#*dispatch

Just--Okay let me help you with that.

fandom: dispatch (video game) pairing: robert/flambae chapter: [ three out of eight ] words: 5.3k rating: mature notes: breaking news! the bitch who can't seem to ever shut up snuck some character study into the romance fic!

There’s no real indication, at the start, that it’ll be anything other than a good day.

He learns that Royd—the large, friendly man who’d found it appropriate to start a conversation with him while both their dicks were out in full display and has now implied his apartment is better suited to a serial killer—isn’t only the very strong coworker helping him load whatever’s left of the Mecha Man suit into a truck headed for the SDC. He’s also the very smart coworker tasked with rebuilding said suit.

Their conversation about it is as enlightening as it is confusing. Enlightening, because Robert learns what the astral pulse actually is, and just how invaluable it’d been in powering the suit. Confusing, because Royd mentions having met his father once, and had deduced that the astral pulse was most likely not one of his creations. An ingenious invention, he admits, but one he wouldn’t attribute to a gearhead. Which Robert’s father apparently was.

It’s always sobering, to learn someone who’d had a single conversation with his dad knows more about him than Robert ever did. Something that makes him feel totally normal and fine and not even a little bit conflicted.

Dispatch - Episode 5