Oh yeah, found this on Pinterest and immediately thinking about drawing Flambae and Robert to this LMAO

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Oh yeah, found this on Pinterest and immediately thinking about drawing Flambae and Robert to this LMAO
i kinda roll my eyes at the word "problematic" cuz it's been one of those terms that get flung around like a slingshot and gradually loses its original meaning. that said, I'm learning that I'm not evil for liking things or shows or dynamics that could be morally questionable and panicked over cuz the idea of navigating art through a sanitized lense that has to be strictly made for the comfortability of others is tiresome. I'm tired of reactionary people closing themselves in a man-made cage to impress their peers and because they haven't learned to manage their discomfort.
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Flambert Time Loop AU Part 1
Robert is stuck in a time loop; at the end of the Shroud fight he didn't have the proto pulse, and giving Shroud the real pulse would have devastating consequences. So he breaks the astral pulse, throws it on the ground and grinds it under his heel. The ensuing explosion should have killed Robert, but instead the enormous energy that makes up the astral pulse throws Robert back in time, all the way to the first time waking up from his coma. He thinks he had one of those realistic coma dreams, except life plays out the exact same and he ends up dispatching for the Z-Team again. This time things go better, but Robert still dies during the Shroud fight.
And then he wakes up from his coma again. This keeps happening, something going wrong and Robert dying during the Shroud fight and looping back -he doesn't even need to die in an astral pulse explosion to trigger a loop- until one loop: he confesses to being Mecha Man after the bar fight, but for some reason Golem is not standing next to him. One of those minor differences that happen every loop, but this one has devastating consequences. Flambae's flames hit him head on, Robert's arms doing nothing to protect his face, scorching his lungs as he breathes in the flames and their heat. He chokes on nothing, lungs burned from the inside out, unable to take in oxygen. Malevola's healing doesn't work on normies, it's too heavy-handed for them, and Robert dies in the taco place parking lot.
Cue Flambae waking up in his bed at home, his phone going crazy where it's sitting on his night stand. He barely has time to bend over the edge of the bed before he pukes his guts out, the scent of burned flesh still stuck in his nose. He has a major anxiety attack, because holy shit he just killed Mecha Man he killed Robert and despite his track record of setting shit on fire, he has never killed anyone before. He doesn't know how he ended up at home, but it won't be long before heroes will break down his door and arrest him. He grabs his phone, needs to at least say goodbye to his sibling and his niece before he ends up back in prison, only to be taken aback when he sees all the notifications his phone has. The internet and all the news stations are going crazy, there's even a message from Prism, because did he see the news?! Mecha Man Blue just blew up and fell out of the sky!
What. The. Fuck.
Flambae checks the date and... yeah, he's in the past. HOW?! He spends the entire rest of the night googling. First, he googles Mecha Man, but there's nothing of substance: no press conference video, nothing post the explosion that all news outlets are saying just happened. Then he looks up Robert Robertson, but that leaves him similarly empty-handed. Lastly, he searches for other news topics: celebrity controversies, a singers new music album that broke the internet, the new season of that one show he and Prism were watching, new memes made in the past few months. They're not there. They don't exist. Come morning Flambae does the single smartest thing he has done all year; he books an emergency session with his court-mandated, SDN approved therapist.
After long talk, they conclude he just had a really vivid dream. One in which he fulfilled his wish of taking revenge on Mecha Man. (It kinda grates on him that he dreamt up this extremely detailed future, but his mind couldn't make up a name better than Robert fucking Robertson.) But going by his reaction afterwards, Flambae didn't actually want to kill Mecha Man, did he? They spent the next few weeks unpacking this and he makes great progress. In the end Flambae concludes he doesn't actually blame Mecha Man for ruining his life; it was just easier to blame him for putting Flambae in jail, even though Flambae was the one doing villain shit and Mecha Man was just doing his job by stopping Flambae. He totally blames him for taking his fingers though, Mecha Man didn't have to do that. If he was panicking about being cooked in the suit, he could've just left. But Flambae realizes that he doesn't want to kill Mecha Man, doesn't even really want revenge. If Mecha Man apologized for taking his fingers, Flambae might even be able to forgive him. That won't stop him from calling Mecha Man a bitch though.
So Flambae keeps living his life, sometimes having a deja vu moment with a particularly memorable mission, or a particularly stupid dispatcher that doesn't last more than half a day, but it's going well. He watches Mecha Man's press conference, noting how in his dream Mecha Man just left, but now he beats up that shit-head reporter. It relaxes something inside Flambae. See? His dream and reality are totally different. Yeah there is a press conference, but that was expected if Mecha Man survived the explosion anyway. But then he sees Mecha Man at Crypto Night with Blonde Blazer. He freaks out a bit, but in his dream Mecha Man spit alcohol at Blazer and he doesn't now. Sure, he spills a glass in her lap, but it's different. Totally different, Flambae has nothing to worry about. He still leaves the bar without talking to Mecha Man.
It's fine. It's all fine.
Until
"Hello team, I'm your dispatcher Robert Robertson-"
Flambert Time Loop AU Part 2
Part 1
Flambae freaks out. What do you mean his new dispatcher is called Robert Robertson?! This has to be a joke. It has to be. He manages to turn off his comms and hide himself away in the janitors closet, where he staves of a panic attack by working through his breathing exercises. Somehow, he makes it through the afternoon shift without any major incidents. But he's distracted. Every time he hears Robert's voice in his ear, he thinks to himself, 'Is it the same Robert Robertson from my dream? Does he look the same? Is his voice the same, or is Flambae just misremembering?' It drives him nuts. At the end of the day, he runs out of the building and waits next to his car. Watching all the other employees leave, heroes and dispatchers alike. Just a glimpse, that's all he needs. Just a glimpse of the new dispatcher, to prove he's not crazy, that the name is just a coincidence and his dream wasn't actually real. Eventually, Flambae spots him. Which is bad. He recognizes him, the Robert from his dream. He's alone, one of the last ones out of the building. Flambae's feet carry him to Robert without his permission.
"Hey!"
Robert pauses in his steps and turns to Flambae. He looks confused. Up close Flambae can see the freckles on his face, the notch in his ear. Shit, it really is him.
"Yes?"
Flambae hesitates. He has so many questions and so many ways to articulate himself. Instead what comes out of his mouth is;
"How do you feel about triple crunch tacos?"
"What?" Robert says breathlessly, his eyes widened in surprise.
"Three triple crunch tacos, at 3 am after a bar fight. How do you feel about them?"
It's ridiculous that this is what Flambae asks of him. There's no way this will go anywhere-
"Oh my God," Robert says, his shoulders lowering down from their defensive position. "You remember?"
Flambae swallows.
"Yeah, I do."
"Fuck."
Parallel Universe Flambae AU idea
Ok, bear with me. I had ⭐ inspiration ⭐
What if due to a thingamabob or a villain fucking up or something else, Flambae from and alt universe gets dropped into our standard one?
He's older, he's steadier, he burns brighter. And when he sees Robert who got called in to deal with an unexpected arrival that was technically part of his team he just... Crumbles.
He stares at Robert like he's looking at a dead man. Like a lifeline had been thrown to him in the middle of falling off a cliff. His hands reach out, a little metal band glinting in the light of the setting sun.
He's reverent and has tears sliding and evaporating down his cheeks, creating a little steam cloud.
Robert is confused, this is not a reaction he was expecting, but he's comforted people, civilians, in distress in situations that were unfathomably hard before. So he reaches back. Takes the trembling hands and pulls Flambae closer.
All he hears is a neverending chant of his name and sobs buried in his shoulder where the man crumbled in his embrace.
The Z Team arrives and is stunned then slightly pissed to see someone draped over their dispatcher. Flambae is steaming with anger over some dude that looks bigger and bigger then him sobbing like Phenomaman on a breakup slobbering on Robert.
AltFlambae has stopped crying but has not let go of Robert. Refuses to let go. It is the first time he has seen Robert since ... That day.
He's slightly mad, a little touched in the head by the still fresh grief. And he refuses to let go of a younger, alive, breathing, oh my God he's breathing he's here he's still mine I can still hold him Robert.
Who is confused but already feeling responsible. Someone clearly needs him this much. And that someone is a version of a man that has lately started appearing in his dreams. It's not like he's not going to help. Not like he's gonna let go first.
He doesn't see AltFlambae's gaze sharpen over his shoulders and his hands tighten on Roberts waist and back, glaring at the ragtag team in front of them. Glaring at the copy.
The one who's fault it is...
In AltFlambae's world he and Robert were dating before the explosion his Robert died in the explosion and Invisigal in that world is Shrouds right hand she planted the bomb she took the love of his life away from him
HR Mandated.
"I think you are"
Wanted to illustrated the dialog that happens when Flambae is downed in the last shift, because its great and WHAT DO YOU MEAN ROBERT BELIEVING IN HIM IS THE THING THAT HELPS HIM??? Originaly it was supposed to be just a few sketches, but it ballooned into a comic instead
Im very normal about them
Found out about this dialog from this video:
(people who uload videos with special interactions like this one - THANK YOU, im eternaly grateful for your service)
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Ok listen to me...
What if... Flambae not only makes Robert have a better diet but also supports him with his workout? And he is just so god damn proud of Roberts progress. Obviously also flexing himself at any given moment ofc but seeing his man become visibly in better shape day by day would just be so satisfying for him~
it had to be done
Things are getting literally steamy in the janitor' closet ❤️🔥 (so sorry waterboy!)
I haven't even played the game and yet these two have me on a chokehold asdksldjekd 💕💕
(don't make me add warnings when nothing is happening tumblr!!!)
This all happened in one afternoon
Amazing thing about Robert is that he can be shipped with anyone for real...
Kinda want to draw him getting some quality time with the team. Lol, Date everything style? (Never played that game to know though)
But, I think some are more "friendly"... 🤔 Still, it would be fun to find a connecting point of different characters just to be a "ship"
(Unrelated, but I also want to draw some OC×Waterboy... Just to get it out of my head... Otherwise I'll regret not drawing it 🥺👉👈)
Beautiful and danger.