(Roman's POV:)
"Seems like I'll need to get a little creative to solve this one..." I hear as I am summoned, and I rise up to see Patton, Virgil, Logan... and Remus and Janus, Janus with Logan and Remus in my spot. My shoulders go down slightly before I force them back up, putting on my mask once more for the audience. "Did somebody say Creative?" I ask rhetorically, doing my signature stance. Remus roles his eyes at me, as does Logan. "Well well well, isn't Someone late to the party~?" Janus asks me, and I raise my chin up ever so slightly. "Fashionably so, Ka. Now, what seems to be the matter, Thomas?" I ask, and Thomas sighs while Patton tilts his head slightly. "Pump the breaks Princy. Anyways, I need help. I saw a really cute guy, and he was moving in next door! What do I do?" He asks, and I frown, feeling a little hurt that I wasn't summoned sooner. "Well, confess your feelings!—" I cut Virgil off before he can say anything Negative. "Hold up Negative Nathan, I wasn't done. Confess your feelings after getting to know him. You can't do anything rash without getting to know him first, after all! So maybe become friends, and after a while, ask him on a date?" I add, and Virgil looks stunned, and looks at me with false concern. "You alright Romano? Because if I heard right, you just took what I was about to say into consideration." He snarks, and I sigh, and open my mouth to speak, when Remus cuts me off. "Yeah Roro, you alright? Last time I checked, you absolutely HATED Virgin here!" Virgil glares at him, and I look down at the ground, shoulders slumping slightly. Patton jumps into the argument to defend me, but I'm not paying attention to what they're saying anymore, too focused on all that I've said to Virgil, and how I've tried to be nicer, but it always backfires. I look up and notice that nobody is looking at me, and I sink out to my room in the Mind Palace, not a single one of them noticing that I left. Figures. I sigh once more, looking at my Vanity mirror, my eyes can't help but be drawn to my cheek bones, my stomach, and my chest. I slip my shirt off, and look at the less-than-princely muscles there, shoulders slumping. Guess I've got to work harder then. I HAVE to be perfect for them! Otherwise they won't listen!... not like they listen now anyways... I look down at my sword, and feel... something dark fluttering around me. I look around myself in a panic, but nothing is there. I look back in the mirror, and see a shadowy figure standing behind me. It wraps its arms around me, it's white eyes glaring into my soul as it plays with my hair. "Hmmm.... they don't listen to you... do they? Come to think of it... there are technically no more dark sides. But there has to be, you know there must be balance for Thomas to Flourish. You're creativity, you should be able to create a solution! Right?" It asks, and I freeze up at it's cold touch. "I mean... yes... but I can't do anything about it! If I try to tell them, they would put me down again! I've worked so hard to get to where I am, where I'm at least less ridiculed by them..." I trail off, and the being smirks, it's Aura growing as it reaches for the sword on the desk below me. "Well, you could create more Dark Sides... but that wouldn't be effective, they would get accepted too... there's only one solution here, I think..." it says, shadowy fingers grazing my cheek and my sword, the sword turning dark. "And what's that?" I ask, and it seems to smirk even more. "BECOME a dark Side, of course! They wouldn't miss you very much on the light Side, they have brand new playmates that they're interested in. Besides, you could still put in your word on issues, and keep the balance even! It's a win-win! You'd be free from the ridicule, and they'd be free of your presence!" It says rather convincingly, and I look down at the sword, which now looks like a shadowy version of its old self, and my hand reaches to it as I contemplate its offer. "...alright. I'm in." I agree, and it smirks widely as I grab the sword, shadows swarming around me as I feel myself change sides, my room shifting to the Dark Mind Palace.
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"Hello there, Pride~"