#mentioned patton

I'm stating now, I'm not aplatonic and while I have tried looking it up, I'm not certain I know how best to represent the experience.

Regardless, here's my attempt at writing for @aro-sides-week day 3 prompt aplatonic

Virgil accidentallied into his friendship group. A neighbour mentioned auditions for a performance that half interested him, and somehow that ended up with someone much louder adopting him. He couldn't describe it any other way, Roman was forever trying to help after the first time Virgil thanked him.

Roman somehow gained friends because he liked attention, especially when it was positive for something he'd done, be it a performance or helping someone else. It was validation he sought out, and friends essentially turned up in his life

They both fit together, even more so after they accidentally shared a confused glance when Patton ran off to a stranger with a call about needing to befriend them. The conversation after that was enough for both to understand that they didn't understand this desire to befriend people their friend apparently had.

"So people actually do just decide they want to be around people? Like I still think romance is just a case of performing the scenes from the stage minus the attention of hundreds, which why, do people do that, but now I'm meant to believe the stories are true about wanting to be friends with others? the hell type of attraction would that be?" Roman half rants, half mutters under his breath after how similar rants before understanding he was aromantic had been received.

Virgil huffed, smirking a little. "Guess so, and maybe like platonic, but then calling that attraction seems to be screaming for some mother bible clutcher to get all offended if you say all disney princesses have platonic attraction for animals."

"Do not besmirch Disney with - actually, no, good question, aside from like Ariel, and Jasmine because Rajah was a gift, what makes all the princesses befriend animals constantly? I don't think that's any set desire to befriend the specific animals they befriend but like desperate loneliness from isolation, or weird lucky charms."

"I am regretting mentioning Disney already. And yeah probably loneliness. So do you think platonic attraction is a thing? I mean I get Patton's kind obsessed with declaring he loves his friends and when I got uncomfortable declared it was platonic love."

They're both ignored and don't feel like they're loved. And considering that the next episode is probably about Crofters, there will be angst ahead.

Janus, Remus, Virgil and Patton having shown zero interest in Crofters (the last two only appeared to make puns), and Logan gets sad. He hates being selfish, but wasn't Crofters his thing? If he couldn't be known as the serious guy who didn't hurt others, Logan would have liked to be the serious guy who loves Crofters.

But now, he's in the background, having to pretend that it doesn't bother. No, it doesn't bother him that after so long he realized he wasn't special after all. It doesn't bother him now that he's knows no-one loves him, thank you very much.

He looks at Roman, and Logan knows he's not any better.

Roman sees new Crofters flavors, and he's so excited. After two long years, he can finally get his own Crofters flavor! Thomas really loves him after all, that Dece- Janus wasn't nodding about the lie after all, that he's still forgiven for every villainous at he's done! Virgil and Patton deserve flavors, he can't understand how people would want to eat Remus', and then Janus. Janus gets one. Someone who lied and manipulated him. To take his mind off, Roman asks Thomas where's his flavor.

Thomas' silence is all he needs to know. Thomas still hates him, everyone's more important then him, he was just being dramatic over Janus, he should stop being so sad, he's the villain after all, and he has to see his brother who Thomas is still clearly uncomfortable with, get his flavor. He truly is unloved.

Patton? Is that you???? 

Warnings: None that I know of. Please let me know if there are!

Thank you @destroyed-conscience for letting me use this prompt

Prompt:

“I never stood a chance, did I?”

He knew the answer, of course.

If he had, Virgil would have been his,

rather than another's

Virgil gave him a sad smile,

his eyes pitying “That’s the sad part, Princey;

you did, once.”

It is common knowledge that when Virgil had first come to the mindscape, most of the original residents hated him (save Patton because he loves everybody). He even knew that. Then again, who didn’t when Roman called him a dark side along with other names, and Logan, although not blandly voicing his dislike for the anxious trait as Roman had done, had often worked against him when trying to find what was best for Thomas. Although, the logical trait did not usually see anything other than his own opinion as correct.

However, what may not be as common of knowledge, is that Virgil, no matter how opposed to the idea he was and called it silly, was in love. Not the cutesy love that you might get over in a few years, either. This was a gut-wrenching, soul-crushing love that you could never give up. A kind of love that makes you want them so bad that your heart hurts, and, even if you did love someone else, you would always remember them.

Of course, however, life is never that easy. He just had to be in love with the one person that hated him more than life itself, Roman. He guessed it was okay, though. He never actually saw the others until Thomas wanted to do another video, or Patton was giving him food (he maybe ate a quarter of the plate, but Patton would do it anyways).

After My Negative Thinking

Virgil and Logan had gotten together just a week before, but Virgil could already see that Logan loved him. The very end of the video wasn’t scripted like usual, but was actually just Logan speaking to him, and Virgil appreciated it. In fact, just before the video, Virgil had voiced his concerns that he didn’t love him anymore (or at all). This just solidified the thought that this might actually go well for him, but who knows?

After Accepting Anxiety Part II

Virgil sometimes hated the scripted videos!

For one, Logan had to pretend he didn’t care about Virgil, which led to one to many anxiety attacks. Logan, being the loving boyfriend he is, ended up checking on Virgil at those times, just to find his boyfriend curled up in the middle of his bed with the blanket over his head. Logan, upon seeing his distress, would pick him up, take Virgil to his own room, sit down on his bed, put Virgil in his lap, rock him, and read whatever book he was on at the time out loud. This would, without fail, calm Virgil down quickly, but Virgil always felt as if he was interrupting Logan from something important, to which Logan would reply that he could never interrupt him.

However, reason two was a bit more complicated. Roman had started acting weird at the begging of the month. He was nice all the sudden, and it about gave Virgil whiplash. Logan and Patton say that it’s because he realized what he had done to Virgil was wrong, but Virgil wasn’t really sure if he believed that. Virgil felt as if Roman had an underlying plan that he had just not told them about. Whatever the reason, this new video gave Roman more of a chance to act weirder than normal. He really didn’t want to check it out, lest it was a joke, but he wasn’t sure if living in a lie was better.

Roman’s P.O.V.

Roman had been trying for now a month to befriend Virgil. Maybe if he did that these newfound feelings would go away. When he had asked Patton about it, Patton had said that Roman was in love, but that couldn’t be true, could it? Roman hated Virgil, right? It didn’t matter, anyways as Logan and Virgil had come out as a couple the night they published Accepting Anxiety Part II. They were a cute couple, Roman could admit that, but how had he not known before?! He was the romantic side for crying out loud! Maybe Patton was right, and he was just too blinded by his love for Anx-Virgil. It didn’t matter anyways, though, because he had no chance.

Time Skip of About Two Months Because of Story Progression

He did NOT love him! He knew that, so why couldn’t his dreams and heart remember that as well!? To finally settle this, he went to talk to Virgil. If he told them there was no way, then maybe, just maybe, his heart would listen.

Roman ended up finding Virgil in Logan’s room, as Virgil was still terrified of Logan getting hurt like last time they were in his room, even if it was acting.

“Virgil? May I speak to you for a moment out in the hall?” Roman asked, noting that as soon as he asked, Virgil had tensed up and started shaking. “You don’t have to, however, if you don’t feel like it.”

“N-no. It-t’s fine,” Virgil replied, his voice wavering a bit. He got up out of Logan’s hold, and followed Roman out into the hall.

“I never stood a chance, did I?” He knew the answer, of course. If he had, Virgil would have been his, rather than another's

Virgil gave him a sad smile, his eyes pitying “That’s the sad part, Princey; you did, once.”

“I thought... Wait, wha-..” Roman stumbled over his words as he had never expected such an answer, but before he could finish his question, Virgil had already walked back into Logan’s room and closed the door.

‘I wish I knew back then..’

Little did he know, Virgil thought the same thing.

‘I wish you knew earlier..’

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