#robertssvgden

Hello and welcome to The Woolpack Pub Quiz

Thank you to @robertssvgden who is Guest Quiz Master this week. The quiz will begin at 7:30pm (GMT) containing 20 questions. You have 30 seconds to answer each question and then the next one will appear in 5 seconds.

oop this is late, sorry lorna! ok ok here we go:

- seb has the biggest sweet tooth, just like robert. they discovered this when he was just a baby, while they were on a day out and robert offered him a try of his chocolate ice cream for the first time. from the second seb got a tiny taste of it, his eyes lit up and he’d grabbed the whole thing – cone and all – and tried to get as much of it in his mouth as he could. robert tries to prise it off him but seb’s latched on and he’s not letting go. it takes aaron (who’s laughing so hard he’s nearly wheezing) to step in, wrestling it out of seb’s grip until he finally releases it. there’s ice cream everywhere – all over his face, in his hair, all down his front and on robert’s chest. the ice cream itself is near-demolished, and robert’s left looking at it forlornly, then back to seb like, “that was my ice cream :(” seb gives no fucks, still sticking his hands in his mouth to get one more taste of the delicious food he’d just discovered. “well,” aaron said as he’d pulled out the wet wipes. “he’s definitely your son.”

- as we saw on the show, aaron loves taking baby seb swimming, it’s kind of their thing. aaron doesn’t know what it is, but there’s something he really likes about being in the pool and holding an armband-wearing seb against his chest, skin on skin, and gently lowering him down so he can splash happily in the water, but still keeping a safe grip on him. while he’d already been helping robert take care of seb for a few months by this point, it’s this activity that really makes him feel like his dad, his protector who’s there to make sure he can try out this cool new thing without any harm coming to him. robert will sometimes join them, but he kind of likes that they have something just for the two of them so he doesn’t intrude too often, except to demand as many photos/videos as possible.

- when seb’s just a wee bab, robert basically talks to him like an adult. he’s one of those parents who will have a full-on conversation with his baby, telling him all about his day at work or answering seb’s nonsense babbling like they’re having a very serious discussion (seb: “balskfdlkffblaha”. robert: “no, you’re kidding me. so then what happened??”). aaron has dozens of these ‘conversations’ stored on his phone, they’re the perfect pick-me-up. seb starts talking at a very young age, picking up words with incredible speed, and aaron’s pretty sure it’s down to robert.

Robert Sugden is Agent 007, living a life of luxury as MI5′s most prestigious and coveted agent. But when his increasingly reckless behaviour threatens to put his job and his title - not to mention his life - at risk, Madame Secretary is forced to assign him a new assistant to help him toe the line. But Aaron Dingle is unlike anyone Robert has ever worked with before, and the threat he poses to his place at the top of Her Majesty’s Government might just be the one thing that ends up keeping both his feet on solid ground.

“Blow the candles Daddy!” Seb claps his hand, eyes wide, either at the thought of cake or the hope that there might be a present for him even though it was Robert’s birthday.

“I don’t understand.”

“It was Seb’s idea. He asked me if you had cake for your other birthdays. When I told him no he didn’t think it was fair.”

“So you baked six cakes?”

“Well, Vic. Seb helped though didn’t you bug. One for each year, with candles to match.” He nudged him with a smile. “Don’t worry old man, you don’t have to blow them all out. Just this year’s.”

Sometimes it was hard to believe he was here, back home, eight years early, thanks to a dodgy pathologist and a good dose of prison overcrowding. He half expected it to be a dream when he woke up each morning.

“How are we going to eat all these?”

“You do remember my family, don’t you? They’ll finish them off in seconds.”

“You didn’t say anything about a party.”

“Everyone wants to welcome you home properly. I know you haven’t wanted to before but it’s been weeks now so we thought...it’s just family, Mum’s shutting the pub. If you don’t want to...”

character wise it’s this beautiful full circle thing with a once ‘bad’ and selfish character leaving on such a selfless note god

he’s so clearly trying to make it okay for everyone else, mainly for aaron, the idea that he just wants to focus on making aaron happy for as long as he can and not worrying him until he needs to is so sad

it’s making me think back to how aaron went off to the hearing over kasim by himself and rohert was like: tell me!! ur with me now yk

it’s all the absolute worst but in a way i think it’s a ‘devasting’ sort of thing, he’s not the villain here, the ga are genuinely very upset for him