History Heartwarming / ThomasSanders

-->'''Thomas:''' (In his Stewie voice) Ew, ice cream with sprinkles? Here you go, you get this. They got my order wrong. He's going to hate it.
-->'''Boy:''' Thank you!

-->'''Thomas:''' (In his Stewie voice) Ew, ice cream with sprinkles? Here you go, they got my order wrong. He's going to hate it.

'''WARNING''': Untagged '''spoilers''' ahead. Read at your own risk.

!!Sanders Sides

* Even before he officially becomes friends with the others, there are a few instances where Virgil is seen laughing at the other Sides' antics (not in a mean-spirited way, but a "hey, these guys are ActuallyPrettyFunny" way), and is visibly having fun despite himself. He was always a good guy; he just needed a little support and kindness to be able to show it openly.
* "Accepting Anxiety", full stop. Thomas and Virgil finally hash it out, with Thomas apologizing for blaming him so often and Virgil apologizing for making Thomas so scared all the time (to the point that the two-parter began because Virgil just stopped and Thomas lost all fear, drive, and inhibition). In the end Virgil tells them his name, everyone accepts him, and Patton gives him a little drawing of the four sides holding hands.
* The ChristmasEpisode for 2017 has plenty:
** The Sides have a Secret Santa among themselves. Logan gets Virgil an audiobook, which Virgil pretends to be indifferent towards but clearly appreciates. Roman writes Logan a screenplay starring him and Sherlock Holmes, which Logan is elated by. Patton makes Roman homemade pasta "with love." (And cumin.) Virgil, meanwhile, made Patton a card, but feels bad for not doing more. However, Patton loves it! And as a nice little FreezeFrameBonus, one shot reveals Virgil signed the card, "Best Friends." Awwwwwwwww!
*** The best part of this is how each gift displays the giver's own quirkiness, but each recipient experiences at most a second or two of skepticism before realizing that they ''love'' it.
** The Sides' version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ends with this sweet lyric, after a rewrite from Roman:
-->'''Roman, Patton, and Logan:''' ''(indicating Virgil)'' And an emo who's now [[VitriolicBestBuds our]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold best]] [[DefrostingIceQueen friend]]!
* In "Can Lying Be Good?", Roman takes one of his usual jabs at Virgil, only to apologize for it and admit that he doesn't enjoy the senseless bickering between the Sides. He's gone a long way when it comes to Virgil.
* Virgil and Patton's friendship in general. Patton is nice to Virgil and in return, Virgil genuinely likes Patton. There are even cuts to Virgil smiling or chuckling whenever Patton does or say something funny.
* "Why Do We Get Out of Bed in the Morning?" features Thomas giving a genuinely friendly and enthusiastic "Hi, Virgil!" to Virgil. Virgil even responds with a similar friendly greeting as he leaves, albeit at his own normal energy level. The growth in the two’s relationship is touching when compared to Virgil’s early episodes where Thomas would become immediately concerned and annoyed by his presence and Virgil took a certain pleasure in furthering the feelings and Thomas’s anxiety.
** "Crofter's - The Musical!" also shows how happy Roman and Logan are to see Virgil.

* During one of his Story Time Vines, he sneaks up on a pizza deliveryman he was trying to perform the joke on, but it GoesHorriblyWrong when he startles the man so bad that he ''drops the pizza he's delivering''. Thomas reacts with shock and pays for the pizza while giving immense apologies to the man, which are delivered in a combination of this and a CrowningMomentOfFunny:

** The Sides have a Secret Santa among themselves. Logan gets Virgil an audiobook, which Virgil pretends to be indifferent towards but clearly appreciates. Roman writes Logan a screenplay starring him and Sherlock Holmes, which Logan is elated by. Patton makes Roman homemade pasta "with love." (And cumin.) Virgil, meanwhile, made Patton a card, but feels bad for not doing more. However, Patton loves it! And as a nice little FreezeFrameBonus, one shot reveals Patton signed the card, "Best Friends." Awwwwwwwww!

'''WARNING!''' Unmarked spoilers ahead.

* "Accepting Anxiety", full stop. Thomas and Anxiety finally hash it out, with Thomas apologizing for blaming him so often and Anxiety apologizing for making Thomas so scared all the time (to the point that the two-parter began because Anxiety just stopped and Thomas lost all fear, drive, and inhibition). In the end Anxiety tells them his real name, everyone accepts him, and Dad gives him a little drawing of the four sides holding hands.

** The Sides have a Secret Santa among themselves. Logic gets Anxiety an audiobook, which Anxiety pretends to be indifferent towards but clearly appreciates. Princey writes Logic a screenplay starring him and Sherlock Holmes, which Logic is elated by. Dad makes Princey homemade pasta "with love." (And cumin.) Anxiety, meanwhile, made Dad a card, but feels bad for not doing more. However, Dad loves it! And as a nice little FreezeFrameBonus, one shot reveals Anxiety signed the card, "Best Friends." Awwwwwwwww!

** The Sides' version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ends with this sweet lyric, after a rewrite from Princey:
-->'''Princey, Dad, and Logic:''' ''(indicating Anxiety)'' And an emo who's now [[VitriolicBestBuds our]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold best]] [[DefrostingIceQueen friend]]!
* In "Can Lying Be Good?", Princey takes one of his usual jabs at Anxiety, only to apologize for it and admit that he doesn't enjoy the senseless bickering between the Sides. He's gone a long way when it comes to Anxiety.
* Anxiety and Dad's friendship in general. Dad is nice to Anxiety and in return, Anxiety genuinely likes Dad. There are even cuts to Anxiety smiling or chuckling whenever Dad does or say something funny.
* "Why Do We Get Out of Bed in the Morning?" features Thomas giving a genuinely friendly and enthusiastic "Hi, [[spoiler:Virgil]]!" to Anxiety. Anxiety even responds with a similar friendly greeting as he leaves, albeit at his own normal energy level. The growth in the two’s relationship is touching when compared to Anxiety’s early episodes where Thomas would become immediately concerned and annoyed by his presence and Anxiety took a certain pleasure in furthering the feelings and Thomas’s anxiety.
** "Crofter's - The Musical!" also shows how happy Princey and Logic are to see Anxiety.

* One of Thomas and Joan's followers sent them through Tumblr a pic with a script for a Vine that had been handwritten by that follower's little sister on a notebook. Thomas and Joan decided to make tribute to her and film the script as a short video [[https://www.instagram.com/p/BmCkxjnnCMk/?taken-by=thomassanders to be published shortly after]].

** "Crofter's - The Musical!" also shows how happy Princey and Logic are to see Anxiety.

* "Accepting Anxiety", full stop. Thomas and Anxiety finally hash it out, with Thomas apologizing for blaming him so often and Anxiety apologizing for making Thomas so scared all the time (to the point that the two-parter began because Anxiety just stopped and Thomas lost all fear, drive, and inhibition). In the end Anxiety tells them his real name, everyone accepts him, and Patton gives him a little drawing of the four sides holding hands.
* The ChristmasEpisode for 2017 has plenty,
** The Sides have a Secret Santa among themselves. Logan gets Virgil an audiobook, which Virgil pretends to be indifferent towards but clearly appreciates. Roman writes Logan a screenplay starring him and Sherlock Holmes, which Logan is elated by. Patton makes Roman homemade pasta "with love." (And cumin.) Virgil, meanwhile, made Patton a card, but feels bad for not doing more. However, Patton loves it! And as a nice little FreezeFrameBonus, one shot reveals Virgil signed the card, "Best Friends." Awwwwwwwww!

** The Sides' version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ends with this sweet lyric, after a rewrite from Roman:
-->'''Roman, Patton, and Logan:''' ''(indicating Virgil)'' And an emo who's now [[VitriolicBestBuds our]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold best]] [[DefrostingIceQueen friend]]!
* In "Can LYING Be Good??", Roman takes one of his usual jabs at Virgil, only to apologize for it and admit that he doesn't enjoy the senseless bickering between the Sides. He's gone a long way when it comes to Virgil.
* Virgil and Patton's friendship in general. Patton is nice to Virgil and in return, Virgil genuinely likes Patton. There are even cuts to Virgil smiling or chuckling whenever Patton does or say something funny.
* Why Do We Get Out if Bed in the Morning features Thomas giving a genuinely friendly and enthusiastic “hi Virgil!” Virgil even responds with a similar friendly greeting as he leaves, albeit at his own normal energy level. The growth in the two’s relationship is touching when compared to Virgil’s early episodes where Thomas would become immediately concerned and annoyed by his presence and Virgil took a certain pleasure in furthering the feelings and Thomas’s anxiety.
** Crofter's - The Musical also shows how happy Roman and Logan are to see Virgil.

* During one of his Story Time Vines, he sneaks up on a pizza deliveryman he was trying to perform the joke on, but it GoesHorriblyWrong when he startles the man so bad that he ''drops the pizza he's delivering''. Thomas reacts with shock and pays for the pizza while giving immense apologies to the man.

** Thomas' final Vine: "Story time! One day a young man tried an app, and it changed his life. [[SincerityMode Thank you Vine]]."

* Why Do We Get Out if Bed in the Morning features Thomas giving a genuinely friendly and enthusiastic “hi Virgil!” Virgil even responds with a similar friendly greeting as he leaves, albeit at his own normal energy level. The growth in the two’s relationship is touching when compared to Virgil’s early episodes where Thomas would become immediately concerned and annoyed by his presence and Virgil took a certain pleasure in furthering the feelings and Thomas’s anxiety.

* Virgil and Patton's friendship in general. Patton is nice to Virgil and in return, Virgil genuinely likes Patton. There are even cuts to Virgil smiling or chuckling whenever Patton does or say something funny.

* In "Can LYING Be Good??", Roman takes one of his usual jabs at Virgil, only to apologize for it and admit that he doesn't enjoy the senseless bickering between the Sides. He's gone a long way when it comes to Virgil.

-->'''Roman, Patton, and Logan:''' ''(indicating Virgil)'' And an emo who's now [[VitriolicBestBuds our]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold best]] [[DefrostingIceQueen friend]]!

* In the ChristmasEpisode for 2017, the Sides have a Secret Santa among themselves. Logan gets Virgil an audiobook, which Virgil pretends to be indifferent towards but clearly appreciates. Roman writes Logan a screenplay starring him and Sherlock Holmes, which Logan is elated by. Patton makes Roman homemade pasta "with love." (And cumin.) Virgil, meanwhile, made Patton a card, but feels bad for not doing more. However, Patton loves it! And as a nice little FreezeFrameBonus, one shot reveals Virgil signed the card, "Best Friends." Awwwwwwwww!

* "Accepting Anxiety", full stop. Thomas and Anxiety finally hash it out, with Thomas apologizing for blaming him so often and Anxiety apologizing for making Thomas so scared all the time (to the point that the two-parter began because Anxiety just stopped and Thomas lost all fear, drive, and inhibition). In the end Anxiety tells them his real name, everyone accepts him, and Patton gives him a little drawing of the four sides holding hands.

** In a different Story Time Vine, he goes up to a VideoGame/PokemonGo player and makes a joke about the Pokemon theme song. But the guy counters with a ''very'' heartwarming response by saying, "And overcome his social anxiety." Thomas reacts by happily giving him a high five.

** In a more recent Story Time Vine, he goes up to a VideoGame/PokemonGo player and makes a joke about the Pokemon theme song. But the guy counters with a ''very'' heartwarming response by saying, "And overcome his social anxiety." Thomas reacts by happily giving him a high five.

** In a more recent Story Time Vine, he goes up to a PokemonGo player and makes a joke about the Pokemon theme song. But the guy counters with a ''very'' heartwarming response by saying, "And overcome his social anxiety." Thomas reacts by happily giving him a high five.