So I meant to finish the next chapter before I started work, that didn't happen, and now that I am working the chapter will be delayed further as work + commute takes 17 hours of my day
I hope to write soon because there's a load of Sonar inspiration I've been getting
Imagine a Cheetah hybrid reader. They naturally have very high anxiety due to being a cheetah hybrid and they have it documented that they have to take breaks whenever there's a flare up or panic attack coming on because like with most animals, they can actually die from too much stress.
Now picture you're on the job and you've been sent on several back to back missions and your body is at the beginning of a panic attack. Right as Robert sends you on another mission, Sonar is putting an arm around you and walking you to the break room, telling Robert over the coms that you're taking your break. It's not that Robert is not caring about your situation, he just doesn't understand as well because he isn't a hybrid.
Sonar can and will yell at Robert for you if he has to.
It has been brought to my attention that I slipped up in chapter 3 of What Goes On In The Shadows and wrote Flambae instead of Chad a few times, that has been fixed so it says only Chad.
Eclipse Does Not Know Chad is Flambae yet
The story should make more sense now going forward
Me, writing chapter 6 of What Goes On In The Shadows and creating a whole unplanned angst scene because of the result of the choice the readers voted for:
$ Just about always has an arm slung around your shoulders or waist you’re alright with it. Walking together, sitting, you name it!
$ He’s gotten in the habit of telling you to cover your ears before he lets loose a screech.
$ Adores surprise kisses, just pressing them to your cheek whenever he feels like it or pulling you in if he thinks you’re being extra cute. Bonus points if others are watching and he can smirk proudly after at them like ‘ha, that’s right, I got ‘em and you didn’t’. If you do it back, though, he's a mess, so smiley and almost shy for once in his life.
$ Early in your relationship when he's feeling spicy, Victor will probably ask you if you 'want to see where the bat ends and the man begins'. Up to you if this works or not!
$ Will literally tell people ‘my partner is better than yours’. Turns it into a yo mama joke-esque comeback if he can.
$ One day you buy him some of those bug lollipops as a joke. This dork, though, big wet eyes when you give it to him saying how you understand him. You’re in his arms now. There’s no stopping this. “I fucking love those things! I thought I was the only one!” You don’t have the heart to tell him all three were for him, frankly.
$ I am sorry to say this, but he probably gifts you an NFT at least once 😔🤙🏻 Victor’s lucky you love him! It may take a few times, but once you explain it to him he will be much more thoughtful and personal with future gifts to you, though.
$ For example, he takes it as a chance to flex to whisk you away to any state or corner of the world to bring you to the largest convention of your passion! Comic cons, massive garden shows, music festivals, author or booktuber gatherings, the super bowl, even a farming expo, you name it and Victor is by your side for it. Even if he's bored out of his mind, his eyes are on you and that wide, wonder-filled smile.
$ You're not the first person to pull Victor in for a kiss by his tie, but by god, you make it seem like it somehow. Every single time brings a smile and a special eagerness across his lips.
$ This little shit loooooves putting his cold hands up your shirt just to see how you react!
$ Would honestly be down to play the pocky game with you, but I can see him substituting a twinkie instead 🤭
$ Wouldn’t ask you to do it, but Victor adores the habit you pick up of running your hands along his head, his back, everywhere the surprisingly soft fur grows. You’ll definitely catch him purring and nuzzling into you, even if he tells you not to tell anyone about this! It reaches a point, though, where he’ll lay next to you in bed and butt his head against you, clearly asking for your hand on him without having to speak it.
$ If Victor has the aux, you’ll probably be listening to podcasts or cringe millennial pop (he feels comfortable enough around you not to fake it with the rap or dad rock he puts on for the bros). If you don’t like this, it becomes a source of playful banter which usually ends in your boyfriend letting you have your way ‘because you’re so hot’.
$ Loves swiping his tongue along the seam of your lips as you kiss, hands winding tighter around your waist.
$ Just as he likes to keep you in a protective hold in his main form, so it is with the bat. You’re one of the few people he can really control himself around, in fact you help his bat form stay calm and he often falls asleep with you tucked firmly beneath his wings and wakes up spooning you with his arms.
$ May teasingly, very gently, smack your bottom when he’s feeling frisky or goofy and you walk past him or bend over in his vicinity.
$ Hot tub kisses! And shenanigans if willing. Just Victor pulling you into his chest and running a hand up and down your back, warm water bubbling around your intertwined bodies beneath the moonlight. One of Victor’s favorite dates ever 😌
$ Sneaks up behind you when you’re trying to pay at the store, credit in hand. “Put that on my card.”
$ Has a field day when he finds out from Janelle about all the CEO boyfriend fanfic and books out there. “You into this stuff? ‘Cause I’d be happy to pretend you’re my assistant or—” “Don’t even think about it. I can’t believe you thought of that before all the shifter stuff, honestly.” “The what?” “Uh oh.”
$ As much as Victor talked up not wanting to get married and “tie himself down”, with you by his side forever he feels like he’d be the best version of himself. If it’s something you want too, he’d go all out with the proposal, probably taking you on a helicopter ride and having his proposal written out on the ground in flowers, so big (and expensive) it’s visible from the sky. “Well, will you?” You hear your boyfriend say as you gape at the massive display, turning to see Victor on one knee with a massive ring in your dream style.
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the way you draw sonar… why he so ears (i love it)
HEHE i love drawing his giant ass ears its adorable feature of him and i made a comic for this exact joke.. roomate au, and reader was feeling blue and went climb to the rooftop to sit and think, when victor came back to the room and notices you're not there, he comes with beer (your favorite totally)
In contrast to part 1, the wip chapter is going into some details of the actual missions which is why this chapter is taking slightly longer, this is because it's being used a device to develop the story.
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First off, I am still writing What Goes On In The Shadows, I love Sonar and I will see the fic through. To say what happened, I stopped watching shows to try and maintain the Dispatch hyperfixation, that backfired heavily as I ended up getting addicted to Minecraft again and in addition I finally fell in the giant cavern rabbit hole known as FNAF and sucking up every piece of lore for that... that's fun. Might make something for that but that's for another day
Now, with the new shifty Tumblr updated, I might take this story, see if I can get an Ao3 account and put it on there
Things are still up in the air as Tumblr might backtrack
However, if nothing changes by the time I am finished the newest chapter, I will go put it on Ao3, which would be unfortunate as I do wish to use the poll system to progress the story
I’m too tired to write like a whole thing about it rn, but Robert gets de-aged before he starts working at SDN but after Shroud escapes prison. He retains his adult brain, so no kid brain but adult memories, adult brain and adult memories, but shoved into a kids body.
Anyway, so the mecha man suit is still intact, but Robert is no longer able to fully pilot it with his limited range of motion. And Robert ends of having to come to terms that he will need help to hide and protect the suit and the pulse while he’s a weak kid again.
Since Shroud has escaped prison already, Robert knows he doesn’t have much time or options, so after beating himself up some more, he calls Chase. You bet your ass Chase has never wished he could use his powers more than hearing a shockingly young Robert’s voice coming from his phone asking for help lmao.
It’s pretty easy to convince Chase he was Robert, and not like Robert’s kid or anything. Robert was around 8, the scar on his ear still looking recently healed. And in the world they lived in, getting turned into a kid was like a leap year, didn’t happen often, but happened regularly enough that SDN had a whole protocol for it.
Chase immediately gets Blazer on board to get Robert legal papers and put him under Chase’s custody, as well as to get Royds help to move the suit discreetly into SDN’s labs for safe keeping(though of course Robert keeps the Pulse for safe keeping). Robert decides to keep his first name, but change his last name to Chase’s. Seeing Robert Pierce on his new fake birth certificate definitely doesn’t make Robert and Chase feel a lot of feelings.
Anyway, the cover story is that he is the son of one of Chase’s old friends, who recently passed away and gave him custody in the will. Since his friend was killed under suspicious circumstances, Robert would be coming into work with Chase until the coast was clear so to speak.
Chase also decides that Robert has to keep the fact he’s an actual adult and especially that he’s Mecha Man a secret from the team he’s currently leading since he doesn’t trust them farther than he can run using his powers nowadays. Cue shenanigans of Robert trying and only somewhat failing to pretend he’s a kid while trying to figure out how to get back to his original body and also stop shroud.
Self aware Robert! who initially doesn't realize he's in a game
it takes you playing the game for the third time for him to realize whats been going on. he could tell he was in a loop of sorts, but figured a villain had done it to fuck with him.
he can see you through his monitor when he's dispatching, other times there's just you're face in square floating around the world (think like a lets play face cam)
after that, he starts paying a lot more attention to you
what you say, what you quote, your reactions.
Your game has been acting weird lately.
It started off with certain cut-scenes lasting a few seconds longer than they were supposed to. You had chalked it up to lag. Your computer wasn't the best, but it's not bad. Certainly not bad enough for it to lag this often.
your first couple playthroughs went smoothly, and perhaps playing the game for a fourth time is a bit much, but in your defense- It's a good game!
This most recent one however.. No matter what you choose, it won't let you go through the Blonde Blazer or the Invisgal route. Hell, when episode 4 started. it looked like the fabric of reality was tearing at the seams, completely skipping the sex scene and starting at the Robert being pranked scene.
Tried to go to dinner with blonde blazer? same thing. this time you rebooted the game and tried to choose that option and the game just crashed. Your computer fucking reset itself too.
you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game, it was fine for a while and then everything started back up again. Eventually the game stopped letting you make choices. Now it just run on a constant loop that auto runs through the choices. picking the same options, so you get the same ending every time.
No Romance: Kept Romance Out of the Workplace
And you don't know why. You've sent so many crash reports, and according to the dev team, everything looks fine on their end.
You can't even turn off the monitor its been playing on, every time you do it just turns itself back on, and the last time you tried to unplug it, you got shocked by your outlet.
It took some time, but you ended up buying a new monitor. You like to stream to your friends from time to time, and doing that with one monitor is difficult.
You just let the cursed Dispatch monitor do its thing now. The one time you made a joke to your friend about destroying it, you swear up and down that you heard Robert yell "NO!"
and immediately after the game crashed, and your monitor was dead for like 4 hours.
Robert is at his wits end with you. Do you not realize what he's trying to convey here?
It took him ages to figure out how to hack into the actual game files and be able to over ride your decisions.
He doesn't understand why you're upset about your monitor being stuck on Dispatch. He could see and hear you talking to your friends on Discord about him, how 'down bad' you were for him (he had to look up what that meant and was happy to find it meant something good in-regards to him)
Could hear you giggling, and fawning over him. Watched you blush over him being shirtless multiple times. "No man should have a voice like that." was a comment he heard once, and heard you try (and fail) to defend yourself to your friends. Or his favorite comment thus far, "Now say that again, but a little lower, breathy and right into my ear."
You have to feel something towards him, right? Otherwise you wouldn't have replayed the game so much.
So why is it that when Robert makes the choices for you, so you never get any of the romance scenes or endings, it upsets you? You played the game for him, didn't you??
He has the game playing on a constant loop with the no romance endings to show you he's not interested in Visi or Blazer. Why can't you understand that?
Hearing you even joke about destroying the monitor sent him into a massive, multi-day-long spiral. That initial panic was so bad, it for a time, short circuited the monitor. Scared the hell out of Robert hours later when he finally came out of his spiral only to find the monitor wasn't working. It took him four fucking days to get it up and running again.
After that little incident, Robert was much better about keeping his emotions in check. He can't risk losing you for that long again.
It's been a few days since the monitor has come back on, and ever since then, it's felt like someones been watching you.
The game is still acting up. you had kinda hoped the monitor shorting out would've fixed it, but alas. A few times you swear you've made direct eye contact with Robert, and every time you do, his face tinges pink.
The first few times, you could call it a coincidence. Now? It's almost a daily occurrence, sometimes multiple times a day! You were telling your friends about it when it first started happening, and they jokingly advised you to come out topless or in a towel. Just to see if Robert would react.
You had forgotten about that little tid bit until you stepped out of the shower today, wrapped in a towel, you realize you'd forgotten to grab clothes to change into. Walking out of your bathroom and into your bedroom, you look over at the monitor and see the game's running like usual. It's at episode two when Robert is walking out of SDN with Blazer.
Remembering your friends playful advice from the other day, you decide to follow it. Walking over to your desk, you lean down so you're eye level with the monitor. Your towel moves with you, as it does it uncovers more of the tops of your legs.
And you swear to god you see Robert’s face turn bright red.
You have to be doing this on purpose, for only him to see, right?
That’s why you’re looking directly at Robert with your towel barely hanging on?
It has to be, why else would you do it?
Robert watches in real time as you realize he is in fact blushing, the look of shock that crosses your face, and how flustered you become.
He watches you quickly walk away, and hears you muttering something he couldn’t quite catch.
Maybe he should up the timeline on getting you here.
