#aelric

katie omg if you ever want to homebrew this shit i would be at that table with bells on.

character builds based on stereotypical soap archetypes, proficiencies in gossip and lying, instead of spell attacks you have slaps and slagging matches and fifth level LIFE CHANGING SECRET REVEAL.

hello my love

oh i have many! i think when he first got out of prison, robert found the amount of pop culture he’d missed out on genuinely overwhelming, but now he’s enjoying catching up. he’s a big fan of olivia dean (obviously) and he’s been enjoying listening to all the taylor swift rereleases but he’s been really enjoying sabrina carpenter and vic is both enjoying and sick of all the cheesy pop (vic is an emo music girlie at heart and that’s my hill to die on). the first time he’s got money to spare, he buys himself a new kindle and starts reading again and is very determined to catch up on the six years of books he missed out on.

he runs cold. very cold. that’s why he’s always in so many layers of T-shirts and jumpers and jackets and it got worse, in prison, because it was never warm enough in there. one of the first presents vic buys him when he gets out is an electric blanket and robert is obsessed. they do secret santa with team #farm and matty gets him those reusable hand warmers you stick in your gloves and it’s kind of the best present ever.

he likes to draw. robert is always doodling on scrap paper and he loves when harry wants to draw with him - robert draws outlines of pictures, and harry colours them in, and it’s always the highlight of roberts day.

he’s a decent baker all round - but aaron would argue robert makes the best brownies on planet earth. they can never tell vic that, though. she’d be furious.

he always finds it quite hard to wake up - aaron is the morning person of the two of them, and robert is always slow to move, but he doesn’t mind when he gets to curl up in bed and watch aaron get ready for the day. it’s a good deal.

robert is secretly an equal opportunity animal lover - cats, dogs, cows, the works - but he’s got a soft spot for the lambs and so lambing season up at the farm is his favourite time of year. closely followed by those quiet afternoons where he and moira sit with a cup of tea and chat - she’s become one of his closest friends and it’s one of the things robert enjoys the most about being involved in the farm.

bernice used to make him come in for pedicures when she needed someone in for training purposes but robert secretly loves it and likes to treat himself to a pedicure every now and then. he and kerry were always sort of vaguely pals but now they get drunk and do face masks and bitch about their lives and robert loves it very much.

robert is the little spoon. obviously. aaron loves it because it makes him feel as though he’s protecting robert from the big bad world. and there’s nothing better than a sleepy, pliant robert sugden who wants to be cuddled.

thanks to the lovely @aelric for tagging me!

Currently Watching: 🐑-soap aside, i´m currently rewatching the newsroom.

Currently Reading: about to start everyone dies famous in a small town by bonnie-sue hitchcock tonight.

Last Song: magnolias by rosalía

Last song you sang out loud: belted out a very off-key version of scarlett by holly humberstone on my way home from work earlier.

Currently craving: about to grab myself a milka "brookie" that was on offer at lidl yesterday, which i'm looking forward to. nothing better than an evening snack.

Currently working on: angsty fic and finding the motivation for one more day of productivity at the office before i get to go on holiday come monday.

What he won't admit, or maybe he doesn't even realize it, is that he loves it the same way a dog loves the boot it's kicked with when that's the only way it knows how to be touched. Aelric does not have the power to free himself, so he learns to desire it.

“Could you drive any slower?” Aaron couldn’t hold back the snarky comment, glancing across the car at Vic. Andy had done a bang up fucking job of teaching his sister to drive, Vic crawling at a snails pace down the motorway.

He cursed himself for sounding so like Robert, for a second, before he remembered Andy was a prick and mostly deserved it.

Vic glared at him. “I’m going the speed limit!”

Aaron sighed, slouching in his seat. “Kev’ll have turned Robert into minced meat by time you get us to Whitby, Vic.”

hello my love, you are truly speaking my language here

ok. every year robert was in prison and it was his and aarons anniversary, he’d take the ripped wedding photo out of his pocket and he’d let himself get lost in the memories - their first wedding, their second wedding, the memories of how happy they’d been. it was the only two nights of the year he’d be brave enough to keep the photo out, and he’d fall asleep with it tucked under his pillow and pretend as though aaron was there and that everything was ok again.

robert did start his appeal after faith visited - but he changed solicitors to get a better one to really get the appeal going after he found out that she died. he didn’t want to make a promise to her that he’d break, and he couldn’t manage to make it happen while she was alive, so he swore to himself he’d make it happen now she was gone - fulfilling one of those final wishes of hers.

he can’t sleep with his back to a door anymore. it’s something that’s taken aaron a while to get used to, and they have to switch sides of the bed depending where they are, but he can’t have his back to a door anymore - not when he’s sleeping, not when he’s in the pub, not when he’s sitting in vic’s living room.

robert thinks it’s really embarrassing but once when he had a nightmare, harry gave him a loan of his nightlight and robert hasn’t been able to sleep without it since. it’s a little bear.

every year when his mums anniversary rolls around, he brings flowers to her grave like he’s supposed to, but he thought he was completely broken for a long time because he never felt anything when he was there. being part of the farm, having bought annies field - it’s the closest he’s felt to his mum in a long time. he speaks to moira about it, sometimes, and she reassures him that it’s normal to not feel attached to someone’s grave - it’s not always where you find peace. robert still thinks there’s something wrong with him because of it.