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Okay, tumblr is being dumb and not actually adding the link to my post? Not sure if this one will work but I’m gonna give it a try lol

Chapter 3 of Changeling in the Cradle is up!

There was a superstition held as gospel by anyone who even remotely worked with emergency services - vigilantes included - that full moons were the absolute worst.

They always - without fail - brought the weirdos out in force and cranked the unhinged vibes of the city up to eleven. Steph had seen it first hand over the past two years of her clerkship at Leslie’s clinic. She’d had an even more up close and personal view of the wild bullshit that broke out each month in the near decade she’d been working as a vigilante before and during that time.

Usually that level of crazy was just one night though.

(Because I love married Flambert, but I've yet to see any bachelor party shenanigans and we all know there would be some 😂)

Flambae and Robert are getting married, and they decide to have their respective bachelor parties on alternate weekends a few weeks before the wedding (because they are not having everyone hungover during the big day, its going to be like herding cats as it is, they don't need to add to the craziness with folks being misrrable and half dead from the night before on top of it).

Well, alright more like the z team plans for Robert and Flambae to have their own bachelor parties on different weekends.

Flambae was always going to have one because he loves any excuse to go out and have a good time on someone else's dime (not for any "last night of freedom" bullshit, he's been trying to lock Robert down for ages and will burn anyone who suggests anything else to a crisp).

Robert though was planning on, at most, having a chill night drinking a couple beers with Chase, Royd and Coop and let them tease him about how stupidly in love with Flambae he is (and maybe write down some of the books Coop recommends as "educational reading" to check out ahead of the honeymoon).

He really should have known better than to think the team was ever going to let that happen though.

A week after Flambae's bachelor party, Robert finds himself swept away by the team to the first of many bars for the night. Flambae laughs and tells him not to start any fights while he's "unsupervised" and gives him one last kiss before Robert is hauled off for a night of drunken revelry. Prism promises to keep an eye on her favorite hottie's fiancé and make sure nothing happens. It's just to make both members of the couple feel better, its not like they're actually worried anything will happen. They got ip to way crazier shit at Flambae's party the weekend before than what they're planning with Robert, and nothing bad happened then. It'll be fine!

(It was, in fact, not fine.)

Four hours and five bars later, Robert is the most drunk he's been possibly his entire life. Laughing and relaxed in a way that he usually only ever is with Flambae and maybe Chase sometimes. They're all feeling very proud of themselves for managing to get their favorite dispatcher to unwind and do so in a way that has Chase and Blazer both excitedly congratulating them all on making the night happen.

Which, of course, is the moment that it all starts falling apart.

Prism is texting another update on the night to Flambae, glancing up to find Robert and snap another pic of him in that ridiculous bridal party hat Visi had stuck on him earlier, when... huh. Where is Robert, actually? He go to the bathroom or something?

She asks and - oh. Oh shit.

No one knows where he is. He was chatting with Mal one second about how much he loved Flambae (Robert, when this drunk, apparently is physically incapable of not talking about his amazing soon to be husband for hours on end. It was all very happy in cute and also annoying as hell after the first five minutes). Then Mal got distracted trying to keep Sonar from breaking his sobriety, and when she turned back Robert was gone.

She'd assumed that he had just wandered off to talk to someone else in their group or Blazer or Waterboy had decided to try and get him to sober up a little in some corner of the bar but nope. Neither of them have seen them.

Nobody, as it turns out, has seen him in about an hour.

They fucking lost Robert.

Oh god, Flambae is going to kill them.

I will also admit that i have spent the better part of about a good couple of years so very much not indulging in this aspect so my writing may be quite rusty (so is my art, which is only slightly not because i did do art on and off)

That being said, i have two... well they're in the same draft as several other notes of mine which is probably a bad idea and i should separate them into their own document/folder/page; anyway, two concepts to start with that still follow along the same line/idea

So here we go;

1. Robert Robertson the Fourth (creative idea title for now)

In which Robbie still killed Robert's parents for the suit and legacy, and then stole his own nephew to pass him off as his son and heir

2. In which Robbie is NOT the hero OR the father

In which Robbie kills his own sister after Mecha Man Prime's death to prevent her from inheriting the legacy HIS father left behind and then, after the act, steals her child as his own. (the initial bunny which multiplied)

What do you think? There's a bit more in my notes but this is hm more or less a tentative summary of the two ideas inspired by your post

I do swing wildly between not wanting to be perceived and being not indifferent (in which i will still mentally scream of course) if i do post it on my page and tag you or stay on anon and feed it into your ask box so i guess we'll just have to wait and see??? I admit to not having posted much of anything in my page though, since I've been trying to finish at least a new art i hopefully finish amongst all my wips, and not having reblogged any of the +4,000 posts I've been liking since i threw myself back on this site, the nostalgia was a delightful trap that finally dragged me back after spending a few years away haha

Happy to be of service! on the other hand, i shall endeavor to have something more coherent soon and no worries, i am also excited, i only hope to craft something good, I'm not a perfect writer after all, but i will try my best

Have a nice day/night!

Plot bunnies do be the most vicious of creatures known in existence, absolutely blood thirsty little beasties. Can strip an author down to the bones in seconds (I know, I have fallen to such a fate many times😂)

And I love both ideas! They both have such fun angst potentials 😄

I dig the idea of it being Robbie's sister/Robert's mom actually being the heir to Mecha Man rather than Robbie since we get absolutely nothing about her in the game and I'm immediately obsessed with all the places that concept could go 👀

There's some really interesting things that could be dug out of both Bobby & Robbie's characters in terms of that situation. Bobby, who created/debuted Mecha Man in the 70s being ahead of his time and knowing that his daughter didn't just have what it took to take up the mantle after him, but was better suited to hero work than her brother.

Like, shit, women in the US couldn't legally have credit cards in their own names until 1974, and Gradpa Bobby was out there prepping for his baby girl to inherit millions and be his successor in the mech-piloting, ass-kicking business, gender be damned.

And with Robbie, was it just the fact that the legacy he wanted so much for himself was going to anyone else that was the sole problem, or was the fact that it was going to his sister an issue? Was it sibling rivalry/hunger for power/greed for the fame and fortune of Mecha Man alone, or was some good ol' fashion sexism mixed in with it?

It also opens up some interesting options in terms of Robert's (actual) dad and what (if any) role he had in the whole situation. Was Shroud actually Robert's dad and helped Robert kill his wife/Robert's mother for the promise of Robbie giving him the pulse/building him his own mech/something along those lines? Was Robert's dad some unknown figure that was uninvolved with anything and unaware of what happened, maybe bailed when Robert's mom found out she was pregnant and years later was looking up the son he never met to try and make amends? Or did Robbie kill him too? Or was there never really anyone, and Robert's mom just decided to have a kid and took steps to do that while being uninterested in having a husband/partner (aroace queen, very rad, especially on this International Asexuality day 🤍💜🖤)

Sorry, I'm rambling, I just love those ideas a lot and had a lot of Thoughts ™ about the Robbie killing his sister one in particular haha

I am absolutely down for whatever else you want to share for both concepts! 😄