Does Virgil mirror any of the mindscape crew's + Remyy's body language? 👀
oh, for sure!
patton and virgil sometimes entertain themselves by challenging each other to imitate various noises, and when virgil gets really into the game, he’ll unintentionally mirror patton’s movements too, like head tilts or silly expressions! patton thinks this is hilarious and adorable.
virgil slowly but surely picks up on some of roman’s tells, and instead of trying to use harmless human body language, which only seemed to make roman more edgy, he starts mirroring some of roman’s posture/motions. roman thinks this is creepy, but its also less creepy than most human body language, and it reminds him of logan’s adjustment period on the ship, which tends to make him soften up a bit.
virgil’s stims are very self-contained normally, but when he’s hanging out & chatting with logan and learns about some really cool alien thing, he’ll totally end up shaking/flapping his hands along with logan’s weaving! logan was disoriented the first few times trying to find patterns in the movement, but after learning that it generally indicated excitement, he’s happy to see it!
mirroring is super common in ulgorii body language, like to the point that most other species actually think they are pretty unsettling because of it. in comparison to most ulgorii, logan is not very good at it, but him and virgil still bond through playing mirroring games (think patty cake-like pattern games!) together!
