Mouse in Another Life (G/t and Animal Shifter AU)

Encounter with the Only Human

Do you want to know one interesting fact about the Side's animal forms? Not many people would think so, but the sides don't always have control over their animal forms. Each Side has a degree of control, but most changes are brought upon by a loss of emotions.

For example, Logan tends to have the most control over his transformations. Out of all the Sides, he has the most control because he can usually look at the situation with a logical side, calming himself down. Not saying he has total control, there have been a few times when Roman and him have gotten into an argument, causing his transformation to be forced.

Now thinking about it...any time Logan is forced to transform into a bird; it is always because Roman gets under his skin and tries to out reason him on decisions with a completely different outlook than his own.

Patton and Virgil have the least control over their transformations. All it takes is for Patton to be overwhelmed with happy feelings and excitement, accidentally triggering a transformation. For the dark-colored side, it's always the opposite. He just needs to feel uncomfortable and nervous for his transformation to kick in...that's where the situation lies.

Virgil feels like he has to hide himself away in his room all the time. He used to be able to hang out with his fellow sides, but then Roman would start to constantly get on his case for...well...basically existing. Creativity has gotten better at accepting Virgil as a Light Side since it was evident he was not going anywhere, but there was always this pressure to fit in and not cause trouble for Thomas.

Then, on top of that general fact, he was always feeling nervous because of his instinct. The purple side could be sitting on the couch watching TV, feeling fine. Minding his own business. He could have just talked with Roman, not even a few minutes ago, but then he would see the cat. His heartbeat would rise instantly, going a mile a minute. His hands would start shaking like he just pulled himself off a ledge. He also wouldn't be able to stand still. All because Roman, the cat just walked in and his mouse instincts were telling him to run. That's a cat. Get away.

This would happen any time he witnessed one of the animals walk into the same room, so he just couldn't handle it anymore. He couldn't risk being seen like that... So he did the simplest solution he could think of... Stay in his room. That is, until Thomas called upon him.

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Thomas was already in a situation he wished he didn't present to his fellow sides because no one could seem to help him out. The human watched a video on YouTube. He loved it. He loved it so much he was inspired to make his own video about the content. Thomas said he would change the content but leave the plot, so it wasn't copying, but of course Roman and Logan had some advice of their own. Logic said it would be morally wrong to take someone else's plot period. Someone else thought of it first. They would have put so much hard work into it, why take their credit away?. Just because Thomas would change a few things, that does not mean it still was not stealing. The creative side was, of course, on the opposite side of the conversation. He said as long as the video wasn't exact, Thomas would be safe. It wasn't wrong to take inspiration from another.

In all honesty, the conversation had been going on for about an hour at this point. The YouTuber was getting tired of the conversation, and was so close to just saying " Forget what I said, I'll just make something else."

Back in the mindscape, Virgil was getting ready for his own adventure. To sleep. He was also tired of hearing those two argue all day long and wanted to pass the time. What better way than to take a long nap until all of this resolved itself.

Virgil knew he was by himself. It was his room. His mindscape. But he had to make sure. He looked around his room, just expecting one of the other sides to teleport onto his property as if that would happen. He was told his room was so depressing the last time the others were in his room. Virgil looked under his bed by crouching down, looking left, then right, just to make sure everything was in its place. He then approached his door, slowly opened it up, and looked around in the hallway. He knew Logan and Roman were still with Thomas, but knowing his luck, he would get comfortable then a visitor would knock on his door like Deceit or Patton.