#squicknotes

- Virus usually manages to get up around 7am every morning regardless of how late he was up the previous night. On the rare days when he makes his own coffee first, he uses the more expensive grounds and checks social media and the news on his Coil while he waits for it to finish brewing. Most days he lingers in bed for a few extra minutes, uses the bathroom, has a nice long shower, and is ready to go by 8:45. He takes better care of his skin than Trip does and preens on little details like his hair and nails for twice as long. When he is ready to leave the house, he is READY - immaculate in appearance, with his clothes finely pressed.

- It takes them about an equal amount of time to initially spike their hair up. Trip does his separately, on his own or in his own bathroom, and has never once asked Virus for help or styling tips, so his end result always looks a little different (even though they get their hair cut at the same place). Their bangs being parted on opposite sides is not intentional mirroring - Virus just switches the direction of his whenever Trip attempts to copy him again. Eventually he will take the hint..

- Usually, they both go out for breakfast and get coffee together before work. Trip prefers coffee to tea but will only drink either with a ton of extra creamer and sugar added. Virus enjoys tea in the afternoon. They eat most of their meals out of the house, get lunch at various restaurants while patrolling the streets before finding somewhere else to go for dinner, or just grab those little pre-packaged and store-prepared foods from the nearest convenience mart and take those home/to the car.

- Trip drives, always. Virus doesn’t like having to pay so much attention to the road and other vehicles and he hates traffic jams, which tend to happen a lot in the more crowded parts of Midorijima. Meanwhile, Trip gets restless when he’s a passenger but generally keeps a cool head as the driver. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ However, most of the time they spend in the Old Resident District they just walk everywhere anyway. Sometimes public transportation is unavoidable but they both hate being shoved into a cramped space with so many other people. Virus usually picks a corner and Trip acts as a barrier between him and the rest of the world, stops the filthy commons from breathing too much of his air.

- The special jobs bestowed upon them by Toue Inc. and the yakuza mean they spend much of their day touring the island; they get home late most evenings, if they get back at all instead of finding a hotel somewhere closer to their next-day destination. Rather than providing them with any real sense of home, Virus’ apartment is just another place they can sleep and relax.

- Their evening routine varies depending on the day and how much work they still have to do. When he has time, Virus likes to pamper himself with long baths before bed, often taking a glass of white wine and an e-book in with him. Sometimes along with Hersha. Let’s pretend it’s because snake skin has some sort of gentle exfoliating effect and not because Virus is in fact a weird pervert with a sexually functioning robot animal companion capable of stimulating his erogenous zones. Oh who are we kidding...

- What they do in their own bedrooms is none of each other’s business but between you and me, I’m pretty sure Trip has a few lewd magazines purchased from a retro sex shop in the Old Resident District. Virus prefers videos, usually of the kinkier variety. He has a private laptop for just such occasions (the quality is better than on his Coil’s holo-screen). Trip tends to look at the same thing over and over but Virus is always seeking out new content. His tastes can be very experimental. As long as it’s something different to keep him from getting bored.

- When they’re both in the mood to just chill and pay attention to something, Virus and Trip will watch certain television shows together, especially crime dramas with an overarching plot. Neither of them really care if they miss a few episodes here and there. There is definitely something very wrong with them.

- On his own, Virus prefers the medical genre and science shows but generally reads more than he watches tv. Trip likes watching predatory animal documentaries, boxing and wrestling championships, and cartoons. He has a strange habit of putting the television volume on mute and just reading the subtitles intently even when Virus isn’t trying to focus or get any work done.

- When Trip isn’t falling asleep on the couch, he’s falling asleep sprawled out on his stomach on top of the bed, often still wearing his clothes. If he remembers to take them off, it’s nothing but slim boxers or pajama bottoms. Virus wears fancy pajamas to sleep in because he’s fancy and isn’t that the whole point of being rich, being able to wear fancy pajamas? wtf Trip

- Sometimes they will go to the membership gym at night and use the “special privileges” granted to them by their reputation with the yakuza to work out after hours when no one else is there, or else Trip will just lift weights at home while sitting on the bed or watching tv. He makes the most use out of the gym - the only exercise machine Virus has ever deigned to try in public is the treadmill. Otherwise, Virus prefers to just do light workout things like push-ups at home when no one is looking. 👀

- They do occasionally go jogging together some mornings, but only because Trip started following a short distance behind Virus to see why he kept leaving the house so early (wearing distinctly more casual sweatshirt hoodies and baggy pants than his usual attire). Naturally, Trip was caught - it’s hard to miss his figure even on a busy street - and Virus questioned curiously if he wanted to just come along next time. They both feel healthier for doing it, and Virus enjoys having yet another opportunity for people-watching whenever they stop to have a drink of water and re-tie their shoes.

- While outfitting his new apartment, Virus purchased a fine set of silverware, plates, glasses, and other eating utensils in case they ever entertained guests. He can’t be bothered to impress Trip, however, so they rarely use any of the fancier things. Instead, they just keep a box of disposable plastic forks, spoons, and chopsticks in their kitchen drawer and mostly eat things out from whatever containers they originally came in. Their fridge is filled with leftovers, if it’s not empty. It’s Trip’s responsibility to sort through them and throw things out, although Virus will often supervise from nearby and give him directions.

- Trip can actually be asked politely to perform a lot of basic grunt work tasks, as Virus quickly discovered (and hesitantly began to use to his own advantage) and he will usually do whatever is requested of him without making a big fuss, almost like it’s nothing. As such, Trip’s duties can range anywhere from reaching for things on the top highest shelf to getting their clothes over to the dry cleaners (they don’t do their own laundry). If it would be inconvenient for Virus, he gets Trip to do it. [For example, when they’re hiding Aoba and can no longer hire a maid, Trip takes over most of the cleaning because for some reason the noise from the vacuum gives Virus a migraine. WEERUS NEEDS TO LIE DOWN. He still has to clean the dust off his own canopy bed though, somehow. Picture that for a minute please.]

- Neither of them usually kill any spiders or other insects that find their way into the apartment. That’s a job for their AllMates.

- Trip will also make phone calls for household services whenever they need something delivered (or repaired) and can be depended upon to get the point across with just a few simple sentences and yes or no answers. One thing he is not allowed to do is order food for both of them, because he can never remember Virus’s exact preferences (even if he’s sitting there right next to him giving him instructions while he’s on the phone). Trip isn’t stupid, by the way, he’s just distracted. He can’t be bothered with much that requires him to focus.

- In return, Virus handles the finances and keeps track of their day-to-day appointments. He can get a little impatient with having to constantly remind Trip what is on their agenda but he doesn’t really mind. It’s not such a big deal.

- Both of them do the grocery shopping, usually together. Otherwise Trip comes home with nothing but instant food, junk, and desserts. Uirusu, meanwhile, has a pretentious palate which includes a lot more greens than Trip is used to. Only the finest cooked steaks for him.

- Virus thinks it’s fun to cook for an interesting hobby. When he does the grocery shopping alone, he typically only buys expensive ingredients for making food from scratch. Unfortunately for Trip, that usually means there’s not enough left in the cupboards for him to snack on and he might spend a few minutes just sulking around the kitchen, staring dolefully at the empty shelves. Sometimes he will resort to eating leftover dry cereal straight out of the box, just for that satisfying crunch.

- On the rare occasion that Virus actually feels like going to the trouble of making a meal, he will enlist Trip’s help with the preparation. Trip is less picky about making messes and getting his hands dirty, which makes him better at handling raw meat, kneading bread dough, whipping any kind of batter, etc. He just goes for it, gets the job done, says “oops” when he inevitably spills something, and cleans it up no problem. Virus tends to be more careful and precise, which, while not necessarily a bad thing - it’s good for measuring ingredients and dicing vegetables - does make everything take longer.

- Both of them wash the dishes afterward, or rather, Trip washes the dishes and Virus dries them on a hand towel. If Trip puts anything in the dishwasher, Virus takes it out again and rewashes it himself later because all dishwashers are crap. Even in the future. We’ve got lifelike androids but we still can’t invent a functional dishwasher. C’mon now, step it up Toue Inc.

- Trip orders most of his sweets and baked goods from a delivery service. He doesn’t make any of them himself and neither does Virus, who can only bake scones and other basics without getting impatient. Trip is all about instant gratification when it’s just him and there’s no greater purpose, meaning he would rather not bother with preparing his own meals and is generally a if-it-takes-longer-to-make-than-a-poptart-no-thanks-I-don't-want-any kind of guy.

- While he enjoys eating and trying new things, Trip can also get bored with his food halfway through. It’s not uncommon to find things like an ice cream sandwich with a couple of bites taken out of it lying about the house in strange places because Trip didn’t feel like eating it after all and abandoned it somewhere to melt instead. Welter disposes of his leftover snacks whenever he finds them, upon Virus’s instruction.

- Oh, also, Trip feeds Welter, even though he’s really not supposed to due to the whole robot animal with no digestive tract thing. Welter is not always on board with this, as it requires more frequent visits to the maintenance office.

On that note, I have written a lot so I’m going to stop here. If you read all of this and got all the way down here, wow congrats, you are a dedicated ViTri fan. 👏 You’re welcome to let me know what your own thoughts are too. I enjoy hearing other people’s headcanons. Maybe we could compare. Talk dmmd to me.

Trip warns Virus before he tosses a dangerously conflicting chemical into the beaker in their shared science class to cause an explosion and they both quickly duck under a table before it can go off.

They steal a packet of laxatives out of their teacher’s desk and put it in the guards’ coffee to watch the ensuing disaster. While they’re there, they sample booze for the first time from the teacher’s private stores in the bottom drawer.

And finally, they let all of the lab research animals out of their cages and stay put just long enough to see if the snakes will eat the rats if they’re all set free in the room together. This story was actually the most important part of the original plot and everything else came later, so I’ll definitely be writing this one in more detail. Spoiler alert: was it all Toue’s idea from the beginning? oooh