A Few Post Epilogue Ronance Headcanons
- Not post epilogue but they definitely hooked up and started dating each other during the 18 month time skip and haven’t told anyone yet. “Babes at Emerson”? “Nancy Wheeler full of surprises”? Robin is hyping up her girlfriend as they soft launch their relationship.
-Robin starts spending her weekends over at Nancy’s shitty little Boston apartment and eventually ends up slowly moving in. She stays at her dorm during the week, but weekends and breaks are pretty much always spent at Nancy’s. By the end of the semester they call it their apartment and Robin officially moves in.
-Nancy’s working in Boston, no longer supported monetarily by her family, and her trainee position at the Herald definitely doesn’t pay great. Robin “I’m poor” Buckley teaches her all her tips to be thrifty and all the money saving tricks Nancy definitely wouldn’t have learned coming from a very comfortable middle class family.
-I think Robin would run a small indie bookstore in Boston. There’s a big focus on queer novels and women authors, and there’s a pretty big section dedicated to languages and books in other languages. The shop has a big emphasis on community driven, lots of workshops, stock zines from local artist, lots of community outreach, etc. She’s a hero to all the little baby gays.
-Nancy is a successful journalist, and she eventually writes a couple of books. Later on once her career is really established, she writes something autobiographical about growing up queer in the Midwest and how things like Barb’s death, the military presence, comphet, etc. impacted her. There is some degree of pushback and backlash after its release, but when a young lesbian approaches Nancy after one of the writing workshops at Robin’s bookstore to tell her how much the book meant to her, it makes it all worth it.
-Nancy realizes that drinking to cope isn’t very healthy, so she tries to stop. She’s picked up smoking instead. Nancy Wheeler would definitely replace one unhealthy coping mechanism with another. Robin hates it.
-Nancy paints Robin’s nails. Robins hands are so jittery and shaky and she can’t sit still long enough to paint her own nails without making a mess so Nancy with her super steady hands does it for her.
-Robin is forever a passenger princess. That is NOT her motorcycle in the epilogue. She is not coordinated enough for that shit. (Also I feel like there’s no way in hell she’s getting on the back of one, my girl is too anxious, she over thinks things like crazy, so she’d definitely not be comfortable on a”death machine” I think Steve would get one as part of his midlife crisis and her anxiety about it would literally keep her up at night.
-Robin keeps little mementos and trinkets for everything. Stuff like a bottle cap from one of their balcony hang outs, ticket stubs from all of their movie dates, cool rocks she finds when her and Nancy go on walks, etc.
-Nancy is more of a scrapbook kind of person. She’s very meticulous about it. Everything is labeled and dated and laid out just how she wants it. Robin used a pair of her scrapbook scissors once and accidentally misplaced them once, things did not end well.
-In the 90s, Robin starts watching The X Files. She gets Nancy to watch with her and Nancy gets really into it. She's a huge fan of the myth arc and the corrupt government conspiracy stuff, and Robin is in it for the alien monster of the week stuff (and as much as she’d hate to admit it she loves MSR). Also they both watch for Gillian Anderson. Their Friday nights were planned around episodes airing. I’d also think they’d watch the first episode after Mulder goes into hiding and quit the show.
-Ronance adopt a cat together. It was originally Robin’s idea, and after some convincing Nancy agreed to it. Nancy’s unsure at first but the cat gravitates to her and ends up being Nancy’s cat. He’s a lazy little man who spends most of his time sleeping in Nancy’s lap as she writes. They’d eventually end up adopting another cat (Robin swears it’s not because she’s she jealous) who is a little more rambunctious and prefers Robin.
-Maybe I'm just projecting, but in my heart Nancy Wheeler is a bad cook. She just doesn’t have the time and patience to stand around and make food. If it weren’t for Robin, Nancy would run solely on take out, leftovers, and whatever the hell she can find in her apartment that would fill a decent number of the food groups. Robin staying at Nancy’s for the first time and opening the fridge to find nothing but booze, coffee creamer, and old takeout was a terrifying experience. Robin also isn’t the greatest cook but she makes a little more of an effort.
-Projecting again, but I’m a childfree ronance truther. Nancy Wheeler does not want children even if she’s not the one birthing them. Her and Robin just give me huge cool dyke-y childfree aunts with a few cats vibes. Nancy loves her nieces and nephews and spoils them, but she does not want any kids of her own. (once again, my personal ronance headcanons, you do you)
-I think they would just kind of get married in 2004 when it's legalized in Massachusetts, no wedding or anything just the 2 of them and maybe Steve (Robin couldn’t not invite him, it’s her wedding day and he’s her best friend) at the courthouse. They don’t really tell anyone or make a big deal about it, it ends up coming up at some point during a casual conversation with other characters and I think Mike specifically would take personal offense to not being invited or told sooner.
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