Robert considers his job as Mechaman to be his real, full time job. Unfortunately for him, that job doesn't really bring in profit, so he had to find one that does. Thankfully, though the Mechaman of today is a one person hero, the Mechaman of the past had the Brave Brigade, and as a kid who's only surrounded by older teens and adults, he naturally heard things, one of which was about a job he was mildly interested in.
Hero Analyst. Their job was to help understand how the super abilities came to be for each individual, how it affects the said individiual, and in certain cases, how to improve the use of said abilities, without high possibility of endangerment.
Essentially, it was a mix of a researcher who quickly studies each superhero, and a coach who sees the possibilities and would actively find ways for them to improve, and Robert, when he does need to team up with other heroes, have been known to lead well enough.
So he applied for the job in SDN, and although his academic background wasn't the greatest (having to stop at highschool to take on the mantle) he was surprisingly allowed to intern, (he later found out that his old friend/brother figure/babysitter Chase Aka Trackstar found out about his job and asked Blazer to consider), so he did his best, he watched, learned, observed, and soon got in the groove of things. Though the already small team of hero analysts disliked the fact he got in despite not meeting the requirements of the job, they did manage to accept him after seeing how seriously he actually took the job and how eager he was to actually learn and work.
They do work close to the medical staff as well, since their job help the medical team when it came to healing power based issues. At first, they were pretty reluctant to listen to his analysis, especially with how word spreads in the office about his sketchy hire, but soon they began to trust him, as although he did make a few minor mistakes the first few weeks, he was quick to learn and was soon able to be accurate enough to trust.
After two and a half years of juggling his interning and Mechaman job (the hero analyst part being a great help to Mechaman job, because it did help him defeat villains faster than usual), he was finally officially hired and got the same salary as everyone else, which helped him deal with the Mechaman suit repairs and actually get decent food for him and Beef.
Then the Shroud incident happened. And the coma. And his fellow analysts were quick enough to realize who he was. He woke up to one of them watching over him, Chase right next to them, and found out they had a rotation of who was going to go visit almost every day. It made him realized he actually did have someone other than Beef who would miss him.
Then he heard the news. Mecha suit completely destroyed, though the scraps found were taken by SDN to help repair it. The Astral Pulse stolen, though thankfully not by Shroud. His speech had gone well overall, though beating up the reporter wasn't part of his farewell speech, it did at least made him feel a bit better. His analyst team cheering him on did help too.
His job as a Hero Analyst is still intact, thankfully. They forced him to do his job at home, knowing that he'd try to go back to SDN building. Visited his sad excuse of an apartment (the medical staff even lent him one of their beds). Got him take out from time to time. It was nice.
Then Blazer visited, and she needed a favor. The new team he heard much about, the one she made while he was still in a coma, needed both a dispatcher and a Hero Analyst, and she needed him to take the job (when he asked his team, the rest just groaned and look at him pitifully). Apparently they were villains Blazer was trying to rehabilitate into becoming heroes, except they still act like villains and most don't really get along with them. But Blazer was all, they're actively trying to change and all they need was a chance and someone who wouldn't give up on them easily and please Robert they need this.
So he took it. It was hard at first. He met them individually, and trying to extract any information from them was like trying to pull a tiger's tooth out. They were at least cooperative enough when he brought the machines to test them out, except for Invisigal, which was apparently to be expected. That left him trying to extract what he could from his time as their dispatcher (they groaned when they heard his voice), which was the easier part, since he already had experience.
It was subpar though, and while they wanted to celebrate, he wanted to push them to be the best they could be.
So he called a meeting, it went as badly as it could in the beginning, because obviously they thought the program was cutting corners, like one dude to be both their analyst and their dispatcher? But he talked, and they surprisingly listened, and after a few weeks of meeting up with him for their weekly analysis and hearing his voice on the comms, they realized he was there to stay.
Sure the jokes and the ribbing were almost always there, he had to deal with them coming up to his cubicle at odd times, and in his analysis office so much he didn't even bother locking the door. And it was nice. Even his Analyst team was warming up to them, with how much they meet up it was hard not to.
So his life was just that, easier to deal with.
Until a certain Fire Elementalist decided to mess it up by apparently trying to broach the subject of courting him. Like honest to god, dine and date, take him home to the family kind of courting.
And he didn't know how to handle that.
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