random little thing i wrote for the tma!tss au
Logan Sanders and Simon Fairchild weren’t as different as two people —well… not as much people as beings at this point— could be, they were both avatars of The Vast, they both were human once and they still look that part, they both have their webs of found families (funnily enough, Logan’s included an avatar of The Web), but that’s where Logan would say the differences end. Simon was flashy, always winking at his victims with a witty line before fucking off and leaving them to their torture, while Logan prefers feeding off his victims in ways that won’t have his name flagged in his place of employment. Simon was charismatic, somehow getting almost everyone to like him, even avatars who almost always had their guard up seemed to soften it just a little around him, on the flip side, most people Logan knew perceived him as stand-offish and cold at first.
Then, of course, Logan wasn’t a Fairchild. Logan has nothing against the Fairchilds, he talks with some of them every once and. A while, has worked with them a couple times, but truth be told, Logan didn’t quite get the point, and especially not the point of him joining it, and of course there would be the complication of how his husband, Patton —a Beholding avatar— would tie into the family of Vast avatars, would he be considered a Fairchild by association? Logan probably wouldn't have to worry about any of the Fairchilds being cruel towards, or trying to harm, Patton, since as far as he knows, there isn’t much tension between The Vast and The Eye, but Logan isn’t completely sure about the others. Remus, Janus, Virgil, and Roman: avatars of The Corruption, The Web, The Dark, and The Desolation, respectively.
That was the main difference between the Fairchilds and Logan’s family: the Fairchilds were organized, a group of similar Vast avatars collaborating to inspire fear in those predisposed to it, like any family, they likely had their arguments, but they were uniform and neat. Logan’s family, though, was messy; a bunch of random avatars of different fears that happened to share the last name Sanders, (or at least Janus said it was completely random) except Remus and Roman who were siblings —twins, in fact. They didn’t work together to help each other out with appeasing their entities, in fact, several of them were constantly at each other’s throats, but for better or for worse, their paths were intertwined, with no real way out in sight.
Logan Sanders-Sanders and Simon Fairchild were not as different as two beings can be, saying that would be hyperbolic and inaccurate, but they were not similar.
Yet despite all of that, Simon wouldn’t stop nagging Logan to join the family. Maybe it was a small mercy that he wasn’t trying to marry Logan into the Fairchilds at least, but there weren’t many more of those mercies. No, Simon’s method involved trying to “adopt” Logan, except Logan wanted no part in it. Simon was always dropping by Logan and Patton’s house and letting himself in, and once he had given Patton the “shovel talk”. Patton and Logan had been dating for several years and had just gotten engaged before that happened. That was also the time Logan had chased the man out with a broom.
Good times.
