Out of curiosity, is Robotnik even like a good agent? Like, is this man good at his job at being able to protect Stone or if he all talk no bite and then Stone has to end up protecting them both? If so, does Stone just have him around cause he finds him strange and endearing and wants to study him under a microscope?
Rob is more than capable of protecting Dr. Stone without the need for the badniks assistance
Stone has had previous agents who were also adequate bodyguards
its robs behavior and complete out the box ways of handling things dose stone find keeping him around possibly useful and well, kinda like you said "study" him tho not in an endearing way in the beginning
Hair
Bonus, he got to see it, but...
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I got my (now 18-year-old) daughter into Ao3 back in 2021. I taught her she should always comment - even if the fic looks old or abandoned or whatever. She did.
Well - she got this email this morning:
The fic was written in 2014 and essentially abandoned.
Bethy read and reviewed in 2021 (and was actually the only person who had commented at all).
Today in 2025 - the final chapter was posted by the author and this was her reply to Bethy’s comment.
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Never question whether a fic is too old to comment on.
love how netflix wanted to rush the zosan rivalry so much that they had to find a reason for them to not get along and it ended up being extremely gayer than canon
Hmm I wonder why ao3 didn’t like that
Hilarious to me how there are only two instances of Stan Pines being compared to PT Barnum (at least that I'm aware of), one of them is in the character pitch, which was one of the earliest things created about the character, and the other one is on the tbob website.
And the way the whole course of his character's changed is so funny to me.
The first one is, like, lol, look at this weird and probably insane old ass charlatan
And the second one is an implication that he may canonically have PTSD
You fucked up a perfectly good con-man is what you did. Look at him. He's got PTSD!
When a fic doesn’t fit my head canons but it’s well-written
Dammit Stone, those things have cameras!
A sort of part two to this post
constantly thinking about 10 y/o stan's crab fighting ring... the idea of innocent tourists going "aw is that little boy playing with crabs and showing them off on the boardwalk for candy" but no he created a brutal bloodsport where he's charging real money for people to gamble on
yes i think he rigged it, yes i think ford was 100% an accomplice