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And a little comfort doodle for the soul

I swear every time I draw patton he gets more spherical and fluffier.

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Surprise Duo

It was lonely being the only impostor left. And as such, there was no one to help fix his malfunctioning Orequets, the metallic rings piercing through his lips to keep his acidic glands from overwhelming his senses and causing excessive saliva buildup. That usually led to much worse than just tampered wires or oxygen shortages. It hurt one of the few on the ship that actually cared about him, in his own special way. Humans were already very weird to cyan colored impostor, especially the former co-leader, Blue.

While bunking down at night in the vents, Patton made his way to his "nest" of sorts. It wasn't much; just a couple of pillows, blankets and towels he managed to snag from the Showers area. He snuggled up with Blue's tablet, looking over his detailed logs. Sure, they were mostly just logistical notations but Cyan could feel Blue speaking with every word he read. Especially when he got to the logs about his interactions with the deceased scientist.

"I miss you, Blue. I'm sorry that I hurt you. Had I known my condition was getting worse…"

Cyan's erosive tears started falling, burning through a few of the towels and blankets but Patton didn't care. He just wanted a friend again. No body else seemed to acknowledge him much. Except… maybe that one crew member.

Green wasn't the most… pleasant person to be around. He constantly talked about how cool it would be the see a impostor in person, how they could use him, and even going into extremely graphic detail of how each species might stalk and kill their "prey". Patton just… wasn't at all what Remus would envision but he also didn't want to break the illusion either. That could be just as tragic as losing a friend.

That following night, Cyan was watching a series that was left unfinished on Logan's old tablet before hearing whimpering under the covers. He unstuck his webbed fingers from his face as he pulled back the cover to look down at his sadly trilling abdomen mouth.

"Cecil. Honestly, buddy. Are you really hungry again?"

Cecil spit out a little, slimy tendril, tracing it along the eroded seam of one of the blankets as Patton sighed and sat up. He contemplated it before smiling to himself. What would a little snack hurt? Patton sat up and look through the vent holes to see Yellow nodded off against the control panel. He wondered if he ever told Janus. If he would ever forgive him. From what Patton heard from exchanges between Yellow and Blue, they were so close that they were practically an item. But they never wanted to tell each other. Cyan always wondered why.

After staring at the sleeping form for a bit longer, Patton traversed through the tunnels down Viewing Deck, right next to the Kitchen. Cyan inhaled before lifting the vent up and then lowering it gently back down once he was out. He kept to the wall as best he could until he approached the open door. He sighed in relief when he noticed no one else was around.

Patton went over to cabinet for the honey roasted David's sunflower seeds. Cecil started trilling loudly as Patton shushed them as they fetched their colored themed hydro-flask that Red had ordered for them.

"CY! IS THAT YOU!?"

Fuck. It was that crewmate. Green practically bounced over to Patton. Patton quickly fixed his appearance, placing his broken Orequets back in his mouth.

"O-oh… hi-hi Green." "It is you! I haven't seen you seen last week! Still crying over that boring ass nerd?"

Green and Blue didn't get along much. Maybe Remus just didn't mesh well with Logan's personality. But honestly, none of them really did. Nobody but Janus and Virgil. And maybe him. He would never know. Logan was gone now.

"Maybe."

"Hmm… those tears running down your face and mouth say a different story. You know if Yellow was up, he would've already caught you in a few, wouldn't she?"

"They are very intuitive, I suppose."

This was Cyan's moment to say something but Remus talking and guiding him further away from the vent area where his cot was, leading him down a ladder to Electrical. Green went into the connection area and sat down.

"This is great hideaway to check cams. I want to know where that pesky fucking IMP went off to~"

Patton's blood ran cold for a few minutes as he peered over Remus' shoulder. He hadn't even considered that cameras were on the ship, let alone that Remus would be the main one that would be looking over them.

"Why would you want to do that, Green? Aren't IMPs supposed to be very dangerous creatures?" "Oh yes! But I want to see what one looks like up close. I might get killed but that will be so much fun. Their tentacles piercing through my organs, acidic saliva turning my bones into sludge~!"

Patton swallowed thickly, tonguing his invisible Orequets for a moment before speaking.

"What if they don't mean any harm? Isn't it seen as a bad thing for humans to kill animals mercilessly?" "Yeah, sure. But what makes you think that aliens have the same thought process as us? We are their enemies in a way. Animals on Earth will impale humans without a second thought if they suspect that we are threat to them."

While IMPs had similar protocols for their young, they are very diplomatic and will try to compromise. Most crew deaths come from being startled or as a last resort. But that might be just from how Patton was raised. Patton was a special kind of IMP, a rare sight even for some of the oldest of Impostors. Being a viper was so uncommon that there was nearly impossible to do studies on them. All Cyan knew was that if his Orequets broke, he would have to force himself off the ship. There was no way he would want to intentional harm any of them. And he had already done to one of them. He never wanted that to happen again.

"… and from what I heard, doing their mating season, they will be kill anything their path." "You have done a lot of research on this, Green." "Yep! And you could help me too!" "h-Huh??"

As Remus went on about it, Patton's nerves was starting to make it harder to keep his humanoid form in tact. Plus, he feel Cecil getting restless again. Soon, a small bark noise erupted from Cecil, making Patton and Remus go still.

"Did you just bark without a mouth?" "Uhh… … yes??" "That's so cool. You're like a living ventriloquist dummy!" "I'll try to keep down for n—"

Cecil pushed a tendril against Patton's baggy shirt, which Remus caught nearly immediately.

"Fuck was that, Cy?!" "I… uhh…"

It didn't take long before Remus' eyes widened and gasped loudly.

"Are you an IM—"

Patton let one of braided "hair" tentacles wrap around Remus' mouth, silencing him as best he could. Cyan sighed.

"Y-yeah… I'm a IMP. Viper specifically."

Remus squealed behind the interlocked tentacle as Patton pulled back his shirt and fed Cecil.

"There. Are you happy now, kiddo?"

Cecil panted happily after eating up the snack. Patton let Remus go and promptly tackled, startling the last of his IMP form out of Cyan.

"Uhh, Remus—" "YOU ARE ONE! THIS IS FUCKING SICK!"

In his real form, Patton was even smaller than he already was compared to the others. Almost look like Stitch, but with webbed feet and hands, two braided tentacles on top of his head. Remus picked up Patton with relative ease, squeaking him tightly.

"THIS IS SO COOL!!" "I'm glad… you're not scared… of me… Green…"

Remus put the IMP back down and started drilling a multitude of questions. They weren't very pleasant to hear but Cyan tried to answer them best he could.

"AND YOU COULD DIGEST ME IF YOU WANTED TO?!?!" "A-a-actually… we are vegetarians…" "So… what I'm hearing is… I could milk you instead?" "Lactose makes us… experience that same effect the rest of the crewmates get when they are inebriated." "Gotcha! Milk makes you drunk!"

It was actually a pretty nice bonding moment between the two. When Remus was about to get up and leave, Patton asked him not to tell the others.

"Of course I won't! I need to see you more!" "Well, my cot is in the vents in the Cockpit." "Great. I'll visit the Cock whenever I can."

Patton blinked rapidly as Remus scratched his antennas. It was nice to the point that even Cecil was tittering quietly.

"Thanks, kiddo." "I'll bring you snacks in the morning. I'll just say that you are tired from looking over cams."

Patton thanked Remus again before he walked off, back to his cot. They had a pact now and would probably grow stronger over time. Maybe even then, Remus wouldn't mind becoming his mate. And later Janus as well. Cyan turned the tablet back on and finished up the season that he had been watching prior, keeping an antenna up just in case his new friend decided to swing by.

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Protective

"Clash!" "What?! He should've been such a sow about it! We are aloud to be together and that relationship remark was just rude!" "You didn't have to cocoon him!" "Good thing this is a chrysalis~"

Lily Pond sighed as he calmed down, his body turning back into its original state.

"Calm down, Epididymis."

The disguised changeling breathed deeply before returning back to his usual form. He wasn't entire reformed but had different coloring that resembled that of altered changelings. He was a lot smaller than the average changeling soldier but had better night vision than both original and newer changelings.

"I just didn't like the way he was threatening us. He was very bitter and hateful, Lily." "I understand, E. But you can't go around chrysalizing everypony that upsets you or me. I don't want them trying to detain you again."

Epididymis nodded as Lily Pond pecked him on his cracked up horn. The other creature slumped his shoulders and stood up to bump horns with his lover. Lily Pond giggled before powering up his horn and breaking the stick shell that the other creature was in.

"How long do they stay in this state?" "Eh… a couple of hours if I haven't drained too much of their love." "I suggest we let them go." "Sure thing, Lily! Just let me wipe their memory and put in another order for those **Rubylite supplements."

Lily Pond nodded and let Epididymis do his thing, while he went to start a warm spring for his partner. They had a good evening and no amount of rude ponies would ruin that for them.

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Game Night

It had been a while since the group had come together for a fun night in. Patton should've been used to it by now. He felt like he had betrayed everyone. Logan wasn't really talking to anyone; just shuffled through the fridge for something and then went back into his room. Roman and him hadn't been on good terms in a minute either. Causally conversation was as much as he would get out of Virgil and while Janus was doing better with expressive himself with a disguise, it still hurt that he had been impersonated who knows how many times and that Janus is the reason behind why the others hate him as well.

The only one he couldn't draw a meaningful conclusion on how they would feel about him is Remus. He wasn't nearly as scared of Remus as he used to be but it still felt like the only thing that excited him were things that Patton was not yet comfortable to explore. The closest he ever got to a true bonding moment was when he was about to watch a scary movie in secret and Remus popped up. He laughed awkwardly before handing Remus the remote, telling him he could watch whatever before sinking out back to his bedroom to continue the movie binge.

But tonight should be different, shouldn't it? They were, for the most part, on the same footing now. The hostility had died down, right? Considering that none of the others responded to his messages or to the indirect invite from earlier, he had assumed that none of them would be showing up.

Patton wouldn't let this chill night be ruined though. It would just be a night of playing his favorite games solo. It had been like that for a while. He could probably boot up one of the old video game consoles too and switch in-between card games. Patton smiled to himself as he fed his pet frogs before going to put on his favorite pj's. After he had gather all of what he wanted, he walked the hallway quietly and down the stairs.

However, his night was about to change. One single person had considered the invitation and had been, apparently, waiting for him. Remus was slumped down on the couch, scrolling on his phone with earbuds in. He was actually wearing night clothes, though they were still short and rather… tight. But they were clothes nonetheless.

"U-uh… hey, kiddo!" "Finally! I thought you would never show up!" "Well… I didn't think anyone wanted to come since no one responded to my messages." "Oh, they are still sour pussies about the fact that Thomas and Janny! Don't worry about them, Putty-Putt!"

Patton sat the games down on the table before he went to pop some popcorn, to which Remus followed him.

"Is there… have we done anything wrong, Remus?" "Oh, plenty!"

Patton's frown deepened before Remus continued his statement.

"We try to get Thomas be his true self as much as we can, and the others always seem to feel like they can speak for us. I think it's bullshit." "Well, we have made a lot of them uncomfortable and I have made mistakes." "They hold you and me to completely different standards. I have always been the worst of worst but you are now starting to seem bad and that's scary to them. I find it funny, honestly."

When the snacks were ready, Remus was already building a very complex Jenga tower.

"Wait, kiddo! It's going to fall!" "No it won't!"

Remus had built an entire castle structure from just Jenga blocks, which fascinated Patton.

"This is nice, kiddo." "Me and Roman used to play it like this all the time. Logan thought it was impractical."

Remus went over the rules for the bigger structure. You only get certain points off if you knock down a certain structure. However, if you know the whole thing down the first time, you lose. Or win. Playful destruction was something that would get you brownie points from the Duke.

"Ready to play?" "You bet!"

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"How are you so good at beating these bosses, Pat?! I thought you weren't a gamer!" "I don't really consider myself a gamer, since I only play causally."

Remus scoffed.

"If you play games, you're a gamer. Those stupid, fucking rules about who's a real gamer or not never fails to piss me off." "I guess I mean… I'm not an experienced gamer." "Experience just comes from the type of games you play. For me, I like fighting and platformer type of games. From the ones I've seen, you're better at puzzle games."

Remus laughed.

"My fuckass patience could never let me play those shits!"

Patton considered Remus' advice and yeah, he was better at other games than the ones he played. Yet, they began to feel easier the longer he played and when he found secrets that even Remus didn't discover on his first playthrough, he congratulated him in a way that the moral trait didn't expect.

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"I… De… clare… WAR!!" "I… De… clare… WAR!!" "How the fuck do we keep having the same cards?" "I don't know! I shuffled them twice!" "Let me see your decks!"

Remus started stacking and shuffling them in a way that Patton had never seen before.

"Faro shuffle." "That's so cool! I've never seen anyone shuffle cards like that except for magic tricks."

Remus awkward smiled at the latter figment before he continued shuffling. This was different for him. This is the first time where he had spent so much time not doing overly random things or just talking out of his ass. Like, yes he planned on doing all of that but for right now, he wanted to just have fun without thinking.

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The two had gotten through most of the games before they started nodding off. Remus fell asleep on top of Patton. He had gone completely nose-blind the latter side's musk, so it barely phased him when Remus was near him. Patton adjusted his body before removing his glasses and placing them on the table near by.

"just a quick nap… okay…" "eh… sure… night… putt…"

Patton placed a hand in Remus' hair as he relaxed his body.

"… night… remus…"

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Feelings

The riverbed was luminious; Stones clear as the waters. And when Sól kissed it, The radiance was far-reaching. This river was frozen now. (5)

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The riverbed was banal; Stones were ashen as coal. And when Selene kissed it, The rays never stretched further. This river was still now. (10)

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The riverbed returned vibrant; Crystals illuminated the crevasse. That is when Heaven touched it, There shimmering glare voluminous. This river is alive again. (15)

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*Orequets -- an object that keeps Vipers venom from "frothing" and spilling out their mouths unwillingly or excessive

**Rubylite -- love supplements made in the Crystal Empire for changelings that have a harder time producing their own love naturally

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