obsessed with the idea of a flambert au where they started dating sometime between flambae’s arrest and the mecha man suit being destroyed.
maybe flambae leaves an impression on robert or maybe he just feels kinda bad about cutting off his fingers, so he starts visiting him in jail - as mecha man, of course. flambae is his usual asshole self at first but then robert just keeps showing up on visitor day. he doesn’t get a lot of visitors so after a while he starts looking forward to seeing him, just for something to do. he begins to open up, telling him about his childhood and what led him on the path to villainy.
robert can’t tell him too much about himself, he’s not about to reveal his identity in a prison full of people he helped put away, but he listens when flambae talks and comes to genuinely enjoy their banter. starts bringing him desserts he mentioned offhand one time, something like milk fudge that he hasn’t had since he was a kid. flambae makes fun of him for it, might even say he doesn’t need his charity, but robert can tell he’s pleased.
by the time he’s let out of jail, they’re both catching feelings. hell, robert might even be the one to pick him up when he’s released, lets him stay with him a few days (he was… less poor then.) he doesn’t make a move, not wanting to take advantage of someone in a vulnerable position, but flambae sure wishes he would.
and then he just. doesn’t leave. he’s trying to reintegrate into society but robert is the only one who doesn’t look at him like he’s still a villain. one day, maybe after an uncomfortable run-in with a former cohort, flambae kisses him over drinks and they just. never stop.
they’re inseparable from that day on. flambae introduces robert to his family - they might not share the exact details of their relationship, but his parents are grateful for this funky little guy who keeps their arsonist son on the straight and narrow. robert encourages flambae to join the phoenix program, and while he would never admit it, doing good is actually pretty satisfying. they have a source of income, so robert gets to stay in a half-decent apartment with an actual bed. flambae is good with beef, even if he still usually refers to him as ‘fat fuck’ - robert can tell it’s affectionate.
and then shroud breaks out of prison. flambae promises robert he’ll take care of it, constantly bending blazer’s ear at work trying to convince her to divert more funds and heroes into tracking him down. he can see it’s eating away at robert: he spends hours every day staring at that cork board on the wall, tracking down goons through seedy alleyways, working on his suit until flambae has to carry him to bed. one night robert slips out from under his arm and the next thing he knows, his phone is blowing up.
robert’s in a coma, an unrecognizable mass of tubes, wires and bandages. there’s only so much the nurses can divulge because they’re not married, but it doesn’t look good. visiting hours take on a whole new meaning, and flambae starts missing more and more work to sit at robert’s bedside. while he sits, he stews. this could have been prevented if sdn had acted sooner, poured more resources into finding shroud, robert would be home with him.
he takes matters into his own hands, goes full villain. he’s going to burn down every last one of the motherfuckers that had anything to do with this until the trail of charred bodies leads him directly to shroud. and if he has to burn down all of torrance in the process, so be it.
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