Come home with me.. please

Hey anon!

I’m running on like 4 hours sleep and I can feel the start of a hangover so this is gonna be the bullet point version of the normal 6000 word answer I would probably give 😂

When Robert offered Rebecca the 100k, Vic had been pestering him on behalf of Rebecca (but probably off her own back, because that’s a very Vic thing to do lmao) for money - because Vic saw exactly what was happening, which was that Robert hadn’t contributed anything towards his son or even offered - and Vic is mostly very much determined to pull Robert into shape and force him to not be a terrible father lmao.

When Rob offered Rebecca the 100k, it was following that, and following suddenly being 500k richer. He was about to leave with Aaron and never return. That was a form of apology, in some ways - you won’t have me but you’ll have this - because a small little part of Robert doesn’t want to be a bad father either. In the most heavy handed symbolism in the world, Rob gave the baby that money alongside a picture of his dead dad Jack. Which. I just.

I can’t.

Immediately after this all happened, Aaron left Robert because of Rebecca and the baby. Now we all know that Aaron is ~everything~ to Rob and as much as there is a (small literally tiny) part of him that has positive feelings about his own son, mostly he just wants Aaron back. Like. Aaron has left expressly so that Robert can get on and start being a parent and Rob still pretty much… sits around and ROLLS HIS EYES AND LOOKS GRUMPY every time someone (or he) mentions the baby lmao. Like. That’s not the face of an expectant dad having the time of his life u know.

So now we have Robert, heartbroken and alone and the reason for that, as he said on Friday, essentially came down to the fact that he was spending time with Rebecca (both pre- and post-pregnancy tbh). He doesn’t even really blame Rebecca for this (although probably does deep down lbr we just haven’t seen it on screen) but… he’s got no emotional attachment to her by this point.

She was a mate to him when he was spending 24 hours a day drunk and moping bc heartbreak - at a time where the only other people talking to him were Vic, and presumably Diane. And where Vic wouldn’t let Robert sit around for three hours and talk about his Pain™, Rebecca absolutely would.

Hence why they’ve only ever seemed to talk about Aaron since they started talking again.

I think I mentioned the other day that Rob without a person to love is a Rob looking for a Project of Evil to keep him busy and entertained - Larry and Connor for instance. He was SO 2015 ROB on Friday. It was like greeting an old friend after they’ve been in prison for murdering everyone or something. It was great.

But like… this is all the product of Robert being heartbroken and without Aaron and completely in need of distracting himself

He can’t - he physically and emotionally can’t move on - he’s still wearing his ring, still reluctant to do anything that could make Aaron annoyed at them and destroy their chances of getting back together (he’ll still do those things but u know… reluctant), still just very much in the mindset of being married to his husband - so there’s no way he’s gonna distract himself by banging randoms rn - he needs something else to use to

And ok

Ok

I’m not that fan. I need to know that I’ve built up enough goodwill that you know when I say this, I am genuinely cringing @ myself but also I totally mean it and I fucking hate that I mean it

ROB NEEDS TO FIND SOMETHING EVIL VILLAINY TO DO TO TRY AND MASK HIS PAIN

I hate that this is actually true fucking shoot me SHOOT ME NOW

So here he is. Cracking one liners and being every inch the fun ridiculous villain again. And he doesn’t care enough about Rebecca or his unborn child rn to stop himself because, well, this is at least

I hate myself

THIS IS AT LEAST A WAY OF FEELING SOMETHING AGAIN

SOMETHING THATS NOT PURE PAIN

AND IF THAT SOMETHING HE HAPPENS TO BE FEELING IS MISERY AT THE EXPENSE OF OTHER PEOPLE’S WELL BEING AND HAPPINESS

WELL, GREAT. What are evil villains for anyway.

There’s probably also something about how he’s become a lot more reckless once more because he’s already lost Aaron so… what else does he have to lose?

Not Rebecca and the baby, because he never wanted those in the first place.

And hey, I guess he figures that if he doesn’t have Aaron then at least he can have his second, third and fourth favourite things - money, power and crime.

So. Yeah. The story of why Robert is acting like a genuinely terrible person is because shock! he is in fact a genuinely terrible person.

And lbr these reasons are fucking not a good enough reason to drug someone and terrorise the mother of your uborn child, drive her to the point of near tears in a pub and then make her beg you to do the exact thing you wanted to fucking do anyway -

but they’re 100% enough reason for Rob to do it because he’s always a gentle breeze push away from slipping back into this place anyway. It’s a part of who he is.

And by gentle breeze push I mean a distinct lack of Aaron forcing him to pull back. Literally all he has to rely on right now to keep him in check is his own fucking conscience and as much as we know it does exist… somewhere…. deep down… in there… it’s about as loud as a whisper most times and has been pretty much had faulty wiring from the start so.

AARON

AND

ROBERT

HAVE CHEMISTRY