Kinda angsty Flambert Soulmate au concept/prompt for whoever is interested:
Flambae had known that Mecha Man is his soulmate since the mall fight. He also knows that, with how soulmate stuff works (go with whatever flavor of soulmate au you're feeling, but for the sake of this AU there's some kind of trigger that has to happen to make someone aware that they've met their soulmate) and the mech acting as a barrier between them, that Mecha Man is unlikely to know about them being soulmates.
He knows for sure that Mecha Man doesn't know they're soulmates after Robert makes his reveal at the taco place after the bar fight. It throws Flambae for a loop and pisses him off severely for a lot of reasons (not least of all being that he liked Robert and had, for a bit at least, convinced himself he might be able to give the middle finger to fate by developing feelings for his feral normie dispatcher and forgetting about Mecha Man completely, ignoring that little inkling at the back of his kind whispering that Robert felt weirdly familiar in a way that could only be explained one way).
But he deals. Decides not to tell Robert about them being soulmates - at least for the time being, leaning towards never bringing it up ever- and then with everything happening with the Red Ring and Shroud and trying to deal with the fallout of that whole mess, it's just easier and easier to just push it down the list of things to think about.
He's not sure if its better or worse that he didn't tell Robert about them being soulmates when it comes to light that Robbie, in his never ending ability to be the one of the worst fucking parents the world has ever seen, apparently decided when Robert was still a fucking baby, that soulmates where a liability to being Mecha Man.
One that Robbie wasn't going to tolerate for himself, or his son.
It turns out that Robert's dad paid some sorceress or demon or fae or what the fuck ever to tear out the part of Robert's soul that allows him to identify and bond with his soulmate.
Which is bad enough - is horrifying enough - as it is. That shit would have been agonizing for a full grown adult who willingly decided to go through with that process. For a baby who wasn't even old enough to be able to walk yet, who couldn't even comprehend what a soulmate was let alone cone to any kind of decision on how they felt about it?
If Robbie Robertson wasn't already dead already, Flambae would have hunted the bastard down to kill the man himself.
Especially when it comes to light that the maniac Robbie decided to trust with this incredibly delicate, incredibly invasive and incredibly dangerous process, fucked it up.
Robert's soul was deteriorating. Had been since the moment the part of him made to let him find his soulmate - find Flambae - had been violently ripped from his soul. He doesn't have much time left before there isn't anything left, and Robert Robertson the Third is left as little more than a hollowed out husk.
Which, um, fuck that noise.
Flambae hasn't told Robert that they're soulmates yet, hasn't decided if he's ever going to tell him or if he'd rather not bother dealing with the weak normie bitch the universe stupidly decided to stick him with.
(He does. Of course he fucking does. Robert is a feral fucking bitch who cut off his fingers and sent him to jail and ruined his life but he's Flambae's feral bitch. The one that saved his life in that mall and helped him become a hero and made Flambae fall in love with his crazy, unflunchingly heroic, bitch ass.)
What Flambae has decided is that he's going to track down the asshole that tore out a chunk of Robert's soul, beat their ass, get that missing piece back and save his stupid weak normie dispatcher from a fate way fucking scarier than death. And like, the rest of the team can tag along or something if they want. Whatever.
And hey, while they're at it, they'll swing by whatever dark little corner of hell Robbie ended up being drop kicked into after his death and let out some of the frustration Flambae & the rest of the team feel about the man's "parenting" decisions. You know since the dick was already dead and Robert would bitch at them about how heroes don't fucking kill or some shit even if Robbie was still kicking.
But first, Flambae (and team) needed to save his soulmate so that he could decide if he was ever actually going to tell Robert that they were, you know, soulmates.
(The Z team has a running bet going on how long it will take him to break and spill once Robert has been saved. The longest time they give him is a minute and a half. Prism put money on her bestie not even making it ten seconds.)
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