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Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Dispatch (Video Game) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Flambae | Chad/Robert Robertson | Mecha Man, Chase | Track Star & Robert Robertson | Mecha Man Characters: Robert Robertson | Mecha Man, Chase | Track Star (Dispatch), Flambae | Chad (Dispatch), Z-Team (Dispatch), Punch Up | Colm (Dispatch), Coupé | Janelle (Dispatch), Robert "Robbie" Robertson | Astral Mecha Man, Shroud | Elliot Connors Additional Tags: Canon-Typical HR Violations (Dispatch), Z-Team Knows Robert Robertson is Mecha Man, Eldritch Horror, Eldritch Robert Robertson, big brother Chase, Canon-Typical Violence, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Blood and Injury, Tentacles, Robert Robertson | Mecha Man Has Powers, Robert Robertson | Mecha Man Has Daddy Issues, Flambae | Chad Has a Crush on Robert Robertson | Mecha Man, inappropriate use of fingers, Implied/Referenced Cannibalism, Tentacle Monsters, Bad Parent Robert "Robbie" Robertson | Astral Mecha Man Summary:
Robert has always known he was different - that there was something fundamentally wrong with him. He often felt like there was too much of him stuffed into the confines of his meat and bones - like some weird fleshy prison. He would stare at his hand sometimes and see T̶̟̅͑Ḫ̵͖̋̎Ì̸̼N̴̪̈́Ǧ̵͚̕S̶͎͐ moving underneath. He swore he could taste what people around him were feeling more than he could observe with his eyes.
Maybe that's why his father never loved him. Maybe that's why Uncle Elliot went mad. Maybe that's why he became addicted to the taste of a certain pyrokinetic villain. Maybe that's why, after the explosion, he stopped trying to pretend to be human - he's not.
He's Mecha Man Eldritch.
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