#gots rambles

And so I was already there in my art app so i started lining one sketch and then took a break and then tried w/ another pic and that one's lineart worked and then i spent 4 hours coloring it and lining it and then I lined two more and theres one sketch left unlined and wow does hyperfixation have a way of triggering autopilot bc I had no intention of turning each of them into even fully digitalized pieces but apparently thats happening too

Cue Virgil laughing and chasing Remus around with his own mace staff, threatening to wack the wild earth god with it while said gremlin of a god is cackling. Roman is also laughing but also watching them adoringly bc he loves his chaotic family. He gets a good wack w/ a pillow in on remus when his bro isnt expecting it, and more cackling laughter follows.

But like. The simplest answer I can come up with is that all the daytime gods usually rest at night or the sunset period and virgil himself ends up sleeping in either the sunset period and wakes up when the sun has officially set, or the sunrise period after the sun has begun rising, and/or just a combination of the two and it just depends on the day for when that happens bc he probably has trouble w/ keeping a good sleep schedule bc our Lunar God spent his first portion of life just like.. not sleeping. So his body is having a hard time setting a mental schedule bc he wants to see all three of the others often. Y’know? (Which could be a reason why Roman choses to nap with Virgil(aka force virgil to sleep if he hasn’t yet) during the Sunrise or Sunset period, or have Patton or Logan make sure hes sleeping during the midday period if Roman can’t, yknow?

So, as a mild call out to Roman’s dumbassery, Remus and Dee gift Virgil sentience and cognitive thought, and pretty much the brain and senses that are well deserved and more than vital to said sentient being. And them Remus goes off to personally call out his dumbass brother.

And as for seeing each other often, yes! Remus and Dee have a much easier time seeing Virgil often bc he’s really easy to find now that hes not consistantly roaming the globe. Its probably just as often that Virgil is on an outing w/ the other gods as he is w/ Remus and Dee to meet new animals/see nature and listen to Dee’s newest tales/make their own and stargaze at length. They also come visit the sky gods’ temple when they can, Dee moreso than Remus due to Remus’s never ending duties, and spend time as a group together.

Well, not at first? It was about two or three days into Virgil’s disappearance when Remus realized he hadn’t seen Virgil in a while, and Dee had seen Virgil the day just before it happened, and so was only concerned when Remus came to see him, seeking out Virgil and not finding him with Dee. On the fifth day they spent hours search for him but, that night was the night The sky gods were dropped into their 3 day long slumber. And well. It’s a bit complicated, but in a way, as brothers, Roman and Remus are connected. When Roman dropped, Remus felt it. And then Remus himself fell unconcious, as his connection to Roman is that strong that without Roman, Remus cant fully function, and without Remus, Roman can’t fully function. And, y’know how I said Dee isn’t as fast as Remus and Virgil? Yeah, well, Remus falling unconcious meant he had to carry Remus(a difficult feat bc Remus is a buff Tol and Dee is only partially godly) to the nearest stables to get a horse to ride. Bc Remus has god-speed, Dee has human-speed. By the time they made it to the temple, Virgil had already sacraficed himself and been reborn and was now just beginning his long rest, leaving Remus to groggily wake up around the same time Roman did and be far too tired to run Dee the rest of the way there.

There is a line between a healthy amount of guilt over a set of mistakes you made and are working to fix, and an unhealthy amount of guilt that overshadows the growth of changing and learning from your mistakes and instead barrels right into self-destruction. You can probably guess where Roman ended up standing for a good while before being slowly tugged back over the line.

Remus is suspicious bc Roman is at least telling the truth about giving Virgil a way to gain energy, that much is evident bc Remus knows Roman well and knows his tells. Theyre brothers after all. It’s only that Remus could not find such a way in Virgil’s build when he had looked, so it either means that it doesn’t work while Virgil is unconcious/injured, or that whatever Roman did that he thinks should be working, isnt working.