#like i said in the original post it's most prominent in Takin On Anxiety

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What if Virgil used to be super loud and extra like the other dark sides but being in the videos in an unfamiliar environment with sides he didn't hang around with at all (and Thomas) made him like code switch to be more quiet and this dark angsty act became closer and closer to his real self as being treat like a nuisance and villain made him lose his dark side-esque confidence

In other words Virgil coming back from a video and the other 3 darks are like dude what's wrong why are you so quiet and standoffish all of a sudden????

Random thought: in Taking On Anxiety, Virgil acts much more like a typical villain or "dark side", he's confident and laid back throughout the episode. In the end card for the video he's like "if I didn't convince Thomas not to go to that party something bad could've happened" and Roman's like, "yeah he could've had fun or smth," Virgil responds to that with a loud and confident "YEAH!" before going "wait what," my new headcanon is that that's how he used to talk and act when he was hanging around Janus, Remus and Orange pre-canon, or that's how they used to talk and he's copying them (or both), he wasn't expecting a contradiction like that because he's lived around people who acted like that his whole life

The whole, "I just wanted to look out for him so I made him do it" makes me think of Janus specifically, which fills my momceit heart, imagine Virgil looking up to and copying him before they fell out