#willowkeyes headcanons

But when he's on the couch, he's being watched as the others all know that he works outside of his room when he's having a bad day. They leave him be, maybe handing him a cup of coffee and a tray of easy snack foods, but otherwise they go about their day and just keep an eye on him.

When he flops over, that's when they have to decide who's gonna go over and help him out. If it's Roman, he moves everything aside and let's Logan put his head in his lap. He just talks about something random (usually his Imagination adventures) and moves his fingers through Logan's hair until he's asleep.

Patton goes over, asks if he would like a hug, then brings him up into his lap for cuddles. He tells him how good of a job he's doing and that he's allowed to have a break until Logan falls asleep.

Remus helps him sit up and they watch animal documentaries that they've both seen a hundred times over, but its easier to talk about things when he doesn't need to think as much. It usually ends with Logan passing out mid-sentence, but Remus catches him and makes sure he's comfy before letting him sleep.

Virgil puts a weighted blanket over him, puts a pillow under his head, and sits on the floor beside him as he scrolls through Tumblr. Sometimes he shows Logan something that's either a fact or a meme that he's shown him before, but mostly its just a comfy silence between the two of them.

I’ve read fics where Remus dislikes or is against going to a therapist (for himself, I haven’t seen one where he tells others not to) but I can see Remus liking the concept of therapy the most.

He’s associated with Intrusive Thoughts, Disturbing Imagery and Religious Language. He also enjoys chaos, going against the grain and saying whatever comes to his head. But he also talks about how repression is bad.

He wants Thomas to talk about what’s going through his head. He may want him to think about the more ‘juicy’ dark thoughts of his, but I would believe that he’d be glad that Thomas talked about some of his issues with someone who wasn’t apart of himself. To get through some of his issues of dealing with his social anxiety, without having to convince his personification of anxiety to step back for three seconds. And other things too.

I can see him wanting Roman to talk about his insecurities, possibly even attempting to nudge the topic out of him. Not the best thing to do, but he wants his brother to be happy with himself.

He wants Logan to stop suppressing his emotions. Maybe get mad at him for throwing a chair at him mid-way through a meeting or something. Get him to let out some of that building anger.

Virgil? To talk to Janus and make up already so that the three of them can have movie nights again.

Janus? The same as Virgil. And to maybe talk through his trust issues a bit too.

And he wants Patton to let out the ‘bad’ emotions too, because the world isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Sometimes, it’s shitty days and wanting to punch a wall for seemingly no reason. He doesn’t want Patton to actually punch a wall (although it would be burned into his mind forever and would be awesome to watch), but to let it out a bit more.

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So yeah.

I see Remus as the advocate of chaotic balance who just wants Thomas to go see a real therapist while the Sides go see one for themselves. Then maybe he could talk about his own insecurities at some point.

Basically I’m stuck with this headcanon forever now because I love it too much and I really love crows and ravens and the idea of winged Sides so welcome to my list of what Logan does that’s birb related.

- Logan is the one that reminds the other Sides when Thomas is speaking to someone who has hurt them in the past. He also does this as soon as Thomas sees them, so that the others don’t try to initiate something that would put Virgil and Janus on edge. 

What if Roman’s favourite colour was yellow but ever since he was a child, Patton had told him to go with red since it reminded him of Janus. But he never said that, and just gave Roman red clothes to wear.

He likes yellow as it was almost green, but not quite (like how he is both like and not like Remus in a lot of ways). 

He likes yellow because it reminds him of the happiness Thomas feels whenever his partners do some kind, romantic gesture.

He likes yellow because red seems more for anger and blood and rage. He knows that red could mean passion too, but even his synesthesia makes him see a lot of yellow, with some pinks and whites and blues when love and passion were said. His own traits even screamed ‘yellow’ to him.

He knew that Anx- I mean Virgil’s colours where more for royalty. He saw red cloaks on kings and queens, but there’s an actual Royal Purple that suited them much better.

After meeting Thomas, his favourite colour is still yellow. But more because he sees Janus in it and it makes him love him even more. The first syllable of his name looked yellow, with the second half looking grass green. 

He loved yellow because it started reminding him of Janus. He hated red because “Dark Sides” was mostly shades of red to him and he thinks his own synthesthesia is torturing him.

Then he loved yellow even more when Janus held his hands between all six of his yellow gloves and kissed him.

Now he gets to wear yellow all the time, under the guise of wearing his boyfriends clothes because they remind him of him. And also paints his nails yellow. Gets rid of a lot of the red in his room for yellow. Yellow roses. Yellow and red sash that the others don’t question. 

Only Janus knows his love for yellow. And Janus shares his colour with him. 

- Patton is AceAro and he only found out after talking to Logan about it. He loves everyone like they are his child except Logan; who is like the ultimate bestie to him. 

- During his talk with Patton, Logan learnt that he is Demiromantic. He swore Patton to secrecy after tearing up because it lifted a weight off his heart after saying that he is homosexual for years now. This has caused him to research everything about sexuality in case any of the other Sides ever need help with it.

- Remus has known that he is asexual for years now and both Janus and Virgil know this about him. He told Roman years ago, but he wasn’t believed so he didn’t bother mentioning it again.

- Roman is Pansexual but is incredibly insecure about it as he sees that as the Romantic side, he is ‘supposed’ to have the same sexual attraction as Thomas. Only Janus knows this and he has zero idea on how to help.

- Logan wants to dye his hair dark blue and purple like a galaxy but is afraid of being seen as immature! Also put some star decorations in his hair! He loves the stars SO DANG MUCH-

- Logan helps Janus with his shedding. Remus helps whenever Logan is busy with Thomas, but the Logical Side has been helping him since before Virgil was a Light Side. No matter how much Janus tiredly threatens tells Logan to stop caring because hes a Dark Side or whatever; Logan stays and helps.

- Roman and Remus are touch starved. If one is feeling it badly, the other often feels it too.

- Only Patton and Janus knew King Creativity and they never have, or will, talk about him. Ever.

- Remus loves Disney songs and all those kinds of songs that seems more like a ‘Roman’ thing to like; but he too sings Anastasia’s “Once Upon A December” and Coco’s “Remember Me”. Who do you think gets them stuck in Thomas’ head? Those count as Intrusive Thoughts too.

- That said, Roman does let himself sing a more ‘Remus-y’ song whenever he’s DOUBLE sure that he’s alone. 

- Roman thinks that Logan and Patton are perfect beings with perfect ideas for Thomas and that he ruins them with his own not-so-perfect ideas. Seriously, this boi has to learn that none of them are good or bad...

- Remus is the one to go to if the others are having an anxiety/panic attack. Why? He’ll shove a cup full of ice cubes at them to chew on (or get a lemon if they can’t handle the cold), find their perfect movie/song because he somehow found that out, and he will not let them be alone. Want hugs? He’ll cling to them like an octopus. Want some space? He’ll do something off to the side that always lets them know he’s there. 11/10 distraction for the brain.

- Janus can and will use six arms to hug others. Every time. He is the best hugger out of everyone and they had a competition that says so. He keeps the medal Roman had made for the winner in his room.

- Their bedrooms and the rooms that Thomas can visit are two different rooms. The rooms that enhance their specific traits are usually used to help push Thomas into a certain direction; such as Logan using his room to help him think more logically.

- Janus hates his room because it causes him to lie ALL the time. He wants to be known as self-preservation as well as Deceit but even his own room is fighting against him. So he rarely goes there and hangs out in his bedroom instead.

- Roman painted everyone’s bedroom doors. Once he and Remus grow closer, the doors suddenly get more intricate and Roman (after debating with himself about it) gives Remus the credit he deserves for it.

- After said door painting; Logan gets the twins and asks them to paint his room for him. Something new that won’t distract him. He half expects it to be painted like a science lab or something, but instead he finds the walls to be the same colour while his ceiling is now a galaxy that blends halfway down the walls. It distracts him from his work sometimes; but he doesn’t seem to mind and he’s more productive in the long run.

- Remus baked with Patton one time and his impulsiveness helped create the Crofter Cookie™ which Logan is often caught sneaking third and fourth (secretly twelve) cookies.

- Which he shares with Janus, who secretly loves Crofters as well.

- Roman loves strawberry everything; but kiwi’s are a close second and he’s only ever told Virgil about it. 

- Logan lost a bet with Roman the same time Janus lost a bet with Remus. A week later; the other Sides, Thomas and Friends watched them perform Non-Stop. Logan as Hamilton, Janus as Burr with the twins being Eliza and Angelica. Logan got more into it then anyone thought he would.

- Janus is a huge fan of Leslie Odom Jr. and seeing him on Sanders Sides made him scream into a pillow at every chance he had between recordings. 

- Patton checks on everyone before he goes to bed. And now that Janus and Remus are more involved with Thomas, he checks on them too. The two of them have no idea how to handle this new routine because he’s just so sincere about it!

- Logan loves hugs and no one can tell me otherwise. He’s just VERY particular on how the hug has to be and he once spent three hours with Roman on trying to get the right hug. Somehow, Remus got the Perfect Hug first try.

- Janus has the floofiest of hair that NOTHING can stop. Remus often jokes about how his hair can break a sword in half. Often followed by Remus breaking a sword over Janus’ head without the Side flinching at all.

- If ANYONE is in trouble, Virgil knows about it and he ain’t afraid to punch a bitch. Or use the fire extinguisher as punching doesn’t stop fires. He’s always the first and last on the scene. 

- Remus is teaching Logan self-defence. Janus is teaching him how to dance. The Side wants to be ready for literally anything. 

- Remus loves eating bone marrow and on Thanksgiving, he’s able to debone the entire turkey. No one knows how; but he’s happy to eat that while the others eat turkey. 

- Virgil is part spider and eventually builds up the courage to tell the others. Patton is a little afraid at first, but eventually he’s got all eight legs around him in the best hug with his emo son. He’s still working on looking him in the eyes when more then two are showing...

- Virgil, Remus and Logan don’t need as much sleep as the other Sides. Logan and Virgil only need four hours, while Remus only needs two hours. While Janus likes sleeping as much as possible, which is hard to do with Remus around.

- Janus has stolen every pillow and blanket in the Mindscape and Thomas’ real house JUST to build a pillow fort. At one in the morning. They were all impressed, but also cold so now he has to share when he makes them (at a better time as well please- )

- Janus doesn’t like the feeling of anything on his face or scales; which makes looking after them difficult. He has to be reminded to moisturise them weekly and Remus has learnt not to dump slime or anything over his head because he has had an anxiety attack about it once and he never wants it to happen to him again. 

- Virgil and Janus love scalding hot showers. Patton and Roman like it rather warm, Logan likes them lukewarm and Remus loves them to be freezing cold.

- No touching Virgils hair! No touchie! He hates it and prefers light circles rubbed over the back of his hands or on his knees instead. Roman on the other hand LOVES head scritches and always melts into a Princey puddle of relaxation when he gets them.

Remus is Intrusive Thoughts, as we all know, but if he ever actually saw a REAL terrible car crash? A REAL dead body? A REAL malformed animal? One of the others REALLY badly hurt?

Everyone has a specific animal trait (I have an idea for Roman that i’ll pocket for later and I think Virgil is spider boi) and so I believe Logan is a Crow. This isn’t an analysis or anything; I just think it is since Corvid’s are the one bird species that have puzzle solving skills and that reminds me of Logan.

Sleep Headcanon: Roman sleeps curled up and usually holding something in his arms -usually one of the plushes the others have given him- as it helps ground him when he wakes. He often has some confusion in the morning if he’s actually awake or not without it, due to the very lucid dreams that he has.

Sad Headcanon: Both Remus and Roman have developed Touch Starvation after the two stopped hanging around each other. Both of them have yet to tell anyone too.

Happy Headcanon: Virgil often calls Remus his ‘big brother’ in private and once Roman hears of this, he is immediately jealous and strived to become his big brother too. He succeeded.