#jatd robert

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Robert: You know what I just realized? Jane: That some of your thoughts are better left unsaid? Robert: Nice try, anyway-

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Robert: Jane is playing hard to get. Robert: Little does she know, I'm playing 'hard to get rid of.'

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Robert: I just want you for my own... Jane: Please leave me the fuck alone!

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Robert: Don't be shy, you can ask me out. Jane: All right. Jane: Get out.

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Been thinking about Robert, and I think one of the many reasons that Robert just doesn’t work is that he’s trying to fill a role in Jane’s life that doesn’t need filling. An enemy/rival bad boy with romantic tension? Gunther’s been there for years. A man with important knowledge? Sir Theodore’s got that mostly covered. A manipulator? While, as far I can remember, Magnus rarely manipulates Jane directly, but he still has a monopoly on the castle and can negatively influence the people around her. I don't think it would be too much of a stretch for him to suddenly start pulling some strings to get *directly* into Jane's head. So yeah, I’m not sure what Robert’s supposed to do when almost any role he could fill has already been filled for years

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Jane: Why are you lurking in the shadows? Robert, from the shadows: Best place for it.

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Robert: Do you feel anything for me? Jane: I feel sorry for you.

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Robert: Come on, lighten up, I'm just being a totally awful person

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Robert: Hello, Jane, my old friend. Jane: I think you tried to kill me at some point. Robert: That was obviously just my way of trying to get to know you.

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Robert, grabbing Jane by the shoulders: I need you to kiss me right now. Jane, looking him up and down: ...why? Robert, slightly softer: I was hoping you wouldn't ask.

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*in the cave* Robert: Hello! It's me, your favorite boy! Jane: GET OUT OR I'LL-

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Robert 🤝 Alastor

You’re never fully dressed without a smile!

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Part of me wants a Robert POV in Dragonblade, but another part of me knows that it would be literal agony to read and would make me want to throw things

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Robert, after Jane almost sets him on fire: I can't believe it! I've been nothing but weird and offputting to you and this is how you treat me!

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I feel bad for Robert for one reason and one reason only...

*grabs Robert by the shoulders* I’m so sorry man, you could have been a compelling, tragic villain, if you hadn’t been written as an obsessed one-dimensional nutjob.

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Dragonblade AU where there are secret tunnels leading from the mountain to the castle because of The Wilderness Years or whatever, and that’s how Robert gets into the castle instead of manipulating Jane into taking him. 

He knocks her out, or runs away when she gets woozy due to the sword magic, then she has to chase him through the tunnels in a frenzy, only to emerge in the castle and find that he’s already broken in and fought everyone, knocking the guards out as he searches for information about the Scholar King’s book of dragons. By the time she and Jester are about to catch him, he’s already slipping back into the tunnels with a sinister smile as he goes to find the book. Bonus points if he purposefully collapses part of the tunnel behind him to prevent them from catching up too quickly.