Guys, gals and non binary pals, wanna share your predictions on this?
I predict that the next Sanders Asides is going to be either an episode with just the sides, without Thomas or maybe a flashback episode? Maybe. I mean, he did say it would be “a tad different”
I know that asides isn’t connected to the main plot but I want it to start off with Virgil waking up in his room. He checks his phone and goes “sh*t I overslept” then gets out of bed fast. He checks his phone to see that they recorded a video without him so he needs to find out what happened. First he runs into Remus who also has no clue what happened. Then he runs into the rest of the sides one by one who gives a flashback of their interpretation of the events. Afterwards Virgil can’t really make sense of it so he does his “you tried, you failed, let’s go to sleep” thing then takes a nap.
Patton does not have a black and white morality, you guys are just biased and blind to canon
One of the many things that bother in me in this fandom is the completely fanon and false narrative that Patton is some sort of dictator who cast away the Dark Sides (a term coined by ROMAN, even Virgil calls them the “others”) like they’re evil or something. Nevermind that Janus is responsible for keeping Thomas’s secrets and they only appear when THOMAS is ready to see them. Patton has been trying to be open to others since season one. He was the first Side to accept Virgil and try to be nice to him while everyone else either tolerated or hated him. PATTON Was the one to notice that Virgil did not like being the “villain” and was the only one to assure him that he wasn’t.
From then Patton only grows more accepting of Virgil (and in turn causes Thomas to be less wary of him as well)
He is the first one to notice and point out that Virgil’s absence was the reason Thomas was acting so off. He calls Virgil “one of us” while, let me repeat, everyone still hated him.
Let’s not forget that Patton said “kiddo, simply put, Deceit is the inner coach that acts with the one intention of self-preservation.” He said that in the same episode Janus IMPERSONATED him and tried to get Thomas to lie (something Patton doesn’t agree with.) Patton still acknowledged that Janus had the best intentions for Thomas, even if he himself didn’t agree with them. In general, Patton tries his best to listen to them or try to understand their perspective or at least not demonize them (unlike Roman, who seems to have a very fairytale view of morality, where there’s a hero and a villain).
Remus is a different case, I’ll agree, but again, he is INTRUSIVE THOUGHTS. Intrusive Thoughts are very different from anxiety and deceit/self-preservation. While the other two can be be good for someone, sometimes they’re even NEEDED, intrusive thoughts are your brain’s way of torturing you with everything you don’t stand for, everything that you fear, or hate (I’d know, my intrusive thoughts regularly torture me with graphic images of my cat getting hurt). Unlike anxiety or lies, there’s no “good uses” of Intrusive thoughts.
And Patton, like many people, thought that having these thoughts made Thomas (and himself, as he’s the Morality) a bad person. DWIT wasn’t about accepting Intrusive thoughts as something good, it was about making Thomas and Patton (and Virgil) realize that HAVING them didn’t make you immoral. That it’s NORMAL to have them, and it’s only a problem if these things DON’T bother you. Even throughout out the episode, Patton tried his very best not to say bad things about Remus (and failed but still). Especially considering just how uncomfortable and disturbed he was
(unwanted and DISTURBING, doesn’t sound like a good thing to me)
At the end of the video, Patton admits to being too strict and setting an impossible standard, for which he apologizes. He promises to be less strict, and says he can’t promise he won’t slip up again (as he did in PoF). Patton has been thinking a certain way for 30 years and he can’t completely change that just because Logan whipped out some psychology facts.
Even with that, Patton is still allowed to have BOUNDARIES (especially with Remus, consider Remus talks about murdering Thomas’s best friend and his family.) And as far as we know in canon, Remus only CAUSES intrusive thoughts, he has shown no sign of “experiencing” them like Virgil does with anxiety.
Patton being uncomfortable with Remus and the things he says is no different from Virgil being uncomfortable Patton’s overly cute nicknames.
As for Janus, well, I’ve already said Patton knew he wasn’t evil (and the first to remind Thomas of that.) After PoF, he listened to Janus, made sure to apologise to Thomas, AND let Janus know that he had a seat at the table. He also made sure to use Janus’s real name, knowing it took a lot of trust and effort for him to tell them, AND trusted him enough to take care of Thomas.
In conclusion: Patton does not have a black and white morality. I’d argue that he’s the greyest side of them all, actually.
