ok not to engage with sanders sides on main but anyways: when i see people who really, actually do believe that canonverse logan should ‘become a dark side and go apeshit’, it kind of makes me realize that none of you like. actually know 1. his character and 2. his conflict
like, not to be overdramatic, but literally everyone in canonverse sanders sides has had beef with logan at some point.
like, the light sides don’t like it when they dont give them the answers they like (and plus they’ve repeatedly clowned on him (roman especially)), janus impersonated and silenced him multiple times, remus probably fuckin hates the dude since he’s the only one who can put him in his place,
like, if i’m being honest, the only one who probably hasn’t outright hated logan at any point is virgil, and even then they’d still argue at some point because like. let’s be honest, virgil and logan do directly counter each other at the point.
everyone, not just the light sides, but EVERYONE, is uncomfortable with logan at some point. when you’re in an environment like that, you don’t just lash out. you don’t ‘go apeshit’ and you don’t try to pick sides(pun not intended) with that sort of shit.
you shut yourself in. you force everyone out and you seclude yourself from everyone because the only person who hasn’t hurt you is you.
it’s not the breakdown that we see from roman and virgil. it’s not a “i thought i was your hero” or a “i was one of them”. but it’s still a breakdown. just slower. less noticeable.
not a lightning flash.
a slow, slow flood.
and the saddest part of it all is that no one notices, because he doesn’t express himself in the way that other people do. he doesn’t emote like he used to anymore because he got mocked for it, and he got rid of it as a survival tactic. but now that he doesn’t emote or show anything about how he really is, they don’t know how he’s doing.
and they never check in like they do with the others because, unfortunately, there’s sort of a part of all of them that don’t… really care how logan’s doing. i mean, look at the line from the puzzle song:
“no one wants to be a joke-”
“but a life without jokes is incomplete”
i’m not gonna include virgil in this because i watched the scene over and over again, and virgil was clearly taken aback by the line, so he clearly didn’t expect it. he was interrupted by character thomas, patton, and roman. so the latter three all acknowledge that yes, they do treat logan like a joke, and then they continue to do it.
and that’s fucked up! that is some fucked up shit that they said to logan! and it bothered me from the moment the song came out that everyone treated that line like it was NORMAL, because it’s not! that is a blatant normalization of their mistreatment of logan, and that’s fucked up!
and to be honest, i thought svs:r was going to be the thing that made everyone realize it? as the story progresses, we see logan distancing himself more and more from, well, everyone to the point where he’s not even physically present anymore. but i guess everyone else, just like all of the other sides, didn’t really get that.
by the way, this isn’t me saying that all the sides are terrible and me saying that i think that all of them are canonically unsympathetic and that logan is free from all wrongdoing. they’re not, he’s not, and they shouldn’t be. they’re flawed, incomplete sides of one single person, that wouldn’t make any logical sense. i’m just a dumb logan fan that wants better for him, and i’m incoherently writing long posts at mignight about how much i want that for him.
anyways i hope this is coherent enough to read later bc im tired and i’m not going to proofread this i’m just gonna send it in queue and hope that you all can understand me. ill talk about how much i love logan and virgli’s interactions in the series later. maybe. depends on how y’all are like when i post this.
