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   the intolerant brightness of your charms by yakuzapalooza

   Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   27 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Robert Robertson | Mecha Man/Waterboy
   • Robert Robertson | Mecha Man
   • Waterboy (Dispatch)
   • Waterboy's Grandmother (Dispatch)
   • Flambae (Dispatch)
   • Blonde Blazer | Mandy (Dispatch)
   • Invisigal (Dispatch)
   • Robert "Robbie" Robertson | Astral Mecha Man
   • Robert "Bobby" Robertson | Mecha Man Prime
   • Sonar (Dispatch)
   • Malevola (Dispatch)
   • Phenomaman (Dispatch)
   • Prism (Dispatch)
   • Punch Up (Dispatch)
   • au where they meet online
   • Secret Identity
   • Herman is a Redditor and also hates it lol
   • Slow Burn
   • Robert is seriously depressed
   • herman is the ceo of mechaman fanboys
   • robert is bisexual
   • Herman is very much gay and Mecha Man was his gay awakening as a teenager
   • Graphic Depictions of Illness
   • Herman is a Very Good Grandson
   • neither of them knows the other person is their anon correspondent
   • Falling in love over the internet
   • top!herman as always….
   • Granny is the GOAT
   • Depictions of grief
   • Mutual Pining
   • mutual suppressed attraction
   • lots of pathetic men jerking off and thinking about each other
   • robert is convinced he’s a horrifying pervert. Herman is also convinced he’s a horrifying pervert. shenanigans ensue
   • lots of identity shenanigans
   • skippable erotic asphyxiation (imagined)
   • robert is super pathetic and down bad
   • love square that is entirely fictional based on their online identities
   • Sexting
   • Eventual HEA
   • pillow humping
   • they’re both extremely stupid and self sabotage constantly
   • they are both virgins
   • Virginity Loss
   • on both sides lol
   • Anal Sex
   • slightly rough sex but it’s not really bad just passionate
   • Robert is a romcom protagonist stuck in a gritty hero story basically his heart is so soft

   Summary

   Herman is known online in some circles as Mecha-Man’s #1 fan. After Mecha-Man retires, he’s completely devastated until someone dares to ask him why he likes Mecha-Man so much.

   Of course, he’d pass away if he knew the person that asked him WAS Mecha-Man. Good thing that the account is anonymous…

   Series

   • Part 1 of the intolerant brightness of your charms

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   27,036

   Chapters:

   14/16

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