The most selfless thing Robert ever did was let Aaron go. It's also the one thing that Aaron will have the hardest time forgiving.

robert single handedly connecting most of the storylines in the show atm and interacting with all manner of random characters finally bringing that village feel back to emmerdale really does make him a valued member of the community tbh, that's his actual sugden legacy, what he was born to do

my brain is so full of thoughts about robert forever feeling inadequate in his own family and how he might run his mouth and act cocky with john but that it really just has to eat away at him in the same way andy used to. like what do you mean this man you barely know at all is welcome. what do you mean i should move away from the place i was born, where my mother died, where i found a way to accept myself, where i made a family, where i finally felt like i belonged. what do you mean i still dont fit in but this stranger slipped right in and you all embrace him. that you all love him more just like everyone always loved andy more. what do you mean Victoria is on the side of a man she's known for a year and not the brother shes known all her life. i know that shit eats away at him. cuz it fuckin eats away at me to think about.