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[mentioned post] I can and I did, anon 🙂‍↕️Also here's the link to the image used for the icon.

What I can't decide, is which is more fun:

- Neither knows the other's secret identity, so when Mecha Man and Flambae butt heads and then two hours later are snuggled up together in bed, the irony is only funny to the reader

OR

Z-Team plushies:

After they defeat Shroud they're now big time hero's, which means PR training and merch.

Robert wants to help, he doesn't want someone to feel bad for not selling well or start fighting about sales.

Right before the launch he gets one of every Z-team's plush and posts a picture on his Mecha man account hyping them up.

Right after he posts a video with all the toys sitting on a shelf and explains why he has them in the order he does.

Golem and Invisigal have to be together, they're besties.

Same with Prism and Flambae but he refuses to explain why his own plushie is next to Flambae's.

Coupe and Punch up are also paired but Punch is facing the wall, apparently Coupe is mad at him right now but Robert won't say why.

Phenomaman and Waterboy are together, Waterboy is really patient and helps Phenomaman understand humans better.

Malevola is by herself but Robert explains that Sonar should be there but he's not allowed right now.

He then has to post a follow up video showing Sonar on the shelf but facing the corner by himself, Robert says he has to stay there until he apologizes for stealing his twinkie. (The internet loves everything about this)

After the plushies drop, (sales are booming), Robert keeps posting videos but only when he's upset and has put them in timeout.

Invisigal jump scared him, Punch Up took the last donut, stuff like that.

The most notable time is when Flambae is put in a cabinet under the sink, apparently he was mean to him in Robert's dream.

Oh yes! That would make Robert scarier.

Robert’s got a special voicebox that can change his voice. He uses it to give Mecha Man a different voice and to mess with people.

So he’d definitely uses it to scare people mid fight.

Holy shit I forgot about Dimitri and Lokken

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This is actually a scene that's just been bouncing around in my head for a while now, so instead of actually writing it down and continuing my fic, I decided to make it into a comic!

(textless version under the cut to gaze at the fishies)

This would take place early in the relationship—or perhaps not so early—and Chad's family hasn't met Robert in person yet, only through photos and stories)

Plz 🥺

As someone who's very much into the whole poly Z-Team thing, I 100% agree 🙂‍↕️

And if I can add something: I feel like on nights when Flambae is babysitting his niece, at one of her dance recitals, or just busy with something else, and can't join the team for a night out, the rest of the Z-Team spends the entire night taking turns pretending to be Robert's partner whenever someone tries to flirt with him.

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He can handle iron mantles.

But give him a boyfriend who rubs warm fingers into his back during flare ups, tests the latest recipes on him every day, insists on spoiling his dog with bubble baths and handmade bathrobes, and he doesn’t know how to pilot that.

Except maybe just take pictures of Flambae in the morning.

When his smile lines relax and his hair inks every inch of the pillow.

When he has Beef snuggled under his chin, and his eyes screwed shut, unhappy with sunlight breaching the blinds of his apartment. Their apartment.

“Bob-Bob, don’t take my picture. My hair isn’t done.”

Robert loves his voice in the morning. The way it’s soft and smoked out and crackling with good rest. He squeezes Beef to his chest and half heartedly tries swatting Robert’s phone.

“Yeah, cause you woke up 5 minutes ago. Also, you’re using Beef as a pillow. I AM taking a picture. Let me look at you.”

He likes those pictures the best.

When Flambae finds out about them, confusion knits his brows together

It’s just him.

Singing while getting ready in the bathroom, making shaving cream beards on Beef.

Snoring on Robert’s patchy sofa with drool slipping from his mouth.

Him with the team, mid cackle, mouth smeared with burrito sauce.

Or him in the morning, with his hair an absolute mess and free and getting his smiling face lapped at by that sentient baked potato.

“Why do you only have bad pictures of me?”

He’s playful about it, when he asks Robert. Whiny. Because it kinda scares him. Because he remembers how comfortable he felt in those moments.

And Robert will shrug. And he’ll do what he’s good at. Tell it like it is.

“I don’t know. I like it when you look like you.”

Robert can’t outrightly say ‘I think you’re beautiful and my hands don’t know how to hold beautiful things.’

And Flambae can’t say ‘I think you’re the only person I ever want to look at me’.

Robert opens the door to a giant seal that knocks his door wide open and forces his way in. Robert can recognize it’s Chad. But he can’t even express his shock before said seal just flops onto him.

Chad is so fucking proud of himself. Who needs a dumb human language or human legs to get what he wants? Not Chad that’s who. He’s so smart, he realizes he doesn’t need to say anything to Robert to get the human to understand he’s not allowed out of his sight. And his coat can’t be stolen if he never takes it off.

Said man is wheezing under his impressive form, but who wouldn’t? Chad will get off him in a minute, maybe. So he won’t die.

Chad has decided on a new routine for them and Robert isn’t getting a say in it. It consists of Chad staying with Robert as a seal and Robert isn’t allowed to leave. Robert won’t have any time for others, with his newly returned co-dependent seal. With separation anxiety so bad Chad starts roaring if Robert is out of sight for more than a minute.

Their schedule is mostly hanging out in or around Robert’s cabin, Chad dragging Robert out to the beach so Chad can go swim and be a seal, and Robert bargaining with a nonverbal Chad to let him leave to for something he needs to get done. Chad doesn’t understand what more Robert could need, he hunts plenty of fish for the both of them.

Robert doesn’t want to risk people hurting Chad if they discover him, so he stops inviting people over. Chase still comes over, Chad and Chase fucking hate each other. Chad will just growl and bark while Chase cusses him out. But Robert made it clear he won’t forgive either of them if they hurt the other so it doesn’t go further.

Robert also no longer has a bed frame, Chad broke it when he tried getting on it. Chad thinks it’s much better this way, it saves him the trouble of dragging Robert to the nest he made of stolen blankets for cuddles.

I love this so much. Obsessed with seal!Chad