.

“Shut up.”

“Shut up!” Virgil turned to watch the scene before him. “Thank you.” Virgil turned to Roman, startled by his words.

“Uh, you’re welcome, I guess? In all honesty, I really don’t know what that was.” Roman stared at him, huffed a bit, and placed his hand on Virgil’s shoulder. Then he smiled softly, eyes shining, like he always did when they were dating. And, just like those old times, before Roman even knew Virgil’s name, Virgil’s stomach erupted with butterflies.

“Bravery.” Virgil’s face flushed, and he huffed a bit, flustered.

“What? No. I--I--”

“Shut up, emo,” Roman said affectionately. They turned to watch Thomas and Nico again, Roman’s hand still on Virgil’s shoulder.

***

Virgil smiled at Roman and Thomas. “I’m gonna head up to my room. I’ll see you guys later.” Thomas and Roman smiled and waved.

“Bye, Virgil!”

“See you soon, Gerard Gay!” Virgil chuckled and sunk out. He did love that particular nickname. He sighed as he flopped onto his bed, smiling at the ceiling. He then sat up and slid off the bed, then lifted the mattress. He pulled a small photo album off the slats and sat on the floor with it, flipping through the photos. He smiled at all the images of him and Roman together, holding hands, sharing gentle cheek kisses, and doing various romantic things in the Imagination. In all of them, he was wearing his old hoodie, and in a few of them, his eyeshadow was very sparkly purple. He’d almost forgotten it could do that.

He missed Roman. Their breakup had been pretty bad, and then they hadn’t really interacted for years before Virgil’s first appearance in Sanders’ Sides, though it still hurt every time he’d heard Roman mutter, “Ugh, this guy,” or, “I don’t like him,” under his breath. But things had gotten.... better. And today was proof of that. “I wish.....” Virgil whispered under his breath. What did he wish for? Roman back? Did he?

He could think of a million reasons why that couldn’t happen. Things were actually okay between them, and Virgil didn’t want to screw it up, he didn’t know if Roman and Janus were still a thing, he didn’t know if Roman missed him, too, and what’s to say that if he did, and they got back together, things wouldn’t end exactly the way they did before, and push Roman away from him forever, etc., etc.

“I wish....” What did he wish for?

***

Roman sighed, resting his head on his desk. He smiled as he thought about that afternoon at the mall. And Nico! Nico, Nico, Nico! He could see bright things in Thomas’s future. Romantic things. Roses. Kisses in the rain. Dinner in France. He glanced at the picture frame in front of him. It was laying upside down on its flat side. He turned it over and sat up. He studied the photo of him and Janus kissing under the door to his bedroom in the rain that night they went on a walk in the Imagination and Roman thought it would be romantic for them to be drenched. He removed that photo to reveal one of him and Virgil. Virgil was in his old hoodie, sleeping on Roman’s shoulder after a long day of getting Thomas through high school. He smiled. Those days had been the best. Virgil’s eyeshadow was often a brilliant, glittery purple like it was today. Roman had missed seeing it. He missed Virgil. “I wish,” Roman sang softly. What did he wish for? Virgil to come back? To try and fix all the mistakes they’d made when they were together?

He could think of a million reasons why that couldn’t happen. The one at the very front of his mind was that he and Janus hadn’t technically broken up yet. Even if they hadn’t spoken in five months. But the thing with that was, Janus called every night still. At first, he’d left long, teary voicemails apologizing endlessly and begging Roman to call back. He’d also texted Roman constantly, looking for some sort of reassurance that Roman was safe and taking care of himself. Roman had thought about texting him back and saying that he couldn’t talk to Janus right now, but that would mean he had to talk to him, and he couldn’t do that. Eventually, the texting stopped, and the voicemails turned into two sentence summaries of what had happened that day and a request that Roman call him back.

And, like clockwork, Roman’s phone rang, and, like he expected, it was Janus. He stared at it a moment, then sighed and picked it up.

“Hey,” he said.

“Roman, thank God you’re alive! But what the hell? Why didn’t you answer my calls? Or my texts? Couldn’t you have let me know you were at least safe, even if you weren’t really okay?”

“I didn’t think you cared that much,” Roman spat, anger rising in him. Mostly towards Janus, but also at himself, because even after five months, he wasn’t ready for this, and he knew that, but he had answered anyway. He sighed. “Look, Janus, I’m sorry, but I’m going to go now. I shouldn’t have taken your call.”

“Wait. Please.” Roman sighed, but stayed on the line. “I’m really, really sorry about what I said five months ago. I know how much you hate being compared to Remus, and I had no excuse to lash out the way I did, especially with the way things had been going.”

“I know,” Roman said. “But it doesn’t change anything.”

“I know.” Janus’s voice broke, and Roman felt tears welling up in his eyes. Wasn’t it enough that he cried himself to sleep every night? “What are we going to do now?” Roman hesitated.

“I--” He tried to hold back the tears, but they fell anyway. “I’m sorry, I--”

“Shh, don’t apologise. It’s okay. Call me when you’re ready, okay?”

“I don’t know if I’ll ever be. Bye, Janus.”

“Are you breaking up with me?”

“.... Yeah. I think so.”

“O-okay. I’ll see you around.” Roman hung up. He covered his face and sobbed. “I wish.” What did he wish for?

Across the hallway, Virgil and Roman both sat in their rooms, the emotions weighing them down indescribable. “I wish,” they both said at the same time, unbeknownst to them.

“I wish Virgil/Roman and I hadn’t broken up.”

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