Dan And The Girl She Pulled By Being Autistic HCs:
- Dan fell first, Robin fell harder.
- Dustin gave up on forcing Steve and Robin together after Steve kissed Teddy at the mall but he needed to try and force SOMEONE to have a relationship so he moved on to nagging Dan about Robin. He didn't know Robin was gay but he knew Dan was and he somehow forgot all about homophobia and thought the worst that could happen was Robin would say no.
- Dan spent a while crushing on Robin and trying to test the waters to see if Robin liked her back or was even capable of liking her back. Robin was so oblivious that she basically outright rejected Dan like twice, per Dan's point of view.
- Meanwhile once Robin realized she was into Dan, she was crushing so hard that she thought she was giving herself away and that Dan was bound to find out and make her a town pariah.
- Steve literally just thought they were already dating. They were always so cuddly with each other and Robin seemed flustered when Dan showed any public affection and Dan looked at Robin like Robin was the axis on which the world turned so he was like "ah yes a couple." (He literally should have been right)
- This notion was dispelled only when he asked how things were going between them and Robin immediately launched into a weird nervous rant about giving herself away and ruining a really great friendship or make herself a town pariah. Steve then became Wimgman #1 trying to get Robin and Dan together. He was very sure that Dan was into Robin.
- Dan also kinda thought they were dating at some point. She just thought that since Robin was always borrowing her jackets, they ate together after Robin's work got out a lot, Dan held Robin's hand in public a bunch, they were always clinging and leaning on each other etc, that meant they were kind of in a relationship. She had a really horrible "oh my god I made it all up" moment and ranted about it with Teddy, who from that moment onward sought to set Dan and Robin up. She and Dustin found common ground here.
- At some point in Season 4, Robin came out to Dan. Dan tried not to celebrate too obviously but Steve saw the way she lit the fuck up. (Dan was already out to this particular group but somehow Robin was being Very Oblivious, like SHSL Oblivious).
- At the end of Season 4, Dan decided life was short and it was time. She started talking to Robin, asked what it took for Robin to know a girl liked her, Robin said "I... I don't know, I honestly think she'd just have to go right ahead and kiss me or I'd probably explain it away, I m-" and Dan took that advice. Luckily they were in a pantry getting sandwich supplies for their volunteer work or that would've gone poorly. Robin stammered out what amounted to "what? Are we dating? That was great and I'd love to live in the moment but I need to know if this makes us dating."
- Steve clocked the newly-minted gay couple when they came out all smiley and relaxed. He also asked them on the drive home if they'd really been classless enough to make out at the relief center, to which they both shouted "NO shut up we kissed like once for half a second what is wrong with you" or something like that.
- They get less touchy in public now that they're dating but Steve lets them lock themselves in the back of Family Video so they can kiss or cuddle without any threat of interference or discovery. Ultimate Ally 100000/10.
- It is a LITTLE transactional, in that Robin now must allow Steve to take Bernie back there when she comes by, but like... totally fine trade-off.
- Dan has an intense fondness for playing with Robin's hair, doing Robin's makeup, doing up the last two buttons on Robin's shirt, etc. Robin gets so clumsily flustered about it and Dan's just like "^_^ what? (:"
- Robin plays with Dan's hair and does Dan's makeup too. She also likes to paint Dan's nails. (Dan only wears clear lacquer on them but Robin paints them anyway.)
- Robin doesn't even have to sneak into Dan's house to hang out (ie watch movies and try on e/os clothes), Dustin will let her in and make weird little snickers while Robin embarrassedly walks into Dan's room.
- If Steve and Dustin are the only two people around, Dan and Robin allow themselves to do cute couple-in-public shit like hold hands or sit with their legs on e/o's laps.
- Dan calls Robin "girlfriend" because it's weirdly enough it can pass as platonic just fine. Robin calls her "Dani" (is the only one allowed to do so, btw) and in public they let people think they're just besties.
- Dan has sat behind Robin and guided Robin's hands, technically teaching her how to play the cello or violin but really just being cute and gay. Robin has let Dan press the notes on her trumpet while Robin blows into it too. Dustin is extremely annoyed by this, as it frequently happens in his and Dan's house and is "so UNBELIEVABLY distracting, I literally cannot focus, do you KNOW how impossible-"
- Dan wears a shit ton of jewelry, mostly rows and rows of bracelets. Robin plays with them a lot, it's like a stim.
- Dan has like eighty cute pictures of Robin taped up in her closet.
- Robin has several pictures of Dan, which she keeps in a shoebox under her bed.
- Dan hitches a ride with Steve now bc Robin is also in that car at that time.
- Overall dynamic is "idiots to lovers" and also "Blaine and Kurt from Glee but if they were girls and also in the 80s.
- Steve yelled at Robin for holding up the video store phone line talking to Dan. Granted, HE only got mad because he wanted to hold up the phone line talking to Bernie, but still, uncool, Robin.
- Both of them have an unspoken agreement that now that they're officially girlfriend-girlfriend, they'll stick together in all further Vecna business. They're an essential unit. Inseparable.
- They're also inseparable in many other, non-Vecna-related stuff. Much to the deep annoyance of everyone around them.
- Dan pays for stuff on dates. She doesn't have to but she insists.