Logan: Just... Explain to me how you do this.
Remus: Simple. Cinnamon? Delicious flavor. Not super strong like cloves. In my life I have never made anything too cinnamon-y. A lot of recipes fear spices, so you gotta use your own judgement.
Remus: 'That's close enough?' I measure with my heart is my answer, but in reality I'm a lazy bitch and don't want to measure out all those tablespoons and teaspoons and then wash all the extra dishes.
Remus: Salt? Salt doesn't make things salty until you add too much. When you add the right amount, it just makes things taste. It enhances the natural flavor. Almost always add salt.
Remus: Almond flour? Almond flour is literally finely ground almonds. As long as you don't accidentally make almond butter, you can totally make it yourself.
Remus: Adding cinnamon and chili powder to hot chocolate is how they do it sometimes in some places in Mexico, and frankly, it's delicious. I just add it to taste.
Logan: But how do you know?
Remus: Uh... Experience? Intuition?
Logan: I CAN'T LEARN THOSE!
Logan, in front of camera: Yeah, I'm good at baking because it's a science, I follow instructions exactly and get the desired outcome.
- (Flashback) -
Remus: A fourth teaspoon of cinnamon? You're fucking with me. What do you think this is, radioactive?
Remus: 1/6 cup? Eh, this'll be close enough
Remus: This frosting doesn't have salt? Seriously, the recipe's fucking with me. You can't have frosting without salt.
Remus: I'm out of almond flour for macarons? Eh, I'll grind my own
-
Interviewer: And how do you feel about Remus's baking always turning out better than yours?
Remus: *in background, putting cinnamon and chili powder in his hot chocolate*
Logan: *eye twitches* It's fine.
Logan, in front of camera: Yeah, I'm good at baking because it's a science, I follow instructions exactly and get the desired outcome.
- (Flashback) -
Remus: A fourth teaspoon of cinnamon? You're fucking with me. What do you think this is, radioactive?
Remus: 1/6 cup? Eh, this'll be close enough
Remus: This frosting doesn't have salt? Seriously, the recipe's fucking with me. You can't have frosting without salt.
Remus: I'm out of almond flour for macarons? Eh, I'll grind my own
-
Interviewer: And how do you feel about Remus's baking always turning out better than yours?
Remus: *in background, putting cinnamon and chili powder in his hot chocolate*
Logan: *eye twitches* It's fine.
Patton: *drops his hotdog in the dirt*
Patton: :(
Patton: *gets a new hotdog*
Remus: Don't waste a perfectly good hotdog
Remus: *washes the hotdog in the nearby creek and cooks it*
Remus: Here
Patton: ...No thanks I'm good
Remus: Okay
Remus: *eats hotdog*
Virgil, Roman: *horror*
Logan: Don't worry, he cooked it, it's perfectly safe
Virgil: WHAT IF IT WASN'T??
Roman: I know that, but WTF, REMUS?
Janus: *watches and laughs and christens it The River Dog*
Patton: *now brings it up every camping trip*
If there was a Sander Side Themed The Road To El Dorado, these are the best pairings I can think of (ignoring the ships it implies)—
Roman as Miguel, Logan as Tulio, Janus as Chel
Remus as Miguel, Janus as Tulio, Virgil/Dark!Logan as Chel
And if I had to put them all as characters—
Janus: Chel (master of deception, the entire reason Miguel and Tulio get away with their lives, the only one in the trio with a braincell count in the double digits)
Logan: Speaker For The Gods dude (was adhering to the rules/lore that had been written, tried to bring down the liars who dared to impersonate gods by going batshit evil, 'being feared is the only way you can get them to respect you')
Remus: The King (sharp enough to notice Miguel and Tulio are only human, goofy enough to let them pretend to be gods because it's really raising his people's spirits and they got rid of The Speaker For The Gods, his rival)
Roman: The Horse (he's just along for the drama, baby)
Patton: Miguel (nice, friendly, hates that the villagers are scared of him, doesn't have a voice in his head, no braincells just a himbo)
Virgil: Tulio (wants to finish the plan and get out, much more anxious than Miguel, comes up with all the excuses to get them out of trouble, has like seven braincells but not all of them work at the same time)
THE BOYS HAVE BEEN BEANED!
A video with a closeup of them
The boys are finished! I'm so happy with them :D
Patterns: cut
Colors: matched
Bois: pinned together
Reference boi: ready
Special eyes for the special boi: Ready
Eating Crofter's and yeah, I finally get Logan shoveling it in his mouth right from the jar, this shit SLAPS
Logan: I saw online today, someone freaking out about how you bake cookies and cook bacon.
Janus: Yeah, I never got that whole thing. I mean, you bake bacon.
Logan: ...Pardon?
Janus:
Janus: Do
Janus: Do you
Janus: Do you not bake bacon in the oven on a cookie sheet
Logan: No?? You fry it??
Janus: But it gets so crispy and nice ?? Why would you fry it???
Logan: *looks to Remus*
Remus: Don't look at me, I've had Janus's bacon. It's superior.
Logan: But that's not how it's done??? No bacon recipe says to bake it?
Janus: Oh I don't follow recipes exactly
Logan: But thEY'RE RULES
Janus: I mean recipes are really just suggestions when you have enough experience
Logan: (head explodes because oh my god everything Janus makes tastes so good and he's not even using recipes—)
Logan. "Why don't you believe ghosts are real?"
Janus. "I've never seen one."
Logan. "Okay, I mean, there's a lot of things that you can't see that you— that are real."
Janus. "What can't I see?"
Logan. "You can't see gravity, that's real."
Janus. "Yeah, I can drop an apple."
Logan. "Fuck."
I feel like that could be for a few reasons, these are the ones that make the most sense to me:
1. Logan's speaking for the fans, as Apollo is the god of prophecy/oracles, and we're definitely wishing there was more orange side stuff especially considering it was 'prophesied' by the fans that Logan and the Orange side would be connected/Logan would be the Orange side
2. Logan's referring to how Apollo is the god of truth/knowledge and Logan (truth/knowledge) was really ignored that episode
3. Apollo, being the 'averter of evil,' could have kept Remus at bay
4. Apollo, being the god of healing/health, could have helped C!Thomas's mental state
Bonus, kind of joking, kind of not:
5. The orange side's name is Apollo and Logan knows him
6. Logan is referring to himself because Apollo is the hottest god (pun intended)
But since Apollo is the god of just about everything it's gonna be really hard to know what he meant until Thomas tells us
Does anyone have any thoughts on the line “If only Apollo had more influence today” ?
Im just slightly confused by it…. Aphrodite makes sense to reference as the goddess of love, but why Apollo? Music and the sun and archery and healing and stuff? Why is that the god Logan chooses to reference? I might just be missing something obvious lol
Patton. "I wonder what's in that closet. Nope, don't even check."
Remus. "I'll check. What if I open this and a thousand rattlesnakes jump out?"
Patton. "Then I'm gonna run."
Remus. "Alright. Let's boogie, boys!" (Opens closet.) "It's a mattress. And dirt."
(Later)
Patton. "What's in this one?"
Remus. "This is fun, because now you have to open this door, because I opened that one. What if you pick the wrong one and there's like a, a clown with a decaying face in there?"
Patton. (Mocking) "'What if you pick the wrong one and there's a fucking clown with a decaying face in there?'"
Logan. "Open the door. Stop joking."
Patton. (Pause) "What if— Okay, I'm running, just letting you know."
Remus. Oh my god.
Janus. What?
Remus. It's a fucking dead bird.
Janus. What? Oh, that's an omen, or something.
Patton. Why is there a dead bird in here?
Logan. There was probably a live bird in here and then something happened that made it dead.
Remus. Oh. Great analysis, doc. Oh Jesus, it's all rotted and it's eyes are gone, this is horrifying.
Logan. Well, its eyes aren't gonna stick around.
Remus: Is doing pretty well, has continued to stab needles and sewing scissors into his eyes so his workspace is a bit bloody, you can tell he is making an octopus though
Virgil: Refuses to use a sewing machine because it scares him (a very reasonable fear), uses thimbles, it's slow and clumsy but he makes a pretty cool stuffed stormcloud in the end
Patton: Is doing surprisingly well! He keeps stabbing his fingers with needles on accident and drawing blood (not much though), he ends up with a cute little blob frog that's definitely friend-shaped
Logan: He watched Janus sew once and immediately got the hang of it. He made a stuffed cube. It is a perfect cube. None of them know how he did this. He can't thread a needle to save his life though, he has to keep asking Janus to do it for him
Roman: Was crying because he tried something much too complicated and failed and Janus had to gently coax him back to the workspace and help him make a simpler design and assure him he wasn't a failure and the second design turned out and he was really happy with it and thanked Janus for not giving up on him and Janus just gave him a little smile
Logan: And 85 grams of dark molasses.
Patton: Molasses!
Logan: Or black treacle if you don't know what molasses are.
Roman: Looks like a jar of your soul, Virge.
Virgil: Aw, thank you, Princey. That is honestly all I aspire to.
Patterns: cut
Colors: matched
Bois: pinned together
Reference boi: ready
Special eyes for the special boi: Ready
Logan: "A pinch of salt." (grates it into Patton’s hand)
Patton: "Ah! I'm gonna throw it over my shoulder. Which one is it? Left or right?"
Logan: "I don't know—"
Patton: "Left!" (throws it over left shoulder)
Roman: "What happens if you get that wrong?"
Virgil: "I don't know. You kill God or something."
Roman: (laugh)
Virgil: "One's the devil, I know that much."
Logan: "Wow. Don't wanna make that mistake, do you?"
Who else is ready for Logan to go absolutely feral? Who's ready for Logan to just say, 'I'm done being nice, screw it, I'm evil now'?
I'm ready for this scientist to go mad. He's earned it. They ignore him too much, and they're going to realize how horrible of an idea that was.
Oh my GOD so
1. Someone FINALLY recognized that as a part of Thomas, Remus has to have importance!!!
2. Real life Nico!!
3. Logan dumping out his coffee and replacing it with wine? ICONIC
4. HIS EYES! We were all right!!! I think!! Logan's gonna get mad and go dark so Thomas pays attention to him and become the orange side!! I literally made Logan's eyes orange in one of my dark side Logan aus! And he's definitely a dark side because of Remus's 'now you're speaking my language'!!
5. The end! Virgil chilling in the roots of a tree, Janus, the snake with the apple, up in the branches, assuring that 'everything is just fine'
6. Logan trying to understand the others while they constantly brush him off!!
7. The orange eyes at the very end!!
8. REMUS AND LOGAN CONTENT!!!
9. ALL THE SIDES TOGETHER IN ONE EPISODE!
10. ORANGE SIDE CONTENT
11. REALLY GOOD ADVICE FOR DEALING WITH INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS THAT I REALLY NEEDED RIGHT NOW
12. SHOWING REMUS'S WORK PROCESS
13. REMUS BEING ALLERGIC TO S O A P
14. THE ENTIRE THING
Do you take headcanon requests? If you do I have one.
Headcanon request: The sides if a girl (maybe a stranger who thinks they look safe) asks them to hold her drink while she goes to the bathroom at like a party or something?
Absolutely, I think you're asking for their individual reactions (tell me if I'm misunderstanding) so here we go—
Roman: *guards drink with his life, glares at anyone who gets near it, is very over-the-top*
Janus: I'm a stranger. Why would you ask me to watch your drink? You should just forget about this one and get a new one once you're back so you know for certain it's safe. Or don't drink at parties. You never know who you can trust.
Remus: Yeah sure *sets it on top of head, holding onto it still* No one can reach it up here
Patton: Oh of course! You go ahead I've gotcha
Logan: No. You shouldn't give a stranger your drink. I could drug it for all you know. Take it with you, leave it with a friend, or get a new one after.
Virgil: Uhhh
Virgil, internally: Oh god what if I accidentally drug it?? I don't have any drugs but what if I do? I'd go to prison! I could hurt her!
Virgil: *shoves Roman in front of him* He can watch it!
Roman, having recovered: Okay, so I didn't catch Virgil, but someone else has to listen to embarrassing music. Let me think...
Roman: So, Remus and Patton don't get embarrassed about that stuff. I doubt Logan listens to music with words anyway. So... What, D— Janus? What does he even listen to?
Roman: (imagines Janus sitting at a table sipping tea while a classical waltz plays in the background)
Roman: I mean, that might be worse than dancing, especially if he's alone.
Meanwhile, in the dark side:
Remus:
Janus:
Both:
Janus:
Remus:
Both:
(I wrote down who actually said the quote if it wasn't him)
(Yeah, you fell off the wagon.)
Remus: "Fell off the wagon? I dragged that wagon into the woods and burned it."
Janus: "I should go get some cheese do go into all the whine in here."
(Where'd you hear that?)
Janus: "Like every movie ever."
Remus: "You just sprinkle some lime over it— lime could cover the scent of a dead body."
Logan (my brother): "And lye could dissolve it."
Virgil: "I love it up here. Like, here is like where you can sprinkle my ashes."
Roman: "(County)? I– That's where I go hunting for antelope. There's like six people and four skunks that live there."
Janus: "He was talking to the chairman of the committee of bullshit."
Patton: "A platypus looks like a beaver ran into a duck."
Roman: "Oh yeah— Do I still need to impress you?"
Virgil (my mother): "Every day until we die."
Remus: "Even a blind pig finds an acorn in its shit every once in a while."
Patton, completely unprompted: "You ever seen a pig in a french fry hat?"
Janus: "Milford, Nebraska: Where the men are men and sometimes the women are too."
Patton, severely allergic to bees (my mother): "Ah! Close it! There are bees in it!"
Remus, holding jar of honey: "It's fresh!"
Also, to be more lighthearted—
Roman/Remus: Please convince Thomas to do a Minecraft letsplay series sometime. Also please ask Patton why he asked what a ship was/to show you some of that 'neato artwork and writing.'
Janus: Only answer the ones you're comfortable with: How many arms can you have? (Like is six the max?) Are your scales only on your face? Do the gloves serve a purpose other than a fashion statement/symbolism? Where did you get your hat?
Patton: Please, please, please tell the other sides about ships (if you haven't). It would be funny!
Logan: Please teach me more about psychology. If you don't have time then please just tell me what books/texts you have so I can read them.
Virgil: (I'd swap playlists with him. His taste in music seems close to mine. I'd also ask what other Disney movies he recommends because I watched The Black Cauldron and loved it.)
Roman: We appreciate you. Not everything you make has to be the work of Adam (Driver). It's okay to mess up. You aren't just Thomas's hero; you're the hero of a lot of fans too.
Orange: TBD. (Right now, 'Come out, come out, wherever you are!')
Janus: Thank you. Also, I think your name is awesome.
Remus: You aren't evil. You're just as important as the other sides.
Patton: It's okay to say 'I don't know.' You aren't supposed to have all the answers. You aren't letting anyone down.
Logan: I listen when you're talking, and I learn from you, and I know a lot of other fans do. You can show your emotions, we know you have them. We'll always take you seriously.
Virgil: We love you. You've never been the villain— you've always been looking out for Thomas's safety.
(I know some of them aren't really 'one thing' shh)
(I know Remus is as important as everyone else because @thatsthat24 doesn't make one-dimensional sides. All the sides are like onions: they have several layers and once they're revealed you usually start crying)
Roman, in the tune of Uptown Funk: I'm too hot!
Logan: *gets up and turns down the heat*
Roman, internally: Yeah, okay, I guess he doesn't know that song
The next day—
Remus, in the tune of Uptown Funk: I'm too hot!
Logan, looking Roman dead in the eyes: Hot damn.
Roman: *gasp*
[Virgil, quietly: Guess we know who Logan's favorite twin is...]
...Is this showing who each other's counterpart is?
Because intrusive thoughts can be incredibly immoral, anxiety defies all logic, and creativity/expressing yourself can be stifled by your need to keep yourself safe...
Or am I overthinking everything haha
logan and virgil with the jacket…… roman and janus with the lipstick………………. if patton and remus share something im gonna lose it
Roman: Threw himself down a staircase
Orange: Kissed Logan years after they broke apart their mutually toxic relationship
Janus: Fell off a cliff (and just barely caught himself)
Remus: Made a painting with his own blood
Patton: Agreed to go on a long hike with his friends when he's never been able to before (and was out of breath by the top of the first hill and had to be carried by Remus)
Logan: Realized wayyy too late that Remus (his best friend and previous roommate) and Roman (his friend and current roommate) were brothers
Edit: I remembered Logan got high and followed a hallucination off a cliff (into water luckily), so I think that's dumber XD
Virgil: Met Roman and in less than a minute, in his second sentence spoken to him, called him out for self-harming
Logan: Let me get this straight—
Patton: Good luck with that!
Logan: You made a two-layer lemon cake.
Patton: Yes.
Logan: It is not vegan or gluten-free, only dairy-free. It has eggs and wheat.
Patton: Yes.
Logan: Your mother is allergic to gluten, your brother is vegan and doesn't like lemon, your father isn't a huge fan of desserts.
Patton: Yes.
Logan: So you made an entire two-layer cake that only you can eat.
Patton: Yes.
Logan: And you made it how long ago?
Patton: Yesterday.
Logan: And you've eaten how much?
Patton: Half.
Logan: ...How.
Patton:
Logan: Just wrote 'he had sawn it coming.' To bed with me
Janus: At least that's pronounced differently.
Logan: Just wrote offly instead of awfully. Can you tell I'm exhausted?
Janus: Yes, because this is a verbal conversation so I don't have any idea what you're talking about.
Logan: ...
Logan: I'm going to bed.
Janus: Good choice.
(There is a see-through glass shower door unless otherwise specified)
Virgil: Have you seen my headphones?
Patton: I haven't, sorry kiddo, I’ll tell you if I see them
Virgil: Thanks
Virgil: Have you seen my headphones?
Logan: No. I will inform you if I do.
Virgil: Thanks
Virgil: Have you se— Roman?
Roman, frozen:
Virgil: Um, hey? You alright?
Roman: *squeak*
Roman: *falls over*
Virgil: ...Well we don't have time to unpack all of that *sinks out*
Virgil: H—
Janus: No, whatever you're going to ask, I don't, I haven’t, whatever, the answer is no. Now will you people let me soak in peace?
Virgil: *hiss*
Janus: *hisses back*
Virgil: Have you seen my headphones?
Remus, fully clothed, thoughtfully: I had headphones once. They were crunchy.
Virgil: …Please tell me you didn't eat my headphones.
Remus: No, I don't like the black flavor.
Virgil, used to this: Alright
(There is a see-through glass shower door unless otherwise specified)
Janus: Where'd you put my hat?
Roman, having hung a towel over the glass shower door, knowing this would happen: I don't know what you mean.
Janus: You know I can tell when you're lying, right?
Roman, smugly: Yep.
Janus: Where’d— oh, god, sorry— *sinks out*
Patton, blushing red from head to toe, whispering: Did that just happen?
Janus: Where— nope— *sinks out*
Logan: ?
Janus: Where’d Roman put my hat?
Virgil, invisible behind a black shower curtain: *hiss*
Janus: *hisses back*
Janus: Did Roman tell you where he put my hat?
Remus, for once not wearing clothes like a normal person: No. I still think he took my morning star.
Janus: Hm. *starts to sink out*
Remus: Wh— wait! Is that it?
Janus: This isn’t a porn, Remus. I asked you a question, now I leave.
Remus: It could be…
Janus: No. It literally can’t.
Remus, sighing: I saw it in the freezer.
Janus: Thank you.
Remus, getting a new idea: If you get it out now, it might take a minute to defrost.
Janus: You’re stubborn, you know that?
Remus: :(
Janus: I’ll be right back
Remus: :D
(There is a see-through glass shower door unless otherwise specified)
Remus: Have you seen my morning star?
Patton: I’m afraid not, kiddo.
Remus: Have you seen my morning star?
Logan: No, get out of my bathroom
Remus: Alright
Remus: Hey Ro—
Roman: *unholy shrieking*
Remus: *shrieks as well*
Both: *shrieking*
Remus: Have you seen my morning star?
Janus, soaking in the bathtub, without convenient bubbles, as snakes do, though it's nothing Remus hasn't seen before: You probably lost it in your room.
Remus: I already checked
Remus: ...Can I—
Janus: No, you can't join me, get out
Remus: :(
Janus: You did this to yourself, you’re the one who decided to put soap in here
Remus: Once!
Janus: I was coughing bubbles for a week!
Remus: How was I supposed to know you drank through your skin?!
Janus: You aren't, you’re just not supposed to mess with the water!
Remus: Have you seen my morning star?
Virgil, invisible behind a black shower curtain: Go fuck yourself.
Remus: Understandable, have a great day
(There is a see-through glass shower door unless otherwise specified)
Logan: Have you seen my puzzle book?
Patton, face pink, because he’ll never get used to this: No…
Logan: Roman—
Roman: *unholy shrieking*
Logan: Have you seen my puzzle book?
Roman: *still shrieking*
Logan: I’m taking that as a no.
Logan: Have you happened to see my puzzle book?
Janus, soaking in the bathtub, unfortunately without convenient bubbles, as snakes do: No. I’ll tell you if I do.
Logan, unfazed: Great, thank you.
Logan: Remus, I don't suppose you’ve seen my puzzle book?
Remus, showering fully clothed: But you do suppose, or you wouldn't have asked.
Logan: Error. Logan.exe has stopped working.
Logan: Vir— this is my puzzle book! You had it?
Virgil, invisible behind a black shower curtain: Oh… Sorry…
Logan: I respected your privacy for this long, please respect mine.
Virgil, internally: Dude wtf I’m literally showering??