Little five year old versions of the sides appear to be taken care of by them, and the little kids keep doing what they want and accidentally revealing things about themselves the sides now find embarrassing.
Baby Remus and Roman became seperate people like a week ago but they havenāt quite figured it out yet and so they are clingy very to each other
Baby Logan is so excited and curious about everything and refuses to sit still or be quiet and he asks so many questions and he gets so dirty from digging outside
Baby Virgil doesnāt talk but he gets happy light purple a lot easier since Thomas is younger with less worries, and then he gets very very giggly and cute
Baby Patton is so fussy and emotional and temperamental. Heās not mean but boy is he loud
Baby Janus sucks at lyingā¦.. so much. Heās fine for a kid but every single adult can read his emotions exactly
Everyoneās just trying to deal with the little kids while they do things that individually annoys and embarrasses each older version of them completely unintentionally
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(just now realizing the posts i scheduled the past two days didn't go through so we should all totally agree to ignore that part in exchange for little baby hcs)
okay kid sides right. kid sides when it was maybe a little more acceptable for janus and remus and logan to be friends before the religious guilt kicked in.
mischief and curiosity both loved making slime together. lies always gave them the best recipes for slime without borax or glue! they didn't work a lot though...
curiosity would be trying to make friends and he'd accidentally make feelings cry by saying something about how dogs only live 13 years. every time he did, he'd go to lies and ask him to please tell him what he did wrong so feelings would talk to him again.
lies had a speech impediment and he couldn't say his S's without hissing. one time imagination made fun of him for it and mischief tried to beat him up for talking bad about his best friend.
lies and mischief will both try to sneak around and tease feelings and imagination only to get themselves in trouble. curiosity has to break them out of imaginary jail every time.
shockingly, it was that trio who put on the best plays in the mindscape. lies had a knack for big sweeping stories that exagerated the truth, mischief was dramatic and managed to play every role with the same energy, and curiosity always made little craft props for his friends. (and the shadows always went dark at all the perfect moments, i wonder why that was?)
Janus walked into his sonās room, noting the sobbing pile of blankets on the bed. Janus plopped down and began rubbing small circles on what he guessed was Pattonās back, providing silent comfort. Eventually, Pattonās curly head poked out from his covers.
āWhat's wrong?ā Janus murmured, swiping a tear off Pattonās cheek.Ā
After a few gulping breaths, Patton sobbed out, āTh-the kids at school s-said that Iām āothing more th-than a cry baby,ā
Janus enveloped Patton into a warm hug. āLittle pebble, there is more to you than your tears.ā
Janus stayed with Patton until crying gave way to snores.
In a human AU, the Sides are Thomasās adopted children. Virgil is a chronically sleep-deprived teenager getting eaten alive by junior year. Patton has just started kindergarten and loves it. Sometimes they take naps together, because Patton is very cuddly and surprisingly good at getting Virgil to sleep.
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Pairings: parental Moxiety, future Anxceit (literally none in this part, Iām just letting you know where itās going)
Warnings: escaping an abusive relationship, aftermath of violence, blood and injury, murder, abusive government organization
Showing up on your enemyās doorstep injured and in need of help trope
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Virgil trudged through the dark streets, doing his best to avoid the streetlights as he went ā he couldnāt risk anyone noticing that both he and the child he was carrying were covered in blood. He was exhausted, and his cracked ribs were screaming in protest with every step, but he couldnāt rest yet.
As a Registered Superheroā¢, Virgil ā or Knightcaster, as he was more widely known ā was a public figure. He lived in a government-funded home with a government-funded car and government-funded security; his son went to a secure, government-funded daycare; if he ever wanted a dog, heād be able to get a trained government agent to be his dog-walker. Every aspect of Virgilās life was funded by the government, and in return, Virgil and his husband (ex-husband?) stopped the cityās supervillains from wreaking havoc. It had seemed like a good deal when Orin ā AKA Atlas ā had convinced him to do it when he was eighteen.
And for seven years, it had been a good deal. But now Virgil was twenty-five, escaping an abusive marriage, and completely devoid of any kind of money.
Oh and the government was probably going to be after him soon for leaving his residence without permission (not to mention the dead body heād left in the kitchen).
When he and Orin had signed up to be government-sponsored superheroes, they had to submit detailed lists of their powers, and were subject to thorough physicals to test the extent of them. Virgilās powers, as listed by the government (and public knowledge to anyone who submitted a freedom of information act request), were light-manipulation level 9, teleportation level 4, and healing level 7; which basically means heās really good at manipulating light ā to the point of even being about to make it solid for up to an hour ā alright at teleporting ā he can only get to places heās been to before or can see, and he can only teleport himself, but he can go pretty far ā and can heal some pretty bad injuries completely ā given enough time and energy.
Actually, all of those powers required a lot of energy, and in his injured and tired state, he couldnāt use them.
But he did have one power that the government didnāt know about, and since it was a mental power and not a physical one, he didnāt need to expend any energy to use it (it would leave him with a massive headache later, but Virgil would take headache over jail cell any day).
His dads used to call it his āhoming beaconā, if he spent enough time around a person, he would form a bond with them that would allow him to follow a mental compass right to them. When he was younger he could use this on almost every kid in his class (not that he did), but as he hadnāt seen any classmates since high school graduation, the bonds were gone, faded beyond recognition. He could sense his dads, but they lived two states away, and heād never be able to make it to them without teleporting ā and even if he could, he wouldnāt be able to take his son with him.
His dadsā house was the first place the government would look for him anyway, they wouldnāt be safe there even if Virgil could get them that far.
Virgil hitched Patton a little higher on his hip. The toddler let out a small whimper in his sleep as the movement accidentally jostled his broken arm. Virgil placed a kiss on the boyās hair, mentally promising him that his arm would be the first thing he healed once they were safe.
With his bonds to dads and any of his old friends either too far away or too faded, his son in his arms, and his bond to Orin severed as soon as that knife had pierced his heart, he was left with only his government handlers themselves, or the supervillains he fought repeatedly.
(And yeah, looking at it now, stumbling down the deserted streets, bleeding and carrying an injured toddler, Virgil could see how being a government-sponsored superhero was actually a crap deal. He didnāt have any money of his own, he had to fill out a thirty-page request form just to see his dads for two hours at a time, and he had no contact with anyone outside of workā¦ It sucked. A lot.)
The government handlers were definitely out (though having a sense of where they were could definitely work in his favor), but the supervillains might not be too bad, they did work against the government after all.
Of Virgilās repeated villains ā and of the ones he thought might not just kill him on sight ā there were three real options: Gemini, Dr. Frankenstein, or Serpentine. Luckily, Virgil could feel all three (well four) of their bonds coming from the same general direction, so he could continue moving while he made a decision.
Gemini had the power to duplicate themself, Virgil wasnāt sure how many duplicates they could make, but there were almost always two of them, hence the two bonds Virgil could feel leading to them. Geminiās usual M.O. was hitting jewelry stores or museums (places with lots of shiny things for them to steal); they had a tendency towards property damage, but left civilians unharmed whenever they could.
Dr. Frankenstein could animate inanimate objects for a short time, as well as being a clearly gifted inventor. The man was cold and logical, but Virgil wasnāt sure which option would be more logical for him: help Virgil, who could be a valuable ally, and potentially give him government secrets; or take his revenge on an already injured enemy.
Serpentine was a master of illusion, both of the light projection, and mental variety. Their motives were a little bit harder to figure out, and as far as Virgil could tell, they were just as likely to rob a bank as they were to destroy a government building; but Virgil had a certainā¦ rapport with themā¦ he thought that they mightā¦
They might not kill him if he showed up on their doorstep.
Patton whimpered again, his good hand gripping the collar of Virgilās jacket tightly.
Virgil really hoped that Serpentine wouldnāt kill them when they showed up on their doorstep.
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Part 2, Part 3, Part 3.5
ODD Masterlist
I wasnāt gonna post this until I finished the whole thing, but then I remembered that the whole reason I started posting fics on tumblr was so that I could post things that werenāt done yet
Anyway there will definitely be at least two more parts, so let me know if you wanna be on the taglist
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Words: 4,473
Warnings: Physical Health Discussion, Exercise Discussion, Financial Requirements Mention, Self-Defense, Food Mention, Passing Mention of homophobia
Characters: Roman, Patton, Virgil. Small Janus and Logan Sighting.
Universe: Whole Castle
Genre: Family Fluff
Additional Tags: Logan Sanders | Logic is Extra about Safety, Good Parenting for Nervous Children, Working out Big Feelingsā¢ in a fun way, Familial/Platonic Physical and Verbal Affection, Virgil Sanders | Anxiety is a good big brother
Whole Castle
Chapter 24: Progress
Ā Ā Ā Roman popped his head into Pattonās bedroom after knocking, and he sat at his table, poking around on his tablet. He didnāt normally pick the tablet over his other options, but he still wasnāt getting outside much. Patton only had educational games, so it was nice to see him playing with them on his own, but this was the fourth day in a row that heād been sitting on the floor. The occupational therapist said that Patton wasnāt being active enough to catch up with his development.
Ā Ā Ā āPatton, dear, do you want to go play on the trampoline or go to the park for a bit?ā Roman offered softly. Patton shook his head in response, looking up at Roman with mild concern. Roman smiled back at him and said, āAlright, let me or Virgil know if you change your mind,ā before closing the door behind him.
Ā Ā Ā Roman crossed his arms and stood in the hall, wondering how to proceed. Patton wouldnāt enjoy going to a physical therapist, he knew he wouldnāt. But unless Virgil or Remus wanted to do something particularly physically involved, Patton just wasnāt interested in doing it. He tapped his chin and foot, leaning against the opposite hall for a moment. Remus was only taking violin at the moment, and he hates it, so Patton wouldnāt be interested. Roman found a āFundamentals of Movementā class for kids his age that was full of things he found fun, but without either Virgil or Remus going, he likely wouldnāt participate. Remusās parents were very hard to convince of anything that wasnāt advanced, so he couldnāt rely on Remus attending a basics class for Patton. He didnāt know how long that unwillingness to participate was going to take to treat in therapy, either. Roman hummed in contemplation.
Ā Ā Ā There might be a workaround. Something that will play to Pattonās little duckling instincts. It wasnāt surefire, but with any luck, it could be better for everyone. Roman headed farther down the hall and knocked on Virgilās door. He could hear the TV playing softly inside. It took a moment and the TV noise paused, then Virgil called out that he could come in. Roman opened the door and saw Virgil lying on the bed with his feet up on the wall, watching TV upside down. Roman chuckled through his nose and came in, closing the door behind him so that Patton wonāt hear and possibly get spooked by the discussion.
Ā Ā Ā āWhatās up?ā Virgil asked lazily.
Ā Ā Ā āVirgil, would you be interested in taking a class? Something like dance or martial arts? You seem a little cooped up in here, and it could be fun. It doesnāt have to be high pressure,ā Roman asked carefully. He knew Virgil struggled with trying new things in the past and didnāt want to bring up those feelings again.
Ā Ā Ā Virgil looked at Roman for a moment curiously before responding. āThereās a couple of classes Iād be interested in, but I didnāt think we had the money for that kind of thing,ā Virgil replied carefully.
Ā Ā Ā āI know my income is iffy at times, but we can afford it as long as itās not too expensive,ā Roman replied warily. Logan handled the budgets, so he couldnāt give specific numbers to be able to reply with, and Virgil often liked specifics for his anxiety. āBut that does mean that it would be nice if I had a few options to find something we can afford as well as something that had a class for kids Pattonās age,ā he clarified.
Ā Ā Ā āOh, you also want Patty out of the house? Thinking about committing crimes with Logan?ā Virgil raised an eyebrow with a smirk.
Ā Ā Ā āBe gay, do crimes,ā Roman replied with a little shrug and a breezy smile. āPatton needs a little more exercise, and I think the best way to get him to do it is if itās something youāre doing. I certainly wouldnāt want to deny you a fun class, either, but you never asked us about taking one. Youāll both be in different classes still because of the age groups, so youāll still have you-time. And Iām sure Logan would try to sell getting Janus to go with you to the deāI mean, his motherāif you wanted that.ā
Ā Ā Ā āI call her devil-woman too sometimes,ā Virgil whispered conspiratorially. āSo you want me to go so Pat will go?ā He asked, clearly bothered by that.
Ā Ā Ā āNo, I want you to go for you, and then if I am lucky, Patton will see you having fun and want to go to his own class. This is still your choice, other than the fact that we need to be able to afford it and get you there and back. If you had asked before now, we would have signed you up for something without considering him, but Iām asking now because if you have fun it might get Pattonās little need to be just like you all worked up enough so that he goes, is why I thought of it in the first place. But that doesnāt mean Iām forcing you to go to a class you didnāt choose or to attend at all.ā Roman smiled at him, trying to be as reassuring as possible. He didnāt think that if he was Virgilās age, heād have liked the idea of having to go to get someone else to go, either.
Ā Ā Ā āOh. Okay,ā Virgil accepted it very easily, much to Romanās relief. āA mixed gender class. Aikido or Capoeira for martial arts. Theyāre both more defensive, which Iām kind of bad at. Kickboxing would be good, too, but Iām not sure Patty would like it. Gymnastics could be cool if the place has a lot of equipment, and itās not just tumbling. Pat and I love playing the drums at the park, so thatās an option. No kinds of dance that arenāt a martial art. Iād be too uncomfortable, even if Pat might like it. Maybe when Iām older,ā Virgil listed off, counting off on his fingers as he lay up on the bed.
Ā Ā Ā āGoodness, Virgil, youāve really thought this through,ā Roman stated, rather bewildered by all the things that Virgil listed off, without looking at his phone or anything else to give him answers. He didnāt normally handle being put on the spot well for this kind of thing. Roman expected to have to get back to him at a later date.
Ā Ā Ā āAt least half my class is in those kinds of things. Iām mostly friends with the other scholarship kids, but Iāve heard about almost everything in the area. I kind of got jealous and looked it up, too. Feel kind of stupid for never asking, youāve always tried to find a way to get me things I ask for, you even got that trampolineā¦ā Virgil trailed off, looking up at the ceiling and dropping his hands to either side of him on the bed.
Ā Ā Ā āIt doesnāt have to be about the time, Virgil. Maybe we should have asked you, too. But weāre asking now, and weāll see what we can do. Is there anything else you are interested in that you donāt think Patton would do?ā Roman asked, just to make sure he felt like this was his decision.
Ā Ā Ā āThereās a motocross class thatās pretty popular, but it sounds really expensive since the gear costs extra to rent, and you have to be at least 14 for it. It sounds extremely fun, though. Thereās also a ninja-themed class that everyone talks about. You get trained to jump around and hide in the padded city in the gym. You can do stand-alone classes without signing up weekly. Iād do that just to get to see it. Everybody whoās been always raves about how fun it is,ā Virgil answered quietly, noticeably uncomfortable with answering honestly.
Ā Ā Ā Roman had to suppress a grimace at the motocross class. It was probably too expensive and would not pass by Loganās silly protectiveness, but he was extremely positive that he could get Remy to take Virgil to the ninja class. Remy loved signing up Virgil for those day classes when they went out before they got Patton. If Roman chipped in a bit, maybe he could drag Janus along, too. But he had to come up with a way to distract Logan and Patton for that one so that Remy can Virgil-sit alone. Maybe some type of educational trip.
Ā Ā Ā āYou have a scheming face on,ā Virgil pointed out, sounding very amused.
