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There are now 1000 worms in my living room.

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Is there an active CK kinkmeme anywhere? I’m in the mood to write some CK (and especially Cobra Husbands lol, I will never stop), but I don’t have time to dive into any long epics and would rather just play around with short prompts.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/27168664/chapters/161725087

Okay I wrote a sweeter Kreese/Terry death scene because I was in the mood to treat myself haha. Soon I'm going to write one where they straight up survive! Cobra husbands forever and yah I will die on this hill often and always.

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One thing I love about the way the Kreese Apology Tour went down is the way it illustrated how a truly effective apology is not something you can march into with Main Character Energy. Kreese shows up to Johnny in the parking lot like "let me talk about my failures that I did wrong, and the bad effects that I think came from my actions." And it didn't make any impact on Johnny at all. The apology Johnny actually needed, and deserved, was what happened when Kreese listened instead, and took in what happened from Johnny's point of view and empathized with what he was hearing. Johnny had to explicitly tell him "yeah no, the thing you're sorry for isn't really what harmed me, here's what you REALLY did to me."

I'm not saying that the self-centered apology was fully useless - I think that because Johnny is so (rightfully!) mistrustful and guarded where Kreese is concerned, he would never have been able to come have the more important conversation if Kreese hadn't already convinced him that he really was trying to accept responsibility and apologize. So I guess it was a needed step, but on its own it certainly did not do any work towards helping Johnny heal. If Kreese had left the parking lot thinking that he'd completed a full apology there, he'd be wrong.

I kind of wish more people understood that about apologies.

And in other news, holy shit WZ and MK fucking knocked both those scenes out of the park and through the atmosphere and all the way up into another solar system, wow.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Back on my bullshit objectifying grandpas and all…

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In S2 the secret lab opens up when stone says the magic words of robotnik’s coffee order.  At first I thought that’s cute bc it shows that stone knew no one else would ever place that order (otherwise the lab would magically open up during the workday!).  But then it occurred to me: how is bot ever supposed to ask him for coffee again?  Seems like an uncharacteristically stupid oversight, if he actually expected the doctor to return someday.

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From the shirt-snatching scene we see that Stone has lotsa manscaped body hair. Did the boss make him his own private grooming drone to do that? Or does he use normal clippers for it - the same set he used on bot’s hair?

… Also, I’m now wondering whether the reason he trims so much is that it’s an aesthetic S1!Robotnik would definitely have preferred. I could totally see bot catching a glimpse after some laser accident, and reaching into the ripped shirt and giving his assistant’s chest-carpet a yank. “Fix this; it’s untidy.”

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... Okeeey, i wrote it.

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From the shirt-snatching scene we see that Stone has lotsa manscaped body hair. Did the boss make him his own private grooming drone to do that? Or does he use normal clippers for it - the same set he used on bot’s hair?

… Also, I’m now wondering whether the reason he trims so much is that it’s an aesthetic S1!Robotnik would definitely have preferred. I could totally see bot catching a glimpse after some laser accident, and reaching into the ripped shirt and giving his assistant’s chest-carpet a yank. “Fix this; it’s untidy.”

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At first I thought that Stone allowing the space rodents into the doctor's lair without even the courtesy of a warning was an absolutely out of character betrayal. But now I'm thinking:

He just witnessed Robotnik *not caring* that someone else had co-opted his babies. Bad enough he's been defiling them himself (changing one into a dirty microwave? Really?? S1!bot would have reacted to that the way we normies react to Human Centipede), but maybe the fact that their theft & brainwashing isn't enough to get him up off his ass tells Stone that the doctor really isn't home rn, and that makes it okay for him to seize the reins himself.

I'm warming to this idea. Like: this surely isn't the first time Robotnik isn't in his right mind. He's experimented with drugs. He's stood too close to explosions. In those moments Stone understands that his job isn't to rubber-stamp Robotnik's half-baked ideas, but rather to hold down the fort and act in the doctor's best interest until the doctor actually returns. So, maybe that's what he's doing here.

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Deleted scene thoughts:  Do I like the visual of Stone hauling Bot around in a decent fireman’s carry?  Yes.  Do I also think that Stone should know better than to heave a guy with broken bones and likely spinal injury over his shoulders?  Also yes.  WTF, Stone.  Sure, the police were coming, but it’s better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.  Duh.

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Loose scene knocking around in my head that I don’t have a full fic for yet:

“Crying is cathartic, Doctor.  You want to just do it?”

Robotnik shook his head and sniffed again.  “Not really.”

It didn’t really sound like a no, and Robotnik was definitely not okay, so he persisted.  “You know it makes sense, sir.  Remember what you did the last time I got carsick?”

“Mmm... if I recall correctly, I ordered you out on the side of the highway and shoved my fingers down your throat.”

He snorted.  Technically speaking, that was true.  “You could have been a little gentler, yeah, fair enough.  But I felt so much better afterwards.”  He’d felt better even before afterwards, actually, touched by the way the doctor encouraged him as he bent over and sicked up.  That’s it, Stone.  Just like that.  Better out than in.  Patting his back and everything.  Handing him a bottle of water when he was done.

“Well I don’t see how vomiting will help me, so, thanks but I’ll pass.”

Stone sighed.  “Don’t play stupid, sir.  You’re not good at it.”

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OK I just updated. I'm going to try and finally finish this story. Finally! Buuuuuuuut I am still working out some angles & scenes, so comments are extra special appreciated.

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Bot said that he had no aunts or uncles. Does that mean Maria was not his cousin, but his sister?

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You know who would HATE S3!Robotnik?   S1!Robotnik.   Imagine if he had access to a video of himself.   The slobby situation in the crab would probably perplex him briefly, but he’d explain it away - “plenty of apex predators have a hibernation phase; clearly that’s what I’m preparing for.  I’ve surrounded myself with nesting material and wisely bulked up my fat stores, obviously in light of an impending scarcity.”   But then what would he make of Gerald?   *He* doesn’t look, act, or think like Gerald, and he’s certainly not up for being anyone’s partner, let alone their henchman.   “I must be-… I must have a plan.  I’m luring the old man in, clearly, by posing as some sort of adoring sycophant, in order to get access to his tech - which obviously isn’t as advanced as mine; for God’s sake his work was done fifty years ago, he might as well have been carving into clay tablets.  But likely he’d had some sort of… rudimentary insight that I wanted to capitalize on, instead of taking the few precious milliseconds it would have taken me to figure it out for myself.  Yes.  Definitely a ploy.  Clever of me.”  

And that ending?? Omg. He would flip.

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S3 ficlet

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I’m maybe gonna write some Stobotnik again. We shall see.

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When Robotnik came upon Stone tied up in S2, his main takeaway in his weird emerald form seemed to be that Stone was helpless & potentially some sort of prey.  (Like, what exactly was he planning to *do* with that electricity??).  This time though, as a human his *first thought* was of bondage in the workplace - and immediately afterwards, defensiveness at being interested.  Wondering if that suggests that they’ve done office bondage together in the past?