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    A Guide to Burning Your Bridges by

    Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)  

    11 Dec 2025

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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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    12 Jan 2026

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    Bottled Starlight by

    Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)  

    28 Jan 2026

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    Robert Robertson the third wasn't real.

    Sure, he looked real. Looked human.

    He could speak and touch and do everything a regular normal person could. He wasn't extraordinary, no powers, no impressive physical prowess. He was the definition of an ordinary man.

    Except that he was Mecha Man.

    Oh, and he wasn't a man at all. He was The Astral Pulse, his father's greatest scientific achievement.

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    Or my own take on Astral Pulse Robert au.

    A study in autonomy, personhood, humanity, and how having shitty narcissistic parents that see you as nothing but a tool can fuck someone up well into adulthood.

    Well let's hope a band of stubborn misfit ex-villains can help with sorting out that last one.

    Inspired by JUBE514's astral pulse Robert fic! It's very good so if you like this concept go read theirs!

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    11 Jan 2026

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    The Mistakes We Can't Undo by

    Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)  

    10 Jan 2026

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    For as useless as dwelling on the past was, there were many wrongs Elliot wishes he could correct. Wish he saw coming, calculated better, choices he shouldn't have made. His past relationship with one Robert "Robbie" Robertson the second was filled with mistakes.

    Mistakes he made. Mistakes he should have seen. Mistakes he can't go back and correct. And yet... he can't bring himself to regret ever going into it.

    Cause through that idiotic fuck of a bastard, he got his pride and joy. His son. His Robert.

    (Mecha Man was a danger to his son. He would not let it hurt him again.)

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    10 Jan 2026

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    might as well fall in by

    Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)  

    28 Jan 2026

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    It clangs in his head like a nuclear klaxon: this is such a bad idea.

    He gets hard, regardless.

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    post-canon. robert kills shroud and in an effort to reconcile the emotional dissonance he feels as a result of that decision and countless others he chose in the pursuit of becoming a hero, dubious choices are made -- and, with time and enough tenderness, unmade.

    or, a fic wherein robert had been hooking up flambae despite his better judgement, and refuses to interrogate why he keeps letting it happen. plot with porn/porn with plot, enemies to friends to lovers, heavy on the hurt/comfort

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    08 Jan 2026

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    Destructive symbiosis by

    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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    06 Jan 2026