#flayed!robin

[rockinrobin124]

the concept of Nancy in the flayed!Robin au moving like Joyce when it comes to Robin/Robin's fake body

also the concept of Nancy calling Robin "her Robin"

[sun-daisies]

10 details about the lion hearted girl flayed!robin au since we are 2 (technically) chapters of hatchet away from it

fic title is you want blood and i promised. i've cycled through about six different titles since starting, but this one stuck. don't get me started on the 8 million different meanings the title has depending on how you read it  

it will be told from robin, steve, AND nancy’s pov, usually splitting two characters per chapter once they diverge into their separate storylines. there is also one (1) bonus joyce pov chapter planned  

it is divided into three sections - before, during, and after being flayed - with each section getting its own atmospheric interlude to introduce it/set the tone  

the first five chapters make up part one. their titles (and pov characters) are as follows: - mycelia - (robin) my body's made of crushed little stars (robin) if this is a prison, i’m willing to burn my own chain (robin) shy little rabbit, teething on a shotgun (steve, robin)  give my body to satan if i could only keep my soul (nancy, robin)  

the fic opens with a missing scene from rabbit hearted girl, detailing that vague period of time between robin leaving will in castle byers and will getting taken by the demogorgon  

chapter 2 is a small collection of vignettes from robin's pov, filling in some gaps left in i forget to worry and i buried a hatchet. starting with the aftermath of the steelworks scene in i forget to worry and ending with where robin went after hatchet chapter 5 (because you're not finding out in hatchet), with some theater trio (robin, heather, and sam - but mainly robin and heather) and robin and billy sprinkled in between  

what is currently chapter 17 (the fire's found a home in me) is the ultimate payoff to everything in the series thus far (it's like a reward lol)   

i know everyone hates melissa buckley, but there are some STRONG parallels between her backstory and robin's story beats. (the cherry on top is robin, in melissa's introduction scene all the way back in rhg, saying something like “at least she won't be as stupid as her mother was.” we love a self fulfilling prophecy)  

no russians. the american government is scary enough.   

you want blood and i promised is the only fic in the series that is being written completely from scratch. while this fic was an idea back when i was first developing the series a few years ago, nothing had been written yet, unlike rabbit hearted girl, which was about 50% complete before i abandoned it, and i forget to worry and i buried a hatchet, which both had multiple scenes and rough outlines written (though both fics have completely spiraled into much larger projects than originally anticipated)

[hollowshadowwolf]

flayed robin au edit!

one of my absolute favourite aus out there, had to finally give it some vidding love.

inspired by @sun-daisies's upcoming flayed!robin arc in the 'rabbit hearted girl' fic series, as well as @dannyslaysdragons's secret third project. this is dedicated to both y'all as well, just fyi.

tiktok / twitter

[dannyslaysdragons]

Beware The Butcher who stalks the woods, she'll hunt you down until you're gone for good

Counting down from Eleven to One, you'll be dead by the time she's done

[eskawrites]

omgomg i loved your flayed robin au so much (literally found it like yesterday)

i am. so excited to see that ngl because ive been thinking about a flayed-ish robin thing for a while as well!! started out as like a “haha oh vecna kinda cursing someone to take their energy to get stronger” and turned into “uh oh robins getting full on possessed”

found something really funny actually and it’s that i started plotting out that idea as a fic like. maybe last week. and then i find ANOTHER flayed robin fic??? i have never seen any other ones im so excited???

anyways!!! have a good day!!!!

ahhh thank you so much! flayed!robin my beloved! there aren't thattt many of them (that i know of) but there are definitely a few incredible flayed!robin things floating around

like UnholyHelbig's 'We're Going to End You' which i think might be the original flayed robin fic? it's a short lil thing based entirely around the traditional fire poker scene but it's so good and the description of the heat and the intensity and everything is so insane

also @snowangeldotmp3 has some flayed!robin stuff as part of her rebel robin: surviving the upside down universe that is so insanely good (linking the whole tag because every piece of it still lives in my mind rent free)

oh and there's the latest chapter of Unlikely, But Likely by @pocket-sand-fic that's a lil flayed!robin one-shot!

hopefully there's something in there you haven't seen yet because it's all so good! flayed!robin is so fun to explore (as is nancy's reaction, we love our feral protective gun-wielding girl)

(also i have to shout out the art @sweepy-stringbean made for my flayed!robin au, it's insanely good and sometimes i go find it again and just sigh happily because look at them!)

your fic idea sounds awesome and i'd love to see it! the world deserves more ronance flayed!robin stuff

[jumpedthenfell-13]

Basically every ronance sleepover that takes place before my flayed!Robin au fic:

Nancy: oh wow I’m in love with Robin. I can’t tell her though, I refuse to lose this friendship to something as controllable as some feelings. I can handle being friends with her. Nothing has to change.

Robin: oh my god oh my god oh my god she’s so pretty oh god oh god shut up I can’t say anything oh my GOD

[sweepy-stringbean]

RONANCE : the devil's after both of us - @eskawrites

This fanfic is so good and I think about Flayed!Robin and feral Nancy so often, if not every day! 

I poked around in the asks as an anon to get ideas to surprise you (Eska) with some fanart. Thank you for sharing your wonderful writing with the fandom.

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[lavenderstobins]

what if robin got flayed

great news for you anon i started a thread about this on my twitter like a year ago. the bad news is I only wrote one part and then never got back to it. anyway, I will share it here!

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one shift after scoops, robin decides to cut through the woods to get home. it'll shave ten minutes off her bike ride, and she's not afraid of the woods, no matter the whispers about the byers kid coming back changed.

robin cuts through the woods and everything changes.

steve doesn't know robin that well, but he notices when she comes in to work looking like... well, looking like shit, to be frank. she looks tired, wincing under the bright lights of the mall. he asks if she's feeling okay and she mumbles that she didn't sleep well.

he looks doubtful, and she snaps that he's here to scoop ice cream, not poke into her life. he drops it.

dustin comes home from summer camp, and honestly, his initial concern about robin is swept away in the chaos of everything. dustin thinks he's intercepted a russian code.

he tries to help dustin translate it, but his translation skills aren't that good. robin, to his surprise, is the one to translate it, and later the one to crack it, too. she grins at them both, pleased with herself, and he realises it's maybe the first time he's seen her smile.

they stake out in the rain, and when dustin tries to snatch the binoculars from his hand, a loud noise rings out. they dive down, out of sight, and steve grabs robin's hand, only to immediately jump at the icy touch of her skin.

robin flinches away from him. he doesn't comment.

from there, everything blurs into one: involving erica, finding the room, being trapped in an elevator, hiding and fighting and discovering the gate. the russians find them, and steve slams into the door, shouting for robin to help. she rushes over, and the weight eases.

dustin and erica escape, and robin seems to slump slightly, and the door bursts open. they're thrown to the ground, swarmed by soldiers with guns. he puts his hands up in surrender, and he has only a moment to notice robin's sweating before he's hauled away from her.

he's dragged to a room on his own, and interrogated for what feels like hours on end. he's been punched in the stomach at least five times, in the face twice, when another guard enters and says something in russian. they look at him, and then haul him up, dragging him out.

steve's brought into a new room, and from the other door two guards emerge, holding robin, her legs dragging across the floor. she's unconscious, drenched in sweat. he shouts at the guards, demanding to know what they've done, and he's kicked to the floor.

the soldiers haul him up, tying him and robin back to back, and he keeps shouting her name, begging for her to wake up. she's freezing cold from where he can feel her pressed into him, and he starts fearing that she's dead. he begs the soldiers to help her, but they just leave.

steve's not sure how long he's down there, screaming. his voice is hoarse, but he can't stop. he needs to get help. he needs to get them out of here.

after what feels like centuries, he hears robin croak out, "cut the yelling out, dingus", and he's overwhelmed with relief.

he asks if she's okay, and she mumbles that she hurts, but she's alright. they try and escape, but it fails, and they fall to the floor. robin admits she'd spent a year sitting behind him in school, and he hates himself. all this time and he'd never seen her.

she keeps talking, and he tells her he wishes he'd known her sooner. he doesn't say how much he aches for it. how he wishes he'd known her for years.

on the dirty bunker floor, steve realises they're both going to die. the thought should scare him, but... robin's here.

the russians come back, and the general laughs at them. there's some man with a syringe and liquid, and steve is frozen as they inject him, the pain searing through him.

hazily, he sees them approach robin, and he's dimly aware of odd black veins in robin's skin.

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that's all i have in terms of things written! i had more plans for it but I was overrun with other ideas and forgot about it