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This whole thing was probably a bad idea. Probably a really bad idea. It was a hard sell. The higher ups raised eyebrows before they could finish with their proposal. Even those enthusiastic about the Phoenix program showed some hesitancy. The program barely worked as is. The “villains” they had repackaged into heroes were barely holding on. To pull a villain off of death row, it all seemed a little…stupid.
If it wasn’t for Track Star, the only remaining member left alive from Brave Brigade, the proposition would’ve been flushed and treated like nothing more than a fever dream. After all, the villain he was advocating for had taken down Track Star’s team one by one. Hunting them down like a feral dog until the Brave Brigade wasn’t enough for him anymore. So many heroes were lost, and everyone was ready to turn a blind eye to his death penalty.
The conditions came quick, but they had agreed.
There was to be no more Mecha Man, and Robert Robertson would not be allowed out in the field. Instead he would work as a dispatcher.
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Another Villain Robert Robertson Redemption arc Au.
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Mecha Man Prime was an original. Pure of heart. Mecha Man Astral was a genius. Did anything it took to win. Mecha Man Blue? He's a demon. quite literally. Bound by a contract that his dad made in order to have his conception Mecha Man Blue is a hero by force, stuck wrestling with his human like nature who yearns to protect and save and his demon nature which yearns for blood and chaos. Few things can scratch that itch save for a fiery villain whose flames bring out the best in him. Their one encounter will stick with him for a lifetime, that is until he gets lucky in the midst of the worst period of his life and rejoins his old flame at some hero for hire corporate job.
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or; Demon Robert au
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Robert, aka Mecha Man, was doing what he’d been doing for at least fifteen years: carrying on the family tradition, piloting the mech, and being a hero. His mental health didn’t matter; he had to keep going.
Luckily, Beef was there to keep him alive and sane.
One night, after returning home from a patrol, Robert found a huge, injured bat in his apartment.
An experiment gone wrong, perhaps?
In any case, he couldn’t just leave it in that condition. Little did he know that he was taking care of a real, cuddly, sentient hybrid!
And yes, Victor couldn't go back to normal after being attacked by a villain, and had somehow found himself at the home of a man who’s too cute for his own good.This is the story of how Victor will fall in love with a naive and kind Robert.
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17 Jul 2026
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Rockabye by Skye_the_Lofty_Nutcase
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
23 Jul 2026
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The arrival at Erid is a momentous occasion. Rocky is excited and thrilled. Ryland is overwhelmed. But the reunion is happy, beautiful, amazing.
Or that's what it should have been. Except Rocky gets hurt, Ryland is left to try and communicate with an alien planet, and everyone is scrambling to figure out how to do this. To Grace, this is incredible but also bittersweet - he got Rocky home safely with the taumoeba, now he just gets... to starve. To Erid, this is insane - how did Rocky show up in an alien spaceship with a child???
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Ryland Grace is stuck trying to speak Eridian, immediately makes himself sound like a child, and Rocky's world and family scramble to help this strange pebble. Misunderstandings galore, alongside hurt/comfort and angst and fluff.
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Mech Man Blue was a hero. He was helping people, doing his best to be good and do good. But being 'good' has a line that Robert crosses. Abandoned by the city and the people he protected, Robert ends up in the same prison as his father's murderer.
The man who leaves the system is not the same one who entered.
Upon release, he no longer believes in clean lines between good and evil, thought of redemption long abandoned. He has to navigate a complicated relationship with Elliot Connors, and infiltrate SDN to retrieve the data that had been stolen. His growing affections for the team of misfits, especially one of them, bring complications to the calculations.
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Villain Mecha Man AU that heavily explores Robert's relationship with Shroud, and a touch of FlambertSpecial thanks to BunkBuddyLucifer for helping me with the fic summary!
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- Part 1 of Savage
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Tired of Comparisons, Trying to Learn the Lesson In by Anonymous
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
16 Dec 2025
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AU where Robert has powers his dad forced him to suppress in his youth. Upon stepping into the role of Mecha Man Blue, Robert runs himself into the ground physically, mentally, and financially to uphold his family’s legacy. It’s what he was born and raised for, after all. He can’t afford to fuck it up. He’s nothing outside of it. His dad was so keen on drilling that into his head.
…with that kind of pressure on him, is it any wonder he starts to act out? It really shouldn’t be surprising that he needs to let off some steam, some charge, so he doesn’t lose his cool doing real hero work. Call him a hypocrite. Call him a supervillain in a hero’s suit. Robert’s long since past the point of caring.
It’s just a shame he’s working so closely with people who know the hallmarks of a real villain a lot better than he would like them to. He’ll have to keep his work and his fun separate, for the team’s sake if nothing else. They mean a lot to him. He genuinely wants to help them succeed in their redemption arcs.
But he has no intention of stopping. Not when he’s finally back in his prime.
Not for anyone.
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“It’s not a real kid, Chase.”
Chase is technically underage, he’s a year away from being able to drink but the bartender didn’t bother to check his ID. Chase has always looked a little older than he was, it works in his favor now.
Nobody at a hero bar like this would assume he was so young.
“How the fuck do you think that?” Chase asks, spits. His hands still shake with the memory of it. The beer in his hand shakes with the tremors of his hands. “How the fuck do you do it?”
Mechaman sighs, deep, disappointed. He leans back, taking his whiskey with him.
The rest of the Brave Brigade was downstairs, drinking in victory, dancing with the other heroes, celebrating.
“It’s the Astral Pulse.”
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The z team slowly comes to the realization that Robert's a hybrid. Robert has to learn to share this part of himself after suppressing it for so long. Mostly fluff, a little angst. It's not explicitly stated in the beginning, but it is a polycule fic. It becomes more obvious later in the story.
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Robert has always been alone, since the day his papa killed his dad, making him lose both his parents all in one night. Since the day he had been forced to take the mantle of Mecha Man at the age of 15, to keep the family legacy going. Force to keep moving, never staying in one place to avoid being kidnapped by his papa who wants him and the Astral Pulse.
But now both the Mecha suit is destroyed and the Astral Pulse is missing. Luckily for Robert, SDN had promise to rebuild it to the best of their abilities in return of him dispatching for a superhero team. Unfortunately, the team he has been assigned to is the Z-Team, ex-villains trying to become heroes. They are also a bunch of assholes who not only make the job much harder than it should be but make it their job to drag him out of his goal of only being Mecha Man and teaching him to be Robert. Especially Sonar, who slowly finds himself wanting to have the brown eye, freckle face hero by his side forever and to teach him that he doesn't need to destroy himself to gain the approval of a dead man who never loved him.
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29 Jun 2026
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The figure… It's Robert. It has to be.
Waterboy tries to step back, but he stumbles on the wet floor, thudding into the shipping container beside him. Robert goes still.
His head jerks up, eyes rolling wildly to make contact. Bloodshot. He's crouched on the floor of the warehouse like an animal, low and cornered. Blood is splattered over his face, and as he lifts his head, Waterboy can tell it's streaked down his chin like he must have sunk his teeth into something and held on. When he bares his teeth, they've been licked clean.
He shakily, slowly, like the movement’s might provoke an attack, fumbles for his radio. “Guys? Uh- found- I. I Robert found- no, that's not. I found- uhm.”
(Warning changed to Mature because of the violence. Just to be safe, honestly.)
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Or: Robert is kidnapped by a wannabe villain. A wannabe villain with a very real, very threatening drug. He has an… adverse reaction to the substance.Also Or: Robert gets wings, and all that comes with it
Also also or: Feral Robert
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- Part 1 of Bird-Brained Bobert
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What sane person grows wings as a contingency plan? by Traindweller
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
27 Dec 2025
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Blonde Blazer focused on him with a bittersweet look. Posture weary as her shoulders were slightly slumped into themselves, her hands tightened into fists. "Chase." She sighed. "I was just looking for you. Come in."
They both entered her office, tension settling in the room as she beckoned him to her desk where her computer sat.
"We found Robert."
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Am I going against canon and only going based off the first four episodes? Yes. Do I have a thing for my favourite characters gaining avian-like traits? Absolutely fucking yes.
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Robert does not survive the encounter with Shroud in the bar. However, such a silly little thing as death will not keep a true workaholic from returning to his job.
Or: Robert’s ghost, oblivious to his fate, haunts the dispatch network.
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“Listen, you don’t have to spell it out, okay? I get it. I’m still pissed you cut me, but I get it. I’m not hero material, it was stupid to think I was.”
“Actually, Sonar, I cut you because you are hero material, and I think you have a better chance at going legit by yourself than Coupe does.”
“…Robbo, my man, tell me the truth. Are you high right now?”
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Ever since MechaMan Blue fell out of the sky, there’s been a gaping hole in LA’s indie superhero scene. Nobody’s stepped in to take over his old patrol routes or cover the territory left unprotected by his absence—too intimidated by the legacy to attempt to fill his shoes, perhaps.
Robert has an idea about who might be able to fill them.
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23 Jun 2026
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Sonar is a straight man. Or at least that’s what he thought until Robert Robertson, the new Dispatcher, arrived. From that moment on, Sonar’s instincts began to spiral, craving that man like he’d never craved anything before. Robert's scent didn’t help one bit: it was laced with wet dust and ash. A scent of sadness, of depression.
It made him so protective that he would do anything for him. And that was a problem.
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Robert Robertson cannot die. When a bullet enters his frontal lobe and exits through his occipital, it takes roughly twenty-eight minutes for him to wake up in a puddle of his own blood—the team in hysterics.
Funnily enough, the chromosome mutation that means he cannot feel pain, fatigue, hunger, or fear is a genetic issue entirely unrelated to the generation-skipping powers.
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22 Jun 2026
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It must really say something about Robert, that the only person to ever really love him ended up being a monster. He's been on his own since the day his dad shot his father, the Mecha Man mantle being all he had left from either of them. Then his dad breaks out of jail and blows him up, leaving him with a lost leg and suit he's never going to get back up.
But SDN promised they could rebuild it. All he had to do was play dispatcher for a group of reformed villains. He could be Mecha Man again---but his father shows all up in his business, ready to snatch it all away again.
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If his son wanted to play this game then Shroud will play. His son will be right by his side, safe as he always should have been. He failed to protect his son from Mecha Man once, he will not fail again.
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- Part 2 of Ann Whisper's Parent Shroud fics <3
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The first Mecha Man to grace L.A. was titled Mecha Man Prime, being the first in the legacy of non-powered humans to make a difference as a hero. The second Mecha Man named himself Astral and made his debut in L.A. as the leader of a group of heroes.
Robert was supposed to be the third Mecha Man. His father would have wanted that for him, but disappointing his father isn't new to him anyway.
In Robert's defense, he had a very valid crash out after his dad was murdered a decade ago. In his opinion, this leads to his very reasonable agenda of hunting down the man who murdered him. It sucks, because it's his target is beloved by the entire damn State.
L.A.'s third Mecha Man, Elliot Connors.
(OR: Robert Robertson is L.A.'s most wanted supervillain, hunting down the newly retired Mecha Man one dispatch call at a time.)
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Ever since his suit got blown up for a second time while he was inside it, Robert's been losing time. He doesn't know how to handle it. Luckily, his friends are there to help him figure it out.
A/N (22 March, 2026): On hiatus. I will return to this work eventually as the finale is already planned, but I need to get my life together first.
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Robert Robertson the Third disappeared shortly after he finished high school, vanishing one summer day without a trace.
Just over a decade later, Robert Park is hired by the Superhero Dispatch Network's Torrance Branch to help in their IT department, and maybe he'll end up helping more along the way.
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- Part 1 of The Life and Times of Robert Park
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The fight between Robert and Shroud ends much differently. He had still gotten away in the nick of time and the bomb had still been stuck to his suit. However, the explosion had left Robert with injuries so severe that it was a miracle he'd survived. Regardless of how life-altering his injuries were, SDN was still willing to take a chance on Robert. Managing his disabilities and mentoring the team was the hardest balancing act of his life.
Will Robert fuck up his only chance of becoming Mecha Man again? Or will he manage to contain it all, and find himself growing a little too close to a certain flaming asshole?