The Painkiller Corner

Intoxicated/Bloodlust

Chad and Alice overheard and are already planning the wedding. And don't worry, Robert's gonna say yes <3

And thats a wrap folks! Thanks for tuning in, this was so much fun!!! I'll see yall again real soon :)

I am gonna finally feed u guys tho lol

Waisan Robert my beloved, I have no idea where the hc began but I do know that it would be hilarious on a drunk karaoke night with the z-team.

He knows he's an android but the Z-team would only find out during a bar fight

i've never actually seen much or actually played Detroit Becomes Human 🙂‍↕️ i know a little bit, with a vague remembrance of some popular lines, but other than that... i got absolutely nothin' ↓ is it good, should i watch a playthrough? or would it be better to find a way to play the game...

sentient android!Robert sounds metal as fuck though, if you'll pardon the pun

i feel the need to impress once more, BEFORE i start spinning this, that i have not seen or interacted with DBH- this is not a DBH au, there will not be any intentional parallels to DBH. if you would like a DBH au, i'll make it happen one way or another. but this is not DBH related

so no one gets mad at me- this is just sentient android!Robert okay-? okay:

'Robert' was created as a vessel for Robbie to put his eventual conscious into, as a way to keep being Mecha Man even long after his inevitable death ↓ It wasn't a secret from Shroud-- far from it, actually, as it had been the man's idea in the first place and he'd jumped on creating the program for such a thing. Robbie really should've questioned him about it more

'Robert', frequently referred to as 'Code Blue' [because that was all he was ever supposed to be, a code, an alternate option] has a pretty sophisticated design. He doesn't really look like an android at all -> That is, until his limbs are pulled taut-- pulled until the almost doll like segmentation is exposed under synthetic skin. His freckles weren't an initial aspect of his design, but Chase was pissed off at Robbie one day and painted them on as a 'prank'. -> This was around the time 'Robert' started straying from his original programming, so Chase very much influenced a lot of his behaviour. Shroud murders Robbie, per canon, and goes to upload the data gathered from Robbie's brain into the shell -> What should be a shell, anyway... imagine his surprise when 'Code Blue' eats the AI Robbie had been turned into. Elliot... flees right into custody when it becomes apparent Robert can and will kill him

from there he just takes up the mantle-- it's the only instruction he's been left with, that he hadn't cannabalized in achieving sentience-- so it's what he does. effectively, he's Mecha Man

and he learns. every person he meets, every person he saves, alters him a little more, until he's almost passable as human -> His fight with Flambae goes a little differently, though not by much. Flambae still leaves with two less fingers but SIGNIFICANTLY more trauma at seeing skin melting away from a very human looking eyeball. His flames don't feel safe for him to use anymore, he doesn't trust his powers in the slightest -> When they meet in the bar, Robert is the first human-shaped thing he's willingly touched in months. Flambae grabs him by the face, nearly unmasking him hunting for the damage, before he realizes what he's doing and backing off w/ disbelieving huffs and puffs-- literally smoking as he demands answers

he doesn't get them.

Robert never really tries to hide the fact that he's an android-- but a series of comical events and misunderstandings keep interrupting him every time he tries to correct his new learning pool

"I don't have genitalia. So." "What, a third explosion blow your bits off or something-?" "What? No, I'm literally-" *cue very large explosion, fit with cars honking and glass shattering and cats screeching* "...sigh.. I'm sending you on that."

Insomnia/Nocturnal

Speaking from experience, midnight noodles rock <3

Prev ref.

Robert... is not having a good time.

The pregnancy tests had been shocking enough. He'd done multiple of differing brands just to rule out false positives.

The ultrasound had left him speechless.

There was more than one blob on the sonogram. There were multiple.

When he'd been a teen, his father had warned him of such a possibility; that those with hybrid genetics were more likely to have multiple births. Robbie Robertson had ended his mortifying "facts of life" lecture with the relief that Robert had been born a rare singleton.

Robert had expressed such little hybrid traits throughout his life, that he assumed he'd been in the clear.

Then a few weeks ago, his nails had replaced themselves with wolfish claws.

The pregnancy tests had been the last resort after thorough rounds of medical, magical, and scientific speculation.

Apparently hormonal changes, like those brought on by pregnancy, can cause a sudden redevelopment of non-human traits in those with hybrid genes hiding in their DNA.

In the Robert's case; a Wolf.

His body was changing on him in two different ways, and he wasn't sure how to feel about either.

He tells his partner the (debatably) good news. They seem happy enough at the prospect of a baby or two, but not so understanding of Robert's other physiological changes.

The day Robert's ears began taking on a lupine shape, his partner had become concerningly quiet.

Robert soon returned to their shared apartment empty of everything except his fat little dog.

A note left on the counter read; "This isn't how I imagined things going."

Attempts to call, text, or email his partner was met with resounding silence. It was as if they had erased themselves from Robert's life.

If Robert's mental health was already on a tight precipice after his partner's disappearance, then Shroud's notorious escape from prison had been the jumping-off point.

If he'd been a better state of mind, he would have seen the Steel Works for the ambush it was. But all he could think about was making sure his father's killer could not pose a threat to his future children.

When the Mecha Man suit exploded, a different part of Robert's instincts took over when the rational mind fell asleep.

The doctors and nurses tending to him and his babies throughout the coma recorded concerning physical changes. Increased body hair growth, replacement of adult teeth with sharper new ones, and the development of a long bushy tail, to name the most obvious.

These changes were not limited to Robert himself - the pups in his womb were too, changing to fit their parent.

By the time Robert Robertson finally reawakened; he resembled less the Mech Hero and more a great Dire Wolf of old.

Soon after this awakening; Robert promptly escaped the hospital into the rolling hills of lower Los Angeles.

A capture warrant was immediately put out to all hero agencies in the state regarding a loose giant wolf.

Meanwhile, at SDN Torrance; the Z-Team, working overtime to make up for scaring off yet another dispatcher, were assigned to the very case.

And who better to find a giant fiercesome beast than another?

Sonar had been glad to stretch his wings against the night breeze. It wasn't often that the task specifically called for him to transform into his Megabat form - but the tracking of a feral wolf-hybrid suited his skill set well.

He could certainly smell a doggy scent around the foothills, but his echolocation was broken by all the shrubs and low-lying plant life.

So, ignoring a blaring alarm in the back of his primal brain, Sonar touched down to get his bearings.

Within seconds, he was pinned to the ground by a massive dark-red wolf.

He was about to fight back, claw and bite and screech his way free, when he caught sight of the dire wolf's stomach.

Large, and hanging with pronounced teats.

"Ohhh..." his rational brain surmised. Pregnancy hormones have to be a bitch for a hybrid with emotion-based transformations.

Thinking quick, less the wolf see him as a threat (or worse, a meal), the Megabat turns his head to expose his neck. Visibly submitting to the wolf's power over him.

The dire wolf stops growling, looking down at the giant bat with curious dark eyes. They ease a paw off of Sonar's chest, but keep poised over him for sudden movement.

With great mental energy; Sonar begins reverting back to his hybrid form. The Megabat shrinking down to a mostly-naked 5'9ft manbat.

The dire wolf watches this transformation with apt fascination. With a deep breath, they seem to meditate to attempt their own transformation.

Their body settles on a sickly, scarred man with red-brown hair. The ears and the tail remain, as does the visibly pregnant stomach.

Sonar is left speechless by the sight.

The wolf-hybrid is speechless also, though for differing reasons. He sniffs the nervous bat's neck before curling against him, the feral part of his mind taking the reins.

The manbat's hand shakes as he reaches for his earpiece;

Sonar: "Found the wolfman."

Chase: "Any trouble?"

Sonar: "Not... in the traditional sense. He's calm now, but obviously still in feral-mode. Something def spooked him."

Chase: "Can you move him?"

Sonar, flustered-sounding: "UH... well, he's kinda... asleep on me. And I don't wanna move him in case I jostle the pups."

Chase, voice serious: "The what?"

Sonar: "The pups. Guy's clearly pregnant. I can hear the little heartbeats and everything."

Chase, after deep inhale: "Mal, portal in and help Batboner carry his new friend back to base. Blazer is gonna want to see this."

When Robert's rational mind finally comes to, it's in the medical ward of SDN Torrance. As he tries to wipe the exhaustion from his eyes, he realises that he's clinging to a furry pillow. Pressing his swollen tummy against the warm grey fluff.

Well, not a so much a "pillow", as a blushing bat-hybrid man. Thankfully both of them dressed in medical gowns. The manbat seems quite happy to continue being used as a body pillow for the time being, purring loudly like a pleased cat.

Robert didn't think he could be more mortified until a man he recognises by scent as Trackstar bursts through the door at his awakening - demanding to know how Robert found himself in such a precarious situation.

Robert can only reply with a flat joke to deflect his past six months of trauma.

"Congrats. It's puppies."

The manbat only purrs louder.

There was a bit of media cover-up involved to make sure "Mecha Man turns into a big wolf after a coma" doesn't get out. Thankfully no one outside the medical professionals and the folks at SDN Torrance know what happened.

The manbat he's been clinging to like a security blanket is apparently an ex-villain-turned-hero named Sonar, and that Robert had essentially taken him hostage as a tired dog would.

Speaking of dogs; Beef is quickly tracked down to the very same hospital Robert had been staying at during his coma. Turns out the staff had allowed SDN a search warrant of Robert's (Mecha Man's) property in case of foul play or opportunistic villains. Beef had spent most of the past three-going-on-four months at Robert's bedside, his melancholy only broken up by the care of the adoring nurses. The chunky chihuahua mix is too overjoyed to see his owner again that he doesn't even seem to notice Robert's new canine features.

Chase is joyful in his own, mildly disappointed and worried, way. Vowing to "cut his [Robert's partner's] dick off and feed it to Beef!" for leaving his adoptive bro alone and pregnant.

Robert thinks bitterly of his past partner. There was a brief blip of activity on his phone the days after the explosion - then radio silence once more. Robert thinks it's for the best.

The Mech Suit is pushed to the back of Robert's mind for now. To be repaired only if for a worst case scenario. He has to prepare for at least 3 or 4 little lives to enter his own.

Being a dispatcher isn't as exciting as field work, but it's certainly a lot safer and more social than stalking the streets alone.

The fact that the very Z-Team that Robert directs contains the funny, surprisingly-gentle manbat that helped bring him down from his feral episode is a nice bonus.

Zteam find out this guy that Robert wants to rip his throat out is the baby daddy

Robert: Fine Now, considered I got caught in an explosion after you left me and the pups, because…what did you note say? It’s not like you’d thought it be. After my hybrid traits became more pronounced.

Deadbeat puts his hands up and tries to take a step back only to bump into golem.

Prism who walked over: So this is the Deadbeat you told us about, Roberto?

Flambae and punch up follow her and when deadbeat tries to get away he sees Mal and Coop on the other side.

Deadbeat: Ok maybe I panicked and should have had a conversation before leaving…

Robert: Panicked? You took everything but beef and my mattress! Within a few hours too! That takes planning.

Deadbeat tries to defend himself.

Babe?

Everyone turns and sees a pretty woman holding food and her cell phone in case she needs to call the police.

Other woman: Who are you people abc why are you about to attack my boyfriend!?

Robert steps forward towards her clearly pregnant.: Girlfriend, huh? Just you moved on really quick. Did you tell her why you left me?

Other woman: Left you? What are you….*realizes what this guy means*

When did you two break up?

Robert: more like he left me and stole all my stuff except my dog and mattress. But 5 months ago, he knew I was pregnant btw.

Robert (and his ex's current partner) learning that he was being cheated on during the early part of his pregnancy.

His partner likely was planning on dumping Robert or stringing him along until the pregnancy and hybrid stuff happened. So he bailed.

Prism hears how shitty Robert's baby-daddy is, and is immediately at his side, offering to cyberstalk that mf into the shadow realm. She knows dead-beats from personal experience, and bonds with Robert by trash-talking his Ex's social media posts, and sharing how her own Momma dealt with such worthless men.

The Z-Team are just so protective of their wolfy dispatcher and his babies.

Meanwhile Robert is talking to the girl asking a few clarifying questions with Mal, Visi, and Prism comforting her that it’s not HER fault deadbeat is such a bastard!

By Time Chase gets there with Victor and Alfie there’s not gonna be much left to spit on.

(Oddly enough I was reminded of Melissa from this one idea of Robert having a wolf-hybrid/werewolf wifey. Hilarious if Robert's Ex was anti-hybrid, only for the gf to give him a look that could kill - as she slowly turns into her wolf-form. She'd been planning on telling him at their six month anniversary.)

If the Deadbeat thought he was in trouble with the Z-Team for cheating on/dumping Robert at his most vulnerable, then he is not prepared for the hell Chase will bring!

Rebecca sitting with Robert: So how did you and Victor meet?

Robert: when I woke up from a coma after getting caught in explosive the stress made me shift for the first time. Before that I was Normie Passing. Vic was the person SDN sent to try me down when reports of a Wolf hybrid being on the loose came in. Luckily for everyone he was able to only only calm me down but by pure dumb luck the guy who sent him on the mission was my honorary big brother who I hadn’t talked to in Years. He and Victor have been taking turns caring for me after I lost the apartment I shared with Deadbeat for not paying rent.

Rebecca: I see…so how does that lil cutie pie fit in to the story? He Victor’s from a past relationship or…

Robert shakes his head: Victor saved Alfie from a “dog fighting” ring. Alfie was the quote on quote grand prize. Afterwards he just couldn’t part with him so he immediately adopted him since he was the only person beside Mal he let close without snapping at them.

Rebecca: Lucky you. You got a great guy who’s good looking and has a pup ready to be a big brother…any chance he has a brother or you two are looking for a third…

Robert: something tells me Victor wouldn’t be opposed….

"Look, I'm not saying they're not cute, but how the fuck do you keep track of them?"

"We air tagged their clothes."

They other team would lose so badly cuz Alfie is an Angel for his Aunts and Uncle and does what he can to help toddling around. But for some who speaks badly about his family? He will become the general of his siblings chaos and Robert knows it.

Other parents hear the amount of kids and assume it's spread out over a few years.

Nope!

NPC: "How??" Robert, dryly: "Enthusiasm."

Hiding in @i-used-to-wear-the-fedora tags;

I can imagine Victor taking them on flights. Though he would probably have to carry them all at once.

Solution?

Snow Leopards are just so bouncy when they pretend to be hunted or startled by their babies. Think of it as an exaggerated cartoon yelp, all to encourage the babies hunting skills.

Robert's Kid: (*pounces as a kitten do!*)

Robert, exaggerated jolt: "EEK!" :O!

Chase, following along: "Ooof! That startled even me!"

Z-Team, on coms: (*rabble of encouragment/praise!*)

Robert's Kid: :3

Sleepless nights are better spent together 🤖🖤🦇

Robert's favorite dual transportation method is Megabat because fun, Sonar's favorite is Mech because cozy. 🤭

Mech/Megabat

Flying lessons on date night <3

What if, in my Robert and Liam au, Robert gets hit with some kind of power to bring a random dead family member back to life, and lo and behold, the power picks Robbie?

-~-~-~-~-

Robert always wondered how disappointed his dad would be in him, for spending so much of his inheritance and life insurance money on cures for his son, for running the Mech ragged, and for the injury and retirement of Mecha Man. Then there was Robert working for a hero corporation, dating multiple ex-villains, giving up the astral pulse for his son, and then later turning down the chance of being Mecha Man again in favor of being a good dad. All things Robbie would surely not approve of.

He was curious, but it didn't mean he actually wanted to know.

But his luck must be awful, because a stray spell from a runaway villain ended up hitting him dead in the chest while out walking Beef, and suddenly Robert was face to face with his father.

They're all ranting, and bitching, and insulting Robert's dad in hushed tones, trying to keep quiet so they don't stress Liam out. Liam's worried anyway, because first his dad was upset by something, and now his other parents are angry. Whoever his dad ran into, he already knows something happened.

Once Liam went to his room for a nap, they all waited a little while to make sure he was actually asleep, then turned to Robert.

"Babe, your dad's an asshole," Victor hissed, still angry enough to almost transform again. Malevola wrapped an arm around the hybrid, both a comfort, and a threat to remove him from the apartment if he went full Mega Bat there.

"Total piece of shit, that bitch raised you?" Chad added, an incredulous look directed at Robert.

"Well, yeah. He's my dad," Robert pointed out. Chad rolled his eyes in response.

"He's got a few screws loose," Victor grunted.

"A few screws?" Alice scoffed, "His whole brain's loose, just rattlin' around like a fuckin' marble." There were a few noises of agreement at that, and Robert just sighed helplessly.

"Look, I know he probably said a bunch of shit about me-"

"More than that! He was dragging everything about you through the mud, babes," Malevola interjected, but Robert kept speaking like she hadn't interrupted him.

"And I expected that, I can handle it. I'll just. . . Talk to him again tomorrow, and hopefully figure out a way to cancel the spell."

"Absolutely not!" Victor snapped, bristling.

"Vic-"

"No, you're not talking to him alone, I won't let him tear you down," The hybrid hissed.

"Well I kind of have to talk to him alone, with you guys there we wouldn't get any talking done," Robert retorted, "He's my dad, I dealt with his scolding my whole childhood, I can deal with it again for one conversation."

"Like he'd actually talk in the first place, bitch wouldn't know what "civilized" means if it hit him in the face," Alice snarked, arms crossed.

"Just tell him Mecha Man's done for and he can't change it. Boom, done, no more family drama!" Chad suggested unhelpfully, like Robert hadn't just essentially done that.

Robert frowned, barely holding himself back from arguing back at everyone. If they broke into actual arguments, Liam would wake up.

For now, he just sighed and let it slide.

-~-~-~-~-

He never had people on his corner when it came to Robbie's parental ways - Chase probably would have done more, but he was a teen back then, with his own set of issues. After years of being haunted by the ghost of Robbie, and now having to face the man in the flesh, knowing that there's people worried for him - and not just any people; they're his team. His team who loves him to dead and who are also the parents of his son, his baby boy, because that's how much the wanted to be involved with his live, with him. They would go and bare-knuckle fist fight his dad for just looking at Robert badly, and that has to be such a heedy feeling mixed with all the others he has about his "sperm donor", as Alice once calls his dad.

What if, in my Robert and Liam au, Robert gets hit with some kind of power to bring a random dead family member back to life, and lo and behold, the power picks Robbie?

-~-~-~-~-

Robert always wondered how disappointed his dad would be in him, for spending so much of his inheritance and life insurance money on cures for his son, for running the Mech ragged, and for the injury and retirement of Mecha Man. Then there was Robert working for a hero corporation, dating multiple ex-villains, giving up the astral pulse for his son, and then later turning down the chance of being Mecha Man again in favor of being a good dad. All things Robbie would surely not approve of.

He was curious, but it didn't mean he actually wanted to know.

But his luck must be awful, because a stray spell from a runaway villain ended up hitting him dead in the chest while out walking Beef, and suddenly Robert was face to face with his father.

They're all ranting, and bitching, and insulting Robert's dad in hushed tones, trying to keep quiet so they don't stress Liam out. Liam's worried anyway, because first his dad was upset by something, and now his other parents are angry. Whoever his dad ran into, he already knows something happened.

Once Liam went to his room for a nap, they all waited a little while to make sure he was actually asleep, then turned to Robert.

"Babe, your dad's an asshole," Victor hissed, still angry enough to almost transform again. Malevola wrapped an arm around the hybrid, both a comfort, and a threat to remove him from the apartment if he went full Mega Bat there.

"Total piece of shit, that bitch raised you?" Chad added, an incredulous look directed at Robert.

"Well, yeah. He's my dad," Robert pointed out. Chad rolled his eyes in response.

"He's got a few screws loose," Victor grunted.

"A few screws?" Alice scoffed, "His whole brain's loose, just rattlin' around like a fuckin' marble." There were a few noises of agreement at that, and Robert just sighed helplessly.

"Look, I know he probably said a bunch of shit about me-"

"More than that! He was dragging everything about you through the mud, babes," Malevola interjected, but Robert kept speaking like she hadn't interrupted him.

"And I expected that, I can handle it. I'll just. . . Talk to him again tomorrow, and hopefully figure out a way to cancel the spell."

"Absolutely not!" Victor snapped, bristling.

"Vic-"

"No, you're not talking to him alone, I won't let him tear you down," The hybrid hissed.

"Well I kind of have to talk to him alone, with you guys there we wouldn't get any talking done," Robert retorted, "He's my dad, I dealt with his scolding my whole childhood, I can deal with it again for one conversation."

"Like he'd actually talk in the first place, bitch wouldn't know what "civilized" means if it hit him in the face," Alice snarked, arms crossed.

"Just tell him Mecha Man's done for and he can't change it. Boom, done, no more family drama!" Chad suggested unhelpfully, like Robert hadn't just essentially done that.

Robert frowned, barely holding himself back from arguing back at everyone. If they broke into actual arguments, Liam would wake up.

For now, he just sighed and let it slide.

-~-~-~-~-

He never had people on his corner when it came to Robbie's parental ways - Chase probably would have done more, but he was a teen back then, with his own set of issues. After years of being haunted by the ghost of Robbie, and now having to face the man in the flesh, knowing that there's people worried for him - and not just any people; they're his team. His team who loves him to dead and who are also the parents of his son, his baby boy, because that's how much the wanted to be involved with his live, with him. They would go and bare-knuckle fist fight his dad for just looking at Robert badly, and that has to be such a heedy feeling mixed with all the others he has about his "sperm donor", as Alice once calls his dad.