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When Virgil learned about soulmates and the string that was supposed to connect his to whoever his soulmate was, he wasn’t all that surprised that he didn’t have one.

By the time he had gotten a full lesson on what it was to have a soulmate he was 8, and by that time it seemed that most people had come to the conclusion he was weird.

When he went home and told his mom about it, she simply said that some people’s don’t show up if they aren’t in the same state, so maybe one day if they went on a road trip, a string for him would appear.

Virgil didn’t believe it from the start, but he entertained his mother by going all these places with her.

Somethings that they never teach you in school, is that some strings don’t appear until you’re 18. This is because this is only in the most extreme cases, like when you’re soulmate is yours for this life, the next, and the previous.

Virgil was born on June 4, 2001 at 6:20 am.

Virgil woke up with a dark blue string coming from his left pinkie finger on June 14, 2019 at 12:54 pm.

He was so excited he forgot other people couldn’t see the string, instantly running into his mothers room to show her. Once he realized she couldn’t see it he wasn’t discouraged in the slightest, now he knew someone else could see that string to, and Virgil and that person were meant just for each other.

When Logan learned about soulmates, he thought they were convenient, and nothing else. He had been told about them before, his older brother Roman had found a man, Patton, who he thought to be his soulmate as early as eight, and swore even if his soulmate turned out to be someone else, he would always be with.

Turns out, on his eighteenth birthday, Patton was found to be his soulmate. Roman, being Roman, did ask what was up with that, and Logan being Logan was the one who did the research for him. Before that Logan just assumed that soulmates weren’t for everyone, but was pleasantly surprised when it turned out the other way, now glad his brother would stop trying to get Logan to be interested in someone.

When he woke up to find a deep purple string on his right pinkie, Roman was far more excited then he was.

“Aren’t you excited? You have a soulmate! One that you’re destined to be with in any lifetime! You don’t seem excited.” Roman faded along at the end, rolling his eyes slightly at his younger brothers lack of enthusiasm.

“I am fortunate that I have a soulmate, yes, however, it will take time to find them, therefore I do not need to focus my entire life around this.” Logan said, making his points for the following conversation as he went along.

“Fine, whatever, don’t be excited,” Roman huffed dramatically with an eye roll as he turned to leave the room. Logan roller his eyes in response before following him to fake excitement as to not make his birthday uncomfortable for himself.

Virgil didn’t want to find his soulmate immediately. He had been questioning what he was interested in for a while but had yet to tell his mother about it in fear of isolating himself from his only remaining family, so he was not jumping to actually finding his soulmate, gaining more comfort in the fact he had one.

He and his mother had both agreed they would still go to the restaurant they always went to on their birthday, a place simply called the Salt and Pepper Dinner. Every year somehow they got there favorite waiter, Patton, and every year where extremely happy with the cheerful aura surrounding him.

This year, as usual, they were seated at their favorite booth courtesy of Patton. This year though, Virgil noticed the string starting to move, and he couldn’t believe it. He had hear stories of people traveling all over the word just for the string to move a tiny bit, yet the day he gets it, it starts moving? It didn’t seem possible. None of it did to him, but this he simply could not believe.

He stayed silent a majority of dinner, watching the string the entire time, only really noticing anything going on around him when it moved a second time. This time, it was getting longer, which made Virgil realize just how close he actually was to the person who was meant to love him forever.

This time, Virgil followed the string with his eyes, his mother playing on her phone and not noticing as her son stood and began towards the door.

Logan walked out of the restaurant needing a break from the entirety of his family asking him millions of questions about his soulmate string, and from the flirting his brother was doing with the waiter.

Walking outside after closing the door he saw another man coming out, not paying much mind to him in favor of his phone, before he felt a tug on his hand. The man walked up to him.

“Um, hi.” He said shyly, waving his left hand. Only when he stared the other down for a second did he realize that he could see the others soulmate string, observing is own hand to see the colors merging between the not so small distance between them.

Logan, not knowing what else to do, held out his hand, “Hello, my name is Logan. It is nice to meet you.”

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In every relationship there is someone who steals blankets, and someone who gets the blankets stolen from them. No matter the length of the relationship, this always seems to be proven true, at least in Roman and Patton’s case.

The first time the two shared a bed they weren’t dating yet, and Patton didn’t fight at all, scared of waking the shorter boy. The first time the two shared as a couple didn’t go much better for Pat, Ro again rolling over, curling into himself, taking the blanket with him. This time Patton did attempt to get some warmth back, tugging the blanket from beneath Roman to regain some warmth. This resulted in Roman turning around once again and throwing an arm over Pat, once again stopping the prince from trying to get the blankets back.

The first time Patton sees Roman awake when being a blanket hog, he doesn’t know how to feel. “You’re doing this on purpose?!”

“I’m not sure what you mean, doing what exactly?” Ro questions, pretending like he didn’t take the three blankets he and Patton were meant to share.

“Taking every blanket every night. Gimmie,” Patton said, trying to tug at least one quilt away softly, “gimmie or, or, or you’re banished!”

“You can’t banish me! This is my bed too!” Roman whined, not letting up his hold on any of the blankets. “How ‘bout this?” He then asked, curling around Patton completely.

“This will do for now. But if you steal my blankets one more time, you are banished.” Patton giggled, both knowing if he woke up and the blankets were gone Patton would probably push Ro onto the floor. Again.

⁃ Virgil is most definitely Coraline. He’d have the blue hair and absent parents and longing for a better life. I’m going off the movie for all my information on him, but Coraline just seems like a very Virgil character. Bonus points if everyone calls him Virgin like Coraline is called Caroline, which I don’t think would be weird in this universe considering Wybornne is an okay name in this universe.

⁃ Talking about Wybornne, I could either see Patton or Logan for him, but considering where I want the other characters to be, I think it would be best that Logan is the cat. He is intelligent and can travel across the worlds, will destroy people who are using information for bad, and is just a very Logan character. Bonus points if the mice are all Remus.

⁃ Patton is Wybornne. He is relatively friendly to Coraline and in the other world he’s sad but has to hide it due to the other mother. Patton is Wybornne.

⁃ Roman is Mr. B. Roman would absolutely come up with the idea of dancing mice and I believe Romans flexible so it just fits in my mind.

tw: they’re serial killers (this is in no way trying to romanticize serial killers or killing anything in general, I just watched a saw marathon and thought of morality, which made this)

⁃ Patton came out of absolutely no where, and he was the first of what would become a gang of killers who all worked in different ways. Pattons way of killing, many would argue, is the cruelest. He makes you play a game of morality. Choose who lives and who dies only to see the outcome in your final moments. He was given the name ‘Smiley’ by a random website and the name took off for him, trying to make light of terrible situations he puts his victims through.

⁃ Romans way of killing is extremely, theatrical, for lack of a better term. Much like Emma in ‘The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals’, the victim is forced in proximity of things and people around him that want to kill him. This is all done in an abandoned auditorium with a sea of mannequin as the audience. He uses the same place every time, but since it always looks the same from the outside no one quite knows what’s happening until someone goes missing. Roman was given the nickname ‘Director’ for obvious reasons.

⁃ Logan was more of a hit man than a serial killer. He kills with purpose and knows what he’s doing when he does want to do it. He kills simply by making it look like the most convenient thing ever for the victim to have completely done it themselves. He has no nickname and many believe no connections to the rest of the gang, that is if they believe he exsist at all. He could be a myth or just a bunch of coincidences, no one who’s under the gang would or could have any clue.

⁃ Virgil was someone who knew what he was doing. When he kills, he always feels like that’s what he can do, and that’s all he can do to prove he can fit in with others. The only person Virgil ever felt like he could share his thoughts with was Logan, so learning he was a serial killer wasn’t surprising considering Virgil’s track record in picking men. Virgil kills someone in there and weakest moments, turning their house into a place just for making them weak, then killing them.

⁃ Patton is the ringleader. He was first, he has he most experience, and when not talking about death and destruction, he has major paternal energy that makes the others feel they should listen to. (Roman in a different way than the other two)

⁃ Patton met Roman first. At the time Roman was homeless, doing what anyone in his situation would do, steal for the means to live. Patton saw him and saw something about him that he knew he wanted to see more of, but instead of approaching him, Patton murdered someone in front of Roman, taking his money and walking into an alley, feeling Romans eyes on him the whole time.

⁃ Here in Romans life he was getting desperate, but he didn’t know if he could bring himself to kill another human being. One day, though, some guy who looked clearly high end, walked up to Roman, and asked ‘How much?’ Roman was extremely insulted and tried saying he wasn’t for sale, before the other man tried to just decide Roman was, but that he wasn’t going to pay either way. Roman delved into his fight of flight response and was able to push away the man, Patton coming out of the shadows to slit the mans throat.

⁃ Roman was angry and amazed and conflicted. He recognized Patton for killing the other person in front of him and fainted, regretting it instantly which affected his dreams. Patton took him to a safer place but left him outside with money in his pockets and assumed he would never see the man again. He did, though. On the news.

⁃ Romans first appearance was the murders of 4 people, all in their mid-twenties at the movie theater closest to where Patton dropped him off. Roman did get caught this time but was able to prove he wasn’t there because he was with Patton at the time. Patton agrees to lie for the alibi and the two remain together in silence for a couple days, Patton continuing to kill.

⁃ They have a conversation about how much Roman loved killing because it made him be noticed, albeit for the wrong reasons. Pattons only response is that the best and most known murderers had a niche. The fourth fifth and sixth deaths are all found rotting in a scene in the abandoned auditorium eight days after they were all reported missing.

⁃ The two become affiliated and Roman feels he has nothing to be scared of for the fact that if Patton stops helping him he can simply help another killer that now knows him by reputation. Being extremely grateful for everything that he got because of Patton, Romans starts to develop a crush on the other man. That is the only thing he’s truly scared of anymore.

⁃ Patton met Logan when Lo was in the middle of a job, that’s the only way Patton knows Logan exists. Logan and Patton respect each other because of their reputations and have a mutual appreciation for each other, nothing more nothing less. Because the news only know of the two other killers most people group them together enough, those who believe he exists at least.

⁃ Virgil was never affiliated with anyone until his name started to get out there. His name became ‘Scarecrow’ for his habit of turning his victims safe space into their worst nightmares. He’s affiliated with no one until he dresses up the auditorium and people start thinking something is going on between him and Roman.

⁃ Logan admires Virgil’s work and introduces himself by killing people who bother Virgil in his day to day life, where Virgil is a bartender. Logan also follows Virgil’s schedule more so that the other sees him almost everyday, which makes Virgil interested.

⁃ They start dating as normal people. They had no idea the other was a serial killer, yet they both knew the other was hiding something. Virgil catches Logan doing research on the man many believe is a myth that may or may not be killing people. They have a conversation that is terrifying for the both of them, not knowing how much they can say without the other figuring something out. Logan catches on first and starts giving more hints and once they reveal to each other they just make out, happy they can tell the other everything and anything.

⁃ All four don’t officially meet each other until they all get this one guy in their cross airs, an aspiring police officer by the name Thomas Sanders. All of them hate the fact that he actually does somehow know the serial killers real names, and if he reveals that to anyone, there will have to be a lot more death.

⁃ They meet one day and all know each other, again only by reputation, and start talking about how much they admire each other’s work, and that leads to a conversation about maybe helping each other.

⁃ They say they should all get to do one thing to Thomas and after putting him through hell they agree Roman should be able to kill him since he’s been doing this the least amount of time. They do, and after that gets a lot of recognition because Thomas was a cop and there’s evidence is was the four (or three, depending on what you believe) of them. There starts to be more of a pattern at they start hanging out together more.

I don’t really know if I mean Florist but I don’t know what to call someone who can read flowers so eeh.

- Logan’s a tattoo artist because Lo covered in tattoos is gorgeous in my head. Being a tattoo artist, he gets a lot of stories about why people want the tattoos they are getting. One of his regulars, a guy named Patton, is always getting new flower tattoos and loves to explain them to Logan as he draws them. One day, Patton brings in a book of flowers that explain what all the different types of flowers means because he can’t talk and still wants Logan to know.

- Across the street there’s a florist shop that Virgil works at. At first he just needed a job but as he learned the language he started really liking getting involved in the stories of why each person needed or wanted flowers. Sometimes he made up his own stories about what the flowers meant if a person didn’t know but just thought they looked and smelled nice.

- Virgil has noticed the shop across the street but in the 6 months he’s lived and worked in the town, he never once has had a conversation with the man across the street that he believes owns the shop. One of his friends, Patton, goes over all the time and tells Virgil all about how nice he is in a less than subtle way to set them up, but Virgil just says he’d rather not every time. Patton’s own crush, Virgil’s boss Roman, also tries to encourage a couple conversations between the two but is a little distracted by his own gay panic every time Patton comes in the store.

- One day, Virgil just walks directly across the street after work and instantly regrets it as the bell chimes and he realizes Logan is the only one working and no one else is in the store. He’s not surprised by this considering the hour, but he does close the door and freak out when Logan asks if he can help him with something.

- The two spend a lot of time talking about what kinds of tattoos people in the town get and overall what kind of people are in town and the two realize they have worlds in common. Wanting to spend more time with him, Virgil asks Logan for advice on what kind of tattoo he should get and they spend a while with Logan goes on a passionate spiel about meaningful tattoos and tattoos that would just look nice on Virgil and V falls in love.

- Virgil makes an appointment for the next day to get a little dipper tattoo on his wrist that he’s really scared for but he wants to talk to Logan more so he brings flowers and asks Logan out.

I don’t know where I’m going with this. Just. Gimmie.

Patton wasn’t disappointed when he learned about soulmates and the string that was supposed to literally bind you to that other person. Patton learned about him as soon as he went to school, it was one of his earliest memories.

Patton was a little scared at first, why would he not have a soulmate? After expressing his concerns to his moms, they agreed to all do separate research and see what they could find.

After finding out that soulmate strings can appear on your eighteen birthday, Patton did calm down, and tried to look at the positive, as long as he had to wait, he and his soulmate would truly be together forever.

Roman was furious when he found out he didn’t have a soulmate. He was around 4 when he learned about them, and the second he looked at his hand and didn’t see anything he said resembling a string, he threw the biggest temper tantrum the school had ever seen. At least, that’s what the school had told his parents. He got grounded for causing a ruckus and thought that was the end of it.

That night, he stole one of his dads many laptops for the first time, and tried to look up what it meant if you don’t have a soulmate. He wasn’t too worried about it, with Logan having more and more nightmares his parents weren’t to concerned with checking in on Roman.

He didn’t find solace in the fact he had to wait 14 more years to even see a string signaling a soulmate, who could have known how long it would actually take.

Roman thought it was the end of the world that day, but he couldn’t have cared less when he met a boy in cooking class.

Roman had taken the class and a bunch of others to try and learn to live without maids and butlers to leave his house as soon as possible, Patton joined because who doesn’t like cookies.

Roman instantly knew he didn’t care about who or where his soulmate was, the man who he was assigned to sit next to was going to be his boyfriend.

It took Patton a little longer to fall in love with Roman. 45 Minutes, to be exact. After talking for one period he knew he wanted some kind of relationship with the other, but he also knew he wanted to be in love with his soulmate. He had waited 13 years already, why couldn’t he wait a few more months?

Patton didn’t need to wait the few months to know Roman was his soulmate. After spending three days he knew he was in way way over his head. He feel in love with him so quickly, but he could tell the feeling was going to last. After an insanely long talk about broadway, acting, baking, and dogs, Patton was planning there wedding in his head.

Roman in all honestly forgot about the string the day he woke up with it tied around his finger. All he could think was that it might be annoying to have it on and always leading in a different direction from the man he truly loved. He was scared to look beyond where it was tied in a neat little bow, the string white.

He didn’t have to worry at all though, after looking at the string and knowing that a silly piece of silk had the potential to ruin his life, he looked at where it was leading, starting to laugh as he turned around and saw that it was connected to Pattons hand, which was still tucked gently under his hand.

Patton, ever the light sleeper, woke up blinking to the laughter of his boyfriend, almost screaming when he saw the white string connecting them aside from there legs were intertwined.

“I knew I should never have thought otherwise,” Patton fishes as the string connects and expands to form a dove that choose to fly around the room.

“Did you really have your doubts?” Roman laughed again, overjoyed in a knowing way.

“The glass coffin gave me pause,” Patton quoted, causing Roman to smile for a completely different reason.

The two kissed and continued kissing for another hour, happy together, now 200% sure they were made for each other.

This has nothing to do with Goosebumps, it’s a sort of Wonderland AU. I kind of want to write this out but I want genuine plot ideas so have this for now.

- Virgil is the Alice in this scenario. He sees something run across his vision when no one else can see it or no one else is around in general. I’d like to think he would want to take time and be alone so he sits alone in the woods or by himself. What he sees isn’t really visible, but he feels like he can see something and he should go check it out. He follows this thing slowly until he falls into what seems to be one of those traps that’s just a pile of leaves covering a big hole, but in reality seems to be a hidden entrance. It seems to be this way because as soon as Virgil falls through, the leaves close right back up and there doesn’t seem to be anything holding them there.

- Virgil didn’t follow what he thought he saw in, he just fell in, and he stayed there for a couple seconds trying to figure out what happened. His friend, Patton, who he had been hanging out with, came back from wherever he was going briefly and walking back to Virgil before he noticed V walking away. He was unsure if he should have followed the black haired teen, but was scared of being far away from so decided to follow, only to watch him fall into seemingly nothing. He walks walks in the direction Virgil was walking and winds up just standing on top of him, freaking Virgil out to no end and being extremely confused as to where his friend went.

- Virgil is gets even more confused and scared as he tries to climb back up the hole he fell in, only for it to seem like every centimeter he climbs there’s another foot separating him from the entrance. Giving up, he tries to stick his arms out in front of him and winds up falling again, getting trapped in a glass elevator like situation as he can’t figure out what is up and what is down.

- Deceit is the Cheshire Cat in this situation, except he’s a snek. He comes and goes as he pleases, hisses instead of smiles, and wears a top hat but no shirt with the lower half of his body being a snek. He’s the first one to say hello to Virgil in the times V is floating in what seems like an abyss of pure nothingness. he’s the one who delivers the classic, “We’re all mad here,” line, which is the entire reason for this au.

- Remus is the thing Virgil thought he saw that he chases. Remus can manipulate shadows and whisper things in people’s ears to make them think they want to do something, like the daughter of the Boogey man from Monster High. He wanted to force Virgil to enter Horrorland because he thought he would be the quickest person around to break and was bored.

- Logan is considered the Mad Hatter around Horrorland. He’s Mad because he is insane to the people of Horrorland for being considered sane around people like Virgil and Patton. But most people think it’s simply a rumor because Logan seems like he’s hiding something but no one can figure out what. He’s still the Hatter part of the Mad Hatter because he wears a Top Hat and a Tie because please.

- Roman is the Red Knight of the realm. No ones knows anything about him other than the fact he’s dangerous. He’s dangerous because he could be for one side of an argument one second and the other the next. He has the ability to kill over his arguments but doesn’t in most cases. Most people think he’s stupid because of the fact that he has no allies or anything, but he’s a lot smarter than everyone thinks.

- Thomas is the King of the entire realm. He’s worshipped like a god and feared like a dictator. He has strong opinions but no one knows what they are and has mood-swings incredibly often, so much that he feels like he’s not in control of himself. He doesn’t like new people walking into his kingdom unannounced, that is the only thing that he’s stayed consistent about.