These Guys Are Infesting My Brain Once Again [ft. My Janus And Remus Puppet Designs]

Some Orange!Logan angst for the fander gift exchange over on Instagram!

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narcissus at the pond

A theory on the season finale of Sanders Sides

(brought to you by the 5th anniversary special)

it’s pretty common knowledge that flames and fire commonly represent anger. In the most recent Sanders Asides, Working Through Intrusive Thoughts, we get a glimpse of Logan’s eyes turning orange as he is consumed by anger. After the episode was posted, Thomas posted this on Twitter:

In the background of the 5th anniversary special, a certain parallel to this moment can be seen in the background.

A Patton figure with flames on top of it

We all know that Thomas and the team pay very close attention to details, even those in a unfocused background, and so a Patton figurine with flames on top of it with C!thomas being the only other figurine around it has to mean something

Might Patton be the next side to lose his cool?

So, that new Sander Asides episode-

the minecraft movie couldnt possibly recreate even a shred of the humor found in these screenshots

Orange Side Theory: Malus

So y'all know how everyone is like “Hey, the new side is going to be Rage/Anger” and other types of shit like that. Well I was reading a fanfic were there was a new side and his name was Malice or Mal and Malice means like “Intent to do evil” and I was like “Hey, Malice could be spelled like Malus cause they kinda sound the same, what if that was the name of the new side haha” and then everything just stopped. And then I was like “Hey, I wonder if the name Malus has any sort of Greek or Roman meaning and I looked it up and…

WHAT

MALUS DOMESTICA: SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR APPLE TREE?

WHAT? Also, while looking up the word Malus it usually means something like “evil” and “apple” (Forbidden fruit?)

Also…

Anyway, it would pretty much fit with the thing that’s going on with c!Thomas right now. Him not wanting to be evil and shit. 

ALSO?? USED BY VIRGIL? POET VIRGIL? ROMAN POET VIRGIL?

Listen, I might be off my rockers and I don’t really know if anyone has like, already connected these dots as well. But I feel like I might be onto something at least. Let me know what you think and what your theories are as well! Thanks for coming to my TedTalk.

P.S I might put more shit into this theory the more I come up with it but idk. I just really like this idea.

Edit 1: OOP, TIME FOR ANOTHER ADD ON, the name would fit with all the Dark Sides names ending in us.

Edit 2: So, while looking at the theory again and looking at sites and shit my thought process was “What if the animal trait that the orange side gets is a crab because of crab apples?” (Crabs are kinda orange I guess idfk this is fucking hilarious, Also, Malus also means “Mast of a ship” Pirate crab side?)

Edit 3: Apples, they got a sweet exterior but if you get to the middle of them they got poisonous seeds. On the surface, c!Thomas is a good person, but when you get down to it, everyone has some type of darkness in them whether they like it or not. 

Edit 4: I’m back on my shit and still looking so fucking deep into this I am so sorry but it’s just so much fun to theorize, so what do crabs represent? Well, apparently according to this site https://symbolismandmetaphor.com/crab-symbolism-spirit-animal/ they represent:

Change and growth, adaptability, defensiveness, resilience, self-reliance and a journey. And is that not what c!Thomas is going through? A whole journey about change and growth. 

Okay but Logan having met the orange side before, and just not knowing it because he wasn't wearing his glasses at the time. So he just thought that Virgil was being a little extra spicy that day, and sat with him in the kitchen making him coffee while just talking about random stuff he was researching.

So when the orange side does his big reveal, and says:

"Logic, we meet again~"

Logan has no idea what he's talking about.

So did anyone else catch the lighting? there was yellowish lighting when Janus was onscreen

and y’all are never gonna fucking believe what color lighting was in the background of Thomas interviewing the sides