dispatch au's i am working on
mainly so its easy to find and what not? but also if anyone is interested, please feel free to send asks about them! i'd love to chit chat about them.
note 1: a lot of these don't have formal titles yet so the titles will be updated along with their tags ^^' note 2: i do plan on a fic or some-level of like 'official' writing posted for them. there are only a few that atm, even if i do wanna write a fic, idk how i'd go about it. but by and large i think most of these will get formal fics of some kind. [see note 4] note 3: i am a slow writer + i have other fics, even in other fandoms, that i am working on. so be patient. however one of the reasons i encourage sending stuff in about them if you're interested because i can always talk shop about them! note 4: a lot of these have fics in the works! but a lot are just au's i'm tossing into the world, and have lots of thoughts about yes; but i don't necessarily plan on writing formal fics for them beyond what i write in posts. note 4.5: especially for the ones that aren't getting fics, if you get inspired by them to make something, i'd love to know! feel free to tag me. i just appreciate credit, basically, at minimum. but i would still love to see, but so long as there is credit for like the inspiration go for it. note 5: some au's i do want to write stuff for, like actual fics, but they're just lower priority. hence why they're getting a separate little section. but otherwise like all i want to/love to talk about them! it's not that i don't care but some i just don't have a full plot/idea fully worked out in terms of what i'd actually write out.
the anwar arrangement (ao3) - (intro) (my tag) - co-writer
co-written with @sunnyfrenchfries. When Robert Robertson the Third signs up for a discreet matchmaking website to fund Mecha Man repairs, he matches with Cirus Anwar: architect, widower, and the first person who has ever looked at Robert and seemingly wanted all of him, sharp edge and caustic wit included. What starts as an arrangement becomes something else entirely — and when Chad Anwar gets out of prison and comes home to find his father glowing and his new stepfather three years younger than him and exactly his type, the arrangement expands in ways nobody fully planned and everyone, eventually, chooses.
a FlamDadBert fic, featuring sunny's oc for flambae's dad: cirus
This is a poly ship, but there's no incest! It's a V poly relationship and Robert is the hinge. Please mind the tags.
actively being written & uploaded on ao3
the work will be explicit, and if you go into sunny's various tags, you will find explicit content abound lmao so be mindful. this is a very kinky trio.
flambert met early au [name tba] (tag)
robert has been mecha man for barely two years, hell he can't even legally drink yet, when he meets flambae. only he's not going by flambae, not yet at least. they still meet inside the fiery building, robert still injures him. but things take a turn, and the two form a very odd, and often strained, friendship. a friendship that eventually blooms into more~ (much to chase's annoyance, but he didn't even like them being friends). it's certainly an unconventional friendship, fraught with added hurdles of the fact they were on two different sides of the law.
this will be an au that i'm gonna use for a lot of other au's, as backstory stuff. i just love it that much. however it's also meant to function as it's own au. any stuff that does use it, will be noted, et cetera
au where robert and chad meet in their early 20s, at the start of robert's career.
enemies to ????? to friends to fwb to lovers etc etc etc
chase is still in robert's life
exploration of what would change and how and just how they make each other better...
robert still has his fall as mecha man, works for sdn, et cetera. but things play out a smidge differently.
THEY'RE SOULMATES. THEY'RE A BONDED PAIR. they fight constantly. it can never be anyone else but the other. it doesn't matter what happens because they've been through everything together.
(it's not worth dying over) a tin can legacy [intro] (tag)
elliot connors has been more of a father to robert since the day he was born. it kills him, to see robbie more interested in raising a soldier than a son. so eli does the most heroic thing he's ever done: he escapes with robert to start a new life.
au where eli raises robert as his own, and is never a villain.
does connect back to the dispatch story
focuses heavily on eli + eli & robert's relationship
happy robert!!!
probably flambert? idk yet honestly no real pairing is the focus of this story.
a new era [intro] (tag)
au where robert is left paralyzed due to the shroud ambush, and eventually visi becomes the next mecha man pilot, taking over from robert.
no real ship in mind for this one honestly it might just not have one at all
the focus is on the mentorship aspect, for both the team as a whole and visi. and of course, redemption.
robert is... not doing well. he's not adjusting well at all. but damn if he can't get the z-team in line.
disabled robert disabled robert disabled robert disabled robert disabled robert
a lot of internalized ableism, tbqh
magic, baby! [intro] (tag)
single parent!robert who has a child via magical bullshit nonsense… robert ends up retiring as mecha man about 5 years prior to game events to become a full time parent.
the child ends up being a girl that he names phoebe.
the story picks up during game events, just in a different method.
robert has zero clue who the other parent is. atm i'm not going the 'its one of the z team' route or anything.
still debating if i wanna keep it fairly light and fluffy or more dramatic with more canon in-game events.
probably flambert end game? idek. either way, phoebe ends up meeting and becoming friends with flambae's young niece.
good parent!robert. very very tired robert, because he's got chronic pain and a five year old.
he gentle parents the z-team. they're very annoyed when they realize, because they realize it's fucking working.
dr. bae [intro] (tag)
dr. robert bae hasn't seen his father, robbie, in fifteen years. at nineteen, robert walked out of robbie's life, and the robertson legacy of being mecha man, to the point of even changing his name. nowadays, robert is a passionate, dedicated doctor who could be raking in so much more money with a private practice but instead devotes his career to one of the few hospitals -- and specifically it's ER -- that can and will treat those with powers. which is how he meets, and forms an unlikely bond, with flambae: a pyrokinetic who rushed into their ER after getting his fingers cut off by mecha man astral.
flambert, if it's not obvious
doctor!robert
robbie doesn't die like in canon; but he is a bitter asshole. he's the mecha man who flambae encountered too.
half-korean!robert~ hence the last name being bae, as it's meant to be his mom's maiden name *shrug emoji* also it means pear and its very cute imho and yes he does get all the dumb jokes you can imagine he gets (no guys he is not the real version of dr. sexy calm down)
i know nothing about medicine i've just been to the er a lot... dw about it. anyways--- thankfully we wont be focusing on that a lot save for a few things.
LITERALLY NOTHING ELSE CHANGES ABOUT CANON TBH? like no this isn't a hospital or medical au. like literally everyone still works at sdn. the only differences are astral is still kicking, shroud isnt in prison, and robert is a doctor. thats it more or less? i haven't thought everything up but like this isnt meant to be like a 'everyone works in medical' au lol
robert supports flambae while he's in prison, he gets to know his family, et cetera.
this wont be a full blown like epistolary fic, however a lot of it will likely be told through letters. and no this isn't an excuse for me to have fun with work skins in ao3!!! ... it's just a fun bonus!!!
also idk the real like plot of this ngl i'm just kinda. vibing with this idea.
little phoenixes program [intro] (tag)
robert robertson, formerly mecha man and currently a successful SDN dispatcher heads the pilot program for the "little phoenixes program". the lpp is an offshoot of the wildly successful phoenix program of SDN; but focused on helping juvenile delinquents and at-risk teens (13-17) get onto and stay on the straight and narrow. with the idea of the dispatchers coaches of the program having smaller groups they look after, but more intensely involved in the kids lives. robert is flying by the seat of his pants and has little idea what he is doing. but thankfully this is how he operates best.
robert, mandy, chase, royd, and waterboy are the only adults of the like main cast. the z-team are all in their teens.
what is turning out to be a huge focus on chad... oops. he doesn't have access to his powers because he is. depressed af. (look the muse does what the muse does, i have very little say)
he's just trying so hard to keep his kiddo's safe; while also help iron shit out because this program only fully launches if he can show it's successful and fruitful. he's definitely writing a book in the background.
he ends up fostering two of the kids.
waterboy is robert's assistant ; robert definitely dated mandy at one point but they're not together anymore ; royd and chase are the only sane and calm people in robert's life lmao
cradle me [intro] (tag) (ao3)
robert is not his father, or like so many other heroes: he does not need to be special to everyone, does not need every person to laud him or his work. all robert wants is to be special to one person. that's it. he just desires one person who can see past mecha man, past the hand-me-down name, past the hurt, the trauma, and mess— and likes what they see, and thinks it's worth the "trouble" of dealing with. he never thought he would find that, in a person like jay. but then again, how could it ever have been anyone else but him?
toxicmech!!!!
formerly known as the domestic toxicmech au
the two meet earlier in the timeline and hit it off instantly, and start to date. it's a very soft au, but don't mistake these two are freaks about each other (and not just sexually)
they're silly with each other your honor and so so in love and they're allowed to be vulnerable with each other— especially robert. they just can be two broken people who accept everything that is about each other and move forward together.
toxic ("jay" in this au) is his normal self to the entire world except for robert!!!
that one post: " "i could fix him" well i could be the one person he's nice to and soft with, while he remains just as unbelievably awful as ever to everyone else <3"
not getting a full like, fic. but i am writing snippets, one-shots, et cetera.
