#toxic royality

Backstory:

He first fused when Thomas and the sides were 12 and started out as more of a protector, helping the sides cope with their fears and insecurities, while also protecting Thomas from any bullying or bad stuff. Though, as Thomas grew older, Fovios started being more interested in himself, growing more and more insecure every time he fused and being stricter and more invested in becoming someone who has no flaws, someone who is perfect and who everyone admires and looks up to. In doing so, he instead destroyed his friendships with the other sides and even Thomas, who never really stopped liking him but grew weary of him and his actions. He eventually not only aimed to be perfect himself but started pointing out other’s flaws and attempted to “fix” them, in his own twisted way. As Roman grew older, he started to adopt the same thinking as Foivos, letting his insecurities take over and getting more defensive to hide it. He didn’t want to fuse with Patton anymore, no matter how addictive it was to be Foivos. He can’t say he never fused with him again, though, when Patton did convince him that “it will be better this time” and “Foivos will be himself again”...Now that Roman thinks about it, maybe Foivos didn’t get his fascination with perfection just from Roman...

Relationships:

Logan - he used to get along with Foivos, who helped him cope with his emotions and sometimes would even assist him with his experiments. Although he would never admit it, he did see Foivos as a sort of father figure. Did. After he started to grow older, grow more distant, more...morally strict? He didn’t talk to Logan about emotions anymore, instead telling Logan that he didn’t have emotions, or that he should get over himself, doesn’t he see how much more Fivos feels on regular basis? Instead of assisting him, he criticized his experiments, and so did Logan with Foivos’ obsession with perfection. The two got into more and more fight as they got older and eventually Logan would lock himself in his room whenever Foivos fused again.

Virgil - Starting out as a huge comfort for Virgil, even when he was a dark side, the two were close, almost always by each other’s side, discussing coping mechanisms, watching Disney or just relaxing in comfortable silence. Foivos helped Virgil with his panic attacks more often than any other side, sometimes fusing just to help him. Soon after Foivos started to grow obsessed, even before it raised any suspicion, red flags were going off in Virgil’s mind whenever he saw him. He quickly, but still painfully, distanced himself from the other, watching from afar as one of his dearest friends grew more obsessed and morally strict, eventually seeing Virgil as a villain who just used him for his gain, corrupting him. Virgil tried to talk him to his senses many times, but Foivos dismissed him, either shutting him down entirely or offering to make Virgil perfect with him. Couldn’t Foivos see? He was already perfect to Virgil a long time before it became his life goal.

Deceit - The two got along just swell, Deceit being self-preservation and Foivos being the literal protector of the sides. Sure, their opinions sometimes clashed, but they would always find a compromise that would make Thomas happy. Deceit couldn’t help but start slowly but surely falling for Foivos, spending more time with him just for fun than just for Thomas’s happiness and gain. They always say that love is blind, I guess that’s one of the few that is true. Deceit didn’t see, or rather, didn’t want to see Foivos’ new obsession with being perfect and pure, going as far as changing himself so that he would love him more. It wasn’t until...the Remus accident that Deceit finally snapped out of his fantasies and for once, was thankful for hearing the truth.

Thomas - You could say Foivos was a mentor of sorts to Thomas, encouraging him to follow his dreams, to show that poem to the teacher, to give that flower to that boy. Foivos made him certain he was a good person...but not so much as he grew older. Foivos always told him that no one’s perfect, so why is he himself chasing after perfection? He always told Thomas to be the best he can be, so why is he so mean to others? It didn’t sit right with Thomas. Rather than to listen to Foivos, his dreams and morals combined, he instead chose to listen to something much more reliable at the time, anxiety. 

Remus - Remus never liked Foivos. Maybe Roman forgot, but Patton was the reason they split in the first place, he should be fusing with him instead! He got the feeling that Foivos never liked him anyway, so that’s a win-win, right? Foivos didn’t have to be nice to him, and Remus...could be Remus. He wasn’t really surprised when Foivos began to be what he is now, but that didn’t mean it didn’t hurt. Foivos was partly his brother, after all, of course it hurt. Of course Remus tried to do something about it, in his own Remus way, only to cause Foivos to snap. For the first time in his entire being, Foivos lost it, cursing Remus out, yelling at him and even going as far as to raise a hand on him, if it wasn’t for Virgil and Deceit stepping in between them.