Florida Man Cannot Be Contained
Fandom: Sanders Sides
Pairings: platonic dlampr
Summary: Contrary to popular belief, Remus is not the menace of the friend group.
It's Patton.
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The six of them were hanging out for the first time.
More accurately, Logan had recently been absorbed into Virgil's friend group.
They've had classes together over a few semesters. Logan's majoring in Chemical Engineering, and Virgil's majoring in Forensic Science, so there's some overlap and a lot of shared interests. While he appreciated Virgil's clever-streak and conversational merit, Logan never would have offered to spend time together outside of the classroom. He convinced himself he didn't need extracurriculars, like friendship.
"Come meet my friends, nerd," Virgil ordered after class one day.
And that was that.
On their way to a pizza joint outside of campus, Logan observed the others. They were loud, obnoxious, flamboyant, and below his intelligence. His mother would never approve.
Logan vindictively liked them.
"Oh my gosh, I love your new bag, Janus!"
"Thank you, it's Prada."
"I didn't know they sold Prada at Goodwill."
"....they do now."
Virgil maneuvered himself to be his social buffer. He kept close by Logan's elbow, and muttered meanings to inside jokes and slang to him when Logan so much as raised a brow. At some point, he stopped in his tracks.
"What is it?" Logan asked, halting beside him. The rest of the group drifted slowly past them, the gait of their walk unhurried. Everyone was too busy enjoying gossiping.
Except Patton. He had this wild look in his eyes and he began to shuffle off the sidewalk. His lips pressed together tight as if he were holding back a grin.
"Patton, man, don't," Virgil told him, but Patton wasn't looking at him. He stole glances at Roman, making sure that the other was too caught up in conversation with his brother to pay attention to him. He took a few steps to the right into the grass near a house. Then he took off.
Roman, catching on too late, noticed the man run with a strange mixture of dawning horror and exasperated suffering. "Pat– Patton. Pat, please– don't you DARE, GET BACK HERE!" He tossed his bag to Remus halfway through and took off in a dead sprint.
"What is happening?" Logan asked.
"Patton's a lunatic," Virgil sighed. Janus sighed as well and Remus spurred Patton on with whoops.
Patton hightailed it into the backyard of the random house and unceremoniously belly flopped into the pool. Roman jumped in right behind, barely pausing to shuck off his shoes in time, the sneakers flying through the air.
"Does he often trespass?" Logan questioned. "I'm not bothered, just curious."
"Only when there are pools involved. He does it so Roman will save him."
"Why would he need saving?"
"The idiot can't swim."
Out in the pool, Logan can make out some of Roman's nonplussed yelling after he resurfaced with an armful of Patton. Patton, for his part, seemed endlessly pleased with himself.
"My hero!" Patton gushed and began fawning over Roman, much to his chagrin.
Then the homeowner came out and Janus concocted an outlandish story consisting of how Patton fell into the pool totally by accident.
"This is the third time this week," the homeowner accused.
"And to that I say..." Janus paused. He took off his hat, held it to his chest, opened his mouth to elaborate–
And ran the fuck away.
"There he goes," Remus whistles. "How I hate to see it, how I love to watch it."
Roman sat at the pool's edge, arms resting on his knees and absolutely soaked. "You're grounded," he told Patton sitting beside him.
Patton beamed with pride. Virgil tried to hide behind his hands.
"Please just leave," the homeowner requested.
They quickly made themselves scarce.
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*in an alternate April 13th, 2019*
All Sides: *burst into Janus’ room* SURPRISE!
Janus: AAAAHHHHH WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?? Go away! Leave me alone!
Patton: No Jan, listen, after much deliberation, we decided to take Thomas to the callback today after all!
Patton: *whispers to Logan* Was that the right word?
Logan: *nods*
Janus: What? Really? Are you all serious??
Patton: Yep! Let’s just get in the car and go!
*they all pile in and drive to Burger King*
All: SURPRISE!
Janus: Ok, what the hell is this?
Logan: *ahem* Patton wanted to have a little dinner for you here as a surprise. In appreciation for you trying to protect Thomas as we all do. He also thought you’d appreciate the deception, as that’s your, um, ‘thing’—
Janus: I see. *to Patton* Thank you. You lying successfully is actually a huge gift to me. *grins* It must have been very hard for you to say all that—
Patton: It was! But it’s no lie that we love and appreciate you!
Janus: And to you that meant treating me to… Burger King?
Patton: Only the best for our pal!
Janus: Uh huh. Well, not that I don’t appreciate this but… weren’t we supposed to go to the wedding this evening?
Logan:
Roman:
Virgil:
Remus:
Patton: Oh… shit.
Janus: *grins* Even better gift than surprise burgers. Profanity from Patton.
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High school soulmate AU where you have the name of your soulmate’s best friend on your wrist, and every Side considers Patton to be their best friend
Roman has known Patton since forever and they made a promise in second grade to be best friends forever
Subsequently, Remus had also known Patton for forever, and Patton is Remus’s only friend who doesn’t encourage him to do bad things and then abandon him he gets caught
Logan is the king of debate club, but the only person who doesn’t think he’s a cold asshole is the boy who’s really bad at debate but is always encouraging everyone to “have fun out there”
Virgil is a loner emo, but that guy who sits next to him at lunch every day and gives him homemade cookies has endeared himself to Virgil forever
Janus is the ASB President, and appears to have tons of friends, but he would stab each and every one of them in back if he had to, and he fully expects them to do the same, except for the ASB secretary, who is a literal ray of sunshine and probably doesn’t even know where babies come from
Anyway, chaos (and probably polyamory) ensues as they all try to figure out who their soulmates are
(I don’t know who Patton’s best friend would be, maybe Roman since they promised as children)
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What your favourite ship says about you (part 2)
(just my opinion)
Logicality: This was probably the first ship you ever discovered in the fandom. You still like it, and that's pretty cool. You probably find intense comfort in the ship, due to relating to either Patton or Logan, and knowing that there is an opportunity and possibility for you to be loved in that way
LAMP: You probably have a lot of things you're doing on the side that you constantly forget about. You definitely started writing a novel/book at one stage but that is long forgotten. You 100% listen to MCR
Anxceit: Janus and Virgil and definitely your two favourites, hence why you ship them. You adore the chaos
Dukexiety: You think that the fact they have the best colour scheme is indicative of the fact they are the best ship. You enjoy Tim Burton movies, Halloween is your favourite holiday, and you are definitely chaotic and make a lot of sex jokes
Royality: You spend your free times fantasising about the day you will go on a date with someone. You like the ship because you feel those two are the most compatible, and it makes you feel happy and intense butterflies. You've never been given flowers before
RemRom: You ship as a joke. Please say it's a joke. Please God, please.
Intruality: You've taken opposites attract to a whole new level. You're really confident (or at least, really good at faking it), and don't enjoy mainstream things. You prefer DreamWorks to Disney
DRLAMP/DLAMPR (with platonic RemRom): You adore the idea that all the angst and shit that has happened in canon was all just an act, and that all the sides actually get along really well and have huge cuddle piles whilst watching movies. You've definitely got some form of parental issues, had to grow up quickly and deal with things by compartmentalising
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