💭 squip!!🌈

patton – the tamest case! the amber tar barely effects him as much as the others besides ‘flu’-like symptoms (the virus gets mistaken for flu, adding to the fact it's almost undetectable.) despite logan experimenting on him + the other instances in rc involving him, he has the highest probability of surviving! but he still dies. so, whoops.

virgil – slightly worse than patton. he doesn't discover he has the amber tar until after research calls concludes. experiences the same symptoms, only slightly more straining and painful. he gets through it, though.

logan – has it from his research. he looked into bodies of people who died from the amber tar, (again) experimented on friends + family who already had it, etc. he's been the most exposed to the virus out of anybody, and because of that, his symptoms are naturally even worse than what the others had to deal with. he was on the borderline of dying earlier in the storyline because of just how awful the amber tar was affecting him! but of course, being a scientist... he found a way to keep going on longer. :-)

he does die again at the end of the story. whoops 2.0...

and 2(this will be roman's portion): yes (again!) roman is the very first case of a zombie with direct connections/roots from the amber tar. he doesn't become a full on dead hungry-for-brains kind of zombie, though! he's still perfectly conscious, aware of who he is and his memories, etc. additionally, roman already had the amber tar before he was 💥. after his death, where his body was left in the forest, the virus's cells and other functions within it began to essentially rebuild roman on its own–hence the zombie look! as to describe how he looks as a zombie; his veins are a neon orange, bones are stretched out of his skin (on his head, they resemble horns of some sort!), etc etc. I'll probably draw his design soon!

‘As he wrote the last word, dotted the last period, he turned over the photocard and stuck it in the corkboard. Even if he wasn't going to turn over the picture for another day, a month, a year, he'd still know what the back would read, clear in his handwriting.

6/4/███.

Subject Deceased.

– L’

context/tldr: logan stops roman and virgil from interfering with his research by essentially eliminating roman through virgil via brainwash (in detail: virgil brutally fights and shoots roman multiple times with logan's pistol.) the photocard in the art is what logan used to essentially remind himself that roman would no longer be a threat to his work anymore. ^u^

now for some logan hcs!

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logan was formed somewhere deeply rooted in thomas's mind. wires and plugs (which were actually veins and nerve endings and such) acted like a 3d printer of sorts, building up logan's organs, skeletal structure, facial features, etc, as thomas's logic and knowledge grew day by day. of course, eventually, logan would seperate from these connections and grow up as the side he is today, but there's still a section in his room dedicated to essentially resetting/rebooting himself with those same plugs and wires when his functions are significantly malfunctioning/when he's weaker after a long day (hence the title on the drawing itself!)

the square-like plates on his face from previous drawings are actually scars from different entry points for the plugs, which is also why they don't go away since they're reopened so often :-)

there's also risks and side effects from these ‘rebooting sessions.’ the most common being memory loss (usually short term.) most of the time, logan is able to quickly regain said lost memory, but there have been instances where he's forgotten places, facts, and even people in thomas's life that he'd have to essentially re-learn about before anything else.

I also imagine this connects with the orange side, where he knew its name, its appearances, etc: but after a reset, he completely forgot about it. and with how mysterious the orange side is now, he couldn't really get those lost memories of it back. (#hauntingthenarrative! who cheered!)

the plugs and wires are actually able to be used on the other sides for the same reasons (unstable functions, stress, etc.) but also have the same risk of memory loss. if used too strongly, or too much, they'll go back to square 1 of their development as a whole, which is why they don't use it as much as logan does.

extra: logan makes sure to lay out objects from his room on a table to quickly remember small details/habits/characteristics of himself, as also shown in the art ^^