"You're smarter than you give yourself credit for."
"And you're more creative."
"Well I wouldn't say that."
"You don't have to, I already did."
"... I suppose."
"Actually, I have a great idea!"
"That sounds dangerous."
"We should switch!"
"Switch?"
"Jobs! Temporarily. Think of how fun it would be! I could tell Tomathy all of the fun facts and you could make him think about horrors unfortunately within human comprehension!"
"I was right. It was dangerous."
"Think about it, LoLo? What could possibly go wrong?!"
"Besides quite possibly everything?"
"Yeah, besides that."
Logan sighed. "How long is 'temporarily'?"
"One week!"
"Half an hour."
"Six days."
"... a whole hour."
"Five days."
"Twelve hours."
"Four days."
"One day, final offer."
"I'll take it!"
"That's more than you thought you were going to get, wasn't it."
"I didn't think you'd agree at all."
Another sigh. "Tomorrow, then. Starting at 9 AM. Based on the schedule, there isn't anything of importance occurring so it should be a safe day to temporarily switch roles."

At 9 AM sharp, Logan heard a knock at his door. Considering Remus was never on time for anything, Logan wondered just how important this exercise was to him. Of course it could have been another side, but there was no reason for anyone else to be at his door. At any rate, he could simply open the door and prove himself right.

"Remus," Logan nodded in greeting.
"You ready to get tingly?!"
"I wasn't aware a tingling sensation was part of the process. Have you done this before?"
"Yeah… But let's focus on this right now. It's going to be so fun!"
"We shall see. How do we begin?"
"Ok, just hold my hands and close your eyes. Do your best to feel creative!"
"But how will I 'feel' creative? Of course I have 'created' before, but it was more out of necessity than some frivolous 'feeling'."
"You like Star Trek, right? And Dr. WHO? There's a lot of creativity and metaphor in those, as well as rules! Half of creating something is based on making up rules."
"Really? I suppose that's correct. For example, The Lord of the Rings-"
"Is a masterpiece we can talk about later. Are you ready? You promised me a whole day!"
"Right. I suppose I'm as ready as I'll ever be. Commence the tingling… I regret saying that."
"I don't. Don't worry, LoLo, I'll make sure to get you real tingly."
"I'm going to ignore that statement."
"Now you're stalling."
Logan sighed. "Alright. Hands held, eyes closed, feeling creative. I've done harder things before."
"I would love to see you do some hard things-"
"Now who's stalling?"
"Right, right."

Doing his best to feel creative, Logan did in fact start to feel a tingling sensation. The longer it went on, the easier it was to think up new and more outlandish ideas, that he could then root back in a sort of logic, of course. This switch would temporarily create a logical Creativity and a creative Logic. How fascinating.

"That should do it," Remus said after a bit. "If my calculations are correct- Nah, I'm definitely Logic now."
"Well I am definitely feeling more frivolous. Hmm… Perhaps a change of wardrobe is in order."

Logan snapped a new outfit into place. It had an overall sci-fi aesthetic because, after all, it was still Logan. He had a flowing lab coat, black slacks, dress shoes, a dark blue sweater over a white collared shirt, a communicator, and his glasses were now hi-tech. On his hip was some sort of ray gun and he held a clipboard.

"Yes, this should do nicely."
"Damn. All that creativity and that's what you do with it?"
"I believe this to be sufficient. I may currently be performing as Creativity, but I still value practicality."
"Why don't you dress me up, too, then?"
"Shouldn't you do that?"
"Wouldn't it be more logical to allow Creativity to design me an outfit? That's no longer my department."
"Hm. I suppose. As Thomas's current Logic, it is imperative that you are taken seriously. With that in mind, I believe this will do."

Logan snapped and Remus found himself in a forest green tweed jacket with black elbow patches, a solid black sweater vest over a white shirt and green tie, black slacks and black dress shoes with a matching green wing tip.

"I'm a philosophy professor. I'm like a substitute teacher but I'm the actual teacher. No one is going to take me seriously."
"But you're wearing a tie."
"I… I can argue with that, but I don't think you're ready for that kind of character arc yet." It felt exceedingly strange to be able to hold back his thoughts for once. He wasn't sure he liked it.
"Well from a narrative standpoint if one were to partake on an arc starting with believing a tie to gain respect, the next logical step would be to remove that foundation either in realizing one hasn't been respected and is simply in denial or realizing that it is not the tie gaining one respect. Each of those paths would diverge to many-"
"I'm going to stop you right there. We don't have time to take each possibility to its logical conclusion and I think that would hurt you."
"I- I can't stop. I have to-"
"Hey, Lo, do you remember that time Virgil hissed at you during a debate?"
"Yes, though I didn't realize you were aware of that, and I'm not sure how it's relevant-"
"Yeah, that was pretty funny. We should go see Virgil."
"Oh, ok. Are we having another debate? I quite enjoy them. Maybe I'll have a new perspective now, that would be interesting. Say, maybe we should have a debate-"
"Maybe later. Right now we're going to see Virgil."
"Right, you said as much," he confirmed more to himself than to Remus. "Why are we going to see Virgil?"
"He's fun to be around."
"Oh, that's true, I enjoy his company. He's probably my best friend. I should tell him."
"Great! Let's go do that."

Remus knew Virgil was in the common room with Roman and Patton which could possibly cause problems, but the most important thing was to get Logan to someone who could help him out of a spiral if he started again. Janus would have been ideal but he was currently with Thomas and would probably scold them for doing something so inadvisable.

"What the fuck."
"Virgil!" Patton scolded.
"We swapped roles." Remus informed them.
"You can do that?" Roman asked.
"For this fic, apparently." Logan responded.
"Hey, I want to swap with Roman!" Patton exclaimed.
"Uhhh…"
"He doesn't want you to because he doesn't trust you to not accidentally blow us all up, but he doesn't want to say anything to avoid hurting your feelings. Why did I say that?"
"Likely because you not only took my role as Creativity, but also Intrusive Thoughts."
"... I had failed to consider this."
"You really think that?" Patton asked Roman.
"Well… I'm sure you'd end up doing fine, I'm just a bit nervous, is all. I'm not fond of the idea of switching roles and I've only had all of two seconds to ponder the idea in the first place."
"Oh, I get it. I think it would kind of feel like a piece of me was missing if I switched with someone, and you love being Creativity."
"Plus, seeing the side effects Logan is having, I wouldn't want to put you through being the Ego as well. It's definitely not the highlight of my job."
"That's true."
"He-"
"Woah, buddy!" Remus interrupted Logan because he knew exactly where that statement was going to go. "Wasn't there something you wanted to tell Virgil?"
"Me?" Virgil looked at Logan wide eyed and started playing with his hoodie string.
"Oh! Yes. I quite enjoy your company and consider you my best friend."
"Oh. Uh, yeah. Same here, bud." Virgil responded casually but his blush and the changing color of his eyeshadow gave him away.
Logan grinned.
"Woah. I didn't know he could do that." Roman stared in disbelief.
"What? Experience emotions or smile?"
"Janus! I thought you were busy…" Remus said nervously, trying to hide behind Logan.
"I wasn't in the middle of something when I felt a disturbance… and this wouldn't explain it."
"So um…"
Janus leaned in close and softly hissed his response to the question he knew Remus was asking. "Virgil's eyeshadow isn't purple so I won't be ignoring this as long as nothing goes wrong."
"You got it, boss!" Remus gave a salute.
"Now, if you don't mind, I don't have to get back to what I was doing."
"See ya later, Janny!"
Janus rolled his eyes and sunk back out.
"Now that that's settled, I have the distinct urge to fill out some paperwork or perhaps a puzzle or test of some sort and I'm looking forward to the tingly sensation I'll experience afterwards," Remus stated.
"Oh! I could make a puzzle! I have so many ideas… Would you prefer trap doors or flame throwers?" Logan asked.
Remus chuckled. "I'm in danger."
"Quite possibly! Let us away, good fellow! We've much to explore!"
"Is that ok? Should we let him do that?" Patton asked.
"Why is he talking like that?" Roman felt was the more important question.
"Yeah, um, I'm just going to go with them," Virgil announced.
"Oh, goody, Virgil, you can help me with the design. Oh! I know! You should try being Creativity next. You'd be so good at it."

Remus was doing his best not to feel jealous. Why would he feel jealous? Great question. He didn't think it was prudent to examine those emotions under the current circumstances so- Oh no, he sounded like a nerd inside his own head now. Unfair. He recognized that he'd always been smarter than he'd let on, but at least he had talked like an actual person. And repressing shit? That was new. Honestly he couldn't wait to be Intrusive Thoughts again, as crazy as that sounded.

On the brief walk to the door, their conversation turned to plotting out various traps and consequences as Logan couldn't very well plan the puzzles with his guinea pig listening. They'd gotten to the particularly interesting subject of flammable substances when they arrived at their destination.

"Well, here we are. The door. To the imagination. My domain. Half, anyway. Temporarily yours. Here it is."
"You good, Rem?" Virgil raised an eyebrow with a knowing smirk.
"I am adequate, thank you," Remus bit out. He groaned. "Logic's nerd is infecting me."
"Seems like neither of you fully thought about what would happen," Virgil remarked.
"To be fair I'm not really known for thinking anything through, and I piqued Curiosity's interest."
"This is true," Logan agreed.
"Speaking of Curiosity, I can't wait to see how you'll horrifically maim me." He pushed the door open and led the others in.
"You won't be harmed if you solve the puzzles, which you should be able to as acting Logic." Logan immediately began manipulating their surroundings as if he had been doing this all his existence.
"Mm, but I think I'd rather go through as Creativity. It would give me some good material."
"I see. That makes sense, but that is to be expected. I expect you'll continue to make perfect sense until the point at which we switch back."
"I made sense before… Right, Virgey?"
"Umm… Janus said he didn't want to be bothered, so…"
"Ugh! Well I made just as much sense as you!"
"Why are you dragging me into it?!"
"Yes, that seemed rather emotionally charged. The logic was not sound."
"Wh- Well- I-"
Oh, so that's what it was. "Remus is just jealous that you think I would do a good job as Creativity when you haven't told him the same."
"That's preposterous-"
"Oh, you do a fantastic job at your role. You've been limited in the past but now that you've been given the free range to perform your duties you've created amazing things. It's regrettable that you were ever restricted the way you were. I wonder what other amazing things we could have made."
"We?"
"I never minded working with you. Sure you can be annoying, but no more than any of the others. It was honestly refreshing to have someone explicitly state their mind so I didn't have to guess where the miscommunication was happening. In actuality, I rather enjoy your company. You've always had interesting ideas, even if your timing could use improvement. Though I've grown fond of your intrusions, despite all logic."
Jumping right over that innuendo, don't ruin the moment. "Gee, you sure know how to make a guy feel special." Whoops he went sarcastic to avoid genuine emotion.
"You are special. To me, anyway."
"I-" Remus choked. "Um, yeah. You too. To me. Yeah."
"How eloquent," Logan chuckled.
Remus cleared his throat. "Right, so we were contemplating the effectiveness of oil versus slime?"
"Oh, yes. Oil could seep in and coat quite nicely, but slime being viscous and sticky would allow for longer burn time which would allow the victim- participant," Logan corrected himself, "more time to attempt to complete the puzzle."
"Assuming the goal is for the 'participant' to complete the puzzle, the second option would serve better to further the goal. I can't wait until we switch back and you set me on fire."
"First I must set up the puzzle. I'm thinking a maze… perhaps a labyrinth of sorts…" Logan walked further into the space he had created, now covered in cobblestone and began raising walls around himself.

As Logan started his work, Virgil had something important to say to Remus and then he was getting out of there. Their flirting was like… really weird.

"Hey, Rem?"
"Yeah, Virge?"
"Look, Lo's my best friend, and-"
"And if I hurt him you'll hurt me?"
"No, you'd enjoy that. If you hurt him, he can take care of that himself, trust me. I was going to say I think he likes you too and I want you guys to be happy. So don't fuck it up."
"Aw, you do care! Give me a kiss, Emo."
"No, gross. Get away from me."
"Not even a little one?"
"I'd rather scratch my own eyes out."
"That can be arranged."
"Ugh. Just don't blow each other up. I'm leaving you unsupervised so you can get on with it."
"That's probably a bad idea."
"I don't know, for some reason I don't feel that anxious about it." Virgil turned towards where Logan was drawing up a blueprint. "Bye, Lo! Have fun with your fucked up torture puzzle!"
"Thank you, Virgil, I think I will."

Remus watched in awe as Logan continued to construct the world around them. He'd only ever switched with Janus before, and they hadn't gone into the imagination then. It had been more of an emergency situation than a fun traipse through another's function. It was interesting to see how differently Logan functioned as Creativity, having been so used to being Logic. Truly fascinating. And beautiful. Maybe he could convince Logan as Logic to make something here another time.

Remus also noted the differences in how they were affected by the change in role. He himself had gained quite the vocabulary and his thoughts were all in order. It was strange. And Logan had been acting more whimsical where before every word and action had been planned out methodically before spoken or enacted. Even so, Logan was certainly a logical Creativity, while Remus was seeing the possible pros and cons of a creative Logic. He took notes he was sure Logan would appreciate after their "experiment" was over."

Time passed and passed, and the logical part of Remus's brain, which was now all of it, actually, was telling him they should go to bed, but Logan wasn't done yet, and going to bed would mean switching back, so instead he continued to provide occasional feedback and answer any questions that arose until finally Logan let himself fall backwards onto the soft ground outside of the entrance to his puzzle.

"Finished, then?"
"Yes. Everything is finished. Is it always this exhausting for you?"
"I don't usually do so much at once, plus once I've created something the first time, it's much easier to create it again or pull from it when I make something else. You had to start from scratch."
"Mm. I did notice that after the first couple of walls, they were a lot easier. Is it alright to rest here? I don't want to move."
"Nothing in this realm can harm you or I unless you will it, and there are no negative effects for spending that amount of time here as far as I know, though only Creativity has stayed so long here before. It shouldn't be a problem, though."
"Mm. Let's switch back in the morning." Logan summoned a couple pillows and blankets. "Night, Rem."
Remus went to reply, but could already hear Logan snoring. He huffed out a laugh and moved Logan's glasses from his face. "Goodnight, my star."

When Logan awoke, he felt more rested than he had in a long while, though he was a bit stiff. Turns out sleeping on the bare ground wasn't the best for you. He opened his eyes, but everything was mostly blurry. His glasses had to be around somewhere.

Trying to sit up, Logan noticed a weight across his midsection, then felt stirring behind him. Right, Remus was there, too.

"G'mornin' Lo."
"Good morning, Remus."

Logan patted around and found his glasses next to him. That was better.

"Time to switch back, huh?"
"Mm. Though I find it regrettable that you did not get to experience as much of Logic's role as I did Creativity's."
"We could always do this again, sometime."
"I would not be opposed."
"Really?!"
Logan laughed. "This experience was rather enjoyable as well as enlightening."
"Woohoo!"
"Indeed. We should switch back before Thomas needs to call upon our functions now, though."
"Right, right. We just do the same thing as before, but in reverse."
"That makes sense."

The switch back was a lot easier than the original swap and took even less time.

"Ah, it feels good to be Logic again."
"Oh, yes! my Intrusiveness is back. I don't know how you stand thinking all the time, even about nothing in particular."
Logan smiled. "So would you like me to set you on fire now?"
"You already have." Remus was suddenly holding both of Logan's hands and acting serious.
"Did I? I don't see any flames… Or was there a previous time that I can't recall, which would be strange-"
"No, no. I was trying to be romantic."
"Isn't that Roman's thing?"
"Yeah, it felt bad."
"I also don't see how that would be romantic."
"Like we established: Not my thing."
"Ah. I have a few books I could lend you. I've read quite a bit on the topic to try to better understand issues that are farther out of my area of expertise and so that I can attempt to understand the others' point of view."
"Nerd. I'm surprised you didn't ask why I was trying to be romantic."
"..." Logan suddenly became very red and cleared his throat. "Yes, well, usually that goal has a particular intent which isn't hard to guess."
"You didn't even think about it."
"You have no evidence of that."
"I'd argue the contrary."
"You would argue the contrary regardless of topic or opinion, that's one of your favorite activities."
"Can't argue with that! Can I just rip my heart out of my chest for you and call it a day?"
"That won't be necessary. I believe I've gotten the picture."
"And?"
"And?"
"Come on, don't leave me hanging, LoLo! Do you want me carnally or not?"
"Perhaps we could start with a date and go from there?"
"I'll take it!"
"Good. Can I set you on fire- I mean, start the puzzle now?"
"You're sick, Lo. Good thing I'm into that."
"It was an honest mistake!"
"I'm sure. Now how much of this goop should I dump on myself?"
"You're supposed to try to avoid the trap."
"Yeah, we both know that's not happening. See you on the other side!"

Logan groaned. Sending a masochist through the torture puzzle would skew the data. Oh well. There was always next time.