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1. This Story Ends The Same (Somebody Dies) by Insert_Urso

   Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)  

   • Mature
   • Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   16 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Major Character Death
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Robert Robertson | Mecha Man & Shroud | Elliot Connors
   • Robert Robertson | Mecha Man
   • Shroud | Elliot Connors
   • Robert "Robbie" Robertson | Astral Mecha Man
   • Written before Dispatch Finale
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • OOC as hell
   • Unbeta-ed AS hell
   • Child Neglect
   • Robbie (Dispatch) is Not a Good Father
   • Neither is Elliot Connors
   • References to the Dispatch Deluxe Edition Comics
   • Canonical Character Death
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Betrayal
   • Unreliable Narrator
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Torture
   • Ambiguous/Open Ending

   Summary

   Now usually Shroud the hero is no fan of kids that aren't his-- they're loud, abrasive and annoying, but Mechaman was undeserving of having the most toughest kid he had ever known as a son.

   The only thing he felt when he put that bullet into his wretched ex-friend's heart was sorry for the grief that young Robert would suffer through.

   Or: AU where Shroud was another father figure/babysitter for Robert.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Sorta-Related Dispatch Fics

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   5,598

   Chapters:

   4/4

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