#poor stone

I like the idea of Stone being seen as an orphan like Robotnik, but what if he wasn't. He was stolen as a young Addams bc they were "saving him" they said. Stole him to America and when they couldn't control him/passed under mysterious circumstances, he was an orphan with only bleary memories of what once was.

Goes military, investigates history, hears about Addams im his travels and grows fond of them but never thinks himself one.

Robotnik needs a rare crystal and Gomez has his name on the receipt list. So he breaks in, and Gomez wants a sword fight for Stones life. Of course, Stone hasn't fought with real swords since college, he gets that manic glee when presented with death to his eye, an Addams quirk, and agrees readily. During it, they end up outside, he loses a shoe to the mud and branded on the bottom of his foot is-

"Pebble... Pebble Addams?!" And he is now known. He doesn't believe it, even as Gomez tackles him into a hug. Apparently, his mother exchanged letters with Morticia as they both were known for their green thumbs, a trait Stone unwittingly picked up.

Excerpt for fic bit actually written:

"Whyd you name him Pebble?" It wrote in Morticia's letter to her dear cousin. "It is a lovely name, but a little weak. Do you intend for him to stay small and underfoot like one? I understand, as I had once thought to keep my woeful Wednesday like that, but watching her grow has been quite lovely. I do enjoy our chats, dear cousin, and eagerly await your reply."

It seized Stones heart, as Morticia switched to the next letter, which one could easily assume to be its reply. But his heart caught on the penmanship of it, how the swirling letters so confidently written still burned in the bottom of his foot.

"Dear Morticia" the letter began. "I had waited a while before naming Pebble proper. Pebble was his nickname in the womb, for he appeared like a small Stone in my belly. But I didn't think it a worthy name

I waited and waited after his birth for a better name to strike me when one day, as I was taking to my darling plants- I hope your Venus Gigantus Flytraps still fare well?- in the garden, I heard a sqwack and the sound of a fallen bird.

When I went to check it out, I heard my dear child giggle so sweetly, even more as Iifted the small bird up, the Pebble still stuck deep in its chest. It was then I knew he was meant to be called Pebble.

For a Pebble is a considerable weapon if one nows how to wield it, especially when well paired to the right musket or gun.

Not to mention, it fits with the branding on the sole of his foot. I am not sure I told you that. When he fell out of me, he refused to cry out. I thought him dead, so I went and branded his corpse so we'd know when setting the grave. He cried out but fell to giggles after the hot metal was pulled from his skin

Truly, my son is a true Addams. Just like his dear mother."

The rest of the letter goes into plants among other things, but Stone could hardly see it through the tears in his eyes.

He pulled back, turning his head away from Morticia who simply turned his head back.

"You have no need to cry alone, Stone" Morticia spoke, her own dark eyes glistening. They sparkled in darkness like his did and it only increased the bur ing in his chest.

"You have your family with you now..." she pulled him into her arms and he couldn't help but crumble slightly into them. She smelled slightly like how he remember his mother to be, dirt and chemicals, a floral scent that begot death. Like home.

He may have been stolen from his mother and brought to America. His mother might have passed already before he found her again. But, she lives on through Morticia's memory, and through Stones. And he had a lot to learn from her.

-Im gonna be honest, it isn’t too different from their canonical dynamic

-Robotnik always plans the schedule so that they have as much time working as possible during the hours Stone has enforced (he had to make a mandatory time frame for every day because Robotnik would have them planned working nearly 24hrs a day)

-Stone has holidays off and gives Robotnik a good amount of days off, welcomes using vacation days. Robotnik despises it, saying that it goes against all productivity and that he should be planning the schedule anyways so he should have the final say in this (he both shouldnt and doesnt)

-One day Robotnik comes into work, shivering and sort of dazed. Stone gets a thermometer and Robtnik’s temperature is 103. Needless to say, he is on mandated sick leave for the rest of the week. When he gets back at work he rants for the first half hour about the human body being stupid and fragile. When he’s done Stone just nods and goes back to work, muttering something about how maybe if Robotnik took care of himself his body wouldn’t be so fragile.

-Whenever Stone is doing work and Robotnik has nothing better to do he’ll stand behind and loudly point out every mistake Stone’s making. Usually saying something along the lines about the government and its habit of uplifting imbeciles.

-Stone is painfully patient with it all, asking Robotnik what he thinks would be an appropriate solution to the problem and saying nothing when Robotnik raises an eyebrow and says, “Isn’t that your job, Doctor?”

-Robotnik refers to Stone either as “Stone” or “Doctor”, never says sir. He doesn’t explicitly state why but it’s obvious to the both of them its because he resents being someone’s inferior so neither mention it.

-Stone, despite his patience, does sometimes have to make sure Robotnik remembers that Stone is still his boss. Once, in a meeting, Robotnik explodes and goes off on Stone, making a huge scene. During all this Stone just stares at Robotnik with a blank stare. When Robotnik finally finishes, out of breath, Stone speaks up. “Do not speak to me like that again, Agent. I can and will have you fired. Do not show up tomorrow.”

-When Robotnik does get back into work he is purposely subpar as a way to get back at Stone who says nothing about any of it. Instead, he just doesn’t smile, staring wordlessly at the mechanics with a blank face. This barely-a-reaction eventually gets to Robotnik and he steps up behind Stone to correct something he’s doing but not in the way he usually does it. He’s gentler, explaining the mistake in its whole. Stone listens throughout it, smiling afterwards and going back to the work.

-Nobody at the government knows why Stone hasn’t fired Robotnik yet. It bewilders most if not all of them when Stone, the government’s most prized secret, stands back and lets his assistant introduce himself first with a look of what could almost be adoration rather than annoyance. When someone has the courage to ask he just shrugs and says something along the lines of Robotnik being intelligent and a capable worker. What he doesn’t tell them about is the day where Robotnik got hurt and for the first time after he’d let Stone help him with no hesitance. What he doesn’t tell them about is the fact that when Stone had caught Robotnik’s sickness and was considerably worse off, ending up bedridden, Robotnik had hummed some tune and held him, stroking his hair and shushing him when Stone would twist in bed and cry out in pain. How when Stone was finally coherent enough to give a reliable answer Robotnik asked him if he was okay, how he’d held on a little tighter when Stone shook his head. What he didn’t tell them was that they trusted each other, and that they were as equal as any boss and employee could be.

-Robotnik is often mistreated or talked down to since he’s considered to be just an assistant. While Stone generally frowns upon making a scene in front of the higher-ups this is an exception, him having given Robotnik explicit permission to talk back when someone is treating him poorly. It amuses him to no end to watch it happen.

-Even though Robotnik isn’t as smart as Stone he is still very much a genius so when Stone is talking technical terms Robotnik, unlike most of the room, understands completely and has his own interjections. However, when there is something that Stone talks about and Robotnik doesn’t understand, he gets angry afterwards and nearly throws a fit (well, sometimes he goes through with it, but Stone mostly stops him)

-The whole Sonic thing doesn’t happen. Stone is much better with social interaction and manipulation so with him being the smartest man in the world that would most likely be amplified and he would be able to just manipulate Sonic into things instead of doing whatever Robotnik was doing (I love him but Robotnik is an idiot sometimes, man couldn’t catch a child because he runs fast)

-When they do eventually get together Stone has to use the whole “I can still fire you” schtick when he finds out that even though he’s been giving both of them a good, healthy schedule to be in and out of work, Robotnik has been staying up until four or five in the morning doing research.

God, he truly is like a loyal dog, just waiting for praise and pets.

prince!butcher: .... you know what i want to do?

knight!stone, preparing for the worst: what.

prince!butcher: i dunno. but youre coming with me >:)

he's now ignoring everything knight!stone is doing and saying and is escaping the castle. because ofc he is. he knows where everything is