The Melting Pot Complex

By KnittedKneeHighs

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'Looking for quiet roommate.' 'Located in quiet area.' 'Apartment has previously received noise complaints.' ... More

Preface
Characters
Chapter One ~ Virgil
Chapter Two ~ Patton
Chapter Three ~ Logan
Chapter Four ~ Roman
Chapter Five ~ Virgil
Chapter Six ~ Patton
Chapter Seven ~ Logan
Chapter Eight ~ Roman
A Little Poll
Chapter Nine ~ Virgil
Poll Results and a Note
Chapter Ten ~ Patton
Chapter Eleven ~ Logan
Chapter Twelve ~ Roman
Chapter Thirteen ~ Virgil
Chapter Fourteen ~ Patton
Chapter Fifteen ~ Logan
Chapter Sixteen ~ Roman
Chapter Seventeen ~ Virgil
Chapter Eighteen ~ Patton
Chapter Nineteen ~ Logan
Chapter Twenty ~ Roman
Chapter Twenty-One ~ Virgil
Chapter Twenty-Two ~ Patton
Chapter Twenty-Three ~ Logan
Chapter Twenty-Four ~ Roman
Chapter Twenty-Five ~ Virgil
Chapter Twenty-Six ~ Patton
Chapter Twenty-Seven ~ Logan
Chapter Twenty-Eight ~ Roman
Chapter Twenty-Nine ~ Virgil
Chapter Thirty ~ Patton
Chapter Thirty-One ~ Logan
Chapter Thirty-Two ~ Roman
Chapter Thirty-Three ~ Virgil
Chapter Thirty-Four ~ Patton
Chapter Thirty-Five ~ Logan
Chapter Thirty-Six ~ Roman
Chapter Thirty-Seven ~ Virgil
Chapter Thirty-Eight ~ Patton
Chapter Thirty-Nine ~ Logan
Chapter Forty-One ~ Virgil
Chapter Forty-Two ~ Patton
Chapter Forty-Three ~ Logan
Chapter Forty-Four ~ Roman
Chapter Forty-Five ~ Virgil
Chapter Forty-Six ~ Patton
Chapter Forty-Seven ~ Logan
Chapter Forty-Eight ~ Roman
Chapter Forty-Nine ~ Virgil
Chapter Fifty - Patton
Chapter Fifty-One ~ Logan
Chapter Fifty-Two ~ Roman
Chapter Fifty-Three ~ Virgil
Chapter Fifty-Four ~ Patton
Chapter Fifty-Five ~ Logan
Chapter Fifty-Six ~ Roman
Chapter Fifty-Seven ~ Virgil
Chapter Fifty-Eight ~ Patton
Chapter Fifty-Nine ~ Logan
Chapter Sixty ~ Roman
Chapter Sixty-One ~ Virgil
Chapter Sixty-Two ~ Patton
Chapter Sixty-Three ~ Logan
Chapter Sixty-Four ~ Roman
Chapter Sixty-Five ~ Virgil
Chapter Sixty-Six ~ Patton
Chapter Sixty-Seven ~ Logan
Chapter Sixty-Eight ~ Roman
Chapter Sixty-Nine ~ Virgil
Chapter Seventy ~ Patton
Chapter Seventy-One ~ Logan
Chapter Seventy-Two ~ Roman
Chapter Seventy-Three ~ Virgil
Chapter Seventy-Four ~ Patton
Chapter Seventy-Five ~ Logan
Chapter Seventy-Six ~ Roman
Chapter Seventy-Seven ~ Virgil
Chapter Seventy-Eight ~ Patton
Chapter Seventy-Nine ~ Logan
Chapter Eighty ~ Roman
Final Author's Note
Hi Again Kids

Chapter Forty ~ Roman

2.2K 140 116
By KnittedKneeHighs

{Possible trigger warnings: mild cursing, mention of a fistfight

If I miss something, I apologize and please let me know}

YouTube

          Princey_MUA Uploaded: SPACEBOY (Pretty Pals with Improbable_Theorems)

          "I hope you lovelies enjoy this, we were the only two in the apartment awake and it was a very amusing session. We're very different but we have some shared experiences that we talked about."

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Roman: Hello to you all, my Ladies, Lords, and Non-Binary Royalty! Will you quit laughing every time I do that?

Logan, offscreen: I can't help it, your chest puffs out when you lift your arms like that. It's incredibly amusing.

[Roman sticks his tongue out at offscreen Logan]

Roman: Well as you can tell, I have my roommate Logan on as a guest today for our newest installment of Pretty Pals!

[Logan wheels chair onscreen]

Logan: Greetings. I'm not sure how this is going to go.

Roman: It'll be fiiiiiine, don't worry about it. So I don't know if you watched mine with Patton-

Logan: I watched some of it, I believe I put it on in the background as I worked on something else while the apartment was empty. I do that with all of your videos.

[Roman laughs, falling sideways in his chair]

Roman: You put me on as background noise?

Logan: I do it with all of our videos. Well not mine, but yours, Patton's, Ame's. The familiarity of voices is helpful.

Roman: Huh.

[Roman nods, then sits up again and begins to sort through his makeup]

Roman: So I know you said you don't have a preference for what I do, which is great because I already have an idea. What's going to be interesting is how I execute it.

Logan: What do you mean?

[Roman sets a few palettes out and turns to him]

Roman: Well you can put makeup on anyone and make it look good, but a look doesn't always fit a personality. With Patton it's easy to do dramatic full face because Patton's an excitable, bubbly person and he draws attention naturally.

Logan: I see.

Roman: So since you seem like a more reserved person, a full glam look might not suit you. I don't know. 

[Logan nods slowly, looking at the palettes]

Logan: Then you could say this would be a control?

Roman: Control? Oh wait this is a science thing I know this- don't tell me! A control is like a first attempt to base other attempts off of, right?

[He scrunches his face up, holding his hands on the sides of his face]

Logan: You're quite close. A control is a standard of comparison for checking the results of a comparison.

Roman: Yeah I pretty much got it. Okay, lets begin. I'm going to use the same foundation I used for Patton because the two of you have similar enough complexions and I only have so many foundations. But moisturizer first.

[Roman gently puts moisturizer on Logan's face, and Logan flinches a little]

Roman: What?

Logan: It's colder than I expected.

Roman: Whoops. Sorry.

[He turns back to his desk and picks up a pencil]

Roman: Okay! Brows. Yours are pretty light because you're a redhead, so I'm going to fill them out in a color that matches your hair. With the way your face is shaped and the look I'm going for, I think it'll look better.

Logan: Whatever you think is best. This is one of the few areas where you're more knowledgeable than I am.

Roman: Hey!

[Roman taps him on the head with the back of the pencil, Logan chuckles]

Roman: Okay hold still. I promise I won't poke your eye out.

Logan: How comforting.

[Roman uncaps the pencil and begins to fill in Logan's brows]

Roman: Ta-da!

Logan: That's... sort of strange. Seeing them so dark.

[Roman laughs and reaches over onto the desk]

Roman: Then concealer. I'm gonna clean up your brows, then add a base to your eyelids.

Logan: Is there a specific reason you're telling me all this?

[Roman shrugs, putting concealer on Logan's eyes]

Roman: Habit, mostly. We can talk about something if you want.

Logan: Like what?

Roman: Umm... oh! We could talk relationships. Weirdest stories and stuff like that.

Logan: Seems appropriate, given our similarities.

[Roman turns grab a palette, camera cut]

Roman: For those of you watching who don't know, Logan and I are both asexual. Okay so, weirdest thing that's happened relationship wise.

[He does Logan's eyelids while they talk]

Logan: Well I never really dated, but I did have a girl trying to get very close at a party in college. She attempted to lock the two of us in a closet.

Roman: Wow, really? Creepy.

Logan: Incredibly. And you?

[Roman leans back to check Logan's eyes and nods to himself]

Roman: My first boyfriend in college actually got into a fistfight with some dude who called me unnatural. It was wild.

Logan: Did he win?

Roman: Oh hell yeah.

[Roman grabs foundation]

Roman: So what's it like being aro-ace? Probably makes life a hell of a lot easier.

Logan: Actually, I... I came to the realization recently that I'm not aromantic.

[Roman stops and looks at him]

Roman: Really?

Logan: Virgil and I had a long conversation about it while I tried to figure it out. Demiromantic fits me better, I think, considering recent events.

[Roman grins and starts his contour]

Roman: That's awesome! Learning more about yourself is always good.

Logan: I would agree... But before when I thought I was aro-ace, it was rather refreshing to not deal with the problems many people complained about, relationship-wise.

Roman: I'll bet... Okay, here's where we deviate. I've got your foundation down, your eyes done, and since you're pretty into space I've been looking up galaxy style makeup looks. It's not going to be a typical glam look but I think it's going to look great.

[Roman grabs two more palettes, beginning to add blues and purples over Logan's cheeks and the bridge of his nose]

Logan: How long have you been doing this? Obviously your channel has been running for a while, but did you do this before that?

Roman: I started experimenting my sophomore year of high school. I had gotten really into doing makeup at musical, helping out the makeup artists even though I was in the show, and I wanted to learn more.

[Roman grabs a silver liquid liner from the desk]

Roman: I'm almost done, sit still and close your eyes.

[Logan closes his eyes and Roman draws several constellations across his cheeks and over his eyelids]

Roman: Ta-da! Spaceboy is here!

[Logan checks himself in the vanity mirror]

Logan: Wow... Roman, this is incredible....

Roman, proudly: Thank you! It worked out just like I wanted.

Logan: I suppose you could say I'm a... space Ace.

[Roman begins to laugh loudly]

Roman: I'm telling Patton about that... I think that's all for today everyone, I hope you enjoyed it! If you lovelies want to see more from Logan, his link will be in the description. Feel free to like, subscribe, comment, ring the bell, you all know what you can do, I'll see you lovelies next time! Mwah!

[Roman blows a kiss. Annotations for suggested videos appear. Roman's custom outro song plays]

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{I was kind of watching Talia Mar's makeup video doing her boyfriend's makeup when I wrote this. If y'all haven't watched it you should, they're super funny

Makeup inspo:

based off this but darker blues/purples/pinks

god who even knows how the two of them got through this without blushing... might be the foundation helping out}

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