#lil!patton

Y'all ready to be crushed?? Sorry this took so long, I've been in a weird place lately but I'm sick of this sitting in my WIP's and I wanna write more again. If you have any ideas for later chapters or scenes you wanna see, hit me up.

Summary: Flashback to when and why Virgil was late that time that lead to Roman asking him out. Word Count: 1303 Relationships: ex-Virgil/OC, mentioned Remile Previous Chapters: One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight,  Tags:  @katatles-the-fish   @karma-the-tax-collector   @analogical-mess Ao3 Warnings: This deals vaguely with the beginnings of a custody battle and teh abusive ex comes back into teh picture so be careful young ones. 

Oh little Patton knows this too well and uses it against any caretaker, it’s nearly impossible for any caretaker to say n to him.

Lil Logan always gets blushy and shy when someone says he’s cute and tends to hid his hands in his face.

Most the time little Virgil isn’t too sure and ask if you’re joking, if you confirm it’s not a joke he gets blushy too.

Dee when he’s little or big will think you’re messing with him and get really upset or angry if big (unless it’s his personal caretaker or boyfriend) then he gets all tsundere

Roman has extremely low self esteem in both headspaces. As a big he’d just make some I know comment, but spend all night debating if the person was just lying / teasing him or being truthful. While lil Roo will get all happy and bright smiles and just suddenly start crying and need to be comfort. But, unable to explain he’s upset because he doesn’t know if you’re lying because he’s too little (unless it’s Dee he never feel like Dee is lying to him big or little)

So basically Patton knows he’s cute, Logan doesn’t know his cuteness but accepts it when someone says he is,  and Virgil are unsure of his cuteness and needs it to be confirmed.

An au world in which locking Roman up resulted in their traits being swapped around

Logan felt something he never did before after being the one encouraging Roman’s lock up. Guilt. That sent him into a spiral of learning about emotions and understanding how actions resulted in different emotions. Logan become obsessed with feelings and understand them. Partly out of guilt for what locking up Roman had done to Patton. 

The new Feelings / Heart Side

Curious little thing

Likes feeling extreme things (even bad things)

Gets in dangerous situations just to feel the trill of fear

Mixture of Toddler and Adult. He’s a big boy!

If he’s out of little space he feels numb and claims to have a headache (resulting in him being snappy)

Littlespace age range 2-5 (leans towards the 5 side)

Causes Thomas to have mood swings (oops)

Still has his power to read minds if he’s touching them. But, uses it to read thoughts to study how they are feeling. A sad person is crying, touch hand to read the thoughts that are making them sad.

Patton ended up becoming Anxiety unable to cope with the guilt of what they had done to Roman. He was so afraid they had ruined Thomas that he couldn’t cope. He slowly struggled with seeing anything but the bad things that could happen. He just wanted the remaining sides and Thomas to be safe. So he started worrying about every little thing that could hurt them. Babied by the others.

The new Anxiety Side

Sad Cinnamon Bun

Needs lots of hugs

Acts like a scared toddler more than an adult

Littlespace age range 2-3

Rarely out of little space, when Patton is big he’s a worry wart more than normal and depress.

Sweetest lil, but very needy, with lots of love to give

Loves helping caretakers, always afraid caretakers will get mad, has terrible social anxiety, very clingy.

Always has red rings around his eyes

Causes Thomas to worry and be nervous a lot

Uses his power to tell what other people feel by touching them. This tends to help calm him down when he’s scared someone hates him or is angry

Virgil realize he was the one who was going to have to step up and help get Thomas functioning (Since he had fallen into a depression) So he started acting like the missing Self esteem / Ego side. Encouraging them to do things, he helped Patton go from less of a worry scared to a caution protector.

The new Ego / Self Esteem Side

The leader, really stepped up to help everyone.

Great caretaker

Regresses when he just can’t handle it anymore. his age range is 3-5

Still has bad thoughts but has learned that he can’t let negative feelings hold him back.

Sometimes forgets to take care of himself

Hates Roman with a passion (He did so much work to help everyone and Roman keeps trying to ruin it!)

Uses his powers to tell what a person fears to help comfort them and overcome or protect them from their fears

Deceit on the other hand threw himself in learning anything he could. He and VIrgil actually put their differences aside for the best of Thomas. He took on the Logic side trait. With this he was able to reason Pattons fears down to something more reasonable as well as help Thomas listen to Virgil.

The new Logic side

The coleader never had a falling out with the other sides

Great caretaker like Virgil

Is able to reason Patton out of a panic attack.

Willingly regress alone, doesn’t have to. Just enjoys it, he regress back to 6 and has a stuffed dog named “Rowan” Totally not because it reminds him of his old best friend

The one who is the nicest to Roman tries to help Roman get adjusted.

Roman and Deceit’s relationship is like Virgil’s and Patton’s before everyone accepted Virgil. Roman is viewed as the bad guy by everyone, but Deceit who refers to him as his “fallen angel” (Like how Patton in canon calls Virgil his dark strange son)

It hurts Deceit when Roman calls him a liar

He uses his enhanced shapeshifting to make Patton laugh, Logan to study the animal or thing in a safer way, and to help Thomas to practice taking to strangers and such.

Poor little Roman broke in lock up. At first he had given up and let the demons and nightmares win each battle accepting the pain to feel something. But, then there was a sparkle of hope. (Unknown to him this was a result of Virgil and Deceit’s work) and he realize things could be different he could save himself. That’s how he became self preservation. When he broke free from his chains he came back as a proud Disney villain. Who wants revenge. 

The new Self Preservation Side

Anger ball of fire

Classic Disney Villain

That voice in your head that says you suck and no one can love you

So much anger in such a small short boy

Wears a Queen like outfit because everyone knows queens are evil

Stuck at the age of 6, little age is very unstable though one second he’s acting like a 6 year old the next he’s a cranky 2 year old

His little age range is 1-6,

Spends most his time on  par to a 6 year old or 1 year old.

Rips the heads off of stuffed animal, throws toys, breaks things in fits. Then gets really sad when he finds out one of his favorite toys are broken

Being locked up hasn’t had much affect on his powers besides giving him less control. His imagination abilities are slightly out of his control now so sometimes it comes to bite him in the butt.

Of course he’s using his powers to make him seem like a cooler villain (appearing in green smoke and so on) Also makes things that he claims will help Thomas be better.

Despite coming off as evil and pointing out Thomas’ many flaws. He does want the best for Thomas and just wants to make him into a better person. It wasn’t his fault that he got locked up. It was other people. He doesn’t want Thomas to ever change for another person again.

Hates it when Thomas is trying to think of others, because being selfish is better

Will go gentle on Deceit because he can’t hurt Dee even if they all hurt him

Other Stuff to Mention

For the first 2 years during Roman’s lock up everything was chaotic and Thomas suffered terrible depression. His grades didn’t get better when Roman was locked up but rather worse. He also lost all his friends

Then there was a spark of hope and he started on working on himself, as well as going to therapy.

Virgil and Deceit are very close, acting as the leaders of the group. They are also the two main caretakers.

Roman hates the other sides with a burning passion and even has a distaste for Thomas. But, he despise other humans from the bottom of his heart

One day when Thomas moved out of his parents his new therapist suggested he made a video diary and thats when the sides start appearing to him

Roman will have a habit of telling Thomas how he’s a terrible person but if he listened to him Roman could make it all better.

However the other sides are always able to get Thomas to feel good about himself

Little Logan will end up throwing a temper tantrum until the puppet is removed from his sights. Multiple times he had in his fit ended up destroying the puppet or “accidentally” hurt the side with the puppet. Since Logan is pretty violent with his temper tantrums throwing hitting and etc. A big issue is Roman’s puppets and Logan. The big reason why Roman doesn’t have much puppets is Logan has destroyed most of the human ones (which didn’t upset Roman that much because he didn’t really care about his human ones and he rarely played with them since Dee is afraid of them) but Loo has also destroyed many of his stuffed animal puppets which always end up with Roo sobbing and screaming. They end up in a big fight that will last for days after Loo destroys one of his stuffed animal puppets and refuses to say sorry. If little Patton’s puppet is destroyed he’ll cry a little bit, but forgive Logan (without him even saying sorry) and even say sorry to Logan for upsetting him with his puppet (because Patton is an angel)

Deceit on the other hand, if it’s not one of Roman’s stuffed animal puppets completely freaks out as a little. Starts loudly crying, he’s likely to go to Roman, even if Roo is little at the moment because Roman understands him the best and Roman even if little will protect him.

It’s very rare for it to happen, but sometimes Patton will regress. According to him it’s nice not to be the adult all the time. Deceit was caring for the others. Roman on the other hand didn’t like regressing on purpose it was weird and wrong. The others could because it wasn’t like they couldn’t help it. They were just pretending. Roman had no control over it. If he on purpose regressed he had no clue how long he’d be stuck that way. Everyone else was taking a break today. Even Thomas was with friends (acting more childish than normal) Roman claimed to have too much work to do. This was technically true, the work of a creative prince was never truly done. But, in reality most of it was just to hide away from the others.

Everything was going great the ideas were pouring out like water though a faucet. Until it all just stop. It was a little frustrating. But, it was fine. He’d just reread what he came up with. Garbage idea after garbage idea. These weren’t good enough. He could do better. Throwing the balled up paper onto the floor he worked on better ideas forcing them out.

The pile of paper grew on his floor as his frustration did as well. He was starting to struggle to see tears kept trying to come out. It was stupid, he felt stupid, and useless. He tried pushing though his hands started to act stupid too. His handwriting got messier and messier. He couldn’t even read it soon. Letting out a annoyed muffled scream though his sleeves he ripped page after page of unused paper from his notebook. Of course he’d just magic his notebook back when he felt better. This was his job! It should come naturally to him just like it came naturally for Patton to be all feely and Logan being smart!

Soon he was unable to force the tears back he started to sob his sleeve in his mouth. Pat of him wanted his Dee. But Dee was busy with the others and he wasn’t little! He wasn’t! He was’t! His hands were being clumsy and stupid now and not listening to him. At first he didn’t even notice it before it was too late that he had wet himself. That was his breaking point letting out a loud sob. Deceit came running in with Patton and Virgil in his arms (the only time Virgil was ever good for DaDee was if Patton needed a break) Right away he helped get Roman changed in some Lil Roo friendly clothes.