When we talked to Thomas about his creativity becoming two parts, it was probably easy to believe that it happened overnight. But it was clear to pretty much all of the other sides, light, dark, or otherwise, that it was actually a more elongated process. Patton would never admit it, but Creativity splitting into Roman and Remus was partially his fault.
While no one is sure when exactly it started, it was clearly during some time in Thomas's late toddler to early kid phase. Because by the time Thomas was a preteen, Romulus was no more. Romulus being Creativity, at least before he split.
The change in Romulus started small. And we were 90 percent sure that it was Patton's comments that started the split. I wasn't even there at the beginning but I did get some information from Logan later, as I knew he had been there for the whole thing. Romulus used to share all his ideas with anyone who would listen. Which was actually more than just Patton and Logan as the mind palace hadn't yet split into the light and dark sides yet, which also meant that the neutral sides also just hung around, seeing no reason to not split up. Maybe that was Romulus's first mistake. Not that there was anything wrong with him sharing his ideas, but maybe he shouldn't have shared the darker ones with Patton. That's where Logan believes the change in Romulus started.
Logan first noticed it one day when Romulus, happy and grinning as usual, decided to show it on a day where his idea wasn't exactly a happy one. His drawing was more dark and disturbing than his recent drawings,most of which had been happy and cheerful. Logan said that Thomas had a nightmare the night before, so he assumed that's where Romulus'idea had come from. Romulus started doing his normal thing and showing the picture to everyone. And everyone reacted fine, maybe a little creeped out by it, until he showed it to Patton. Patton originally was happy to see the picture, until he saw what it actually was. The change on Patton's face was immediate.
"Romulus," Patton said, his voice changing to the parent trying to teach his kid a lesson, "Why did you draw this?"
"It was an idea," Romulus said so cheerfully, cheerfully enough that Logan was sure he had no idea what was coming.
"Romulus, this is something only a bad person would draw, you're not a bad person are you?"
That statement caused every single person in the common area to shoot their head up. Logan himself, knew that wasn't true. While at the time, he was Curiosity and not Logic, he still inherently knew that to be false. Everyone had a different reaction to what Patton said, but one thing stayed constant. No one could believe that Patton had said that to Romulus, as he was currently the youngest side, and therefore the most impressionable. It was an unwritten rule that you were to let the younger sides figure out themselves where they belonged. And yet it seemed Patton was trying to convince Romulus otherwise.
"No," Romulus muttered, not understanding why Patton was so upset with him. As far as Logan could determine, Romulus hadn't done anything wrong.
"Then you probably shouldn't create things like this, right," Patton asked Romulus.
"I guess not," he muttered so most of them could barely hear.
Patton smiled at Romulus and patted his head. "Good, after all, handsome princes like you don't create things like this." Romulus, dejected from what Patton had just told him ran back to his room. From what Logan said, most of the other sides started yelling at Patton. And from it sounded like, this happened repeatedly.
It eventually got to the point where when I appeared four years later, Deceit took me in so Patton couldn't try to do the same to me. By that point I showed up, Romulus had gotten more conservative when it came to sharing his ideas, and he rarely, if ever, showed the bad ones. He never even showed the bad ones to Patton anymore yet somehow Patton still found out about them. It was never good when Patton found out. He would normally pull Romulus to the side and have a stern talking to him.
