#Fuct!robin

[darling-to-death]

Robin the Orphan vs Robin the Caretaker  So there’s this AU created by @angrelysimpping.  It’s called the Future Corrupt Robin or Fuct!Robin AU.  Basically, PC falls into a coma or otherwise gets incapacitated for an extended period of time, and in order to protect them and pay their medical bills, Robin has this whole corruption arc and enters his villain era.  

He basically becomes Bailey 2.0, an evil, power-hungry man willing to do anything for money.  It’s a very fun AU, and I wanted to do fanart inspired by it! @banned-for-horny told me to tag them if I went through with drawing it. 

Also, Robin won that poll for which thing I should draw next, so this really worked out in my favor.  (Although technically, the poll still has a day left, but Robin’s been leading all week and by like 10 percent, so I’m gonna call it.)  

Below the read more I’m gonna put headcanons and art notes so this already long post doesn’t clutter the dash. 

1. Robin gets sunburnt a lot, because he spends so much time at the beach selling Lemonade.  But every penny he earned had to go to Bailey, so he never had profits left over to buy sunscreen.  // In the AU, I tried to make Robin paler, because now all the business he does is under the cover of night. 

2. I think Robin has the longest, prettiest eyelashes.  <3  He crossdresses, so I always kinda pictured him as a more feminine looking guy.  (Even tho obviously you don’t have to look feminine to crossdress, but this is just my personal representation of him in my mind.)  // In the AU, I think he still has that urge/hobby, so he paints his nails black and gets a bunch of piercings.  When he’s alone, he swaps out the “tough” jewelry for something cuter.  

3. I kinda worry I made Robin look too young in the first picture, but I’m happy he looks way older in the second one.  Even though I don’t think PC is in the coma for SUPER long, I think the stress would age him really fast.  He never sleeps, and he barely eats, which doesn’t help. 

4. I think Robin lost a tooth from the Garbage Dump Incident.  He was beaten pretty badly, and it’s not like Bailey’s gonna pay for dental.  So I imagine him with a gap in his smile. 

5. Haircuts cost money, so he just forgoes them.  Less money on haircare equal more money to protect PC with. 

6. Bailey is often depicted in fanart with a Snake tattoo, so I gave Robin snakes around him in the second picture.  Snakes are also a symbol of temptation and falling into sin, which is absolutely what he does in the Fuct!AU.  Also, blood money... literally.  

7. Idk if the Fuct!AU says anything about the other LIs, but sometimes I wonder what would happen to everyone else is PC went into a coma and was no longer with them.  I don’t have headcanons for everyone, but I have a couple! 

Kylar gets taken under Dr. Harper’s wing, and also becomes a doctor with a totally real medical license.  Kylar finally learns how to do hypnosis properly and uses it on the patients to get them to act like PC.  The Asylum is just full of people convinced they’re all you, so Kylar can pretend you’re still with them. 

Whitney now works at the brothel.  Now whether that’s in a willing capacity or not, I think it’s up to how high their Dominance stat was when PC fell into the coma.  He either pissed off the wrong people and got taken to the underground, or he became Briar 2.0.  I mean he already likes watching other people with PC and tries to rent her out.  Is it that far of a leap to think he becomes a pimp?   

Sydney either grows up to become a wierd teacher like his old man, or and I think this is only if you kept him pure, loses his fucking mind.  Sydney has some dialogues line about PC being the only person to not pressure him to do stuff (obviously this turns out to be untrue depending on how you play the game), but I think the combination of loses the only person who accepted him as he is and then finding out what happened to her, having his eyes fully exposed to the town, would just give him a mental breakdown and he ends up completely deranged like Morgan.  

Idk what Alex is up to, but he absolutely lost the farm.  Perhaps he is now in the unfortunate position of working for the man who destroys his life in order to not be completely destitute.  Or perhaps he just fucked off into the moor and became a hermit like Eden only with way more alcoholism.  

[angrelysimpping]

Soul Mate AU

Soulmarks: tattoo like in appearance, soul marks form on all involved parties when the youngest member reaches their age of majority. Touching someone's soulmark without their consent is considered incredibly taboo and violating. Touching someone’s soulmark when baring the matching mark is supposed to be incredibly pleasurable for all parties involved, more so if it is the two marks that are touching.

ref link, tho I'm gonna put the same soulmark descriptions under each character anyway 

Contents: DoL relationships; Avery's anger issues; public stuff; doctor/patiant, mildly; talk of cutting (Kylar's section); teacher/student, mildly; farm fuckery (aka, Remy's whole fucking section); cat Bailey AU; FUCT Robin AU; Yandere Avery AU; Eldritch PC AU

Words: 2608

Alex

(93)

Geometric shapes. Bold, dark lines. Elbow to shoulder on their right arm. 

Loves touching your soulmark. Loves you touching their soulmark. Loves all of it.

Higher dominance Alex is likely to brush their hand down your soul mark whenever they have the chance. Even if it might be considered “rude” to do so in front of others. 

Lower dominance waits for more private moments. A teasing stroke over your mark while shielded from prying eyes, shivering if you return the favor and ghost a hand over their mark. 

Loves cuddling in the morning, pressed against each other, absentmindedly tracing the lines of your matching marks. 

Avery

(153)

Thin, delicate, lace like lines across their collar bones. Ends in thick, jagged lines going down their sternum 

God, there’s so much pressure on you to act absolutely perfect if you actually want Avery to let you walk around with a matching mark. 

That said, they like touching your mark.

At low anger, they’re tender, tips of their fingers gliding over the marks. 

They may even let you touch their marks, though not often. It’s very rare for Avery to allow it. Something about you touching their marks makes them feel out of sorts, out of control. So, it’s only when they’re drained from work that they indulge in the lazy pleasure of allowing you to take care of them in this way. A hand tucked between their legs and your tongue tracing their marks. 

High rage Avery presses down on your marks hard enough to make your vision blur, pain mixed into the act that would normally bring pleasure. But, you won’t make them do that too often, will you? 

Bailey

(215)

Thin lines that crisscrosses their lower stomach in an intricate pattern and circles around their upper thighs. 

It’s a stupid situation, trying to wrangle one of their brats in their own fucking office, it that’s Bailey’s life: stupid situation after stupid fucking situation.

Except when you headbutt their stomach, shirt having ridden up from the physical activity, and your skin brushes over the marks that had only recently bloomed across their skin, it somehow gets worse. 

What do you mean that the pain they brace themself for never comes? Or, it does, but mostly covered in strange euphoria. 

But, Bailey knows what that means, new anger sparking within them and fueling their ability to pin you down, to tear at your clothes, to expose your mark. 

Your mark that matches Bailey’s.

And they press down on it, thumbs digging into the soft of your thighs as you squirm under them. They hope you feel more pain than pleasure.

They have to keep you, they think. Who knows how you could be used against them if others find out? 

And what are you to them, anyway? Important, one way or another, apparently.

So, fuck you. 

Varey rarely touches your marks after that and forbids you from touching their’s.

Yet, sometimes, you’ll wake up with Bailey’s hands pressed against the mark, palm flat and fingers splayed, dark eyes fixed on that point of contact.

Briar

(108)

One thick line running over the knuckles on their right hand. 

Oh, new lil star walking into Briar’s lovely establishment with marks that match the one that just recently bloomed across their knuckles. How interesting. 

Enjoys taking your hand in theirs, ringed thumb rolling over the mark on your knuckles, watching you shiver at such a simple action. 

Especially likes touching your marks in public and letting others see how it affects you. 

That said, not keen on you doing the same to them. When especially tense, they don't mind the pad of your thumb following the line across the ridges of their knuckles while in their office. Lets their head tilt back, eyes shutting as their muscles relax. 

Black Wolf

(83)

Jagged marks under their left eye

It's actually quite easy to overlook their mark, looking almost like a scar. 

Brushing your thumb over the mark has Black Wolf relaxing, regardless of if they’re the alpha or not.

When they’re the alpha, they’ll climb on top of you, rutting against your thigh as you trace the mark.

When you’re the alpha, they roll over, wanting you to straddle them as your fingers linger.

As for them, they like licking your mark, regardless of how close to your eye it is.

Darryl

(88)

A thick ring around their left pinky

So nervous when they realize they share a mark with you. 

Covers up their own mark and it takes them a while to build up the courage to tell you that you have matching marks.

Very gentle the first time they touch your mark, asking if it’s okay in a voice barely above a whisper, fine tremor running through their hands.

Nervous when you first touch their mark, but doesn’t regret it a bit.

Likes hooking your pinkies together, a cross between holding hands and a pinky promise. 

Doren 

(103)

Looks like the letters of a dead language encircling their right wrist. 

Will not let you touch it in public, and that goes double when at school.

Also won’t touch your mark in public.

Well, they might if it’s to calm you down if you’re having a particularly rough day, though behind the privacy of a closed door or secluded corner.

Very gentle when they touch your mark, brushing over your wrist like it’s something fragile, breakable. 

Only really allows you to touch their mark when at their apartment, though if you’re holding hands then it’s easy to pretend that it’s an accident if you press your marks together and make Doren stumble a little.

Eden

(139)

Thick, almost painful looking lines over their left breast and going up their neck. Stops under their jaw. 

Don’t touch their marks. 

Don’t do it.

Even though you bare their match, their mirror, do not touch Eden’s marks.

At least, not until they trust you.

Even then, you’re risking your ass to touch Eden’s marks.

They like it, though it feels incredibly vulnerable, thus, don’t do it.

You can get away with it during sex, usually. Unless they’re punishing you. Then you’re gonna get slapped. 

Also more likely to get away with touching their marks when they’re falling asleep, little shiver of pleasure running through them as they drift off.

All this said, they’re touching your marks whenever the fuck they want.

Especially loves grabbing you by the chin and rubbing their thumb along the marks under your jaw. Double so if you’ve been acting like a brat. A good reminder that you’re theirs, no matter what. 

Great Hawk

(59)

Small intersecting circles under their right eye.

Please touch their marks.

So proud of their marks now that they’ve come in and they adore you paying any attention to them.

Chirps every time you touch them, all puffed up.

Often nuzzles your marks. Loves brushing against them with their feathers. 

Favorite time to have their marks touched or to touch your marks is when flying together.

Gwylan 

(75)

Very complex markings running down the length of their spine. 

It’s rare for their marks to be visible and is at a loss for words when they find out you wear their match.

Doesn’t really like them touched, to be honest. It’s weirdly intense, with it being along their spine and all. 

Only really likes it if you run a feather light finger down their spine. Not too much pressure, just enough for them to feel it. 

Also not big on touching your marks, either. 

Harper

(102)

Thin, barely noticeable spirals on their tongue.

God they're so fucking ecstatic to touch your mark at all fucking times. 

Every time you see Harper, they wanna check your tongue, rubbing their thumb over the marks. 

You're really lucky they haven't yet found a way to do away with the gloves yet when in the hospital. 

If you're ever in the asylum, they're not wearing gloves.

Would adore you touching their marks if they weren't on their tongue. Makes it kinda hard to remain “professional.”

That said, when they get to kiss you or coach you into kissing them, they nearly cream their pants from your soul marks touching. 

Kylar

(80)

Soft, faded looking lines that weave up their right arm like tendrils. Starts at their wrist, ends at their elbow. 

Touch!

Kylar's!

Marks!

Please!

Touching each others marks calms them down so fast.

Aggravates their jealousy like nothing else if you refuse to let them touch your marks. 

Always gets a soft look in their eyes when touching marks. 

Babbles about it when hysterical, rubbing your marks almost painfully hard. Why are you acting like this when there's proof right here that you are meant for them?

Maybe they should make sure your marks are deeper, more prominent, with their knife…

Leighton 

(109)

Bands around their right knee

They’ll know you’re soulmates long before you do.

And they’re not telling you, either.

Likes the spark of fear in your eyes when their hand first cups your knees, the confusion when pleasure runs up your spine when their thumb brushes the mark. 

Lets you stew, thinking something wrong  with you, like you’re a pervert for feeling pressure when Leighton, someone who isn’t your soulmate, touches your mark.

Would probably let you go on like that for a while, only revealing it as a power play. 

Doesn’t want you just randomly grabbing at their mark, but likes when you place your hand on their mark when giving them head.

Mason

(77)

Looks like gills on either side of their neck. 

Don’t touch their marks.

Don’t touch them at school. 

Don’t look at them.

Don’t acknowledge they’re your soulmate.

Their authority as a teacher is already undermined by their age and now this? One of their students is their soulmate?

Please say this is a bad joke. 

But, at the pond, when they’ve gotten to know you, maybe. 

Lets their eyes close as your fingers brush over them.

Hesitant on touching your marks but will if you insist. 

Remy

(161)

Small, dark spots behind their left ear. Some might say it's a cow print pattern. 

Fuck you.

They’ll never notice it if you drop into the riding school. Nor if you’re just Alex’s silly little partner.

No, the only way Remy finds you’re soulmate is during new cattle intake. 

And they’re pissed.

They’re always wearing their gloves, so at least you don’t react when they find it.

They’ll keep you in the dark about your matching marks. 

And then they keep you isolated until they figure out what the fuck to do with you.

Obedient cattle will find out eventually when they tug their gloves off, cupping your face and letting their thumb brush over your marks while you eat an apple out of their other hand.

Disobedient cattle find out when Remy has finally had it with you, ripping off their gloves and pressing their thumb against your marks so hard that it's more pain than pleasure, making your knees buckle and your will to fight flicker. 

Regardless, they won’t let you touch their marks. 

Robin

(85)

Thin, soft, intricate swirls in the middle of their chest. 

IT’S THEIR FAVORITE THING.

It’s so comforting, their best friend sharing their soulmark.

Huge boost of confidence anytime one of you touches the others marks.

Very flustered the first time due to the placement but gets more comfortable with it as time goes on.

Not big on touching soulmarks in public but only because of the placement. 

Low confidence Robin might be persuaded to touch soulmarks in semi public areas.

High confidence Robin might try to persuade you to touch soulmarks in semi public areas. 

Sydney 

(98)

Two thin lines starting at their shoulder blades and ending at their hips. 

Even though soulmarks are considered a divine symbol of love between partners, Sydney is hesitant to touch yours or let you touch theirs.

The higher their purity, the more likely they are to wait until you two are bound by the temple before touching soulmarks.

The more corrupt they become, the more likely it is that you can coax Sydney into taking off their shirt and letting you trace the marks on their back.

At their most corrupt, Sydney will slip their hand up the back of your shirt in somewhat public places to stroke over your marks. 

Whitney

(126)

Fluid, swirling lines on the inside of their right thigh. 

I hope you like wearing skirts ‘cause Whitney wants you in one at all times so they can hike it up and grab at your marks. 

And they will do that wherever they feel like.

At low dominance, they’ll stop if you tell them to at least?

Also, if you don’t wear a skirt, they’ll try to get their hands down your pants whenever they feel like messing with you and your marks.

And hey, Whitney is your soulmate. Shouldn’t you want to do shit that’ll make ‘em happy?

That’s what they’ll say, anyway.

As for touching their marks, they’ll only let you when alone. 

Even at low dominance, they’ll try to smack your hands away if you try to touch their marks when out public. 

Wren

(89)

Small swirls on their left ankle. Easily mistaken for an actual tattoo instead of a soul mark. 

Likely to kick off their shoes and press their foot against your mark under the table while playing blackjack as a way to distract you.

Gets flustered if you do it back to them, but tries to hide it behind wide smiles and low laughs.

Does sometimes daydream about having you laying under them, holding your foot, thumb brushing over your marks before dragging your leg over their shoulder and ducking down to give you head.

But, as your relationship is, it’s limited to playing footsie during card games.

BONUS

Cat Bailey

(83)

A bit better about touching marks but still isn't big on it.

Purrs every time you brush against their marks but don't ever mention that you noticed. 

It's really when they go into heat/rut that things change. They're more likely to grab at your marks, to press you against their's. 

Don't ever mention how sometimes you'll wake up to find Bailey resting with their cheek against the marks on your stomach, eyes closed, purr rumbling in their chest and tail flicking lazily. 

Fuct Robin

(68)

Less into soul mark touching, really.

Sure, they still like it, but it makes them feel out of sorts, like they’re still the fresh 18 year old in a cramped orphanage room fumbling around with their partner they were when you first got your matching marks. 

Though, they’re much more touchy with your marks. Likes sleeping with a hand pressed to the marks on your chest. Stops nightmares.

Yandere Avery

(89)

Hope you don't get cold easily because Avery isn't allowing you to wear anything that covers your marks when you're home. 

Out and about, they make you cover up more, but any passerby can tell your marks match. What, you didn't think you were leaving the house without them, did you?

Touchs your marks all the time: right when they wake up, when they first get home after work, before falling asleep. All. The. Time. 

Also more likely to touch your marks out in public, but only very rarely. 

Eldritch PC

(71)

The soul marks have added tentacle motifs now, lol.

More intense for when your partner touches you.

Doesn’t mind the intensity: 

Alex

Darryl

Doren

Eden

Great Hawk

Leighton

Robin

Pure Sydney

Cat Bailey

Yandere Avery

Less likely to touch because of the intensity:

Avery

Bailey

Briar

Black Wolf

Gwylan

Mason

Remy

Whitney

Fuct Robin

Likes the intensity: 

Harper

Kylar

Corrupt Sydney

Whitney

Wren

Black Wolf

Great Hawk

Fuct Robin

Yandere Avery

[lilyrealm]

pc being just a tad unhappy living under fuct robin because hes changed so much (still loves him, but the lack of freedom and his coldness is not ideal) but no bars and no locks can keep ivory wraith from bringing pc to him. and robin cant do anything about it. hed lose his mind trying to lock you up and keep you caged but every month it just keeps HAPPENING. so true

[banned-for-horny]

So, I've read fuct Robin au and I love it but you know what. It's not Bailey who fucks up Robin. It's PC. They have beautiful codependent love-hate relationship in which they can't be with each other and can't be without each other. And the best thing is that Robin is the Reason PC so deeply fucked up.

it's the "No one understands my pain more than the one who caused it" for me lads

it's the "please, don't leave me" and "i sacrificed everything for you" and robin doggedly believing every little fucked up action he does is for PC even though PC never once wanted him to turn out like this

[inkyquince]

I love how blank of a canvas Robin us. We’ve put the poor little lad through so many arcs bc he’s our little meow meow <3 (this is me saying that I love how every dol blog has different interpretations of how swagless/nasty he can be in our freaky little minds)

I need everyone to know that this was in my askbox since before I wrote Robin being basically cucked by a bailey.

LIKE....

I ALWAYS WRITE ROBIN AS YOUR CLOSEST FRIEND over like... a nasty. he gets to be an accidental nasty.

I honestly prefer Sydney as the one with the best arcs. Legit, in game, the fact he's a corruptible lil guy? Wonderful

Though ngl i love @angrelysimpping's fuct robin a lot, the the point i was going to have an entry for them in my halloween event after asking quiet if i could

[willczek-art]

slowly working on more of a reference for my DnD boyo Grim, but I like just having a loose idea rather than a strict guide on how to draw him so it's not going well xDd

[necros-writing-stuff]

Hey just wanna say I rlly adore your writing I’m new to dol and u got me into it! <3 I was wondering if you could tell me what fuctRobin is? Is it like fucked? Thank you :)

Hey! @angrelysimpping has an AU I believe is a timeskip to Robin being the future caretaker of the orphanage. Hence, fuct. Future caretaker. Correct me if I'm wrong Quiet dearest.

Also thank you very much! I'm glad you're enjoying the game and the writing.

[angrelysimpping]

fuct robin au where after waking up pc gradually gets stockholm syndromed into loving him again but robin recognises it and feels conflicted, like, hes glad youre looking at him with adoration again but he feels so disgusted at himself for having twisted your view of him. he knows hes a bastard and doesnt deserve it. sometimes he looks at you and wonders aloud why you dont hate him but you look back with such clarity hes stunned. then you sigh and lean on him. who else do you have, after all?

Stockholm Syndrome Robin: They're all you have, really

'cause even before all this happened, Robin really is one of the only people you've had on your side

[angrelysimpping]

ok ive been OBSESSED with ur fuct robin au since getting into DOL recently but ive just been thru my 2nd blood moon with ivory wraith and im getting REAL FUCKIN ATTACHED even tho i loooove robin so much. fuct robin watching you get possessed on a blood moon and some force keeps him from latching u down so he follows.. maybe ivory lets him watch or fucks him as well... maybe hes feeling awful but you look so in love hes like what the hell...

🥺

That might actually break Robin, I think. All this time, he finally thinks he's safe, that you're safe. And then, this. The supernatural. Something he doesn't even believe in. You're taken and he crumbles. You getting fucked in front of him? Him getting fucked? You in love with the thing that stole you away? Yeah, he's sinking into his worst habits that he's developed over the years

[angrelysimpping]

December Prompts Day 11: Stars

GN! Reader (you/you); GN! Robin (they/them); could be pre fuct robin uwu

Words: 260

Huddling together in the back garden, you fight back a shudder as a gust of wind slices through the thin blankets you’d wrapped around each other. Robin presses closer against you, sharing their body heat as best they can. 

“Here,” they mutter almost directly into your ear. They open their arms a little, creating a gap in the blankets. It’s an invitation you know well, and one you take instantly, tucking your face into the space Robin had created for you. Warm with their scent and the crisp night, it’s more than tempting to stay like that. 

But, when the wind dies down, your head pops back out.

Robin’s laughter rings out, floating up into the bare tree limbs and frost, white cloud of joy bursting from their lips. “You look like a baby chick,” they say with another giggle, pressing a quick kiss to your numb cheek. You smile yourself, before nudging them gently.

“Look,” you say, jerking your chin up towards the sky. “The clouds are finally clearing up.”

Another burst of wind sends you two huddling closer, but it pushes the last of the clouds away. Above you, a clear night sky. Dark blue black and silver winking stars, new moon making the starlight all the brighter. 

A streak of light dashes across the sky and Robin gasps, “Make a wish!”

Looking at your best friend, your partner in every way that matters, as they look up at the sky with wonder, you make the wish you’ve thought of every night.

I wish we stay together forever.

[angrelysimpping]

maybe it’s the 💥spicy brain trauma💥 but fuct robin … fuct robin🥺

the urge to treat fuct robin with gentleness bc he deserves sweetness

but simultaneously to be used as a bargaining tool of “see? i’m still good to you. please be good to me.”

AS ROBIN DESERVES

and, i like to think, he'd try to talk himself into believing that he's being honest, too. it's not him manipulating you, he really cares for you! but it's not true, he is manipulating you, he knows it, yet he needs to think he's not

[angrelysimpping]

Letter anon is back and I got ideas. FUCT Robin with a Harpy Demon PC. The only way that Robin is able to even keep PC is to clip their flying feathers. That doesn't stop PC for singing for the children and screeching at him.

He feels a bit of jealousy when he sees the PC so softly tending to the children. That used to be him. PC used to fuss at his hair and now all he gets are words he cannot understand from a person, once so close, screaming at him accusations.

The only time that Robin even has a chance to hold PC again is when they find Great Hawk, dead or dying, and the tower falling apart even further. The scream that ripped from PC echoed out and out and out as they weeped for a good life. Finally grieving all those years wasted in sleep.

[angrelysimpping]

I think you're the one to contact about the au but do you think "how bad can I be" from the lorax is fuct robin vibes, bc I haven't read all of your stuff for them yet but it immediately reminded me of them lmao

SO, an anon is really the one who came up with the base idea of fuct Robin but damn if i haven't gone wild over it ><"

also, i think Inky is going to hunt me for sport for allowing a mention of that song on this blog but YES

especially the self-denial in a lot of it. like, Robin knows they're fucked up but they did it for the right reasons, right?

[angrelysimpping]

aint no way i started playing DOL and you got me OBSESSEDDDDDDD with fuct robin like i already loved him so much but this au is also great. god. can we just. run away i need this mf to be FUCKING HAPPY!!!!

ehehehehehehehhehehehehe, yes, my fuct robin propaganda is working yesssssssssssssssssssssssss

[angrelysimpping]

Fun fact! Original ending was Bailey destroying the flower crown but it made me Too Sad ;m;

November Prompts Day 2: Memories

GN Fuct Robin (they/them); GN Reader (you/your); GN Bailey (they/them); reader not around; physical abuse; angst; fuct Robin au

Words: 506

It was something of a miracle that the flower crown still existed, really. 

When Robin had set it at the top of their wardrobe all those years ago, they had no idea it would be the last one you’d ever make. How could they? You made them a flower crown every afternoon. You’d sit in the back garden, the golden light of the setting sun extra sweet as it brushed your skin, and would weave together a flower crown to plop on their head. 

How many had they thrown away? The flimsy crowns crumpled in their hands, unwinding and forgotten in the bottom of bins. How could they? How could they ever have done something like that, tossing something out that you gave them? Made for them?

But, they hadn’t known then that their time with you was limited. If they had, Robin would have kept every single thing you’d ever given them. They’d be drawing in flower crowns, but that would have been preferable. 

Gingerly, Robin picks up the crown, a soft whine building in the back of their throat when a few dried petals shake free. On impulse, they set the crown on top of their head, and, for a moment, they can believe that it’s you doing it. That it’s you tucking their hair behind their ears, smoothing down any flyaways so they wouldn’t get tangled with the flowers, brushing your lips over their ears as you whispered how lovely they looked wreathed in flowers. 

“Birdie.”

Robin goes cold, scrambling to get the old crown off their head lest it gets ripped away.

Bailey stands in the doorway, leaning against the frame, a cold smile on their face.

“No time to get lost in memories. Got a job to get to, don’t you?”

Robin nods quickly, “Was just grabbing my gloves.”

Bailey kicks off from the door frame, stalking towards Robin. They stand still, refusing to back down even though they feel like they might crumple to the floor at any moment. Bailey still had that effect on them, even now, well into adulthood. 

Bailey’s eyes flick down to the crown, still held in Robin’s hands, before back to Robin’s face. There’s a split second where Robin knows what’s coming next, but they still don’t back down. Bailey moves like a viper, a rough hand making contact with Robin’s cheek before they can even steel themselves. One of Bailey’s rings catches on their bottom lip, and Robin knows there will be a new scar.

“Don’t lie. Get your gloves and get going. Got bills to pay, and no one else can bail you out this time.”

Bailey yanks the crown from Robin’s hands, more than just petals falling to the floor from their force. 

“Don’t-!”

“Shut it. I’ll give it back to you after.”

Before Robin can argue further, Bailey leaves.

All Robin can do is grab their gloves from their wardrobe, and hope the job tonight is an easy one. 

That, and think of how they’ll one day pay Bailey back, for everything. 

[banned-for-horny]

The Bailey thirst phenomenon is so fascinating to me. Because Bailey is just such a fucking asshole in the game with no moment of levity or softness, and yet everyone, including me, is so fucking horny for the man. That's what I LOVE about fandom. Cuz we have taken this idea of a cynical, jaded, abusive man, and made it so he's yearning and damaged and desperately holding onto his sanity and holding back his lust and also is STILL totally an asshole, but just soft enough to make us think there's something under the surface.

Bailey desperately trying to hold back the growing feelings he has for his money-making machine? Bailey in desperate denial that he cares about literally anything but himself? >>>>>>>>>>>

Heck, even just Bailey being SO obsessed with money could mean so much for his character. How destitute must he have been at one point in his life to have his entire character be "I need to squeeze all the fucking money I can out of the most vulnerable people I know and am meant to take care of? I will go to literal any length to get my money from people." Cuz there's all these theories he grew up at the orphanage, and he became what he once must've hated. And he's tried, probably successfully, to kill whatever humanity was left in him after going through the hell he puts us through. And ugh, he's so fascinating as a concept.

Also snake tattoos are hot.

100% hard agree anon. Like, I acknowledge and understand that sometimes fandom tends to woobify characters (or tends to ignore the bs some characters do), but at the same time Bailey's got a lot of potential to mess with.

In a setting like DoL where this kind of behavior is so common, it makes sense for him to be a piece of shit, but there's also plenty of times where the PC can encounter genuinely good people. There's the people who come running if you scream in an encounter, the ones who cut you loose if you're tied up, not to mention most of the named teachers.

And Bailey has like one singular moment that makes him a little bit not a dick, which is the Christmas scene in the orphanage where he takes one of the gifts the orphans left for him. Granted, it's so minor but it is a THING.

Which means that there is still a tiny shred of something in there that can be interpreted however the fuck you want. Personally, I think it makes Bailey extra spicy if he'd been like Robin (hence the Fuct!Robin AU)

Also, agreed. Snake tattoos very hot. Follow it down with a line of kisses like it's a chute on a boardgame.