#robates

[limpyvalet]

Downton Abbey 2.06 Deleted Scene: John Bates and Robert Crawley

[sarasidlesaid]

[laolafi]

I don't care if the new movie has a scene with the Hollywood Husbands rolling naked in bed together (with or without Noël Coward), S01 E01 with Crowbarrow breaking up and Robates getting back together will always be the gayest shit Downton has ever done.

[nonepizzawithleftglitter]

Till Death Do Us Part, Chpt. 12; Pater Familias

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

The dynamic duo of turning canon plot points upside down and torturing characters in the process (= @laolafi & myself) is at it again.

This time, we offer you: Robert Crawley having an increasingly terrible day, a closer look at the new Baronet Strallan of Loxley, and Sir Philip Tapdance Tapsell's arrival at Downton.

(Which officially brings us to 12 chapters and 72,225 words. When did that happen, exactly?)

[aarafox]

I made something

[limpyvalet]

sweet Robert blissfully unaware of how close he was about to getting murdered

[sarasidlesaid]

Robert losing his absolute fucking gourd when Bates is blackmailed into leaving and then immediately pouring his heart out how he thought they were more.

[laolafi]

Bates has a type: The sweetest little cinnamon bun who can do no wrong. Fair-haired and blue-eyed. Kind to a fault, soft-hearted and soft-spoken, but principled and a bit stubborn on occasion, with the personality of a golden retriever puppy, yet still 100% ready to go to war by his side.

Spiders Vera is an outlier and shouldn’t have been counted.