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Love me Flambae who can't flirt for shit when it comes to Robert, but HEAR ME OUT—Flambae who IS actually really suave and good at flirting because you don't get that many hookups just on accident.
Flambae had been attracted to Robert for a while. It wasn't initially obvious, especially not to himself, but after everything, he's come to really respect the guy. And Robert is attractive, in his own scrappy way. Flambae likes him, he wants him.
And it doesn't really matter whether or not Flambae really knows he genuinely likes the guy. He starts flirting, a gentle lilt of his words, a sly tug of his lips, a tilt of his head, warm fingers brushing against his nape, lingering just a little too long.
Robert notices immediately and ignores it for the most part. When it didn't stop, he started bantering back, just a little. Nothing that ever crossed the line.
It was enough permission for Flambae to dial it up a little. A hand on the small of his back, squeezing just the slightest before pulling away. Flambae leaning down to whisper something into Robert's ear, or leaning down to listen when Robert has something to say.
Always that smirk on his lips when their eyes meet, and maybe a wink or two thrown in.
When they bump into each other in the locker rooms right out of the shower, Flambae greets him with a purred, "Hey," and a searing gaze that rakes slowly down his body, appreciating.
Robert is appalled.
"What is this?" He demands, suddenly furious. Chad blinks, surprised, as he dries off his hair.
"What is what?" He asks innocently, tilting his head playfully again.
"Stop that." Robert huffs, a scowl on his face. "Don't—Don't treat me like one of your hookups."
Chad pauses, eyes widening. "You think that's what this is?"
"Isn't it?" Robert is furiously stuffing things into his bag to leave. "I don't want to be treated like a toy."
"You're not." Chad wraps a hand around his wrist, stilling him. "Robert."
Robert doesn't meet his gaze. His lower lashes are wet, Chad realizes. Not from the shower.
"Robert." Chad softens his voice, tilting the shorter man's jaw up with a warm hand. "What's wrong?"
Robert chews his lip and doesn't answer, his eyes refusing to look at Chad.
"Robert," he tries again. "Why are you crying?"
Robert takes a shaky breath. "Is that all I am to you? A hookup? Just—" His voice cracks, "Just someone to pump and dump and be over with?"
"No," Chad is appalled Robert would think that. "Of course not. I-I care about you, Robert."
"But you keep—" Robert huffs, "—you keep fucking flirting like you want to get in my pants."
"I do though." Chad admits quietly, almost chastised.
"I don't want it to be casual." Robert looks stricken.
Chad laughs now, more at himself but Robert looks utterly offended. He jerks his head back sharply, preparing to leave. "You know what, fuck you—"
"No! No, I mean—fuck." Chad hurries to tug Robert back towards him, wrapping his arms properly around him. "I like you, Robert. I don't want this to be casual either, if you don't want it to be."
It's criminal, how fast Robert relaxes into that. "Really?"
"Yeah." Chad smiles, pressing his cheek against Robert's, breathing in his scent. "We're dating now, Robert. Just so you know."
Robert laughs quietly at that, a gentle shake of his shoulders. He fully leans into Chad's embrace now, rubbing his cheek against Chad's stubble. "Jerk."
"And we're very exclusive," a kiss against Robert's temple as the shorter man giggles, "just you—"
"Okay—"
"And me—"
"Okay—"
"Exclusively—"
"I get it!" Robert tries to escape the flurry of kisses being pressed against his jaw and neck. "I get it, okay."
"Mm, do you?" Chad asks slyly, smiling into his skin. "I think I might need to prove it a bit more."
He loves the way Robert laughs merrily at that, the way Robert has his arms wrapped around his shoulders and fingers playing with the hair against his nape.
He'll prove it to Robert for the rest of his life just how much he means to him.
Selkie Flambae au
Robert tries to move on, or rather someone else makes him. Chase returns home (maybe from a trip to regain his stolen youth) and finds Robert languishing away alone in his home. So like the good brother he is Chase forces him to go into town to socialize.
Robert doesn’t want Chase to worry so he doesn’t put up much of a fight. The hours he used to spend staring out at the sea are now spent in the company of his brother and others.
Flambae is pissed, he’s barely seen Robert for the past few weeks. He keeps leaving to go god knows where. He can’t go inland without taking off his seal skin. He’s still twitchy about taking it off, let alone letting it out of his sight.
Why couldn’t Robert just stay put? Doesn’t he know it’s safer here where Flambae can watch him? He can’t trust other humans to not hurt his- hurt Robert. That loud older human was the one to start dragging Robert away. He needs to tell Robert to stop.
A minute after bidding Chase goodbye, someone pounds on the door. Robert thinking it was Chase coming back opens it only to find Flambae towering over him. Robert’s cornered in his own house while Flambae demands he stops going inland.
Chad just can't help himself. He can't stop resurfacing to watch Robert. He hates him. He does. Yet he can't stop this gnawing curiosity, this hunger to keep Robert in his sights.
It's practically obsessive, even though he stays very safely in the water, just out of reach. He doesn't take off his seal coat, just watches and watches right above the surface of the water as Robert meets up with an older man, laughing merrily and clapping each other on the back.
Who the fuck is that? Why does Robert look so happy?
Chad can't help but growl low in his throat at the thought that Robert had stolen his coat, forced him to be with him, and yet has never made an expression as happy as that before. Isn't that unfair?
Then soon enough, Robert starts leaving his house more often. He keeps meeting with people, keeps leaving for long periods of time. Chad can't help the tight knots in his gut each time Robert leaves his line of sight, too far inland for him to reach. He starts swimming laps just to ease his anxiety, waiting for Robert to return.
He can't. He can't take his coat off. What if it gets stolen again? What if he's forced to stay on land again?
But Robert hasn't been back for two days now.
His gums itch and that coil in his stomach won't go away.
He can't. He can't.
He should.
He shouldn't.
His mind goes blank when he sees Robert finally approaching his home in the early hours of the morning, the sky still dark and barely tinted pink.
Chad's body moves before he can really decide. Before he knows it, he's shed his coat and stands in front of Robert's door as a man, something he'd promised he'd never do again.
He knocks before he can stop himself, the door clicking open, and—there they are.
Those doe brown eyes staring back at him, widening just a fraction when recognition settles in.
"Cha—?"
"Why," Chad seethes out, the words tumbling from his mouth too fast to stop. "Why do you keep disappearing?"
Robert blinks, taken aback. His cheeks redden, then pale. "Huh?"
"You," Chad scowls, taking a step forward and preening when Robert takes a step back, allowing him into his home. "You keep disappearing. Stop that."
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Robert huffs softly. "I'm not disappearing."
"You are!" Chad shoots back, throwing his arms up as anger licks across his drying skin. "You keep leaving, you keep meeting with people—"
"You were watching?" Robert asks quietly, confused and perhaps too pleased by that. "Why?"
Chad snaps his mouth shut.
Robert blinks at him, too innocent and too knowing all at once. He takes a step forward. Chad steps back.
"Did you miss me?" Robert asks, a low purr much too pleased with himself.
"No." Chad's chest heaves, his breath hitching. "As if."
"I missed you." Robert presses even closer, blinking so slowly at him with those infuriatingly soft eyes. "I can't stop thinking about you. I shouldn't have given the coat back—" Chad bristles. "I keep regretting it. But I know I couldn't keep you here against your will. I'm sorry."
Robert's gaze drops, ashamed and guilty.
Chad suppresses the urge to run his knuckles down the soft skin of his cheeks. "Just...stop disappearing, got it?"
"No." Robert answers, taking a step back now, the space suddenly too much for Chad. "I will not promise you that. I don't have to answer to you."
"You—" Chad scowls, a growl in his throat. "Why not?"
"I don't want to be alone." Robert admits lowly. "If you won't stay, then I need to find others who will."
It's a trap. Alarms blare in his mind, but Chad's traitorous mouth speaks anyway, "And if I stay will you stop disappearing?"
The corners of Robert's eyes crinkle. "Yes."
It's a trap, it's a trap, it's a trap. "...Then I'll stay, but only if I get to keep my coat. I will stay with you during the day, and return to sea at night."
Robert's face twists, a complicated expression. He takes a beat to answer, and when he does, his words come out slow. "...Okay. I can live with that."
About the Selkie!Robert AU, I read that selkie can sometimes have children. So in the happy ending version, would Robert eventually get pregnant (if he can)?
Or would it be more heartbreaking for Robert to have been pregnant prior to him leaving, abandoning not only his lover but also his child?
Selkie Robert definitely has his canonical scars, but I don't think he got them specifically when he sheds his seal coat. I'm sure people have tried hunting him as a seal, so he gets hurt in either form.
But yes, his past experiences makes him very distrustful of humans, especially if he witnesses them hurting his fellow seal/Fae companions. Chad stealing his coat made him utterly livid for a while.
After the happy ending version, they definitely have a child. I think the child cannot transform into a seal like Robert, but can definitely see Faerie and has access to places normal humans don't. Robert will take them for a swim often, and sometimes he'll don his seal coat to return to sea for a bit before coming home. Chad was very reluctant and anxious to let him go the first few times, but Robert swears he'll come back ("We have a contract to be together forever. I can't break my promise, remember?")
Robert does, in fact, always come back, so Chad has accepted it as routine, and is much more relaxed about it now.
Flambert family in the park. Bitna playing in the swings with the younger brother. Zarak is hiding behind Robert due to nervousness.
Answering Flambert kids asks all together.
I like to think that both Zarak and Azad are pretty shy, they stick with Robert a lot. Bitna is outgoing and can make friends with anyone, so they also rely on following her a lot. She definitely leads them around like ducklings and she brings out their playfulness. If their big sis is doing it, they want to do it too!
On that note, I think they feel a lot of jealousy when Bitna is playing with other kids. That's their sis!
She's also very protective of her brothers, and she has the most destructive powers, so she's like their guard dog. Of course, Chad has made sure she can control her powers well and she's never hurt her brothers. Zarak rarely uses his powers, sometimes it comes out on accident via denting his chair, deforming a metal pencil, etc. If he's getting picked on after Bitna goes to a different school, there's definitely a point where he snaps and loses control of his powers. I don't think he does it intentionally, just had his emotions get the better of him. He accidentally bent all of the hallway lockers, forming them into sharp jagged spears that all curve towards his bullies. The bullies got so scared they nearly broke down crying.
Zarak felt really bad about scaring them so badly, but he refused to apologize and stood his ground that they deserved it. While Robert chastised him a little about controlling his powers better, he made sure those bullies will never even think of approaching his son again. Needless to say, Zarak is never bullied again.
And yes, Chad is definitely that parent who cares a lot about ingredients and making sure it's healthy.
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I finally finished this Mermay comic...I'm planning on making one more Mermay illustration even tho it's not May anymore lmao
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Mayhaps?
Would you consider, mayhaps, a Hunger Games AU?
Imagine Robert and Chad meet after they've both won their respective games. They start out as antagonistic due to being from different Districts, but eventually bond over the horror that's behind all the glamour and beauty the Capitol uses to present being a Hunger Games Victor as the best thing ever. And then they fall in love, but have to keep it a secret lest they risk execution for defying the status quo to keep the Districts separated. And they have to be so sneaky because Shroud has eyes everywhere, and seems to want to keep an especially close eye on Robert. But as secretive as they have to be, their relationship provides a shred of comfort to each other amidst the struggle only they and the other Victors can understand.
And then rebellion time comes! Maybe one of them gets picked to be the symbol of the revolution. And, perhaps, the other gets captured because, despite their best efforts to be discreet, Shroud figured out the two were something more than acquaintances by the time of the last official Hunger Games. And he thought torturing one would break the other, but he only strengthened the resolve to defeat him.
And of course, there's the possible angst of going full Mockingjay-Era EverLark, AKA Hijacking one of 'em. >:3
This ask was brought to you by me watching Hunger Games: Catching Fire clips and remembering The Hunger Games and Dispatch share some acting talents between them.
I'm imagining Flambert as Katniss and Peeta. They're both in the games, Robert is extremely resourceful, utilitarian, focused on survival. Chad is much more anxious but fakes it through his boastful personality. Would be interesting if they still have powers in this AU, and Chad's powers really carry him through. It's also deeply traumatizing that not only are they using weaponry to kill other contestants, but his own powers which he'd always feared himself for.
They do the fake dating thing for sponsors and gifts. Chad is falling hard and fast for Robert, but Robert is still only in survival mode and hasn't processed any feelings he might be starting to have. They take care of each other, protect each other, and finally end up as the last two.
Robert was fully prepared to let Chad kill him, but Chad refused. He doesn't want to die, but he'd rather die than kill Robert with his own hands. Robert comes up with the double-suicide idea and come out as victors.
When they're called back for the anniversary Hunger Games, that's when they meet the rest of the Z-Team, and found that Mandy had already been working behind the scenes to start a rebellion. Robert helps spear-head it.
Just like Peeta, I would love if Chad gets captured and brainwashed by the Capitol. Robert is devastated and will not rest until he finds Chad again, then is heartbroken when Chad either doesn't recognize him or thinks of him as the enemy. He will do anything to win Chad back.
No powers au + spy agent au
https://youtube.com/shorts/hOuP-I5NQoc?si=lt4EZjKKDPADBVPK
No idea what the linked video has to do with the prompt but I would love something like Spy x Family, or Mr & Mrs Smith scenario with Flambert.
I've made a post about it before and I really want fake marriage that definitely turns real at some point but they're enemies/need to kill each other 😭
Robert never could pinpoint when exactly it went wrong.
When his father died, maybe, and he'd hijacked the suit that didn't recognize his voice command. Mecha Man Astral did it on purpose.
Robert had overheard him talking to Track Star about Elliot, how he "didn't have it in him." Not like Track Star. Robert always knew he would say the same for him too.
So there was no permission needed. No one to give it anyway. He'd rewired the suit and added in his own voice command. Only his.
And he wouldn't call it wrong—but definitely not right—the things he did after. He'd thought about it a lot, when it was too early and too late and he had too much time to kill. His hands were bloody, but they still itched for a fight—something, anything.
The first time he met the new SDN hero, Flambae, he laughed in the man's face. Saw the clench in his jaw, recognized the fury in his eyes.
Robert found every single thing that makes the man tick. It was exhilarating. It was fun.
He really liked playing with fire, he decided.
"Robert."
"Chad." His mouth formed the syllable naturally. Flames danced in the man's eyes, across his knuckles. Familiar, intimately known in the form of a purpling bruise on his cheek. Occasionally he'd feel them splayed across his jaw, much gentler than now.
"We keep meeting like this," there's a ghost of a smile playing on Robert's lips. "If I didn't know better, I'd think you like me."
"Brat." Chad's accented voice crackles with the fire around them. "You just want my attention."
And oh he did, he loved the way his gaze burned, all the way down his body.
Robert grinned, expecting the blow that comes next. Flambae is so very predictable, too easy to rile up and even easier to talk down.
He enjoys it nonetheless, the way Flambae would growl and lunge, trying to catch him, always too slow, always too soft.
This is as much of a tantrum as Robert would allow himself. A plea. A cry for help. Hurt disguised as rebellion and apathy. All wrapped up in a smile. Familiar, in the way his lungs burned.
"Robert, turn yourself in." Chad has said a million times, and a million more. "You can join the program, be a real hero. We can fight together."
And it's too sincere, the way his voice wavers with the thinning air. Too desperate. Too affectionate.
Chad would choose him no matter what.
And Robert always chose the thing that hurt him most.
"I'll turn myself in when you catch me." Robert gives a salute as he powers up his suit. "See you around, Bae."
They both know the real answer is never. Chad will never catch him, and he'll never turn himself in, and he'll never let himself love openly.
Robert does not choose him back.
mhm, as a sceptic of some popular ships on tumblr when there's not enough basis for them even if they may appear hot from the outset, flambert strikes me as just... ugh! so much missed potential it almost annoys me... if i were employed there, i would have proposed this pathway, even if it wasn't me writing it... out of all characters... they make the most sense.
blonde blazer? does not make much sense. should stay single. deserves real empathy for alcoholism.
visi? just... the forced kiss thing is just a no.
sonar? honesty, no for pairing him with robert for me. i wouldn't even necessarily pair him with malevola which i recognise people do. if forced, i'd pair him with someone back from his time at harvard.
phenomaman? that's more 'crack like' (even if... the sort of kiss!!!!!) but i just don't see robert making a move here personally.
waterboy? somehow, even if he's a grown adult, he reads almost kid like weirdly. just... no. he's really funny though. wet giraffe energy.
prism? no. coupe? no. punch up? no.
that just doesn't leave us with very many options, does it?
okay, okay, maybe i'm being super contrarian and annoying here, sure.
but they had a lot of chemistry from the outset - flambae and robert.
the options regarding robert mocking flambae at the beginning were very funny. swinging wet ponytail? very funny.
just... whether they carried heat, anger, frustration, loss, etc... there was a lot of heat / tension, and that just makes it a lot easier to bounce off and generate scenes.
Genuinely hilarious that they accidentally, unintentionally wrote a really strong setup for a queer couple. They just wanted some conflict and friction with someone on the team but it just had to the be the ONE canonically gay and flamboyant one, then set him up exactly the same way they set up Visi 😂
even though i'm actually quite reluctant to 'ship' pairs even when they're wildly popular with fans and have millions of followers and maybe i am a little contrarian, flambert is one of those ships that i genuinely think a lot of subtext and opportunity was lost... especially in comparison to the two options offered: blonde blazer and visi
the blonde blazer kiss comes very fast from a narrative point of view: she took him to a bar, drank like an alcoholic, secretly knew information about him, and instead of probing that further and having the option of being a) offended at the search, b) gently worried about the alcoholism, all of a sudden.. there's a kiss?
granted, blonde blazer is very sexy, that's true, but it doesn't make much sense, and even though the player's seen robert for only a couple of minutes, it just doesn't seem like something he'd do
the way flambae was introduced though? lowkey - like a major secondary character, and so one would expect (or i did at least) for him to play a more prominent role
anyway...
Yeah, unfortunately Blonde Blazer lacked a lot of depth for me so I never went for her in canon. The story practically centers around Visi and Robert, so them ending up together makes a lot more sense, but Flambae was honestly set up so perfectly that it's criminal they didn't make him an option.
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It's ok om nom anon we're spreading the Flambert propaganda
Can just imagine the first day, if (old man) Robert will dispatch the misfits teen (unsure if you given these teens names) hear that his name was Robert Robertson.
Laughter in the comms grew louder until [old man] Flambae cuts through the comms.
Make fun of Robert's name all they want, just wait until they realize Chad took the Robertson name and is now called Chad Robertson as a gay Afghan man 💀
Old man yoai but the misfits react go their old photo in their prime lmao. They be shookth
Listen, they're DILFs so it's really not that hard to imagine them being hot in their prime. They're still charming people left and right.