Sanders Sides Tickle Fic Oneshots

Hands-On Research (Loceit)

Author's Note: SURPRISE!! This is completely off the cuff because of someone amazing on Tumblr who asked me to collab with them! If you like my fics, definitely go check out "ticklish-sides" on their blog over there. They have so many amazing fics and drabbles they have been doing for Tickle Tober and other things. So in this fic, they roleplayed Deceit and I roleplayed Logan. This was so much fun to write and we did it in about a span of an hour and a half. Very good timing for a fic. It's just deceit loving time in this book okay? It just is. XD Alright well let me know if you enjoyed and want to see more collabs. I love working with people who have different styles.

Hands-On Research

Ship: Loceit

Words: ~ 2855 ~

Warnings: Deceit. (I think that's it...let me know if I forgot something.)

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     There were many things about the other sides that perplexed Logan to no end. Yes they were all imaginary and things didn't have to make sense, but if there was no logical reasoning behind something he got frustrated. For instance, when Roman obtained his conjuring abilities when Thomas was very young, he spent months holed up in his room trying to make sense of it all. Or that time in Patton's room and the atmosphere reacted violently when Patton began to cry. There was no explanation behind any of it. Eventually, he grew tired and only focused on himself, so that he might be the only thing that made sense amongst all the craziness that was the other sides.

     Eventually, he found love in researching the mind palace again. He stopped trying to figure everything out, and instead tried to understand the things he saw around him. He looked into everything like it was something to be discovered rather than something to be nit-picked. Perhaps it was the Sander's Sides videos that had helped him come to this point, but the arrival itself did not matter. Logan was currently pondering over certain aspects of the dark sides that made no sense to him. Deceit was the one who bamboozled him the most. Sure he was the most secretive side and all that, but he had physical attributes that were different from all of them.

     He had scales for one, but his significant amount of arms was the attribute his mind had been wrapped up in for almost three hours. From what he had seen in past experiences, Deceit had six arms. Six hands that would come out of the black of his capelet and do whatever needed to be done that required extra hands. This got him thinking about what lie underneath that cape. Were the hands connected to his body? Were they conjoined at the bicep and grow when he needed them? Did he have more than six arms? All these questions plagued him and he wasn't sure how to get a direct answer except if he went to the deceitful side himself. But, he wasn't sure if he would give a truthful answer.

     So, he came up with a plan of attack on how to best solve Deceit's "Arm" Mystery. He would start with simple questions he knew he could answer yes or no to. Locating the Deceitful side was the biggest problem, however. Deceit came at the most random of times. Well, random to him and catching him in a moment of tranquility with not having Virgil or Patton on his back would be hard. However, his chance came when he noticed Deceit sitting in the commons one day while the rest of the sides were helping Thomas with a video. This might be his only chance, so he took it in stride.

     "Hello, Deceit. I have...a question to ask. Do you...happen to have six armpits?"

     Deceit slowly looked up from his book with an arched eyebrow, looking at Logan dryly. "Is there a reason for this ridiculous question, Logan?" He shifted his capelet a little, hiding his sides and anything attached to them from Logan's sight.

     Logan took a deep breath and composed himself. Sometimes research could be exhilarating, but he needed Deceit to know he was serious about this. "I've been noticing that you have multiple arms, but I'm not sure how that is possible. All the other sides, that I know of, have the same limbs except you. For a while, I thought you would conjure them, but that hypothesis was deemed false when I first saw them slipping out of your capelet. I then began to keep track of how many arms you have, and the number I have come to is three on either side. Six arms in total. But, I was not sure you would answer any questions I asked you, so I kept my first question simple. Do you have six armpits? That would determine if they are actually connected to your body or not." Logan took a few steps into the room and sat on the couch opposite Deceit, hoping not to chase him off.