#flayed!robin

fic title is you want blood and i promised. i've cycled through about six different titles since starting, but this one stuck. don't get me started on the 8 million different meanings the title has depending on how you read it  

it will be told from robin, steve, AND nancy’s pov, usually splitting two characters per chapter once they diverge into their separate storylines. there is also one (1) bonus joyce pov chapter planned  

it is divided into three sections - before, during, and after being flayed - with each section getting its own atmospheric interlude to introduce it/set the tone  

the first five chapters make up part one. their titles (and pov characters) are as follows: - mycelia - (robin) my body's made of crushed little stars (robin) if this is a prison, i’m willing to burn my own chain (robin) shy little rabbit, teething on a shotgun (steve, robin)  give my body to satan if i could only keep my soul (nancy, robin)  

the fic opens with a missing scene from rabbit hearted girl, detailing that vague period of time between robin leaving will in castle byers and will getting taken by the demogorgon  

chapter 2 is a small collection of vignettes from robin's pov, filling in some gaps left in i forget to worry and i buried a hatchet. starting with the aftermath of the steelworks scene in i forget to worry and ending with where robin went after hatchet chapter 5 (because you're not finding out in hatchet), with some theater trio (robin, heather, and sam - but mainly robin and heather) and robin and billy sprinkled in between  

what is currently chapter 17 (the fire's found a home in me) is the ultimate payoff to everything in the series thus far (it's like a reward lol)   

i know everyone hates melissa buckley, but there are some STRONG parallels between her backstory and robin's story beats. (the cherry on top is robin, in melissa's introduction scene all the way back in rhg, saying something like “at least she won't be as stupid as her mother was.” we love a self fulfilling prophecy)  

no russians. the american government is scary enough.   

flayed robin au edit!

one of my absolute favourite aus out there, had to finally give it some vidding love.

inspired by @sun-daisies's upcoming flayed!robin arc in the 'rabbit hearted girl' fic series, as well as @dannyslaysdragons's secret third project. this is dedicated to both y'all as well, just fyi.

Beware The Butcher who stalks the woods, she'll hunt you down until you're gone for good

i am. so excited to see that ngl because ive been thinking about a flayed-ish robin thing for a while as well!! started out as like a “haha oh vecna kinda cursing someone to take their energy to get stronger” and turned into “uh oh robins getting full on possessed”

found something really funny actually and it’s that i started plotting out that idea as a fic like. maybe last week. and then i find ANOTHER flayed robin fic??? i have never seen any other ones im so excited???

anyways!!! have a good day!!!!

ahhh thank you so much! flayed!robin my beloved! there aren't thattt many of them (that i know of) but there are definitely a few incredible flayed!robin things floating around

like UnholyHelbig's 'We're Going to End You' which i think might be the original flayed robin fic? it's a short lil thing based entirely around the traditional fire poker scene but it's so good and the description of the heat and the intensity and everything is so insane

also @snowangeldotmp3 has some flayed!robin stuff as part of her rebel robin: surviving the upside down universe that is so insanely good (linking the whole tag because every piece of it still lives in my mind rent free)

oh and there's the latest chapter of Unlikely, But Likely by @pocket-sand-fic that's a lil flayed!robin one-shot!

hopefully there's something in there you haven't seen yet because it's all so good! flayed!robin is so fun to explore (as is nancy's reaction, we love our feral protective gun-wielding girl)

(also i have to shout out the art @sweepy-stringbean made for my flayed!robin au, it's insanely good and sometimes i go find it again and just sigh happily because look at them!)

Nancy: oh wow I’m in love with Robin. I can’t tell her though, I refuse to lose this friendship to something as controllable as some feelings. I can handle being friends with her. Nothing has to change.

RONANCE : the devil's after both of us - @eskawrites

This fanfic is so good and I think about Flayed!Robin and feral Nancy so often, if not every day! 

I poked around in the asks as an anon to get ideas to surprise you (Eska) with some fanart. Thank you for sharing your wonderful writing with the fandom.

great news for you anon i started a thread about this on my twitter like a year ago. the bad news is I only wrote one part and then never got back to it. anyway, I will share it here!

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one shift after scoops, robin decides to cut through the woods to get home. it'll shave ten minutes off her bike ride, and she's not afraid of the woods, no matter the whispers about the byers kid coming back changed.

robin cuts through the woods and everything changes.

steve doesn't know robin that well, but he notices when she comes in to work looking like... well, looking like shit, to be frank. she looks tired, wincing under the bright lights of the mall. he asks if she's feeling okay and she mumbles that she didn't sleep well.

he looks doubtful, and she snaps that he's here to scoop ice cream, not poke into her life. he drops it.