#protective patton

[loganslowdown4]

Remus: Hey Poptart! Are you wearing makeup?? You shouldn’t cover your freckles up, they’re cute as hell—

Patton: Oh! Ah well I guess my freckles just fade in winter? I’m not wearing makeup so-

Remus:…. I— see.

*later*

Remus: *beating the snow angrily with a shovel* GIVE HIM HIS FRECKLES BACK YOU BITCH-

[mono-socke]

random (old) sanders sides things bc i do still love them

[yerkes-dodson-curve]

Patton makes bracelets

Headcannon Patton makes all of the sides friendship bracelets they have a colour representing each of them and look like an 8 year old made them BUT he makes sure to hand-give them out to everyone with like the biggest smile :3

Logan and Virgil would seem unimpressed but wear it religiously, every day, no matter what. Roman would wear it every day but lose it after about 2 weeks. Janus would say "thank you SO much, I'm so impressed by the fine craftsmanship, I can tell you spent SO long on it" and wear it around is ankle every day. Patton never finds out he still wears it all the time. Remus eats it the second Patton turns around.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

high as fuck outside in the snow explaining how patton and janus are narrative foils

[halfhissandwich]

Let me know if you guys wanna read the whole ass essay I wrote about c!Thomas being afraid of Patton /hj

[ask-nico-and-the-sides]

Because Nico Has A Crush On Thomas, Does This Mean He Also Has A Crush On The Sides As Well? Or Is It Completely Different Since They're Only Aspects Of Thomas' Personality And Also Have Their Own?

Nico: Anyway, yeah. I… I do have feelings for the sides. Most of them anyway. They’re just factors of Thomas’ personality personified, so it’s all still him.

Nico: But for some reason���

[delimeful]

Lime lime lime I’m obsessed with so many of your stories. But also what is everyone’s approximate ages in tktsaaiw ? I’m so thinking about it

i don't have specific set ages from them, but i've personally been envisioning them as in their twenties, and not all that far apart from each other. i do know that patton's the oldest (group dad), roman is the youngest, and logan has been in space the longest.

[an-organized-confusion]

A structural note about the Begotten!AU fic is keeping things limited omniscient to the perspectives of the Espinozas. So the POVs overhang Roman, Remus, Carrie, and Vic's shoulders. (I call it tank controls.)

Glimpses at Janus, Virgil, Logan, and Patton's interiorities are what they willingly furnish and accidentally let slip. Which is real fun, given most of these guys are closed books about a lot of stuff...

Janus's Hunger is Secrets. Queen of "Cards to the Snitties Chest".

Virgil has a shitton of baggage.

Logan is just too focused on his studies/work to be 100% emotionally available...

... except for Patton, but, he's like a damn 10 year old.

Not an ordinary and sometimes unnerving 10 year old, but still a 10 year old. Only real thing obfuscating that inner world to others is his simpler vocab, as far as anyone around him knows. :,D

(I'm not gonna spoil what Pat's deal is.)

[sanders-sides-uncorrect-quotes]

:D

I've just thought long and hard about this in the shower so I have more thoughts

I think Virgil would be WAY scarier than he is in canon season 1 if he was a season 2 villain, his voice is almost always doubled (what's it called, Tempest Tongue or smth), he has his spider eyes and legs on full display. I imagine his two moods would be at either 0 or 100. He's either standing completely silent in the dark corner (he can canonically control shadows so I think he'd do that alot in this) staring at you with vacant eyes (I imagine his way of dealing with Remus' and Orange's chaos was to just dissociate from it) or he's screaming

Or in other words his two moods are "I need to kill everyone in this room right now" and "I need to kill myself right fucking now"

In a kind of sad way I don't think his character development would go far past the way he acts in the very first few episodes he's in in the show. Happy purple Virgil basically wouldn't exist

Also yes when I was writing that point I was imagining Accepting Deceit being both funny as fuck and depressing. The situations Thomas gets himself into when he can't lie would be so goofy. Janus is also Thomas's self preservation (iirc I haven't watched the episodes in a little while lol) so that would also go to pot which would be the nail in the coffin for the main 3 of ok we have to get the snake back

I think Virgil's introduction episode would begin with Thomas having the worst panic attack of his life. Virgil's need to help and protect him battles with his absolute burning hatred of the core 4 (especially Janus)

I saw a few posts floating around about an AU where Janus is introduced first instead of Virgil and is the one to get accepted first and tbh I absolutely love that idea and I may have to draw something for it

Janus gets to sing in the song Lies like he wishes he did in canon

He was the one who kept the other darks hidden and slowly let them out so it'd be interesting to see him trying to do that whilst being a recognised good guy, sure he has 6 arms but is 2 enough to hold each dark side at bay when he's not there?

If he ducks out there'd have to be a montage in the first part of Thomas going around and telling the truth about everything and it making his life start to crumble

Janus leaves the dark in the same way Virgil does after AA

Without him there the dark side is basically in anarchy

I imagine Orange to be Wrath/Rage/Anger/smth like that, so I imagine without Janus there he'd just be screaming and throwing stuff around nearly 24/7

Remus' is somehow even more unhinged

Being left alone to deal with those two maniacs (mentioned just above) leads to Virgil basically going insane and hating Janus even more than he does in canon because he used to be the one to calm down the other two (I imagine he and Virgil used to sip coffee together whilst watching Remus and Orange fight in the living room)

Even though Virgil is terrified of him, he forms a very shaky friendship with Remus and they bond over their what-ifs and pain over Janus

Janus is so focused on his friendships with the lights and Thomas that he lets his guard down for a moment and that leads to the dark sides to start rebelling (not sure which one would be revealed first, my gut says Virgil but maybe it'd be cool to leave him til later)

I'm super curious of what Virgil would be like as a villain introduced in season 2, how he would look, if he would still be called Anxiety or something else like Paranoia (which I think could be fitting if he was introduced later on like I said in the last point)

After Accepting Anxiety in canon Patton and Virgil formed a familial-like bond, in this AU Patton and Janus are more marriage-coded

Janus and Virgil's dynamic is a very obviously one-sided hatred. Virgil looks ready to jump at him and rip his head off whilst Janus looks at Virgil with pure grief and regret (because there's absolutely no way that Virgil will trust him ever again, at least in his eyes)

[ssslimyboy]

Roman: I'm immune to mean and hurtful words because Patton says nice things to me every day and his love protects me.

Remus: I'm immune to mean and hurtful words because Janus says mean things to me every day, so I'm prepared.

[let-roman-bite-someone]

overlooked scenes in sanders sides episodes that i really like pt. 1

roman knowing that the spiders in the curtains are fake but still being willing to protect patton from them 😭 their dynamic is so underrated

[analoceits]

im bored. who wants my ideas for sanders sides fusions?

logan and virgil: forethought. probably fuses whenever thomas needs a plan ASAP. hes the one who plans ahead, thinks up every possible scenario and then what to do. owns a terrifying amount of red string. i think he would also control toms reflexes. ranty and intense.

virgil and roman: hope/spite. they have two fused forms for different situations. hope is for when thomas is at his lowest and needs to get back up. very soothing, gruff but warm. spite is for when thomas has been knocked down and needs to get back up. full of fucking rage.

patton and janus: repression. fused when he was younger and not out yet, only fuses when its an emergency nowadays. he is a major part of keeping thomas safe. if there is something he cant safely express, its his job to hide it a way. hes cold but just warm enough to not be offputting. very mature and calm.

logan and remus: morbidity. strangely, only fuses in calm scenarios; when thomas is willing to explore his darker throughts. oddly cool in his fascination towards dark things, would probably disect himself if he could.

patton and virgil: guilt. fuses mostly late at night. cries a lot. can never do something even close to wrong without immediately trying to make up for it. cares deeply abt others, a mix of virgils fierce protectiveness and pattons lovey dovey nature.

virgil and janus: desperation. fuses in the worst case. utterly terrifying. can and will do anything to protect thomas from threats. has 0 sense of morals and will do things that arent forgiveable. feral and deeply aggressive at all times. his gloves are always bloodstained. janus and virgil cant look at themselves or each other after being him for a long time.

[fanderficreader]

you can also thank ice age for that!

cThomas: *lovestruck sigh*

Patton: I know what you’re feeling Thomas! The L word-

Remus: Yeah! Leprosy!

Patton: No, no no, it’s four letters, it starts with L and ends with E!

Remus: Oh right! LICE!

[the-chorus-of-voices-collective]

This may feel a bit random. But I just want to say to everyone who struggles with hypersexuality, especially if its due to trauma. Its okay. You're okay. You're not dirty or disgusting or unlovable or broken or however you may feel when all is said and done. You were simply hurt and you continue to hurt. But that's understandable. Its not fair and its not fun. But its how youve coped with your past experiences no matter what they may be. And you can't be too hard on yourself when all your brain is trying to do is protect you, crossed wires and all. Be kind to yourself, please.

-Patton (he/she)

[halfhissandwich]

The bruised ego and broken heart taking some time to cheer up after a hard day 🥹

(you cannot take my headcanon of literal cracks appearing on Patton’s skin after c!Thomas experiences heartbreak away from me)

[ask-nico-and-the-sides]

Awe, Roman being a protective goober, a Rosey Knight, for Virge.