18 Bookmarks by embracepracticalnonexistence
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The Haunting of Las Iras de Auriel by Amurleopard123
Fandoms: Call of Duty (Video Games)
20 Jul 2024
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Somewhere, in the arid Sonoran desert, a small town that didn’t exist was being haunted.
Ghost owed his existence to Manuel Roba, and he was going to pay that debt owed in kind. And so he becomes a vengeful spectre, a puppet of Santa Muerte, and the doom for the Zaragoza cartel and all it stood for.
A rewrite of Ghost's revenge on Manuel Roba and a larger look into where he could've gotten those guerilla warfare skills from. This popped into my head a while ago, it's pretty much going to be Ghost wrecking shit for a couple of thousand words to help set up the larger work I am slowly writing.
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- Part 1 of Heed the Canaries Calling
Bookmarked by embracepracticalnonexistence
27 Feb 2026
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Never read the story from that angle before, very interesting
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The 141's mission to eliminate the head of the Zaragoza cartel goes horribly wrong, and ends with Soap and Price captured. They’ve got no weapons and no allies, and Roba’s second-in-command, The Ghost, is keeping them under constant watch.
The Ghost is an enigma. Roba’s right hand, his executioner. A faceless, stone-cold soldier with deadly accuracy. No name, no photos. Only one single, terrified survivor’s testimony describing him as la muerte encarnada; death incarnate.
But as the weeks of captivity go by, Soap begins to think there’s more to the man beneath the mask, and Price finds himself recalling old memories of a past subordinate. Soon, they find that their most dangerous enemy may just be their only hope for survival.
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Being told to shut up always hurt. More than he suspected it should. Soap once had drunkenly apologized to Gaz for being such a loudmouth, and when Gaz insisted that everyone liked his friendly chattiness, Soap had literally flopped over him in relief and confessed that being told to shut up was like being kicked. No other insult or fight had the same effect on him.
Except, perhaps, being called useless.
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The first time Soap wakes up on the cobblestone street it sucks. The second time he assumes that he had a really weird premonition dream. By the fourth time, he's already convinced that he's being punished for something.
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Time loops break everything Soap should know about reality, but it's hard to dispute what he's experiencing in real-time.
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- Part 1 of Time Loops Suck
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When the front desk had triggered the lockdown and called to say Mecha Man was in the SDN lobby with the Astral Pulse in hand, turning himself in, this wasn’t exactly what she expected. Mecha Man was supposed to be menacing. He was supposed to be feared, intimidating, imposing, a force to be reckoned with both in and out of the suit. Someone you looked at and thought, damn. Now that’s a villain.
When Blazer got to the lobby, all she could think was, damn. That’s just a kid.
The same thought returned to her now, watching the shallow rise and fall of Robert’s chest as he slept in the too-big hospital bed. Around either wrist, thick restraints pinned his arms down to the metal frame of the cot. Under the blanket that was draped over his legs, she knew the same restraints were fixed at his ankles, too.
“Feels like overkill,” she muttered, shaking her head again. Chase huffed a laugh, hunching further in on himself.
“It’s not. Kid’s a scrappy motherfucker, always has been,” he said.
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Or, a villain Robert Robertson AU - featuring a hint of "brainwashed child soldier" and a whole lot of secrets.
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It's 2007 and the story shifts. Robert Robertson flees his childhood home and follows Elliot Connors.
The lessons he learns are cruel and put him on a path he was never meant to take. It's a slow downward spiral to become the man he is today: Red Mongrel, wanted fugitive, criminal and vigilante.
He hopes for a change when Shroud escapes after twelve years of prison, and gets more than he bargained for. Maybe fate is stronger after all. -
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Laying on the cold hard ground, his nostrils filled with the cloying smell of iron and hot pain pulsing through his head with every beat of his heart as he stares up at the woman floating above him, Robert's tempted to make a joke about the familiar sight.
Not that he will. At least for Blonde Blazer, this is the first time they've met.
Aka, a time-travel au.
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Destructive symbiosis by Anaxeyah
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game), Avatar (Cameron Movies)
30 Dec 2025
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Life on Pandora looked completely different depending on whether you came there from Earth or were born there.
Robert was born and raised in Bridgehead, surrounded by both human technology and the unimaginable beauty of Pandora. He was growing up surrounded by both the Avatar programme, which was designed to improve relations between humans and the Na'vi, and the military side of the human colony, which ensured everyone's safety.
Only once he disobeyed his father's orders.
That one time was enough for Robert to nearly lose his life.It was only after years being locked up, like a bird locked in an iron cage, that another opportunity arose for Robert to spread his wings and develop new relationships which might help him cope with the tormenting curse of loneliness and self-destruction.
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Robert gets dropped into Gotham by some black-and-white guy.
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Congrats Robert! ☆ You’re a Magical Girl! by BizzyBeeIzzy
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
04 Mar 2026
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After a series of unfortunate events, Robert Robertson almost dies in the middle of the streets, with a metal beam through his gut.
Keyword, almost, because you saved him. Yay! Now you two are stuck together for a short period of time. Not yay!
Obviously, only good things will come from this.
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- Part 1 of Waiter! More Dispatching, Please!
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my body's made of crushed little stars by DaQuirklessBeauty
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
24 Dec 2025
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Robert has always treated his body like something temporary—maintained just enough to keep going. Then one run-in with a passing villain leaves him younger, unscarred, standing in a body that no longer carries the visible proof of the pain he survived. As the Z-Team watches him move through the world in a way he hasn’t in years, concern sharpens into something heavier. Others begin to notice what Robert himself has long learned to dismiss, and the truth becomes harder to avoid: whatever hit him didn’t just revert him—it revealed how much pain he’d been living with, and how quietly he let it happen. Because if this is who Robert used to be, then the version they’ve known has been surviving far more than he ever admitted.
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Or: Robert gets caught in the crossfire of a fleeing villain’s power—and wakes up in the body he had at twenty-one.
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ManMech was a Vtuber whose main gimmick was acting as a dorkish Mechaman impersonator. Its a known joke within his community that he's well overdue to be sued by the hero's lawyers for his burlesque parody.
Robert is just hoping that nobody makes the connection-- that they're actually the same person.
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- Part 4 of Sorta-Related Dispatch Fics
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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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5 times Robert was okay with dying, and the one time he wasn't by Gia_Nicole
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
12 Feb 2026
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Robert, incredibly, has a talent to not die.
That doesn't stop the fact that he's constantly ready to.
Until he isn't.
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Or as the title says, "5 times Robert was okay with dying, and the one time he wasn't".
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- Part 2 of Undisclosed || Z-Team
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Another White Elm Growing at the End of Town by GhostMisfits
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
18 Dec 2025
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Invisigal didn’t know how nobody else noticed the guy looking down at them from the top floor window but she wasn’t risking him disappearing. She took a deep breath, turned invisible, and legged it up the stairs.
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“Tell me. Robert Robertson the Third. Mecha Man. Hero.” There’s something soft in the thing’s voice. Almost reverent. “What do you want?”
His body wants to shut down. His mind wishes for oblivion. The answer is obvious.
“Put me…back into…the fight.” He rasps.
“Very well,” he can hear it smiling, “let’s get to work.”
Or, in simpler terms…let’s do it all over again.
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"Just one hint," Malevola pleaded. Prism leaned against her chair, eyeing Robert expectantly.
Robert stared at them briefly, deliberating over his response. He settled on honesty. They wouldn't believe him, and they wouldn't be able to link it to his identity as Mecha Man anyway.
"Sure. I can't die."
Prism sighed in frustration. "Oh come on! Don't be like that."
_______________________________________Robert Robertson III was eight when he realized he had a super power. It was also the first time he died.
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A fight with a reality bender and an overloaded Astral Pulse lands Robert and his Mechaman suit into a different universe altogether, one where his dad never died and Mechaman Astral was still in active duty.
It should be a kinder universe with one less tragedy, but it's not. Not when this universe's Robert had died young instead.
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- Part 3 of Sorta-Related Dispatch Fics