#in which what finally drives Robin into open rebellion instead of trickery and theft on the sidelines

[mylordshesacactus]

All right but, real talk.

Tyrian targeted Fiona on purpose. He did NOT target Robyn, despite ample opportunity to kill her. This is also on purpose. This is Phase One of the plan, and Robin Hood isn’t an outlaw yet.

So how is Robyn going to become an outlaw? Well. There are about as many versions of that story as there are Robin Hood myth variations, which is to say, Entirely Too Goddamn Many, but one of the more common versions is the one I’m also best personally familiar with, so I’m working off that one.

In that version, Robin is not framed. Robin is goaded.

A group of assholes, who view him as competition (sometimes this is combined with the archery competition, sometimes it’s a different archery competition, sometimes it’s for a well-paying job that’s meant to go to a fine archer), dislike his skill and his determination as well as his popularity. So they insult him. They taunt him. They cast aspersions on his character and his abilities--and finally they point to a target that he’d never normally be stupid enough to fire at, but he’s so angry, and needs so badly to shut them up, that he takes it. And it works. It’s a perfect shot. And then he remembers the penalty for poaching.

Team Salem needs Robyn to shoot the king’s deer.

And platonic or romantic or somewhere in between--Tyrian knew that if he wanted Robyn so wildly furious that she can be goaded into doing something stupid, or else so rattled that a whip-smart and cynical rebel leader won’t see the trap coming--

If they want Robyn unstable enough to be manipulated, the best way to do that is apparently to hurt Fiona.