so i know literally no one cares about some assembly required, but i ran into some memes, and...
I think if it had been made later there would have been an episode where aster tries convincing piper to tell jarvis how she feels, but jarvis only overhears aster say "I'm in love with jarvis" instead of the complete "it's not like I'm in love with jarvis", so jarvis spends the entire episode talking to the others trying to find a way to let aster down gently. when he finally does it, aster laughs in his face
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Piper seems to be pretty pro-feminism, and has expressed many times how she feels little girls should feel empowered to do whatever they put their mind too!
she even went so far as to completely sabotage a pageant to give little girls positive role models and a better version of the Angie doll! but she also seems pretty picky with which girls she supports.
she is quite rude to girls who are âgirly girlsâ or very feminine. not to mention she dedicated an entire episode to trying to made Geneva look less attractive and has expressed her prejudice against Geneva for being the stereotypical âbeautiful dumb blondeâ.
she has also villainized Geneva multiple times and has attempted to ruin a potential date her friend was going to go on with her overly freaky crush. not to mention she also less pleasant to guys who arenât Jarvis.
while she has become less of a ânot like other girlsâ girl and developed a much better relationship with Geneva, it still brings up the question of whether or not she truly is the advocate she is portrayed to be.
so, what do you say Piper is? true feminist or toxic feminist?
Fandom: Some Assembly Required
Summary: With a romantic rival walking around Knickknack, Piper has been a lot angrier than she usually is. She spends a bit of time introspecting into herself and realizes a lot of ground shaking, world breaking things about herself.
Warnings: Internalized transphobia, comphet, and general idiocy
Word Count: 3,658
Ship(s): Piper Gray/Robin (SAR)
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Piper could never remember being this angry before.
Well, that wasnât entirely true. Nowadays it felt like her default emotion had turned into anger rather than the ever-present despair that she had been wallowing in before. She had moments of sadness and joy, as well as fear given how often their company ended up being in some kind of mortal jeopardy, but she was just angry all the time.
Her brain was almost always swirling with thoughts that she didnât really understand and that was a lot more exhausting than she had thought that it would be. She had been starting to question why everyone was asking her about her gender and thinking that she was a boy when she had always dressed femininely with makeup, and why it always made her heart pound so hard. Those thoughts combined with her obsession with Jarvis were beginning to come to a point in her mind and it made her lash out reflexively.
What wasnât helping matters in the slightest was the presence of AlphaDog in the office. Piper had originally been so excited when the other girl had come, mostly because they both had died hair and dressed the same way, but also because they played the same game and it gave her someone other than Bowie to talk to about it. Bowie was pretty preoccupied trying to get Aster to put the game down so that he could focus on real clothing instead of virtual clothing.
Things had started to go downhill not long after that. Robin was cute and funny and smart and so very talented when it came to video games. She had been the top player in their game for a reason, it showed whenever a control or a mouse and keyboard were placed into her hands. Piper liked to think that she was good when it came to coding and figuring out how tech worked, even if she didnât necessarily understand how the back end worked and couldnât hack worth a damn, but Robin was so much better. She was able to find the loopholes and exploit them to their fullest extent both in online games and in person technology. She had found the override on their rollercoaster in a matter of seconds and got it to go way faster than was probably safe, but fast enough that it was finally newly exhilarating after them using it to get to different levels of the building for the last year or so.
âJarvis! I want to think about Jarvis!â Piper reminded herself as she threw her arms up in the air in exasperation. She had come up to the roof so that she could be alone, despite the shuffling in the shed off to the corner. She needed to be alone so that she could sort through all of her messy thoughts and become more of a person than she had become.
Robin was good at video games, but that wasnât something that came with natural talent. A lot of games had a very steep learning curve that required someone to put dozens of hours into them, and that meant that the other girl simply had more time to do that with. Piper was allowed some amount of gaming time when she was on the clock so that she could figure out what might be the best games for Knickknack to put out, but she also had to untangle messy code for their website and manage the whole dev team on top of going to high school. Robin wasnât better than her, she simply had more time on her hands.
Thinking that didnât make her feel any better, though.
Piper walked over to the couch made out of turf and then flopped down onto it. She reached down and unhooked the back of her heel from her foot so that she was free. She may have been insanely jealous of the other girl, but Robin had the right thought when it came to footwear. She had always gone with heels because they were the most feminine and that gave her something else to point to when it came to correcting people when they insisted that she was a boy. She didnât understand why they did that, it upset her so much that she only wanted to scream and curse and throw a fit like a toddler might.
Robin had never done that though, she had always accepted Piper at face value and corrected herself when she said something wrong that made the other girl uncomfortable. That was something that Piper wasnât used to in the slightest even though she really wished that she could be.
The thing that made her angriest in the current moment was how perfect and wonderful Robin was, and how much Jarvis seemed to like that. Piper had always been worried that her flaws caused problems with her ability to make friends with the other employees at Knickknack, especially with the way that Aster was always pointing them out and making a big deal out of them. It felt like a confirmation that her near-perfectness and all the flaws that came with getting it down from perfect had caused all the problems that she was currently fighting with. If she was perfect then Jarvis would love her the way that he loved Robin, if she was perfect then people wouldnât constantly call her a boy and refuse to accept that she was a girl, if she was perfect then Robin would keep her eyes on Piper instead of looking towards every other boy in the building other than Bowie.
Horror dripped through her very veins and washed out the red hot rage that had been consuming her when the realization finally struck her mind. It felt like someone had placed a cattle prod on her spine and drove her to sit up with it, making her entire body go rigid.
She sat up from where she had been laying on the couch and placed a hand on her cheek to see if it was hot. She had stopped wearing foundation a long time ago when she thought that her freckles would make her more noticeable in terms of being unique and alt, which allowed her to feel the heat in her face far easier than it would have been if she were caked in makeup like she used to be.
She had always looked up to Robin since the other girl had been so talented before they had met. Piper had used her as a high bar, the goal that she wanted to achieve before she finally decided that she was good enough at playing video games to endeavor upon another hobby. She thought that she had lost those feelings when she had officially met Robin, seeing the other girl in person had confirmed just how perfect and wonderful she actually was. Those kinds of things made her insanely jealous when they were done by any other person, so it made logical sense to her that the same would be true with Robin. She hated people that were better than her at one thing and Robin was better than her at everything.
At the same time, though, whenever she thought of the other girl her heart squeezed dramatically in her chest. She had thought that feeling was due to the jealousy she had over Jarvis and his attentions. It seemed like the CEO could only look at other girls, like he as incapable of turning his head towards Piper and seeing the love and adoration that she had for him. Of course, she knew that she wasnât helping matters by fumbling over her words and making herself look like a complete joke whenever she tried to confess to him.
âMaybe thatâs a good thing,â Piper mumbled to herself. She sat up on the couch and then leaned back so that her head was resting on the back, staring up at the bright blue sky. She had a lot of feelings and thoughts she needed to sort through, and she knew that if she was lying down on the couch she would get a mouthful of turf while squirming back and forth.
She had thought that she was in love with Jarvis for a very long time, since they were both in high school together. She had seen him every day when they were in gym class together, seen the way that his muscles rippled when he played sports with the other boys or how he roughhoused with them during lunch. She had seen the way that his shirt and jeans hung off of his body when he was trying not to fall asleep in class and it always made her feel such intense, strong emotions that she didnât quite know how to name.
Robin, on the other hand, made her feel safe and secure. She liked when she was around the other girl without Jarvis being present.
Piper took a deep breath and tried to get all of her thoughts to align themselves in her head so that she didnât feel totally and utterly overwhelmed by them. Her feelings for Robin were really complicated, as was the way that she was beginning to feel about Jarvis.
She didnât know exactly when she had noticed it, but the boy that she had always been so fond of was actually quite cruel to those around him. She knew that Bowie wasnât exactly everyoneâs cup of tea, but that didnât mean that Jarvis had to be constantly reminding the other boy of that. Jarvis was also almost entirely obsessed with himself and how he looked, that was why he had hired the rest of the staff when they had the mixup with that fast food place in the beginning of the company. He talked about himself almost constantly and while Piper could understand being proud of oneâs body when they looked like that, it didnât necessarily make for a good romantic partner.
The longer that she thought about how she felt around Jarvis versus how she felt around Robin, the more she realized that she wasnât so much attracted to Jarvis as she was aggressively jealous of him.
She was used to feelings of jealousy, she got them almost every time someone got a higher test score than her or when someone else took the spotlight for something that she had done. She had never confused them for a crush before, but it made sense now why she had been totally and utterly obsessed with beating Jarvis in all of the classes that they had shared. He had occupied her mind because she wanted to be him, not because she wanted to be with him.
It also explained why it had been so hard for her to act normal about having a crush on him when she had never had that problem before. She had been forcing those emotions as an attempt to explain why she felt such strong jealousy for him over things that she never had before. She was jealous of the way he looked, which was strange because she had always been so confident and happy with how she dressed and her style overall.
Piper worried her lip between her teeth as she began to contemplate if she preferred the way that Jarvis dressed compared to the awkward alt style that she had chosen for herself. She supposed it could be true, but it still felt awkward to roll around in her mind.
Another chill went down her spine as she finally realized something monumental and confusing. She was going to have to think about that a lot more before she decided anything entirely, it was a big change in her life.
Suddenly it felt a lot easier to think about Robin and the weird mix of emotions that she had for the other girl. Doing anything to get her attention had seemed like such a good idea when Piper had thought that she was a boy. She knew that people could like other individuals of the same sex, she was best friends with Aster- for better or for worse- and he was dating both Bowie and Knox. She just hadnât ever considered that as a possibility for her.
Piper felt something weird burst inside of her when she realized that she was jealous of Robin interacting with Jarvis not because she was in love with Jarvis, but because she was in love with Robin.
She was both giddy with excitement about knowing that she had a crush on someone and terrified about what the implications of this could mean from her. She knew that she wasnât living in a time where being queer wasnât allowed, she was in the modern era where people could be bigoted but being queer was usually protected by law. Her parents were generally understanding and kind people, so they would understand her to an extent. She just worried that people would start looking at her or thinking about her differently. If she liked girls and had masculine features, then she might as well have been a boy in their eyes.
That idea didnât sit as strangely in her stomach as she thought that it would have.
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Robin hummed gently to herself as she walked up from the lower floors of Knickknack to where the personal offices were. She had been coming there more and more often as of late, so that she could talk to the person that had killed her character in their shared favorite game. She was good enough to have won an award, but it was rare that she found someone that was just as passionate about it as she was and she liked Piperâs company.
Jarvis was a fun bonus, she liked having him around and getting to yank his chain. The boy was focused in on himself enough that he didnât always get the jokes that she was making and she thought that was objectively very funny. She never drove it all the way home by mocking or laughing at him, but she enjoyed the comedy of his responses not making any sense to her given their different tracks of thought.
Things had been getting a little tense since a few days ago when she had mentioned maybe wanting to take Jarvis to the movies. There was a new sports biopic out that she wanted a jockâs perspective on so that she could make fun of it for the right reasons and he seemed perfect. Bowie and Aster had been all for her doing it while Knox had been shocked an offended that she hadnât thought of him, despite the fact that he was going with his boyfriends, so she had brought it up to Piper.
That was when things started to really go downhill. The other girl had clammed up in the most bizarre way and began to babble around the subject like she was having some kind of fit. Robin hadnât been able to figure out what she was saying in the slightest or why she would be so upset about it all. She had excused herself and continued on about her day, working with the dev team so that they could do a collaboration together with her.
Things hadnât really gone back to normal after that. Piper had been avoiding her by bringing up some really weird excuses that didnât make a lot of sense, and it was beginning to worry her. She had long since learned that it was hard enough being a feminine woman in male dominated spaces, let alone a woman that as interested in other women. She had learned to keep that factoid about herself private, being bisexual was only a part of herself that she shared with someone that she was romantically interested in. She didnât think that Piper would have picked up on that and she certainly didnât think that another person that dressed in the alt style would be repulsed or put off by something as small as a sexuality that deviated slightly from the norm. Despite that, Piper had been avoiding her like the plague and it was beginning to make her think that the other girl wasnât as liberal and open minded as she had presented herself to be.
Robin peaked around the corner of the stairwell and saw that Piper was sitting at her desk. She caught eyes with Aster and then jerked her head to the side so that the other teenager could pick up what she was putting down. âI think that we should finish this meeting on the roof! Itâll give us some more inspiration,â Aster then declared loudly. He reached down and took Bowieâs hand, yanking him up into a standing position and practically dragging him from the room. None of the other employees were up there, Knox and Geneva were somewhere with Jarvis and the cleaning lady who wore the fat suit.
That meant that it was only Robin and Piper.
She took a deep breath to steal her nerves and then walked over to the other girl. She cold feel the sweat beginning to pool in the palms of her hands and her stomach flipping with anxiety. It had been a long time since she had felt like this when she was about to confess her feelings for someone, it was the main reason that she had started to wear the dog mask when she was out and about or why she simply dated online.
âPiper? Do you think that the two of us can talk?â Robin asked, ignoring her own feelings for the simple matter at hand. She would never forgive herself if they didnât actually work through the barrier that had popped up between the two of them.
âNo! I have a meeting! On the roof!â Piper said as she gestured over towards Asterâs now empty desk. She began to collect a random assortment of things including a broken Rubikâs cube, a ball of twine, three pencils, and her tablet.
âI think that the meeting on the roof was actually code for them wanting to make out,â Robin replied. She grabbed a chair from another one of the desks and then sat down so that she was on the short end closest to Piper. âJust sit down and talk to me, please.â
Piper whimpered, she actually whimpered, as she slid back down into the chair and dumped her things out on her desk. âWhat did you want to talk to me about, Robin?â
âWhy have you been acting so weird around me recently? I canât think of anything that I did that would make you feel so uncomfortable that you would have to make loud and obviously fake excuses just to get out of being in the same room as me. I⌠The only thing that I can think of is that something slipped and you found out that I have a crush on you, but I didnât think that you would be the type of person that would freak out about that!â Robin let the words fall out of her mouth all at once, without even thinking about what she was saying. She had meant to string something coherent together so that they could have a real, actual conversation, but nothing had gone right for her since she had come to Knickknack.
âI just found out that Iâm a boy.â
The silence before and after that was spoken was almost deafening. Robin could hear the beating of her heart up in her ears and the shaking of her hands as they rested down on top of her knees. She blinked once, twice, before it finally registered what Piper had just said. âYouâre trans?â
âI guess so. Iâve done a lot of research on it, looked up a lot of articles and watched a lot of videos of trans men talking about their experiences. Iâve alway felt kind of weird about people calling me a boy, but it was an emotion that I skipped over right before I went to anger. I guess that was because I wanted to be a boy so badly that it made me angry when everyone thought that I was even though I had been born a girl,â Piper said. âI donât want to lead you on and make you think that you have a crush on someone that wasnât who you originally thought that they were.â
âIâm bi,â Robin replied, trying to make it casual. She could hear just how hard she was leaning into that alleged casualness to try and drive the point home for the other teenager, though, so it ended up coming off like she was a try-hard.
âOh,â Piper replied. âI think I want to use the name Pipes for now, gender neutral while I figure some shit out.â
âRight,â Robin nodded. She stuck her hand out towards the boy and said, âItâs nice to meet you, Pipes. My name is Robin. Iâm bisexual and I have a massive crush on you, regardless of what gender you are or what you look like.â
Pipes took her hand and gave it a firm shake. A pink blush had taken over his cheeks, making the freckles speckled over his nose pop something fierce. âItâs nice to meet you too, Robin. Do you think that we could go to the movies together instead of you and Jarvis?â
âI would like that a lot. Though I think we should pick something else, neither of us are very into sports,â she laughed. The confessions had brought something else with them, a sense of ease that they hadnât had since Robin had stepped foot into the building and laid eyes on the boy that had managed to kill her character. She was very happy that it had gone and was excited to get to know the person that had been hiding underneath that uncracked shell.
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Rewatching some assembly required, and im realizing that aster and piper's friendship is actually really sweet. He insults her appearance/clothes a lot, which is why i didnt like them when I was younger. But he also encourages her to be herself and he's kinda the person that's nicest to her. Idk it still feels mean but it's still the best relationship piper has in the series. It's more like banter ig?
Also the fact that Robin doesnt come back as piper's friend is evil
