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Virgil was watching a little spider explore his hoodie, the little buddy was enamored by the vibrant shade of purple. “You look like a Marcus, I’m calling you Marcus!” He declared with a smile, Marcus looked up at Virgil with his many big, dark eyes with rapt attention. The eyeshadow under the gloomy side’s eyes started to shift from a dark grey to a sparkly purple, it was beautiful and Marcus hopped closer to the display.
“Oh do you dig purple too? Is that why you like my hoodie?” He cooed at Marcus, wiggling his finger in the same way one might to a baby. Marcus wiggled his carapace and waved some of his legs in a tiny spider jig, instantly Virgil’s cheeks lit up pink even under all his pale foundation.
“o-oh! I’m flattered but we just met” the side said in a tone that made him seem more like an embarrassed teen than a 30-something adult. Marcus’ dance faulted as he sees Virgil look away, his tiny legs fall back to support him before he jumps back to the bark of the tree they are under. Virgil is about to say something, anything but before he can even figure out what that anything will be Marcus is back with a blade of grass held in his grasp. The spider suitor waves the blade back and forth and does a simple shimmy looking up at Virgil once more.
It takes the purple emo a moment to stop blue-screening and respond, “thank you Marcus, um if you don’t mind taking things, um, slow…may-maybe we can give this a try?” If he wasn’t so nervous from excitement he would be embarrassed that he had stuttered like some uwu twink from a saucy lemon fanfic, but since he was he didn’t. Marcus seemed quite happy with the outcome and hopped back up Virgil to leave the grass close to his face, he was a spider and tiny but full of happy energy.
Remus crashed on the ground next to them suddenly, “Hey All Time Loner! You talking to yourself again or did you summon a demon without me? Which would be rude, you know I’m down for demon D!” The trash goblin questioned?exclamed? making a hand gesture that is a higher content rating than this fic so use your imagination. The purple eyeshadow swiftly switched back to a dark grey and Virgil shielded Marcus from having to see such crassness. But that wasn’t a good idea cause now Remus noticed the little spider on Virgil’s shoulder.
“Ohhhhhh!” And that wasn’t a good sign/sound from the chaos incarnate that was Remus. In a movement so fast that it broke the laws of physics Remus shot out his hand and grabbed Marcus, “Interesting” he giggled as he clutched the squirming arachnid, Virgil was going to attack or scream or something, they had just gotten together and Marcus might be dying right now. He hadn’t even gotten to tell the spider what his name was and it was too lat-
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A very handsome man with red-brown hair and the most alluring brown-green eyes fell into Virgil’s lap, though he, thankfully, had clothes they were a bit baggy and plain like they were meant to hide him from the world around him. The man blinked owlishly up at Virgil with his beautiful eyes, all four of them. “He’ll be easier to kiss like this and I made sure to give him the full package if you know what I me-EEEEE!” Remus was cut off as Janus threw an apple core at his head and dropped down on top of him.
“Ssssstop ruining the mood!” The snake hissed, bringing out his extra arms and dragging the green cackling kraken away. The others only ignored the three dark sides more as Remus spewed more filthy imagery which Virgil was thankful for since now was not a great time for him to be the center of attention. No, he was busy being the center of Marcus’ world at the moment and it was the most wonderful AND horrifying experience he’d ever lived through…and he lived with Remus during puberty so yeah.
They sat mesmerized by each other for a stretch of time before Marcus smiled with a mouth full of pearly whites that were just a bit too sharp to be called normal, not that it was a turn off. Stupid dumb Duke and knowing Virgil like a well read book. But yeah smiles and loving sighs and poofing back to the mindscape where Marcus can figure out how moving with only four limbs and muscles instead of liquids is like, that’s what we were talking about before but now we skipped ahead let’s back up a bit.
“Hi, I’m Virgil. Sorry you got grabbed by Stinky Remus but um, I really like you and I know you like me too, do you want to go out with me?”