10 details about the lion hearted girl flayed!robin au since we are 2 (technically) chapters of hatchet away from it
fic title is you want blood and i promised. i've cycled through about six different titles since starting, but this one stuck. don't get me started on the 8 million different meanings the title has depending on how you read it
it will be told from robin, steve, AND nancy’s pov, usually splitting two characters per chapter once they diverge into their separate storylines. there is also one (1) bonus joyce pov chapter planned
it is divided into three sections - before, during, and after being flayed - with each section getting its own atmospheric interlude to introduce it/set the tone
the first five chapters make up part one. their titles (and pov characters) are as follows:
- mycelia - (robin)
my body's made of crushed little stars (robin)
if this is a prison, i’m willing to burn my own chain (robin)
shy little rabbit, teething on a shotgun (steve, robin)
give my body to satan if i could only keep my soul (nancy, robin)
the fic opens with a missing scene from rabbit hearted girl, detailing that vague period of time between robin leaving will in castle byers and will getting taken by the demogorgon
chapter 2 is a small collection of vignettes from robin's pov, filling in some gaps left in i forget to worry and i buried a hatchet. starting with the aftermath of the steelworks scene in i forget to worry and ending with where robin went after hatchet chapter 5 (because you're not finding out in hatchet), with some theater trio (robin, heather, and sam - but mainly robin and heather) and robin and billy sprinkled in between
what is currently chapter 17 (the fire's found a home in me) is the ultimate payoff to everything in the series thus far (it's like a reward lol)
i know everyone hates melissa buckley, but there are some STRONG parallels between her backstory and robin's story beats. (the cherry on top is robin, in melissa's introduction scene all the way back in rhg, saying something like “at least she won't be as stupid as her mother was.” we love a self fulfilling prophecy)
no russians. the american government is scary enough.
you want blood and i promised is the only fic in the series that is being written completely from scratch. while this fic was an idea back when i was first developing the series a few years ago, nothing had been written yet, unlike rabbit hearted girl, which was about 50% complete before i abandoned it, and i forget to worry and i buried a hatchet, which both had multiple scenes and rough outlines written (though both fics have completely spiraled into much larger projects than originally anticipated)
