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The family legacy was to die in that suit. His legacy was to live, knowing death would follow him out of the crevices of those metal corners and into the lives of those around him. Those foolish enough to interact, to reach out, to care.
In which Robert reflects on the death of Shroud, the events leading up to it, and the future. He trips, stumbles, and struggles to find his footing. His loved ones are there to steady him.
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Curly laughs, encompassing and cordial, and the mood tangibly lightens. The ambience of Swansea’s loud chewing is audible beneath his placation, “I’m kidding, Jim. Just didn’t want anyone leaving the table without having a good laugh, but I guess the joke didn’t fly as good as the Tulpar does, huh?” He pats his shoulder good-naturedly, before giving it a quick grip and shake as his laugh peters out into an amiable chuckle. Jimmy scoffs, but there’s no real heat behind his clouded eyes.
In which Daisuke has the wheel of the dinner conversation, but steers in the wrong direction.
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Kai’s saffron eyes are glazed with unshed tears, threatening to spill under dark, wavering lashes. “Damon?” he tries again, louder, embarrassingly young and boyish in the way it sounds like he’s starved of assurance and validation.
Who are you without your fans, who don’t exist here?
Damon grunts, hard and unbidden where it releases from his chest. His hands tingle, his exhale a beat too sharp so that he feels the urge to cough the bile that rises in his throat out. Out.
He needs to get out.
The snake doesn't bite when the butterfly draws near.
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That’s not who she is. She is not Focalors, she is Furina, and she is sickened by the thought that there will never be anyone who will see her as anything other than the cruel title she bears, will not accept so much as her comfort because they think that she simply cannot give.
"Lady Furina!" Clorinde calls, several paces behind her.
"Just Furina will do," and Furina laughs with all the freedom of a caged bird, clenching at her sleeves and overcome by the cold that breaks through the warmth of her lost comfort. She steadies herself, determined to move forward, forward, forward until all she knows is the ache of her feet and the wind.
Furina finds who sees her.
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Five times Robert Robertson tries to kill himself, and one time he doesn't.
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29 Dec 2025
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After a literal crash and burn, no mention of a successor at the final press conference, and the overall trainwreck ending of a beloved fifty-year old legacy… Mecha Man is unexpectedly back.
The Internet loses its shit.
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In which footage of the suit being moved off the SDN roof leaks online, prompting Robert to face some tough decisions; Prism starts a Z-Team group chat and sends thirsty TikTok edits of Mecha Man; and Robert just wants to kiss his girlfriend, goddamn it.
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- Part 2 of Z-Team Found Family
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01 Jan 2026
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Sonar is recovering from a mission gone bad and trying not to think about how shitty it was because then it might be hard to laugh off and then he might not be able to stay human. Which is the whole damn problem, really. Unfortunately, Flambae won't drop the subject. AKA: Sonar discusses the sometimes very deadly drawbacks of not passing as a human while superheroing.
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- Part 2 of Dispatching, Depression, & Donuts
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31 Dec 2025
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She glared at him. “So am I fired or what? You can’t threaten me with going back to jail.”
Robert blinked, now visibly confused. “What? No one’s firing you, we just want to know where your head’s at. Believe it or not, but we do care about you. I don’t know if the past few months have been any indication or not.”
Something in Prism pinched. She kept her glare up, Robert kept his deadpan stare up, and Robert won. Prism shot out of her chair and shoulder checked him as she stormed out of the conference room.
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Prism has always struggled to find her place. From singing in her kitchen to her family, to hosting impromptu concerts wherever she could find space, and now as a full-fledged superhero; Alice has always questioned whether being in the limelight was where she was meant to be, or if like everything else in her life, her situation was too good to be true, and she’d find yet another way to fuck up everything she touches.
(This is a followup to my Punch Up story, Homeless in Heathrow, but can be read as a stand-alone story! Takes place post game, Cut/Redeemed Coupé, ambiguous romance, Hero Invisigal)Series
- Part 2 of After the Night - Dispatch
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30 Dec 2025
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A FAN-MADE DISPATCH SEQUEL PROJECT: 2 years after Shroud's defeat, Z-Team is LA’s flagship hero squad and a new federal agency—the Department of Powered Humans—has arrived to put capes under a microscope. On paper, SDN Torrance is thriving. In reality, everything’s starting to crack.
It’s been 2 years since the girl Robert fell in love with went too far and vanished. He’s been holding the line ever since—smiling at work, drinking at home, and quietly chasing every whisper of her codename through LA's underworld. But his search for Invisigal has never paid off. Until now.
Meanwhile, Z-Team is evolving whether they like it or not. Robert splits his time between the dispatching chair and the sky: the voice in his team’s ear and, when things get bad enough, Mecha Man himself leading them in the field. Mandy runs SDN without powers, Chase now wears Blazer’s necklace, and former villains like Malevola, Coupé and the rest of Z-Team are trying to make their “hero” titles stick while a charming new DPH liaison starts asking the wrong kinds of questions.
As old ghosts return and new rules close in, Robert and his friends are pushed to redraw the line between hero and villain before someone else draws it for them.
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23 Dec 2025